Project Leader Contracts with Work from Home Options

Project Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Project Lead daily rate in Work from Home is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 400 562
Rank change year-on-year +71 +162 -109
Contract jobs requiring a Project Leader 12 55 57
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.23% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 45
10th Percentile £344 £368 £241
25th Percentile £400 £409 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £430
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +19.19% +3.61%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £538
90th Percentile £601 £575 £633
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 1
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year - +44.91% -9.60%
UK median hourly rate £27.93 £65.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -57.37% +55.95% -15.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,766 23,608 42,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,304 16,691 30,789
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 541 595
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.71 £19.45
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Project Leader
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Project Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Project Leader trend for jobs with a WFH option

Project Leader
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Project Leader.

Project Leader daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Project Leader
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Project Leader over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Project Leader daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Project Leader
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Project Leader.

Project Leader hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Project Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Project Leader 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Project Leader in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Project Delivery
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 5 (41.67%) Confluence
3 4 (33.33%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (25.00%) Programme Governance
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) Information Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Coaching
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (8.33%) Cost Reduction
6 1 (8.33%) Servant Leadership
6 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (8.33%) PMO
6 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (8.33%) Google Docs
6 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (8.33%) Service Design
6 1 (8.33%) SharePoint

Project Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (8.33%) Acrobat
2 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP CO
1 1 (8.33%) SAP FI
1 1 (8.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (8.33%) Google Docs
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Project Delivery
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) Project Management
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Programme Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Coaching
5 2 (16.67%) Information Governance
6 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (8.33%) Content Management
6 1 (8.33%) Cost Reduction
6 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (8.33%) Migration
6 1 (8.33%) People Management
6 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
6 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
6 1 (8.33%) Servant Leadership
6 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) Service Design
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) SAP