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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3,318 4,344 6,961
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.80% 7.59% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% 8.45% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,022 2,945 4,805
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 149 212
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.16 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.25 £30.54 £21.08
Median hourly rate £38.12 £46.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +39.39% +23.11%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £61.45 £80.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £46.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% +70.00% +4.90%

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +3 2,829 £525 -1.87% 3,181
UK excluding London 0 1,742 £500 - 2,299
London +3 1,249 £550 -4.35% 1,063
Work from Home +1 1,118 £525 +2.44% 1,370
South East -8 412 £489 -2.25% 608
North of England -1 342 £500 - 539
South West +6 323 £525 -4.55% 278
Midlands -3 213 £500 +4.17% 452
East of England +6 202 £525 +5.00% 257
Scotland 0 196 £450 - 168
North West -4 194 £500 +2.56% 321
West Midlands +3 167 £525 +10.53% 295
Yorkshire +10 120 £500 -5.21% 159
Wales +18 52 £530 -3.64% 66
East Midlands -6 45 £481 -3.75% 156
North East +12 30 £600 +50.00% 67
Northern Ireland -10 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
1 171 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 97 (2.92%) Confluence
3 37 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (1.02%) CMS
5 13 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 10 (0.30%) Drupal
6 10 (0.30%) SAS
7 7 (0.21%) Documentum
8 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.12%) Apache
9 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.12%) CICS
9 4 (0.12%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.090%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.060%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.060%) nginx
11 2 (0.060%) WordPress
Applications
1 220 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 217 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
3 153 (4.61%) Microsoft Project
4 139 (4.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 54 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
6 42 (1.27%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 14 (0.42%) Acrobat
9 11 (0.33%) 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%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 5 (0.15%) Revit
13 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
13 5 (0.15%) TargetLink
14 4 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.060%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.060%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 92 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (0.66%) Loan IQ
3 19 (0.57%) Primavera
4 16 (0.48%) SAP ERP
5 15 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.33%) SAP HCM
7 10 (0.30%) SAP HR
7 10 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
8 8 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.24%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.24%) Teamcenter
8 8 (0.24%) Workfront
9 7 (0.21%) Aladdin
9 7 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.21%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
10 6 (0.18%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 267 (8.05%) Azure
2 120 (3.62%) AWS
3 118 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
4 106 (3.19%) Power Platform
5 88 (2.65%) SaaS
6 75 (2.26%) GitHub
7 53 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
8 46 (1.39%) OCI
9 42 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
10 36 (1.08%) GCP
11 28 (0.84%) PaaS
12 25 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (0.75%) Slack
13 23 (0.69%) PowerApps
14 22 (0.66%) Google Workspace
15 17 (0.51%) OneDrive
15 17 (0.51%) WhatsApp
16 16 (0.48%) IaaS
16 16 (0.48%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.81%) Firewall
2 56 (1.69%) WAN
3 54 (1.63%) VPN
4 48 (1.45%) LAN
5 44 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
6 38 (1.15%) DNS
7 30 (0.90%) Intranet
8 29 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
9 25 (0.75%) TCP/IP
10 24 (0.72%) DHCP
11 21 (0.63%) Network Security
11 21 (0.63%) SAN
12 19 (0.57%) Wireless
13 18 (0.54%) Internet
13 18 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
14 16 (0.48%) 4G
15 13 (0.39%) 3GPP
16 12 (0.36%) LTE
16 12 (0.36%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (2.86%) Power BI
2 44 (1.33%) SQL Server
3 33 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (0.75%) MySQL
4 25 (0.75%) Relational Database
5 20 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
6 18 (0.54%) Tableau
7 17 (0.51%) Metadata
8 13 (0.39%) GIS
9 12 (0.36%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
11 10 (0.30%) Big Data
11 10 (0.30%) Data Mining
11 10 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.27%) EDMS
12 9 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 8 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
14 7 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 282 (8.50%) JIRA
2 36 (1.08%) Git
3 35 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.93%) GitLab
5 20 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 17 (0.51%) Postman
7 16 (0.48%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.39%) Subversion
9 10 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.30%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.27%) Travis CI
11 8 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.18%) AppScan
12 6 (0.18%) Storybook
12 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.15%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.15%) NeoLoad
14 4 (0.12%) Artifactory
General
1 1,393 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 978 (29.48%) Finance
3 512 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 332 (10.01%) Public Sector
5 213 (6.42%) Organisational Skills
6 183 (5.52%) Influencing Skills
6 183 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
7 171 (5.15%) Manufacturing
8 170 (5.12%) Marketing
9 162 (4.88%) Banking
10 149 (4.49%) Legal
11 134 (4.04%) Telecoms
12 99 (2.98%) Retail
13 86 (2.59%) Electronics
14 81 (2.44%) Local Government
15 77 (2.32%) Pharmaceutical
16 69 (2.08%) Aerospace
17 58 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 49 (1.48%) Law
19 44 (1.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,186 (35.74%) Project Manager
2 303 (9.13%) Analyst
3 287 (8.65%) Lead
4 276 (8.32%) Senior
5 178 (5.36%) Architect
6 166 (5.00%) Senior Manager
7 162 (4.88%) Business Analyst
8 157 (4.73%) IT Manager
9 125 (3.77%) Consultant
10 121 (3.65%) IT Project Manager
11 106 (3.19%) Delivery Manager
12 102 (3.07%) Senior Project Manager
13 95 (2.86%) Technical Manager
14 90 (2.71%) Developer
15 85 (2.56%) Programme Manager
16 70 (2.11%) Security Manager
17 66 (1.99%) Technical Project Manager
18 59 (1.78%) Infrastructure Manager
19 58 (1.75%) Change Manager
20 57 (1.72%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (0.87%) YAML
2 27 (0.81%) XML
3 26 (0.78%) React
4 22 (0.66%) .NET
4 22 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (0.51%) Vue
6 14 (0.42%) Laravel
6 14 (0.42%) Spring
7 13 (0.39%) AngularJS
8 12 (0.36%) JSON
9 11 (0.33%) ARM Templates
9 11 (0.33%) EDI
10 10 (0.30%) ADO
10 10 (0.30%) Azure Blueprints
11 9 (0.27%) CSS
12 8 (0.24%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (0.24%) Playwright
13 7 (0.21%) HTML
13 7 (0.21%) SailPoint
13 7 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 175 (5.27%) Management Information System
2 87 (2.62%) Product Ownership
3 81 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 74 (2.23%) Onboarding
5 61 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 55 (1.66%) PMI
7 49 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.12%) NHS
9 36 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.02%) Analogue Electronics
11 33 (0.99%) Life Science
12 32 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 31 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 29 (0.87%) Public Cloud
15 25 (0.75%) FMCG
16 23 (0.69%) Algorithms
16 23 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (0.66%) Social Media
18 19 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
19 18 (0.54%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 101 (3.04%) Windows
2 89 (2.68%) Linux
3 40 (1.21%) Windows Server
4 30 (0.90%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.72%) zOS
6 19 (0.57%) Android
6 19 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.45%) Windows XP
9 14 (0.42%) Unix
9 14 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.12%) VMS
12 3 (0.090%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.060%) AIX
13 2 (0.060%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,035 (31.19%) Agile
2 743 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 668 (20.13%) Project Delivery
4 649 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
5 528 (15.91%) PRINCE2
6 421 (12.69%) Change Management
7 340 (10.25%) Risk Management
8 278 (8.38%) Decision-Making
9 275 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 268 (8.08%) Migration
11 254 (7.66%) Scrum
12 234 (7.05%) Waterfall
13 210 (6.33%) Programme Management
14 205 (6.18%) Project Planning
15 202 (6.09%) Business Case
16 196 (5.91%) DevOps
17 181 (5.46%) Roadmaps
18 176 (5.30%) Analytics
19 174 (5.24%) ITIL
20 168 (5.06%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 120 (3.62%) SQL
2 104 (3.13%) Python
3 64 (1.93%) PowerShell
4 48 (1.45%) Java
5 43 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 26 (0.78%) C
7 24 (0.72%) Bash
8 22 (0.66%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 19 (0.57%) JCL
11 17 (0.51%) C#
12 15 (0.45%) REXX
13 13 (0.39%) PHP
14 11 (0.33%) Scala
15 8 (0.24%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.21%) R
16 7 (0.21%) XPath
16 7 (0.21%) XQuery
17 6 (0.18%) Perl
17 6 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 542 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 537 (16.18%) Degree
3 358 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 221 (6.66%) PMP
5 217 (6.54%) PMI Certification
6 158 (4.76%) DV Cleared
7 79 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 68 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (1.75%) APMP
10 49 (1.48%) Master's Degree
11 43 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 41 (1.24%) CISSP
13 38 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
14 35 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 34 (1.02%) CCNA
16 31 (0.93%) CISM
17 30 (0.90%) CCNP
18 21 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
20 16 (0.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 342 (10.31%) PMO
2 211 (6.36%) QA
3 51 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 43 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 43 (1.30%) GDPR
5 29 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (0.84%) SLA
7 25 (0.75%) JSP 440
8 16 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 16 (0.48%) NIST
9 12 (0.36%) GxP
10 11 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.30%) NCSC
11 10 (0.30%) P3O
11 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
13 8 (0.24%) Basel III
13 8 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 56 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 43 (1.30%) Docker
3 28 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.60%) NFS
5 19 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
6 18 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.48%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.12%) ACF2
10 4 (0.12%) RACF
10 4 (0.12%) vSphere
11 3 (0.090%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.090%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.060%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.030%) Firmware
13 1 (0.030%) iptables
13 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 56 (1.69%) Ansible
2 45 (1.36%) Terraform
3 43 (1.30%) Kubernetes
4 27 (0.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 25 (0.75%) SCCM
6 23 (0.69%) Grafana
7 21 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.54%) Puppet
8 18 (0.54%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.51%) SCOM
10 15 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
10 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (0.45%) WSUS
11 14 (0.42%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.36%) Graylog
13 10 (0.30%) Kibana
13 10 (0.30%) logstash
14 9 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 515 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 302 (9.10%) SAP
3 131 (3.95%) Oracle
4 72 (2.17%) Cisco
5 62 (1.87%) Adobe
6 59 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 50 (1.51%) ServiceNow
8 46 (1.39%) Google
9 40 (1.21%) Dell
10 37 (1.12%) IBM
10 37 (1.12%) VMware
11 36 (1.08%) Juniper
12 33 (0.99%) Ariba
12 33 (0.99%) Splunk
13 23 (0.69%) Broadcom
13 23 (0.69%) CA
14 21 (0.63%) Palo Alto
15 20 (0.60%) Atlassian
16 19 (0.57%) Brocade
17 18 (0.54%) Veeam