IT Project Manager Contracts

IT Project Manager
UK

The median IT Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 330 268
Rank change year-on-year -30 -62 +87
Contract jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 250 430 905
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.77% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.82% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 345 679
10th Percentile £370 £359 £385
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £522 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +1.85% +13.89%
75th Percentile £610 £590 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile - - £25.31
25th Percentile £23.63 £61.25 £32.94
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +0.40% +10.18%
75th Percentile £56.88 £64.38 £65.23
90th Percentile £62.00 £64.75 £71.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.28 £65.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year -61.12% +0.78% +14.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured IT Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Project Manager over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Project Manager over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -2 230 £525 -2.33% 69
UK excluding London -30 133 £500 - 58
London +23 100 £575 +2.22% 17
Work from Home +2 80 £500 - 21
South East 0 38 £525 +5.00% 11
North of England +14 32 £525 -4.55% 9
Midlands +7 29 £500 +2.56% 25
West Midlands +6 28 £500 +2.56% 19
South West +9 24 £500 - 7
North West +15 17 £550 +7.42% 7
Yorkshire -7 9 £450 -18.18% 2
Scotland +8 6 £488 -2.01% 2
North East - 5 £525 -
East of England -11 2 £475 -13.64% 2
Wales - 2 £500 - 2
East Midlands +4 1 £370 -24.10% 6

IT Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, IT Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 129 (51.60%) Project Management
2 77 (30.80%) Social Skills
3 65 (26.00%) Finance
4 64 (25.60%) Agile
5 53 (21.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (18.80%) Project Delivery
7 46 (18.40%) PRINCE2
8 29 (11.60%) Migration
9 24 (9.60%) PMP
10 23 (9.20%) Budget Management
11 22 (8.80%) PMI Certification
12 21 (8.40%) Degree
13 20 (8.00%) Waterfall
13 20 (8.00%) Risk Management
14 19 (7.60%) Banking
14 19 (7.60%) Azure
14 19 (7.60%) JIRA
15 18 (7.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (6.80%) Change Management
16 17 (6.80%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (6.00%) ITIL
17 15 (6.00%) Resource Allocation
17 15 (6.00%) Public Sector
18 14 (5.60%) SAP
18 14 (5.60%) Microsoft
19 13 (5.20%) Project Planning
19 13 (5.20%) Security Cleared
20 12 (4.80%) Scrum
20 12 (4.80%) ERP
20 12 (4.80%) Business Case

IT Project Manager Skill Set
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 10 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.60%) Confluence
3 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (3.20%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.40%) SAP EWM
1 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.60%) Azure
2 8 (3.20%) SaaS
3 6 (2.40%) AWS
4 5 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.00%) WhatsApp
5 4 (1.60%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.40%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.40%) Slack
8 1 (0.40%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.80%) Broadband
1 2 (0.80%) LAN
1 2 (0.80%) WAN
2 1 (0.40%) Firewall
2 1 (0.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.40%) Intranet
2 1 (0.40%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.60%) Power BI
3 2 (0.80%) Tableau
4 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.40%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (7.60%) JIRA
General
1 77 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 65 (26.00%) Finance
3 19 (7.60%) Banking
4 15 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.00%) Legal
5 10 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.60%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.80%) Retail
9 6 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.00%) Automotive
10 5 (2.00%) Law
11 4 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Dutch Language
12 3 (1.20%) German Language
12 3 (1.20%) Local Government
12 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.40%) ADO
1 1 (0.40%) Express.js
1 1 (0.40%) MERN Stack
1 1 (0.40%) Middleware
1 1 (0.40%) Node.js
1 1 (0.40%) React
1 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.60%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.40%) Management Information System
2 6 (2.40%) Onboarding
3 4 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (1.60%) FMCG
3 4 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.60%) Life Science
3 4 (1.60%) NHS
3 4 (1.60%) PMI
4 3 (1.20%) CMDB
4 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.80%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.40%) Contactless
6 1 (0.40%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.40%) mPOS
6 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.40%) Solar Power
6 1 (0.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.20%) Windows
2 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.80%) Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (51.60%) Project Management
2 64 (25.60%) Agile
3 53 (21.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (18.80%) Project Delivery
5 46 (18.40%) PRINCE2
6 29 (11.60%) Migration
7 23 (9.20%) Budget Management
8 20 (8.00%) Risk Management
8 20 (8.00%) Waterfall
9 18 (7.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (6.80%) Change Management
10 17 (6.80%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (6.00%) ITIL
11 15 (6.00%) Resource Allocation
12 13 (5.20%) Project Planning
13 12 (4.80%) Business Case
13 12 (4.80%) ERP
13 12 (4.80%) Scrum
14 10 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (4.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.40%) C#
1 1 (0.40%) Java
1 1 (0.40%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (9.60%) PMP
2 22 (8.80%) PMI Certification
3 21 (8.40%) Degree
4 13 (5.20%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.40%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 6 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.80%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.80%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.40%) CAPM
12 1 (0.40%) CCNA
12 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (3.20%) PMO
2 5 (2.00%) NIST
3 3 (1.20%) GxP
4 2 (0.80%) Basel III
4 2 (0.80%) COBIT
4 2 (0.80%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.80%) GDPR
4 2 (0.80%) GRC
5 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.40%) EMIR
5 1 (0.40%) GAMP
5 1 (0.40%) GMP
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.40%) PMBOK
5 1 (0.40%) QA
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.40%) Matomo
1 1 (0.40%) SafeCom
1 1 (0.40%) SCCM
1 1 (0.40%) Terraform
1 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (5.60%) Microsoft
1 14 (5.60%) SAP
2 5 (2.00%) Cisco
3 4 (1.60%) Ariba
4 3 (1.20%) Oracle
4 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.20%) Siemens
5 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.80%) Citrix
5 2 (0.80%) Remedy
5 2 (0.80%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.80%) VMware
5 2 (0.80%) Workday
6 1 (0.40%) Arista
6 1 (0.40%) Concur
6 1 (0.40%) Imperva
6 1 (0.40%) Meraki
6 1 (0.40%) Pega
6 1 (0.40%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.40%) Sitecore