Project Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Project Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 21 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 1,149 1,795 2,930
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.66% 7.80% 9.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.12% 8.27% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 1,327 2,270
10th Percentile £350 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +7.78%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £544
90th Percentile £638 £638 £613
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 56 31
10th Percentile £18.32 £26.44 £19.81
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.04 £23.39
Median hourly rate £35.50 £61.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.04% +88.46% +10.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.19 £49.00
90th Percentile £67.75 £65.75 £70.00
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 -8 313 £525 +1.94% 192
North of England -13 242 £500 -0.79% 162
Midlands -1 180 £520 +9.47% 156
South West -2 171 £500 -4.76% 91
North West -9 150 £500 - 99
West Midlands -4 135 £525 +10.53% 94
Scotland -2 124 £475 -3.55% 69
East of England -16 87 £450 -10.00% 80
Yorkshire -24 75 £500 -9.09% 50
East Midlands -2 43 £488 +8.33% 60
Wales +4 23 £513 +20.59% 26
North East +6 10 £525 +31.25% 20
Northern Ireland -6 8 £435 -10.77% 7
Channel Islands 0 2 £575 -
Project Manager
UK

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 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 UK excluding London region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 597 (51.96%) Project Management
2 364 (31.68%) Social Skills
3 317 (27.59%) Finance
4 311 (27.07%) Agile
5 271 (23.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 215 (18.71%) Project Delivery
7 205 (17.84%) PRINCE2
8 161 (14.01%) Security Cleared
8 161 (14.01%) Public Sector
9 121 (10.53%) Degree
10 119 (10.36%) Migration
11 114 (9.92%) Change Management
12 110 (9.57%) Risk Management
13 109 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
14 98 (8.53%) SAP
15 96 (8.36%) Waterfall
16 94 (8.18%) Microsoft
17 88 (7.66%) SC Cleared
18 83 (7.22%) ERP
19 78 (6.79%) Business Case
20 73 (6.35%) Programme Management
21 72 (6.27%) Project Planning
22 71 (6.18%) Budget Management
23 70 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
23 70 (6.09%) Azure
24 69 (6.01%) Manufacturing
25 68 (5.92%) DV Cleared
26 67 (5.83%) Decision-Making
27 65 (5.66%) Scrum
28 64 (5.57%) JIRA

Project Manager Skill Set
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 19 (1.65%) Confluence
2 15 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.087%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.087%) CMS
5 1 (0.087%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.087%) Moodle
5 1 (0.087%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 49 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (3.74%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 23 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.70%) SAP Hybris
3 6 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.52%) iTrent
4 4 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.26%) Magento
5 3 (0.26%) Maximo
5 3 (0.26%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.26%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
6 2 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.087%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.087%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.087%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.087%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 70 (6.09%) Azure
2 28 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
3 25 (2.18%) SaaS
4 18 (1.57%) Power Platform
5 14 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (0.96%) AWS
6 11 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (0.87%) Smartsheet
8 9 (0.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 9 (0.78%) WhatsApp
9 8 (0.70%) GitHub
9 8 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
10 6 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.44%) Akamai
11 5 (0.44%) Cloudflare
12 4 (0.35%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.35%) OCI
13 2 (0.17%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.17%) Intacct
13 2 (0.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.65%) Network Security
1 19 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
2 16 (1.39%) Structured Cabling
3 14 (1.22%) WAN
4 12 (1.04%) LAN
5 8 (0.70%) Internet
6 6 (0.52%) 5G
7 5 (0.44%) Firewall
7 5 (0.44%) Wireless
8 4 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.35%) VPN
9 3 (0.26%) 4G
10 2 (0.17%) CTI
10 2 (0.17%) IP Telephony
10 2 (0.17%) MPLS
10 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.17%) VoIP
11 1 (0.087%) DMZ
11 1 (0.087%) SAN
11 1 (0.087%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.57%) Power BI
2 17 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
4 6 (0.52%) Data Lake
4 6 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (0.44%) MySQL
6 4 (0.35%) Tableau
7 3 (0.26%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.17%) GIS
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.17%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.087%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.087%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.087%) IDMS
9 1 (0.087%) Metadata
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.087%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 64 (5.57%) JIRA
2 2 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.087%) Git
3 1 (0.087%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.087%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.087%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 364 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 317 (27.59%) Finance
3 161 (14.01%) Public Sector
4 70 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (6.01%) Manufacturing
6 46 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 44 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
8 42 (3.66%) Retail
9 39 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
12 27 (2.35%) Legal
13 26 (2.26%) Banking
14 24 (2.09%) Electronics
15 23 (2.00%) Marketing
16 22 (1.91%) Local Government
17 17 (1.48%) Aerospace
17 17 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 14 (1.22%) Automotive
18 14 (1.22%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.26%) .NET
1 3 (0.26%) Middleware
1 3 (0.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (0.17%) SAP PI
2 2 (0.17%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (0.087%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.087%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 36 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 31 (2.70%) NHS
3 28 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 22 (1.91%) Onboarding
5 21 (1.83%) PMI
6 17 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.04%) Life Science
10 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.78%) Security Operations Centre
12 8 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
12 8 (0.70%) LIMS
13 7 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
14 6 (0.52%) FMCG
14 6 (0.52%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.52%) Product Ownership
15 5 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.44%) Windows
2 10 (0.87%) Windows 10
3 5 (0.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.26%) Linux
4 3 (0.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.087%) AIX
5 1 (0.087%) Android
5 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.087%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 597 (51.96%) Project Management
2 311 (27.07%) Agile
3 271 (23.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 215 (18.71%) Project Delivery
5 205 (17.84%) PRINCE2
6 119 (10.36%) Migration
7 114 (9.92%) Change Management
8 110 (9.57%) Risk Management
9 109 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
10 96 (8.36%) Waterfall
11 83 (7.22%) ERP
12 78 (6.79%) Business Case
13 73 (6.35%) Programme Management
14 72 (6.27%) Project Planning
15 71 (6.18%) Budget Management
16 67 (5.83%) Decision-Making
17 65 (5.66%) Scrum
18 59 (5.13%) Project Governance
19 55 (4.79%) Cybersecurity
20 54 (4.70%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 19 (1.65%) SQL
2 9 (0.78%) PL/SQL
3 6 (0.52%) Java
3 6 (0.52%) PHP
3 6 (0.52%) Python
4 3 (0.26%) Perl
5 1 (0.087%) C
5 1 (0.087%) COBOL
5 1 (0.087%) R
Qualifications
1 161 (14.01%) Security Cleared
2 121 (10.53%) Degree
3 88 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 68 (5.92%) DV Cleared
5 62 (5.40%) PMI Certification
6 60 (5.22%) PMP
7 48 (4.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 38 (3.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 16 (1.39%) APMP
10 15 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.31%) CISM
10 15 (1.31%) CISSP
11 12 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.96%) HNC
13 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.70%) HND
14 6 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (0.44%) ISEB
15 5 (0.44%) RIBA
16 4 (0.35%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.48%) PMO
2 32 (2.79%) QA
3 9 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (0.78%) GDPR
3 9 (0.78%) NIST
4 8 (0.70%) HL7
4 8 (0.70%) NIST 800
5 6 (0.52%) NEBOSH
6 5 (0.44%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.35%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.35%) PMBOK
7 4 (0.35%) SLA
8 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.26%) GAMP
8 3 (0.26%) GxP
9 2 (0.17%) COBIT
9 2 (0.17%) GMP
10 1 (0.087%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.087%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 8 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (0.52%) Argo
2 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.17%) Terraform
4 1 (0.087%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 98 (8.53%) SAP
2 94 (8.18%) Microsoft
3 19 (1.65%) Oracle
4 17 (1.48%) Sage
5 15 (1.31%) Atlassian
6 11 (0.96%) Adobe
7 10 (0.87%) Ariba
7 10 (0.87%) Salesforce
8 9 (0.78%) Avaloq
9 7 (0.61%) NEC
10 6 (0.52%) Cisco
10 6 (0.52%) Citrix
11 5 (0.44%) F5
12 4 (0.35%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.35%) Cognizant
12 4 (0.35%) Workday
13 3 (0.26%) BT
13 3 (0.26%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.26%) Progress
13 3 (0.26%) Siemens