Project Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,772 2,140 2,909
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.62% 8.96% 9.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.18% 10.00% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 1,456 2,110
10th Percentile £313 £300 £287
25th Percentile £406 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 112 102
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.17 -
25th Percentile £27.69 £30.54 £15.90
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £29.19
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +67.87% +6.15%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.75 £40.14
90th Percentile £60.88 £80.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year -22.20% +44.54% +25.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East -6 412 £488 -2.50% 534
North of England -1 348 £500 - 526
South West +10 333 £519 -5.68% 296
Scotland +1 208 £475 +5.56% 145
Midlands 0 206 £500 - 438
East of England +6 205 £525 +5.00% 241
North West -2 193 £505 +2.28% 321
West Midlands +2 160 £525 +5.00% 278
Yorkshire +5 127 £500 -4.76% 159
Wales +10 58 £530 +9.28% 60
East Midlands -4 45 £488 +2.63% 160
North East +20 30 £600 +50.00% 54
Northern Ireland -7 11 £435 -3.33% 21
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 1
Project Management
UK

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 81 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 65 (3.67%) Confluence
3 8 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.45%) SAS
4 6 (0.34%) CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Documentum
6 3 (0.17%) Apache
7 2 (0.11%) IBM Notes
7 2 (0.11%) nginx
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.056%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.056%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.056%) CICS
8 1 (0.056%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.056%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 135 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (6.77%) Microsoft Office
3 85 (4.80%) Microsoft Project
4 75 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (2.09%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.79%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.62%) Acrobat
8 8 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.45%) Simulink
9 5 (0.28%) Stateflow
9 5 (0.28%) TargetLink
10 4 (0.23%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.17%) Revit
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.11%) Lectora
13 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.056%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.85%) Primavera
3 7 (0.40%) SAP HCM
3 7 (0.40%) SAP HR
3 7 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
4 5 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.28%) iTrent
4 5 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.28%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.23%) CA PPM
5 4 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.23%) SAP PS
5 4 (0.23%) SAP WM
5 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.17%) Aareon QL
6 3 (0.17%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 139 (7.84%) Azure
2 57 (3.22%) AWS
2 57 (3.22%) Power Platform
3 51 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (2.26%) GitHub
5 31 (1.75%) OCI
6 28 (1.58%) SaaS
7 24 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
10 14 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (0.73%) GCP
11 13 (0.73%) PowerApps
12 9 (0.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (0.51%) Slack
13 8 (0.45%) Canva
13 8 (0.45%) Smartsheet
13 8 (0.45%) Yammer
14 7 (0.40%) PaaS
14 7 (0.40%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.77%) Firewall
2 44 (2.48%) VPN
3 37 (2.09%) WAN
4 35 (1.98%) LAN
4 35 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
5 34 (1.92%) DNS
6 27 (1.52%) Intranet
7 25 (1.41%) DHCP
8 20 (1.13%) SAN
9 19 (1.07%) Radio Access Network
10 18 (1.02%) TCP/IP
11 17 (0.96%) Wireless
12 16 (0.90%) 4G
12 16 (0.90%) Network Security
13 13 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
14 11 (0.62%) 3GPP
14 11 (0.62%) LTE
14 11 (0.62%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.45%) HTTP
15 8 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (2.88%) Power BI
2 22 (1.24%) MySQL
3 21 (1.19%) SQL Server
4 17 (0.96%) Relational Database
5 9 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
7 7 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.28%) EDMS
8 5 (0.28%) Metadata
8 5 (0.28%) Tableau
9 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.23%) DB2
9 4 (0.23%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 165 (9.31%) JIRA
2 23 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.13%) GitLab
4 17 (0.96%) Git
5 16 (0.90%) Cypress.io
6 14 (0.79%) Postman
7 11 (0.62%) Subversion
8 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.34%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.34%) Travis CI
10 5 (0.28%) AppScan
10 5 (0.28%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.28%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.28%) Storybook
11 4 (0.23%) Selenium
12 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.17%) XCUITest
13 2 (0.11%) JMeter
13 2 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 776 (43.79%) Social Skills
2 499 (28.16%) Finance
3 262 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (12.64%) Public Sector
5 154 (8.69%) Organisational Skills
6 123 (6.94%) Influencing Skills
7 121 (6.83%) Manufacturing
8 100 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
9 86 (4.85%) Telecoms
10 64 (3.61%) Legal
11 58 (3.27%) Aerospace
12 54 (3.05%) Electronics
13 51 (2.88%) Marketing
14 45 (2.54%) Banking
15 42 (2.37%) Local Government
16 41 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
16 41 (2.31%) Retail
17 30 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 28 (1.58%) Automotive
19 24 (1.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 592 (33.41%) Project Manager
2 168 (9.48%) Lead
3 164 (9.26%) Analyst
4 157 (8.86%) Senior
5 126 (7.11%) Architect
6 94 (5.30%) IT Manager
7 91 (5.14%) Senior Manager
8 71 (4.01%) Business Analyst
9 69 (3.89%) IT Project Manager
10 55 (3.10%) Developer
11 53 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
12 51 (2.88%) Senior Project Manager
13 45 (2.54%) Technical Manager
14 38 (2.14%) Project Leader
15 34 (1.92%) Test Architect
16 33 (1.86%) Technical Project Manager
17 32 (1.81%) Infrastructure Manager
18 31 (1.75%) Consultant
18 31 (1.75%) SAP Manager
19 30 (1.69%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.30%) React
2 20 (1.13%) YAML
3 17 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (0.85%) AngularJS
5 13 (0.73%) Spring
6 11 (0.62%) .NET
6 11 (0.62%) Vue
7 10 (0.56%) JSON
8 9 (0.51%) Laravel
9 8 (0.45%) XML
10 7 (0.40%) Playwright
11 4 (0.23%) Kafka
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
12 3 (0.17%) .NET Core
12 3 (0.17%) Middleware
12 3 (0.17%) PySpark
12 3 (0.17%) REST
13 2 (0.11%) CSS
13 2 (0.11%) ModSecurity
13 2 (0.11%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 86 (4.85%) Management Information System
2 53 (2.99%) Data Centre
2 53 (2.99%) Product Ownership
3 36 (2.03%) Onboarding
4 33 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (1.81%) Analogue Electronics
6 30 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.52%) PMI
8 23 (1.30%) Life Science
9 22 (1.24%) NHS
10 21 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 19 (1.07%) Public Cloud
13 17 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 15 (0.85%) Driving Licence
16 13 (0.73%) Mobile App
17 12 (0.68%) PKI
18 10 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
18 10 (0.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 66 (3.72%) Windows
2 64 (3.61%) Linux
3 38 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.41%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
6 18 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (0.90%) zOS
8 14 (0.79%) Windows XP
9 11 (0.62%) Android
10 8 (0.45%) Unix
11 7 (0.40%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.11%) VMS
15 1 (0.056%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (30.76%) Agile
2 468 (26.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 360 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
3 360 (20.32%) Project Delivery
4 294 (16.59%) PRINCE2
5 215 (12.13%) Change Management
6 157 (8.86%) Risk Management
7 149 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 136 (7.67%) Decision-Making
9 134 (7.56%) Project Planning
10 128 (7.22%) Waterfall
11 118 (6.66%) Business Case
12 105 (5.93%) Migration
13 100 (5.64%) DevOps
13 100 (5.64%) Scrum
14 99 (5.59%) Programme Management
15 96 (5.42%) Collaborative Working
16 92 (5.19%) Roadmaps
17 91 (5.14%) ITIL
18 85 (4.80%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 60 (3.39%) Python
2 54 (3.05%) SQL
3 38 (2.14%) PowerShell
4 33 (1.86%) Java
5 27 (1.52%) C
6 24 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.79%) Bash
7 14 (0.79%) JCL
8 13 (0.73%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.62%) REXX
10 10 (0.56%) PHP
11 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.45%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.34%) C#
13 6 (0.34%) Perl
14 5 (0.28%) C++
15 4 (0.23%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.17%) Assembly Language
16 3 (0.17%) SystemVerilog
16 3 (0.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 396 (22.35%) Security Cleared
2 269 (15.18%) Degree
3 251 (14.16%) SC Cleared
4 126 (7.11%) DV Cleared
5 106 (5.98%) PMP
6 98 (5.53%) PMI Certification
7 39 (2.20%) APMP
8 30 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 25 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 24 (1.35%) CCNA
10 24 (1.35%) CCNP
11 16 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.62%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.56%) HNC
15 8 (0.45%) CISSP
15 8 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (11.74%) PMO
2 110 (6.21%) QA
3 26 (1.47%) JSP 440
4 24 (1.35%) GDPR
5 20 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
7 13 (0.73%) Data Quality
8 12 (0.68%) SLA
9 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.40%) GxP
11 7 (0.40%) NIST
12 6 (0.34%) GAMP
12 6 (0.34%) ISO 26262
13 5 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
13 5 (0.28%) GMP
13 5 (0.28%) MISRA
13 5 (0.28%) MISRA C
14 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.90%) Docker
6 15 (0.85%) NFS
7 14 (0.79%) Time Sharing Option
8 5 (0.28%) vSphere
9 4 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.17%) KVM
10 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.056%) ACF2
12 1 (0.056%) iptables
12 1 (0.056%) RACF
12 1 (0.056%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.056%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.056%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (1.81%) Ansible
2 23 (1.30%) vCenter Server
3 22 (1.24%) SCCM
4 20 (1.13%) Terraform
4 20 (1.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 17 (0.96%) Kubernetes
6 16 (0.90%) Grafana
6 16 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.90%) SCOM
7 15 (0.85%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (0.79%) NetBackup
8 14 (0.79%) WSUS
9 12 (0.68%) Puppet
10 11 (0.62%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.56%) Graylog
12 7 (0.40%) Kibana
12 7 (0.40%) logstash
12 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 258 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 124 (7.00%) SAP
3 54 (3.05%) Oracle
4 49 (2.77%) Cisco
5 37 (2.09%) Juniper
6 34 (1.92%) VMware
7 29 (1.64%) Adobe
7 29 (1.64%) Dell
8 24 (1.35%) IBM
9 21 (1.19%) HP
10 20 (1.13%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.02%) EMC
12 17 (0.96%) CA
12 17 (0.96%) Palo Alto
12 17 (0.96%) Salesforce
12 17 (0.96%) Splunk
13 16 (0.90%) Ariba
13 16 (0.90%) Extreme Networks
13 16 (0.90%) Symantec
13 16 (0.90%) Veeam