Project Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 16 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,742 2,067 2,911
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.60% 8.94% 9.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.20% 9.99% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 1,398 2,112
10th Percentile £305 £286 £300
25th Percentile £406 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 106 105
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £27.19 £30.54 £15.90
Median hourly rate £38.12 £46.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +70.00% +4.90%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £38.03
90th Percentile £61.13 £77.50 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £46.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -17.13% +39.39% +23.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East -8 412 £489 -2.25% 605
North of England -1 342 £500 - 535
South West +6 323 £525 -4.55% 280
Midlands -3 213 £500 +4.17% 444
East of England +6 202 £525 +5.00% 258
Scotland 0 196 £450 - 167
North West -4 194 £500 +2.56% 318
West Midlands +3 167 £525 +10.53% 290
Yorkshire +10 120 £500 -5.21% 160
Wales +18 52 £530 -3.64% 66
East Midlands -6 45 £481 -3.75% 153
North East +12 30 £600 +50.00% 65
Northern Ireland -10 11 £435 -3.33% 24
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 1
South Coast - 1 - -
Project Management
UK

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 81 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 64 (3.67%) Confluence
3 8 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (0.46%) SAS
4 7 (0.40%) Documentum
5 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.29%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) Apache
8 2 (0.11%) IBM Notes
8 2 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.057%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.057%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.057%) CICS
9 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.057%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 135 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (6.95%) Microsoft Office
3 92 (5.28%) Microsoft Project
4 77 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (2.01%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.86%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.63%) Acrobat
8 8 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.46%) Simulink
9 5 (0.29%) Stateflow
9 5 (0.29%) TargetLink
10 4 (0.23%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.17%) Revit
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.11%) Lectora
12 2 (0.11%) Trello
13 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 42 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Primavera
3 7 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 7 (0.40%) SAP HCM
3 7 (0.40%) SAP HR
3 7 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
4 6 (0.34%) iTrent
4 6 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.23%) SAP WM
5 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.17%) Aareon QL
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.17%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.17%) SAP PS
7 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 128 (7.35%) Azure
2 55 (3.16%) AWS
2 55 (3.16%) Power Platform
3 46 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (2.47%) GitHub
5 31 (1.78%) OCI
6 27 (1.55%) SaaS
7 24 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
10 17 (0.98%) GCP
11 14 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (0.80%) PowerApps
12 9 (0.52%) Kong
12 9 (0.52%) Slack
13 8 (0.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (0.46%) Canva
13 8 (0.46%) PaaS
13 8 (0.46%) Smartsheet
13 8 (0.46%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.58%) Firewall
1 45 (2.58%) VPN
2 35 (2.01%) WAN
3 34 (1.95%) LAN
4 32 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
5 31 (1.78%) DNS
6 25 (1.44%) Intranet
7 20 (1.15%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.09%) DHCP
9 18 (1.03%) Radio Access Network
9 18 (1.03%) SAN
10 15 (0.86%) 4G
11 14 (0.80%) Wireless
12 13 (0.75%) Network Security
12 13 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
13 12 (0.69%) 3GPP
13 12 (0.69%) LTE
13 12 (0.69%) Wireshark
14 11 (0.63%) HTTP
15 10 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (2.87%) Power BI
2 18 (1.03%) SQL Server
3 17 (0.98%) MySQL
4 15 (0.86%) Relational Database
5 10 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
8 7 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
8 7 (0.40%) EDMS
9 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.23%) DB2
9 4 (0.23%) Metadata
9 4 (0.23%) Tableau
10 3 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.11%) MS Access
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 162 (9.30%) JIRA
2 25 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.26%) GitLab
4 21 (1.21%) Git
5 17 (0.98%) Cypress.io
6 14 (0.80%) Postman
7 10 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.57%) Subversion
8 9 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (0.52%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.52%) Travis CI
9 6 (0.34%) Storybook
10 5 (0.29%) AppScan
10 5 (0.29%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.23%) Selenium
11 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.17%) XCUITest
13 2 (0.11%) JMeter
13 2 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 758 (43.51%) Social Skills
2 497 (28.53%) Finance
3 249 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 152 (8.73%) Organisational Skills
6 124 (7.12%) Manufacturing
7 121 (6.95%) Influencing Skills
8 96 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
9 78 (4.48%) Telecoms
10 67 (3.85%) Legal
11 58 (3.33%) Aerospace
12 57 (3.27%) Marketing
13 56 (3.21%) Electronics
14 45 (2.58%) Local Government
15 42 (2.41%) Banking
16 41 (2.35%) Retail
17 39 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
18 28 (1.61%) Automotive
19 26 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 24 (1.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 594 (34.10%) Project Manager
2 162 (9.30%) Lead
3 160 (9.18%) Senior
4 159 (9.13%) Analyst
5 128 (7.35%) Architect
6 94 (5.40%) Senior Manager
7 87 (4.99%) IT Manager
8 68 (3.90%) Business Analyst
9 66 (3.79%) IT Project Manager
10 57 (3.27%) Senior Project Manager
11 55 (3.16%) Developer
12 48 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
13 43 (2.47%) Technical Manager
14 36 (2.07%) Project Leader
14 36 (2.07%) Test Architect
15 33 (1.89%) Consultant
16 32 (1.84%) Technical Project Manager
17 31 (1.78%) Programme Manager
18 30 (1.72%) Change Manager
19 29 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.32%) YAML
2 21 (1.21%) React
3 19 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (0.75%) AngularJS
5 12 (0.69%) .NET
5 12 (0.69%) JSON
5 12 (0.69%) Vue
6 11 (0.63%) Spring
7 10 (0.57%) Laravel
7 10 (0.57%) XML
8 8 (0.46%) Playwright
9 6 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.23%) Kafka
10 4 (0.23%) REST
11 3 (0.17%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.17%) Middleware
11 3 (0.17%) ModSecurity
11 3 (0.17%) PySpark
12 2 (0.11%) Smart Contracts
12 2 (0.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.48%) Management Information System
2 47 (2.70%) Data Centre
2 47 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 35 (2.01%) Onboarding
4 34 (1.95%) Analogue Electronics
5 31 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (1.66%) PMI
7 24 (1.38%) Life Science
8 23 (1.32%) NHS
9 22 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.03%) Public Cloud
12 16 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.86%) Driving Licence
13 15 (0.86%) Virtual Team
14 14 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.75%) Mobile App
16 10 (0.57%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.57%) Mainframe
16 10 (0.57%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 59 (3.39%) Linux
2 57 (3.27%) Windows
3 34 (1.95%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.21%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (0.92%) zOS
8 14 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (0.80%) Windows XP
9 10 (0.57%) Android
10 7 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.40%) Unix
11 2 (0.11%) VMS
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.057%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.057%) Solaris
12 1 (0.057%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (30.25%) Agile
2 456 (26.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 350 (20.09%) Project Delivery
4 342 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
5 297 (17.05%) PRINCE2
6 218 (12.51%) Change Management
7 155 (8.90%) Risk Management
8 152 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 136 (7.81%) Decision-Making
10 126 (7.23%) Project Planning
11 125 (7.18%) Waterfall
12 114 (6.54%) Business Case
13 102 (5.86%) Migration
14 101 (5.80%) DevOps
15 99 (5.68%) Scrum
16 95 (5.45%) Collaborative Working
16 95 (5.45%) Programme Management
17 89 (5.11%) ITIL
18 86 (4.94%) Roadmaps
19 85 (4.88%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 61 (3.50%) Python
2 51 (2.93%) SQL
3 40 (2.30%) PowerShell
4 29 (1.66%) Java
5 25 (1.44%) C
6 23 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.98%) Bash
8 14 (0.80%) JCL
9 12 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.63%) REXX
11 10 (0.57%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.52%) PHP
13 8 (0.46%) MATLAB
14 6 (0.34%) Perl
15 5 (0.29%) C++
16 4 (0.23%) C#
17 3 (0.17%) ActionScript
17 3 (0.17%) Assembly Language
17 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 379 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 257 (14.75%) Degree
3 238 (13.66%) SC Cleared
4 122 (7.00%) DV Cleared
5 98 (5.63%) PMP
6 95 (5.45%) PMI Certification
7 43 (2.47%) APMP
8 36 (2.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 29 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 24 (1.38%) CCNA
12 23 (1.32%) CCNP
13 19 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.75%) ISEB
15 12 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
16 10 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.57%) HNC
17 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
18 8 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (11.25%) PMO
2 102 (5.86%) QA
3 25 (1.44%) JSP 440
4 22 (1.26%) GDPR
5 20 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
7 12 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.69%) SLA
8 9 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.46%) GxP
10 7 (0.40%) NIST
11 6 (0.34%) GAMP
11 6 (0.34%) ISO 26262
12 5 (0.29%) GMP
12 5 (0.29%) MISRA
12 5 (0.29%) MISRA C
12 5 (0.29%) NEBOSH
12 5 (0.29%) PMBOK
12 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.15%) Docker
4 18 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.86%) NFS
7 14 (0.80%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.17%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.057%) ACF2
10 1 (0.057%) iptables
10 1 (0.057%) RACF
10 1 (0.057%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.057%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 35 (2.01%) Ansible
2 23 (1.32%) Terraform
3 21 (1.21%) Kubernetes
4 20 (1.15%) SCCM
4 20 (1.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 18 (1.03%) Grafana
5 18 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.03%) vCenter Server
6 16 (0.92%) SCOM
7 15 (0.86%) EMC NetWorker
7 15 (0.86%) Puppet
8 14 (0.80%) NetBackup
8 14 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 14 (0.80%) WSUS
9 10 (0.57%) Kibana
9 10 (0.57%) logstash
10 9 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.52%) Graylog
11 5 (0.29%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 258 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 123 (7.06%) SAP
3 55 (3.16%) Oracle
4 46 (2.64%) Cisco
5 36 (2.07%) Juniper
6 30 (1.72%) Adobe
7 29 (1.66%) Dell
8 27 (1.55%) VMware
9 24 (1.38%) IBM
10 19 (1.09%) Splunk
11 18 (1.03%) Salesforce
12 17 (0.98%) CA
12 17 (0.98%) EMC
13 16 (0.92%) Extreme Networks
13 16 (0.92%) HP
13 16 (0.92%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.86%) Broadcom
15 14 (0.80%) 3PAR
15 14 (0.80%) ServiceNow
15 14 (0.80%) Veeam