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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,820 2,078 3,033
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.06% 8.26% 8.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.82% 9.14% 9.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,212 1,952
10th Percentile £340 £275 £325
25th Percentile £420 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% -4.41% -
75th Percentile £619 £600 £625
90th Percentile £723 £725 £728
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.95% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 100 207
10th Percentile £14.93 £25.98 £18.32
25th Percentile £20.79 £31.25 £26.14
Median hourly rate £39.75 £40.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% +4.93% -25.98%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £66.90 £62.98
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £40.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -1.25% +4.93% -23.77%

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 31,295 22,746 32,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.03% 90.36% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,032 14,434 21,722
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,939 776 2,084
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +3.63% -6.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.38 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £32.50 £32.85
% change year-on-year -14.03% -1.05% -6.16%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -18 854 £550 +4.76% 346
North of England -21 281 £484 +4.59% 242
South East -12 272 £525 - 313
Midlands -22 201 £500 +3.09% 177
North West -11 163 £490 +8.83% 128
West Midlands -25 140 £500 -4.76% 99
South West -24 118 £450 -10.00% 123
Yorkshire -33 109 £490 +8.83% 93
East of England -33 67 £450 -11.68% 152
East Midlands -17 63 £402 -1.83% 75
North East -21 13 £410 -21.90% 27
Project Management
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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
1 160 (8.79%) Confluence
2 87 (4.78%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.10%) CMS
4 7 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.27%) Apache
6 5 (0.27%) nginx
7 4 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (0.22%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.22%) WordPress
8 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.055%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.055%) IIS
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.055%) WebSphere
Applications
1 201 (11.04%) Microsoft Project
2 199 (10.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 142 (7.80%) Microsoft Office
4 110 (6.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 47 (2.58%) MS Visio
6 20 (1.10%) Trello
7 16 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.16%) InVision
10 3 (0.16%) Sketch
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
11 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.055%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.055%) Revit
12 1 (0.055%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 56 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.04%) Primavera
3 16 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
4 14 (0.77%) Loan IQ
5 11 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 10 (0.55%) SAP Payroll
7 9 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
8 8 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
9 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.33%) SAP HCM
10 6 (0.33%) Shopify
10 6 (0.33%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 141 (7.75%) Azure
2 91 (5.00%) AWS
3 90 (4.95%) Power Platform
4 52 (2.86%) SaaS
5 47 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (1.65%) GCP
8 20 (1.10%) Asana
8 20 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (1.10%) OpenShift
9 17 (0.93%) Smartsheet
10 16 (0.88%) Google Workspace
11 15 (0.82%) GitHub
12 14 (0.77%) Serverless
13 12 (0.66%) IaaS
14 11 (0.60%) Entra ID
14 11 (0.60%) PaaS
15 10 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (0.49%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.59%) Firewall
2 26 (1.43%) WAN
3 18 (0.99%) LAN
3 18 (0.99%) Network Security
4 17 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
5 13 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.60%) DNS
7 11 (0.60%) VPN
8 10 (0.55%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.49%) MPLS
10 8 (0.44%) Internet
10 8 (0.44%) SSL
11 7 (0.38%) BGP
11 7 (0.38%) DHCP
12 6 (0.33%) IPsec
13 5 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.27%) SSH
14 4 (0.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (4.62%) Power BI
2 25 (1.37%) Tableau
3 18 (0.99%) SQL Server
4 17 (0.93%) Metadata
5 16 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.49%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.22%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.22%) GIS
11 4 (0.22%) Power Query
11 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.16%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 294 (16.15%) JIRA
2 17 (0.93%) Git
3 10 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.38%) GitLab
5 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.16%) Selenium
7 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.055%) Ant
8 1 (0.055%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.055%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.055%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.055%) Hudson
8 1 (0.055%) JUnit
8 1 (0.055%) LSMW
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.055%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.055%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.055%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.055%) Toad
8 1 (0.055%) Visual Studio
General
1 905 (49.73%) Social Skills
2 692 (38.02%) Finance
3 308 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (9.89%) Organisational Skills
5 171 (9.40%) Public Sector
6 158 (8.68%) Banking
7 94 (5.16%) Retail
8 80 (4.40%) Marketing
9 75 (4.12%) Legal
10 73 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
11 70 (3.85%) Manufacturing
12 55 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
13 40 (2.20%) Investment Banking
14 37 (2.03%) Telecoms
15 31 (1.70%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
17 27 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (1.43%) Local Government
19 24 (1.32%) Front Office
20 18 (0.99%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 714 (39.23%) Project Manager
2 208 (11.43%) Analyst
3 158 (8.68%) Senior
4 156 (8.57%) Lead
5 110 (6.04%) Business Analyst
5 110 (6.04%) Senior Manager
6 90 (4.95%) Senior Project Manager
7 87 (4.78%) IT Manager
8 81 (4.45%) IT Project Manager
9 78 (4.29%) Consultant
10 59 (3.24%) Programme Manager
10 59 (3.24%) Technical Manager
11 57 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
11 57 (3.13%) Infrastructure Manager
12 48 (2.64%) Infrastructure Project Manager
13 40 (2.20%) Coordinator
14 38 (2.09%) SAP Manager
14 38 (2.09%) Technical Project Manager
15 37 (2.03%) Architect
16 36 (1.98%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.21%) Middleware
2 21 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (0.82%) REST
3 15 (0.82%) SOAP
4 14 (0.77%) Web Services
5 11 (0.60%) EDI
6 10 (0.55%) XML
7 8 (0.44%) CSS
7 8 (0.44%) SailPoint
8 7 (0.38%) .NET
8 7 (0.38%) HTML
8 7 (0.38%) OAuth
9 6 (0.33%) ADO
9 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (0.33%) OpenID
9 6 (0.33%) SAML
10 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.27%) React
10 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 114 (6.26%) Onboarding
2 89 (4.89%) Management Information System
3 65 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 55 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
5 54 (2.97%) PMI
6 46 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 46 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 39 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (1.32%) Operational Technology
10 22 (1.21%) NHS
11 20 (1.10%) CMDB
12 19 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (0.93%) Social Media
14 16 (0.88%) SCADA
15 15 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (0.77%) Cloud Native
17 13 (0.71%) Web Conferencing
18 12 (0.66%) Tandem
19 10 (0.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.47%) Windows
2 15 (0.82%) Linux
3 11 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.55%) Unix
5 7 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.055%) Solaris
7 1 (0.055%) VMS
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (36.87%) Agile
2 611 (33.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 439 (24.12%) Project Delivery
4 436 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
5 385 (21.15%) PRINCE2
6 312 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 286 (15.71%) Change Management
8 284 (15.60%) Migration
9 256 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 203 (11.15%) Decision-Making
11 199 (10.93%) Risk Management
12 198 (10.88%) Waterfall
13 190 (10.44%) Scrum
14 165 (9.07%) Budget Management
15 152 (8.35%) ERP
16 132 (7.25%) DevOps
17 129 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
18 127 (6.98%) ITIL
19 126 (6.92%) Project Governance
20 125 (6.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 81 (4.45%) SQL
2 38 (2.09%) Python
3 13 (0.71%) Java
4 12 (0.66%) JavaScript
5 11 (0.60%) C#
6 6 (0.33%) ABAP
6 6 (0.33%) VBA
7 5 (0.27%) Perl
7 5 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.27%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.27%) R
7 5 (0.27%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.16%) C++
9 3 (0.16%) SOQL
10 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.11%) C
10 2 (0.11%) Korn
10 2 (0.11%) Ruby
10 2 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 303 (16.65%) Degree
2 289 (15.88%) Security Cleared
3 276 (15.16%) PMP
4 249 (13.68%) PMI Certification
5 210 (11.54%) SC Cleared
6 62 (3.41%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.14%) APMP
7 39 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 32 (1.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 31 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (1.37%) CISSP
12 21 (1.15%) CISM
12 21 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 17 (0.93%) MBA
14 16 (0.88%) CBAP
15 15 (0.82%) IIBA
16 11 (0.60%) ACCA
16 11 (0.60%) CIMA
17 8 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (11.48%) PMO
2 119 (6.54%) QA
3 50 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 49 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.47%) GDPR
6 36 (1.98%) NIST
7 24 (1.32%) SLA
8 19 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.99%) GRC
9 18 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.60%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.55%) Basel III
12 6 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.33%) EMIR
12 6 (0.33%) MiFID
12 6 (0.33%) WCAG
13 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) NCSC
13 5 (0.27%) P3O
13 5 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.71%) Docker
3 7 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.27%) RACF
4 5 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.055%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.055%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (0.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.66%) Terraform
3 9 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.33%) Kibana
4 6 (0.33%) logstash
4 6 (0.33%) SCCM
5 5 (0.27%) Ansible
5 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.22%) Consul
6 4 (0.22%) Packer
6 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
7 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.16%) Grafana
7 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.055%) Cisco UCCE
8 1 (0.055%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (0.055%) Puppet
8 1 (0.055%) SCOM
8 1 (0.055%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 280 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 161 (8.85%) SAP
3 94 (5.16%) ServiceNow
4 72 (3.96%) Oracle
5 65 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 31 (1.70%) Google
7 29 (1.59%) Cisco
8 23 (1.26%) Workday
9 20 (1.10%) Adobe
10 19 (1.04%) Atlassian
11 16 (0.88%) CyberArk
11 16 (0.88%) Databricks
11 16 (0.88%) Sage
12 15 (0.82%) VMware
13 14 (0.77%) Planview
14 12 (0.66%) Palo Alto
15 11 (0.60%) IBM
16 9 (0.49%) Juniper
16 9 (0.49%) Splunk
17 7 (0.38%) Fortinet