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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 22 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3,300 4,284 6,907
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.76% 7.57% 7.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 8.44% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,012 2,901 4,761
10th Percentile £313 £325 £328
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £600
90th Percentile £713 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 145 211
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.19 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.33 £30.54 £21.05
Median hourly rate £38.12 £46.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +39.39% +22.40%
75th Percentile £48.75 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £61.25 £80.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £45.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year -15.29% +59.29% +6.25%

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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 2,820 £525 -0.94% 2,957
UK excluding London 0 1,742 £500 - 2,199
London +3 1,238 £550 -4.35% 889
Work from Home 0 1,100 £515 +0.49% 1,360
South East -9 417 £489 -2.25% 520
North of England -3 340 £500 - 541
South West +7 327 £525 -4.55% 293
Midlands -1 212 £500 +4.17% 442
East of England +4 196 £525 +5.00% 237
Scotland 0 194 £450 - 165
North West -2 193 £505 +1.00% 328
West Midlands +2 166 £520 +9.47% 279
Yorkshire +11 119 £500 -6.54% 156
Wales +16 50 £528 -4.05% 63
East Midlands -9 45 £481 -3.75% 162
North East +12 30 £600 +50.00% 64
Northern Ireland -11 12 £435 -3.33% 25
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 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 97 (2.94%) Confluence
3 37 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (1.03%) CMS
5 13 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 10 (0.30%) Drupal
6 10 (0.30%) SAS
7 6 (0.18%) 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 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.091%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.061%) nginx
11 2 (0.061%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 218 (6.61%) Microsoft Office
2 217 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 153 (4.64%) Microsoft Project
4 138 (4.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 53 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
6 42 (1.27%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.52%) 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
12 6 (0.18%) Revit
13 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
13 5 (0.15%) TargetLink
14 4 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.061%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.061%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 81 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.58%) Loan IQ
3 18 (0.55%) Primavera
4 15 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.42%) SAP ERP
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%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.18%) iTrent
10 6 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 269 (8.15%) Azure
2 119 (3.61%) AWS
2 119 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
3 104 (3.15%) Power Platform
4 89 (2.70%) SaaS
5 75 (2.27%) GitHub
6 53 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
8 42 (1.27%) OCI
8 42 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
9 36 (1.09%) GCP
10 29 (0.88%) PaaS
11 25 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (0.76%) Slack
12 23 (0.70%) PowerApps
13 22 (0.67%) Google Workspace
14 18 (0.55%) WhatsApp
15 17 (0.52%) IaaS
15 17 (0.52%) OneDrive
16 16 (0.48%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.85%) Firewall
2 54 (1.64%) WAN
3 53 (1.61%) VPN
4 46 (1.39%) LAN
5 44 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
6 40 (1.21%) DNS
7 30 (0.91%) Intranet
8 28 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
9 26 (0.79%) DHCP
10 25 (0.76%) TCP/IP
11 21 (0.64%) Network Security
11 21 (0.64%) SAN
12 18 (0.55%) Internet
12 18 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
12 18 (0.55%) Wireless
13 15 (0.45%) 4G
14 13 (0.39%) 3GPP
15 12 (0.36%) HTTP
15 12 (0.36%) LTE
15 12 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (2.82%) Power BI
2 43 (1.30%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (0.76%) MySQL
4 25 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 19 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
5 19 (0.58%) Tableau
6 18 (0.55%) Metadata
7 13 (0.39%) GIS
8 11 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
9 10 (0.30%) Big Data
9 10 (0.30%) Data Mining
9 10 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 8 (0.24%) EDMS
11 8 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 277 (8.39%) JIRA
2 36 (1.09%) Git
3 34 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.94%) GitLab
5 20 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 17 (0.52%) 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%) Maven
General
1 1,384 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 962 (29.15%) Finance
3 501 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
4 326 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 213 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 185 (5.61%) Influencing Skills
7 180 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
8 170 (5.15%) Manufacturing
9 169 (5.12%) Marketing
10 159 (4.82%) Banking
11 148 (4.48%) Legal
12 134 (4.06%) Telecoms
13 98 (2.97%) Retail
14 84 (2.55%) Local Government
15 80 (2.42%) Electronics
16 70 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
17 69 (2.09%) Aerospace
18 57 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 51 (1.55%) Law
20 40 (1.21%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,189 (36.03%) Project Manager
2 303 (9.18%) Analyst
3 279 (8.45%) Senior
4 269 (8.15%) Lead
5 178 (5.39%) Architect
6 169 (5.12%) Senior Manager
7 162 (4.91%) IT Manager
8 160 (4.85%) Business Analyst
9 128 (3.88%) Consultant
10 126 (3.82%) IT Project Manager
11 107 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
12 103 (3.12%) Senior Project Manager
13 93 (2.82%) Technical Manager
14 89 (2.70%) Developer
15 84 (2.55%) Programme Manager
16 70 (2.12%) Security Manager
17 66 (2.00%) Technical Project Manager
18 61 (1.85%) Infrastructure Manager
19 57 (1.73%) Change Manager
20 55 (1.67%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (0.88%) YAML
2 27 (0.82%) XML
3 26 (0.79%) React
4 22 (0.67%) .NET
4 22 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (0.52%) Vue
6 14 (0.42%) Laravel
6 14 (0.42%) Spring
7 13 (0.39%) AngularJS
8 12 (0.36%) EDI
8 12 (0.36%) JSON
9 11 (0.33%) ARM Templates
10 10 (0.30%) ADO
10 10 (0.30%) Azure Blueprints
11 9 (0.27%) CSS
12 8 (0.24%) Playwright
12 8 (0.24%) Web Services
13 7 (0.21%) HTML
13 7 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (0.21%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 177 (5.36%) Management Information System
2 88 (2.67%) Product Ownership
3 82 (2.48%) Data Centre
4 74 (2.24%) Onboarding
5 62 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
6 55 (1.67%) PMI
7 47 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.12%) NHS
9 36 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.03%) Analogue Electronics
11 33 (1.00%) Life Science
11 33 (1.00%) Virtual Team
12 32 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 28 (0.85%) Public Cloud
14 25 (0.76%) FMCG
15 23 (0.70%) Algorithms
15 23 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
16 20 (0.61%) Social Media
17 19 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
18 17 (0.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 103 (3.12%) Windows
2 88 (2.67%) Linux
3 43 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 31 (0.94%) 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 (0.45%) 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
11 4 (0.12%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.061%) AIX
12 2 (0.061%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,037 (31.42%) Agile
2 746 (22.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 665 (20.15%) Project Delivery
4 646 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
5 533 (16.15%) PRINCE2
6 413 (12.52%) Change Management
7 345 (10.45%) Risk Management
8 277 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 275 (8.33%) Decision-Making
10 266 (8.06%) Migration
11 257 (7.79%) Scrum
12 236 (7.15%) Waterfall
13 207 (6.27%) Programme Management
14 204 (6.18%) Project Planning
15 198 (6.00%) Business Case
16 194 (5.88%) DevOps
17 177 (5.36%) Roadmaps
18 176 (5.33%) ITIL
19 170 (5.15%) Analytics
20 168 (5.09%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (3.73%) SQL
2 105 (3.18%) Python
3 64 (1.94%) PowerShell
4 48 (1.45%) Java
5 43 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 27 (0.82%) C
7 24 (0.73%) Bash
8 20 (0.61%) PL/SQL
8 20 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.58%) JCL
10 16 (0.48%) C#
11 15 (0.45%) REXX
12 13 (0.39%) PHP
13 10 (0.30%) Scala
14 8 (0.24%) MATLAB
14 8 (0.24%) R
15 7 (0.21%) XPath
15 7 (0.21%) XQuery
16 6 (0.18%) Perl
16 6 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 539 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 536 (16.24%) Degree
3 352 (10.67%) SC Cleared
4 221 (6.70%) PMP
5 216 (6.55%) PMI Certification
6 161 (4.88%) DV Cleared
7 77 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 64 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (1.76%) APMP
10 49 (1.48%) Master's Degree
11 44 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 41 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
13 40 (1.21%) CISSP
14 37 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 34 (1.03%) CCNA
16 31 (0.94%) CCNP
16 31 (0.94%) CISM
17 21 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
18 16 (0.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 339 (10.27%) PMO
2 207 (6.27%) QA
3 50 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 43 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 42 (1.27%) GDPR
6 29 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (0.82%) SLA
8 25 (0.76%) JSP 440
9 18 (0.55%) NIST
10 16 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 12 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.36%) GxP
12 11 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.30%) NCSC
14 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.27%) P3O
15 8 (0.24%) Basel III
15 8 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.21%) IFRS
17 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 60 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 42 (1.27%) Docker
3 30 (0.91%) 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 4 (0.12%) ACF2
10 4 (0.12%) RACF
10 4 (0.12%) vSphere
11 3 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.091%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.061%) PowerHA
12 2 (0.061%) XenApp
12 2 (0.061%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.030%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 56 (1.70%) Ansible
2 44 (1.33%) Terraform
3 42 (1.27%) 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%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.52%) 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%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 519 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 288 (8.73%) SAP
3 127 (3.85%) Oracle
4 72 (2.18%) Cisco
5 62 (1.88%) Adobe
6 55 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 46 (1.39%) Google
7 46 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.21%) Dell
8 40 (1.21%) VMware
9 39 (1.18%) IBM
10 36 (1.09%) Juniper
11 33 (1.00%) Splunk
12 28 (0.85%) Ariba
13 24 (0.73%) Broadcom
14 23 (0.70%) CA
15 20 (0.61%) Palo Alto
16 19 (0.58%) Atlassian
16 19 (0.58%) Brocade
17 18 (0.55%) Symantec