Microsoft Project Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Project
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Microsoft Project skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 312 307
Rank change year-on-year +60 -5 -9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 317 206 289
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 0.67% 0.74%
As % of the Applications category 12.35% 9.54% 9.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 136 215
10th Percentile £369 £320 £280
25th Percentile £450 £417 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £511 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +7.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £668 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £733 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 5
10th Percentile £24.20 £20.75 -
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £27.24 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% -9.72% +10.63%
75th Percentile £67.13 £33.75 £43.86
90th Percentile £93.75 £40.00 £52.04
UK median hourly rate £39.43 £32.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +21.32% -9.72% -34.55%

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 2,566 2,159 3,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.42% 6.99% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 1,254 1,996
10th Percentile £195 £175 £163
25th Percentile £300 £263 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £406 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% +1.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £550
90th Percentile £665 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £427 £403 £402
% change year-on-year +6.02% +0.25% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 217 252
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.48 £15.62 £17.67
Median hourly rate £22.32 £24.18 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% -11.27% +5.58%
75th Percentile £31.00 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £51.35
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £23.59 £26.00
% change year-on-year -4.62% -9.27% +5.33%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Project relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Microsoft Project job vacancy trend in England

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft Project.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Project in England over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Project in England

Microsoft Project
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft Project.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Project in England over the 6 months to 25 November 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 25 November 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 +30 122 £584 +7.20% 32
Midlands -10 50 £526 +16.94% 20
South West +27 49 £725 +104.95% 15
South East +25 49 £500 +8.11% 34
West Midlands -5 39 £540 +8.00% 13
North of England -27 38 £460 +26.90% 16
Yorkshire -8 28 £461 -2.89% 5
East Midlands -7 11 £480 +12.94% 7
North West -24 10 £458 +34.56% 10
East of England -21 7 £408 -7.49% 14
Microsoft Project
UK

Microsoft Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 79 (24.92%) Confluence
2 42 (13.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.95%) CMS
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 84 (26.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 84 (26.50%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (14.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 31 (9.78%) MS Visio
4 18 (5.68%) Trello
5 3 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.32%) Notion
Business Applications
1 22 (6.94%) Primavera
2 9 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.58%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (1.58%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.26%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.95%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.95%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.63%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.32%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.32%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 36 (11.36%) Power Platform
2 30 (9.46%) Azure
3 21 (6.62%) Smartsheet
4 14 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (3.47%) SaaS
7 10 (3.15%) Asana
8 9 (2.84%) AWS
9 8 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.21%) GCP
11 4 (1.26%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.26%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.95%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.95%) Miro
12 3 (0.95%) OneDrive
12 3 (0.95%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.63%) Contentstack
13 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.63%) OCI
13 2 (0.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.89%) Firewall
2 4 (1.26%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.95%) LAN
3 3 (0.95%) Softphone
3 3 (0.95%) WAN
4 2 (0.63%) Network Security
5 1 (0.32%) Broadband
5 1 (0.32%) DNS
5 1 (0.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.41%) Power BI
2 7 (2.21%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.58%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (1.58%) Tableau
4 4 (1.26%) EDMS
5 3 (0.95%) Power Query
6 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.32%) DTS
7 1 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.32%) Metadata
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 146 (46.06%) JIRA
2 2 (0.63%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.32%) Ant
3 1 (0.32%) JUnit
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.32%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.32%) Toad
General
1 171 (53.94%) Social Skills
2 131 (41.32%) Finance
3 73 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.09%) Organisational Skills
5 25 (7.89%) Banking
6 20 (6.31%) Military
7 18 (5.68%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.05%) Manufacturing
9 15 (4.73%) Legal
10 13 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (4.10%) Telecoms
11 10 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (2.52%) Marketing
13 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.58%) Law
15 4 (1.26%) Billing
15 4 (1.26%) Front Office
16 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 118 (37.22%) Project Manager
2 38 (11.99%) Analyst
3 31 (9.78%) Lead
4 28 (8.83%) Senior
5 23 (7.26%) Architect
6 19 (5.99%) Project Planner
6 19 (5.99%) Service Architect
7 17 (5.36%) Senior Manager
8 16 (5.05%) IT Manager
9 14 (4.42%) IT Project Manager
10 13 (4.10%) Business Analyst
10 13 (4.10%) Programme Manager
11 12 (3.79%) Project Analyst
11 12 (3.79%) Senior Project Manager
11 12 (3.79%) Technical Manager
12 11 (3.47%) Coordinator
12 11 (3.47%) PMO Lead
13 10 (3.15%) Business Manager
13 10 (3.15%) Business Project Manager
13 10 (3.15%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (1.26%) SOAP
2 3 (0.95%) ADO
2 3 (0.95%) Middleware
2 3 (0.95%) REST
3 2 (0.63%) React
3 2 (0.63%) Web Services
3 2 (0.63%) XML
4 1 (0.32%) .NET
4 1 (0.32%) ActiveX
4 1 (0.32%) EDI
4 1 (0.32%) FHIR
4 1 (0.32%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.32%) Kafka
4 1 (0.32%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.57%) Product Ownership
2 20 (6.31%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (5.99%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.73%) PMI
5 14 (4.42%) Management Information System
6 13 (4.10%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.52%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.89%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.26%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.26%) SCADA
12 3 (0.95%) Derivative
12 3 (0.95%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.95%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.63%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.63%) Life Science
13 2 (0.63%) NHS
13 2 (0.63%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.95%) Unix
1 3 (0.95%) Windows
2 2 (0.63%) Linux
3 1 (0.32%) AIX
3 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (50.16%) Project Management
2 144 (45.43%) Agile
3 103 (32.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 93 (29.34%) PRINCE2
5 81 (25.55%) Project Delivery
6 80 (25.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 73 (23.03%) Change Management
8 61 (19.24%) Waterfall
9 50 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (12.62%) Decision-Making
11 40 (12.62%) Migration
12 39 (12.30%) Risk Management
13 36 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
14 35 (11.04%) Project Planning
15 32 (10.09%) Project Governance
16 31 (9.78%) Programme Management
17 30 (9.46%) Budget Management
17 30 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
17 30 (9.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.52%) SQL
2 5 (1.58%) Korn
3 2 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.32%) Java
4 1 (0.32%) Perl
4 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 154 (48.58%) Degree
2 81 (25.55%) Security Cleared
3 64 (20.19%) PMI Certification
3 64 (20.19%) SC Cleared
4 59 (18.61%) PMP
5 19 (5.99%) TOGAF Certification
6 14 (4.42%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.84%) APMP
8 5 (1.58%) CISM
8 5 (1.58%) CISSP
8 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (1.26%) HNC
9 4 (1.26%) ISEB
9 4 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.95%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.95%) MCP
10 3 (0.95%) MCSE
10 3 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (25.24%) PMO
2 20 (6.31%) QA
3 14 (4.42%) P3O
4 8 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.21%) NIST
6 6 (1.89%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.26%) GDPR
7 4 (1.26%) GRC
7 4 (1.26%) SLA
8 2 (0.63%) Basel III
8 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.32%) DO-254
9 1 (0.32%) GMP
9 1 (0.32%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (1.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.32%) Firmware
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (5.99%) OPNET
2 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.95%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.32%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.32%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 112 (35.33%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.93%) ServiceNow
3 38 (11.99%) SAP
4 24 (7.57%) Atlassian
5 19 (5.99%) Remedy
6 18 (5.68%) Oracle
7 9 (2.84%) Planview
8 8 (2.52%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.21%) Workday
10 4 (1.26%) Arista
10 4 (1.26%) Cisco
10 4 (1.26%) Google
10 4 (1.26%) Progress
11 2 (0.63%) Adobe
11 2 (0.63%) Databricks
11 2 (0.63%) HP
11 2 (0.63%) IFS
11 2 (0.63%) Siemens
11 2 (0.63%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.32%) UiPath