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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3,321 4,343 6,903
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.80% 7.64% 7.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.05% 8.51% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,025 2,944 4,762
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% +5.82%
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% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 151 209
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.16 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.25 £30.40 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £46.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +39.39% +22.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £61.45 £80.00 £67.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £48.50 £28.25
% change year-on-year -21.40% +71.68% +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 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 17 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 17 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 17 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 2,834 £525 -1.41% 3,075
UK excluding London +1 1,741 £500 - 2,231
London +2 1,255 £550 -4.35% 1,017
Work from Home +3 1,118 £525 +2.44% 1,547
South East -7 413 £488 -2.50% 575
North of England -3 342 £500 - 530
South West +6 323 £525 -4.55% 282
Midlands -1 212 £500 +4.17% 451
East of England +7 202 £525 +5.00% 243
Scotland +1 195 £450 - 160
North West -4 193 £505 +3.88% 327
West Midlands +3 165 £523 +8.85% 297
Yorkshire +6 121 £500 -5.21% 152
Wales +17 52 £530 -3.64% 64
East Midlands -8 46 £488 -0.51% 153
North East +13 30 £600 +50.00% 60
Northern Ireland -9 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 98 (2.95%) Confluence
3 37 (1.11%) 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
1 221 (6.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 217 (6.53%) Microsoft Office
3 153 (4.61%) Microsoft Project
4 140 (4.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 54 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
6 42 (1.26%) 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 89 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (0.66%) Loan IQ
3 19 (0.57%) Primavera
4 16 (0.48%) SAP ERP
5 14 (0.42%) 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%) 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
9 7 (0.21%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
10 6 (0.18%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 270 (8.13%) Azure
2 120 (3.61%) AWS
3 118 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
4 107 (3.22%) Power Platform
5 87 (2.62%) SaaS
6 74 (2.23%) GitHub
7 53 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (1.39%) OCI
9 44 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
10 42 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
11 36 (1.08%) GCP
12 27 (0.81%) PaaS
13 25 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (0.75%) Slack
14 23 (0.69%) PowerApps
15 22 (0.66%) Google Workspace
16 17 (0.51%) OneDrive
16 17 (0.51%) WhatsApp
17 16 (0.48%) Smartsheet
18 15 (0.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.81%) Firewall
2 56 (1.69%) WAN
3 54 (1.63%) VPN
4 48 (1.45%) LAN
5 44 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
6 38 (1.14%) DNS
7 30 (0.90%) Intranet
8 29 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
9 25 (0.75%) TCP/IP
10 24 (0.72%) DHCP
11 22 (0.66%) Network Security
12 21 (0.63%) SAN
13 19 (0.57%) Wireless
14 18 (0.54%) Internet
14 18 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
15 16 (0.48%) 4G
16 13 (0.39%) 3GPP
17 12 (0.36%) LTE
17 12 (0.36%) SD-WAN
17 12 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (2.89%) Power BI
2 44 (1.32%) SQL Server
3 33 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (0.72%) MySQL
4 24 (0.72%) 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
1 286 (8.61%) JIRA
2 36 (1.08%) Git
3 35 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.90%) GitLab
5 19 (0.57%) Cypress.io
6 16 (0.48%) Postman
6 16 (0.48%) SonarQube
7 13 (0.39%) Subversion
8 10 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.30%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.27%) Travis CI
10 8 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.18%) AppScan
11 6 (0.18%) Storybook
11 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.15%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.15%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.12%) Artifactory
General
1 1,396 (42.04%) Social Skills
2 978 (29.45%) Finance
3 512 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 333 (10.03%) Public Sector
5 214 (6.44%) Organisational Skills
6 185 (5.57%) Presentation Skills
7 183 (5.51%) Influencing Skills
8 171 (5.15%) Manufacturing
8 171 (5.15%) Marketing
9 159 (4.79%) Banking
10 150 (4.52%) Legal
11 136 (4.10%) 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 48 (1.45%) Law
19 44 (1.32%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,190 (35.83%) Project Manager
2 300 (9.03%) Analyst
3 286 (8.61%) Lead
4 277 (8.34%) Senior
5 178 (5.36%) Architect
6 167 (5.03%) Senior Manager
7 162 (4.88%) Business Analyst
8 158 (4.76%) IT Manager
9 122 (3.67%) Consultant
9 122 (3.67%) IT Project Manager
10 106 (3.19%) Delivery Manager
11 103 (3.10%) Senior Project Manager
12 95 (2.86%) Technical Manager
13 89 (2.68%) Developer
14 85 (2.56%) Programme Manager
15 72 (2.17%) Security Manager
16 66 (1.99%) Technical Project Manager
17 60 (1.81%) Infrastructure Manager
18 58 (1.75%) Change Manager
19 56 (1.69%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (0.87%) YAML
2 27 (0.81%) XML
3 25 (0.75%) React
4 22 (0.66%) .NET
4 22 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (0.48%) Vue
6 14 (0.42%) Spring
7 13 (0.39%) AngularJS
7 13 (0.39%) Laravel
8 12 (0.36%) ADO
8 12 (0.36%) JSON
9 11 (0.33%) ARM Templates
9 11 (0.33%) EDI
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
1 177 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 86 (2.59%) Product Ownership
3 80 (2.41%) Data Centre
4 74 (2.23%) Onboarding
5 61 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (1.63%) PMI
7 49 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.11%) NHS
9 35 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.02%) Analogue Electronics
11 33 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 32 (0.96%) Life Science
12 32 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 29 (0.87%) Public Cloud
14 25 (0.75%) FMCG
15 23 (0.69%) Algorithms
15 23 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
16 22 (0.66%) Social Media
17 19 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
18 18 (0.54%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 101 (3.04%) Windows
2 88 (2.65%) Linux
3 40 (1.20%) 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 1,033 (31.11%) Agile
2 747 (22.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 671 (20.20%) Project Delivery
4 651 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
5 529 (15.93%) PRINCE2
6 421 (12.68%) Change Management
7 340 (10.24%) Risk Management
8 279 (8.40%) Decision-Making
9 275 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 266 (8.01%) Migration
11 253 (7.62%) Scrum
12 233 (7.02%) Waterfall
13 212 (6.38%) Programme Management
14 206 (6.20%) Project Planning
15 201 (6.05%) Business Case
16 198 (5.96%) DevOps
17 181 (5.45%) Roadmaps
18 175 (5.27%) Analytics
19 174 (5.24%) ITIL
20 167 (5.03%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 120 (3.61%) SQL
2 104 (3.13%) Python
3 64 (1.93%) PowerShell
4 48 (1.45%) Java
5 43 (1.29%) 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 12 (0.36%) 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
1 546 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 537 (16.17%) Degree
3 362 (10.90%) SC Cleared
4 220 (6.62%) PMP
5 215 (6.47%) PMI Certification
6 159 (4.79%) DV Cleared
7 80 (2.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 68 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (1.75%) APMP
10 48 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 43 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 42 (1.26%) CISSP
13 37 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
14 35 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 34 (1.02%) CCNA
16 32 (0.96%) CISM
17 30 (0.90%) CCNP
18 21 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
19 16 (0.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (10.27%) PMO
2 210 (6.32%) QA
3 51 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 43 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 43 (1.29%) GDPR
5 29 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (0.84%) SLA
7 26 (0.78%) 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%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
12 9 (0.27%) P3O
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 (1.29%) 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 (1.29%) 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 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 302 (9.09%) SAP
3 131 (3.94%) 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 (1.20%) Dell
10 37 (1.11%) IBM
10 37 (1.11%) VMware
11 36 (1.08%) Juniper
12 33 (0.99%) Splunk
13 32 (0.96%) Ariba
14 23 (0.69%) Broadcom
14 23 (0.69%) CA
15 21 (0.63%) Atlassian
15 21 (0.63%) Palo Alto
16 19 (0.57%) Brocade
17 18 (0.54%) Veeam