Portfolio Management Contracts

Portfolio Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Portfolio Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Portfolio 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 376 412 521
Rank change year-on-year +36 +109 -111
Contract jobs citing Portfolio Management 195 292 354
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.51% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.57% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 215 241
10th Percentile £411 £400 £378
25th Percentile £472 £453 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £598
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +2.01% +0.93%
75th Percentile £654 £695 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 0
10th Percentile £22.01 - -
25th Percentile £26.68 - -
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% - -
75th Percentile £29.25 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £40.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -18.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Portfolio 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Portfolio Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Portfolio Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Portfolio Management.

Daily rate trend for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Portfolio Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Portfolio Management.

Hourly rate trend for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Portfolio Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Portfolio Management within the UK 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
England +28 177 £550 -9.84% 154
London +10 92 £550 -12.00% 97
UK excluding London +58 89 £550 +4.76% 64
Work from Home +55 57 £559 -10.56% 71
South East +29 35 £531 -11.46% 32
North of England +37 22 £575 +19.48% 5
Midlands +24 14 £650 +33.33% 9
Scotland +42 12 £460 -12.38% 2
West Midlands +26 11 £663 - 4
Yorkshire +18 11 £575 +43.75% 4
North West +19 8 £538 +7.50%
North East - 7 £575 - 1
East of England +5 4 £700 +40.00% 10
South West +1 2 £402 +4.42% 6
East Midlands +9 1 £900 +89.47% 5

Portfolio Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (3.08%) SAS
1 6 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.54%) Confluence
2 3 (1.54%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.51%) Apache
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (5.64%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (7.18%) Primavera
2 13 (6.67%) Aladdin
3 7 (3.59%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (2.05%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (1.54%) Orchestrade
5 3 (1.54%) SAP MDG
5 3 (1.54%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.51%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.51%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.77%) AWS
2 13 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 10 (5.13%) Azure
4 8 (4.10%) OCI
5 6 (3.08%) Oracle CX
5 6 (3.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 5 (2.56%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.05%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.54%) Smartsheet
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.03%) Miro
10 1 (0.51%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.51%) Azure App Service
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.51%) dbt
10 1 (0.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.54%) Firewall
1 3 (1.54%) LAN
1 3 (1.54%) SD-WAN
1 3 (1.54%) WAN
1 3 (1.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.15%) Power BI
2 9 (4.62%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.54%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.54%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.54%) Tableau
4 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.03%) Metadata
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Arrow
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (0.51%) Dremio
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.51%) Power Query
5 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (7.69%) JIRA
2 4 (2.05%) Git
3 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.03%) webpack
4 1 (0.51%) GitLab
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 82 (42.05%) Finance
2 70 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.44%) Banking
4 20 (10.26%) Investment Banking
4 20 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.69%) Front Office
7 12 (6.15%) Retail
8 11 (5.64%) Aviation
9 10 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (5.13%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.56%) Dutch Language
10 5 (2.56%) German Language
10 5 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.56%) Private Banking
11 4 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.54%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.54%) Local Government
12 3 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (22.56%) Analyst
2 33 (16.92%) Senior
3 23 (11.79%) Lead
4 18 (9.23%) Business Analyst
5 17 (8.72%) Developer
5 17 (8.72%) Project Manager
6 15 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
7 13 (6.67%) Finance Business Analyst
7 13 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
7 13 (6.67%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 12 (6.15%) Portfolio Manager
9 9 (4.62%) Architect
9 9 (4.62%) IT Manager
10 8 (4.10%) Consultant
10 8 (4.10%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.08%) Project Leader
12 5 (2.56%) IT Project Manager
12 5 (2.56%) PMO Lead
13 4 (2.05%) Senior PMO
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.59%) React
2 6 (3.08%) Redux
3 5 (2.56%) .NET
3 5 (2.56%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.05%) .NET Framework
4 4 (2.05%) Angular 2
4 4 (2.05%) Blazor
4 4 (2.05%) Entity Framework
4 4 (2.05%) HTML
4 4 (2.05%) HTML5
5 3 (1.54%) XML
6 2 (1.03%) Material-UI
6 2 (1.03%) Node.js
6 2 (1.03%) NumPy
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.03%) Pandas
6 2 (1.03%) RESTful
7 1 (0.51%) Kafka
7 1 (0.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.28%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.23%) Fixed Income
2 18 (9.23%) Hedge funds
3 13 (6.67%) Derivative
3 13 (6.67%) Equities
3 13 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (6.15%) Credit Risk
5 7 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.05%) Replication
7 3 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.54%) AS400
7 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.54%) iSeries
7 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.54%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.54%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.03%) FMCG
8 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.05%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (28.72%) Agile
2 46 (23.59%) Project Management
3 36 (18.46%) Project Delivery
4 32 (16.41%) Asset Management
5 31 (15.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (13.85%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (12.82%) Programme Management
10 24 (12.31%) PRINCE2
10 24 (12.31%) Roadmaps
11 20 (10.26%) Investment Management
12 19 (9.74%) Analytics
13 18 (9.23%) Risk Management
14 17 (8.72%) Fintech
15 16 (8.21%) Artificial Intelligence
16 14 (7.18%) Change Management
16 14 (7.18%) Decision-Making
16 14 (7.18%) Scrum
17 13 (6.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.44%) SQL
2 23 (11.79%) Python
3 6 (3.08%) C#
4 4 (2.05%) Java
5 3 (1.54%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.54%) MATLAB
5 3 (1.54%) RPG
5 3 (1.54%) VBA
6 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (20.51%) Degree
2 32 (16.41%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.72%) DV Cleared
4 15 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.64%) Master's Degree
6 9 (4.62%) PMI Certification
6 9 (4.62%) PMP
7 7 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.54%) CFA
8 3 (1.54%) MBA
8 3 (1.54%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.03%) APMP
9 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.51%) CISM
10 1 (0.51%) CISSP
10 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.51%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.90%) PMO
2 6 (3.08%) IFRS
2 6 (3.08%) IFRS 9
3 3 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.54%) P3O
3 3 (1.54%) QA
4 2 (1.03%) SLA
5 1 (0.51%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.54%) Control-M
2 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.69%) Bloomberg
2 15 (7.69%) Oracle
3 13 (6.67%) SAP
4 12 (6.15%) BISAM
5 4 (2.05%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.05%) SimCorp
6 3 (1.54%) Cadence
6 3 (1.54%) Cisco
6 3 (1.54%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.54%) IBM
6 3 (1.54%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.54%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.54%) Sparx
7 2 (1.03%) Planview
8 1 (0.51%) Informatica