Project Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Project Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 14 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 165 217 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.73% 9.61% 9.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.43% 10.89% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 138 266
10th Percentile £302 £263 £308
25th Percentile £422 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +0.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £600 £619
England median daily rate £525 £535 £510
% change year-on-year -1.87% +4.90% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 0
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.58 -
25th Percentile £15.13 £23.22 -
Median hourly rate £31.75 £27.13 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.03% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.50 -
90th Percentile £58.75 £79.00 -
England median hourly rate £38.12 £46.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -17.13% +39.39% +23.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,582 1,992 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.70% 88.26% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,359 2,336
10th Percentile £272 £263 £273
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +4.52% +15.94%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £576
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.15
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
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 Management within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +3 56 £513 +2.50% 101
Warwickshire +4 47 £600 +9.09% 50
Staffordshire +6 20 £425 +4.48% 29
Coventry +7 10 £600 +17.07% 34
Worcestershire +9 5 £520 -5.45% 20
Solihull -18 5 £325 -11.86% 4
Shropshire +14 4 £137 -71.16% 15
Herefordshire -8 2 - - 1
Walsall +1 1 £325 -7.14% 4
Project Management
England

Project Management
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 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (7.27%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (3.64%) Simulink
5 5 (3.03%) Stateflow
5 5 (3.03%) TargetLink
6 4 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (1.21%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.61%) Revit
8 1 (0.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.21%) iTrent
2 2 (1.21%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.21%) Primavera
3 1 (0.61%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.61%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 9 (5.45%) Power Platform
2 4 (2.42%) Azure
3 3 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.21%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.21%) PowerApps
4 2 (1.21%) SaaS
4 2 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.61%) AWS
5 1 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.61%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.61%) IaaS
5 1 (0.61%) OCI
5 1 (0.61%) PaaS
5 1 (0.61%) Serverless
5 1 (0.61%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.03%) Network Security
2 4 (2.42%) Firewall
2 4 (2.42%) VPN
3 3 (1.82%) Intranet
3 3 (1.82%) LAN
3 3 (1.82%) WAN
4 2 (1.21%) Internet
4 2 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.61%) Junos
5 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.45%) Power BI
2 2 (1.21%) MS Access
2 2 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.61%) Metadata
3 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.61%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (3.64%) Bitbucket
1 6 (3.64%) Git
1 6 (3.64%) JIRA
2 5 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 73 (44.24%) Social Skills
2 53 (32.12%) Finance
3 37 (22.42%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.88%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (7.27%) Law
7 10 (6.06%) Automotive
8 7 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.64%) Banking
9 6 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.64%) Legal
9 6 (3.64%) Telecoms
10 5 (3.03%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.42%) Marketing
11 4 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.82%) Retail
13 2 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.61%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 79 (47.88%) Project Manager
2 28 (16.97%) Senior
3 24 (14.55%) Analyst
4 14 (8.48%) IT Manager
5 13 (7.88%) IT Project Manager
6 12 (7.27%) PMO Analyst
6 12 (7.27%) Senior Manager
7 11 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
8 10 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (5.45%) Architect
10 8 (4.85%) Senior PMO
11 7 (4.24%) Senior PMO Analyst
12 6 (3.64%) AML Project Manager
12 6 (3.64%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.64%) Change Manager
12 6 (3.64%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (3.64%) Security Manager
12 6 (3.64%) Security Project Manager
12 6 (3.64%) Systems Engineer
13 5 (3.03%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.61%) Ajax
1 1 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.61%) OpenAPI
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.61%) REST
1 1 (0.61%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (0.61%) SAP PI
1 1 (0.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.24%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.64%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.03%) PMI
6 4 (2.42%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.82%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.21%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.21%) Housing Association
8 2 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.61%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.61%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.61%) NHS
9 1 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Linux
1 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (27.27%) Agile
1 45 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (23.03%) Project Delivery
3 37 (22.42%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (12.73%) Change Management
4 21 (12.73%) PRINCE2
5 20 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (10.91%) Risk Management
7 15 (9.09%) Decision-Making
7 15 (9.09%) Migration
8 13 (7.88%) Resource Management
9 12 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (7.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (6.67%) Business Strategy
10 11 (6.67%) Resource Allocation
11 10 (6.06%) Business Case
11 10 (6.06%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (6.06%) ERP
11 10 (6.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.64%) MATLAB
2 5 (3.03%) C
2 5 (3.03%) Python
2 5 (3.03%) SQL
3 4 (2.42%) Java
4 1 (0.61%) C++
4 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.61%) Perl
4 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (9.70%) Degree
1 16 (9.70%) PMP
2 15 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 10 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.45%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.64%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.21%) CCNA
7 2 (1.21%) CCNP
7 2 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.21%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.61%) APMG
8 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.61%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.61%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.94%) PMO
2 6 (3.64%) ISO 26262
2 6 (3.64%) QA
3 5 (3.03%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (3.03%) MISRA
3 5 (3.03%) MISRA C
4 3 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.82%) GDPR
4 3 (1.82%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) IFRS
5 1 (0.61%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.61%) iptables
Systems Management
1 1 (0.61%) Functional Safety
1 1 (0.61%) Kibana
1 1 (0.61%) logstash
Vendors
1 18 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.48%) SAP
3 4 (2.42%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.82%) Oracle
4 3 (1.82%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.21%) Cisco
5 2 (1.21%) IFS
5 2 (1.21%) NEC
6 1 (0.61%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.61%) Juniper
6 1 (0.61%) Palantir
6 1 (0.61%) Planview
6 1 (0.61%) Snow