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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,706 2,414 3,217
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.98% 7.69% 7.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.58% 8.88% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,089 1,369 2,161
10th Percentile £331 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £738 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 118 136
10th Percentile £20.18 £21.25 £21.13
25th Percentile £23.50 £27.00 £30.02
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -22.22% +26.76%
75th Percentile £63.40 £55.79 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £68.45 £73.35
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £33.74 £45.00
% change year-on-year +0.79% -25.03% +20.72%

All Process and 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 25,910 27,182 36,059
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.82% 86.63% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,410 16,557 24,867
10th Percentile £297 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,660 1,019 1,483
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.67 £20.30 £18.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%
75th Percentile £44.75 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.45 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £42.75
% change year-on-year -32.95% -12.28% +22.14%

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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 2025. 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 -8 830 £545 -0.91% 904
North of England -21 240 £500 +5.26% 511
South East -7 214 £515 +0.73% 822
Midlands -13 197 £475 -9.52% 360
North West -9 156 £500 +11.11% 315
West Midlands -20 136 £492 -10.55% 218
South West -13 108 £450 -10.00% 187
Yorkshire -28 74 £500 - 138
East of England -19 69 £510 +13.33% 251
East Midlands -9 60 £450 +2.21% 142
North East -22 10 £375 -33.92% 63
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
1 127 (7.44%) Confluence
2 116 (6.80%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.58%) CMS
4 16 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.47%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
7 5 (0.29%) WordPress
8 3 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.12%) Apache
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.059%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.059%) Moodle
10 1 (0.059%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.059%) SAS
Applications
1 182 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 139 (8.15%) Microsoft Office
3 135 (7.91%) Microsoft Project
4 106 (6.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 52 (3.05%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.35%) Trello
7 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.29%) Revit
10 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.18%) InDesign
11 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.18%) Simulink
12 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.12%) ProjectWise
12 2 (0.12%) Windchill
13 1 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.059%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 57 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.70%) Primavera
3 11 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.47%) Workfront
6 7 (0.41%) Shopify
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.29%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.29%) ResourceLink
9 4 (0.23%) Endur
9 4 (0.23%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 140 (8.21%) Azure
2 89 (5.22%) AWS
3 86 (5.04%) Power Platform
4 64 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (2.17%) SaaS
6 34 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (1.88%) GCP
8 25 (1.47%) Asana
9 21 (1.23%) Smartsheet
10 20 (1.17%) GitHub
11 18 (1.06%) Google Workspace
12 17 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (1.00%) OneDrive
12 17 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
13 14 (0.82%) Entra ID
14 12 (0.70%) Serverless
15 11 (0.64%) PowerApps
16 10 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (0.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 9 (0.53%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.75%) Firewall
2 20 (1.17%) WAN
3 18 (1.06%) LAN
4 17 (1.00%) DNS
5 16 (0.94%) VPN
6 14 (0.82%) Wireless
7 11 (0.64%) DHCP
7 11 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
8 10 (0.59%) Skype
9 9 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (0.53%) Network Security
9 9 (0.53%) SSH
10 8 (0.47%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.47%) WLAN
11 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
12 6 (0.35%) BGP
12 6 (0.35%) SSL
12 6 (0.35%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.29%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (4.51%) Power BI
2 30 (1.76%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.47%) Tableau
4 16 (0.94%) SAP HANA
5 12 (0.70%) Metadata
6 10 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.41%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.29%) GIS
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.29%) Power Query
11 4 (0.23%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.23%) MySQL
11 4 (0.23%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.18%) Big Data
12 3 (0.18%) DB2
12 3 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 261 (15.30%) JIRA
2 13 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.53%) SpecFlow
4 7 (0.41%) Git
5 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.29%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.29%) Maven
6 4 (0.23%) JUnit
6 4 (0.23%) Selenium
7 3 (0.18%) GitLab
8 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.059%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.059%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.059%) Dreamweaver
9 1 (0.059%) ERwin
9 1 (0.059%) JMeter
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.059%) Subversion
General
1 808 (47.36%) Social Skills
2 642 (37.63%) Finance
3 263 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (9.91%) Banking
5 119 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 111 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
7 99 (5.80%) Marketing
8 86 (5.04%) Legal
9 78 (4.57%) Manufacturing
10 71 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
11 67 (3.93%) Retail
12 49 (2.87%) Telecoms
13 46 (2.70%) Front Office
13 46 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 37 (2.17%) Investment Banking
15 37 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
16 34 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
17 31 (1.82%) Local Government
18 25 (1.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 584 (34.23%) Project Manager
2 213 (12.49%) Analyst
3 147 (8.62%) Lead
4 129 (7.56%) Senior
5 116 (6.80%) Business Analyst
6 89 (5.22%) IT Manager
7 83 (4.87%) Consultant
8 71 (4.16%) Senior Manager
9 69 (4.04%) IT Project Manager
10 54 (3.17%) Senior Project Manager
11 52 (3.05%) Programme Manager
11 52 (3.05%) Technical Manager
12 41 (2.40%) Developer
13 40 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
14 39 (2.29%) Architect
14 39 (2.29%) SAP Manager
15 37 (2.17%) Security Manager
16 36 (2.11%) Infrastructure Manager
16 36 (2.11%) Technical Project Manager
17 35 (2.05%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.47%) .NET
2 18 (1.06%) AngularJS
3 17 (1.00%) HTML
4 16 (0.94%) REST
5 15 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (0.82%) Middleware
7 12 (0.70%) .NET Framework
7 12 (0.70%) CSS
7 12 (0.70%) RESTful
8 10 (0.59%) React
9 9 (0.53%) Entity Framework
9 9 (0.53%) NHibernate
9 9 (0.53%) Playwright
10 8 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (0.47%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (0.35%) Web Services
12 5 (0.29%) ADO
12 5 (0.29%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (0.29%) LangChain
12 5 (0.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.87%) Management Information System
2 74 (4.34%) Onboarding
3 49 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
5 41 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.11%) PMI
7 34 (1.99%) Virtual Team
8 33 (1.93%) Data Centre
9 30 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 20 (1.17%) Social Media
12 18 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (0.94%) Mobile App
14 14 (0.82%) Life Science
14 14 (0.82%) Operational Technology
14 14 (0.82%) Reinsurance
15 13 (0.76%) Credit Risk
15 13 (0.76%) Market Risk
16 12 (0.70%) Digital Media
16 12 (0.70%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 73 (4.28%) Windows
2 22 (1.29%) Linux
3 15 (0.88%) Unix
4 13 (0.76%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.059%) AIX
8 1 (0.059%) Android
8 1 (0.059%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.059%) Solaris
8 1 (0.059%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (37.69%) Agile
2 515 (30.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 404 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
4 375 (21.98%) Project Delivery
5 282 (16.53%) PRINCE2
6 281 (16.47%) Change Management
7 276 (16.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 216 (12.66%) Migration
9 210 (12.31%) Risk Management
10 194 (11.37%) Waterfall
11 193 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 171 (10.02%) Decision-Making
13 168 (9.85%) Scrum
14 117 (6.86%) ITIL
15 115 (6.74%) Requirements Gathering
16 114 (6.68%) Roadmaps
17 113 (6.62%) Business Analysis
17 113 (6.62%) DevOps
18 110 (6.45%) Project Governance
19 107 (6.27%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 83 (4.87%) SQL
2 56 (3.28%) Python
3 30 (1.76%) Java
4 23 (1.35%) JavaScript
5 17 (1.00%) C#
6 13 (0.76%) PowerShell
7 10 (0.59%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.35%) VBA
9 5 (0.29%) ABAP
9 5 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.29%) VB
10 4 (0.23%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.18%) C++
11 3 (0.18%) PHP
11 3 (0.18%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.18%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.18%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.12%) C
12 2 (0.12%) R
Qualifications
1 311 (18.23%) Degree
2 217 (12.72%) PMP
3 200 (11.72%) PMI Certification
4 192 (11.25%) Security Cleared
5 139 (8.15%) SC Cleared
6 50 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.06%) CISSP
10 17 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.94%) APMP
12 15 (0.88%) CISM
13 14 (0.82%) CCNP
14 13 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 11 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 9 (0.53%) CCNA
17 8 (0.47%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (9.38%) PMO
2 85 (4.98%) QA
3 44 (2.58%) GDPR
4 42 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (2.05%) NIST
6 30 (1.76%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.88%) P3O
10 14 (0.82%) GRC
11 12 (0.70%) MiFID
12 11 (0.64%) EMIR
13 10 (0.59%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.41%) APQC
14 7 (0.41%) GxP
14 7 (0.41%) SLA
15 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
16 5 (0.29%) ISO 19650
17 4 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.00%) Docker
3 12 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.12%) Firmware
7 2 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.059%) IAG
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.059%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.059%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 18 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.59%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.53%) SCCM
3 9 (0.53%) Terraform
4 8 (0.47%) Ansible
4 8 (0.47%) Kibana
5 7 (0.41%) logstash
6 6 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
6 6 (0.35%) NSN NetAct
7 4 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.18%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.12%) QRadar
9 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.059%) Cisco UCCE
10 1 (0.059%) Cisco UCCX
10 1 (0.059%) Puppet
10 1 (0.059%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 299 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 153 (8.97%) SAP
3 70 (4.10%) Oracle
4 64 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 61 (3.58%) ServiceNow
6 49 (2.87%) Google
7 31 (1.82%) Cisco
8 21 (1.23%) Adobe
9 18 (1.06%) Databricks
9 18 (1.06%) VMware
10 17 (1.00%) Workday
11 15 (0.88%) Remedy
12 14 (0.82%) IFS
13 13 (0.76%) Planview
14 12 (0.70%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.64%) Citrix
15 11 (0.64%) IBM
16 9 (0.53%) Genesys
17 8 (0.47%) Ericsson
17 8 (0.47%) Nokia