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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 275 339
Rank change year-on-year +15 +64 -49
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 380 203 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.83% 0.60%
As % of the Applications category 15.12% 9.69% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 138 129
10th Percentile £352 £300 £325
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £497 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% -2.65% +2.00%
75th Percentile £628 £575 £625
90th Percentile £738 £617 £680
UK median daily rate £507 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +5.52% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 12
10th Percentile £22.50 - £26.66
25th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £27.11
Median hourly rate £29.50 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.25% - -8.80%
75th Percentile £44.06 £46.30 £43.75
90th Percentile £71.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -26.25% - -8.80%

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 2,513 2,096 2,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 6.18% 8.56% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,468 1,219 1,456
10th Percentile £250 £188 £163
25th Percentile £347 £258 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £538
90th Percentile £679 £653 £657
UK median daily rate £450 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 227 580
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.20 £11.68
25th Percentile £16.49 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £24.66 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +51.94% -56.14%
75th Percentile £33.87 £46.30 £37.73
90th Percentile £69.85 £74.25 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £20.35 £22.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -9.56% +28.57% -51.39%

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 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 2026. 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 -7 132 £561 +6.90% 28
South East +9 88 £500 +4.17% 18
South West +12 60 £725 +132.00% 14
Midlands -59 44 £447 -5.89% 14
North of England -52 43 £430 -4.44% 16
West Midlands -59 28 £469 -6.25% 9
North West -36 21 £418 -12.00% 8
Yorkshire -42 19 £421 +40.33% 6
East Midlands -28 16 £358 -18.17% 5
East of England -29 8 £600 +41.18% 7
North East -17 3 £450 - 3
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 99 (26.05%) Confluence
2 40 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.79%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 109 (28.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (19.21%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (13.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.89%) MS Visio
5 9 (2.37%) Trello
6 8 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.26%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (5.53%) Primavera
2 16 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (3.16%) Loan IQ
4 6 (1.58%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.79%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.26%) Actimize
7 1 (0.26%) Endur
7 1 (0.26%) Findur
7 1 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 60 (15.79%) Azure
2 58 (15.26%) Power Platform
3 44 (11.58%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (5.26%) Smartsheet
6 14 (3.68%) AWS
7 12 (3.16%) Asana
8 8 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (2.11%) GCP
9 6 (1.58%) SaaS
10 5 (1.32%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.79%) GitHub
11 3 (0.79%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.79%) OCI
12 2 (0.53%) Entra ID
13 1 (0.26%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.26%) Lucidchart
13 1 (0.26%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.26%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.84%) WAN
2 6 (1.58%) NAS
2 6 (1.58%) SAN
3 4 (1.05%) Firewall
3 4 (1.05%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.26%) DHCP
4 1 (0.26%) DNS
4 1 (0.26%) FTP
4 1 (0.26%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) Internet
4 1 (0.26%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (15.26%) Power BI
2 4 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (0.79%) Tableau
4 2 (0.53%) Power Query
4 2 (0.53%) PowerPivot
4 2 (0.53%) QlikView
4 2 (0.53%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.26%) EDMS
5 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 225 (59.21%) JIRA
2 1 (0.26%) Ant
2 1 (0.26%) JUnit
2 1 (0.26%) LSMW
2 1 (0.26%) SoapUI
2 1 (0.26%) TestDirector
2 1 (0.26%) Toad
General
1 175 (46.05%) Social Skills
2 167 (43.95%) Finance
3 112 (29.47%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.84%) Organisational Skills
5 31 (8.16%) Military
6 30 (7.89%) Banking
7 28 (7.37%) Public Sector
8 19 (5.00%) Retail
9 17 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (3.16%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.89%) Legal
12 9 (2.37%) Corporate Banking
12 9 (2.37%) Retail Banking
13 8 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.58%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.05%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.05%) Publishing
16 3 (0.79%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.79%) Electronics
16 3 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 128 (33.68%) Project Manager
2 55 (14.47%) Analyst
3 38 (10.00%) Senior
4 31 (8.16%) Architect
5 30 (7.89%) PMO Analyst
5 30 (7.89%) Service Architect
6 23 (6.05%) Lead
7 22 (5.79%) Project Planner
7 22 (5.79%) Senior Manager
8 17 (4.47%) Programme Manager
9 16 (4.21%) Coordinator
9 16 (4.21%) SAP Manager
10 15 (3.95%) PMO Manager
10 15 (3.95%) Project Coordinator
10 15 (3.95%) Project Officer
10 15 (3.95%) Transformation Analyst
11 14 (3.68%) IT Manager
11 14 (3.68%) SC Cleared Project Manager
11 14 (3.68%) Technical Manager
12 13 (3.42%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.16%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.84%) Middleware
3 6 (1.58%) ADO
4 1 (0.26%) .NET
4 1 (0.26%) FHIR
4 1 (0.26%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.26%) Kafka
4 1 (0.26%) SOAP
4 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.58%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.05%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.74%) PMI
4 14 (3.68%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.42%) Virtual Team
6 12 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.63%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.84%) Tandem
9 6 (1.58%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.32%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.05%) FMCG
11 4 (1.05%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.79%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.79%) Life Science
12 3 (0.79%) Replication
13 2 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.53%) EMV
13 2 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.11%) Windows
2 5 (1.32%) Linux
3 1 (0.26%) AIX
3 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (57.11%) Agile
2 200 (52.63%) Project Management
3 146 (38.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 108 (28.42%) Project Delivery
5 101 (26.58%) PRINCE2
6 96 (25.26%) Waterfall
7 72 (18.95%) Change Management
7 72 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (18.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 67 (17.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 63 (16.58%) Decision-Making
11 60 (15.79%) Migration
12 57 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
12 57 (15.00%) DevOps
13 55 (14.47%) ITIL
14 53 (13.95%) Budget Management
15 52 (13.68%) Risk Management
16 48 (12.63%) Project Planning
17 43 (11.32%) Acceptance Criteria
17 43 (11.32%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.11%) SQL
2 4 (1.05%) Python
3 3 (0.79%) VBA
4 1 (0.26%) Java
4 1 (0.26%) Korn
4 1 (0.26%) Perl
4 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 174 (45.79%) Degree
2 118 (31.05%) Security Cleared
3 103 (27.11%) SC Cleared
4 64 (16.84%) PMI Certification
5 61 (16.05%) PMP
6 30 (7.89%) TOGAF Certification
7 19 (5.00%) DV Cleared
8 12 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.37%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.37%) MBA
10 8 (2.11%) APMP
10 8 (2.11%) SAFe Agilist
11 4 (1.05%) CISSP
11 4 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.79%) CISA
13 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.53%) PgMP
13 2 (0.53%) RIBA
14 1 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (36.32%) PMO
2 33 (8.68%) QA
3 21 (5.53%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.11%) Basel III
5 7 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.84%) P3O
6 5 (1.32%) GDPR
7 3 (0.79%) GRC
7 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.79%) NIST
7 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.53%) PSD2
9 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.26%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.26%) GxP
9 1 (0.26%) HL7
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.26%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (7.89%) OPNET
2 3 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 121 (31.84%) Microsoft
2 56 (14.74%) ServiceNow
3 40 (10.53%) SAP
4 34 (8.95%) Atlassian
5 30 (7.89%) Remedy
6 22 (5.79%) Oracle
7 7 (1.84%) Planview
8 5 (1.32%) Adobe
9 3 (0.79%) NEC
10 2 (0.53%) Ariba
10 2 (0.53%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.53%) VMware
11 1 (0.26%) Cerner
11 1 (0.26%) Commvault
11 1 (0.26%) EMC
11 1 (0.26%) Genesys
11 1 (0.26%) Google
11 1 (0.26%) IBM
11 1 (0.26%) NetApp
11 1 (0.26%) Veritas