Project Management Contracts in England

Project Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 24 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 2,786 3,540 5,739
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.49% 7.50% 8.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.76% 8.34% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,458 3,971
10th Percentile £310 £340 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 131 195
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.50 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.66 £30.54 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £48.50 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +49.69% +20.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £80.00 £64.80
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £48.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year -21.81% +50.00% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,786 42,433 64,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.49% 89.93% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,761 45,992
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £443 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,351 1,531 1,717
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London +3 1,200 £550 -2.65% 842
South East -10 422 £475 -5.00% 462
North of England 0 352 £511 +2.22% 540
South West +4 308 £523 -3.46% 289
Midlands -3 214 £500 +4.17% 447
East of England +5 205 £525 +5.00% 249
North West -1 202 £510 +2.00% 316
West Midlands 0 161 £520 +9.47% 278
Yorkshire +7 115 £500 -6.54% 164
East Midlands -2 52 £469 -6.25% 168
North East +13 37 £590 +47.50% 65
South Coast - 1 - -
Project Management
UK

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 134 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 80 (2.87%) Confluence
3 34 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 32 (1.15%) CMS
5 12 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 12 (0.43%) Drupal
6 11 (0.39%) SAS
7 8 (0.29%) Documentum
8 5 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.14%) CICS
9 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.11%) Apache
10 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.11%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.072%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.072%) nginx
11 2 (0.072%) WordPress
12 1 (0.036%) Kentico
Applications
1 195 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
2 183 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 132 (4.74%) Microsoft Project
4 100 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 47 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
6 39 (1.40%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.36%) Trello
8 8 (0.29%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.29%) Simulink
9 7 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.25%) InDesign
10 5 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.18%) Stateflow
10 5 (0.18%) TargetLink
11 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.11%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.11%) Revit
13 2 (0.072%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 64 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.57%) Loan IQ
2 16 (0.57%) Primavera
3 15 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
5 10 (0.36%) Workfront
6 8 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
6 8 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.25%) SAP HCM
8 6 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.22%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.22%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.18%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 229 (8.22%) Azure
2 96 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
3 91 (3.27%) Power Platform
4 86 (3.09%) AWS
5 63 (2.26%) SaaS
6 40 (1.44%) OCI
7 38 (1.36%) GCP
7 38 (1.36%) GitHub
8 36 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
9 33 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
10 26 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (0.75%) PowerApps
12 19 (0.68%) Google Workspace
13 17 (0.61%) Entra ID
13 17 (0.61%) PaaS
13 17 (0.61%) Slack
13 17 (0.61%) WhatsApp
14 16 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (0.57%) OneDrive
15 14 (0.50%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.69%) WAN
2 46 (1.65%) Firewall
2 46 (1.65%) VPN
2 46 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
3 34 (1.22%) DNS
3 34 (1.22%) LAN
4 27 (0.97%) Structured Cabling
5 22 (0.79%) SAN
6 21 (0.75%) DHCP
6 21 (0.75%) Intranet
7 19 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
8 16 (0.57%) Internet
8 16 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.57%) Wireless
9 15 (0.54%) 4G
10 14 (0.50%) Network Security
11 13 (0.47%) HTTP
12 12 (0.43%) 3GPP
12 12 (0.43%) LTE
12 12 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (2.94%) Power BI
2 40 (1.44%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 15 (0.54%) MySQL
5 15 (0.54%) Tableau
6 13 (0.47%) GIS
7 11 (0.39%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (0.36%) EDMS
8 10 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (0.36%) Metadata
9 9 (0.32%) Big Data
9 9 (0.32%) Data Mining
9 9 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
10 8 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.25%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 7 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.18%) DB2
12 5 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 229 (8.22%) JIRA
2 29 (1.04%) Git
3 27 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 22 (0.79%) GitLab
5 13 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.39%) Subversion
7 9 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (0.32%) Burp Suite
7 9 (0.32%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.32%) Travis CI
8 7 (0.25%) Postman
8 7 (0.25%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.18%) AppScan
9 5 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.18%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.18%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.14%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,174 (42.14%) Social Skills
2 833 (29.90%) Finance
3 422 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 167 (5.99%) Organisational Skills
6 160 (5.74%) Presentation Skills
7 153 (5.49%) Manufacturing
8 150 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
9 148 (5.31%) Marketing
10 135 (4.85%) Banking
10 135 (4.85%) Legal
11 119 (4.27%) Telecoms
12 82 (2.94%) Retail
13 73 (2.62%) Electronics
14 67 (2.40%) Local Government
15 65 (2.33%) Aerospace
16 50 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
17 49 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 43 (1.54%) Law
19 33 (1.18%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,001 (35.93%) Project Manager
2 266 (9.55%) Analyst
3 235 (8.44%) Lead
4 224 (8.04%) Senior
5 167 (5.99%) Architect
6 144 (5.17%) Business Analyst
7 140 (5.03%) IT Manager
8 130 (4.67%) Senior Manager
9 119 (4.27%) Consultant
10 117 (4.20%) IT Project Manager
11 89 (3.19%) Senior Project Manager
12 85 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
13 78 (2.80%) Technical Manager
14 73 (2.62%) Programme Manager
15 68 (2.44%) Developer
16 60 (2.15%) Security Manager
17 57 (2.05%) Technical Project Manager
18 51 (1.83%) Infrastructure Manager
19 48 (1.72%) Senior Analyst
20 47 (1.69%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (0.90%) XML
2 24 (0.86%) .NET
3 22 (0.79%) YAML
4 18 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (0.47%) React
6 12 (0.43%) EDI
6 12 (0.43%) JSON
7 10 (0.36%) CSS
8 9 (0.32%) ADO
9 8 (0.29%) HTML
9 8 (0.29%) REST
9 8 (0.29%) Spring
9 8 (0.29%) Web Services
10 7 (0.25%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.25%) PySpark
11 6 (0.22%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (0.22%) Kafka
11 6 (0.22%) SailPoint
12 5 (0.18%) .NET Framework
12 5 (0.18%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 137 (4.92%) Management Information System
2 63 (2.26%) Data Centre
2 63 (2.26%) Product Ownership
3 51 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 45 (1.62%) PMI
4 45 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 36 (1.29%) Analogue Electronics
7 32 (1.15%) NHS
8 31 (1.11%) Virtual Team
9 28 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (0.97%) Life Science
11 24 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (0.86%) Public Cloud
12 22 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (0.75%) Algorithms
14 20 (0.72%) FMCG
15 19 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
16 18 (0.65%) Social Media
17 14 (0.50%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 77 (2.76%) Windows
2 70 (2.51%) Linux
3 38 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.97%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.68%) Android
5 19 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 18 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (0.57%) zOS
8 15 (0.54%) Windows XP
9 14 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.39%) Unix
11 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.14%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.11%) VMS
13 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.036%) AIX
14 1 (0.036%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 849 (30.47%) Agile
2 641 (23.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 566 (20.32%) Project Delivery
4 560 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
5 432 (15.51%) PRINCE2
6 326 (11.70%) Change Management
7 283 (10.16%) Risk Management
8 251 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 232 (8.33%) Migration
10 219 (7.86%) Decision-Making
11 209 (7.50%) Scrum
12 190 (6.82%) Waterfall
13 182 (6.53%) Project Planning
14 174 (6.25%) Programme Management
15 158 (5.67%) Business Case
16 152 (5.46%) ITIL
17 149 (5.35%) Budget Management
18 144 (5.17%) Analytics
19 141 (5.06%) Business Analysis
20 140 (5.03%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 109 (3.91%) SQL
2 89 (3.19%) Python
3 61 (2.19%) PowerShell
4 36 (1.29%) JavaScript
5 34 (1.22%) Java
6 23 (0.83%) Bash
6 23 (0.83%) C
7 16 (0.57%) PL/SQL
8 13 (0.47%) C#
8 13 (0.47%) TypeScript
9 12 (0.43%) JCL
10 8 (0.29%) C++
10 8 (0.29%) MATLAB
10 8 (0.29%) R
10 8 (0.29%) REXX
11 7 (0.25%) XPath
11 7 (0.25%) XQuery
12 6 (0.22%) ABAP
12 6 (0.22%) PHP
12 6 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 448 (16.08%) Degree
2 441 (15.83%) Security Cleared
3 274 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 176 (6.32%) PMI Certification
5 172 (6.17%) PMP
6 148 (5.31%) DV Cleared
7 64 (2.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 57 (2.05%) Master's Degree
9 56 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 44 (1.58%) APMP
11 35 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.26%) CISSP
12 32 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 32 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 29 (1.04%) CCNA
14 27 (0.97%) CISM
15 26 (0.93%) CCNP
16 20 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
17 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
18 15 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (10.52%) PMO
2 151 (5.42%) QA
3 41 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 40 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.18%) GDPR
6 29 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (0.83%) JSP 440
8 20 (0.72%) SLA
9 15 (0.54%) NIST
10 12 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.36%) P3O
13 9 (0.32%) GxP
14 7 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.22%) Basel III
15 6 (0.22%) GAMP
15 6 (0.22%) GRC
15 6 (0.22%) IFRS
15 6 (0.22%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 60 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (0.93%) Docker
4 18 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 18 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.47%) NFS
6 12 (0.43%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.14%) ACF2
8 4 (0.14%) RACF
8 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.11%) vSphere
10 2 (0.072%) HDFS
10 2 (0.072%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.072%) XenApp
10 2 (0.072%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.036%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 36 (1.29%) Ansible
2 29 (1.04%) Terraform
3 26 (0.93%) Kubernetes
4 23 (0.83%) SCCM
5 19 (0.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 18 (0.65%) vCenter Server
7 17 (0.61%) Grafana
7 17 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.61%) Puppet
8 16 (0.57%) Progress Chef
8 16 (0.57%) SCOM
9 15 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
9 15 (0.54%) WSUS
10 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.50%) NetBackup
11 10 (0.36%) Kibana
11 10 (0.36%) logstash
12 9 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (0.29%) Graylog
13 8 (0.29%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 433 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 229 (8.22%) SAP
3 108 (3.88%) Oracle
4 65 (2.33%) Cisco
5 48 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 45 (1.62%) Adobe
7 44 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 41 (1.47%) Google
9 40 (1.44%) VMware
10 36 (1.29%) Juniper
11 32 (1.15%) Dell
12 31 (1.11%) IBM
13 23 (0.83%) Splunk
14 19 (0.68%) Palo Alto
15 18 (0.65%) Atlassian
15 18 (0.65%) EMC
15 18 (0.65%) Symantec
15 18 (0.65%) Veeam
16 16 (0.57%) CA
16 16 (0.57%) HP