Project Management Contracts in England

Project Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 24 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 2,799 3,583 5,670
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.59% 7.55% 8.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.85% 8.39% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,709 2,486 3,928
10th Percentile £313 £346 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +3.41% +7.89%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £738 £696
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 133 190
10th Percentile £18.32 £22.50 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.66 £30.54 £21.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £32.45
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +51.00% +21.06%
75th Percentile £48.19 £66.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £80.00 £63.20
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.20% +50.77% +20.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +4 1,216 £550 -3.51% 966
South East -8 422 £475 -5.00% 496
North of England 0 348 £500 - 533
South West +3 317 £525 -3.67% 292
Midlands -3 209 £500 +5.26% 449
East of England +6 199 £525 +1.25% 238
North West -3 198 £510 +2.00% 299
West Midlands 0 158 £510 +7.37% 284
Yorkshire +8 120 £500 -6.54% 157
East Midlands -6 50 £488 -2.50% 163
North East +12 32 £600 +50.00% 81
South Coast - 1 - -
Project Management
UK

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 135 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 75 (2.68%) Confluence
3 36 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 32 (1.14%) CMS
5 13 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (0.39%) Drupal
6 11 (0.39%) SAS
7 8 (0.29%) Documentum
8 5 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.14%) CICS
9 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.11%) Apache
10 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.11%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.071%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.071%) nginx
11 2 (0.071%) WordPress
12 1 (0.036%) Moodle
Applications
1 194 (6.93%) Microsoft Office
2 184 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 135 (4.82%) Microsoft Project
4 102 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 48 (1.71%) Spreadsheet
6 41 (1.46%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.29%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.29%) Simulink
8 7 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.25%) InDesign
8 7 (0.25%) Trello
9 5 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.18%) Stateflow
9 5 (0.18%) TargetLink
10 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.11%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.11%) Revit
12 2 (0.071%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.071%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 63 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.61%) Loan IQ
3 16 (0.57%) Primavera
4 15 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (0.43%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
6 10 (0.36%) Workfront
7 8 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.25%) SAP HCM
8 7 (0.25%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.21%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.21%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
10 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.18%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 232 (8.29%) Azure
2 95 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
3 93 (3.32%) Power Platform
4 92 (3.29%) AWS
5 61 (2.18%) SaaS
6 40 (1.43%) GitHub
7 39 (1.39%) GCP
7 39 (1.39%) OCI
8 37 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
10 28 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (0.79%) PowerApps
12 19 (0.68%) Google Workspace
13 17 (0.61%) Slack
13 17 (0.61%) WhatsApp
14 16 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (0.57%) OneDrive
14 16 (0.57%) PaaS
15 15 (0.54%) Entra ID
16 13 (0.46%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.82%) WAN
2 48 (1.71%) Firewall
3 46 (1.64%) VPN
4 45 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
5 38 (1.36%) LAN
6 37 (1.32%) DNS
7 27 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
8 23 (0.82%) DHCP
9 22 (0.79%) SAN
10 21 (0.75%) Intranet
11 18 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
11 18 (0.64%) TCP/IP
12 17 (0.61%) Wireless
13 16 (0.57%) Internet
14 15 (0.54%) 4G
15 14 (0.50%) Network Security
16 13 (0.46%) HTTP
17 12 (0.43%) 3GPP
17 12 (0.43%) LTE
17 12 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (3.00%) Power BI
2 39 (1.39%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (0.64%) Relational Database
5 14 (0.50%) Tableau
6 13 (0.46%) GIS
6 13 (0.46%) MySQL
7 12 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (0.39%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.36%) Big Data
9 10 (0.36%) EDMS
9 10 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
9 10 (0.36%) Metadata
10 9 (0.32%) Data Mining
10 9 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.25%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 5 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
13 5 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 223 (7.97%) JIRA
2 30 (1.07%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.04%) Git
4 21 (0.75%) GitLab
5 13 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.39%) Subversion
7 9 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (0.32%) Burp Suite
7 9 (0.32%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.32%) Travis CI
8 7 (0.25%) Postman
8 7 (0.25%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.18%) AppScan
9 5 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.18%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.18%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.14%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1,168 (41.73%) Social Skills
2 837 (29.90%) Finance
3 416 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 239 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 165 (5.89%) Organisational Skills
5 165 (5.89%) Presentation Skills
6 151 (5.39%) Manufacturing
7 149 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
8 145 (5.18%) Marketing
9 135 (4.82%) Banking
9 135 (4.82%) Legal
10 122 (4.36%) Telecoms
11 82 (2.93%) Retail
12 72 (2.57%) Electronics
13 70 (2.50%) Local Government
14 62 (2.22%) Aerospace
15 50 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
16 49 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 41 (1.46%) Law
18 37 (1.32%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 997 (35.62%) Project Manager
2 260 (9.29%) Analyst
3 233 (8.32%) Lead
4 227 (8.11%) Senior
5 169 (6.04%) Architect
6 141 (5.04%) Business Analyst
7 140 (5.00%) IT Manager
8 133 (4.75%) Senior Manager
9 119 (4.25%) Consultant
10 116 (4.14%) IT Project Manager
11 90 (3.22%) Senior Project Manager
12 84 (3.00%) Delivery Manager
13 77 (2.75%) Developer
14 75 (2.68%) Technical Manager
15 74 (2.64%) Programme Manager
16 59 (2.11%) Security Manager
17 53 (1.89%) Technical Project Manager
18 51 (1.82%) Infrastructure Manager
19 48 (1.71%) Senior Analyst
20 45 (1.61%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (0.93%) YAML
2 25 (0.89%) XML
3 24 (0.86%) .NET
4 20 (0.71%) React
5 18 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (0.50%) Spring
7 13 (0.46%) AngularJS
8 12 (0.43%) EDI
8 12 (0.43%) JSON
9 11 (0.39%) CSS
10 9 (0.32%) ADO
10 9 (0.32%) HTML
11 8 (0.29%) REST
11 8 (0.29%) Web Services
12 6 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (0.21%) Kafka
12 6 (0.21%) SailPoint
13 5 (0.18%) Oracle Fusion
13 5 (0.18%) SAP ALE
13 5 (0.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 142 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 67 (2.39%) Product Ownership
3 65 (2.32%) Data Centre
4 53 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 47 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
6 45 (1.61%) PMI
7 40 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 35 (1.25%) Analogue Electronics
9 33 (1.18%) NHS
10 31 (1.11%) Virtual Team
11 27 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
12 26 (0.93%) Life Science
13 25 (0.89%) Public Cloud
14 23 (0.82%) Algorithms
14 23 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
16 20 (0.71%) FMCG
17 19 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
18 18 (0.64%) Social Media
19 15 (0.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 80 (2.86%) Windows
2 74 (2.64%) Linux
3 40 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.04%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.75%) zOS
6 19 (0.68%) Android
6 19 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.54%) Windows XP
9 14 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.39%) Unix
11 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.14%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.11%) VMS
13 2 (0.071%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.036%) AIX
14 1 (0.036%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 859 (30.69%) Agile
2 648 (23.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 568 (20.29%) Project Delivery
4 559 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
5 444 (15.86%) PRINCE2
6 336 (12.00%) Change Management
7 281 (10.04%) Risk Management
8 252 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 233 (8.32%) Decision-Making
10 232 (8.29%) Migration
11 210 (7.50%) Scrum
12 193 (6.90%) Waterfall
13 182 (6.50%) Programme Management
14 180 (6.43%) Project Planning
15 169 (6.04%) Business Case
16 153 (5.47%) ITIL
17 146 (5.22%) Budget Management
18 145 (5.18%) Analytics
18 145 (5.18%) DevOps
19 141 (5.04%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 112 (4.00%) SQL
2 97 (3.47%) Python
3 64 (2.29%) PowerShell
4 42 (1.50%) Java
5 41 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 29 (1.04%) C
7 23 (0.82%) Bash
8 16 (0.57%) JCL
8 16 (0.57%) PL/SQL
9 14 (0.50%) C#
10 13 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.43%) REXX
12 9 (0.32%) R
13 8 (0.29%) C++
13 8 (0.29%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.25%) XPath
14 7 (0.25%) XQuery
15 6 (0.21%) ABAP
15 6 (0.21%) PHP
15 6 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 452 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 439 (15.68%) Degree
3 280 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 175 (6.25%) PMI Certification
5 170 (6.07%) PMP
6 153 (5.47%) DV Cleared
7 66 (2.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 52 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (1.79%) Master's Degree
10 46 (1.64%) APMP
11 37 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (1.21%) CISSP
13 32 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 31 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
15 30 (1.07%) CCNA
16 28 (1.00%) CCNP
17 26 (0.93%) CISM
18 20 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
19 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
20 14 (0.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (10.61%) PMO
2 159 (5.68%) QA
3 43 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 39 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.18%) GDPR
6 30 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (0.89%) JSP 440
8 22 (0.79%) SLA
9 14 (0.50%) NIST
10 12 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.36%) P3O
13 9 (0.32%) GxP
14 7 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.21%) Basel III
15 6 (0.21%) GAMP
15 6 (0.21%) IFRS
15 6 (0.21%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 61 (2.18%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (0.89%) Docker
4 18 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 18 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (0.61%) NFS
6 16 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.14%) ACF2
8 4 (0.14%) RACF
8 4 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.11%) vSphere
10 2 (0.071%) HDFS
10 2 (0.071%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.071%) XenApp
10 2 (0.071%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.036%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 39 (1.39%) Ansible
2 26 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 25 (0.89%) SCCM
3 25 (0.89%) Terraform
4 24 (0.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 18 (0.64%) SCOM
5 18 (0.64%) vCenter Server
6 17 (0.61%) Grafana
6 17 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.61%) Puppet
7 16 (0.57%) Progress Chef
8 15 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
8 15 (0.54%) WSUS
9 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.50%) NetBackup
10 10 (0.36%) Kibana
10 10 (0.36%) logstash
11 9 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.29%) Graylog
12 8 (0.29%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 435 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 224 (8.00%) SAP
3 107 (3.82%) Oracle
4 66 (2.36%) Cisco
5 48 (1.71%) Salesforce
6 45 (1.61%) Adobe
7 43 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 42 (1.50%) Google
8 42 (1.50%) VMware
9 37 (1.32%) Dell
10 36 (1.29%) IBM
10 36 (1.29%) Juniper
11 23 (0.82%) Splunk
12 21 (0.75%) Broadcom
13 20 (0.71%) CA
13 20 (0.71%) Palo Alto
14 18 (0.64%) Atlassian
14 18 (0.64%) EMC
14 18 (0.64%) Symantec
14 18 (0.64%) Veeam