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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -22 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,840 1,867 2,805
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.30% 7.56% 7.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 8.27% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,140 1,705
10th Percentile £322 £310 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £614
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £508 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.60% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 98 263
10th Percentile £15.11 £21.39 £18.33
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.50 £26.54
Median hourly rate £37.50 £46.24 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.90% +23.31% -17.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.99 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £45.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -18.33% +18.05% -17.13%

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 36,463 22,562 32,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.37% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,069 14,583 20,746
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,280 1,047 2,378
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -27.15% +7.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.34% -28.05% +6.23%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -22 867 £550 - 346
North of England -22 287 £475 - 210
South East -17 257 £502 +4.48% 260
Midlands -31 179 £500 +11.11% 120
North West -6 170 £470 +2.23% 102
South West -16 137 £450 - 106
West Midlands -40 123 £533 +13.54% 62
Yorkshire -32 110 £500 - 82
East of England -12 89 £525 +1.16% 111
East Midlands -15 58 £393 -7.53% 58
North East -33 10 £450 -11.76% 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
1 117 (6.36%) Confluence
2 98 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.14%) CMS
4 15 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.38%) Apache
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.27%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.27%) WordPress
9 4 (0.22%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
10 3 (0.16%) SAS
11 1 (0.054%) CICS
11 1 (0.054%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.054%) Umbraco
Applications
1 169 (9.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 165 (8.97%) Microsoft Project
3 121 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
4 109 (5.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 45 (2.45%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.49%) Trello
8 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 1 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 74 (4.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.82%) Primavera
3 11 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.54%) Shopify
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.43%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
9 5 (0.27%) Magento
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.27%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 133 (7.23%) Azure
2 94 (5.11%) Power Platform
3 78 (4.24%) SaaS
4 72 (3.91%) AWS
5 67 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (1.30%) Smartsheet
9 23 (1.25%) GCP
10 21 (1.14%) Google Workspace
11 17 (0.92%) Asana
12 14 (0.76%) Entra ID
13 11 (0.60%) OpenShift
14 10 (0.54%) BigCommerce
14 10 (0.54%) Google Sheets
15 9 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (0.49%) GitHub
15 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (0.49%) OCI
16 8 (0.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.30%) Network Security
1 24 (1.30%) WAN
2 21 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.03%) DNS
4 17 (0.92%) Firewall
5 16 (0.87%) LAN
5 16 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
6 14 (0.76%) SD-WAN
7 13 (0.71%) MPLS
8 12 (0.65%) BGP
8 12 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.54%) DHCP
10 9 (0.49%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.49%) Internet
11 8 (0.43%) VPN
12 7 (0.38%) DKIM
12 7 (0.38%) DMARC
12 7 (0.38%) Intranet
12 7 (0.38%) SAN
13 5 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.89%) Power BI
2 14 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (0.76%) Tableau
3 12 (0.65%) Metadata
3 12 (0.65%) SQL Server
4 9 (0.49%) Data Lake
4 9 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
5 6 (0.33%) Power Query
5 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
6 5 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.16%) QlikView
8 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.11%) Big Data
9 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 243 (13.21%) JIRA
2 20 (1.09%) Git
3 15 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.38%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.27%) Subversion
6 2 (0.11%) Hudson
6 2 (0.11%) Selenium
6 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.054%) Appium
7 1 (0.054%) Capybara
7 1 (0.054%) Gradle
7 1 (0.054%) minitest
7 1 (0.054%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.054%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.054%) RSpec
7 1 (0.054%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.054%) Terragrunt
General
1 833 (45.27%) Social Skills
2 722 (39.24%) Finance
3 296 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (10.11%) Organisational Skills
5 149 (8.10%) Public Sector
6 134 (7.28%) Banking
7 107 (5.82%) Marketing
8 106 (5.76%) Retail
9 67 (3.64%) Legal
10 64 (3.48%) Manufacturing
11 60 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
12 49 (2.66%) Telecoms
13 47 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (1.90%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.47%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.36%) Front Office
17 25 (1.36%) Local Government
18 20 (1.09%) Aerospace
18 20 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 718 (39.02%) Project Manager
2 203 (11.03%) Analyst
3 188 (10.22%) Senior
4 152 (8.26%) Lead
5 132 (7.17%) Senior Manager
6 111 (6.03%) Senior Project Manager
7 108 (5.87%) Business Analyst
8 90 (4.89%) IT Manager
9 80 (4.35%) IT Project Manager
10 72 (3.91%) Programme Manager
11 67 (3.64%) Consultant
12 55 (2.99%) Infrastructure Manager
13 52 (2.83%) Architect
13 52 (2.83%) Technical Manager
14 47 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
15 44 (2.39%) Technical Project Manager
16 42 (2.28%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 41 (2.23%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 39 (2.12%) Project Officer
19 37 (2.01%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.30%) Middleware
2 22 (1.20%) REST
3 18 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.76%) OAuth
4 14 (0.76%) SOAP
5 13 (0.71%) VML
5 13 (0.71%) Web Services
6 12 (0.65%) HTML
7 10 (0.54%) CSS
8 8 (0.43%) .NET
8 8 (0.43%) JSON
8 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
8 8 (0.43%) SAML
9 6 (0.33%) ADO
9 6 (0.33%) OpenID
10 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.27%) React
10 5 (0.27%) RESTful
10 5 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.11%) Management Information System
2 91 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 67 (3.64%) Data Centre
4 53 (2.88%) PMI
4 53 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 51 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
6 37 (2.01%) Virtual Team
7 34 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.20%) Operational Technology
10 20 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (1.09%) FMCG
10 20 (1.09%) Social Media
11 18 (0.98%) CMDB
12 16 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.87%) NHS
13 15 (0.82%) EPoS
14 14 (0.76%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.76%) Life Science
15 12 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.45%) Windows
2 27 (1.47%) Linux
3 14 (0.76%) Unix
3 14 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.22%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.22%) zOS
5 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.054%) AIX
6 1 (0.054%) Android
6 1 (0.054%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.054%) Solaris
6 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (36.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 658 (35.76%) Agile
3 479 (26.03%) Project Delivery
4 386 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
5 347 (18.86%) PRINCE2
6 295 (16.03%) Migration
7 281 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 274 (14.89%) Change Management
9 258 (14.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 239 (12.99%) Decision-Making
11 225 (12.23%) Waterfall
12 222 (12.07%) Risk Management
13 168 (9.13%) ERP
14 167 (9.08%) Scrum
15 150 (8.15%) Budget Management
16 145 (7.88%) AI
17 124 (6.74%) Data Migration
18 122 (6.63%) Project Planning
18 122 (6.63%) Roadmaps
19 120 (6.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 80 (4.35%) SQL
2 48 (2.61%) Python
3 19 (1.03%) JavaScript
4 15 (0.82%) Java
5 13 (0.71%) VBA
6 10 (0.54%) C#
7 9 (0.49%) C++
8 7 (0.38%) C
9 6 (0.33%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.33%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.27%) ABAP
10 5 (0.27%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.22%) Ada
11 4 (0.22%) JCL
11 4 (0.22%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.22%) R
12 3 (0.16%) Perl
12 3 (0.16%) SOQL
13 2 (0.11%) REXX
13 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 298 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 265 (14.40%) PMP
3 263 (14.29%) Degree
4 224 (12.17%) PMI Certification
4 224 (12.17%) SC Cleared
5 60 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 42 (2.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 35 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.68%) ACCA
8 31 (1.68%) CIMA
9 25 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.30%) APMP
11 20 (1.09%) CISSP
11 20 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (0.92%) CISM
13 16 (0.87%) CBAP
13 16 (0.87%) MBA
14 12 (0.65%) IIBA
15 11 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 10 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (12.23%) PMO
2 119 (6.47%) QA
3 56 (3.04%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.50%) GDPR
5 35 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.79%) SLA
7 31 (1.68%) NIST
8 19 (1.03%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.82%) GRC
10 8 (0.43%) Basel III
11 7 (0.38%) MiFID
11 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.33%) GMP
12 6 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.27%) EMIR
13 5 (0.27%) GxP
14 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 27 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.33%) RACF
4 4 (0.22%) NFS
4 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
4 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.054%) ACF2
7 1 (0.054%) Docker
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.054%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (0.98%) Ansible
1 18 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.16%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.16%) Terraform
6 2 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
6 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.054%) Control-M
7 1 (0.054%) Grafana
7 1 (0.054%) logstash
7 1 (0.054%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.054%) SCOM
7 1 (0.054%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.054%) vRealize
7 1 (0.054%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 277 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 159 (8.64%) SAP
3 99 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 66 (3.59%) Oracle
5 49 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 40 (2.17%) Google
7 29 (1.58%) Adobe
8 22 (1.20%) Cisco
9 21 (1.14%) Workday
10 20 (1.09%) Sitecore
11 16 (0.87%) VMware
12 14 (0.76%) CyberArk
12 14 (0.76%) NEC
12 14 (0.76%) Sage
13 13 (0.71%) Databricks
14 12 (0.65%) IBM
15 11 (0.60%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.54%) F5
16 10 (0.54%) IFS
17 9 (0.49%) Murex