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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 456 492
Rank change year-on-year +4 +36 0
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Project Manager 127 232 390
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.41% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.44% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 167 254
10th Percentile £365 £409 £413
25th Percentile £454 £457 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% +9.46%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £690 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.25% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £55.40
25th Percentile - - £56.94
Median hourly rate £34.21 £65.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +6.56% +87.69%
75th Percentile - - £66.56
90th Percentile - - £68.63
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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 2 June 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 2 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
England +8 113 £525 - 45
London +29 59 £575 +9.52% 15
UK excluding London +37 58 £506 +1.25% 34
Work from Home +78 53 £508 +1.50% 13
South East +8 20 £520 +4.00% 13
North of England +21 12 £500 - 3
East of England +14 9 £500 -20.00% 7
North West +13 9 £500 - 2
Scotland +44 6 £306 -40.34% 1
South West +7 6 £550 - 3
Midlands +18 5 £488 +8.33% 5
West Midlands +11 5 £488 +14.71% 5
Yorkshire +16 3 £363 -19.44%

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 65 (51.18%) Project Management
2 45 (35.43%) Finance
3 43 (33.86%) Agile
4 33 (25.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (21.26%) Project Delivery
6 26 (20.47%) Social Skills
7 17 (13.39%) Migration
8 16 (12.60%) Banking
8 16 (12.60%) Waterfall
9 14 (11.02%) Change Management
9 14 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (10.24%) Scrum
11 12 (9.45%) SAP
11 12 (9.45%) Data Centre
12 11 (8.66%) PRINCE2
12 11 (8.66%) ERP
12 11 (8.66%) Microsoft
12 11 (8.66%) JIRA
13 10 (7.87%) Risk Management
13 10 (7.87%) Azure
13 10 (7.87%) Public Sector
14 9 (7.09%) Budget Management
14 9 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
14 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Project
14 9 (7.09%) Programme Management
14 9 (7.09%) Project Planning
15 8 (6.30%) SharePoint
15 8 (6.30%) Management Information System
15 8 (6.30%) PMP
15 8 (6.30%) PMI Certification

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 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.15%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (2.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.79%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.79%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.79%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.57%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.79%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.79%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.87%) Azure
2 5 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (3.15%) GCP
4 3 (2.36%) SaaS
5 2 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.57%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.79%) Contentful
6 1 (0.79%) GitHub
6 1 (0.79%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.79%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.79%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.79%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.72%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.36%) WAN
3 2 (1.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.57%) LAN
3 2 (1.57%) SAN
3 2 (1.57%) VPN
4 1 (0.79%) Firewall
4 1 (0.79%) MPLS
4 1 (0.79%) NAS
4 1 (0.79%) NFC
4 1 (0.79%) RTP
4 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.15%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.36%) Metadata
2 3 (2.36%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.79%) Power BI
3 1 (0.79%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 11 (8.66%) JIRA
General
1 45 (35.43%) Finance
2 26 (20.47%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.60%) Banking
4 10 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.51%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.94%) Retail
8 4 (3.15%) Police
9 3 (2.36%) Back Office
9 3 (2.36%) French Language
9 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.36%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.36%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.57%) Automotive
10 2 (1.57%) Law
10 2 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Legal
11 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.79%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.79%) SAP PI
1 1 (0.79%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.45%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.30%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.15%) FMCG
3 4 (3.15%) NHS
3 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.36%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.36%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.36%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.57%) Digital TV
5 2 (1.57%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.57%) STB
6 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.79%) EMV
6 1 (0.79%) HACMP
6 1 (0.79%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.79%) PMI
6 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.15%) Linux
2 2 (1.57%) AIX
2 2 (1.57%) Windows
3 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (51.18%) Project Management
2 43 (33.86%) Agile
3 33 (25.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (21.26%) Project Delivery
5 17 (13.39%) Migration
6 16 (12.60%) Waterfall
7 14 (11.02%) Change Management
7 14 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (10.24%) Scrum
9 11 (8.66%) ERP
9 11 (8.66%) PRINCE2
10 10 (7.87%) Risk Management
11 9 (7.09%) Budget Management
11 9 (7.09%) Programme Management
11 9 (7.09%) Project Planning
12 8 (6.30%) Roadmaps
12 8 (6.30%) SDLC
13 7 (5.51%) Agile Project Management
14 6 (4.72%) Information Architecture
14 6 (4.72%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.51%) Python
2 6 (4.72%) SQL
3 2 (1.57%) Perl
3 2 (1.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.79%) C
4 1 (0.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (6.30%) PMI Certification
1 8 (6.30%) PMP
1 8 (6.30%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.51%) Degree
3 4 (3.15%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.36%) HNC
4 3 (2.36%) NVQ Level 4
4 3 (2.36%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.79%) APMG
6 1 (0.79%) APMP
6 1 (0.79%) CCNA
6 1 (0.79%) CCNP
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.79%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.15%) QA
2 3 (2.36%) GDPR
2 3 (2.36%) SLA
3 2 (1.57%) PMO
4 1 (0.79%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.79%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.79%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (9.45%) SAP
2 11 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.94%) Splunk
4 4 (3.15%) Google
5 2 (1.57%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.57%) Temenos
6 1 (0.79%) Ariba
6 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.79%) Genesys
6 1 (0.79%) IBM
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle
6 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.79%) Zscaler