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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -30 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,744 1,749 2,482
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 6.26% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 6.89% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 1,093 1,406
10th Percentile £308 £327 £302
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £734 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £520
% change year-on-year - -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 101 124
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.24 £21.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £24.61 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.18 £34.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.23% -1.43% -16.27%
75th Percentile £64.63 £60.00 £55.38
90th Percentile £82.58 £65.00 £66.93
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £34.17 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.47% -2.37% -17.65%

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 39,045 25,398 28,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.94% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,601 16,100 17,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £643
90th Percentile £738 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,948 1,574 1,187
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +52.09% -39.40% -2.35%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -31 844 £550 - 1,969
North of England -29 261 £473 -5.50% 590
South East -29 247 £500 - 734
North West -26 149 £495 +0.61% 306
Midlands -49 142 £550 +15.79% 440
South West -20 130 £475 +5.56% 281
Yorkshire -6 106 £465 -11.43% 204
West Midlands -58 93 £550 +11.79% 251
East of England -22 71 £510 -2.39% 291
East Midlands -16 49 £544 +20.83% 189
North East -40 8 £420 +3.07% 84
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
1 110 (6.31%) SharePoint
2 86 (4.93%) Confluence
3 31 (1.78%) CMS
4 22 (1.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 16 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.40%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.34%) Apache
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.29%) JBoss
9 5 (0.29%) Moodle
9 5 (0.29%) SAS
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.057%) Drupal
12 1 (0.057%) nginx
12 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.057%) Umbraco
Applications
1 180 (10.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (8.77%) Microsoft Project
3 143 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
4 111 (6.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (2.01%) MS Visio
6 20 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.69%) Trello
8 9 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Windchill
10 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.23%) Simulink
10 4 (0.23%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) Houdini
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 2 (0.11%) NUKE
13 1 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.057%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 44 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.97%) Primavera
3 13 (0.75%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.75%) Magento
4 9 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.52%) SAP MM
5 8 (0.46%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.46%) SAP CO
5 8 (0.46%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.46%) SAP PS
6 7 (0.40%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.40%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.29%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.23%) Endur
9 4 (0.23%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (8.83%) Azure
2 121 (6.94%) Power Platform
3 77 (4.42%) SaaS
4 66 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (3.38%) AWS
7 32 (1.83%) Smartsheet
8 27 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (1.32%) Google Workspace
10 19 (1.09%) GCP
11 18 (1.03%) Asana
12 17 (0.97%) Entra ID
13 14 (0.80%) GitHub
14 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (0.63%) PowerApps
16 9 (0.52%) Amazon S3
16 9 (0.52%) OneDrive
16 9 (0.52%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.52%) Snowflake
17 8 (0.46%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.83%) Network Security
2 23 (1.32%) DNS
3 20 (1.15%) Firewall
4 17 (0.97%) Structured Cabling
4 17 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.97%) WAN
5 13 (0.75%) LAN
5 13 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (0.69%) VPN
7 10 (0.57%) BGP
7 10 (0.57%) Intranet
8 9 (0.52%) DHCP
9 8 (0.46%) 3GPP
9 8 (0.46%) 4G
9 8 (0.46%) 5G
9 8 (0.46%) LTE
9 8 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
9 8 (0.46%) VLAN
9 8 (0.46%) Wireless
9 8 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (6.31%) Power BI
2 18 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (0.80%) Data Lake
3 14 (0.80%) Tableau
4 11 (0.63%) Metadata
4 11 (0.63%) SQL Server
5 8 (0.46%) GIS
5 8 (0.46%) Power Query
6 7 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.34%) Big Data
8 5 (0.29%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.29%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.17%) QlikView
10 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.17%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.11%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.11%) Looker
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 229 (13.13%) JIRA
2 26 (1.49%) Git
3 17 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
5 8 (0.46%) Subversion
6 5 (0.29%) Rational Rhapsody
7 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.17%) GitLab
8 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.11%) Selenium
9 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.057%) Capybara
10 1 (0.057%) Gradle
10 1 (0.057%) RSpec
10 1 (0.057%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.057%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.057%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.057%) TestRail
General
1 803 (46.04%) Social Skills
2 691 (39.62%) Finance
3 290 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (10.72%) Organisational Skills
5 156 (8.94%) Banking
6 146 (8.37%) Public Sector
7 119 (6.82%) Marketing
8 107 (6.14%) Retail
9 88 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
10 70 (4.01%) Manufacturing
11 61 (3.50%) Legal
12 55 (3.15%) Telecoms
13 52 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (1.72%) Aerospace
15 28 (1.61%) Investment Banking
15 28 (1.61%) Local Government
16 24 (1.38%) Front Office
16 24 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 22 (1.26%) Financial Institution
18 21 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 682 (39.11%) Project Manager
2 162 (9.29%) Senior
3 151 (8.66%) Lead
4 125 (7.17%) Senior Manager
5 110 (6.31%) Analyst
6 104 (5.96%) IT Manager
7 92 (5.28%) Senior Project Manager
8 86 (4.93%) Programme Manager
9 77 (4.42%) IT Project Manager
10 73 (4.19%) Delivery Manager
11 62 (3.56%) Technical Manager
12 61 (3.50%) Business Analyst
13 56 (3.21%) Consultant
14 43 (2.47%) Technical Project Manager
15 41 (2.35%) Project Officer
16 38 (2.18%) Coordinator
17 36 (2.06%) Infrastructure Manager
18 33 (1.89%) Project Coordinator
19 32 (1.83%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 32 (1.83%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.03%) Middleware
2 15 (0.86%) ADO
3 13 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (0.57%) HTML
4 10 (0.57%) REST
4 10 (0.57%) VML
5 9 (0.52%) OAuth
5 9 (0.52%) Web Services
6 8 (0.46%) pytest
7 7 (0.40%) .NET
7 7 (0.40%) JSON
7 7 (0.40%) React
7 7 (0.40%) Terraform
8 6 (0.34%) SOAP
9 5 (0.29%) DAO
9 5 (0.29%) FastAPI
9 5 (0.29%) XML
10 3 (0.17%) ASP.NET
10 3 (0.17%) CSS
10 3 (0.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 105 (6.02%) Management Information System
2 88 (5.05%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
6 43 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 35 (2.01%) PMI
8 29 (1.66%) Operational Technology
9 28 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.38%) FMCG
10 24 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.32%) Social Media
12 21 (1.20%) Life Science
13 20 (1.15%) AI Agents
13 20 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.09%) Credit Risk
15 17 (0.97%) Fixed Income
16 15 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.64%) Linux
1 46 (2.64%) Windows
2 20 (1.15%) Unix
2 20 (1.15%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.29%) zOS
5 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.057%) Android
6 1 (0.057%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.057%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (46.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 672 (38.53%) Agile
3 518 (29.70%) Project Delivery
4 408 (23.39%) PRINCE2
5 310 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
6 306 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 283 (16.23%) Change Management
8 251 (14.39%) Decision-Making
8 251 (14.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 233 (13.36%) Risk Management
10 227 (13.02%) Migration
11 221 (12.67%) Waterfall
12 206 (11.81%) AI
13 186 (10.67%) Project Governance
14 183 (10.49%) Scrum
15 160 (9.17%) Project Planning
16 152 (8.72%) Roadmaps
17 146 (8.37%) Change Control
18 139 (7.97%) Programme Management
19 132 (7.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 67 (3.84%) SQL
2 63 (3.61%) Python
3 12 (0.69%) VBA
4 11 (0.63%) C++
4 11 (0.63%) Java
5 9 (0.52%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.46%) Ada
6 8 (0.46%) Bash
6 8 (0.46%) C#
6 8 (0.46%) Korn
7 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.29%) MATLAB
8 5 (0.29%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.23%) C
9 4 (0.23%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.17%) ABAP
10 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.17%) JCL
11 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 289 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 278 (15.94%) Degree
3 267 (15.31%) PMP
4 232 (13.30%) PMI Certification
5 198 (11.35%) SC Cleared
6 75 (4.30%) DV Cleared
7 71 (4.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 30 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 16 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 14 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (0.75%) APMP
12 13 (0.75%) CISSP
13 12 (0.69%) ACCA
13 12 (0.69%) CIMA
13 12 (0.69%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.57%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.57%) CISM
15 9 (0.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (12.90%) PMO
2 81 (4.64%) QA
3 51 (2.92%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.49%) GDPR
5 24 (1.38%) GRC
6 21 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.15%) SLA
8 15 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.75%) NIST
10 10 (0.57%) P3O
11 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.40%) GMP
12 6 (0.34%) FINREP
12 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.29%) COREP
13 5 (0.29%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.23%) ITGC
14 4 (0.23%) MISRA
14 4 (0.23%) MISRA C
System Software
1 29 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.63%) vSphere
4 8 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.17%) NFS
8 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.057%) ACF2
10 1 (0.057%) Docker
10 1 (0.057%) RACF
10 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (0.97%) Ansible
2 9 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.34%) Puppet
4 5 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (0.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.11%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (0.11%) BMC Performance Manager
6 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.11%) Perfmon
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.057%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.057%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.057%) Nessus
7 1 (0.057%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.057%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.057%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.057%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 320 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 120 (6.88%) SAP
3 78 (4.47%) ServiceNow
4 66 (3.78%) Oracle
5 46 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.35%) Adobe
7 36 (2.06%) Google
7 36 (2.06%) VMware
8 22 (1.26%) Cisco
9 19 (1.09%) Atlassian
9 19 (1.09%) NEC
10 18 (1.03%) IBM
10 18 (1.03%) Sitecore
11 16 (0.92%) Databricks
11 16 (0.92%) Workday
12 14 (0.80%) Planview
13 12 (0.69%) Alteryx
14 11 (0.63%) Ariba
14 11 (0.63%) JD Edwards
15 9 (0.52%) Murex