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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -26 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,798 1,959 2,488
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.95% 7.04% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 7.75% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,226 1,499
10th Percentile £317 £313 £308
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 99 207
10th Percentile £20.72 £21.39 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.50 £29.00 £27.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +6.24% -4.70%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.24 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £36.24 £38.12
% change year-on-year +24.17% -4.93% -8.48%

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 38,771 25,264 28,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.78% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,101 16,147 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -25 878 £550 +3.29% 969
North of England -32 267 £475 -3.01% 298
South East -24 250 £500 - 354
North West -17 168 £475 - 160
Midlands -49 143 £540 +20.00% 217
South West -23 140 £435 -3.33% 152
West Midlands -60 96 £550 +16.53% 135
Yorkshire -37 93 £500 - 96
East of England -2 87 £525 +0.48% 133
East Midlands -15 47 £488 +21.27% 82
North East -43 8 £420 -12.95% 48
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 97 (5.39%) Confluence
2 94 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.89%) CMS
4 19 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.33%) Apache
7 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) JBoss
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.056%) CICS
12 1 (0.056%) IIS
Applications
1 168 (9.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 164 (9.12%) Microsoft Project
3 139 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
4 107 (5.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.34%) MS Visio
6 19 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.78%) Trello
8 9 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.17%) InDesign
11 3 (0.17%) Windchill
12 2 (0.11%) Houdini
12 2 (0.11%) NUKE
13 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.056%) CATIA
13 1 (0.056%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 58 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.00%) Primavera
3 11 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
3 11 (0.61%) Magento
4 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.44%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.39%) SAP HCM
7 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.33%) Shopify
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
8 5 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 159 (8.84%) Azure
2 109 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 86 (4.78%) SaaS
4 68 (3.78%) AWS
5 67 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.89%) Smartsheet
8 27 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (1.33%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.11%) Asana
11 17 (0.95%) GCP
11 17 (0.95%) GitHub
12 16 (0.89%) Entra ID
13 12 (0.67%) Google Sheets
14 11 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (0.50%) OCI
15 9 (0.50%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.50%) PowerApps
16 8 (0.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.61%) Network Security
2 22 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.17%) DNS
4 20 (1.11%) Structured Cabling
5 19 (1.06%) WAN
6 15 (0.83%) LAN
7 14 (0.78%) Firewall
7 14 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.72%) Intranet
8 13 (0.72%) VPN
9 12 (0.67%) DHCP
10 11 (0.61%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.56%) BGP
11 10 (0.56%) Internet
11 10 (0.56%) MPLS
12 8 (0.44%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.39%) DKIM
13 7 (0.39%) DMARC
13 7 (0.39%) SAN
13 7 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.45%) Power BI
2 16 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (0.72%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.72%) Tableau
4 12 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 11 (0.61%) Metadata
6 8 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.44%) GIS
6 8 (0.44%) Power Query
7 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.39%) SAP HANA
8 6 (0.33%) Big Data
8 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.22%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.17%) QlikView
11 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.11%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 233 (12.96%) JIRA
2 25 (1.39%) Git
3 20 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.50%) Subversion
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) GitLab
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) Appium
9 1 (0.056%) Capybara
9 1 (0.056%) Gradle
9 1 (0.056%) minitest
9 1 (0.056%) Postman
9 1 (0.056%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.056%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.056%) Snyk
9 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.056%) Terragrunt
General
1 809 (44.99%) Social Skills
2 669 (37.21%) Finance
3 312 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (10.07%) Organisational Skills
5 151 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 141 (7.84%) Marketing
7 133 (7.40%) Banking
8 109 (6.06%) Retail
9 66 (3.67%) Manufacturing
10 64 (3.56%) Legal
11 61 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (3.34%) Telecoms
13 41 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.72%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.50%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.39%) Front Office
17 25 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.33%) Aerospace
19 23 (1.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 689 (38.32%) Project Manager
2 182 (10.12%) Senior
3 163 (9.07%) Lead
4 144 (8.01%) Analyst
5 139 (7.73%) Senior Manager
6 113 (6.28%) Senior Project Manager
7 100 (5.56%) IT Manager
8 88 (4.89%) Programme Manager
9 78 (4.34%) IT Project Manager
10 76 (4.23%) Business Analyst
11 62 (3.45%) Technical Manager
12 59 (3.28%) Consultant
13 56 (3.11%) Delivery Manager
14 52 (2.89%) Infrastructure Manager
15 47 (2.61%) Technical Project Manager
16 41 (2.28%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 39 (2.17%) Project Officer
18 37 (2.06%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 35 (1.95%) Developer
20 33 (1.84%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.22%) Middleware
2 20 (1.11%) REST
3 14 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (0.72%) HTML
4 13 (0.72%) VML
5 12 (0.67%) ADO
6 11 (0.61%) SOAP
6 11 (0.61%) Web Services
7 10 (0.56%) JSON
8 9 (0.50%) .NET
8 9 (0.50%) OAuth
8 9 (0.50%) React
9 7 (0.39%) XML
10 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.33%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.28%) CSS
11 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
11 5 (0.28%) RESTful
12 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
12 4 (0.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.34%) Management Information System
2 81 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 71 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.67%) Data Centre
5 50 (2.78%) PMI
6 47 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
7 43 (2.39%) Virtual Team
8 30 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.39%) Operational Technology
11 24 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.33%) Social Media
12 23 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (1.28%) FMCG
13 17 (0.95%) Credit Risk
14 16 (0.89%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.78%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.78%) EPoS
15 14 (0.78%) Life Science
16 13 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.73%) Windows
2 37 (2.06%) Linux
3 17 (0.95%) Unix
4 15 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.22%) zOS
8 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.056%) AIX
9 1 (0.056%) Android
9 1 (0.056%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.056%) Solaris
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 730 (40.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 685 (38.10%) Agile
3 492 (27.36%) Project Delivery
4 411 (22.86%) PRINCE2
5 322 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
6 310 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 296 (16.46%) Change Management
8 263 (14.63%) Migration
9 258 (14.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 236 (13.13%) Decision-Making
11 229 (12.74%) Risk Management
12 225 (12.51%) Waterfall
13 181 (10.07%) Scrum
14 178 (9.90%) AI
15 136 (7.56%) ERP
16 134 (7.45%) Roadmaps
17 132 (7.34%) Analytics
17 132 (7.34%) ITIL
18 131 (7.29%) Project Governance
19 130 (7.23%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 73 (4.06%) SQL
2 61 (3.39%) Python
3 18 (1.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (0.72%) Java
4 13 (0.72%) VBA
5 10 (0.56%) TypeScript
6 9 (0.50%) C#
6 9 (0.50%) C++
7 8 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.39%) ABAP
9 6 (0.33%) C
10 5 (0.28%) Korn
10 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.22%) Ada
11 4 (0.22%) JCL
11 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.17%) Bash
12 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 300 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 290 (16.13%) Degree
3 288 (16.02%) PMP
4 249 (13.85%) PMI Certification
5 204 (11.35%) SC Cleared
6 78 (4.34%) DV Cleared
7 62 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 25 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.33%) ACCA
9 24 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.33%) CIMA
10 18 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 17 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (0.89%) APMP
13 14 (0.78%) CISSP
14 13 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.56%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.56%) CIPFA
15 10 (0.56%) CISM
15 10 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (11.90%) PMO
2 89 (4.95%) QA
3 50 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 33 (1.84%) SLA
5 32 (1.78%) GDPR
6 25 (1.39%) GRC
7 24 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.33%) NIST
8 22 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.39%) FINREP
9 7 (0.39%) GMP
9 7 (0.39%) MiFID
9 7 (0.39%) P3O
10 6 (0.33%) COREP
10 6 (0.33%) EMIR
10 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.22%) GxP
12 4 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.056%) ACF2
8 1 (0.056%) Docker
8 1 (0.056%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.056%) RACF
8 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (1.00%) Ansible
2 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (0.28%) Puppet
4 5 (0.28%) Terraform
5 4 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.056%) Nessus
7 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.056%) SCOM
7 1 (0.056%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.056%) vRealize
7 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 305 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 142 (7.90%) SAP
3 102 (5.67%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.89%) Oracle
5 51 (2.84%) Salesforce
6 46 (2.56%) Google
7 43 (2.39%) Adobe
8 25 (1.39%) VMware
9 24 (1.33%) Cisco
10 23 (1.28%) Sitecore
11 20 (1.11%) Workday
12 19 (1.06%) NEC
13 18 (1.00%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.83%) Databricks
15 14 (0.78%) IBM
16 11 (0.61%) JD Edwards
17 10 (0.56%) Alteryx
17 10 (0.56%) Guidewire
17 10 (0.56%) IFS
18 9 (0.50%) F5