Project Management Contracts in Essex

Project Management
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Project Management 10 37 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 4.74% 14.45% 13.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 16.74% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 28 33
10th Percentile £533 £265 £368
25th Percentile £544 £381 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -2.91% +13.94%
75th Percentile £588 £536 £555
90th Percentile - £538 £625
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £495
% change year-on-year +5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £26.30 -
25th Percentile £12.13 £32.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £12.25 £43.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.51% +79.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £35.65 £57.38 £25.50
90th Percentile - £65.11 £25.60
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £50.01 £25.99
% change year-on-year -23.77% +92.40% -18.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Essex with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 173 221 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 81.99% 86.33% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 137 222
10th Percentile £194 £219 £213
25th Percentile £350 £316 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £499 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +0.81% +16.47%
75th Percentile £560 £552 £577
90th Percentile £600 £630 £632
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 17 37
10th Percentile £10.42 £22.02 £14.53
25th Percentile £14.17 £24.62 £18.55
Median hourly rate £59.50 £43.63 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +36.37% +61.71% +22.94%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.75 £55.00
90th Percentile - £72.56 £76.64
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -10.04%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Essex

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in Essex.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Essex

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Essex

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Essex

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in Essex over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in Essex

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the Essex region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basildon -2 4 £575 +9.21% 4
Southend-on-Sea +3 3 - - 1
Brentwood -8 1 - - 4
Project Management
East of England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (30.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Teamcenter
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Retail Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Aviation
4 1 (10.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Project Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Banking Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
4 1 (10.00%) DTV Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Finance Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Finance Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Finance Systems Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Programme Change Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Digital TV
2 1 (10.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Bill of Materials
2 2 (20.00%) CAD
2 2 (20.00%) CAE
2 2 (20.00%) FMEA
2 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) Microservices
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Coaching
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Insight
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source
3 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) PgMP
2 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PMBOK
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft