Project Management Contract Job Trends in England

Project Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Project Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -20 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,858 1,864 2,825
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.48% 7.83% 7.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.28% 8.58% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,144 1,734
10th Percentile £329 £300 £311
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -2.48% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £512 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 95 253
10th Percentile £14.64 £21.74 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.76 £26.42
Median hourly rate £36.00 £46.30 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -22.25% +21.46% -22.20%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.56 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £46.30 £38.12
% change year-on-year -22.25% +21.46% -22.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Project Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Project Management job vacancy trend in England

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Project Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Project Management

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Project Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Project Management

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
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 Project Management within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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 -19 868 £550 +1.85% 510
North of England -22 289 £474 -0.21% 220
South East -14 267 £517 +8.94% 245
Midlands -32 189 £492 +9.33% 144
North West -10 160 £463 -2.63% 129
South West -14 146 £444 -11.25% 97
West Midlands -37 129 £502 +0.30% 91
Yorkshire -27 121 £480 +1.69% 71
East of England -17 79 £518 +1.57% 105
East Midlands -15 62 £390 -3.82% 53
North East -20 13 £410 -20.00% 22
Project Management
UK

Project Management
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
1 129 (6.94%) Confluence
2 91 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.02%) CMS
4 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.38%) Apache
7 6 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.27%) WordPress
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.16%) Moodle
10 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.11%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.054%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.054%) nginx
12 1 (0.054%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 179 (9.63%) Microsoft Project
2 161 (8.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 128 (6.89%) Microsoft Office
4 100 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 44 (2.37%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.65%) Trello
8 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.16%) Simulink
10 3 (0.16%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 1 (0.054%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.054%) InVision
12 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.054%) Sketch
12 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 73 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.70%) Primavera
3 11 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.54%) Shopify
5 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
6 8 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.38%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.32%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.27%) Magento
9 5 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 138 (7.43%) Azure
2 94 (5.06%) Power Platform
3 76 (4.09%) SaaS
4 72 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (3.77%) AWS
6 42 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (1.40%) Smartsheet
8 25 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (1.35%) GCP
9 21 (1.13%) Asana
9 21 (1.13%) Google Workspace
10 15 (0.81%) Entra ID
11 14 (0.75%) OpenShift
12 12 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (0.54%) BigCommerce
13 10 (0.54%) GitHub
13 10 (0.54%) Google Sheets
14 8 (0.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.40%) WAN
2 20 (1.08%) Network Security
2 20 (1.08%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.02%) DNS
3 19 (1.02%) Firewall
4 18 (0.97%) LAN
5 16 (0.86%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
6 15 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (0.75%) MPLS
8 12 (0.65%) BGP
9 11 (0.59%) VPN
10 10 (0.54%) Internet
11 8 (0.43%) DHCP
12 7 (0.38%) BIG-IP
12 7 (0.38%) DKIM
12 7 (0.38%) DMARC
12 7 (0.38%) Intranet
12 7 (0.38%) SAN
13 6 (0.32%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.79%) Power BI
2 16 (0.86%) Metadata
3 15 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.75%) Tableau
5 12 (0.65%) SQL Server
6 10 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
7 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
9 5 (0.27%) Power Query
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.11%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 267 (14.37%) JIRA
2 21 (1.13%) Git
3 13 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.38%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Subversion
6 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.054%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.054%) Capybara
9 1 (0.054%) Gradle
9 1 (0.054%) LSMW
9 1 (0.054%) Maven
9 1 (0.054%) MSI
9 1 (0.054%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.054%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.054%) RSpec
General
1 839 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 729 (39.24%) Finance
3 313 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (10.33%) Organisational Skills
5 158 (8.50%) Public Sector
6 136 (7.32%) Banking
7 106 (5.71%) Marketing
8 105 (5.65%) Retail
9 70 (3.77%) Legal
10 64 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
11 61 (3.28%) Manufacturing
12 51 (2.74%) Telecoms
13 40 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.83%) Financial Institution
15 28 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (1.51%) Investment Banking
16 25 (1.35%) Front Office
17 23 (1.24%) Local Government
18 22 (1.18%) Military
19 19 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 710 (38.21%) Project Manager
2 211 (11.36%) Analyst
3 190 (10.23%) Senior
4 151 (8.13%) Lead
5 134 (7.21%) Senior Manager
6 114 (6.14%) Senior Project Manager
7 110 (5.92%) Business Analyst
8 84 (4.52%) IT Manager
9 75 (4.04%) IT Project Manager
10 74 (3.98%) Programme Manager
11 64 (3.44%) Consultant
12 55 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
12 55 (2.96%) Infrastructure Manager
13 53 (2.85%) Technical Manager
14 51 (2.74%) Architect
15 42 (2.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 42 (2.26%) SC Cleared Project Manager
16 41 (2.21%) Technical Project Manager
17 40 (2.15%) Developer
18 38 (2.05%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.24%) Middleware
2 22 (1.18%) REST
3 15 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.75%) OAuth
4 14 (0.75%) SOAP
5 13 (0.70%) VML
5 13 (0.70%) Web Services
6 12 (0.65%) HTML
7 11 (0.59%) CSS
8 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
8 8 (0.43%) SAML
9 7 (0.38%) .NET
9 7 (0.38%) ADO
9 7 (0.38%) JSON
10 6 (0.32%) OpenID
10 6 (0.32%) XML
11 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
11 5 (0.27%) RESTful
11 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (4.95%) Management Information System
2 88 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.55%) Data Centre
4 57 (3.07%) PMI
5 56 (3.01%) Product Ownership
6 55 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
7 39 (2.10%) Virtual Team
8 34 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.13%) Operational Technology
11 20 (1.08%) Social Media
12 18 (0.97%) NHS
13 17 (0.91%) CMDB
13 17 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 16 (0.86%) FMCG
15 15 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.81%) EPoS
16 14 (0.75%) Life Science
17 12 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.37%) Windows
2 25 (1.35%) Linux
3 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.54%) Unix
5 7 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.22%) zOS
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.054%) AIX
8 1 (0.054%) Android
8 1 (0.054%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.054%) Solaris
8 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (37.08%) Agile
2 653 (35.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 483 (26.00%) Project Delivery
4 418 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 351 (18.89%) PRINCE2
6 295 (15.88%) Migration
7 289 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 279 (15.02%) Change Management
9 267 (14.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 240 (12.92%) Decision-Making
11 235 (12.65%) Waterfall
12 222 (11.95%) Risk Management
13 179 (9.63%) Scrum
14 174 (9.36%) ERP
15 159 (8.56%) Budget Management
16 146 (7.86%) AI
17 129 (6.94%) Roadmaps
18 128 (6.89%) Validation
19 126 (6.78%) Data Migration
20 125 (6.73%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 79 (4.25%) SQL
2 46 (2.48%) Python
3 17 (0.91%) JavaScript
4 16 (0.86%) Java
5 12 (0.65%) VBA
6 10 (0.54%) C#
7 8 (0.43%) C++
8 7 (0.38%) C
8 7 (0.38%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.27%) ABAP
9 5 (0.27%) R
9 5 (0.27%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.22%) Ada
10 4 (0.22%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.16%) JCL
11 3 (0.16%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.16%) Perl
11 3 (0.16%) SOQL
12 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 316 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 286 (15.39%) Degree
3 264 (14.21%) PMP
4 232 (12.49%) SC Cleared
5 222 (11.95%) PMI Certification
6 63 (3.39%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 30 (1.61%) ACCA
8 30 (1.61%) CIMA
9 29 (1.56%) APMP
10 27 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.13%) CISSP
12 20 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.02%) MBA
14 18 (0.97%) CISM
15 17 (0.91%) CBAP
16 14 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 12 (0.65%) IIBA
18 10 (0.54%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (12.11%) PMO
2 123 (6.62%) QA
3 59 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.48%) GDPR
5 38 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.78%) SLA
7 31 (1.67%) NIST
8 20 (1.08%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.70%) GRC
10 10 (0.54%) Basel III
11 7 (0.38%) EMIR
11 7 (0.38%) MiFID
11 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.32%) GMP
12 6 (0.32%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) GxP
13 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 29 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.27%) RACF
4 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.16%) NFS
5 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.11%) Docker
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.054%) Firmware
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.054%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (0.75%) Ansible
3 7 (0.38%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 4 (0.22%) SCCM
5 4 (0.22%) Terraform
6 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) logstash
7 2 (0.11%) SCOM
8 1 (0.054%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.054%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.054%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.054%) Kibana
8 1 (0.054%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.054%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.054%) vRealize
Vendors
1 284 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 162 (8.72%) SAP
3 101 (5.44%) ServiceNow
4 63 (3.39%) Oracle
5 48 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 39 (2.10%) Google
7 28 (1.51%) Adobe
8 25 (1.35%) Cisco
9 23 (1.24%) Workday
10 20 (1.08%) Sitecore
11 17 (0.91%) VMware
12 15 (0.81%) CyberArk
12 15 (0.81%) Databricks
12 15 (0.81%) NEC
13 14 (0.75%) Sage
14 12 (0.65%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.54%) IBM
15 10 (0.54%) IFS
16 8 (0.43%) F5
16 8 (0.43%) Murex