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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 307 313
Rank change year-on-year +65 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 351 202 258
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 0.73% 0.71%
As % of the Applications category 13.79% 9.73% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 134 181
10th Percentile £357 £311 £280
25th Percentile £450 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 7
10th Percentile £24.20 £20.75 £28.66
25th Percentile £25.47 £30.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £27.24 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% -9.72% +10.77%
75th Percentile £67.13 £33.75 £43.81
90th Percentile £93.75 £40.00 £49.32
UK median hourly rate £39.43 £32.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +21.32% -9.72% +10.77%

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 2,545 2,077 2,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.03% 7.46% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,497 1,214 1,814
10th Percentile £200 £175 £163
25th Percentile £313 £250 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £544 £550
90th Percentile £668 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £440 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 192 261
10th Percentile £12.94 - £13.29
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £16.63
Median hourly rate £20.26 £25.34 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.07% -7.85% -13.26%
75th Percentile £29.61 £44.63 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £20.26 £25.34 £26.66
% change year-on-year -20.07% -4.95% +2.54%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +5 116 £550 - 35
South East +37 77 £500 +9.59% 27
South West +36 60 £725 +126.56% 9
Midlands -14 52 £500 +8.70% 15
North of England -25 36 £466 +32.74% 12
West Midlands -24 35 £540 +8.00% 10
Yorkshire -33 22 £488 +62.50% 4
East Midlands -10 17 £378 -13.10% 5
North West -33 14 £458 +30.25% 7
East of England -19 11 £513 +16.35% 10
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 97 (27.64%) Confluence
2 43 (12.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) CMS
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.28%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 102 (29.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (25.93%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (14.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (6.55%) MS Visio
5 17 (4.84%) Trello
6 3 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.28%) Notion
Business Applications
1 18 (5.13%) Primavera
2 7 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.42%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (1.42%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.14%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.85%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.57%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.28%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.28%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.28%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.28%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.96%) Power Platform
2 34 (9.69%) Azure
3 22 (6.27%) Smartsheet
4 20 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.42%) Asana
6 12 (3.42%) AWS
7 10 (2.85%) SaaS
8 9 (2.56%) GCP
9 7 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.14%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.85%) Miro
11 3 (0.85%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.85%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.85%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.57%) Contentstack
12 2 (0.57%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.57%) OCI
12 2 (0.57%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.42%) WAN
2 4 (1.14%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.14%) VPN
3 3 (0.85%) Firewall
3 3 (0.85%) LAN
3 3 (0.85%) Softphone
4 2 (0.57%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) Broadband
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (13.39%) Power BI
2 7 (1.99%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (1.71%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.14%) EDMS
4 4 (1.14%) Tableau
5 3 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.85%) Power Query
6 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.28%) DTS
7 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.28%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 183 (52.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) Ant
2 1 (0.28%) JUnit
2 1 (0.28%) LSMW
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
2 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.28%) TestDirector
2 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 191 (54.42%) Social Skills
2 149 (42.45%) Finance
3 105 (29.91%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.40%) Organisational Skills
5 32 (9.12%) Military
6 24 (6.84%) Banking
7 21 (5.98%) Public Sector
8 18 (5.13%) Legal
9 15 (4.27%) Manufacturing
10 14 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (3.42%) Telecoms
12 11 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (2.56%) Retail
14 8 (2.28%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.99%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 4 (1.14%) Billing
17 4 (1.14%) Local Government
17 4 (1.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 122 (34.76%) Project Manager
2 41 (11.68%) Analyst
3 32 (9.12%) Architect
4 30 (8.55%) Service Architect
5 29 (8.26%) Senior
6 22 (6.27%) Project Planner
7 21 (5.98%) Lead
8 20 (5.70%) PMO Analyst
9 18 (5.13%) Senior Manager
10 14 (3.99%) Coordinator
11 13 (3.70%) IT Manager
11 13 (3.70%) Programme Manager
11 13 (3.70%) Technical Manager
12 12 (3.42%) Planning Manager
12 12 (3.42%) PMO Lead
12 12 (3.42%) Project Officer
12 12 (3.42%) Senior Project Manager
13 11 (3.13%) IT Project Manager
14 10 (2.85%) Programme Planner
15 9 (2.56%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.99%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.71%) Middleware
3 3 (0.85%) ADO
3 3 (0.85%) SOAP
4 2 (0.57%) React
4 2 (0.57%) REST
4 2 (0.57%) Web Services
5 1 (0.28%) EDI
5 1 (0.28%) FHIR
5 1 (0.28%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.28%) Kafka
5 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.54%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.84%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.98%) PMI
4 20 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.99%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.70%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.71%) Educational Technology
9 5 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.14%) SCADA
11 3 (0.85%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.85%) Learning Management System
12 2 (0.57%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.57%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.57%) Life Science
12 2 (0.57%) NHS
12 2 (0.57%) Tandem
13 1 (0.28%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.85%) Windows
2 2 (0.57%) Linux
2 2 (0.57%) Unix
3 1 (0.28%) AIX
3 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (52.99%) Project Management
2 178 (50.71%) Agile
3 118 (33.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 107 (30.48%) PRINCE2
5 83 (23.65%) Change Management
6 81 (23.08%) Project Delivery
7 76 (21.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 70 (19.94%) Waterfall
9 63 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (14.25%) Project Planning
12 48 (13.68%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (13.39%) Risk Management
14 46 (13.11%) Decision-Making
15 44 (12.54%) Budget Management
16 41 (11.68%) Migration
17 40 (11.40%) Analytical Thinking
18 37 (10.54%) Critical Thinking
18 37 (10.54%) ITIL
18 37 (10.54%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.13%) SQL
2 5 (1.42%) Korn
3 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (0.57%) Python
4 1 (0.28%) Java
4 1 (0.28%) Perl
4 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 177 (50.43%) Degree
2 97 (27.64%) Security Cleared
3 83 (23.65%) SC Cleared
4 70 (19.94%) PMI Certification
5 65 (18.52%) PMP
6 30 (8.55%) TOGAF Certification
7 13 (3.70%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.56%) APMP
8 9 (2.56%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.28%) MBA
10 7 (1.99%) SAFe Agilist
11 6 (1.71%) CISM
11 6 (1.71%) CISSP
12 4 (1.14%) HNC
12 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.85%) MCP
13 3 (0.85%) MCSE
13 3 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (31.05%) PMO
2 24 (6.84%) QA
3 11 (3.13%) P3O
4 8 (2.28%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.99%) Basel III
6 6 (1.71%) NIST
7 4 (1.14%) GRC
7 4 (1.14%) SLA
8 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.85%) GDPR
9 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.28%) GMP
10 1 (0.28%) HL7
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.28%) Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (8.55%) OPNET
2 3 (0.85%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.85%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.28%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 110 (31.34%) Microsoft
2 55 (15.67%) ServiceNow
3 39 (11.11%) SAP
4 36 (10.26%) Atlassian
5 30 (8.55%) Remedy
6 29 (8.26%) Oracle
7 10 (2.85%) Planview
8 7 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.71%) Workday
10 4 (1.14%) Arista
10 4 (1.14%) Cisco
10 4 (1.14%) Progress
11 3 (0.85%) Google
12 2 (0.57%) Adobe
12 2 (0.57%) Ariba
12 2 (0.57%) Databricks
12 2 (0.57%) Siemens
13 1 (0.28%) CyberArk
13 1 (0.28%) Genesys
13 1 (0.28%) IBM