Project Manager Contracts in England

Project Manager
UK > England

The median Project Manager daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 2,160 3,335 5,641
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.85% 7.03% 8.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.31% 7.43% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,518 2,480 4,188
10th Percentile £355 £400 £381
25th Percentile £450 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +3.37% +9.47%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £713 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 62 44
10th Percentile £20.20 £28.81 £22.15
25th Percentile £27.75 £41.75 £28.13
Median hourly rate £35.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +25.00% +61.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.35 £70.00 £69.26
UK median hourly rate £36.23 £62.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -42.03% +15.74% +54.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in England

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in England

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in England

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in England

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Manager in England

Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the England 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
London 0 1,059 £550 -4.35% 224
South East -6 323 £525 +1.94% 172
North of England -12 258 £500 -0.79% 173
Midlands -2 180 £500 +5.26% 178
South West -10 174 £500 -3.61% 113
North West -4 161 £500 - 114
West Midlands -2 133 £525 +10.53% 104
East of England -14 94 £450 -12.20% 88
Yorkshire -18 78 £500 -9.09% 41
East Midlands -4 45 £463 -2.63% 74
North East +9 12 £575 +43.75% 20
Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 997 (46.16%) Project Management
2 677 (31.34%) Finance
3 591 (27.36%) Social Skills
4 559 (25.88%) Agile
5 458 (21.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 386 (17.87%) Project Delivery
7 321 (14.86%) PRINCE2
8 262 (12.13%) Migration
9 233 (10.79%) Security Cleared
10 214 (9.91%) Change Management
11 186 (8.61%) Risk Management
11 186 (8.61%) Public Sector
12 183 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
13 168 (7.78%) Microsoft
14 159 (7.36%) Degree
15 149 (6.90%) SAP
16 147 (6.81%) SC Cleared
16 147 (6.81%) Waterfall
17 141 (6.53%) Budget Management
18 135 (6.25%) Scrum
19 129 (5.97%) Programme Management
20 124 (5.74%) Decision-Making
21 123 (5.69%) Business Case
21 123 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
22 122 (5.65%) Banking
23 121 (5.60%) Azure
24 119 (5.51%) ERP
25 111 (5.14%) PMI Certification
26 110 (5.09%) JIRA
27 109 (5.05%) PMP

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 51 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.76%) Confluence
3 18 (0.83%) CMS
4 17 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
7 5 (0.23%) Drupal
8 3 (0.14%) Documentum
8 3 (0.14%) SAS
9 2 (0.093%) Appian
10 1 (0.046%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.046%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.046%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.046%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.046%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.046%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.046%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.046%) WordPress
Applications
1 78 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 28 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.093%) Maya
8 2 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 41 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.37%) Sage 200
3 8 (0.37%) Sage 50
3 8 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
4 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.19%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.19%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.14%) Magento
7 3 (0.14%) Maximo
7 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.14%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 3 (0.14%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.093%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 121 (5.60%) Azure
2 51 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (1.94%) SaaS
4 38 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
5 32 (1.48%) Power Platform
6 27 (1.25%) AWS
7 21 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (0.97%) WhatsApp
8 15 (0.69%) Smartsheet
9 12 (0.56%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (0.42%) OneDrive
10 9 (0.42%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 7 (0.32%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.28%) Asana
12 6 (0.28%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.28%) GCP
12 6 (0.28%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.23%) Akamai
13 5 (0.23%) Cloudflare
14 4 (0.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
2 27 (1.25%) Structured Cabling
3 20 (0.93%) Network Security
4 14 (0.65%) WAN
5 12 (0.56%) LAN
6 10 (0.46%) Internet
7 9 (0.42%) 5G
8 7 (0.32%) Firewall
9 6 (0.28%) Broadband
10 5 (0.23%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.19%) VPN
11 4 (0.19%) Wireless
12 3 (0.14%) Intranet
12 3 (0.14%) MPLS
12 3 (0.14%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.14%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.14%) VoIP
13 2 (0.093%) CTI
13 2 (0.093%) SAN
13 2 (0.093%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (1.25%) Power BI
3 16 (0.74%) Data Lake
4 13 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
5 9 (0.42%) Tableau
6 6 (0.28%) SAP HANA
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle Database 11g
7 5 (0.23%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.14%) Big Data
9 3 (0.14%) GIS
9 3 (0.14%) Metadata
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.093%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.093%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.093%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.093%) Mixpanel
10 2 (0.093%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.046%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 110 (5.09%) JIRA
2 3 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.046%) Git
3 1 (0.046%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.046%) LSMW
3 1 (0.046%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.046%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 677 (31.34%) Finance
2 591 (27.36%) Social Skills
3 186 (8.61%) Public Sector
4 123 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
5 122 (5.65%) Banking
6 105 (4.86%) Retail
7 101 (4.68%) Manufacturing
8 87 (4.03%) Marketing
9 73 (3.38%) Telecoms
10 72 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
11 65 (3.01%) Local Government
12 63 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 62 (2.87%) Legal
13 62 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
14 55 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
15 39 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
16 37 (1.71%) Electronics
17 28 (1.30%) Financial Institution
18 23 (1.06%) Front Office
19 21 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.37%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (0.32%) ADO
3 6 (0.28%) SailPoint
4 4 (0.19%) .NET
4 4 (0.19%) Middleware
4 4 (0.19%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 3 (0.14%) EDI
5 3 (0.14%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.093%) SAP PI
6 2 (0.093%) Smart Contracts
6 2 (0.093%) Web Services
7 1 (0.046%) Express.js
7 1 (0.046%) MERN Stack
7 1 (0.046%) Node.js
7 1 (0.046%) React
7 1 (0.046%) VML
7 1 (0.046%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 60 (2.78%) Management Information System
2 58 (2.69%) Data Centre
3 50 (2.31%) Onboarding
4 43 (1.99%) NHS
5 31 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 30 (1.39%) PMI
7 26 (1.20%) FMCG
8 22 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.02%) Virtual Team
9 18 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (0.79%) Product Ownership
11 16 (0.74%) Life Science
12 15 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (0.69%) Mobile App
13 13 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 11 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (0.46%) LIMS
16 9 (0.42%) Cyber Defence
16 9 (0.42%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.57%) Windows
2 13 (0.60%) Windows 10
3 9 (0.42%) Linux
4 4 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.14%) Unix
6 2 (0.093%) AIX
7 1 (0.046%) Android
7 1 (0.046%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.046%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.046%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 997 (46.16%) Project Management
2 559 (25.88%) Agile
3 458 (21.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 386 (17.87%) Project Delivery
5 321 (14.86%) PRINCE2
6 262 (12.13%) Migration
7 214 (9.91%) Change Management
8 186 (8.61%) Risk Management
9 183 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
10 147 (6.81%) Waterfall
11 141 (6.53%) Budget Management
12 135 (6.25%) Scrum
13 129 (5.97%) Programme Management
14 124 (5.74%) Decision-Making
15 123 (5.69%) Business Case
16 119 (5.51%) ERP
17 107 (4.95%) Project Planning
18 99 (4.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 91 (4.21%) Cybersecurity
20 88 (4.07%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 29 (1.34%) SQL
2 10 (0.46%) Python
3 7 (0.32%) PL/SQL
4 6 (0.28%) Java
5 4 (0.19%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.14%) R
7 2 (0.093%) C#
7 2 (0.093%) VBA
8 1 (0.046%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.046%) C
8 1 (0.046%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 233 (10.79%) Security Cleared
2 159 (7.36%) Degree
3 147 (6.81%) SC Cleared
4 111 (5.14%) PMI Certification
5 109 (5.05%) PMP
6 83 (3.84%) DV Cleared
7 66 (3.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 41 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 28 (1.30%) CISM
10 27 (1.25%) CISSP
11 26 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (0.83%) APMP
13 15 (0.69%) CISA
14 14 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
14 14 (0.65%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.51%) HNC
16 9 (0.42%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.28%) ISEB
17 6 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
18 5 (0.23%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.70%) PMO
2 57 (2.64%) QA
3 19 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.88%) NIST
4 14 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.56%) GDPR
6 11 (0.51%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.51%) SLA
7 9 (0.42%) NIST 800
8 8 (0.37%) HL7
9 6 (0.28%) Basel III
9 6 (0.28%) IFRS
9 6 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (0.23%) GxP
10 5 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.23%) NEBOSH
10 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.19%) PMBOK
12 3 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 15 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.093%) IAG
4 2 (0.093%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.046%) Firmware
5 1 (0.046%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.093%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (0.093%) Matomo
2 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.093%) SCCM
2 2 (0.093%) Terraform
3 1 (0.046%) Ansible
3 1 (0.046%) CASB
3 1 (0.046%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.046%) Rundeck
3 1 (0.046%) SafeCom
3 1 (0.046%) WSUS
Vendors
1 168 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 149 (6.90%) SAP
3 40 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 38 (1.76%) Oracle
5 33 (1.53%) ServiceNow
6 29 (1.34%) Sage
7 17 (0.79%) Cisco
8 12 (0.56%) Adobe
9 11 (0.51%) Google
9 11 (0.51%) Workday
10 10 (0.46%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.42%) Ariba
11 9 (0.42%) BT
11 9 (0.42%) NEC
12 8 (0.37%) Progress
12 8 (0.37%) Splunk
13 7 (0.32%) Avaloq
14 6 (0.28%) Citrix
15 5 (0.23%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.23%) Cadence