Project Management Contracts in the South West

Project Management
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 17 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Project Management 317 273 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 9.75% 8.07% 9.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.87% 9.02% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 199 240
10th Percentile £266 £350 £381
25th Percentile £413 £435 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £552
90th Percentile £688 £725 £638
England median daily rate £525 £530 £513
% change year-on-year -0.94% +3.41% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 43
10th Percentile £28.72 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £31.60 £39.55 £15.90
Median hourly rate £35.00 £58.75 £16.93
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +247.02% -23.37%
75th Percentile £60.63 £71.56 £34.58
90th Percentile £69.00 £88.88 £53.70
England median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £32.45
% change year-on-year -22.20% +51.00% +21.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,671 3,026 3,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.16% 89.45% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,197 2,337
10th Percentile £226 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.49%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 316 204
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.36 £21.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +24.03% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.91 £69.12
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the South West

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the South West

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the South West

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Wiltshire +2 89 £525 -12.86% 25
Bristol 0 87 £496 +4.42% 104
Gloucestershire +26 81 £575 +4.55% 42
Somerset -7 15 £532 -11.33% 43
Dorset +14 11 £324 -7.50% 20
Devon -13 10 £465 +6.90% 41
Cornwall +1 8 £194 -22.38% 7
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 14 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.47%) Confluence
3 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.63%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 39 (12.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (11.04%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (9.78%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (8.52%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.63%) Simulink
7 1 (0.32%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.58%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.58%) SAP Payroll
3 4 (1.26%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.26%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.63%) Primavera
5 2 (0.63%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.63%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.32%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.32%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.32%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 28 (8.83%) Azure
2 15 (4.73%) AWS
3 9 (2.84%) SuccessFactors
4 7 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.21%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.58%) GCP
5 5 (1.58%) PaaS
6 4 (1.26%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.63%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.63%) SaaS
8 1 (0.32%) Apigee
8 1 (0.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.32%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.32%) Google Container Engine
8 1 (0.32%) OCI
8 1 (0.32%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.10%) 4G
2 12 (3.79%) 3GPP
2 12 (3.79%) LTE
2 12 (3.79%) Radio Access Network
2 12 (3.79%) Wireless
2 12 (3.79%) Wireshark
3 7 (2.21%) Intranet
4 6 (1.89%) Structured Cabling
5 4 (1.26%) DNS
5 4 (1.26%) LAN
5 4 (1.26%) VPN
5 4 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.95%) DHCP
6 3 (0.95%) WAN
7 2 (0.63%) Firewall
7 2 (0.63%) SAN
7 2 (0.63%) Skype
7 2 (0.63%) SMTP
7 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.58%) Power BI
2 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.32%) Metadata
3 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (12.62%) JIRA
2 4 (1.26%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.63%) Postman
3 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 116 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 85 (26.81%) Finance
3 51 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (14.51%) Public Sector
5 36 (11.36%) Presentation Skills
6 26 (8.20%) Telecoms
7 20 (6.31%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.47%) Marketing
8 11 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.84%) Local Government
11 8 (2.52%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.52%) Legal
12 7 (2.21%) Electronics
13 5 (1.58%) Military
14 4 (1.26%) Aviation
14 4 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.95%) Retail
16 2 (0.63%) Avionics
17 1 (0.32%) Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (31.23%) Project Manager
2 64 (20.19%) Lead
3 42 (13.25%) Architect
4 26 (8.20%) Lead Architect
5 24 (7.57%) Project Leader
6 23 (7.26%) Developer
6 23 (7.26%) Senior
7 18 (5.68%) Senior Manager
8 15 (4.73%) IT Manager
9 14 (4.42%) IT Project Manager
10 12 (3.79%) DV Cleared Project Manager
11 11 (3.47%) Analyst
11 11 (3.47%) Consultant
11 11 (3.47%) Full Stack Developer
11 11 (3.47%) SC Cleared Project Manager
12 9 (2.84%) Senior Project Manager
13 7 (2.21%) Delivery Manager
13 7 (2.21%) Service Manager
14 6 (1.89%) Project Analyst
14 6 (1.89%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.47%) AngularJS
1 11 (3.47%) React
1 11 (3.47%) Spring
2 7 (2.21%) .NET
3 4 (1.26%) .NET Framework
3 4 (1.26%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.32%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.32%) CSS
4 1 (0.32%) REST
4 1 (0.32%) SPFx
4 1 (0.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.52%) PKI
2 7 (2.21%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.58%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.26%) Clustering
5 4 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (1.26%) Life Science
5 4 (1.26%) Security Posture
6 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.63%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.32%) Animation
8 1 (0.32%) Contactless
8 1 (0.32%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.32%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.32%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.79%) Windows
2 7 (2.21%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.58%) Linux
3 5 (1.58%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (36.91%) Agile
2 100 (31.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 84 (26.50%) PRINCE2
4 80 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (20.50%) Project Delivery
6 59 (18.61%) Change Management
7 51 (16.09%) Project Planning
8 32 (10.09%) Decision-Making
9 31 (9.78%) Workshop Facilitation
10 29 (9.15%) Strategic Thinking
11 28 (8.83%) Data Management
12 27 (8.52%) Commercial Awareness
12 27 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (8.52%) Identity Access Management
13 26 (8.20%) Programme Management
13 26 (8.20%) Risk Management
14 25 (7.89%) Digital Identity
14 25 (7.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 24 (7.57%) Creative Problem-Solving
16 22 (6.94%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 19 (5.99%) Python
2 14 (4.42%) JavaScript
3 11 (3.47%) C
3 11 (3.47%) Java
4 9 (2.84%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.58%) SQL
6 3 (0.95%) C#
7 2 (0.63%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 162 (51.10%) Security Cleared
2 90 (28.39%) SC Cleared
3 67 (21.14%) DV Cleared
4 42 (13.25%) Degree
5 28 (8.83%) APMP
6 9 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 8 (2.52%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 6 (1.89%) PMP
10 5 (1.58%) CIPD
11 3 (0.95%) HNC
11 3 (0.95%) MCSE
11 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.32%) MRICS
13 1 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (17.03%) PMO
2 25 (7.89%) JSP 440
3 17 (5.36%) QA
4 4 (1.26%) GMP
4 4 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.95%) NIST
5 3 (0.95%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.32%) GDPR
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 9000
6 1 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 8 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.89%) Docker
3 4 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.26%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.95%) vSphere
5 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (2.21%) Ansible
2 6 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.89%) OPNET
2 6 (1.89%) Terraform
3 5 (1.58%) SCCM
4 4 (1.26%) PowerCLI
4 4 (1.26%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.63%) MOM
6 2 (0.63%) SCOM
7 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 65 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.78%) SAP
3 12 (3.79%) Actix
3 12 (3.79%) Ericsson
3 12 (3.79%) Huawei
3 12 (3.79%) Nokia
4 11 (3.47%) VMware
5 9 (2.84%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.58%) Adobe
6 5 (1.58%) Darktrace
7 4 (1.26%) Cisco
7 4 (1.26%) Google
7 4 (1.26%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.95%) OpenText
8 3 (0.95%) Oracle
8 3 (0.95%) Remedy
9 2 (0.63%) FIS
9 2 (0.63%) HP
9 2 (0.63%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.63%) Xamarin