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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,743 2,243 3,014
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.40% 8.42% 8.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 9.42% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,257 1,975
10th Percentile £334 £275 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £618 £625 £637
90th Percentile £713 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 98 160
10th Percentile £16.94 £21.25 £20.05
25th Percentile £22.50 £27.00 £25.85
Median hourly rate £44.50 £34.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.93% -14.38% -12.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.10 £65.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £33.00 £41.15
% change year-on-year +31.82% -19.81% -5.68%

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 28,450 23,808 32,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.12% 89.33% 87.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,222 14,593 21,730
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,765 770 1,701
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.01 £63.29
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -19 805 £525 -4.55% 299
South East -11 265 £525 +0.96% 418
North of England -21 261 £480 +6.67% 237
Midlands -18 214 £489 -6.90% 231
North West -15 148 £496 +10.22% 104
West Midlands -21 144 £496 -13.51% 129
South West -23 110 £450 -10.00% 163
Yorkshire -18 104 £480 +6.67% 101
East Midlands -12 72 £450 +8.70% 102
East of England -35 57 £450 -10.00% 176
North East -30 11 £450 -21.74% 38
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
1 156 (8.95%) Confluence
2 98 (5.62%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.03%) CMS
4 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.46%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.34%) WordPress
8 5 (0.29%) nginx
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.23%) Apache
10 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.057%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.057%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.057%) IIS
11 1 (0.057%) Moodle
11 1 (0.057%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.057%) SAS
11 1 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 193 (11.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 188 (10.79%) Microsoft Project
3 155 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
4 112 (6.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 64 (3.67%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.32%) Trello
7 8 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.23%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.17%) InVision
10 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.17%) Sketch
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
11 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.11%) ProjectWise
12 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 45 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.92%) Primavera
3 13 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (0.63%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 8 (0.46%) Shopify
8 7 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
9 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
9 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
9 6 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.23%) NEC Housing
11 4 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 141 (8.09%) Azure
2 99 (5.68%) Power Platform
3 83 (4.76%) AWS
4 50 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (2.29%) SaaS
6 36 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (1.55%) GCP
8 24 (1.38%) Asana
9 20 (1.15%) Smartsheet
10 18 (1.03%) OpenShift
11 17 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (0.98%) GitHub
12 15 (0.86%) Google Workspace
13 14 (0.80%) OneDrive
14 13 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
16 10 (0.57%) Serverless
17 9 (0.52%) Entra ID
17 9 (0.52%) OCI
18 8 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.72%) Firewall
2 23 (1.32%) WAN
3 16 (0.92%) LAN
4 15 (0.86%) Network Security
5 14 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
6 12 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.57%) DNS
7 10 (0.57%) VPN
7 10 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.52%) Skype
9 8 (0.46%) SSH
9 8 (0.46%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.40%) BGP
10 7 (0.40%) Internet
11 6 (0.34%) DHCP
11 6 (0.34%) SSL
12 5 (0.29%) Broadband
12 5 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.29%) MPLS
13 4 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (5.28%) Power BI
2 28 (1.61%) Tableau
3 22 (1.26%) SQL Server
4 16 (0.92%) Metadata
5 14 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.46%) SAP HANA
7 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.29%) GIS
9 4 (0.23%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.23%) Power Query
10 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.17%) Big Data
10 3 (0.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.17%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.11%) DataStage
11 2 (0.11%) DB2
Development Applications
1 296 (16.98%) JIRA
2 15 (0.86%) Git
3 10 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.40%) GitLab
5 4 (0.23%) Selenium
5 4 (0.23%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.057%) Ant
8 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.057%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.057%) ERwin
8 1 (0.057%) Gradle
8 1 (0.057%) JUnit
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.057%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.057%) Toad
8 1 (0.057%) Visual Studio
General
1 858 (49.23%) Social Skills
2 650 (37.29%) Finance
3 300 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (9.35%) Organisational Skills
4 163 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 158 (9.06%) Banking
6 82 (4.70%) Retail
7 80 (4.59%) Marketing
8 78 (4.48%) Legal
9 69 (3.96%) Manufacturing
10 66 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (2.58%) Telecoms
12 43 (2.47%) Investment Banking
13 35 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.95%) Local Government
15 27 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
15 27 (1.55%) Front Office
16 24 (1.38%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.03%) Billing
Job Titles
1 659 (37.81%) Project Manager
2 205 (11.76%) Analyst
3 158 (9.06%) Lead
4 133 (7.63%) Senior
5 110 (6.31%) Business Analyst
6 93 (5.34%) IT Manager
7 83 (4.76%) Senior Manager
8 81 (4.65%) IT Project Manager
9 76 (4.36%) Consultant
10 63 (3.61%) Senior Project Manager
11 51 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
11 51 (2.93%) Technical Manager
12 48 (2.75%) Infrastructure Manager
12 48 (2.75%) Programme Manager
13 43 (2.47%) Coordinator
14 39 (2.24%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 36 (2.07%) Security Manager
16 33 (1.89%) Developer
17 32 (1.84%) Architect
17 32 (1.84%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.26%) Middleware
1 22 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (0.75%) .NET
2 13 (0.75%) REST
3 12 (0.69%) EDI
3 12 (0.69%) SOAP
4 9 (0.52%) ADO
4 9 (0.52%) AngularJS
4 9 (0.52%) Web Services
4 9 (0.52%) XML
5 8 (0.46%) HTML
6 7 (0.40%) React
6 7 (0.40%) RESTful
7 6 (0.34%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.34%) LangChain
8 5 (0.29%) CSS
8 5 (0.29%) Entity Framework
9 4 (0.23%) Bootstrap
9 4 (0.23%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (6.43%) Onboarding
2 94 (5.39%) Management Information System
3 57 (3.27%) PMI
4 52 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
5 49 (2.81%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 44 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 44 (2.52%) Virtual Team
7 31 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.32%) Operational Technology
9 21 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 21 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.03%) NHS
10 18 (1.03%) SCADA
11 15 (0.86%) Social Media
12 14 (0.80%) CMDB
12 14 (0.80%) Life Science
13 11 (0.63%) Driving Licence
13 11 (0.63%) Mobile App
13 11 (0.63%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 59 (3.38%) Windows
2 15 (0.86%) Linux
3 13 (0.75%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.63%) Unix
5 10 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.11%) AIX
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.057%) Android
8 1 (0.057%) Solaris
8 1 (0.057%) VMS
8 1 (0.057%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (38.44%) Agile
2 594 (34.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 434 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
4 433 (24.84%) Project Delivery
5 364 (20.88%) PRINCE2
6 317 (18.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 294 (16.87%) Change Management
8 243 (13.94%) Migration
9 223 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 208 (11.93%) Waterfall
11 190 (10.90%) Decision-Making
12 185 (10.61%) Risk Management
13 169 (9.70%) Scrum
14 154 (8.84%) Budget Management
15 142 (8.15%) Project Governance
16 136 (7.80%) ITIL
17 135 (7.75%) ERP
18 132 (7.57%) DevOps
19 128 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
20 119 (6.83%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 77 (4.42%) SQL
2 38 (2.18%) Python
3 16 (0.92%) Java
4 13 (0.75%) C#
4 13 (0.75%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.34%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.34%) VBA
6 5 (0.29%) Perl
6 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.23%) R
7 4 (0.23%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.17%) C++
8 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.17%) Korn
8 3 (0.17%) VB
9 2 (0.11%) Go
9 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.11%) Ruby
10 1 (0.057%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.057%) X++
Qualifications
1 321 (18.42%) Degree
2 250 (14.34%) PMP
3 249 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 238 (13.65%) PMI Certification
5 179 (10.27%) SC Cleared
6 55 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.24%) APMP
8 35 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 23 (1.32%) CISSP
12 23 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 21 (1.20%) CISM
14 17 (0.98%) MBA
15 11 (0.63%) CBAP
16 10 (0.57%) A+ Certification
16 10 (0.57%) IIBA
17 9 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (11.36%) PMO
2 112 (6.43%) QA
3 50 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (2.81%) GDPR
5 48 (2.75%) Data Quality
6 31 (1.78%) NIST
7 22 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.92%) GRC
10 12 (0.69%) SLA
11 11 (0.63%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.63%) P3O
12 9 (0.52%) Basel III
13 7 (0.40%) GxP
13 7 (0.40%) ISO 19650
13 7 (0.40%) PSD2
14 6 (0.34%) NCSC
14 6 (0.34%) WCAG
15 5 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 30 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.80%) Docker
3 7 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.057%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.057%) PowerHA
8 1 (0.057%) RACF
8 1 (0.057%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.057%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (0.92%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.80%) Terraform
3 11 (0.63%) SCCM
4 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.34%) Kibana
6 5 (0.29%) Ansible
6 5 (0.29%) logstash
7 4 (0.23%) Consul
7 4 (0.23%) Packer
8 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.17%) Grafana
8 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.057%) Cisco UCCE
9 1 (0.057%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.057%) Puppet
9 1 (0.057%) SCOM
9 1 (0.057%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.057%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 272 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 134 (7.69%) SAP
3 84 (4.82%) Oracle
4 71 (4.07%) ServiceNow
5 67 (3.84%) Salesforce
6 32 (1.84%) Google
7 27 (1.55%) Cisco
8 22 (1.26%) Workday
9 20 (1.15%) Atlassian
10 18 (1.03%) Adobe
11 17 (0.98%) Planview
12 14 (0.80%) Databricks
13 13 (0.75%) IBM
13 13 (0.75%) VMware
14 12 (0.69%) CyberArk
14 12 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.46%) Juniper
15 8 (0.46%) NEC
15 8 (0.46%) Sage
15 8 (0.46%) Splunk