Project Management Contracts

Project Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 21 24 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3,275 4,248 6,929
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.61% 7.58% 7.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.90% 8.45% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,985 2,897 4,799
10th Percentile £310 £329 £331
25th Percentile £413 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £600
90th Percentile £710 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 138 203
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.50 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.66 £30.72 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +50.77% +20.37%
75th Percentile £48.75 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £61.25 £80.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year -22.20% +79.82% +3.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +3 2,799 £525 -0.94% 3,054
UK excluding London +2 1,745 £500 - 2,168
London +4 1,216 £550 -3.51% 987
Work from Home 0 1,083 £507 -1.58% 1,347
South East -8 422 £475 -5.00% 496
North of England 0 348 £500 - 512
South West +3 317 £525 -3.67% 297
Midlands -3 209 £500 +5.26% 463
East of England +6 199 £525 +1.25% 243
North West -3 198 £510 +2.00% 296
Scotland -3 189 £450 -2.70% 163
West Midlands 0 158 £510 +7.37% 287
Yorkshire +8 120 £500 -6.54% 152
Wales +17 50 £528 -4.05% 51
East Midlands -6 50 £488 -2.50% 174
North East +12 32 £600 +50.00% 68
Northern Ireland -7 16 £266 -40.83% 23
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 2

Project Management
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
1 174 (5.31%) SharePoint
2 102 (3.11%) Confluence
3 37 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (1.04%) CMS
5 13 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 12 (0.37%) SAS
7 11 (0.34%) Drupal
8 8 (0.24%) Documentum
9 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.12%) CICS
10 4 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.092%) Apache
11 3 (0.092%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.092%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.092%) IBM Notes
11 3 (0.092%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.061%) nginx
12 2 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 210 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 210 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 150 (4.58%) Microsoft Project
3 130 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
5 43 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.49%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.43%) Acrobat
7 14 (0.43%) Trello
8 8 (0.24%) Simulink
9 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.21%) InDesign
10 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
10 5 (0.15%) TargetLink
11 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 3 (0.092%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.061%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.061%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 76 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.58%) Primavera
3 17 (0.52%) Loan IQ
4 15 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.43%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
6 10 (0.31%) Workfront
7 9 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.27%) SAP HCM
8 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 8 (0.24%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.24%) Teamcenter
9 7 (0.21%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.18%) iTrent
10 6 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
10 6 (0.18%) SAP WM
11 5 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 280 (8.55%) Azure
2 125 (3.82%) AWS
3 119 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
4 99 (3.02%) Power Platform
5 89 (2.72%) SaaS
6 74 (2.26%) GitHub
7 54 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
9 42 (1.28%) OCI
10 41 (1.25%) GCP
11 39 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
12 32 (0.98%) PaaS
13 25 (0.76%) Slack
14 24 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (0.73%) PowerApps
15 22 (0.67%) Google Workspace
16 19 (0.58%) WhatsApp
17 17 (0.52%) IaaS
17 17 (0.52%) OneDrive
18 16 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.86%) Firewall
2 54 (1.65%) VPN
2 54 (1.65%) WAN
3 45 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
4 43 (1.31%) LAN
5 41 (1.25%) DNS
6 29 (0.89%) Intranet
7 28 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
8 27 (0.82%) DHCP
9 25 (0.76%) TCP/IP
10 22 (0.67%) SAN
11 19 (0.58%) Internet
12 18 (0.55%) Network Security
12 18 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
13 17 (0.52%) Wireless
14 16 (0.49%) 4G
15 13 (0.40%) 3GPP
15 13 (0.40%) HTTP
16 12 (0.37%) LTE
16 12 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (2.72%) Power BI
2 44 (1.34%) SQL Server
3 30 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (0.76%) MySQL
4 25 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 17 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
5 17 (0.52%) Tableau
6 16 (0.49%) Metadata
7 13 (0.40%) GIS
8 11 (0.34%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
9 10 (0.31%) Big Data
9 10 (0.31%) EDMS
9 10 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.27%) Data Mining
10 9 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.21%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 7 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 286 (8.73%) JIRA
2 38 (1.16%) Git
3 34 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.92%) GitLab
5 20 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 17 (0.52%) Postman
7 16 (0.49%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.37%) Subversion
10 10 (0.31%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.27%) Travis CI
12 8 (0.24%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.18%) AppScan
13 6 (0.18%) Storybook
13 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.15%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.15%) NeoLoad
15 4 (0.12%) Artifactory
General
1 1,377 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 940 (28.70%) Finance
3 495 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
4 320 (9.77%) Public Sector
5 204 (6.23%) Organisational Skills
6 185 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
7 177 (5.40%) Presentation Skills
8 169 (5.16%) Manufacturing
9 166 (5.07%) Marketing
10 154 (4.70%) Banking
11 153 (4.67%) Legal
12 135 (4.12%) Telecoms
13 95 (2.90%) Retail
14 84 (2.56%) Local Government
15 80 (2.44%) Electronics
16 68 (2.08%) Aerospace
17 62 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
18 60 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 48 (1.47%) Law
20 37 (1.13%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,163 (35.51%) Project Manager
2 306 (9.34%) Analyst
3 282 (8.61%) Senior
4 258 (7.88%) Lead
5 181 (5.53%) Architect
6 172 (5.25%) Senior Manager
7 167 (5.10%) IT Manager
8 163 (4.98%) Business Analyst
9 135 (4.12%) Consultant
10 130 (3.97%) IT Project Manager
11 106 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
12 104 (3.18%) Senior Project Manager
13 92 (2.81%) Developer
14 90 (2.75%) Technical Manager
15 81 (2.47%) Programme Manager
16 66 (2.02%) Security Manager
17 65 (1.98%) Technical Project Manager
18 63 (1.92%) Infrastructure Manager
19 58 (1.77%) Change Manager
20 54 (1.65%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (0.89%) YAML
2 27 (0.82%) XML
3 26 (0.79%) React
4 24 (0.73%) .NET
5 22 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (0.52%) Vue
7 15 (0.46%) Spring
8 14 (0.43%) Laravel
9 13 (0.40%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.37%) CSS
10 12 (0.37%) EDI
10 12 (0.37%) JSON
11 11 (0.34%) ARM Templates
12 10 (0.31%) ADO
12 10 (0.31%) Azure Blueprints
12 10 (0.31%) HTML
13 8 (0.24%) Playwright
13 8 (0.24%) REST
13 8 (0.24%) Web Services
14 7 (0.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 172 (5.25%) Management Information System
2 91 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 80 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 71 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 59 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 50 (1.53%) PMI
7 46 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
8 38 (1.16%) NHS
9 35 (1.07%) Analogue Electronics
10 34 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 31 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 30 (0.92%) Life Science
12 30 (0.92%) Public Cloud
13 27 (0.82%) FMCG
14 24 (0.73%) Algorithms
14 24 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (0.58%) Driving Licence
16 19 (0.58%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 100 (3.05%) Windows
2 89 (2.72%) Linux
3 44 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 31 (0.95%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.73%) zOS
6 19 (0.58%) Android
6 19 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.46%) Windows XP
9 14 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.40%) Unix
11 11 (0.34%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.12%) VMS
12 4 (0.12%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.061%) AIX
13 2 (0.061%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,028 (31.39%) Agile
2 736 (22.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 663 (20.24%) Project Delivery
4 646 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
5 523 (15.97%) PRINCE2
6 405 (12.37%) Change Management
7 343 (10.47%) Risk Management
8 283 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 265 (8.09%) Decision-Making
10 254 (7.76%) Scrum
11 253 (7.73%) Migration
12 231 (7.05%) Waterfall
13 202 (6.17%) Project Planning
14 199 (6.08%) Programme Management
15 193 (5.89%) DevOps
16 190 (5.80%) Business Case
17 174 (5.31%) Roadmaps
18 173 (5.28%) ITIL
19 170 (5.19%) Analytics
20 163 (4.98%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (4.00%) SQL
2 113 (3.45%) Python
3 65 (1.98%) PowerShell
4 47 (1.44%) Java
5 45 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 29 (0.89%) C
7 24 (0.73%) Bash
8 21 (0.64%) PL/SQL
9 20 (0.61%) TypeScript
10 19 (0.58%) JCL
11 15 (0.46%) REXX
12 14 (0.43%) C#
12 14 (0.43%) PHP
13 10 (0.31%) R
13 10 (0.31%) Scala
14 8 (0.24%) C++
14 8 (0.24%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.21%) XPath
15 7 (0.21%) XQuery
16 6 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 540 (16.49%) Degree
2 535 (16.34%) Security Cleared
3 350 (10.69%) SC Cleared
4 223 (6.81%) PMP
5 214 (6.53%) PMI Certification
6 157 (4.79%) DV Cleared
7 73 (2.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 68 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (1.68%) Master's Degree
10 52 (1.59%) APMP
11 46 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 44 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
13 40 (1.22%) CISSP
14 37 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 34 (1.04%) CCNA
16 31 (0.95%) CCNP
16 31 (0.95%) CISM
17 22 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
18 20 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
19 17 (0.52%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (10.02%) PMO
2 205 (6.26%) QA
3 50 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 43 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 43 (1.31%) GDPR
5 31 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (0.76%) JSP 440
7 24 (0.73%) SLA
8 17 (0.52%) NIST
9 14 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
10 13 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.31%) GxP
12 10 (0.31%) NCSC
12 10 (0.31%) P3O
13 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.24%) Basel III
15 7 (0.21%) IFRS
15 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 43 (1.31%) Docker
3 33 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.61%) NFS
5 19 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
6 18 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.12%) ACF2
11 4 (0.12%) RACF
11 4 (0.12%) vSphere
12 3 (0.092%) HDFS
12 3 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.061%) PowerHA
13 2 (0.061%) XenApp
13 2 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (1.77%) Ansible
2 45 (1.37%) Terraform
3 43 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 27 (0.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 25 (0.76%) SCCM
6 23 (0.70%) Grafana
7 21 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.55%) Puppet
8 18 (0.55%) SCOM
8 18 (0.55%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
10 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.46%) WSUS
11 14 (0.43%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.37%) Graylog
13 10 (0.31%) Kibana
13 10 (0.31%) logstash
14 9 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 509 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 277 (8.46%) SAP
3 126 (3.85%) Oracle
4 72 (2.20%) Cisco
5 58 (1.77%) Adobe
5 58 (1.77%) Salesforce
6 48 (1.47%) Google
7 47 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 43 (1.31%) VMware
9 40 (1.22%) Dell
9 40 (1.22%) IBM
10 36 (1.10%) Juniper
11 33 (1.01%) Splunk
12 24 (0.73%) Ariba
12 24 (0.73%) Broadcom
13 23 (0.70%) CA
14 22 (0.67%) Atlassian
15 20 (0.61%) Palo Alto
16 19 (0.58%) Brocade
17 18 (0.55%) Veeam