Software Project Manager Contracts

Software Project Manager
UK

The median Software Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 654 750
Rank change year-on-year +95 +96 -88
Contract jobs requiring a Software Project Manager 25 43 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.077% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.082% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 80
10th Percentile £393 £413 £406
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £614
90th Percentile £670 £600 £754
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +3.72% -1.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 2
10th Percentile - £62.38 -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% - +51.16%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% - +51.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Software Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Project Manager in the UK

Software Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Software Project Manager in the UK

Software Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Project Manager over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Project Manager in the UK

Software Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Project Manager in the UK

Software Project Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +69 21 £500 +5.26% 10
UK excluding London +13 14 £488 +3.72% 11
Work from Home +99 11 £475 +1.06% 5
London +83 8 £561 +4.42%
East of England +2 5 £350 - 2
Midlands +18 3 £500 +16.96% 2
South East +10 3 £475 +5.56% 1
Wales - 3 £503 -
West Midlands - 2 £488 - 1
East Midlands +6 1 £600 +40.35% 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Software 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 featuring Software Project Manager in the job title.

1 13 (52.00%) Project Management
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (24.00%) Finance
5 5 (20.00%) JIRA
5 5 (20.00%) Degree
5 5 (20.00%) Scrum
5 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 5 (20.00%) Project Governance
6 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
6 4 (16.00%) Azure
6 4 (16.00%) SDLC
6 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
6 4 (16.00%) Manufacturing
6 4 (16.00%) Kanban
6 4 (16.00%) Business Analysis
6 4 (16.00%) Marketing
7 3 (12.00%) Retail
7 3 (12.00%) Atlassian
7 3 (12.00%) Magento
7 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (12.00%) Electronics
7 3 (12.00%) .NET
7 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
7 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce
7 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.00%) Cost Management
7 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity

Software Project Manager Skill Set
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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (16.00%) Marketing
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Electronics
4 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (12.00%) Retail
5 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.00%) Automotive
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (4.00%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Project Management
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (20.00%) Project Governance
4 5 (20.00%) Scrum
5 4 (16.00%) Business Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Kanban
5 4 (16.00%) SDLC
5 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
6 3 (12.00%) Analytics
6 3 (12.00%) Cost Management
6 3 (12.00%) Data Analytics
6 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (12.00%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
6 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.00%) Software Delivery
7 2 (8.00%) DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) Microservices
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Progress
2 2 (8.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Blue Prism
3 1 (4.00%) Cadence