Microsoft Project Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Project
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Microsoft Project skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Project over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 112 123
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +31
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 32 23 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.55% 1.01% 1.26%
As % of the Applications category 14.61% 15.65% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 39
10th Percentile £363 £399 £423
25th Percentile £368 £470 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -2.74%
75th Percentile £538 £549 £628
90th Percentile £619 £705 £700
London median daily rate £530 £524 £525
% change year-on-year +1.11% -0.15% -2.33%

All Software Application Skills
Central London

Microsoft Project falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 219 147 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.58% 6.44% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 91 212
10th Percentile £248 £170 £160
25th Percentile £327 £296 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £471 £473
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -0.42% +0.53%
75th Percentile £616 £550 £600
90th Percentile £738 £688 £700
London median daily rate £450 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +8.96% -17.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 5
10th Percentile £15.80 - £13.02
25th Percentile £25.75 - £14.18
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% +63.64% -36.54%
75th Percentile £36.00 - £17.89
90th Percentile £50.35 - £39.41
London median hourly rate £25.15 £25.56 £25.71
% change year-on-year -1.60% -0.58% -6.51%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Microsoft Project as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Project in Central London

Microsoft Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Project in Central London

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Project in Central London over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Project in Central London

Microsoft Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Project in Central London

Microsoft Project
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Project within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 August 2025. 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
City of London +14 32 £475 -9.52% 20
Microsoft Project
London

Microsoft Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (15.63%) Confluence
1 5 (15.63%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (12.50%) Trello
4 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP PS
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (3.13%) Asana
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) Collibra
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.13%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.25%) Looker
2 2 (6.25%) Tableau
3 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 24 (75.00%) Finance
2 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Back Office
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Front Office
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Law
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Police
6 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (9.38%) Analyst
2 3 (9.38%) Data Manager
2 3 (9.38%) IT Manager
2 3 (9.38%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (9.38%) Project Officer
2 3 (9.38%) Project Support Officer
2 3 (9.38%) Support Officer
3 2 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (6.25%) Lead
3 2 (6.25%) Network Manager
3 2 (6.25%) Network Project Manager
3 2 (6.25%) PMO Analyst
3 2 (6.25%) Project Planner
4 1 (3.13%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (3.13%) IT Risk Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) ADO
2 1 (3.13%) ActiveX
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) PMI
2 3 (9.38%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.13%) Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Agile
2 20 (62.50%) Project Management
3 11 (34.38%) PRINCE2
4 10 (31.25%) Project Delivery
4 10 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.00%) Project Governance
6 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (18.75%) Data Management
7 6 (18.75%) Waterfall
8 5 (15.63%) Analytics
8 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (15.63%) Data Analytics
8 5 (15.63%) DevOps
8 5 (15.63%) Resource Allocation
8 5 (15.63%) Scrum
9 4 (12.50%) Risk Management
10 3 (9.38%) Project Planning
10 3 (9.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) Degree
2 10 (31.25%) PMI Certification
3 7 (21.88%) PMP
3 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.13%) APMG
6 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (28.13%) PMO
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) HP ALM
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.13%) Aruba
3 1 (3.13%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) HP
3 1 (3.13%) Planview