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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Project Management 161 217 339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.03% 9.81% 9.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.76% 11.20% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 140 272
10th Percentile £335 £263 £310
25th Percentile £428 £372 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -2.56% +18.90%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £638 £636
England median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 0
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.58 -
25th Percentile £15.13 £23.22 -
Median hourly rate £33.93 £27.13 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.06% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £47.50 -
90th Percentile £58.75 £79.00 -
England median hourly rate £38.12 £48.50 £31.70
% change year-on-year -21.40% +53.00% +17.58%

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 1,649 1,938 3,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.24% 87.65% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,313 2,350
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £586
90th Percentile £734 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 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
Birmingham -1 55 £525 +5.00% 93
Warwickshire -3 42 £600 +9.09% 39
Staffordshire +5 20 £438 -5.41% 34
Coventry 0 8 £600 +2.56% 34
Worcestershire +6 7 £520 -9.57% 17
Solihull -11 5 £325 +13.04% 6
Shropshire -8 4 £137 -71.16% 14
Herefordshire -11 3 £575 +29.21% 6
Walsall +3 1 £325 - 7
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 2 (1.24%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (6.21%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.73%) Simulink
3 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.11%) Stateflow
3 5 (3.11%) TargetLink
4 3 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.24%) Trello
6 1 (0.62%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.24%) iTrent
2 2 (1.24%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.62%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.62%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.21%) Power Platform
2 6 (3.73%) Azure
3 3 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (1.86%) SaaS
4 2 (1.24%) AWS
4 2 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (1.24%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (1.24%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.24%) PowerApps
4 2 (1.24%) Serverless
4 2 (1.24%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.62%) IaaS
5 1 (0.62%) iPaaS
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.62%) OCI
5 1 (0.62%) PaaS
5 1 (0.62%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) Intranet
1 3 (1.86%) LAN
1 3 (1.86%) VPN
1 3 (1.86%) WAN
2 2 (1.24%) Firewall
2 2 (1.24%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.62%) Internet
3 1 (0.62%) Junos
3 1 (0.62%) Network Security
3 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.21%) Power BI
2 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.62%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (4.35%) Bitbucket
1 7 (4.35%) Git
2 6 (3.73%) JIRA
3 5 (3.11%) Subversion
General
1 68 (42.24%) Social Skills
2 52 (32.30%) Finance
3 37 (22.98%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.07%) Law
5 13 (8.07%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (4.97%) Automotive
6 8 (4.97%) Legal
7 6 (3.73%) Banking
7 6 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.11%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.48%) Marketing
9 4 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.48%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.86%) Retail
11 1 (0.62%) Billing
11 1 (0.62%) German Language
Job Titles
1 80 (49.69%) Project Manager
2 27 (16.77%) Senior
3 25 (15.53%) Analyst
4 16 (9.94%) IT Manager
5 15 (9.32%) IT Project Manager
6 14 (8.70%) PMO Analyst
7 12 (7.45%) Senior Manager
8 11 (6.83%) Senior Project Manager
9 10 (6.21%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (5.59%) Architect
11 7 (4.35%) Senior PMO
11 7 (4.35%) Senior PMO Analyst
12 6 (3.73%) AML Project Manager
12 6 (3.73%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.73%) Change Manager
12 6 (3.73%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
13 5 (3.11%) Business Change Manager
13 5 (3.11%) Security Manager
13 5 (3.11%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.24%) OpenAPI
1 2 (1.24%) REST
1 2 (1.24%) Swagger
2 1 (0.62%) Ajax
2 1 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.62%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.21%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.59%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.97%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (3.73%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.73%) PMI
5 4 (2.48%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.86%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.86%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.24%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.62%) CMDB
8 1 (0.62%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.62%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.62%) Life Science
8 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.62%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) Linux
1 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 42 (26.09%) Agile
3 37 (22.98%) Project Delivery
4 34 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (14.29%) Change Management
5 23 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 22 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (11.80%) Risk Management
8 17 (10.56%) Migration
9 16 (9.94%) Decision-Making
10 14 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (7.45%) Resource Management
12 11 (6.83%) ERP
12 11 (6.83%) Project Planning
12 11 (6.83%) Resource Allocation
13 10 (6.21%) Business Case
13 10 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (6.21%) Business Strategy
13 10 (6.21%) Scrum
13 10 (6.21%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.35%) SQL
2 6 (3.73%) MATLAB
2 6 (3.73%) Python
3 5 (3.11%) C
4 4 (2.48%) Java
5 2 (1.24%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.62%) C++
6 1 (0.62%) Perl
6 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (11.18%) PMI Certification
1 18 (11.18%) PMP
2 15 (9.32%) Degree
3 9 (5.59%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.73%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (1.86%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.24%) CCNA
8 2 (1.24%) CCNP
8 2 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.62%) APMG
9 1 (0.62%) CBAP
9 1 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.62%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.62%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.29%) PMO
2 6 (3.73%) ISO 26262
2 6 (3.73%) QA
3 5 (3.11%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (3.11%) MISRA
3 5 (3.11%) MISRA C
4 4 (2.48%) GDPR
5 3 (1.86%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.62%) IFRS
6 1 (0.62%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.62%) NIST
6 1 (0.62%) SLA
6 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.62%) iptables
1 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.62%) Functional Safety
1 1 (0.62%) Kibana
1 1 (0.62%) logstash
Vendors
1 17 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.07%) SAP
3 5 (3.11%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.86%) Oracle
4 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.24%) Cisco
5 2 (1.24%) IFS
6 1 (0.62%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.62%) Juniper
6 1 (0.62%) Palantir
6 1 (0.62%) Planview
6 1 (0.62%) Snow
6 1 (0.62%) Workday