Technical Project Manager Contracts

Technical Project Manager
UK

The median Technical Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 455 485 497
Rank change year-on-year +30 +12 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Project Manager 137 242 397
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.41% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.43% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 175 271
10th Percentile £300 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £625
90th Percentile £729 £700 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.00
Median hourly rate £34.21 £65.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +10.64% +80.77%
75th Percentile - - £63.13
90th Percentile - - £67.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.21 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -47.37% -7.14% -

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
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 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Technical Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Project Manager in the UK

Technical Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Project Manager in the UK

Technical Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Project Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Project Manager in the UK

Technical Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Project Manager in the UK

Technical Project Manager
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Project Manager within the UK 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
England +17 119 £525 - 46
London +36 69 £575 +6.48% 16
Work from Home +89 56 £500 -2.44% 14
UK excluding London +49 56 £500 - 29
South East +21 18 £518 +6.15% 13
North of England +16 13 £500 - 5
North West +16 10 £500 - 5
Scotland +44 8 £525 +2.44%
East of England +14 7 £500 -21.57% 5
West Midlands +21 5 £488 -7.14% 4
Midlands +21 5 £488 -7.14% 4
South West +16 5 £550 +11.39% 3
Yorkshire +14 3 £363 -19.44%

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Project Manager in the job title.

1 69 (50.36%) Project Management
2 47 (34.31%) Agile
3 46 (33.58%) Finance
4 33 (24.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 30 (21.90%) Social Skills
6 26 (18.98%) Project Delivery
7 18 (13.14%) Migration
7 18 (13.14%) Waterfall
8 15 (10.95%) Change Management
8 15 (10.95%) Banking
9 14 (10.22%) Scrum
10 13 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (8.76%) SAP
11 12 (8.76%) PRINCE2
11 12 (8.76%) ERP
11 12 (8.76%) Microsoft
12 11 (8.03%) JIRA
12 11 (8.03%) Public Sector
12 11 (8.03%) Data Centre
13 10 (7.30%) Budget Management
13 10 (7.30%) Security Cleared
13 10 (7.30%) Risk Management
14 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Project
14 9 (6.57%) PMP
14 9 (6.57%) PMI Certification
14 9 (6.57%) Azure
14 9 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
14 9 (6.57%) Roadmaps
15 8 (5.84%) SDLC
15 8 (5.84%) QA

Technical 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 8 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.92%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (2.19%) Confluence
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.73%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.73%) CMS
5 1 (0.73%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.73%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.73%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.46%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.73%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.73%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.73%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.73%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.57%) Azure
2 7 (5.11%) SaaS
3 5 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.92%) GCP
5 2 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.46%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.73%) AWS
6 1 (0.73%) Contentful
6 1 (0.73%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.73%) GitHub
6 1 (0.73%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.73%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.73%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.73%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.73%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.38%) WAN
1 6 (4.38%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (3.65%) LAN
2 5 (3.65%) VPN
3 4 (2.92%) Wireless
4 2 (1.46%) Firewall
4 2 (1.46%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.46%) Network Security
4 2 (1.46%) SAN
4 2 (1.46%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.73%) MPLS
5 1 (0.73%) NAS
5 1 (0.73%) NFC
5 1 (0.73%) RTP
5 1 (0.73%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.73%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.73%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.65%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.19%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.46%) Metadata
4 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.73%) Power BI
4 1 (0.73%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) JIRA
General
1 46 (33.58%) Finance
2 30 (21.90%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.95%) Banking
4 11 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.38%) Retail
7 5 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Police
9 3 (2.19%) Back Office
9 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.46%) Automotive
10 2 (1.46%) French Language
10 2 (1.46%) Front Office
10 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.46%) Law
10 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.73%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.46%) OpenID
1 2 (1.46%) SAML
2 1 (0.73%) SAP PI
2 1 (0.73%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.03%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.11%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.11%) NHS
3 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.19%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.19%) FMCG
4 3 (2.19%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.46%) Digital TV
5 2 (1.46%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.46%) STB
5 2 (1.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.73%) CSOC
6 1 (0.73%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.73%) HACMP
6 1 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.73%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.92%) Linux
2 2 (1.46%) AIX
2 2 (1.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (50.36%) Project Management
2 47 (34.31%) Agile
3 33 (24.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (18.98%) Project Delivery
5 18 (13.14%) Migration
5 18 (13.14%) Waterfall
6 15 (10.95%) Change Management
7 14 (10.22%) Scrum
8 13 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (8.76%) ERP
9 12 (8.76%) PRINCE2
10 10 (7.30%) Budget Management
10 10 (7.30%) Risk Management
11 9 (6.57%) Roadmaps
12 8 (5.84%) Programme Management
12 8 (5.84%) Project Planning
12 8 (5.84%) SDLC
13 7 (5.11%) Agile Project Management
13 7 (5.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 6 (4.38%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.84%) Python
2 7 (5.11%) SQL
3 2 (1.46%) Perl
3 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.73%) C
4 1 (0.73%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (7.30%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.57%) PMI Certification
2 9 (6.57%) PMP
3 8 (5.84%) Degree
4 5 (3.65%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.19%) HNC
6 3 (2.19%) NVQ Level 4
7 2 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.73%) APMG
8 1 (0.73%) APMP
8 1 (0.73%) CCNA
8 1 (0.73%) CCNP
8 1 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.73%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) QA
2 3 (2.19%) GDPR
2 3 (2.19%) SLA
3 2 (1.46%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.46%) PMO
4 1 (0.73%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.73%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (1.46%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.73%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 3 (2.19%) TrustSec
2 2 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.73%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (8.76%) Microsoft
1 12 (8.76%) SAP
2 6 (4.38%) Splunk
3 4 (2.92%) Google
4 3 (2.19%) Cisco
5 2 (1.46%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.46%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.46%) Temenos
6 1 (0.73%) AlgoSec
6 1 (0.73%) Ariba
6 1 (0.73%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.73%) Cognos
6 1 (0.73%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.73%) Genesys
6 1 (0.73%) IBM
6 1 (0.73%) Juniper
6 1 (0.73%) Oracle
6 1 (0.73%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.73%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow
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