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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,838 2,023 3,019
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.99% 8.19% 7.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 9.04% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,163 1,211 1,923
10th Percentile £340 £275 £325
25th Percentile £417 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £618 £600 £637
90th Percentile £713 £725 £728
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 97 230
10th Percentile £15.22 £24.54 £18.35
25th Percentile £20.79 £31.25 £26.24
Median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% +11.49% -25.98%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.00 £51.13
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £61.25
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £42.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -6.47% +11.49% -23.78%

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 31,861 22,379 32,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.57% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,379 14,469 21,822
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 1,986 803 2,148
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -16 846 £550 +4.76% 384
South East -13 284 £525 +1.20% 317
North of England -22 284 £483 +1.68% 238
Midlands -23 208 £500 +5.26% 181
North West -9 165 £488 +8.33% 120
West Midlands -29 145 £500 -3.85% 105
South West -18 119 £450 -10.00% 118
Yorkshire -30 112 £490 +4.48% 96
East of England -31 72 £450 -10.00% 135
East Midlands -16 65 £398 -0.53% 76
North East -20 11 £410 -21.90% 26
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
1 165 (8.98%) Confluence
2 78 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.09%) CMS
4 8 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.27%) Apache
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%) Microsoft Exchange
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
1 211 (11.48%) Microsoft Project
2 196 (10.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 136 (7.40%) Microsoft Office
4 103 (5.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 43 (2.34%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
7 17 (0.92%) Trello
8 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.16%) InVision
10 3 (0.16%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.16%) Sketch
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.054%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.054%) Revit
12 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 58 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.20%) Primavera
3 15 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (0.65%) Loan IQ
4 12 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 10 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
7 9 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
7 9 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
8 8 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.33%) SAP HCM
10 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.27%) Shopify
10 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.22%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 138 (7.51%) Azure
2 89 (4.84%) AWS
3 86 (4.68%) Power Platform
4 57 (3.10%) SaaS
5 42 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (1.63%) GCP
8 22 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (1.09%) OpenShift
10 19 (1.03%) Asana
11 18 (0.98%) Smartsheet
12 16 (0.87%) Google Workspace
13 15 (0.82%) GitHub
14 13 (0.71%) Entra ID
14 13 (0.71%) Serverless
15 11 (0.60%) IaaS
15 11 (0.60%) PaaS
16 10 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Copilot
17 9 (0.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.74%) WAN
2 28 (1.52%) Firewall
3 22 (1.20%) LAN
4 19 (1.03%) Network Security
5 18 (0.98%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
7 14 (0.76%) VPN
7 14 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.71%) MPLS
9 11 (0.60%) DNS
9 11 (0.60%) Internet
9 11 (0.60%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.49%) BGP
11 7 (0.38%) DHCP
11 7 (0.38%) SSL
12 6 (0.33%) IPsec
13 5 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.27%) OSPF
14 4 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (4.30%) Power BI
2 25 (1.36%) Tableau
3 17 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.87%) SQL Server
5 15 (0.82%) Metadata
6 9 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
7 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.22%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.22%) GIS
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.22%) Power Query
11 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.16%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 302 (16.43%) JIRA
2 17 (0.92%) Git
3 11 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.44%) GitLab
5 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.16%) Selenium
7 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.054%) Ant
8 1 (0.054%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.054%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.054%) ERwin
8 1 (0.054%) Hudson
8 1 (0.054%) JUnit
8 1 (0.054%) LSMW
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.054%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.054%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.054%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.054%) Toad
General
1 913 (49.67%) Social Skills
2 707 (38.47%) Finance
3 319 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (9.90%) Organisational Skills
5 171 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 156 (8.49%) Banking
7 89 (4.84%) Retail
8 86 (4.68%) Marketing
9 73 (3.97%) Legal
10 72 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
11 67 (3.65%) Manufacturing
12 51 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (2.39%) Telecoms
14 41 (2.23%) Investment Banking
15 31 (1.69%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
17 27 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (1.41%) Local Government
19 24 (1.31%) Front Office
20 19 (1.03%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 723 (39.34%) Project Manager
2 212 (11.53%) Analyst
3 160 (8.71%) Senior
4 152 (8.27%) Lead
5 115 (6.26%) Business Analyst
6 110 (5.98%) Senior Manager
7 90 (4.90%) Senior Project Manager
8 84 (4.57%) IT Manager
9 78 (4.24%) IT Project Manager
10 77 (4.19%) Consultant
11 66 (3.59%) Programme Manager
12 61 (3.32%) Infrastructure Manager
13 60 (3.26%) Technical Manager
14 56 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
15 50 (2.72%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 41 (2.23%) Technical Project Manager
17 40 (2.18%) Coordinator
18 37 (2.01%) Architect
18 37 (2.01%) Data Manager
18 37 (2.01%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.25%) Middleware
2 22 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.76%) REST
4 13 (0.71%) SOAP
4 13 (0.71%) Web Services
5 11 (0.60%) EDI
5 11 (0.60%) XML
6 9 (0.49%) CSS
7 8 (0.44%) SailPoint
8 7 (0.38%) HTML
8 7 (0.38%) OAuth
9 6 (0.33%) .NET
9 6 (0.33%) ADO
9 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (0.33%) OpenID
9 6 (0.33%) SAML
10 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.27%) VML
10 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 114 (6.20%) Onboarding
2 94 (5.11%) Management Information System
3 67 (3.65%) Data Centre
4 55 (2.99%) PMI
5 52 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
6 48 (2.61%) Virtual Team
7 44 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 42 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.41%) Operational Technology
11 23 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (1.20%) NHS
13 21 (1.14%) CMDB
14 16 (0.87%) SCADA
14 16 (0.87%) Social Media
15 14 (0.76%) Cloud Native
15 14 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
16 13 (0.71%) Data Structures
17 11 (0.60%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.56%) Windows
2 18 (0.98%) Linux
3 11 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.49%) Unix
5 7 (0.38%) Windows 10
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 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (37.87%) Agile
2 629 (34.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 445 (24.21%) Project Delivery
4 442 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
5 399 (21.71%) PRINCE2
6 310 (16.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 292 (15.89%) Change Management
8 283 (15.40%) Migration
9 257 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 207 (11.26%) Waterfall
11 201 (10.94%) Decision-Making
12 197 (10.72%) Scrum
13 190 (10.34%) Risk Management
14 167 (9.09%) Budget Management
15 154 (8.38%) ERP
16 140 (7.62%) DevOps
17 133 (7.24%) Roadmaps
18 129 (7.02%) ITIL
19 127 (6.91%) Cybersecurity
20 126 (6.86%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 83 (4.52%) SQL
2 38 (2.07%) Python
3 12 (0.65%) Java
3 12 (0.65%) JavaScript
4 10 (0.54%) C#
5 6 (0.33%) ABAP
5 6 (0.33%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.27%) Perl
6 5 (0.27%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.27%) R
6 5 (0.27%) VBA
7 4 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (0.22%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.16%) C++
8 3 (0.16%) Korn
8 3 (0.16%) SOQL
8 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.11%) C
9 2 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 309 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 306 (16.65%) Degree
3 278 (15.13%) PMP
4 252 (13.71%) PMI Certification
5 227 (12.35%) SC Cleared
6 64 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 38 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.96%) APMP
9 33 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 32 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 28 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.31%) CISSP
13 21 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 20 (1.09%) CISM
15 18 (0.98%) MBA
16 17 (0.92%) CBAP
17 15 (0.82%) IIBA
18 13 (0.71%) ACCA
18 13 (0.71%) CIMA
19 8 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (11.32%) PMO
2 123 (6.69%) QA
3 53 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.56%) GDPR
5 45 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.80%) NIST
7 26 (1.41%) SLA
8 14 (0.76%) GRC
9 13 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.54%) Basel III
11 8 (0.44%) EMIR
12 7 (0.38%) MiFID
13 6 (0.33%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.33%) WCAG
14 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.27%) NCSC
14 5 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 24 (1.31%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.71%) Docker
3 8 (0.44%) 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%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (0.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.65%) Terraform
3 9 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.33%) Kibana
4 6 (0.33%) logstash
5 5 (0.27%) Ansible
6 4 (0.22%) Consul
6 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.22%) Packer
6 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
7 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.11%) Grafana
8 2 (0.11%) SCCM
8 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.054%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.054%) Control-M
9 1 (0.054%) Puppet
9 1 (0.054%) SCOM
9 1 (0.054%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 278 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 166 (9.03%) SAP
3 97 (5.28%) ServiceNow
4 72 (3.92%) Oracle
5 69 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 32 (1.74%) Google
7 30 (1.63%) Cisco
8 23 (1.25%) Adobe
8 23 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 23 (1.25%) Workday
9 16 (0.87%) CyberArk
9 16 (0.87%) VMware
10 15 (0.82%) Sage
11 14 (0.76%) Databricks
12 12 (0.65%) Palo Alto
13 11 (0.60%) IBM
13 11 (0.60%) Planview
14 9 (0.49%) Juniper
15 8 (0.44%) CheckPoint
15 8 (0.44%) NEC