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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,858 2,018 2,999
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.90% 8.25% 7.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.69% 9.09% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 1,220 1,892
10th Percentile £340 £300 £315
25th Percentile £417 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £715 £730
UK median daily rate £517 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.30% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 106 251
10th Percentile £14.73 £25.44 £18.35
25th Percentile £20.79 £31.25 £26.54
Median hourly rate £40.25 £42.79 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +12.24% -22.20%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £79.38 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -5.88% +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 32,652 22,196 32,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.77% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,899 14,634 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £311 £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 £614 £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 2,012 866 2,163
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.04 £20.03 £15.97
Median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.67 £57.91
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -9.72%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -16 868 £550 +4.76% 403
South East -14 287 £525 +2.44% 313
North of England -22 287 £482 +2.56% 233
Midlands -26 200 £496 +10.22% 175
North West -12 170 £486 +7.94% 119
West Midlands -28 138 £503 +0.60% 98
South West -19 119 £472 -5.60% 104
Yorkshire -33 108 £492 +4.90% 85
East of England -31 75 £510 +0.10% 137
East Midlands -17 64 £393 -0.63% 76
North East -15 13 £430 -18.10% 31
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
1 158 (8.50%) Confluence
2 69 (3.71%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.02%) CMS
4 8 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.27%) Apache
5 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.27%) nginx
6 4 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) WordPress
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.054%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.054%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.054%) IIS
9 1 (0.054%) Moodle
9 1 (0.054%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 208 (11.19%) Microsoft Project
2 193 (10.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 134 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
4 101 (5.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 49 (2.64%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.91%) Trello
7 6 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.16%) InDesign
10 3 (0.16%) InVision
10 3 (0.16%) Sketch
11 2 (0.11%) Windchill
12 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.054%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.054%) Revit
Business Applications
1 61 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.18%) Primavera
3 15 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (0.65%) Loan IQ
4 12 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 10 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
7 9 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
8 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
8 8 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.38%) Shopify
10 6 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.32%) SAP HCM
10 6 (0.32%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.22%) NEC Housing
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 139 (7.48%) Azure
2 87 (4.68%) Power Platform
3 83 (4.47%) AWS
4 58 (3.12%) SaaS
5 45 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (1.29%) GCP
8 22 (1.18%) Smartsheet
9 21 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (0.97%) Google Workspace
11 17 (0.91%) Asana
11 17 (0.91%) OpenShift
12 14 (0.75%) GitHub
13 11 (0.59%) Entra ID
13 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (0.59%) OCI
14 10 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (0.54%) PaaS
14 10 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 10 (0.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.78%) WAN
2 27 (1.45%) Firewall
3 22 (1.18%) LAN
4 21 (1.13%) Network Security
5 19 (1.02%) SD-WAN
6 17 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
7 15 (0.81%) MPLS
8 14 (0.75%) VPN
8 14 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.70%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.65%) Internet
11 11 (0.59%) DNS
12 10 (0.54%) BGP
13 7 (0.38%) DHCP
14 6 (0.32%) Intranet
14 6 (0.32%) IPsec
14 6 (0.32%) OSPF
14 6 (0.32%) SSL
15 5 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (4.31%) Power BI
2 22 (1.18%) Tableau
3 17 (0.91%) SQL Server
4 16 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.81%) Metadata
6 11 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
7 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.43%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.32%) Power Query
10 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.22%) Big Data
11 4 (0.22%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.16%) GIS
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 296 (15.93%) JIRA
2 18 (0.97%) Git
3 11 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.32%) GitLab
5 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.16%) Selenium
7 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.054%) Ant
8 1 (0.054%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.054%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.054%) Hudson
8 1 (0.054%) JUnit
8 1 (0.054%) LSMW
8 1 (0.054%) MSI
8 1 (0.054%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.054%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.054%) Subversion
8 1 (0.054%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.054%) Toad
General
1 933 (50.22%) Social Skills
2 714 (38.43%) Finance
3 343 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (9.96%) Organisational Skills
5 178 (9.58%) Public Sector
6 159 (8.56%) Banking
7 93 (5.01%) Marketing
8 88 (4.74%) Retail
9 72 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
10 70 (3.77%) Legal
11 62 (3.34%) Manufacturing
12 51 (2.74%) Telecoms
13 50 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (2.21%) Investment Banking
15 36 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
16 34 (1.83%) Financial Institution
17 27 (1.45%) Front Office
18 26 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (1.40%) Local Government
19 18 (0.97%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 731 (39.34%) Project Manager
2 223 (12.00%) Analyst
3 170 (9.15%) Senior
4 151 (8.13%) Lead
5 122 (6.57%) Business Analyst
6 115 (6.19%) Senior Manager
7 95 (5.11%) Senior Project Manager
8 88 (4.74%) IT Manager
9 81 (4.36%) IT Project Manager
10 76 (4.09%) Consultant
11 69 (3.71%) Programme Manager
12 62 (3.34%) Technical Manager
13 60 (3.23%) Infrastructure Manager
14 58 (3.12%) Delivery Manager
15 49 (2.64%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 45 (2.42%) Architect
17 43 (2.31%) Technical Project Manager
18 40 (2.15%) Coordinator
19 38 (2.05%) Project Officer
20 37 (1.99%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.29%) Middleware
2 21 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (1.02%) REST
4 16 (0.86%) Web Services
5 14 (0.75%) SOAP
6 11 (0.59%) CSS
6 11 (0.59%) XML
7 10 (0.54%) EDI
7 10 (0.54%) HTML
8 8 (0.43%) .NET
8 8 (0.43%) AngularJS
8 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
9 7 (0.38%) OAuth
9 7 (0.38%) RESTful
9 7 (0.38%) VML
10 6 (0.32%) ADO
10 6 (0.32%) OpenID
10 6 (0.32%) React
10 6 (0.32%) SAML
11 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 105 (5.65%) Onboarding
2 100 (5.38%) Management Information System
3 66 (3.55%) Data Centre
4 58 (3.12%) PMI
5 52 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
5 52 (2.80%) Virtual Team
6 49 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 45 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (1.29%) NHS
10 23 (1.24%) Operational Technology
11 21 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.02%) CMDB
13 16 (0.86%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.81%) Social Media
15 14 (0.75%) SCADA
15 14 (0.75%) Web Conferencing
16 13 (0.70%) Cloud Native
17 12 (0.65%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.58%) Windows
2 19 (1.02%) Linux
3 13 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.27%) Unix
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.11%) zOS
7 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.054%) Solaris
7 1 (0.054%) VMS
7 1 (0.054%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (38.05%) Agile
2 633 (34.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 467 (25.13%) Project Delivery
4 463 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
5 395 (21.26%) PRINCE2
6 310 (16.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 287 (15.45%) Change Management
8 279 (15.02%) Migration
9 264 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 219 (11.79%) Decision-Making
11 216 (11.63%) Waterfall
12 206 (11.09%) Risk Management
13 203 (10.93%) Scrum
14 164 (8.83%) Budget Management
15 160 (8.61%) ERP
16 143 (7.70%) DevOps
17 130 (7.00%) Business Analysis
18 129 (6.94%) Data Migration
19 127 (6.84%) Analytics
19 127 (6.84%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 83 (4.47%) SQL
2 33 (1.78%) Python
3 15 (0.81%) JavaScript
4 14 (0.75%) Java
5 9 (0.48%) C#
6 7 (0.38%) PowerShell
6 7 (0.38%) VBA
7 6 (0.32%) ABAP
8 5 (0.27%) Perl
8 5 (0.27%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.27%) R
8 5 (0.27%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.22%) C++
9 4 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.22%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.16%) C
10 3 (0.16%) SOQL
11 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 321 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 314 (16.90%) Degree
3 283 (15.23%) PMP
4 255 (13.72%) PMI Certification
5 236 (12.70%) SC Cleared
6 68 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.94%) APMP
9 35 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (1.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 28 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.24%) CISSP
12 22 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 21 (1.13%) MBA
14 19 (1.02%) CISM
15 18 (0.97%) ACCA
15 18 (0.97%) CIMA
16 17 (0.91%) CBAP
17 15 (0.81%) IIBA
18 10 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (11.89%) PMO
2 121 (6.51%) QA
3 53 (2.85%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.53%) GDPR
5 41 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.61%) NIST
7 28 (1.51%) SLA
8 15 (0.81%) GRC
9 14 (0.75%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.59%) Basel III
11 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.43%) EMIR
13 7 (0.38%) MiFID
14 6 (0.32%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.27%) NCSC
15 5 (0.27%) P3O
15 5 (0.27%) WCAG
16 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.59%) Docker
3 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.27%) RACF
5 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.054%) NFS
7 1 (0.054%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.054%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.65%) Terraform
3 9 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.38%) RSA Archer
5 6 (0.32%) Ansible
6 5 (0.27%) logstash
6 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.22%) Consul
7 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.22%) Kibana
7 4 (0.22%) Packer
8 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.11%) Grafana
9 2 (0.11%) SCCM
9 2 (0.11%) SCOM
9 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.054%) Cisco UCCE
10 1 (0.054%) Cisco UCCX
10 1 (0.054%) Control-M
10 1 (0.054%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 274 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 162 (8.72%) SAP
3 100 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 78 (4.20%) Oracle
5 71 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 32 (1.72%) Cisco
6 32 (1.72%) Google
7 28 (1.51%) Adobe
8 25 (1.35%) Workday
9 23 (1.24%) Atlassian
10 18 (0.97%) VMware
11 17 (0.91%) CyberArk
12 14 (0.75%) Sage
13 13 (0.70%) Databricks
14 12 (0.65%) Palo Alto
15 11 (0.59%) Planview
16 9 (0.48%) CheckPoint
16 9 (0.48%) Juniper
16 9 (0.48%) Sitecore
17 8 (0.43%) IBM