Microsoft Project Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Project
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 10 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.87% - 0.67%
As % of the Applications category 20.83% - 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile - - £444
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.00%
75th Percentile £450 - £494
90th Percentile £473 - £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +0.30%

All Software Application Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 48 114 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.96% 14.75% 8.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 51 68
10th Percentile £134 £166 £163
25th Percentile £170 £187 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £282 £245 £400
Median % change year-on-year +14.90% -38.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £425 £273 £539
90th Percentile £450 £434 £625
England median daily rate £423 £400 £429
% change year-on-year +5.75% -6.76% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 25 6
10th Percentile £14.22 £12.75 £12.01
25th Percentile £16.74 £14.00 £14.83
Median hourly rate £19.00 £14.27 £17.43
Median % change year-on-year +33.15% -18.14% +74.33%
75th Percentile £23.38 £26.15 £24.72
90th Percentile £26.25 £26.50 £26.48
England median hourly rate £24.40 £17.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +39.44% -55.13% +81.40%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Project in the East Midlands

Microsoft Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Project in the East Midlands

Microsoft Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Project in the East Midlands

Microsoft Project
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Derbyshire - 4 £425 - 11
Nottinghamshire - 3 - - 6
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 3
Northamptonshire - 1 - - 5
Microsoft Project
England

Microsoft Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (10.00%) Smartsheet
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) HR Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) PMO Planner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Project Delivery
1 6 (60.00%) Project Management
1 6 (60.00%) Project Planning
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Budgeting
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (40.00%) Supplier Management
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (20.00%) Project Governance
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) ERP
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
5 1 (10.00%) System Testing
5 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) HNC
2 2 (20.00%) HND
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) SAP