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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,739 2,021 2,930
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.38% 8.82% 9.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.07% 9.89% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 985 1,385 2,123
10th Percentile £303 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £556
90th Percentile £665 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.14% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 94 106
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 -
25th Percentile £27.19 £30.54 £15.90
Median hourly rate £38.12 £48.75 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% +78.90% +3.95%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £37.43
90th Percentile £60.13 £78.50 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £32.45
% change year-on-year -22.20% +51.00% +18.00%

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 17,263 20,432 27,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.19% 89.17% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,230 14,021 19,224
10th Percentile £246 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £580
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 1,241 1,350
10th Percentile £12.41 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.28
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -10 422 £475 -5.00% 497
North of England +1 346 £500 - 531
South West +5 316 £525 -3.00% 288
Midlands +1 208 £500 +5.26% 465
East of England +7 199 £525 +1.25% 240
North West -2 197 £505 +1.00% 316
Scotland -2 187 £450 -2.70% 161
West Midlands 0 157 £511 +7.63% 290
Yorkshire +7 119 £500 -5.21% 156
Wales +18 50 £528 -4.05% 52
East Midlands -4 50 £488 -2.50% 173
North East +10 32 £600 +50.00% 64
Northern Ireland -4 16 £266 -40.83% 24
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 2
South Coast - 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 83 (4.77%) SharePoint
2 69 (3.97%) Confluence
3 8 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (0.46%) Documentum
4 7 (0.40%) SAS
5 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) Apache
7 3 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.12%) IBM Notes
8 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.058%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.058%) Appian
9 1 (0.058%) CICS
9 1 (0.058%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.058%) EPiServer
Applications
1 132 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 89 (5.12%) Microsoft Project
4 72 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.81%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.63%) Acrobat
8 8 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.46%) Simulink
9 5 (0.29%) Stateflow
9 5 (0.29%) TargetLink
10 4 (0.23%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.23%) Revit
11 3 (0.17%) Trello
12 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.12%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.12%) Lectora
13 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.058%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 32 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.69%) Primavera
3 7 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 7 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
4 6 (0.35%) iTrent
4 6 (0.35%) SAP HCM
4 6 (0.35%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.35%) SAP Payroll
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%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.12%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 134 (7.71%) Azure
2 57 (3.28%) AWS
3 53 (3.05%) Power Platform
4 46 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (2.47%) GitHub
6 28 (1.61%) SaaS
7 26 (1.50%) OCI
8 24 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (1.09%) GCP
11 18 (1.04%) SuccessFactors
12 14 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (0.81%) PowerApps
13 11 (0.63%) PaaS
14 9 (0.52%) Kong
14 9 (0.52%) Slack
15 8 (0.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (0.46%) Canva
15 8 (0.46%) Smartsheet
15 8 (0.46%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.70%) VPN
2 45 (2.59%) Firewall
3 37 (2.13%) WAN
4 34 (1.96%) LAN
4 34 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
5 32 (1.84%) DNS
6 25 (1.44%) Intranet
7 20 (1.15%) DHCP
7 20 (1.15%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.09%) SAN
9 18 (1.04%) Radio Access Network
10 14 (0.81%) 4G
10 14 (0.81%) Wireless
11 13 (0.75%) HTTP
11 13 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
12 12 (0.69%) 3GPP
12 12 (0.69%) LTE
12 12 (0.69%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.58%) Internet
14 9 (0.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.76%) Power BI
2 19 (1.09%) SQL Server
3 17 (0.98%) MySQL
4 15 (0.86%) Relational Database
5 10 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (0.46%) EDMS
7 8 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
8 7 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
9 6 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.23%) DB2
11 3 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.17%) Metadata
12 2 (0.12%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database 11g
12 2 (0.12%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 168 (9.66%) JIRA
2 25 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.27%) Git
4 21 (1.21%) GitLab
5 17 (0.98%) Cypress.io
6 14 (0.81%) Postman
7 13 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (0.52%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.52%) Subversion
8 9 (0.52%) Travis CI
9 6 (0.35%) Storybook
10 5 (0.29%) AppScan
10 5 (0.29%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.23%) Selenium
11 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.17%) XCUITest
13 2 (0.12%) JMeter
13 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
General
1 757 (43.53%) Social Skills
2 486 (27.95%) Finance
3 241 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 145 (8.34%) Organisational Skills
6 126 (7.25%) Manufacturing
7 121 (6.96%) Influencing Skills
8 89 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
9 79 (4.54%) Telecoms
10 68 (3.91%) Legal
11 60 (3.45%) Aerospace
11 60 (3.45%) Marketing
12 56 (3.22%) Electronics
13 45 (2.59%) Local Government
14 44 (2.53%) Banking
15 38 (2.19%) Retail
16 30 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
17 29 (1.67%) Automotive
17 29 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 22 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 595 (34.22%) Project Manager
2 162 (9.32%) Senior
3 156 (8.97%) Analyst
4 145 (8.34%) Lead
5 133 (7.65%) Architect
6 97 (5.58%) Senior Manager
7 90 (5.18%) IT Manager
8 69 (3.97%) IT Project Manager
9 65 (3.74%) Business Analyst
10 61 (3.51%) Senior Project Manager
11 57 (3.28%) Developer
12 45 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
13 44 (2.53%) Technical Manager
14 39 (2.24%) Consultant
15 37 (2.13%) Project Leader
16 35 (2.01%) Test Architect
17 33 (1.90%) Technical Project Manager
18 31 (1.78%) Coordinator
19 30 (1.73%) Change Manager
20 29 (1.67%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.32%) YAML
2 21 (1.21%) React
3 19 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (0.81%) .NET
5 13 (0.75%) AngularJS
6 12 (0.69%) JSON
6 12 (0.69%) Spring
6 12 (0.69%) Vue
7 10 (0.58%) Laravel
7 10 (0.58%) XML
8 8 (0.46%) Playwright
9 7 (0.40%) REST
10 6 (0.35%) Kafka
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (0.23%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.23%) BAPI
12 4 (0.23%) ModSecurity
12 4 (0.23%) RESTful
12 4 (0.23%) SAP ALE
13 3 (0.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.37%) Management Information System
2 50 (2.88%) Product Ownership
3 47 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 35 (2.01%) Analogue Electronics
5 33 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (1.50%) PMI
8 23 (1.32%) NHS
9 22 (1.27%) Life Science
10 21 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
11 20 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 17 (0.98%) Driving Licence
13 16 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 16 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 14 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.69%) Mobile App
15 12 (0.69%) PKI
15 12 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
16 10 (0.58%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 60 (3.45%) Linux
2 54 (3.11%) Windows
3 35 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.21%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (0.92%) zOS
8 14 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (0.81%) Windows XP
9 10 (0.58%) Android
10 7 (0.40%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.35%) Unix
12 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.058%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.058%) Solaris
13 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.058%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (29.79%) Agile
2 448 (25.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 348 (20.01%) Project Delivery
4 340 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
5 295 (16.96%) PRINCE2
6 217 (12.48%) Change Management
7 159 (9.14%) Risk Management
8 153 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 136 (7.82%) Decision-Making
10 126 (7.25%) Project Planning
11 122 (7.02%) Waterfall
12 100 (5.75%) Business Case
13 99 (5.69%) DevOps
14 97 (5.58%) Migration
15 96 (5.52%) Scrum
16 92 (5.29%) Programme Management
17 88 (5.06%) ITIL
18 86 (4.95%) Collaborative Working
19 85 (4.89%) ERP
20 84 (4.83%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 65 (3.74%) Python
2 56 (3.22%) SQL
3 42 (2.42%) PowerShell
4 29 (1.67%) Java
5 28 (1.61%) C
6 24 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.98%) Bash
8 14 (0.81%) JCL
9 12 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.63%) REXX
11 10 (0.58%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.52%) PHP
13 8 (0.46%) C++
13 8 (0.46%) MATLAB
14 6 (0.35%) Perl
15 4 (0.23%) ABAP
15 4 (0.23%) C#
16 3 (0.17%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.17%) Assembly Language
16 3 (0.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 371 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 262 (15.07%) Degree
3 231 (13.28%) SC Cleared
4 117 (6.73%) DV Cleared
5 100 (5.75%) PMP
6 94 (5.41%) PMI Certification
7 40 (2.30%) APMP
8 33 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 29 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 25 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 24 (1.38%) CCNA
13 23 (1.32%) CCNP
14 13 (0.75%) ISEB
15 12 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
16 10 (0.58%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.58%) HNC
17 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
18 7 (0.40%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (10.93%) PMO
2 96 (5.52%) QA
3 25 (1.44%) JSP 440
4 24 (1.38%) GDPR
5 19 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
7 10 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.58%) SLA
8 9 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.46%) GxP
9 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.35%) GAMP
10 6 (0.35%) ISO 26262
11 5 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
11 5 (0.29%) GMP
11 5 (0.29%) MISRA
11 5 (0.29%) MISRA C
11 5 (0.29%) NEBOSH
11 5 (0.29%) NIST
11 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.27%) Docker
4 18 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.86%) NFS
7 14 (0.81%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.17%) vSphere
10 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.058%) ACF2
11 1 (0.058%) iptables
11 1 (0.058%) RACF
11 1 (0.058%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.058%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.058%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 37 (2.13%) Ansible
2 24 (1.38%) Terraform
3 23 (1.32%) Kubernetes
4 20 (1.15%) SCCM
4 20 (1.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 18 (1.04%) Grafana
5 18 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.04%) vCenter Server
6 17 (0.98%) SCOM
7 15 (0.86%) EMC NetWorker
7 15 (0.86%) Puppet
8 14 (0.81%) NetBackup
8 14 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 14 (0.81%) WSUS
9 10 (0.58%) Kibana
9 10 (0.58%) logstash
10 9 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.52%) Graylog
11 6 (0.35%) OPNET
12 5 (0.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 256 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 116 (6.67%) SAP
3 50 (2.88%) Oracle
4 49 (2.82%) Cisco
5 36 (2.07%) Juniper
6 30 (1.73%) VMware
7 29 (1.67%) Adobe
7 29 (1.67%) Dell
8 27 (1.55%) IBM
9 19 (1.09%) Splunk
10 18 (1.04%) Salesforce
11 17 (0.98%) CA
11 17 (0.98%) EMC
12 16 (0.92%) Extreme Networks
12 16 (0.92%) HP
12 16 (0.92%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.86%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.86%) Broadcom
14 14 (0.81%) 3PAR
14 14 (0.81%) Veeam