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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -19 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,809 2,007 3,055
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.98% 8.13% 8.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.76% 8.97% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 1,200 1,941
10th Percentile £340 £275 £320
25th Percentile £420 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £600 £625
90th Percentile £716 £725 £728
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.04% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 96 228
10th Percentile £15.02 £24.49 £18.35
25th Percentile £20.79 £31.25 £26.19
Median hourly rate £40.50 £41.25 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +8.21% -26.69%
75th Percentile £63.58 £60.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.50 £61.33
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £40.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -0.63% +4.93% -24.89%

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 31,421 22,365 33,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,102 14,445 21,880
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £615 £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 1,952 795 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.01 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.81 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -16 835 £550 +4.76% 390
North of England -20 278 £488 +2.63% 224
South East -13 275 £525 - 308
Midlands -25 209 £500 +5.26% 169
North West -9 160 £490 +8.83% 112
West Midlands -27 146 £500 -4.76% 103
South West -16 116 £450 -10.00% 105
Yorkshire -30 110 £492 +3.58% 92
East of England -29 71 £450 -10.00% 132
East Midlands -19 65 £398 +0.60% 66
North East -19 12 £410 -21.90% 25
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
1 159 (8.79%) Confluence
2 79 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.05%) CMS
4 7 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.28%) Apache
5 5 (0.28%) nginx
6 3 (0.17%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.11%) WordPress
8 1 (0.055%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.055%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.055%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.055%) IIS
8 1 (0.055%) Moodle
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.055%) WebSphere
Applications
1 202 (11.17%) Microsoft Project
2 193 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 135 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
4 102 (5.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (2.27%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
7 17 (0.94%) Trello
8 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.17%) InVision
10 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.17%) Sketch
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.055%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.055%) Revit
12 1 (0.055%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 58 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.22%) Primavera
3 14 (0.77%) Loan IQ
3 14 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 10 (0.55%) SAP Payroll
7 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
8 8 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
9 7 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
9 7 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.33%) SAP HCM
11 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.28%) Shopify
11 5 (0.28%) Teamcenter
12 3 (0.17%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 134 (7.41%) Azure
2 88 (4.86%) AWS
3 87 (4.81%) Power Platform
4 54 (2.99%) SaaS
5 42 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (1.55%) GCP
8 21 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (1.11%) OpenShift
10 19 (1.05%) Asana
11 17 (0.94%) Smartsheet
12 16 (0.88%) Google Workspace
13 15 (0.83%) GitHub
14 13 (0.72%) Serverless
15 12 (0.66%) Entra ID
15 12 (0.66%) IaaS
16 11 (0.61%) PaaS
17 10 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
18 9 (0.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.60%) WAN
2 26 (1.44%) Firewall
3 19 (1.05%) LAN
4 18 (1.00%) Network Security
5 17 (0.94%) Structured Cabling
6 15 (0.83%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.72%) VPN
9 12 (0.66%) MPLS
10 11 (0.61%) Internet
11 10 (0.55%) DNS
11 10 (0.55%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.44%) BGP
12 8 (0.44%) SSL
13 6 (0.33%) DHCP
13 6 (0.33%) IPsec
14 5 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
15 4 (0.22%) Broadband
15 4 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (4.42%) Power BI
2 25 (1.38%) Tableau
3 17 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.88%) SQL Server
5 15 (0.83%) Metadata
6 9 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
8 7 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.22%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.22%) GIS
11 4 (0.22%) Power Query
11 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 293 (16.20%) JIRA
2 17 (0.94%) Git
3 11 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.44%) GitLab
5 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.17%) Selenium
7 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.055%) Ant
8 1 (0.055%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.055%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.055%) ERwin
8 1 (0.055%) Hudson
8 1 (0.055%) JUnit
8 1 (0.055%) LSMW
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.055%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.055%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.055%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.055%) Toad
General
1 907 (50.14%) Social Skills
2 695 (38.42%) Finance
3 309 (17.08%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (9.89%) Organisational Skills
5 170 (9.40%) Public Sector
6 154 (8.51%) Banking
7 88 (4.86%) Retail
8 82 (4.53%) Marketing
9 73 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
9 73 (4.04%) Legal
10 70 (3.87%) Manufacturing
11 48 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (2.32%) Telecoms
13 41 (2.27%) Investment Banking
14 31 (1.71%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.33%) Front Office
17 24 (1.33%) Local Government
18 19 (1.05%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 711 (39.30%) Project Manager
2 206 (11.39%) Analyst
3 159 (8.79%) Senior
4 151 (8.35%) Lead
5 110 (6.08%) Senior Manager
6 109 (6.03%) Business Analyst
7 90 (4.98%) Senior Project Manager
8 84 (4.64%) IT Manager
9 78 (4.31%) IT Project Manager
10 77 (4.26%) Consultant
11 62 (3.43%) Programme Manager
12 59 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
12 59 (3.26%) Infrastructure Manager
13 58 (3.21%) Technical Manager
14 49 (2.71%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 39 (2.16%) Coordinator
16 37 (2.05%) Project Officer
16 37 (2.05%) SAP Manager
16 37 (2.05%) Technical Project Manager
17 36 (1.99%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.22%) Middleware
2 21 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.77%) REST
4 13 (0.72%) SOAP
4 13 (0.72%) Web Services
5 11 (0.61%) EDI
6 10 (0.55%) XML
7 9 (0.50%) CSS
8 8 (0.44%) HTML
8 8 (0.44%) SailPoint
9 7 (0.39%) OAuth
10 6 (0.33%) .NET
10 6 (0.33%) ADO
10 6 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (0.33%) OpenID
10 6 (0.33%) SAML
11 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.28%) OAuth2
11 5 (0.28%) VML
11 5 (0.28%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (6.14%) Onboarding
2 93 (5.14%) Management Information System
3 64 (3.54%) Data Centre
4 56 (3.10%) PMI
5 50 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
6 47 (2.60%) Virtual Team
7 44 (2.43%) Product Ownership
8 40 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.44%) Operational Technology
11 22 (1.22%) NHS
12 21 (1.16%) CMDB
13 20 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (0.88%) SCADA
14 16 (0.88%) Social Media
15 14 (0.77%) Cloud Native
15 14 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.72%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.72%) Web Conferencing
17 11 (0.61%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.43%) Windows
2 15 (0.83%) Linux
3 10 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.50%) Unix
5 7 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.055%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.055%) Solaris
7 1 (0.055%) VMS
7 1 (0.055%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (37.53%) Agile
2 612 (33.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 439 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
4 436 (24.10%) Project Delivery
5 392 (21.67%) PRINCE2
6 310 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 285 (15.75%) Change Management
8 275 (15.20%) Migration
9 256 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 200 (11.06%) Waterfall
11 198 (10.95%) Decision-Making
12 195 (10.78%) Scrum
13 192 (10.61%) Risk Management
14 164 (9.07%) Budget Management
15 152 (8.40%) ERP
16 135 (7.46%) DevOps
17 127 (7.02%) Roadmaps
18 126 (6.97%) Cybersecurity
18 126 (6.97%) ITIL
19 123 (6.80%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 81 (4.48%) SQL
2 37 (2.05%) Python
3 13 (0.72%) Java
3 13 (0.72%) JavaScript
4 10 (0.55%) C#
5 6 (0.33%) ABAP
5 6 (0.33%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.33%) VBA
6 5 (0.28%) Perl
6 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.28%) R
7 4 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (0.22%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.17%) C++
8 3 (0.17%) Korn
8 3 (0.17%) SOQL
9 2 (0.11%) C
9 2 (0.11%) Go
9 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 301 (16.64%) Degree
2 300 (16.58%) Security Cleared
3 273 (15.09%) PMP
4 248 (13.71%) PMI Certification
5 221 (12.22%) SC Cleared
6 61 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.99%) APMP
9 33 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 32 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 27 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.33%) CISSP
13 22 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 20 (1.11%) CISM
15 17 (0.94%) MBA
16 16 (0.88%) CBAP
17 15 (0.83%) IIBA
18 12 (0.66%) ACCA
18 12 (0.66%) CIMA
19 8 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (11.33%) PMO
2 119 (6.58%) QA
3 53 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.43%) GDPR
4 44 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.77%) NIST
6 26 (1.44%) SLA
7 15 (0.83%) GRC
8 14 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.61%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.55%) Basel III
12 7 (0.39%) EMIR
13 6 (0.33%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.33%) MiFID
13 6 (0.33%) WCAG
14 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.28%) NCSC
14 5 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 21 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.72%) Docker
3 7 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.28%) RACF
5 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.055%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.055%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (0.83%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.66%) Terraform
3 9 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.33%) Kibana
4 6 (0.33%) logstash
5 5 (0.28%) Ansible
6 4 (0.22%) Consul
6 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.22%) Packer
6 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
7 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.11%) Grafana
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.11%) SCCM
9 1 (0.055%) Cisco UCCE
9 1 (0.055%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.055%) Puppet
9 1 (0.055%) SCOM
9 1 (0.055%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 273 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 166 (9.18%) SAP
3 94 (5.20%) ServiceNow
4 71 (3.92%) Oracle
5 65 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 30 (1.66%) Cisco
6 30 (1.66%) Google
7 23 (1.27%) Adobe
7 23 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 23 (1.27%) Workday
8 17 (0.94%) CyberArk
9 15 (0.83%) Sage
10 14 (0.77%) Databricks
10 14 (0.77%) VMware
11 12 (0.66%) Palo Alto
11 12 (0.66%) Planview
12 10 (0.55%) IBM
13 9 (0.50%) Juniper
14 8 (0.44%) NEC
14 8 (0.44%) Splunk