Agile Project Manager Contracts

Agile Project Manager
UK

The median Agile Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 581 626
Rank change year-on-year +66 +45 -17
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Project Manager 56 106 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 79 178
10th Percentile £367 £460 £425
25th Percentile £419 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £570 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% +11.22% +7.89%
75th Percentile £631 £622 £588
90th Percentile £688 £703 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Agile Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile Project Manager in the UK

Agile Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Agile Project Manager in the UK

Agile Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Project Manager over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Project Manager in the UK

Agile Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile Project Manager in the UK

Agile Project Manager
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Project Manager within the UK 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
England +73 40 £575 -2.54% 7
London +80 27 £600 +4.35% 1
UK excluding London +29 23 £475 -13.64% 5
Work from Home +80 16 £475 -8.43% 6
Scotland +29 9 £475 -
South East +30 5 £575 -1.29% 2
North of England +24 3 £438 -28.57% 2
Wales +19 3 £503 +5.79%
South West +5 3 £415 -29.36%
North West +18 2 £425 -29.17% 2
Yorkshire +9 1 £450 -30.77%

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Agile 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 featuring Agile Project Manager in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Agile
2 33 (58.93%) Project Management
3 27 (48.21%) Scrum
4 24 (42.86%) Social Skills
5 21 (37.50%) Finance
6 14 (25.00%) Project Delivery
7 13 (23.21%) PRINCE2
8 12 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
10 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
11 8 (14.29%) Agile Project Management
11 8 (14.29%) Risk Management
12 7 (12.50%) Service Management
12 7 (12.50%) Python
12 7 (12.50%) Migration
12 7 (12.50%) Waterfall
12 7 (12.50%) Banking
12 7 (12.50%) JIRA
12 7 (12.50%) Conflict Resolution
12 7 (12.50%) Decision-Making
13 6 (10.71%) Dependency Management
13 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
13 6 (10.71%) Azure
13 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
13 6 (10.71%) CRM
14 5 (8.93%) SQL
14 5 (8.93%) Change Management
14 5 (8.93%) Programme Management
14 5 (8.93%) Time Management

Agile Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Appian
3 1 (1.79%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.71%) Azure
2 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.57%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.79%) Apple Pay
4 1 (1.79%) AWS
4 1 (1.79%) Google Pay
4 1 (1.79%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Internet
1 2 (3.57%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 24 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 21 (37.50%) Finance
3 12 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
5 7 (12.50%) Banking
6 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
7 5 (8.93%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (5.36%) Electronics
8 3 (5.36%) Investment Banking
8 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
8 3 (5.36%) Marketing
9 2 (3.57%) Back Office
9 2 (3.57%) Front Office
9 2 (3.57%) Games
9 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.79%) German Language
10 1 (1.79%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.79%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.57%) Equities
4 2 (3.57%) IVR
4 2 (3.57%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
1 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) Agile
2 33 (58.93%) Project Management
3 27 (48.21%) Scrum
4 14 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 13 (23.21%) PRINCE2
6 10 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (14.29%) Agile Project Management
7 8 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 7 (12.50%) Conflict Resolution
8 7 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 7 (12.50%) Migration
8 7 (12.50%) Service Management
8 7 (12.50%) Waterfall
9 6 (10.71%) CRM
9 6 (10.71%) Dependency Management
10 5 (8.93%) Change Management
10 5 (8.93%) DevOps
10 5 (8.93%) Programme Management
10 5 (8.93%) Roadmaps
10 5 (8.93%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.50%) Python
2 5 (8.93%) SQL
3 2 (3.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.93%) Degree
2 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) PMP
5 2 (3.57%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Splunk
2 3 (5.36%) SAP
3 2 (3.57%) Adobe
3 2 (3.57%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) Progress
4 1 (1.79%) Apple
4 1 (1.79%) Google
4 1 (1.79%) Pega
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) Virgin Media