Project Manager Contracts in Edinburgh

Project Manager
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Project Manager daily rate in Edinburgh is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 39 25
Rank change year-on-year +17 -14 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 64 71 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.49% 6.03% 7.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.88% 6.31% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 43 88
10th Percentile £404 £401 £413
25th Percentile £444 £437 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.80% +14.49%
75th Percentile £508 £499 £550
90th Percentile £538 £538 £588
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +14.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 812 1,126 1,816
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.97% 95.67% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 786 1,243
10th Percentile £185 £221 £230
25th Percentile £340 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £566
90th Percentile £650 £610 £638
Scotland median daily rate £453 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -4.63% +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 8 17
10th Percentile £15.22 £12.36 -
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.57 £17.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £17.72 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year +153.95% -12.21% -64.90%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.36 £40.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £31.29 £50.97
Scotland median hourly rate £20.57 £19.88 £37.43
% change year-on-year +3.47% -46.89% +7.71%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in Edinburgh

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in Edinburgh

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Edinburgh

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in Edinburgh

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 30 (46.88%) Project Management
2 25 (39.06%) Public Sector
3 24 (37.50%) Finance
4 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
5 18 (28.13%) Agile
6 17 (26.56%) Project Delivery
7 11 (17.19%) Business Case
8 10 (15.63%) Migration
8 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (15.63%) Risk Management
9 9 (14.06%) Azure
10 8 (12.50%) Change Management
10 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
11 7 (10.94%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (9.38%) Waterfall
12 6 (9.38%) Software Delivery
12 6 (9.38%) PRINCE2
12 6 (9.38%) Business Strategy
13 5 (7.81%) Asset Management
13 5 (7.81%) Supplier Management
13 5 (7.81%) Retail Banking
13 5 (7.81%) Data Migration
13 5 (7.81%) CRM
13 5 (7.81%) ETL
13 5 (7.81%) Dependency Management
13 5 (7.81%) DevOps
13 5 (7.81%) Change Control
13 5 (7.81%) Time Management
13 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.06%) Azure
2 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (4.69%) OCI
4 1 (1.56%) AWS
4 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Firewall
1 2 (3.13%) LAN
1 2 (3.13%) WAN
2 1 (1.56%) Internet
2 1 (1.56%) MPLS
2 1 (1.56%) Network Security
2 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 25 (39.06%) Public Sector
2 24 (37.50%) Finance
3 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.94%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (7.81%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (7.81%) Retail Banking
6 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
1 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.56%) BYOD
2 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.56%) IoT
2 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.88%) Project Management
2 18 (28.13%) Agile
3 17 (26.56%) Project Delivery
4 11 (17.19%) Business Case
5 10 (15.63%) Migration
5 10 (15.63%) Risk Management
5 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (12.50%) Change Management
7 6 (9.38%) Business Strategy
7 6 (9.38%) PRINCE2
7 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (9.38%) Software Delivery
7 6 (9.38%) Waterfall
8 5 (7.81%) Asset Management
8 5 (7.81%) Change Control
8 5 (7.81%) CRM
8 5 (7.81%) Dependency Management
8 5 (7.81%) DevOps
8 5 (7.81%) ETL
8 5 (7.81%) User Research
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.56%) PMP
2 1 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (1.56%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.56%) PMO
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Alteryx
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) Cognizant
4 2 (3.13%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.56%) Fortinet