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

6 months to
18 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 1,741 2,058 2,883
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.58% 8.94% 9.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.17% 10.00% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 1,391 2,095
10th Percentile £305 £288 £300
25th Percentile £406 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £593 £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 212 107 102
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £27.19 £30.54 £15.90
Median hourly rate £38.12 £48.50 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +71.68% +3.75%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £39.13
90th Percentile £61.13 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £46.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -17.13% +39.39% +22.22%

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 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £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 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -7 413 £488 -2.50% 585
North of England -3 342 £500 - 527
South West +6 323 £525 -4.55% 285
Midlands -1 212 £500 +4.17% 455
East of England +7 202 £525 +5.00% 243
Scotland +2 195 £450 - 168
North West -4 193 £505 +3.59% 315
West Midlands +2 165 £523 +9.42% 297
Yorkshire +8 121 £500 -5.21% 158
Wales +16 52 £530 -3.64% 65
East Midlands -8 46 £488 -0.51% 157
North East +11 30 £600 +50.00% 63
Northern Ireland -9 11 £435 -3.33% 22
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 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 (3.68%) 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 40 (2.30%) 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
7 2 (0.11%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 129 (7.41%) Azure
2 56 (3.22%) Power Platform
3 55 (3.16%) AWS
4 46 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (2.47%) GitHub
6 31 (1.78%) OCI
7 26 (1.49%) SaaS
8 24 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
11 17 (0.98%) GCP
12 14 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (0.80%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.52%) Kong
13 9 (0.52%) Slack
14 8 (0.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (0.46%) Canva
14 8 (0.46%) Smartsheet
14 8 (0.46%) Yammer
15 7 (0.40%) Apigee
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%) Network Security
11 14 (0.80%) Wireless
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 51 (2.93%) 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%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.11%) RDBMS
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
1 759 (43.60%) Social Skills
2 494 (28.37%) Finance
3 249 (14.30%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (12.87%) 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 80 (4.60%) Telecoms
10 67 (3.85%) Legal
11 58 (3.33%) Aerospace
11 58 (3.33%) Marketing
12 56 (3.22%) Electronics
13 45 (2.58%) Local Government
14 41 (2.35%) Retail
15 40 (2.30%) Banking
16 39 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
17 28 (1.61%) Automotive
18 26 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 23 (1.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 593 (34.06%) Project Manager
2 161 (9.25%) Lead
3 159 (9.13%) Senior
4 158 (9.08%) Analyst
5 128 (7.35%) Architect
6 93 (5.34%) Senior Manager
7 87 (5.00%) IT Manager
8 69 (3.96%) Business Analyst
9 66 (3.79%) IT Project Manager
10 56 (3.22%) 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 32 (1.84%) Programme Manager
15 32 (1.84%) Technical Project Manager
16 31 (1.78%) Consultant
17 30 (1.72%) Change Manager
18 29 (1.67%) 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%) Flash
12 2 (0.11%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 79 (4.54%) Management Information System
2 47 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 46 (2.64%) Data Centre
4 35 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 34 (1.95%) Analogue Electronics
6 31 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.61%) PMI
8 24 (1.38%) Life Science
9 23 (1.32%) NHS
10 22 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.03%) Public Cloud
13 16 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 16 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 15 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (0.86%) Driving Licence
15 13 (0.75%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.63%) PKI
17 10 (0.57%) Mainframe
17 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 (30.27%) Agile
2 457 (26.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 351 (20.16%) Project Delivery
4 342 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
5 297 (17.06%) PRINCE2
6 218 (12.52%) Change Management
7 155 (8.90%) Risk Management
8 152 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 136 (7.81%) Decision-Making
10 127 (7.29%) Project Planning
11 125 (7.18%) Waterfall
12 112 (6.43%) Business Case
13 101 (5.80%) DevOps
13 101 (5.80%) Migration
14 99 (5.69%) Scrum
15 96 (5.51%) Programme Management
16 95 (5.46%) Collaborative Working
17 89 (5.11%) ITIL
18 86 (4.94%) Roadmaps
19 84 (4.82%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 61 (3.50%) Python
2 51 (2.93%) SQL
3 40 (2.30%) PowerShell
4 29 (1.67%) 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%) Assembly Language
17 3 (0.17%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 379 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 259 (14.88%) Degree
3 238 (13.67%) SC Cleared
4 123 (7.06%) DV Cleared
5 98 (5.63%) PMP
6 94 (5.40%) PMI Certification
7 44 (2.53%) APMP
8 36 (2.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 29 (1.67%) 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 18 (1.03%) 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
16 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (11.20%) PMO
2 102 (5.86%) QA
3 26 (1.49%) 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 (2.13%) 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
1 260 (14.93%) 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 (1.67%) 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