Microsoft Project Contracts in England

Microsoft Project
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 291 328 289
Rank change year-on-year +37 -39 -36
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 202 221 446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.83% 0.59% 0.88%
As % of the Applications category 9.76% 7.44% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 127 302
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.30%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £606
90th Percentile £647 £680 £713
UK median daily rate £485 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +0.78% -3.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 17
10th Percentile - £26.66 £21.26
25th Percentile £31.25 £27.11 £22.63
Median hourly rate £37.00 £40.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -8.80% -1.44%
75th Percentile £46.30 £43.75 £72.50
90th Percentile - - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £40.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -3.75% -8.80% -1.44%

All Software Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,069 2,972 3,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.50% 7.99% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 1,493 2,546
10th Percentile £188 £160 £194
25th Percentile £258 £213 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £400 £429
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% -6.76% +0.94%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £662 £688
UK median daily rate £413 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 584 229
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.69 £14.24
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.00 £19.35
Median hourly rate £24.40 £17.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.44% -55.13% +81.40%
75th Percentile £44.63 £38.75 £52.97
90th Percentile £74.88 £57.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.59 £17.72 £36.50
% change year-on-year +33.13% -51.45% +69.77%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Project in England

Microsoft Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Project in England

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Project in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Project in England

Microsoft Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Project in England

Microsoft Project
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Project in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Project in England

Microsoft Project
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +32 91 £525 - 98
Midlands +44 36 £475 +11.76% 38
North of England +13 28 £450 -12.15% 43
West Midlands +26 26 £501 +17.88% 23
South East +41 20 £506 +11.27% 82
North West +12 16 £450 -12.15% 27
South West +21 14 £313 -45.05% 25
East Midlands - 10 £425 - 14
Yorkshire +6 9 £300 -40.00% 11
East of England +29 7 £425 -2.86% 23
North East +1 3 £450 -7.69% 5
Microsoft Project
UK

Microsoft Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (7.43%) Confluence
2 14 (6.93%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) CMS
4 2 (0.99%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 40 (19.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (14.36%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (12.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (8.42%) Trello
5 13 (6.44%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.50%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 8 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.97%) Primavera
3 5 (2.48%) SAP PS
4 2 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.40%) Azure
2 15 (7.43%) Power Platform
3 11 (5.45%) Asana
4 9 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.47%) Smartsheet
6 6 (2.97%) AWS
6 6 (2.97%) SaaS
7 4 (1.98%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.49%) GCP
9 2 (0.99%) Azure API Management
9 2 (0.99%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.99%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.50%) BigCommerce
10 1 (0.50%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.50%) Miro
10 1 (0.50%) OCI
10 1 (0.50%) ShareGate
10 1 (0.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) WAN
2 2 (0.99%) HTTP
2 2 (0.99%) Internet
2 2 (0.99%) LAN
2 2 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.99%) Wireless
3 1 (0.50%) ATM
3 1 (0.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) MPLS
3 1 (0.50%) Network Security
3 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.50%) SWIFTNet
3 1 (0.50%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.93%) Power BI
2 3 (1.49%) BigQuery
2 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Database
2 3 (1.49%) Tableau
3 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.99%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.99%) Looker
3 2 (0.99%) Metadata
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.50%) Big Data
4 1 (0.50%) IDMS
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.50%) QlikView
4 1 (0.50%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 61 (30.20%) JIRA
2 2 (0.99%) Ant
2 2 (0.99%) SoapUI
2 2 (0.99%) Toad
3 1 (0.50%) Git
3 1 (0.50%) JUnit
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 98 (48.51%) Finance
2 90 (44.55%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.42%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (7.92%) Banking
5 16 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.46%) Legal
6 9 (4.46%) Local Government
6 9 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.47%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.48%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.48%) Law
10 4 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.49%) Back Office
11 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.99%) Marketing
12 2 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (38.61%) Project Manager
2 21 (10.40%) Lead
3 19 (9.41%) Senior
4 15 (7.43%) Senior Manager
5 14 (6.93%) IT Manager
5 14 (6.93%) Senior Project Manager
6 13 (6.44%) Analyst
7 12 (5.94%) PMO Analyst
8 11 (5.45%) IT Project Manager
9 10 (4.95%) Infrastructure Manager
9 10 (4.95%) Project Planner
10 8 (3.96%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 7 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (3.47%) Programme Manager
11 7 (3.47%) Programme Planner
12 6 (2.97%) Consultant
12 6 (2.97%) Coordinator
12 6 (2.97%) Engagement Manager
12 6 (2.97%) Project Officer
12 6 (2.97%) Project Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.48%) ADO
1 5 (2.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.49%) Middleware
3 2 (0.99%) EDI
3 2 (0.99%) HTML
3 2 (0.99%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (0.99%) Kafka
3 2 (0.99%) SOAP
3 2 (0.99%) XML
4 1 (0.50%) CSS
4 1 (0.50%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.50%) REST
4 1 (0.50%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.92%) PMI
2 8 (3.96%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.96%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.97%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.48%) NHS
5 3 (1.49%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.49%) Smartphone
6 2 (0.99%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.99%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.99%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.50%) FMCG
7 1 (0.50%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.50%) SCADA
7 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.46%) Windows
2 4 (1.98%) Linux
2 4 (1.98%) Unix
3 2 (0.99%) AIX
4 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (61.88%) Project Management
2 78 (38.61%) Agile
3 61 (30.20%) PRINCE2
3 61 (30.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (28.22%) Project Delivery
5 48 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (22.28%) Waterfall
7 38 (18.81%) Project Planning
8 36 (17.82%) Risk Management
9 34 (16.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 28 (13.86%) Change Management
11 24 (11.88%) Change Control
11 24 (11.88%) Project Governance
12 22 (10.89%) Resource Management
13 21 (10.40%) Budget Management
13 21 (10.40%) Decision-Making
14 19 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (9.41%) Resource Allocation
14 19 (9.41%) Scrum
15 17 (8.42%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.97%) SQL
2 3 (1.49%) Java
3 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.99%) Korn
3 2 (0.99%) Perl
3 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
3 2 (0.99%) Python
4 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 93 (46.04%) Degree
2 58 (28.71%) PMI Certification
3 50 (24.75%) PMP
4 33 (16.34%) Security Cleared
5 24 (11.88%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.95%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.95%) Master's Degree
6 10 (4.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 7 (3.47%) HNC
8 5 (2.48%) APMP
8 5 (2.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.49%) ISEB
11 2 (0.99%) CBAP
11 2 (0.99%) HND
11 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.99%) PgMP
12 1 (0.50%) APMG
12 1 (0.50%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (23.27%) PMO
2 6 (2.97%) QA
3 3 (1.49%) SEPA
3 3 (1.49%) SLA
4 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.99%) EMIR
4 2 (0.99%) MiFID
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) NIST
5 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.50%) PMBOK
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.49%) SCCM
2 1 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 79 (39.11%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.90%) SAP
3 8 (3.96%) Oracle
4 7 (3.47%) Planview
5 5 (2.48%) Google
6 4 (1.98%) Adobe
7 3 (1.49%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.49%) NEC
7 3 (1.49%) Reuters
7 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.99%) IBM
8 2 (0.99%) Perforce
8 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.99%) Wrike
9 1 (0.50%) Aruba
9 1 (0.50%) Bomgar
9 1 (0.50%) Databricks
9 1 (0.50%) eFront
9 1 (0.50%) Snow
9 1 (0.50%) Workday