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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 317 275
Rank change year-on-year +30 -42 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 240 213 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.86% 0.65% 0.87%
As % of the Applications category 10.07% 9.92% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 121 266
10th Percentile £363 £336 £300
25th Percentile £424 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £510 £481
Median % change year-on-year +6.17% +5.97% -3.75%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £575
90th Percentile £725 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £528 £502 £475
% change year-on-year +5.06% +5.70% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 8
10th Percentile £22.30 £20.68 £38.80
25th Percentile £23.88 £22.13 £40.94
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £48.18
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% -40.33% +13.31%
75th Percentile £44.88 £40.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £52.90 £53.96 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £28.75 £48.18
% change year-on-year +96.52% -40.33% -14.35%

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 2,384 2,147 3,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.58% 6.52% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,361 1,222 2,148
10th Percentile £195 £175 £181
25th Percentile £300 £256 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £535 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £663
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 252 237
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.16 £14.08
25th Percentile £16.36 £15.55 £16.70
Median hourly rate £24.62 £17.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.82% -27.66% +4.44%
75th Percentile £35.50 £35.00 £43.00
90th Percentile £58.88 £59.88 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £23.63 £17.50 £22.52
% change year-on-year +35.03% -22.29% +2.36%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +38 104 £600 +14.64% 91
Midlands +16 50 £541 +5.66% 33
West Midlands +20 46 £541 +0.60% 19
North of England +11 32 £460 -3.16% 29
South West +9 25 £550 +5.26% 31
South East +4 25 £480 +3.78% 73
Yorkshire +5 23 £448 -5.79% 5
North West -8 9 £503 +38.62% 21
East of England -1 5 £408 -25.91% 15
East Midlands 0 4 £600 +97.53% 13
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 29 (12.08%) Confluence
2 26 (10.83%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.67%) CMS
5 2 (0.83%) MS Project Server
5 2 (0.83%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 52 (21.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (9.58%) MS Visio
5 17 (7.08%) Trello
6 1 (0.42%) Notion
Business Applications
1 15 (6.25%) Primavera
2 14 (5.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (3.75%) SAP PS
4 5 (2.08%) Workday HCM
5 4 (1.67%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.83%) Oracle 11i
6 2 (0.83%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.42%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.42%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.42%) Shopify
7 1 (0.42%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 31 (12.92%) Azure
2 26 (10.83%) Power Platform
3 16 (6.67%) Smartsheet
4 13 (5.42%) Asana
5 12 (5.00%) SaaS
6 11 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.92%) AWS
7 7 (2.92%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.50%) GCP
9 5 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.08%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.67%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.25%) Azure API Management
11 3 (1.25%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.25%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.83%) Contentstack
12 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.83%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.83%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.50%) Firewall
2 3 (1.25%) HTTP
3 2 (0.83%) DNS
3 2 (0.83%) Internet
3 2 (0.83%) Network Security
3 2 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.42%) Broadband
4 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
4 1 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.42%) VPN
4 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.58%) Power BI
2 3 (1.25%) Metadata
2 3 (1.25%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (0.83%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.83%) Tableau
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.42%) Big Data
4 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.42%) DTS
4 1 (0.42%) EDMS
4 1 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 88 (36.67%) JIRA
2 4 (1.67%) SoapUI
3 3 (1.25%) Ant
3 3 (1.25%) Toad
4 2 (0.83%) JUnit
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 116 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 111 (46.25%) Finance
3 31 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.58%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (8.75%) Banking
6 16 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 16 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (5.42%) Legal
9 11 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.75%) Aerospace
11 8 (3.33%) Marketing
12 6 (2.50%) Telecoms
13 5 (2.08%) Law
14 4 (1.67%) Billing
14 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.67%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.67%) Front Office
14 4 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 97 (40.42%) Project Manager
2 24 (10.00%) Senior
3 23 (9.58%) Analyst
4 21 (8.75%) Lead
5 15 (6.25%) IT Manager
6 14 (5.83%) Senior Manager
7 13 (5.42%) IT Project Manager
7 13 (5.42%) Project Planner
8 12 (5.00%) Engagement Manager
9 11 (4.58%) Senior Project Manager
10 10 (4.17%) Business Analyst
11 9 (3.75%) Business Manager
11 9 (3.75%) Business Project Manager
11 9 (3.75%) Coordinator
11 9 (3.75%) PMO Analyst
11 9 (3.75%) Project Analyst
11 9 (3.75%) Technical Manager
12 8 (3.33%) Architect
13 7 (2.92%) Consultant
13 7 (2.92%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.92%) ADO
2 5 (2.08%) SOAP
3 4 (1.67%) Middleware
3 4 (1.67%) XML
4 3 (1.25%) EDI
4 3 (1.25%) IBM Integration Bus
4 3 (1.25%) Kafka
5 2 (0.83%) React
5 2 (0.83%) REST
6 1 (0.42%) .NET
6 1 (0.42%) ActiveX
6 1 (0.42%) HTML
6 1 (0.42%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.42%) VML
6 1 (0.42%) Web Services
6 1 (0.42%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.83%) PMI
4 8 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.08%) SCADA
7 4 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.67%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.67%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.25%) Educational Technology
8 3 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.25%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.25%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.25%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.83%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.08%) Windows
2 4 (1.67%) Unix
3 3 (1.25%) AIX
3 3 (1.25%) Linux
4 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (50.00%) Project Management
2 94 (39.17%) Agile
3 69 (28.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 64 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 62 (25.83%) PRINCE2
6 55 (22.92%) Project Delivery
7 52 (21.67%) Waterfall
8 51 (21.25%) Change Management
9 44 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (13.75%) Migration
11 31 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (12.92%) Risk Management
12 28 (11.67%) Project Planning
13 26 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (10.00%) DevOps
14 24 (10.00%) Project Governance
15 21 (8.75%) Budget Management
15 21 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
16 20 (8.33%) ERP
17 19 (7.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.50%) SQL
2 5 (2.08%) Korn
3 3 (1.25%) Java
3 3 (1.25%) Perl
3 3 (1.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 93 (38.75%) Degree
2 56 (23.33%) PMI Certification
3 50 (20.83%) PMP
4 39 (16.25%) Security Cleared
5 27 (11.25%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.67%) HNC
8 4 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.25%) ISEB
10 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.83%) MRICS
10 2 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.42%) APMG
11 1 (0.42%) APMP
11 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.42%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (21.67%) PMO
2 16 (6.67%) QA
3 7 (2.92%) P3O
4 5 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.08%) SLA
5 3 (1.25%) GDPR
5 3 (1.25%) NIST
5 3 (1.25%) SEPA
6 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.42%) Basel III
7 1 (0.42%) DO-254
7 1 (0.42%) GMP
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.42%) SCCM
1 1 (0.42%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 100 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 44 (18.33%) SAP
3 10 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.92%) Oracle
4 7 (2.92%) Workday
5 6 (2.50%) Planview
5 6 (2.50%) VMware
6 5 (2.08%) Citrix
7 4 (1.67%) Google
7 4 (1.67%) Progress
8 3 (1.25%) IBM
8 3 (1.25%) Perforce
8 3 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.25%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.83%) Adobe
9 2 (0.83%) Databricks
9 2 (0.83%) HP
9 2 (0.83%) IFS
9 2 (0.83%) Siemens
9 2 (0.83%) Wrike