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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 283 350
Rank change year-on-year +28 +67 -57
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 391 207 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 0.85% 0.52%
As % of the Applications category 15.22% 9.87% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 141 129
10th Percentile £350 £300 £330
25th Percentile £417 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £650
90th Percentile £738 £650 £682
UK median daily rate £510 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +4.29% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 11
10th Percentile £24.57 - £26.66
25th Percentile £25.47 £31.25 £26.96
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -1.33% -24.14%
75th Percentile £44.06 £46.30 £43.75
90th Percentile £93.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £38.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.68% +2.67% -24.14%

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 2,569 2,098 2,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 6.54% 8.61% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,502 1,256 1,539
10th Percentile £221 £194 £160
25th Percentile £340 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £562 £550 £538
90th Percentile £656 £650 £651
UK median daily rate £450 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 217 578
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.20 £11.68
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £24.66 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +39.16% -45.89%
75th Percentile £31.13 £46.30 £38.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £76.25 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £20.35 £24.22 £17.80
% change year-on-year -15.98% +36.07% -45.23%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -9 143 £560 +5.66% 31
South East +29 98 £500 -1.23% 18
South West +16 61 £725 +132.00% 4
Midlands -62 39 £444 +4.41% 11
North of England -63 37 £441 +9.36% 12
West Midlands -70 23 £500 +8.11% 7
North West -35 22 £433 +7.25% 8
East Midlands -28 16 £356 -16.24% 4
Yorkshire -56 12 £425 +41.67% 3
East of England -39 9 £600 +33.33% 5
North East -16 3 £450 - 1
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
1 101 (25.83%) Confluence
2 46 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.77%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 127 (32.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (22.51%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (14.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (4.09%) MS Visio
5 11 (2.81%) Trello
6 9 (2.30%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.26%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (6.65%) Primavera
2 14 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (3.07%) Loan IQ
4 5 (1.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.02%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.77%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.26%) Actimize
8 1 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 61 (15.60%) Power Platform
2 56 (14.32%) Azure
3 37 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (7.67%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (4.60%) Smartsheet
6 14 (3.58%) AWS
7 12 (3.07%) Asana
8 8 (2.05%) GCP
9 7 (1.79%) SaaS
10 6 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.28%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.28%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.02%) OCI
13 3 (0.77%) GitHub
13 3 (0.77%) Google Ads
14 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
14 2 (0.51%) Miro
14 2 (0.51%) OneDrive
15 1 (0.26%) Azure API Management
15 1 (0.26%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.05%) WAN
2 6 (1.53%) NAS
2 6 (1.53%) SAN
3 4 (1.02%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.77%) Firewall
4 3 (0.77%) Softphone
4 3 (0.77%) VPN
5 2 (0.51%) LAN
6 1 (0.26%) DHCP
6 1 (0.26%) DNS
6 1 (0.26%) FTP
6 1 (0.26%) HTTP
6 1 (0.26%) Internet
6 1 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (15.60%) Power BI
2 7 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.02%) Power Query
5 3 (0.77%) EDMS
5 3 (0.77%) Tableau
6 2 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.51%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.26%) QlikView
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 223 (57.03%) 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
1 190 (48.59%) Social Skills
2 166 (42.46%) Finance
3 123 (31.46%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.51%) Organisational Skills
5 31 (7.93%) Military
6 28 (7.16%) Banking
6 28 (7.16%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.86%) Retail
8 16 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.56%) Legal
10 9 (2.30%) Corporate Banking
10 9 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.30%) Retail Banking
10 9 (2.30%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.02%) Law
12 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 127 (32.48%) Project Manager
2 65 (16.62%) Analyst
3 39 (9.97%) Senior
4 32 (8.18%) PMO Analyst
5 31 (7.93%) Architect
6 30 (7.67%) Service Architect
7 28 (7.16%) Project Planner
8 26 (6.65%) Lead
9 24 (6.14%) Senior Manager
10 17 (4.35%) Project Officer
11 16 (4.09%) Programme Manager
12 15 (3.84%) Coordinator
12 15 (3.84%) SAP Manager
13 14 (3.58%) Project Coordinator
13 14 (3.58%) Senior Project Manager
13 14 (3.58%) Technical Manager
14 13 (3.32%) Transformation Analyst
15 12 (3.07%) Migration Analyst
15 12 (3.07%) Programme Planner
15 12 (3.07%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.07%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (2.05%) Middleware
3 6 (1.53%) ADO
4 2 (0.51%) FHIR
5 1 (0.26%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.26%) Kafka
5 1 (0.26%) SOAP
5 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.74%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.12%) PMI
4 19 (4.86%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.81%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.79%) Tandem
8 5 (1.28%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.02%) FMCG
9 4 (1.02%) Life Science
9 4 (1.02%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.02%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.77%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.77%) Replication
11 2 (0.51%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.51%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.30%) Windows
2 5 (1.28%) Linux
3 2 (0.51%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (55.24%) Agile
2 205 (52.43%) Project Management
3 142 (36.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 115 (29.41%) Project Delivery
5 112 (28.64%) PRINCE2
6 88 (22.51%) Waterfall
7 81 (20.72%) Change Management
8 75 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (18.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 71 (18.16%) Decision-Making
11 65 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 63 (16.11%) Migration
13 59 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
14 56 (14.32%) Budget Management
15 52 (13.30%) ITIL
15 52 (13.30%) Risk Management
16 51 (13.04%) DevOps
17 49 (12.53%) Project Planning
18 45 (11.51%) Analytical Thinking
19 40 (10.23%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.81%) SQL
2 4 (1.02%) Python
3 3 (0.77%) VBA
4 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.26%) Java
5 1 (0.26%) Korn
5 1 (0.26%) Perl
5 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 188 (48.08%) Degree
2 127 (32.48%) Security Cleared
3 105 (26.85%) SC Cleared
4 62 (15.86%) PMI Certification
5 58 (14.83%) PMP
6 30 (7.67%) TOGAF Certification
7 22 (5.63%) DV Cleared
8 12 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.56%) APMP
10 8 (2.05%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.05%) MBA
10 8 (2.05%) SAFe Agilist
11 4 (1.02%) CISSP
11 4 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.77%) CISA
12 3 (0.77%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.77%) MCSE
12 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (36.83%) PMO
2 30 (7.67%) QA
3 18 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.30%) P3O
5 8 (2.05%) Basel III
6 4 (1.02%) GDPR
6 4 (1.02%) GRC
7 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.77%) NIST
7 3 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.51%) HL7
8 2 (0.51%) PSD2
9 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.26%) GxP
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 11 (2.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (7.67%) OPNET
2 3 (0.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.51%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 123 (31.46%) Microsoft
2 61 (15.60%) ServiceNow
3 38 (9.72%) SAP
4 35 (8.95%) Atlassian
5 30 (7.67%) Oracle
5 30 (7.67%) Remedy
6 7 (1.79%) Planview
6 7 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.02%) Adobe
8 2 (0.51%) Ariba
8 2 (0.51%) Arista
8 2 (0.51%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.51%) Cisco
9 1 (0.26%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.26%) BT
9 1 (0.26%) Cerner
9 1 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.26%) NEC
9 1 (0.26%) Perforce
9 1 (0.26%) Snow