Project Planning Contracts in the West Midlands

Project Planning
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 113 137
Rank change year-on-year +28 +24 -23
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 26 16 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.27% 0.72% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 0.83% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 30
10th Percentile £213 £388 £463
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £498
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -11.60% +10.61%
75th Percentile £559 £559 £538
90th Percentile £606 £588 £594
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £22.41 - -
25th Percentile £26.92 £20.49 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £20.97 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.91% - -
75th Percentile £53.95 £21.46 -
90th Percentile £72.90 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £49.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.37% +10.11% -11.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Project Planning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Project Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in the West Midlands

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Planning in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in the West Midlands

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Planning in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in the West Midlands

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Planning in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in the West Midlands

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Planning in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Planning in the West Midlands

Project Planning
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Planning within the West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +3 8 £575 - 3
Birmingham +13 7 £500 - 5
Worcestershire +5 5 £225 -47.06% 1
Staffordshire +6 1 £450 -21.74% 7
Project Planning
England

Project Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.85%) Acrobat
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.85%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Boomi
2 1 (3.85%) GCP
2 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (7.69%) LAN
2 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.69%) WAN
3 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.85%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Project Manager
2 5 (19.23%) IT Manager
3 4 (15.38%) IT Project Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Change Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Business Change Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Business Manager
5 2 (7.69%) CCTV Project Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Security Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Security Project Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Service Manager
6 1 (3.85%) IT Support
6 1 (3.85%) IT Technician
6 1 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Planning Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Programme Planning Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Senior IT Support
6 1 (3.85%) Senior IT Technician
6 1 (3.85%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) JSON
1 1 (3.85%) REST
1 1 (3.85%) SOAP
1 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) CCTV
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Project Management
2 9 (34.62%) Risk Management
3 7 (26.92%) Project Delivery
4 6 (23.08%) Asset Management
4 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (19.23%) Agile
5 5 (19.23%) Change Management
5 5 (19.23%) Resource Allocation
6 4 (15.38%) Budget Management
6 4 (15.38%) Change Control
6 4 (15.38%) Cost Control
6 4 (15.38%) Decarbonisation
6 4 (15.38%) Resource Management
6 4 (15.38%) Risk Register
6 4 (15.38%) Validation
7 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (11.54%) CRM
7 3 (11.54%) Scrum
8 2 (7.69%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) PMI Certification
1 5 (19.23%) PMP
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) CCNA
3 1 (3.85%) CCNP
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.85%) MCDST
3 1 (3.85%) MCP
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Nessus
1 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Adobe
2 1 (3.85%) Google