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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -24 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,808 1,967 2,607
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.03% 7.22% 7.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 7.96% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,226 1,567
10th Percentile £325 £311 £309
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.08% -1.25%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £621
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 131 106 236
10th Percentile £17.87 £21.39 £20.38
25th Percentile £21.13 £29.56 £28.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +16.74% -11.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £39.27 £40.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -3.04% +6.24% -13.36%

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 38,258 24,707 30,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.66% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 15,833 19,804
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,323 1,986
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.22 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.03 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -26 851 £568 +5.28% 439
North of England -27 290 £475 -2.56% 213
South East -25 263 £500 +2.83% 260
North West -13 184 £475 +5.56% 122
Midlands -41 151 £525 +16.67% 119
South West -21 134 £450 - 82
West Midlands -49 106 £550 +17.27% 72
Yorkshire -38 99 £500 - 71
East of England -9 91 £525 +5.00% 88
East Midlands -13 45 £488 +20.22% 47
North East -42 11 £420 -17.65% 22
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
1 100 (5.53%) Confluence
2 93 (5.14%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.49%) CMS
4 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.28%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) Apache
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
10 3 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.055%) MS Project Server
12 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.055%) Umbraco
Applications
1 173 (9.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 161 (8.90%) Microsoft Project
3 133 (7.36%) Microsoft Office
4 115 (6.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.32%) MS Visio
6 19 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.66%) Trello
8 7 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.17%) Windchill
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) Houdini
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 2 (0.11%) NUKE
13 1 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.055%) CATIA
13 1 (0.055%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 67 (3.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.00%) Primavera
3 9 (0.50%) Magento
4 8 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
4 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.44%) SAP HCM
5 6 (0.33%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
5 6 (0.33%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (0.33%) Shopify
5 6 (0.33%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 156 (8.63%) Azure
2 102 (5.64%) Power Platform
3 82 (4.54%) SaaS
4 74 (4.09%) AWS
5 67 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (1.71%) Smartsheet
8 24 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.22%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.16%) GCP
11 20 (1.11%) Asana
12 17 (0.94%) Entra ID
13 15 (0.83%) GitHub
14 11 (0.61%) Google Sheets
15 10 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (0.55%) IaaS
15 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
16 9 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (0.50%) Serverless
17 8 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.38%) Network Security
2 23 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.16%) DNS
4 19 (1.05%) Structured Cabling
5 18 (1.00%) WAN
6 14 (0.77%) Intranet
6 14 (0.77%) LAN
7 13 (0.72%) Firewall
7 13 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.66%) DHCP
8 12 (0.66%) MPLS
8 12 (0.66%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.66%) VPN
9 10 (0.55%) BGP
10 9 (0.50%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.50%) Internet
11 7 (0.39%) DKIM
11 7 (0.39%) DMARC
11 7 (0.39%) SAN
12 6 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.25%) Power BI
2 13 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (0.72%) SQL Server
3 11 (0.61%) Metadata
3 11 (0.61%) Tableau
4 9 (0.50%) Data Lake
5 8 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
6 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
6 7 (0.39%) Power Query
7 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.28%) GIS
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) QlikView
11 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 234 (12.94%) JIRA
2 20 (1.11%) Git
3 18 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.50%) Subversion
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.22%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) Hudson
7 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.055%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.055%) Capybara
8 1 (0.055%) Gradle
8 1 (0.055%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.055%) LSMW
8 1 (0.055%) Maven
8 1 (0.055%) MSI
8 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.055%) RSpec
8 1 (0.055%) TestDirector
General
1 812 (44.91%) Social Skills
2 676 (37.39%) Finance
3 299 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
5 152 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 131 (7.25%) Marketing
7 125 (6.91%) Banking
8 106 (5.86%) Retail
9 72 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
10 67 (3.71%) Manufacturing
11 65 (3.60%) Legal
12 48 (2.65%) Telecoms
13 45 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (1.66%) Financial Institution
16 26 (1.44%) Front Office
17 25 (1.38%) Investment Banking
18 23 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 22 (1.22%) Aerospace
20 21 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 693 (38.33%) Project Manager
2 184 (10.18%) Senior
3 174 (9.62%) Analyst
4 152 (8.41%) Lead
5 139 (7.69%) Senior Manager
6 116 (6.42%) Senior Project Manager
7 93 (5.14%) Business Analyst
8 92 (5.09%) IT Manager
9 85 (4.70%) Programme Manager
10 74 (4.09%) IT Project Manager
11 59 (3.26%) Consultant
12 57 (3.15%) Technical Manager
13 54 (2.99%) Infrastructure Manager
14 51 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
15 45 (2.49%) Technical Project Manager
16 42 (2.32%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 40 (2.21%) Architect
17 40 (2.21%) Project Officer
18 36 (1.99%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 35 (1.94%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.22%) Middleware
2 16 (0.88%) REST
3 13 (0.72%) OAuth
3 13 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.72%) VML
4 12 (0.66%) HTML
5 11 (0.61%) Web Services
6 10 (0.55%) ADO
6 10 (0.55%) JSON
7 9 (0.50%) CSS
7 9 (0.50%) React
7 9 (0.50%) SOAP
8 7 (0.39%) .NET
8 7 (0.39%) SailPoint
8 7 (0.39%) SAML
8 7 (0.39%) XML
9 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (0.28%) OpenID
9 5 (0.28%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.20%) Management Information System
2 82 (4.54%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.65%) Data Centre
3 66 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 50 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
4 50 (2.77%) PMI
5 42 (2.32%) Virtual Team
6 29 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (1.44%) FMCG
8 25 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 23 (1.27%) Operational Technology
9 23 (1.27%) Social Media
10 21 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (0.88%) AI Agents
12 15 (0.83%) EPoS
12 15 (0.83%) Life Science
13 14 (0.77%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.49%) Windows
2 27 (1.49%) Linux
3 18 (1.00%) Unix
4 13 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.22%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.22%) zOS
6 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.055%) AIX
7 1 (0.055%) Android
7 1 (0.055%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.055%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.055%) Solaris
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (37.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 675 (37.33%) Agile
3 475 (26.27%) Project Delivery
4 373 (20.63%) PRINCE2
5 351 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
6 303 (16.76%) Change Management
6 303 (16.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 283 (15.65%) Migration
8 262 (14.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 239 (13.22%) Decision-Making
10 233 (12.89%) Risk Management
11 228 (12.61%) Waterfall
12 179 (9.90%) AI
13 178 (9.85%) Scrum
14 146 (8.08%) ERP
15 132 (7.30%) Budget Management
16 129 (7.13%) Project Planning
16 129 (7.13%) Roadmaps
17 125 (6.91%) Analytics
18 124 (6.86%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 72 (3.98%) SQL
2 61 (3.37%) Python
3 18 (1.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (0.77%) VBA
5 10 (0.55%) TypeScript
6 9 (0.50%) C++
6 9 (0.50%) Java
7 8 (0.44%) ABAP
7 8 (0.44%) C#
8 7 (0.39%) C
8 7 (0.39%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.22%) Ada
10 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.22%) JCL
10 4 (0.22%) R
10 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.11%) Korn
11 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 289 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 280 (15.49%) Degree
3 278 (15.38%) PMP
4 241 (13.33%) PMI Certification
5 203 (11.23%) SC Cleared
6 65 (3.60%) DV Cleared
7 56 (3.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 30 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.44%) ACCA
10 26 (1.44%) CIMA
11 18 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 15 (0.83%) CISSP
14 14 (0.77%) APMP
14 14 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.55%) CIPFA
15 10 (0.55%) CISM
15 10 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 9 (0.50%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (11.84%) PMO
2 98 (5.42%) QA
3 50 (2.77%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.94%) SLA
5 33 (1.83%) GDPR
6 23 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.27%) NIST
7 20 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.11%) GRC
8 7 (0.39%) EMIR
8 7 (0.39%) MiFID
9 6 (0.33%) FINREP
9 6 (0.33%) GMP
9 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.28%) COREP
10 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.28%) P3O
11 4 (0.22%) GxP
11 4 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.28%) RACF
6 4 (0.22%) NFS
6 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.055%) ACF2
9 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (0.94%) Ansible
1 17 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.17%) Terraform
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.055%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.055%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.055%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.055%) logstash
7 1 (0.055%) Nessus
7 1 (0.055%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.055%) SCOM
7 1 (0.055%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.055%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.055%) vRealize
7 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 302 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 150 (8.30%) SAP
3 104 (5.75%) ServiceNow
4 64 (3.54%) Oracle
5 52 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.38%) Google
7 38 (2.10%) Adobe
8 21 (1.16%) VMware
9 19 (1.05%) Sitecore
10 18 (1.00%) Cisco
11 17 (0.94%) Workday
12 14 (0.77%) Databricks
12 14 (0.77%) IBM
12 14 (0.77%) NEC
13 12 (0.66%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.61%) JD Edwards
15 10 (0.55%) Alteryx
15 10 (0.55%) F5
15 10 (0.55%) IFS
16 9 (0.50%) CyberArk