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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 23
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3,379 4,406 6,859
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.86% 7.62% 7.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.11% 8.49% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,071 2,990 4,745
10th Percentile £313 £331 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 152 210
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.17 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.60 £30.47 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +48.48% +22.31%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £61.25 £79.80 £67.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year -22.20% +73.45% +3.75%

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 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +2 2,872 £525 -2.33% 3,002
UK excluding London 0 1,762 £500 - 2,147
London +4 1,285 £550 -4.35% 948
Work from Home +2 1,150 £524 +2.28% 1,270
South East -7 417 £495 -1.00% 537
North of England -2 346 £500 - 517
South West +6 322 £525 -4.55% 301
Midlands -2 212 £500 +4.17% 419
Scotland +2 206 £450 - 154
East of England +6 202 £525 +5.00% 239
North West -2 193 £500 +2.85% 322
West Midlands -1 165 £525 +5.00% 263
Yorkshire +7 125 £500 -4.76% 150
Wales +14 55 £530 -3.64% 52
East Midlands -5 46 £488 +2.63% 155
North East +14 30 £600 +50.00% 52
Northern Ireland -7 11 £435 -3.33% 24
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 1

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
1 170 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 97 (2.87%) Confluence
3 39 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.07%) CMS
5 13 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (0.33%) Drupal
7 10 (0.30%) SAS
8 6 (0.18%) Documentum
9 5 (0.15%) Apache
9 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.12%) CICS
10 4 (0.12%) nginx
10 4 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.089%) IBM Notes
12 2 (0.059%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.059%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 225 (6.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 219 (6.48%) Microsoft Office
3 154 (4.56%) Microsoft Project
4 144 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 56 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
6 43 (1.27%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 14 (0.41%) Acrobat
9 10 (0.30%) Trello
10 8 (0.24%) Simulink
11 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
11 7 (0.21%) InDesign
12 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
13 5 (0.15%) Revit
13 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
13 5 (0.15%) TargetLink
14 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.059%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.059%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 94 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.92%) Loan IQ
3 21 (0.62%) Primavera
4 12 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.33%) SAP ERP
5 11 (0.33%) SAP HCM
6 10 (0.30%) SAP HR
6 10 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
7 8 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.24%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.24%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.24%) Workfront
8 7 (0.21%) Aladdin
8 7 (0.21%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.18%) iTrent
9 6 (0.18%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 281 (8.32%) Azure
2 124 (3.67%) AWS
3 122 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
4 107 (3.17%) Power Platform
5 88 (2.60%) SaaS
6 75 (2.22%) GitHub
7 55 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (1.30%) OCI
9 43 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
11 35 (1.04%) GCP
12 27 (0.80%) PaaS
13 26 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (0.71%) Slack
15 22 (0.65%) PowerApps
16 21 (0.62%) Google Workspace
17 17 (0.50%) OneDrive
18 16 (0.47%) Smartsheet
18 16 (0.47%) WhatsApp
19 15 (0.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.89%) Firewall
2 55 (1.63%) WAN
3 54 (1.60%) VPN
4 47 (1.39%) LAN
4 47 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
5 41 (1.21%) DNS
6 31 (0.92%) Intranet
7 29 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
8 28 (0.83%) DHCP
9 25 (0.74%) TCP/IP
10 24 (0.71%) Network Security
11 23 (0.68%) SAN
12 22 (0.65%) Wireless
13 20 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
14 18 (0.53%) 4G
15 15 (0.44%) Internet
16 13 (0.38%) 3GPP
17 12 (0.36%) LTE
17 12 (0.36%) Wireshark
18 11 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (2.78%) Power BI
2 45 (1.33%) SQL Server
3 33 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (0.83%) MySQL
5 26 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 18 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
6 18 (0.53%) Tableau
7 17 (0.50%) Metadata
8 13 (0.38%) GIS
9 12 (0.36%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.33%) Big Data
10 11 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
11 10 (0.30%) Data Mining
12 9 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 8 (0.24%) EDMS
13 8 (0.24%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 295 (8.73%) JIRA
2 36 (1.07%) Jenkins
3 35 (1.04%) Git
4 29 (0.86%) GitLab
5 19 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 16 (0.47%) Postman
6 16 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 13 (0.38%) Subversion
8 10 (0.30%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.27%) TestRail
10 8 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (0.24%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.24%) Travis CI
11 6 (0.18%) AppScan
11 6 (0.18%) Storybook
11 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.18%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.15%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.15%) NeoLoad
General
1 1,419 (41.99%) Social Skills
2 1,002 (29.65%) Finance
3 526 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 335 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 221 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
6 192 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
7 183 (5.42%) Influencing Skills
8 175 (5.18%) Banking
9 173 (5.12%) Manufacturing
10 167 (4.94%) Marketing
11 149 (4.41%) Legal
12 135 (4.00%) Telecoms
13 102 (3.02%) Retail
14 85 (2.52%) Electronics
15 78 (2.31%) Local Government
16 75 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
17 70 (2.07%) Aerospace
18 57 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 51 (1.51%) Law
20 48 (1.42%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,201 (35.54%) Project Manager
2 307 (9.09%) Analyst
3 297 (8.79%) Lead
4 280 (8.29%) Senior
5 178 (5.27%) Architect
6 170 (5.03%) Senior Manager
7 167 (4.94%) Business Analyst
8 163 (4.82%) IT Manager
9 126 (3.73%) IT Project Manager
10 122 (3.61%) Consultant
11 110 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
12 103 (3.05%) Senior Project Manager
13 98 (2.90%) Technical Manager
14 92 (2.72%) Developer
15 84 (2.49%) Programme Manager
16 73 (2.16%) Security Manager
17 69 (2.04%) Technical Project Manager
18 63 (1.86%) Infrastructure Manager
19 61 (1.81%) SAP Manager
20 57 (1.69%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (0.83%) YAML
2 27 (0.80%) XML
3 26 (0.77%) React
4 24 (0.71%) .NET
5 22 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (0.47%) Vue
7 15 (0.44%) ADO
7 15 (0.44%) Spring
8 14 (0.41%) AngularJS
9 13 (0.38%) EDI
9 13 (0.38%) Laravel
10 12 (0.36%) JSON
11 11 (0.33%) ARM Templates
12 10 (0.30%) Azure Blueprints
12 10 (0.30%) CSS
13 8 (0.24%) Playwright
14 7 (0.21%) HTML
14 7 (0.21%) SailPoint
14 7 (0.21%) Web Services
15 6 (0.18%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 181 (5.36%) Management Information System
2 92 (2.72%) Product Ownership
3 83 (2.46%) Data Centre
4 77 (2.28%) Onboarding
5 61 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 58 (1.72%) PMI
7 54 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.09%) NHS
9 36 (1.07%) Virtual Team
10 34 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 33 (0.98%) Analogue Electronics
12 32 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (0.92%) Public Cloud
14 30 (0.89%) Life Science
15 26 (0.77%) Algorithms
16 24 (0.71%) FMCG
17 23 (0.68%) Social Media
18 21 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
18 21 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
19 20 (0.59%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 107 (3.17%) Windows
2 93 (2.75%) Linux
3 42 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.01%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.71%) zOS
6 22 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (0.59%) Android
8 19 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.44%) Windows XP
11 14 (0.41%) Unix
12 11 (0.33%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.18%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.12%) VMS
15 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.089%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2003
17 2 (0.059%) AIX
17 2 (0.059%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,051 (31.10%) Agile
2 765 (22.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 684 (20.24%) Project Delivery
4 668 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
5 533 (15.77%) PRINCE2
6 426 (12.61%) Change Management
7 351 (10.39%) Risk Management
8 283 (8.38%) Decision-Making
9 279 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 279 (8.26%) Migration
10 257 (7.61%) Scrum
11 236 (6.98%) Waterfall
12 215 (6.36%) Programme Management
13 213 (6.30%) Project Planning
14 204 (6.04%) Business Case
15 202 (5.98%) DevOps
16 184 (5.45%) Roadmaps
17 177 (5.24%) Analytics
18 173 (5.12%) Budget Management
18 173 (5.12%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 120 (3.55%) SQL
2 104 (3.08%) Python
3 66 (1.95%) PowerShell
4 51 (1.51%) Java
5 45 (1.33%) JavaScript
6 27 (0.80%) C
7 22 (0.65%) Bash
7 22 (0.65%) C#
7 22 (0.65%) TypeScript
8 20 (0.59%) PL/SQL
9 19 (0.56%) JCL
10 15 (0.44%) REXX
11 13 (0.38%) PHP
12 11 (0.33%) Scala
13 8 (0.24%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.21%) R
14 7 (0.21%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.21%) XPath
14 7 (0.21%) XQuery
15 6 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 561 (16.60%) Security Cleared
2 552 (16.34%) Degree
3 372 (11.01%) SC Cleared
4 223 (6.60%) PMP
5 219 (6.48%) PMI Certification
6 161 (4.76%) DV Cleared
7 79 (2.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 71 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (1.72%) APMP
10 50 (1.48%) Master's Degree
11 42 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.24%) CISSP
12 38 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 35 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 33 (0.98%) CCNA
15 31 (0.92%) CISM
16 29 (0.86%) CCNP
17 21 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
18 20 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
19 16 (0.47%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (10.51%) PMO
2 216 (6.39%) QA
3 52 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 43 (1.27%) GDPR
5 42 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 29 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (0.86%) SLA
7 26 (0.77%) JSP 440
8 17 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
9 16 (0.47%) NIST
10 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.33%) GxP
11 10 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (0.30%) NCSC
11 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
12 9 (0.27%) P3O
13 8 (0.24%) Basel III
14 7 (0.21%) IFRS
14 7 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 43 (1.27%) Docker
3 31 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (0.59%) NFS
6 19 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
7 17 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.15%) vSphere
12 4 (0.12%) ACF2
12 4 (0.12%) RACF
12 4 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.089%) KVM
13 3 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.089%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.059%) PowerHA
15 1 (0.030%) Firmware
15 1 (0.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 56 (1.66%) Ansible
2 46 (1.36%) Terraform
3 43 (1.27%) Kubernetes
4 28 (0.83%) SCCM
5 27 (0.80%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 23 (0.68%) Grafana
7 22 (0.65%) vCenter Server
8 21 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 19 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (0.50%) Puppet
10 17 (0.50%) SCOM
11 16 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
12 15 (0.44%) WSUS
13 14 (0.41%) NetBackup
14 13 (0.38%) Graylog
15 9 (0.27%) Kibana
15 9 (0.27%) logstash
15 9 (0.27%) Nagios
16 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 524 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 302 (8.94%) SAP
3 128 (3.79%) Oracle
4 73 (2.16%) Cisco
5 60 (1.78%) Adobe
6 59 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 52 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 45 (1.33%) Google
9 42 (1.24%) VMware
10 39 (1.15%) Dell
11 37 (1.09%) IBM
11 37 (1.09%) Juniper
12 33 (0.98%) Splunk
13 32 (0.95%) Ariba
14 23 (0.68%) Atlassian
14 23 (0.68%) Broadcom
14 23 (0.68%) CA
15 22 (0.65%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.62%) HP
17 19 (0.56%) EMC