Project Manager Contracts in Scotland

Project Manager
UK > Scotland

The median Project Manager daily rate in Scotland is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 31 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 123 199 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.71% 7.32% 8.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.04% 7.67% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 148 197
10th Percentile £325 £364 £384
25th Percentile £411 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £471
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +4.68% +14.06%
75th Percentile £529 £565 £538
90th Percentile £550 £588 £575
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.23% +62.50% -34.79%
75th Percentile £26.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £62.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.60% +17.92% +55.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,037 2,596 3,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 95.44% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 1,845 2,317
10th Percentile £200 £231 £215
25th Percentile £360 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 42 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.79 £15.51
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.31 £17.67
Median hourly rate £24.29 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.79% -17.60% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.17 £47.97
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.63 £55.83
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in Scotland

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in Scotland

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Scotland

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in Scotland

Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 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
Edinburgh +25 64 £494 +3.95% 21
Glasgow -21 29 £488 -2.50% 20
West Lothian +2 9 £450 -12.20% 1
Dundee - 6 £288 -
Lanarkshire +3 3 £525 -2.33% 5
Perthshire +2 2 £513 -10.09%
Aberdeen -3 2 £220 -58.10% 5
South Lanarkshire - 2 £450 - 1
Renfrewshire -2 1 £475 -
West Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 Scotland region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 70 (56.91%) Project Management
2 46 (37.40%) Finance
2 46 (37.40%) Agile
2 46 (37.40%) Public Sector
3 36 (29.27%) Social Skills
4 29 (23.58%) Project Delivery
5 22 (17.89%) PRINCE2
6 18 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (14.63%) Business Case
7 17 (13.82%) Waterfall
8 16 (13.01%) Degree
9 15 (12.20%) Change Management
10 14 (11.38%) Risk Management
11 12 (9.76%) Microsoft
11 12 (9.76%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (8.94%) Azure
13 10 (8.13%) Migration
14 9 (7.32%) Management Information System
14 9 (7.32%) Programme Management
14 9 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (7.32%) Disclosure Scotland
15 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Project
15 8 (6.50%) JIRA
15 8 (6.50%) Time Management
15 8 (6.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 8 (6.50%) Business Analysis
16 7 (5.69%) Supplier Management
16 7 (5.69%) ERP
16 7 (5.69%) CRM
16 7 (5.69%) Scrum

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (3.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.44%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.81%) SAP Business ByDesign
2 1 (0.81%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.81%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.94%) Azure
2 5 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (2.44%) OCI
4 2 (1.63%) SaaS
4 2 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.81%) AWS
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.81%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.25%) Firewall
2 3 (2.44%) LAN
2 3 (2.44%) WAN
3 1 (0.81%) Internet
3 1 (0.81%) MPLS
3 1 (0.81%) Network Security
3 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.25%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.81%) DB2
2 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) JIRA
General
1 46 (37.40%) Finance
1 46 (37.40%) Public Sector
2 36 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.76%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.25%) Banking
5 4 (3.25%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Back Office
8 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Legal
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.32%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (3.25%) Mainframe
2 4 (3.25%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.63%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.81%) BYOD
5 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.81%) FMCG
5 1 (0.81%) IoT
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.81%) PMI
5 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.81%) Smartcard
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (56.91%) Project Management
2 46 (37.40%) Agile
3 29 (23.58%) Project Delivery
4 22 (17.89%) PRINCE2
5 18 (14.63%) Business Case
5 18 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (13.82%) Waterfall
7 15 (12.20%) Change Management
8 14 (11.38%) Risk Management
9 10 (8.13%) Migration
10 9 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (7.32%) Programme Management
11 8 (6.50%) Business Analysis
11 8 (6.50%) Time Management
12 7 (5.69%) CRM
12 7 (5.69%) ERP
12 7 (5.69%) Scrum
12 7 (5.69%) Supplier Management
13 6 (4.88%) Business Strategy
13 6 (4.88%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.44%) Perl
1 3 (2.44%) Python
2 2 (1.63%) PL/SQL
2 2 (1.63%) SQL
3 1 (0.81%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.01%) Degree
2 8 (6.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 4 (3.25%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.44%) APMP
4 3 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.44%) PMP
4 3 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (2.44%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.63%) HNC
5 2 (1.63%) HND
5 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.81%) FFIEC
6 1 (0.81%) RIBA
6 1 (0.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.63%) COBIT
2 2 (1.63%) QA
3 1 (0.81%) Basel III
3 1 (0.81%) FINREP
3 1 (0.81%) NIST
3 1 (0.81%) PMO
Vendors
1 12 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.07%) Oracle
2 5 (4.07%) SAP
3 4 (3.25%) Alteryx
4 3 (2.44%) Cognizant
5 2 (1.63%) Avaloq
5 2 (1.63%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.81%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.81%) Cisco
6 1 (0.81%) Cognos
6 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.81%) IBM