Project Management Contracts

Project Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 24 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3,462 4,562 6,884
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.93% 7.58% 7.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 8.43% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,143 3,090 4,733
10th Percentile £313 £335 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £637 £600
90th Percentile £725 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £469
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 161 219
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.16 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.68 £30.54 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +44.54% +27.20%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £61.28 £80.00 £67.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.20% +78.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +2 2,928 £525 - 2,997
UK excluding London +1 1,786 £500 - 2,093
London +6 1,345 £550 -2.22% 1,040
Work from Home +3 1,189 £525 +5.00% 1,231
South East -6 411 £489 -2.25% 553
North of England -3 349 £500 - 481
South West +7 323 £525 - 290
Scotland +1 224 £475 +5.56% 158
East of England +8 206 £525 +5.00% 226
Midlands -3 205 £500 +2.56% 389
North West -6 191 £516 +3.25% 284
West Midlands +1 161 £525 +5.00% 238
Yorkshire +8 130 £500 -2.87% 158
Wales +12 62 £526 +15.18% 53
East Midlands -10 41 £475 - 151
North East +17 30 £600 +50.00% 47
Northern Ireland -4 12 £435 +0.87% 22
Channel Islands - 2 £575 -

Project Management
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
1 170 (4.91%) SharePoint
2 92 (2.66%) Confluence
3 39 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 37 (1.07%) CMS
5 13 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (0.32%) Drupal
7 10 (0.29%) SAS
8 6 (0.17%) Apache
9 5 (0.14%) Documentum
9 5 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
9 5 (0.14%) WordPress
10 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.12%) CICS
10 4 (0.12%) nginx
11 3 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.087%) IBM Notes
11 3 (0.087%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.087%) WebSphere
Applications
1 217 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 207 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
3 144 (4.16%) Microsoft Project
4 140 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 49 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
6 41 (1.18%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 14 (0.40%) Acrobat
9 9 (0.26%) Trello
10 8 (0.23%) Simulink
11 7 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
11 7 (0.20%) InDesign
12 6 (0.17%) AutoCAD
13 5 (0.14%) Revit
13 5 (0.14%) Stateflow
13 5 (0.14%) TargetLink
14 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.058%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 101 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.01%) Loan IQ
3 24 (0.69%) Primavera
4 12 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 11 (0.32%) SAP HCM
5 11 (0.32%) SAP HR
5 11 (0.32%) SAP Hybris
5 11 (0.32%) Teamcenter
6 10 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
7 9 (0.26%) SAP QM
8 8 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.23%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.23%) Workfront
9 7 (0.20%) Aladdin
9 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.17%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 296 (8.55%) Azure
2 124 (3.58%) AWS
3 122 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
4 105 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 84 (2.43%) SaaS
6 75 (2.17%) GitHub
7 58 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
8 41 (1.18%) OCI
9 38 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
10 32 (0.92%) GCP
11 28 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (0.72%) PaaS
13 23 (0.66%) Slack
14 21 (0.61%) Google Workspace
14 21 (0.61%) PowerApps
15 18 (0.52%) OneDrive
16 16 (0.46%) Smartsheet
16 16 (0.46%) WhatsApp
17 15 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.79%) Firewall
2 55 (1.59%) LAN
3 52 (1.50%) VPN
3 52 (1.50%) WAN
4 47 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
5 39 (1.13%) DNS
6 34 (0.98%) Intranet
7 32 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
8 28 (0.81%) DHCP
9 26 (0.75%) TCP/IP
10 25 (0.72%) Network Security
11 24 (0.69%) SAN
12 22 (0.64%) Wireless
13 19 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
14 17 (0.49%) 4G
15 16 (0.46%) Internet
16 11 (0.32%) 3GPP
16 11 (0.32%) 5G
16 11 (0.32%) VoIP
17 10 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (2.48%) Power BI
2 39 (1.13%) SQL Server
3 34 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (0.95%) MySQL
5 32 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 18 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
7 17 (0.49%) Metadata
8 15 (0.43%) Tableau
9 14 (0.40%) GIS
10 13 (0.38%) Big Data
10 13 (0.38%) Data Lake
11 12 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
12 10 (0.29%) Data Mining
13 9 (0.26%) RDBMS
13 9 (0.26%) SAP HANA
14 8 (0.23%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
14 8 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
14 8 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.20%) EDMS
15 7 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 291 (8.41%) JIRA
2 35 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 33 (0.95%) Git
4 28 (0.81%) GitLab
5 18 (0.52%) Cypress.io
6 17 (0.49%) SonarQube
7 15 (0.43%) Postman
8 12 (0.35%) Subversion
9 10 (0.29%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.26%) TestRail
11 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.20%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.17%) AppScan
13 6 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.17%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.17%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.17%) Travis CI
14 5 (0.14%) Storybook
15 4 (0.12%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
General
1 1,445 (41.74%) Social Skills
2 1,039 (30.01%) Finance
3 525 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
4 348 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 232 (6.70%) Organisational Skills
6 190 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
7 185 (5.34%) Influencing Skills
8 180 (5.20%) Manufacturing
9 175 (5.05%) Marketing
10 173 (5.00%) Banking
11 148 (4.27%) Legal
12 146 (4.22%) Telecoms
13 108 (3.12%) Retail
14 89 (2.57%) Electronics
15 81 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 78 (2.25%) Local Government
17 69 (1.99%) Aerospace
18 63 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 53 (1.53%) Law
20 51 (1.47%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,225 (35.38%) Project Manager
2 314 (9.07%) Analyst
3 298 (8.61%) Lead
4 280 (8.09%) Senior
5 183 (5.29%) Architect
6 176 (5.08%) IT Manager
7 170 (4.91%) Business Analyst
8 169 (4.88%) Senior Manager
9 129 (3.73%) Consultant
9 129 (3.73%) IT Project Manager
10 120 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
11 107 (3.09%) Senior Project Manager
12 106 (3.06%) Technical Manager
13 94 (2.72%) Developer
14 91 (2.63%) Programme Manager
15 84 (2.43%) Security Manager
16 73 (2.11%) Technical Project Manager
17 65 (1.88%) Infrastructure Manager
18 63 (1.82%) Security Project Manager
19 60 (1.73%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (0.75%) XML
2 24 (0.69%) YAML
3 22 (0.64%) React
4 21 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (0.55%) .NET
5 19 (0.55%) ADO
6 16 (0.46%) AngularJS
7 15 (0.43%) CSS
7 15 (0.43%) Spring
7 15 (0.43%) Vue
8 12 (0.35%) EDI
8 12 (0.35%) HTML
8 12 (0.35%) Laravel
9 11 (0.32%) ARM Templates
9 11 (0.32%) JSON
10 10 (0.29%) Azure Blueprints
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (0.20%) Lambda Expressions
12 7 (0.20%) REST
12 7 (0.20%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 197 (5.69%) Management Information System
2 90 (2.60%) Data Centre
3 87 (2.51%) Product Ownership
4 74 (2.14%) Onboarding
5 64 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 60 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
7 54 (1.56%) PMI
8 37 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 37 (1.07%) Virtual Team
9 35 (1.01%) NHS
10 31 (0.90%) Analogue Electronics
10 31 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (0.87%) Life Science
12 28 (0.81%) Algorithms
13 25 (0.72%) Public Cloud
14 24 (0.69%) FMCG
15 23 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (0.61%) Derivative
17 20 (0.58%) Mobile App
18 19 (0.55%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 117 (3.38%) Windows
2 96 (2.77%) Linux
3 48 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 34 (0.98%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.66%) zOS
6 20 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
6 20 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (0.43%) Android
9 14 (0.40%) Unix
10 13 (0.38%) Windows XP
11 8 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.17%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.12%) VMS
15 3 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.087%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.058%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,067 (30.82%) Agile
2 781 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 698 (20.16%) Project Delivery
4 679 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
5 535 (15.45%) PRINCE2
6 442 (12.77%) Change Management
7 355 (10.25%) Risk Management
8 289 (8.35%) Decision-Making
9 287 (8.29%) Migration
10 269 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 249 (7.19%) Scrum
12 241 (6.96%) Waterfall
13 233 (6.73%) Programme Management
14 216 (6.24%) Business Case
15 205 (5.92%) DevOps
16 200 (5.78%) Project Planning
17 193 (5.57%) Roadmaps
18 192 (5.55%) ITIL
19 182 (5.26%) Analytics
20 176 (5.08%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 132 (3.81%) SQL
2 105 (3.03%) Python
3 66 (1.91%) PowerShell
4 49 (1.42%) JavaScript
5 48 (1.39%) Java
6 24 (0.69%) C#
7 21 (0.61%) PL/SQL
7 21 (0.61%) TypeScript
8 20 (0.58%) Bash
8 20 (0.58%) C
9 18 (0.52%) JCL
10 17 (0.49%) PHP
11 15 (0.43%) REXX
12 12 (0.35%) Scala
13 8 (0.23%) MATLAB
13 8 (0.23%) Perl
13 8 (0.23%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.20%) R
14 7 (0.20%) XPath
14 7 (0.20%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 579 (16.72%) Degree
2 575 (16.61%) Security Cleared
3 388 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 232 (6.70%) PMP
5 217 (6.27%) PMI Certification
6 155 (4.48%) DV Cleared
7 80 (2.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 74 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.24%) APMP
10 43 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.21%) CISSP
12 38 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 33 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 32 (0.92%) CISM
15 29 (0.84%) CCNA
15 29 (0.84%) CCNP
16 23 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
18 18 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (10.17%) PMO
2 221 (6.38%) QA
3 57 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 40 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.07%) GDPR
6 33 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (0.78%) SLA
8 26 (0.75%) JSP 440
9 21 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
10 14 (0.40%) NIST
11 11 (0.32%) COBIT
11 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.29%) NCSC
12 10 (0.29%) P3O
13 9 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
13 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.26%) GxP
13 9 (0.26%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 41 (1.18%) Docker
3 28 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.55%) NFS
7 18 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
8 12 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.17%) vSphere
11 4 (0.12%) ACF2
11 4 (0.12%) RACF
11 4 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
12 3 (0.087%) KVM
12 3 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.058%) PowerHA
13 2 (0.058%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.029%) iptables
14 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 57 (1.65%) Ansible
2 47 (1.36%) Terraform
3 40 (1.16%) Kubernetes
4 26 (0.75%) SCCM
4 26 (0.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 22 (0.64%) Grafana
6 21 (0.61%) vCenter Server
7 20 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 17 (0.49%) SCOM
9 15 (0.43%) NetBackup
9 15 (0.43%) Puppet
10 14 (0.40%) Graylog
10 14 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.38%) EMC NetWorker
11 13 (0.38%) WSUS
12 10 (0.29%) Nagios
13 8 (0.23%) PingFederate
14 7 (0.20%) logstash
14 7 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 500 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 312 (9.01%) SAP
3 118 (3.41%) Oracle
4 69 (1.99%) Cisco
5 58 (1.68%) Adobe
6 57 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 53 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 44 (1.27%) Google
9 43 (1.24%) VMware
10 38 (1.10%) Dell
11 37 (1.07%) IBM
12 36 (1.04%) Juniper
13 32 (0.92%) Ariba
14 31 (0.90%) Splunk
15 30 (0.87%) Atlassian
16 25 (0.72%) HP
17 23 (0.66%) CA
18 22 (0.64%) Broadcom
19 21 (0.61%) Brocade
20 20 (0.58%) Palo Alto