Microsoft Project Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Project
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 97 125
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 +36
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 30 20 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.61% 0.96% 1.26%
As % of the Applications category 14.93% 15.50% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 36
10th Percentile £362 £429 £425
25th Percentile £397 £500 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -1.08%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £630
90th Percentile £631 £720 £738
Central London median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -1.08%

All Software Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 201 129 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.77% 6.22% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 82 200
10th Percentile £263 £195 £174
25th Percentile £330 £275 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £494 £478
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +3.40% -4.50%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £603
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
Central London median daily rate £438 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -8.95% +1.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £15.10 - £13.02
25th Percentile £21.13 - £14.18
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +63.64% -36.54%
75th Percentile £35.34 - £17.89
90th Percentile £44.30 - £29.96
Central London median hourly rate £28.61 £27.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year +5.96% +63.64% -36.54%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Project in the City of London

Microsoft Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Project in the City of London

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Project in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the City of London

Microsoft Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Project in the City of London

Microsoft Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (13.33%) Confluence
3 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (30.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (13.33%) Trello
5 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP PS
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
1 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Asana
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.33%) Collibra
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.33%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.67%) Looker
2 2 (6.67%) Tableau
3 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 23 (76.67%) Finance
2 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Back Office
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Law
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Police
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (10.00%) Analyst
2 3 (10.00%) Data Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (6.67%) IT Manager
3 2 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Lead
3 2 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Project Officer
3 2 (6.67%) Project Planner
3 2 (6.67%) Project Support Officer
3 2 (6.67%) Support Officer
4 1 (3.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Credit Risk Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Credit Risk Project Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Excel Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Lead Project Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Risk Project Manager
4 1 (3.33%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) ADO
2 1 (3.33%) ActiveX
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) PMI
2 3 (10.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Derivative
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Agile
2 19 (63.33%) Project Management
3 11 (36.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (33.33%) PRINCE2
5 9 (30.00%) Project Delivery
6 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (23.33%) Project Governance
8 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (20.00%) Data Management
8 6 (20.00%) Waterfall
9 5 (16.67%) Analytics
9 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (16.67%) Data Analytics
9 5 (16.67%) DevOps
9 5 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
9 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
9 5 (16.67%) Scrum
10 4 (13.33%) Change Management
10 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Degree
2 10 (33.33%) PMI Certification
3 7 (23.33%) PMP
4 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.33%) APMG
6 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) PMO
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) HP ALM
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) HP