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

6 months to
3 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 1,906 1,961 2,922
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.71% 8.04% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.55% 8.82% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 1,173 1,818
10th Percentile £338 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £605 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £511 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 103 240
10th Percentile £14.64 £22.51 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.25 £26.37
Median hourly rate £37.54 £44.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -15.64% +16.74% -22.20%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.88 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -11.76% +11.49% -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 34,370 22,228 32,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.91% 91.19% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,972 14,556 21,057
10th Percentile £316 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,137 921 2,257
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.70 £12.97
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -16.67% -3.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -1.39%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -17 890 £550 +4.76% 446
North of England -21 285 £474 -3.27% 247
South East -15 283 £525 +6.60% 273
Midlands -30 202 £500 +8.81% 155
North West -14 162 £463 -2.63% 134
South West -18 147 £450 -4.05% 90
West Midlands -32 133 £500 - 93
Yorkshire -33 115 £480 +1.05% 83
East of England -23 75 £510 -1.73% 114
East Midlands -13 71 £398 -2.84% 62
North East -22 12 £430 -20.00% 35
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
1 144 (7.56%) Confluence
2 80 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.10%) CMS
4 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.37%) Apache
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Moodle
8 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.10%) SAS
9 2 (0.10%) WordPress
10 1 (0.052%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.052%) IIS
10 1 (0.052%) nginx
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.052%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.052%) WebSphere
Applications
1 204 (10.70%) Microsoft Project
2 180 (9.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 137 (7.19%) Microsoft Office
4 108 (5.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 45 (2.36%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.79%) Trello
8 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.26%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.10%) InDesign
12 2 (0.10%) InVision
12 2 (0.10%) Sketch
12 2 (0.10%) Windchill
13 1 (0.052%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.052%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.052%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 70 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.79%) Primavera
3 11 (0.58%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.52%) Shopify
5 9 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
6 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
7 7 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.31%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.26%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.26%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
10 4 (0.21%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 137 (7.19%) Azure
2 86 (4.51%) Power Platform
3 79 (4.14%) SaaS
4 75 (3.93%) AWS
5 68 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (1.42%) GCP
8 26 (1.36%) Smartsheet
9 23 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.10%) Asana
10 21 (1.10%) Google Workspace
11 14 (0.73%) OpenShift
12 13 (0.68%) Entra ID
13 12 (0.63%) GitHub
14 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.58%) OCI
15 10 (0.52%) BigCommerce
15 10 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (0.52%) PaaS
16 9 (0.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.42%) Network Security
2 26 (1.36%) WAN
3 21 (1.10%) Firewall
4 19 (1.00%) DNS
5 17 (0.89%) SD-WAN
5 17 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.84%) LAN
7 15 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (0.73%) MPLS
8 14 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
9 13 (0.68%) Internet
10 12 (0.63%) VPN
11 10 (0.52%) DHCP
12 8 (0.42%) BGP
13 7 (0.37%) BIG-IP
14 6 (0.31%) Intranet
14 6 (0.31%) IPsec
14 6 (0.31%) SSL
15 5 (0.26%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.35%) Power BI
2 17 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (0.89%) Tableau
3 16 (0.84%) Metadata
4 14 (0.73%) SQL Server
5 11 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
6 9 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.31%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.31%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.21%) Big Data
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.16%) GIS
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.16%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 296 (15.53%) JIRA
2 18 (0.94%) Git
3 10 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.31%) GitLab
5 5 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
8 2 (0.10%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.10%) Hudson
8 2 (0.10%) Subversion
8 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.10%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.052%) Ant
9 1 (0.052%) Appium
9 1 (0.052%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.052%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.052%) JUnit
9 1 (0.052%) minitest
9 1 (0.052%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.052%) Travis CI
General
1 901 (47.27%) Social Skills
2 729 (38.25%) Finance
3 326 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (10.28%) Organisational Skills
5 180 (9.44%) Public Sector
6 146 (7.66%) Banking
7 103 (5.40%) Marketing
8 102 (5.35%) Retail
9 71 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
10 70 (3.67%) Legal
11 62 (3.25%) Manufacturing
12 56 (2.94%) Telecoms
13 45 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (1.84%) Financial Institution
15 32 (1.68%) Local Government
16 31 (1.63%) Investment Banking
17 30 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
18 28 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 22 (1.15%) Front Office
20 21 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 730 (38.30%) Project Manager
2 214 (11.23%) Analyst
3 177 (9.29%) Senior
4 160 (8.39%) Lead
5 124 (6.51%) Senior Manager
6 116 (6.09%) Business Analyst
7 105 (5.51%) Senior Project Manager
8 92 (4.83%) IT Manager
9 82 (4.30%) IT Project Manager
10 80 (4.20%) Programme Manager
11 64 (3.36%) Consultant
12 59 (3.10%) Delivery Manager
12 59 (3.10%) Technical Manager
13 53 (2.78%) Infrastructure Manager
14 51 (2.68%) Architect
15 49 (2.57%) Project Officer
16 42 (2.20%) SC Cleared Project Manager
16 42 (2.20%) Technical Project Manager
17 41 (2.15%) Coordinator
17 41 (2.15%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.26%) Middleware
2 23 (1.21%) REST
3 17 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.84%) SOAP
5 14 (0.73%) HTML
5 14 (0.73%) Web Services
6 12 (0.63%) CSS
6 12 (0.63%) OAuth
7 10 (0.52%) EDI
7 10 (0.52%) VML
8 9 (0.47%) .NET
8 9 (0.47%) XML
9 8 (0.42%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.42%) SAML
10 7 (0.37%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.37%) JSON
11 6 (0.31%) ADO
11 6 (0.31%) OpenID
11 6 (0.31%) React
11 6 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 105 (5.51%) Management Information System
2 93 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.46%) PMI
4 65 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 54 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
5 54 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 52 (2.73%) Virtual Team
7 40 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (1.26%) Operational Technology
10 20 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (1.05%) NHS
11 19 (1.00%) CMDB
12 17 (0.89%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (0.84%) Social Media
14 15 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
15 14 (0.73%) EPoS
16 13 (0.68%) Life Science
17 12 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.31%) Windows
2 23 (1.21%) Linux
3 12 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.37%) Unix
5 6 (0.31%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.21%) zOS
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.10%) AIX
8 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.10%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.052%) Android
9 1 (0.052%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.052%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.052%) Solaris
9 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 712 (37.36%) Agile
2 652 (34.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 495 (25.97%) Project Delivery
4 430 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
5 384 (20.15%) PRINCE2
6 304 (15.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 296 (15.53%) Migration
8 291 (15.27%) Change Management
8 291 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 242 (12.70%) Decision-Making
10 237 (12.43%) Waterfall
11 224 (11.75%) Risk Management
12 188 (9.86%) Scrum
13 177 (9.29%) Budget Management
14 174 (9.13%) ERP
15 140 (7.35%) Roadmaps
16 133 (6.98%) Project Planning
17 131 (6.87%) AI
18 130 (6.82%) DevOps
19 129 (6.77%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 81 (4.25%) SQL
2 42 (2.20%) Python
3 18 (0.94%) Java
3 18 (0.94%) JavaScript
4 12 (0.63%) VBA
5 10 (0.52%) C#
6 9 (0.47%) C++
7 8 (0.42%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.37%) C
9 6 (0.31%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.26%) ABAP
10 5 (0.26%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.26%) R
11 4 (0.21%) Ada
11 4 (0.21%) Perl
12 3 (0.16%) JCL
12 3 (0.16%) SOQL
12 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.10%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 340 (17.84%) Security Cleared
2 311 (16.32%) Degree
3 285 (14.95%) PMP
4 250 (13.12%) SC Cleared
5 249 (13.06%) PMI Certification
6 74 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 43 (2.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 42 (2.20%) Master's Degree
9 37 (1.94%) APMP
10 35 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.36%) ACCA
11 26 (1.36%) CIMA
11 26 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.26%) CISSP
13 21 (1.10%) CISM
14 20 (1.05%) MBA
15 18 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 17 (0.89%) CBAP
17 12 (0.63%) APMG
17 12 (0.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (12.38%) PMO
2 135 (7.08%) QA
3 58 (3.04%) Data Quality
4 48 (2.52%) GDPR
5 43 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.78%) NIST
7 31 (1.63%) SLA
8 18 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.73%) GRC
10 11 (0.58%) Basel III
11 8 (0.42%) EMIR
11 8 (0.42%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.42%) MiFID
11 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.31%) GMP
12 6 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.26%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.26%) Docker
3 5 (0.26%) RACF
4 3 (0.16%) NFS
4 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.052%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.052%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.052%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (0.52%) Ansible
3 8 (0.42%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.26%) RSA Archer
5 5 (0.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (0.21%) logstash
7 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.16%) Kibana
7 3 (0.16%) SCCM
7 3 (0.16%) Terraform
7 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.10%) Grafana
8 2 (0.10%) SCOM
9 1 (0.052%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.052%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.052%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.052%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.052%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.052%) vRealize
Vendors
1 290 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 166 (8.71%) SAP
3 104 (5.46%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.62%) Oracle
5 55 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.94%) Google
7 29 (1.52%) Adobe
8 27 (1.42%) Workday
9 23 (1.21%) Cisco
10 20 (1.05%) Atlassian
11 17 (0.89%) CyberArk
11 17 (0.89%) VMware
12 14 (0.73%) Databricks
12 14 (0.73%) Sage
12 14 (0.73%) Sitecore
13 13 (0.68%) NEC
14 10 (0.52%) IBM
14 10 (0.52%) IFS
15 9 (0.47%) Juniper
16 8 (0.42%) CheckPoint