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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,882 1,919 2,845
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.62% 7.93% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.46% 8.69% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 1,168 1,754
10th Percentile £338 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.50%
75th Percentile £625 £610 £637
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.70% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 104 243
10th Percentile £14.64 £22.63 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.25 £26.33
Median hourly rate £35.77 £45.59 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +19.60% -21.40%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.52 £45.59 £38.12
% change year-on-year -22.10% +19.60% -21.40%

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 34,498 22,079 31,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 91.24% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,001 14,439 20,650
10th Percentile £320 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 933 2,247
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.44 £12.90
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -17 885 £550 +4.76% 405
South East -12 280 £525 +10.53% 285
North of England -22 280 £474 -3.02% 234
Midlands -28 191 £500 +5.93% 135
North West -14 157 £463 -2.63% 132
South West -12 149 £450 -4.05% 102
West Midlands -38 127 £500 - 84
Yorkshire -34 115 £480 +1.05% 73
East of England -27 78 £518 +3.50% 131
East Midlands -12 66 £393 -4.52% 51
North East -18 13 £410 -20.96% 30
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
1 138 (7.33%) Confluence
2 85 (4.52%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.12%) CMS
4 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.37%) Apache
7 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Moodle
9 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
10 2 (0.11%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
11 1 (0.053%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.053%) IIS
11 1 (0.053%) nginx
11 1 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.053%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.053%) WebSphere
Applications
1 193 (10.26%) Microsoft Project
2 176 (9.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 136 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
4 110 (5.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 43 (2.28%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.69%) Trello
8 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
11 2 (0.11%) Simulink
11 2 (0.11%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.11%) Windchill
12 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.053%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.053%) InVision
12 1 (0.053%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 75 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.74%) Primavera
3 11 (0.58%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.53%) Shopify
5 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
7 6 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.27%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 134 (7.12%) Azure
2 89 (4.73%) Power Platform
3 78 (4.14%) SaaS
4 73 (3.88%) AWS
5 68 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (1.49%) Smartsheet
8 26 (1.38%) GCP
9 24 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (1.22%) Google Workspace
11 22 (1.17%) Asana
12 13 (0.69%) Entra ID
12 13 (0.69%) OpenShift
13 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.58%) GitHub
15 10 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (0.53%) BigCommerce
15 10 (0.53%) PaaS
16 9 (0.48%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.38%) WAN
2 22 (1.17%) Network Security
2 22 (1.17%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.12%) DNS
4 19 (1.01%) Firewall
5 17 (0.90%) LAN
5 17 (0.90%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
7 14 (0.74%) MPLS
7 14 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.64%) BGP
8 12 (0.64%) VPN
9 10 (0.53%) DHCP
9 10 (0.53%) Internet
10 7 (0.37%) BIG-IP
10 7 (0.37%) DKIM
10 7 (0.37%) DMARC
11 6 (0.32%) Intranet
11 6 (0.32%) IPsec
11 6 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.52%) Power BI
2 17 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (0.85%) Metadata
4 14 (0.74%) Tableau
5 13 (0.69%) SQL Server
6 10 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
7 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.21%) Big Data
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.16%) GIS
11 3 (0.16%) Power Query
12 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 286 (15.20%) JIRA
2 19 (1.01%) Git
3 13 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.37%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.21%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.21%) Subversion
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.053%) Appium
9 1 (0.053%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.053%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.053%) Gradle
9 1 (0.053%) LSMW
9 1 (0.053%) minitest
9 1 (0.053%) MSI
9 1 (0.053%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.053%) Travis CI
General
1 859 (45.64%) Social Skills
2 736 (39.11%) Finance
3 322 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (10.47%) Organisational Skills
5 164 (8.71%) Public Sector
6 136 (7.23%) Banking
7 108 (5.74%) Marketing
8 101 (5.37%) Retail
9 68 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
10 66 (3.51%) Legal
11 61 (3.24%) Manufacturing
12 54 (2.87%) Telecoms
13 41 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.81%) Financial Institution
15 31 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.49%) Investment Banking
17 24 (1.28%) Front Office
18 23 (1.22%) Local Government
19 22 (1.17%) Military
20 18 (0.96%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 723 (38.42%) Project Manager
2 214 (11.37%) Analyst
3 188 (9.99%) Senior
4 151 (8.02%) Lead
5 131 (6.96%) Senior Manager
6 112 (5.95%) Business Analyst
7 111 (5.90%) Senior Project Manager
8 87 (4.62%) IT Manager
9 78 (4.14%) Programme Manager
10 77 (4.09%) IT Project Manager
11 62 (3.29%) Consultant
12 58 (3.08%) Technical Manager
13 56 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
14 52 (2.76%) Infrastructure Manager
15 51 (2.71%) Architect
16 46 (2.44%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 43 (2.28%) Technical Project Manager
18 41 (2.18%) Developer
19 40 (2.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
20 39 (2.07%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.28%) Middleware
2 22 (1.17%) REST
3 16 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.80%) SOAP
5 14 (0.74%) OAuth
5 14 (0.74%) Web Services
6 13 (0.69%) HTML
7 12 (0.64%) VML
8 11 (0.58%) CSS
9 8 (0.43%) .NET
9 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.43%) SAML
9 8 (0.43%) XML
10 7 (0.37%) ADO
10 7 (0.37%) JSON
11 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.32%) OpenID
12 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.27%) React
12 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.15%) Management Information System
2 86 (4.57%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.40%) Data Centre
3 64 (3.40%) PMI
4 55 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
5 54 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 43 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 35 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.22%) Operational Technology
10 21 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 20 (1.06%) Social Media
12 17 (0.90%) CMDB
12 17 (0.90%) NHS
13 16 (0.85%) Data Structures
14 15 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.80%) EPoS
15 13 (0.69%) FMCG
15 13 (0.69%) Life Science
16 12 (0.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.44%) Windows
2 24 (1.28%) Linux
3 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.48%) Unix
5 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.21%) zOS
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.053%) AIX
9 1 (0.053%) Android
9 1 (0.053%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.053%) Solaris
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (37.19%) Agile
2 647 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 494 (26.25%) Project Delivery
4 424 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
5 356 (18.92%) PRINCE2
6 303 (16.10%) Migration
7 287 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 284 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 283 (15.04%) Change Management
10 245 (13.02%) Decision-Making
11 239 (12.70%) Waterfall
12 221 (11.74%) Risk Management
13 185 (9.83%) Scrum
14 180 (9.56%) ERP
15 164 (8.71%) Budget Management
16 137 (7.28%) Roadmaps
17 134 (7.12%) AI
18 129 (6.85%) Data Migration
18 129 (6.85%) Project Planning
19 125 (6.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 79 (4.20%) SQL
2 47 (2.50%) Python
3 17 (0.90%) Java
3 17 (0.90%) JavaScript
4 12 (0.64%) C#
4 12 (0.64%) VBA
5 10 (0.53%) C++
6 8 (0.43%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.37%) C
8 6 (0.32%) R
8 6 (0.32%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.27%) ABAP
10 4 (0.21%) Ada
10 4 (0.21%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.16%) JCL
11 3 (0.16%) Perl
11 3 (0.16%) SOQL
11 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 332 (17.64%) Security Cleared
2 304 (16.15%) Degree
3 282 (14.98%) PMP
4 247 (13.12%) SC Cleared
5 244 (12.96%) PMI Certification
6 70 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 33 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 32 (1.70%) APMP
11 28 (1.49%) ACCA
11 28 (1.49%) CIMA
12 26 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.06%) CISSP
13 20 (1.06%) MBA
14 18 (0.96%) CISM
15 17 (0.90%) CBAP
16 15 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 12 (0.64%) IIBA
18 10 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (12.65%) PMO
2 128 (6.80%) QA
3 58 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.50%) GDPR
5 41 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.75%) NIST
6 33 (1.75%) SLA
7 16 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.69%) GRC
9 11 (0.58%) Basel III
10 8 (0.43%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.37%) EMIR
11 7 (0.37%) MiFID
11 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.32%) GMP
12 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 30 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.27%) RACF
4 3 (0.16%) Docker
4 3 (0.16%) NFS
4 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.053%) Firmware
6 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.053%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.053%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (0.74%) Ansible
3 6 (0.32%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.21%) RSA Archer
5 4 (0.21%) Terraform
6 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.16%) SCCM
6 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) logstash
7 2 (0.11%) SCOM
8 1 (0.053%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.053%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.053%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.053%) Kibana
8 1 (0.053%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.053%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.053%) vRealize
Vendors
1 284 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 165 (8.77%) SAP
3 99 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.67%) Oracle
5 50 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 40 (2.13%) Google
7 29 (1.54%) Adobe
8 27 (1.43%) Workday
9 26 (1.38%) Cisco
10 18 (0.96%) VMware
11 17 (0.90%) Atlassian
11 17 (0.90%) CyberArk
12 15 (0.80%) Databricks
12 15 (0.80%) Sitecore
13 14 (0.74%) Sage
14 13 (0.69%) NEC
15 11 (0.58%) IBM
16 10 (0.53%) IFS
17 8 (0.43%) Juniper
17 8 (0.43%) Murex