Project Management Contracts

Project Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3,349 4,431 6,931
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.83% 7.62% 7.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.08% 8.48% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,050 3,004 4,791
10th Percentile £313 £330 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 149 212
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.16 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.48 £30.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £48.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +46.97% +20.00%
75th Percentile £49.75 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £61.25 £80.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £48.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.40% +76.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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 +2 2,850 £525 -1.87% 3,146
UK excluding London 0 1,749 £500 - 2,246
London +4 1,273 £550 -4.35% 997
Work from Home +2 1,138 £525 +2.44% 1,343
South East -6 416 £495 -1.00% 552
North of England -3 341 £500 - 544
South West +8 320 £519 -5.68% 315
Midlands -4 212 £500 +4.17% 444
Scotland +2 203 £450 - 165
East of England +6 202 £525 +5.00% 244
North West -2 191 £500 +2.56% 333
West Midlands +1 165 £525 +5.00% 288
Yorkshire +7 122 £500 -4.76% 159
Wales +15 53 £530 -3.64% 54
East Midlands -5 46 £488 +2.63% 155
North East +12 30 £600 +50.00% 60
Northern Ireland -6 11 £435 -3.33% 27
Channel Islands - 2 £575 - 1

Project 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
1 169 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 96 (2.87%) Confluence
3 39 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.07%) CMS
5 13 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (0.33%) Drupal
7 10 (0.30%) SAS
8 6 (0.18%) Documentum
9 5 (0.15%) Apache
9 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.12%) CICS
10 4 (0.12%) nginx
10 4 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.090%) IBM Notes
12 2 (0.060%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.060%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 223 (6.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 216 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
3 153 (4.57%) Microsoft Project
4 143 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 55 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
6 43 (1.28%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 14 (0.42%) Acrobat
9 10 (0.30%) Trello
10 8 (0.24%) Simulink
11 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
11 7 (0.21%) InDesign
12 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
13 5 (0.15%) Revit
13 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
13 5 (0.15%) TargetLink
14 4 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.060%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.060%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 92 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.93%) Loan IQ
3 20 (0.60%) Primavera
4 12 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.33%) SAP ERP
5 11 (0.33%) SAP HCM
6 10 (0.30%) SAP HR
6 10 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
7 8 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.24%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.24%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.24%) Workfront
8 7 (0.21%) Aladdin
8 7 (0.21%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.18%) iTrent
9 6 (0.18%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 276 (8.24%) Azure
2 121 (3.61%) AWS
3 120 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
4 106 (3.17%) Power Platform
5 87 (2.60%) SaaS
6 75 (2.24%) GitHub
7 54 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (1.31%) OCI
9 43 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
11 35 (1.05%) GCP
12 27 (0.81%) PaaS
13 26 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (0.72%) Slack
15 21 (0.63%) Google Workspace
15 21 (0.63%) PowerApps
16 16 (0.48%) OneDrive
16 16 (0.48%) Smartsheet
16 16 (0.48%) WhatsApp
17 15 (0.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.88%) Firewall
2 55 (1.64%) WAN
3 53 (1.58%) VPN
4 47 (1.40%) LAN
5 46 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
6 40 (1.19%) DNS
7 31 (0.93%) Intranet
8 29 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
9 27 (0.81%) DHCP
10 25 (0.75%) TCP/IP
11 23 (0.69%) Network Security
11 23 (0.69%) SAN
12 22 (0.66%) Wireless
13 20 (0.60%) Radio Access Network
14 18 (0.54%) 4G
15 15 (0.45%) Internet
16 13 (0.39%) 3GPP
17 12 (0.36%) LTE
17 12 (0.36%) Wireshark
18 11 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (2.81%) Power BI
2 45 (1.34%) SQL Server
3 33 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (0.84%) MySQL
5 26 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 18 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
6 18 (0.54%) Tableau
7 17 (0.51%) Metadata
8 13 (0.39%) GIS
9 12 (0.36%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.33%) Big Data
10 11 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
11 10 (0.30%) Data Mining
12 9 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (0.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 8 (0.24%) EDMS
13 8 (0.24%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 292 (8.72%) JIRA
2 36 (1.07%) Jenkins
3 35 (1.05%) Git
4 29 (0.87%) GitLab
5 19 (0.57%) Cypress.io
6 16 (0.48%) Postman
6 16 (0.48%) SonarQube
7 13 (0.39%) Subversion
8 10 (0.30%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.27%) TestRail
10 8 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (0.24%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.24%) Travis CI
11 6 (0.18%) AppScan
11 6 (0.18%) Storybook
11 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.18%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.15%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.15%) NeoLoad
General
1 1,404 (41.92%) Social Skills
2 990 (29.56%) Finance
3 523 (15.62%) Analytical Skills
4 333 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 215 (6.42%) Organisational Skills
6 190 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
7 183 (5.46%) Influencing Skills
8 172 (5.14%) Banking
9 171 (5.11%) Manufacturing
10 166 (4.96%) Marketing
11 148 (4.42%) Legal
12 135 (4.03%) Telecoms
13 100 (2.99%) Retail
14 85 (2.54%) Electronics
15 78 (2.33%) Local Government
16 74 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
17 69 (2.06%) Aerospace
18 56 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 51 (1.52%) Law
20 48 (1.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,193 (35.62%) Project Manager
2 305 (9.11%) Analyst
3 296 (8.84%) Lead
4 276 (8.24%) Senior
5 178 (5.32%) Architect
6 168 (5.02%) Senior Manager
7 166 (4.96%) Business Analyst
8 161 (4.81%) IT Manager
9 125 (3.73%) IT Project Manager
10 120 (3.58%) Consultant
11 108 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
12 103 (3.08%) Senior Project Manager
13 96 (2.87%) Technical Manager
14 90 (2.69%) Developer
15 83 (2.48%) Programme Manager
16 73 (2.18%) Security Manager
17 67 (2.00%) Technical Project Manager
18 63 (1.88%) Infrastructure Manager
19 59 (1.76%) SAP Manager
20 57 (1.70%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (0.84%) YAML
2 26 (0.78%) XML
3 25 (0.75%) React
4 23 (0.69%) .NET
5 22 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (0.48%) Vue
7 14 (0.42%) ADO
7 14 (0.42%) Spring
8 13 (0.39%) AngularJS
8 13 (0.39%) EDI
8 13 (0.39%) Laravel
9 11 (0.33%) ARM Templates
9 11 (0.33%) JSON
10 10 (0.30%) Azure Blueprints
10 10 (0.30%) CSS
11 8 (0.24%) Playwright
12 7 (0.21%) HTML
12 7 (0.21%) SailPoint
12 7 (0.21%) Web Services
13 6 (0.18%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 180 (5.37%) Management Information System
2 91 (2.72%) Product Ownership
3 81 (2.42%) Data Centre
4 77 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 61 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 57 (1.70%) PMI
7 54 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.10%) NHS
9 36 (1.07%) Virtual Team
10 33 (0.99%) Analogue Electronics
11 32 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (0.93%) Public Cloud
13 30 (0.90%) Life Science
14 26 (0.78%) Algorithms
15 24 (0.72%) FMCG
16 22 (0.66%) Social Media
17 21 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
18 20 (0.60%) Derivative
18 20 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 105 (3.14%) Windows
2 93 (2.78%) Linux
3 41 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 32 (0.96%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.72%) zOS
6 21 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (0.60%) Android
8 18 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.45%) Windows XP
11 14 (0.42%) Unix
12 11 (0.33%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.15%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.12%) VMS
14 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.090%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.060%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,037 (30.96%) Agile
2 759 (22.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 676 (20.19%) Project Delivery
4 661 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
5 529 (15.80%) PRINCE2
6 422 (12.60%) Change Management
7 343 (10.24%) Risk Management
8 279 (8.33%) Decision-Making
9 278 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 275 (8.21%) Migration
11 255 (7.61%) Scrum
12 233 (6.96%) Waterfall
13 212 (6.33%) Programme Management
14 210 (6.27%) Project Planning
15 203 (6.06%) Business Case
16 198 (5.91%) DevOps
17 182 (5.43%) Roadmaps
18 176 (5.26%) Analytics
19 172 (5.14%) ITIL
20 171 (5.11%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 120 (3.58%) SQL
2 102 (3.05%) Python
3 65 (1.94%) PowerShell
4 49 (1.46%) Java
5 43 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 26 (0.78%) C
7 22 (0.66%) Bash
7 22 (0.66%) TypeScript
8 20 (0.60%) C#
8 20 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 19 (0.57%) JCL
10 15 (0.45%) REXX
11 13 (0.39%) PHP
12 11 (0.33%) Scala
13 8 (0.24%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.21%) R
14 7 (0.21%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.21%) XPath
14 7 (0.21%) XQuery
15 6 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 555 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 546 (16.30%) Degree
3 368 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 221 (6.60%) PMP
5 216 (6.45%) PMI Certification
6 160 (4.78%) DV Cleared
7 79 (2.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 70 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (1.73%) APMP
10 48 (1.43%) Master's Degree
11 42 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.25%) CISSP
12 38 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 35 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 33 (0.99%) CCNA
15 31 (0.93%) CISM
16 29 (0.87%) CCNP
17 21 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
18 20 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
19 16 (0.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (10.45%) PMO
2 212 (6.33%) QA
3 52 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 43 (1.28%) GDPR
5 42 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 29 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (0.87%) SLA
7 26 (0.78%) JSP 440
8 16 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 16 (0.48%) NIST
9 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.33%) GxP
10 10 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 10 (0.30%) NCSC
10 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
11 9 (0.27%) P3O
12 8 (0.24%) Basel III
13 7 (0.21%) IFRS
13 7 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 43 (1.28%) Docker
3 30 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (0.60%) NFS
6 19 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
7 17 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.15%) vSphere
12 4 (0.12%) ACF2
12 4 (0.12%) RACF
13 3 (0.090%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.090%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.090%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.060%) KVM
14 2 (0.060%) PowerHA
15 1 (0.030%) iptables
15 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 56 (1.67%) Ansible
2 46 (1.37%) Terraform
3 43 (1.28%) Kubernetes
4 28 (0.84%) SCCM
5 27 (0.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 23 (0.69%) Grafana
7 21 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.63%) vCenter Server
8 18 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 17 (0.51%) Puppet
9 17 (0.51%) SCOM
10 16 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
11 15 (0.45%) WSUS
12 14 (0.42%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.39%) Graylog
14 9 (0.27%) Kibana
14 9 (0.27%) logstash
14 9 (0.27%) Nagios
15 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 516 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 297 (8.87%) SAP
3 127 (3.79%) Oracle
4 72 (2.15%) Cisco
5 60 (1.79%) Adobe
6 58 (1.73%) Salesforce
7 52 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 45 (1.34%) Google
9 41 (1.22%) VMware
10 39 (1.16%) Dell
11 37 (1.10%) IBM
12 36 (1.07%) Juniper
13 33 (0.99%) Splunk
14 32 (0.96%) Ariba
15 23 (0.69%) Broadcom
15 23 (0.69%) CA
16 22 (0.66%) Atlassian
17 21 (0.63%) HP
17 21 (0.63%) Palo Alto
18 19 (0.57%) Brocade