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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 310 303
Rank change year-on-year +75 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 347 207 280
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 0.68% 0.73%
As % of the Applications category 13.38% 9.44% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 135 205
10th Percentile £375 £319 £280
25th Percentile £450 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £576
90th Percentile £738 £720 £688
UK median daily rate £535 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +7.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 5
10th Percentile £24.20 £20.75 -
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.19 £30.00
Median hourly rate £27.24 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% -9.72% +10.70%
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% +10.63%

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 2,594 2,193 3,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.38% 7.23% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 1,268 1,932
10th Percentile £195 £170 £164
25th Percentile £304 £256 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £410 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% +2.38% -11.11%
75th Percentile £549 £538 £550
90th Percentile £668 £650 £664
UK median daily rate £435 £403 £408
% change year-on-year +7.94% -1.33% -8.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 217 256
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.24 £14.22
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £17.67
Median hourly rate £21.48 £25.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% -9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £30.08 £43.75 £46.05
90th Percentile £53.38 £70.50 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £24.19 £26.37
% change year-on-year -11.12% -8.27% +5.48%

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 10 December 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 10 December 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 10 December 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 +26 129 £575 +4.45% 23
South West +37 66 £725 +126.56% 20
South East +20 57 £500 +9.59% 44
Midlands -10 50 £513 +14.06% 32
North of England -24 39 £461 +35.66% 32
West Midlands -10 38 £540 +8.00% 19
Yorkshire -18 28 £461 +53.75% 16
East Midlands -11 12 £450 +5.88% 12
North West -20 11 £466 +37.13% 15
East of England -19 7 £408 -7.49% 23
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 93 (26.80%) Confluence
2 41 (11.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.86%) CMS
4 2 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 95 (27.38%) Microsoft Office
2 94 (27.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (14.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (7.49%) MS Visio
5 18 (5.19%) Trello
6 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.29%) Notion
Business Applications
1 22 (6.34%) Primavera
2 8 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.44%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (1.44%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.15%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.86%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.58%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.58%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.29%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.29%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.29%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 36 (10.37%) Power Platform
2 31 (8.93%) Azure
3 22 (6.34%) Smartsheet
4 15 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.46%) Asana
6 11 (3.17%) AWS
6 11 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (3.17%) SaaS
7 9 (2.59%) GCP
8 7 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.15%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.86%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.86%) Miro
10 3 (0.86%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.86%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.86%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.58%) Contentstack
11 2 (0.58%) OCI
11 2 (0.58%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.73%) Firewall
2 4 (1.15%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.15%) VPN
2 4 (1.15%) WAN
3 3 (0.86%) LAN
3 3 (0.86%) Softphone
4 2 (0.58%) Network Security
5 1 (0.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.29%) DNS
5 1 (0.29%) HTTP
5 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.80%) Power BI
2 7 (2.02%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.44%) Tableau
4 4 (1.15%) EDMS
5 3 (0.86%) Power Query
6 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.29%) DTS
7 1 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.29%) Metadata
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.29%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 175 (50.43%) JIRA
2 2 (0.58%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.29%) Ant
3 1 (0.29%) JUnit
3 1 (0.29%) LSMW
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.29%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.29%) Toad
General
1 191 (55.04%) Social Skills
2 138 (39.77%) Finance
3 91 (26.22%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.80%) Organisational Skills
5 32 (9.22%) Military
6 22 (6.34%) Banking
7 18 (5.19%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.61%) Legal
9 15 (4.32%) Manufacturing
10 14 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (3.75%) Telecoms
12 11 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (2.02%) Marketing
14 6 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.15%) Billing
15 4 (1.15%) Front Office
15 4 (1.15%) Law
16 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (36.60%) Project Manager
2 35 (10.09%) Analyst
3 33 (9.51%) Architect
4 32 (9.22%) Senior
5 30 (8.65%) Service Architect
6 27 (7.78%) Lead
7 20 (5.76%) Senior Manager
8 19 (5.48%) Project Planner
9 16 (4.61%) IT Manager
10 14 (4.03%) IT Project Manager
10 14 (4.03%) Programme Manager
10 14 (4.03%) Senior Project Manager
11 13 (3.75%) Coordinator
11 13 (3.75%) Technical Manager
12 12 (3.46%) Planning Manager
13 11 (3.17%) PMO Analyst
13 11 (3.17%) PMO Lead
14 10 (2.88%) Programme Planner
14 10 (2.88%) Project Officer
15 9 (2.59%) Engagement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.73%) Middleware
3 4 (1.15%) SOAP
4 2 (0.58%) React
4 2 (0.58%) REST
4 2 (0.58%) Web Services
4 2 (0.58%) XML
5 1 (0.29%) .NET
5 1 (0.29%) ADO
5 1 (0.29%) EDI
5 1 (0.29%) FHIR
5 1 (0.29%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.29%) Kafka
5 1 (0.29%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.37%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.63%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.61%) PMI
5 15 (4.32%) Data Centre
6 14 (4.03%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.88%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.73%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.15%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.15%) SCADA
12 3 (0.86%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.86%) Derivative
12 3 (0.86%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.86%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.58%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.58%) NHS
13 2 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.86%) Unix
1 3 (0.86%) Windows
2 2 (0.58%) Linux
3 1 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (48.99%) Agile
1 170 (48.99%) Project Management
2 111 (31.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 102 (29.39%) PRINCE2
4 84 (24.21%) Change Management
5 83 (23.92%) Project Delivery
5 83 (23.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 64 (18.44%) Waterfall
7 54 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (13.54%) Project Planning
10 46 (13.26%) Migration
11 43 (12.39%) Decision-Making
11 43 (12.39%) Risk Management
12 38 (10.95%) Budget Management
12 38 (10.95%) ITIL
13 36 (10.37%) Analytical Thinking
13 36 (10.37%) Business Intelligence
13 36 (10.37%) Critical Thinking
13 36 (10.37%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.59%) SQL
2 5 (1.44%) Korn
3 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.29%) Java
4 1 (0.29%) Perl
4 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 181 (52.16%) Degree
2 102 (29.39%) Security Cleared
3 85 (24.50%) SC Cleared
4 70 (20.17%) PMI Certification
5 66 (19.02%) PMP
6 30 (8.65%) TOGAF Certification
7 16 (4.61%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.88%) APMP
9 5 (1.44%) CISM
9 5 (1.44%) CISSP
9 5 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (1.15%) HNC
10 4 (1.15%) ISEB
10 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.86%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.86%) MBA
11 3 (0.86%) MCP
11 3 (0.86%) MCSE
11 3 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (26.51%) PMO
2 22 (6.34%) QA
3 14 (4.03%) P3O
4 8 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.44%) NIST
7 4 (1.15%) GRC
7 4 (1.15%) SLA
8 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.86%) Basel III
8 3 (0.86%) GDPR
9 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.29%) GMP
10 1 (0.29%) HL7
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.29%) Firmware
3 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (8.65%) OPNET
2 3 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.86%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.29%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.29%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 114 (32.85%) Microsoft
2 55 (15.85%) ServiceNow
3 40 (11.53%) SAP
4 36 (10.37%) Atlassian
5 30 (8.65%) Remedy
6 28 (8.07%) Oracle
7 9 (2.59%) Planview
8 8 (2.31%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.73%) Workday
10 4 (1.15%) Arista
10 4 (1.15%) Cisco
10 4 (1.15%) Google
10 4 (1.15%) Progress
11 2 (0.58%) Adobe
11 2 (0.58%) Databricks
11 2 (0.58%) HP
11 2 (0.58%) IFS
11 2 (0.58%) Siemens
11 2 (0.58%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.29%) UiPath