Project Planning Contracts in the Midlands

Project Planning
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Project Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Planning 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 103 133 149
Rank change year-on-year +30 +16 -28
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 32 25 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.19% 0.76% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 0.86% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 35
10th Percentile £213 £398 £312
25th Percentile £409 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £481
Median % change year-on-year - -1.14% +6.78%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £530
90th Percentile £622 £595 £589
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £22.41 - -
25th Percentile £26.92 £20.49 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £20.97 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.91% - -
75th Percentile £53.95 £21.46 -
90th Percentile £72.90 - -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £49.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year +14.80% +10.11% -10.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Project Planning 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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,210 2,891 4,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.14% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,028 3,224
10th Percentile £234 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £667
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 104 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.15 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +21.83% +13.27%
75th Percentile £33.25 £32.77 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.63 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Project Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in the Midlands

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Planning in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in the Midlands

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Planning in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in the Midlands

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Planning in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in the Midlands

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Project Planning in the Midlands

Project Planning
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Planning within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +32 24 £475 +9.83% 27
East Midlands +9 5 £595 +25.26% 18
Project Planning
England

Project Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.13%) Acrobat
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.13%) Boomi
2 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) VPN
2 2 (6.25%) LAN
2 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.25%) WAN
3 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (3.13%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (3.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) LSMW
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Change Manager
3 3 (9.38%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Business Change Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Business Manager
4 2 (6.25%) CCTV Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Debt Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.25%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Security Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Senior PMO
4 2 (6.25%) Senior PMO Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) JSON
1 1 (3.13%) REST
1 1 (3.13%) SOAP
1 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Project Management
2 11 (34.38%) Risk Management
3 8 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (21.88%) Change Management
5 6 (18.75%) Asset Management
5 6 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (15.63%) Budget Management
7 4 (12.50%) Agile
7 4 (12.50%) Change Control
7 4 (12.50%) Cost Control
7 4 (12.50%) Decarbonisation
7 4 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
7 4 (12.50%) Resource Management
7 4 (12.50%) Risk Register
7 4 (12.50%) Validation
8 3 (9.38%) Backlog Management
8 3 (9.38%) CRM
8 3 (9.38%) Programme Management
8 3 (9.38%) Test Management
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) PMI Certification
1 5 (15.63%) PMP
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) CCNA
3 1 (3.13%) CCNP
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) MCDST
3 1 (3.13%) MCP
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) PMO
1 6 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) SAP