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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,780 2,142 3,093
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.09% 8.29% 8.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.83% 9.20% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,118 1,237 1,991
10th Percentile £338 £275 £325
25th Percentile £420 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -
75th Percentile £619 £616 £625
90th Percentile £714 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 95 194
10th Percentile £15.02 £23.78 £18.32
25th Percentile £20.77 £31.25 £26.08
Median hourly rate £39.50 £38.11 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% -0.03% -22.99%
75th Percentile £63.58 £58.75 £58.44
90th Percentile £80.00 £65.60 £62.33
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £37.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +6.76% -2.94% -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 30,524 23,282 33,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.36% 90.06% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,511 14,543 22,029
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -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 1,903 748 2,025
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.28 £21.25 £16.30
Median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% - -
75th Percentile £63.05 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.08 £73.35
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -7.14% -

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -19 826 £550 +4.76% 312
South East -8 278 £525 +5.00% 308
North of England -22 277 £480 +4.35% 199
Midlands -22 202 £500 - 159
North West -15 159 £492 +10.87% 99
West Midlands -23 140 £500 -4.76% 79
Yorkshire -33 109 £480 +3.78% 82
South West -28 108 £450 -10.00% 116
East Midlands -12 64 £398 -3.43% 79
East of England -33 64 £450 -10.00% 129
North East -28 13 £410 -24.60% 24
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
1 161 (9.04%) Confluence
2 85 (4.78%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.24%) CMS
4 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.34%) WordPress
6 5 (0.28%) Apache
6 5 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (0.28%) nginx
6 5 (0.28%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.056%) IIS
9 1 (0.056%) Moodle
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 199 (11.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 198 (11.12%) Microsoft Project
3 144 (8.09%) Microsoft Office
4 107 (6.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 47 (2.64%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.24%) Trello
7 15 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.22%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.17%) InVision
10 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.17%) Sketch
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
11 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.11%) ProjectWise
12 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 53 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.01%) Primavera
3 15 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
4 13 (0.73%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 10 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
7 8 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.45%) Shopify
8 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
8 7 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
8 7 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.34%) SAP HCM
10 5 (0.28%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 146 (8.20%) Azure
2 94 (5.28%) AWS
3 90 (5.06%) Power Platform
4 48 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (2.70%) SaaS
5 34 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (1.80%) GCP
7 22 (1.24%) Asana
8 20 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (1.12%) OpenShift
9 16 (0.90%) GitHub
9 16 (0.90%) Google Workspace
10 15 (0.84%) Smartsheet
11 14 (0.79%) Serverless
12 12 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (0.67%) IaaS
13 11 (0.62%) PaaS
14 10 (0.56%) Entra ID
14 10 (0.56%) OneDrive
15 9 (0.51%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.63%) Firewall
2 26 (1.46%) WAN
3 18 (1.01%) LAN
4 16 (0.90%) Network Security
5 15 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
6 12 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.62%) DNS
7 11 (0.62%) VPN
7 11 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.51%) SSL
10 8 (0.45%) Internet
10 8 (0.45%) MPLS
11 7 (0.39%) BGP
11 7 (0.39%) DHCP
12 6 (0.34%) Broadband
12 6 (0.34%) IPsec
13 5 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.66%) Power BI
2 25 (1.40%) Tableau
3 21 (1.18%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.01%) Metadata
5 16 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.51%) SAP HANA
7 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.22%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.22%) GIS
10 4 (0.22%) Power Query
11 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 293 (16.46%) JIRA
2 17 (0.96%) Git
3 10 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.39%) GitLab
5 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.17%) Selenium
7 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.11%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.056%) Ant
8 1 (0.056%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.056%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.056%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.056%) ERwin
8 1 (0.056%) JUnit
8 1 (0.056%) LSMW
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.056%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.056%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.056%) Toad
8 1 (0.056%) Visual Studio
General
1 895 (50.28%) Social Skills
2 676 (37.98%) Finance
3 304 (17.08%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (9.89%) Organisational Skills
5 171 (9.61%) Public Sector
6 154 (8.65%) Banking
7 94 (5.28%) Retail
8 80 (4.49%) Marketing
9 75 (4.21%) Legal
10 74 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
11 64 (3.60%) Manufacturing
12 53 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (2.36%) Telecoms
14 38 (2.13%) Investment Banking
15 28 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 28 (1.57%) Local Government
16 27 (1.52%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.40%) Front Office
18 17 (0.96%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 683 (38.37%) Project Manager
2 210 (11.80%) Analyst
3 159 (8.93%) Lead
4 151 (8.48%) Senior
5 110 (6.18%) Business Analyst
6 102 (5.73%) Senior Manager
7 86 (4.83%) IT Manager
8 84 (4.72%) Senior Project Manager
9 79 (4.44%) IT Project Manager
10 77 (4.33%) Consultant
11 55 (3.09%) Technical Manager
12 54 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
13 53 (2.98%) Infrastructure Manager
13 53 (2.98%) Programme Manager
14 45 (2.53%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 42 (2.36%) Coordinator
16 40 (2.25%) Architect
17 37 (2.08%) SAP Manager
18 35 (1.97%) Technical Project Manager
19 34 (1.91%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.18%) Middleware
2 18 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (0.84%) Web Services
4 14 (0.79%) REST
4 14 (0.79%) SOAP
5 12 (0.67%) EDI
6 10 (0.56%) .NET
6 10 (0.56%) XML
7 8 (0.45%) AngularJS
7 8 (0.45%) CSS
8 7 (0.39%) HTML
9 6 (0.34%) ADO
9 6 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (0.34%) OAuth
9 6 (0.34%) OpenID
9 6 (0.34%) React
10 5 (0.28%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.28%) RESTful
10 5 (0.28%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.28%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 114 (6.40%) Onboarding
2 93 (5.22%) Management Information System
3 58 (3.26%) Data Centre
4 54 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 51 (2.87%) PMI
6 49 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 45 (2.53%) Virtual Team
8 39 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.29%) Operational Technology
11 22 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.24%) NHS
12 19 (1.07%) CMDB
13 18 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (0.96%) Social Media
15 16 (0.90%) SCADA
16 14 (0.79%) Cloud Native
17 11 (0.62%) Tandem
17 11 (0.62%) Web Conferencing
18 10 (0.56%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.64%) Windows
2 15 (0.84%) Linux
3 11 (0.62%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.56%) Unix
5 7 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.056%) Solaris
7 1 (0.056%) VMS
7 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.056%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 669 (37.58%) Agile
2 598 (33.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 431 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
4 426 (23.93%) Project Delivery
5 365 (20.51%) PRINCE2
6 312 (17.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 282 (15.84%) Change Management
8 271 (15.22%) Migration
9 249 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 199 (11.18%) Waterfall
11 198 (11.12%) Decision-Making
12 194 (10.90%) Risk Management
13 181 (10.17%) Scrum
14 166 (9.33%) Budget Management
15 141 (7.92%) ERP
16 135 (7.58%) DevOps
17 133 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
18 129 (7.25%) ITIL
19 126 (7.08%) Business Analysis
19 126 (7.08%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 82 (4.61%) SQL
2 40 (2.25%) Python
3 14 (0.79%) Java
4 13 (0.73%) C#
5 11 (0.62%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.34%) VBA
7 5 (0.28%) ABAP
7 5 (0.28%) Perl
7 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.28%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.28%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.22%) R
9 3 (0.17%) C++
9 3 (0.17%) SOQL
10 2 (0.11%) C
10 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.11%) Ruby
10 2 (0.11%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 306 (17.19%) Degree
2 275 (15.45%) Security Cleared
3 255 (14.33%) PMP
4 233 (13.09%) PMI Certification
5 201 (11.29%) SC Cleared
6 59 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 38 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 36 (2.02%) APMP
9 32 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 25 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.35%) CISSP
13 21 (1.18%) CISM
14 20 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 17 (0.96%) MBA
16 16 (0.90%) CBAP
17 15 (0.84%) IIBA
18 11 (0.62%) ACCA
18 11 (0.62%) CIMA
19 8 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (11.29%) PMO
2 121 (6.80%) QA
3 49 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 46 (2.58%) GDPR
6 35 (1.97%) NIST
7 20 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.12%) SLA
8 18 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.96%) GRC
10 11 (0.62%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.56%) Basel III
12 7 (0.39%) ISO 19650
13 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.34%) EMIR
13 6 (0.34%) WCAG
14 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.28%) MiFID
14 5 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 26 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.73%) Docker
3 7 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.28%) RACF
4 5 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.056%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.056%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.73%) Terraform
3 9 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.39%) SCCM
5 6 (0.34%) Kibana
5 6 (0.34%) logstash
5 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.28%) Ansible
7 4 (0.22%) Consul
7 4 (0.22%) Packer
8 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.17%) Grafana
8 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.056%) Cisco UCCE
9 1 (0.056%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.056%) Puppet
9 1 (0.056%) SCOM
9 1 (0.056%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 282 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 155 (8.71%) SAP
3 91 (5.11%) ServiceNow
4 67 (3.76%) Oracle
5 64 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 30 (1.69%) Google
7 26 (1.46%) Cisco
8 21 (1.18%) Workday
9 20 (1.12%) Adobe
10 19 (1.07%) Atlassian
11 17 (0.96%) Databricks
12 15 (0.84%) CyberArk
12 15 (0.84%) VMware
13 14 (0.79%) Planview
13 14 (0.79%) Sage
14 12 (0.67%) Palo Alto
15 11 (0.62%) IBM
16 9 (0.51%) Juniper
16 9 (0.51%) Splunk
17 7 (0.39%) Guidewire