Project Manager Contracts with Work from Home Options

Project Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Project Manager daily rate in Work from Home is £518 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 26 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 894 1,688 3,513
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.08% 7.05% 7.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.50% 7.40% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 1,216 2,645
10th Percentile £333 £384 £375
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £696 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £514
% change year-on-year - +2.19% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 37 29
10th Percentile £23.56 £30.54 £25.16
25th Percentile £27.26 £45.00 £54.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% - +91.15%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £62.00 £71.25 £74.35
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £62.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -42.46% +15.74% +54.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,752 22,821 42,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 95.26% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,267 16,183 30,865
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 530 566
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.63
25th Percentile £22.56 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +32.91% +68.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.31 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.05 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +15.00%

Project Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Project Manager trend for jobs with a WFH option

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Project Manager.

Project Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Project Manager over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Project Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Project Manager.

Project Manager hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Project Manager over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Project Manager hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 7 June 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 416 (46.53%) Project Management
2 275 (30.76%) Finance
3 239 (26.73%) Agile
4 222 (24.83%) Social Skills
5 163 (18.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 157 (17.56%) Project Delivery
7 153 (17.11%) PRINCE2
8 103 (11.52%) Migration
9 100 (11.19%) Change Management
10 96 (10.74%) Security Cleared
11 89 (9.96%) Problem-Solving
12 85 (9.51%) Public Sector
12 85 (9.51%) Risk Management
13 79 (8.84%) SC Cleared
14 77 (8.61%) Degree
15 73 (8.17%) Waterfall
16 69 (7.72%) Microsoft
17 65 (7.27%) Budget Management
18 64 (7.16%) Scrum
19 60 (6.71%) SAP
20 59 (6.60%) Banking
20 59 (6.60%) Azure
21 52 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
22 51 (5.70%) Business Case
23 50 (5.59%) PMP
23 50 (5.59%) Project Planning
24 49 (5.48%) PMI Certification
24 49 (5.48%) ERP
25 48 (5.37%) Decision-Making
26 47 (5.26%) JIRA

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 27 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.57%) Confluence
3 7 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.45%) CMS
5 4 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.11%) Appian
7 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 37 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (3.69%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.11%) Maya
Business Applications
1 22 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.89%) Sage 200
2 8 (0.89%) Sage 50
3 7 (0.78%) SAP Hybris
4 5 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle HRMS
6 2 (0.22%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.11%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (6.60%) Azure
2 21 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (2.01%) SaaS
4 16 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (1.68%) Smartsheet
6 14 (1.57%) Power Platform
7 12 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.34%) WhatsApp
8 11 (1.23%) AWS
9 9 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (0.78%) PowerApps
10 7 (0.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 5 (0.56%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.45%) OCI
13 3 (0.34%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.34%) GCP
13 3 (0.34%) SAP Fieldglass
14 2 (0.22%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.22%) GitHub
14 2 (0.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.01%) Structured Cabling
2 17 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (0.67%) 5G
3 6 (0.67%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.56%) WAN
5 4 (0.45%) Firewall
5 4 (0.45%) Internet
5 4 (0.45%) LAN
5 4 (0.45%) Network Security
6 3 (0.34%) Wireless
7 2 (0.22%) Broadband
7 2 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.22%) MPLS
7 2 (0.22%) SNA
7 2 (0.22%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.11%) NAS
8 1 (0.11%) SNMP
8 1 (0.11%) VLAN
8 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (1.12%) Power BI
3 5 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.45%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.34%) Metadata
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (0.34%) Tableau
6 2 (0.22%) Big Data
6 2 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.22%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.11%) DB2
7 1 (0.11%) MySQL
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 47 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 275 (30.76%) Finance
2 222 (24.83%) Social Skills
3 85 (9.51%) Public Sector
4 59 (6.60%) Banking
5 52 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (4.59%) Manufacturing
7 39 (4.36%) Retail
8 34 (3.80%) Marketing
9 29 (3.24%) Telecoms
10 26 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (2.91%) Legal
11 24 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (2.35%) Local Government
13 17 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
13 17 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.79%) Electronics
15 10 (1.12%) Investment Banking
16 9 (1.01%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.89%) Front Office
17 8 (0.89%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.45%) ADO
2 3 (0.34%) Middleware
2 3 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (0.34%) Smart Contracts
3 2 (0.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (0.11%) Express.js
4 1 (0.11%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.11%) MERN Stack
4 1 (0.11%) Node.js
4 1 (0.11%) React
4 1 (0.11%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.11%) SAML
4 1 (0.11%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.11%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 25 (2.80%) Management Information System
2 22 (2.46%) Data Centre
3 19 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 17 (1.90%) NHS
5 16 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.34%) Life Science
9 11 (1.23%) FMCG
10 10 (1.12%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.01%) PMI
12 7 (0.78%) Over-the-Top Content
12 7 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (0.78%) Taxonomies
12 7 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
13 5 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.56%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.45%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.23%) Windows
2 5 (0.56%) Linux
3 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (46.53%) Project Management
2 239 (26.73%) Agile
3 163 (18.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 157 (17.56%) Project Delivery
5 153 (17.11%) PRINCE2
6 103 (11.52%) Migration
7 100 (11.19%) Change Management
8 89 (9.96%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (9.51%) Risk Management
10 73 (8.17%) Waterfall
11 65 (7.27%) Budget Management
12 64 (7.16%) Scrum
13 51 (5.70%) Business Case
14 50 (5.59%) Project Planning
15 49 (5.48%) ERP
16 48 (5.37%) Decision-Making
17 43 (4.81%) Programme Management
18 39 (4.36%) Cybersecurity
18 39 (4.36%) Project Governance
19 37 (4.14%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 16 (1.79%) SQL
2 7 (0.78%) Python
3 4 (0.45%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.22%) Java
4 2 (0.22%) PHP
4 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.11%) C
5 1 (0.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 96 (10.74%) Security Cleared
2 79 (8.84%) SC Cleared
3 77 (8.61%) Degree
4 50 (5.59%) PMP
5 49 (5.48%) PMI Certification
6 39 (4.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 22 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 14 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.56%) APMP
12 4 (0.45%) CIPD
12 4 (0.45%) CISM
12 4 (0.45%) CISSP
12 4 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.34%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.34%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.22%) ACCA
14 2 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.22%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.14%) PMO
2 24 (2.68%) QA
3 7 (0.78%) SLA
4 6 (0.67%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.67%) NIST
5 5 (0.56%) GDPR
5 5 (0.56%) GRC
5 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.45%) GxP
6 4 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.22%) Basel III
7 2 (0.22%) COBIT
7 2 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.22%) IFRS
8 1 (0.11%) GAMP
8 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.11%) RMADS
System Software
1 6 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.22%) Argo
1 2 (0.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.22%) SCCM
1 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.11%) Ansible
2 1 (0.11%) Terraform
2 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (7.72%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.71%) SAP
3 29 (3.24%) ServiceNow
4 20 (2.24%) Sage
5 19 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.01%) Oracle
7 9 (1.01%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.01%) Cisco
8 7 (0.78%) Adobe
8 7 (0.78%) Splunk
9 6 (0.67%) Google
10 5 (0.56%) Databricks
10 5 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.56%) VMware
10 5 (0.56%) Workday
11 4 (0.45%) Citrix
11 4 (0.45%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.34%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.34%) BT
12 3 (0.34%) Charles River