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

6 months to
29 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 1,801 1,969 2,496
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.02% 7.16% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 7.89% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 1,228 1,501
10th Percentile £318 £313 £310
25th Percentile £415 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% -2.48% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 102 224
10th Percentile £17.87 £21.39 £20.58
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.00 £28.00
Median hourly rate £42.09 £42.07 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.04% +10.36% -11.35%
75th Percentile £65.06 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £85.20 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £41.44 £37.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +11.55% -2.54% -15.29%

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 38,210 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.22% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,914 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £69.49 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -26 852 £550 +4.76% 523
North of England -31 280 £475 -3.46% 229
South East -22 261 £500 +2.56% 277
North West -18 177 £475 - 125
Midlands -45 146 £525 +16.67% 161
South West -20 139 £438 -2.78% 119
West Midlands -58 100 £550 +17.27% 101
Yorkshire -40 96 £500 - 75
East of England -9 91 £525 +0.48% 102
East Midlands -14 46 £488 +27.28% 60
North East -45 10 £420 -12.95% 32
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 98 (5.44%) Confluence
2 93 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.61%) CMS
4 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.33%) Apache
7 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) Moodle
8 5 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) JBoss
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.056%) CICS
12 1 (0.056%) IIS
Applications
1 171 (9.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 169 (9.38%) Microsoft Project
3 132 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
4 107 (5.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.33%) MS Visio
6 20 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.72%) Trello
8 8 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.33%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.17%) InDesign
12 3 (0.17%) Windchill
13 2 (0.11%) Houdini
13 2 (0.11%) NUKE
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.056%) CATIA
14 1 (0.056%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 65 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.05%) Primavera
3 10 (0.56%) Magento
4 8 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
4 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.44%) SAP HCM
5 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.33%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
6 6 (0.33%) Shopify
6 6 (0.33%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.28%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 161 (8.94%) Azure
2 108 (6.00%) Power Platform
3 88 (4.89%) SaaS
4 74 (4.11%) AWS
5 67 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.83%) Smartsheet
8 25 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.22%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.17%) GCP
11 20 (1.11%) Asana
12 17 (0.94%) GitHub
13 15 (0.83%) Entra ID
14 11 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.61%) Google Sheets
15 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
16 9 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (0.50%) OCI
17 8 (0.44%) Power Automate
17 8 (0.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.67%) Network Security
2 23 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 22 (1.22%) DNS
4 20 (1.11%) Structured Cabling
4 20 (1.11%) WAN
5 16 (0.89%) LAN
6 15 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (0.78%) Intranet
8 13 (0.72%) DHCP
8 13 (0.72%) Firewall
9 12 (0.67%) MPLS
9 12 (0.67%) VPN
10 11 (0.61%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.56%) BGP
12 9 (0.50%) BIG-IP
13 8 (0.44%) Internet
14 7 (0.39%) DKIM
14 7 (0.39%) DMARC
14 7 (0.39%) SAN
14 7 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.44%) Power BI
2 14 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (0.72%) Tableau
4 12 (0.67%) SQL Server
5 11 (0.61%) Metadata
6 10 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
8 7 (0.39%) GIS
8 7 (0.39%) Power Query
9 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.22%) Big Data
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.17%) QlikView
12 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 230 (12.77%) JIRA
2 21 (1.17%) Git
3 19 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.50%) Subversion
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) GitLab
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) Appium
9 1 (0.056%) Capybara
9 1 (0.056%) minitest
9 1 (0.056%) Postman
9 1 (0.056%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.056%) RSpec
9 1 (0.056%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.056%) Snyk
9 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.056%) Terragrunt
General
1 809 (44.92%) Social Skills
2 680 (37.76%) Finance
3 302 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (9.77%) Organisational Skills
5 150 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 131 (7.27%) Marketing
7 123 (6.83%) Banking
8 104 (5.77%) Retail
9 67 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
9 67 (3.72%) Manufacturing
10 62 (3.44%) Legal
11 53 (2.94%) Telecoms
12 42 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
13 29 (1.61%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.39%) Front Office
14 25 (1.39%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 22 (1.22%) Aerospace
17 21 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 685 (38.03%) Project Manager
2 180 (9.99%) Senior
3 160 (8.88%) Analyst
4 156 (8.66%) Lead
5 137 (7.61%) Senior Manager
6 115 (6.39%) Senior Project Manager
7 95 (5.27%) IT Manager
8 85 (4.72%) Programme Manager
9 84 (4.66%) Business Analyst
10 75 (4.16%) IT Project Manager
11 60 (3.33%) Consultant
12 58 (3.22%) Technical Manager
13 54 (3.00%) Infrastructure Manager
14 53 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
15 47 (2.61%) Technical Project Manager
16 42 (2.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 41 (2.28%) Project Officer
18 38 (2.11%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 37 (2.05%) Architect
20 35 (1.94%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.22%) Middleware
2 20 (1.11%) REST
3 13 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.72%) VML
4 12 (0.67%) ADO
4 12 (0.67%) HTML
4 12 (0.67%) OAuth
5 11 (0.61%) JSON
5 11 (0.61%) SOAP
5 11 (0.61%) Web Services
6 9 (0.50%) React
7 8 (0.44%) .NET
8 7 (0.39%) CSS
8 7 (0.39%) XML
9 6 (0.33%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.33%) SAML
10 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
10 5 (0.28%) RESTful
11 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.22%) Management Information System
2 86 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.66%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.83%) PMI
6 47 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
7 43 (2.39%) Virtual Team
8 30 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (1.33%) FMCG
11 23 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.28%) Operational Technology
11 23 (1.28%) Social Media
12 22 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (0.94%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.83%) Credit Risk
15 14 (0.78%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.78%) Life Science
16 13 (0.72%) CMDB
16 13 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.61%) Windows
2 31 (1.72%) Linux
3 17 (0.94%) Unix
4 14 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.22%) zOS
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.056%) AIX
8 1 (0.056%) Android
8 1 (0.056%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.056%) Solaris
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (39.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 670 (37.20%) Agile
3 481 (26.71%) Project Delivery
4 393 (21.82%) PRINCE2
5 337 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
6 301 (16.71%) Change Management
7 300 (16.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 269 (14.94%) Migration
9 255 (14.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 239 (13.27%) Decision-Making
11 233 (12.94%) Risk Management
12 224 (12.44%) Waterfall
13 180 (9.99%) AI
14 179 (9.94%) Scrum
15 146 (8.11%) ERP
16 134 (7.44%) Budget Management
17 131 (7.27%) Roadmaps
18 128 (7.11%) Project Planning
19 127 (7.05%) Analytics
19 127 (7.05%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 73 (4.05%) SQL
2 61 (3.39%) Python
3 18 (1.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (0.72%) Java
4 13 (0.72%) VBA
5 10 (0.56%) TypeScript
6 9 (0.50%) C++
7 8 (0.44%) ABAP
7 8 (0.44%) C#
7 8 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.33%) C
9 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.22%) Ada
10 4 (0.22%) JCL
10 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.17%) R
12 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.11%) Korn
12 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 305 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 284 (15.77%) PMP
3 280 (15.55%) Degree
4 248 (13.77%) PMI Certification
5 213 (11.83%) SC Cleared
6 75 (4.16%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 26 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.39%) ACCA
9 25 (1.39%) CIMA
10 20 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (0.89%) CISSP
11 16 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 13 (0.72%) APMP
12 13 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.67%) CISM
14 10 (0.56%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.56%) CIPFA
14 10 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (11.99%) PMO
2 97 (5.39%) QA
3 51 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.94%) SLA
5 33 (1.83%) GDPR
6 24 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.33%) NIST
7 22 (1.22%) GRC
8 20 (1.11%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.39%) EMIR
9 7 (0.39%) FINREP
9 7 (0.39%) MiFID
9 7 (0.39%) P3O
9 7 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.33%) COREP
10 6 (0.33%) GMP
10 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.22%) GxP
12 4 (0.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 32 (1.78%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) RACF
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.056%) ACF2
8 1 (0.056%) Docker
8 1 (0.056%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (1.00%) Ansible
2 15 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
4 4 (0.22%) Terraform
5 3 (0.17%) Puppet
6 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.056%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.056%) SCOM
7 1 (0.056%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.056%) vRealize
7 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 302 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 151 (8.38%) SAP
3 104 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 67 (3.72%) Oracle
5 49 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.39%) Google
7 37 (2.05%) Adobe
8 22 (1.22%) VMware
9 21 (1.17%) Cisco
9 21 (1.17%) Sitecore
10 18 (1.00%) Workday
11 16 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 16 (0.89%) NEC
12 14 (0.78%) Databricks
12 14 (0.78%) IBM
13 11 (0.61%) JD Edwards
14 10 (0.56%) Alteryx
14 10 (0.56%) F5
14 10 (0.56%) Guidewire
14 10 (0.56%) IFS