Project Manager Contracts in Essex

Project Manager
East of England > Essex

The median Project Manager daily rate in Essex is £450, 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 12 18 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 20 21 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 8.62% 8.37% 5.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.13% 8.82% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 16
10th Percentile £378 £381 £325
25th Percentile £413 £475 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £588
90th Percentile £588 - £625
East of England median daily rate £450 £513 £485
% change year-on-year -12.20% +5.67% +8.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £29.17 £43.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.16% - -
East of England median hourly rate £32.40 £62.50 £29.44
% change year-on-year -48.16% +112.30% -54.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 219 238 377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 94.82% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 140 230
10th Percentile £250 £200 £193
25th Percentile £338 £347 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +32.35%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £577
90th Percentile £600 £645 £638
East of England median daily rate £440 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -7.47% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 18 39
10th Percentile £12.86 £20.91 £14.80
25th Percentile £16.65 £24.62 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.08 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +24.77% +63.38% +17.59%
75th Percentile £79.38 £64.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.98 £76.64
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £41.80 £17.50
% change year-on-year +2.87% +138.86% +9.38%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in Essex

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in Essex

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Essex

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in Essex

Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the Essex region 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
Basildon - 12 £575 - 3
Brentwood - 3 £425 -
Chelmsford 0 1 £425 -19.05% 3
Colchester - 1 £425 -
Project Manager
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 job ads across the Essex region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 9 (45.00%) Housing Management
2 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (30.00%) Business Case
3 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Local Government
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 4 (20.00%) PRINCE
4 4 (20.00%) Project Management
4 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (20.00%) Information Governance
5 3 (15.00%) Finance
6 2 (10.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.00%) Digital TV
6 2 (10.00%) Linux
6 2 (10.00%) ERP
6 2 (10.00%) Banking
6 2 (10.00%) STB
6 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
6 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Microservices
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
7 1 (5.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
7 1 (5.00%) Resource Allocation
7 1 (5.00%) Yocto
7 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

General
1 5 (25.00%) Local Government
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (10.00%) Digital TV
1 2 (10.00%) STB
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Housing Management
2 6 (30.00%) Business Case
2 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Information Governance
4 4 (20.00%) PRINCE
4 4 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) ERP
5 2 (10.00%) Microservices
5 2 (10.00%) Migration
5 2 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (5.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
6 1 (5.00%) Open Source
6 1 (5.00%) Programme Management
6 1 (5.00%) Resource Allocation
6 1 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) C