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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -30 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,771 1,762 2,444
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.80% 6.31% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 6.93% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,093 1,389
10th Percentile £308 £325 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £625 £640 £625
90th Percentile £729 £749 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £513 £523
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.08% -0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 96 122
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.24 £21.25
25th Percentile £30.23 £24.58 £27.00
Median hourly rate £53.37 £34.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.68% -1.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £65.31 £60.00 £55.65
90th Percentile £82.58 £65.00 £67.48
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +47.06% -2.86% -22.22%

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 39,431 25,424 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 90.99% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,955 16,149 17,033
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,546 1,199
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -27 868 £550 - 1,804
North of England -29 260 £469 -6.25% 495
South East -29 248 £500 - 609
North West -27 149 £475 -3.01% 268
Midlands -52 141 £544 +14.47% 355
South West -24 131 £450 - 266
Yorkshire -13 105 £465 -9.27% 172
West Midlands -52 95 £550 +11.79% 212
East of England -22 73 £510 -2.39% 238
East Midlands -20 46 £525 +16.67% 143
North East -39 8 £420 +3.07% 57
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
1 113 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 85 (4.80%) Confluence
3 32 (1.81%) CMS
4 22 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.40%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.34%) Apache
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) JBoss
9 5 (0.28%) Moodle
9 5 (0.28%) SAS
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.056%) CICS
12 1 (0.056%) Drupal
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.056%) Umbraco
Applications
1 184 (10.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (8.64%) Microsoft Project
3 145 (8.19%) Microsoft Office
4 117 (6.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 19 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.73%) Trello
8 9 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Windchill
10 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.23%) Simulink
11 4 (0.23%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.11%) Houdini
13 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 2 (0.11%) NUKE
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.056%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 46 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.96%) Primavera
3 13 (0.73%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.73%) Magento
4 9 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.51%) SAP MM
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.45%) SAP CO
5 8 (0.45%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.45%) SAP PS
6 7 (0.40%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.40%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.28%) ProductWriter
8 5 (0.28%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 152 (8.58%) Azure
2 126 (7.11%) Power Platform
3 82 (4.63%) SaaS
4 72 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (3.33%) AWS
6 58 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.86%) Smartsheet
8 27 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (1.36%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.13%) Asana
11 19 (1.07%) GCP
12 17 (0.96%) Entra ID
13 14 (0.79%) GitHub
14 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (0.62%) PowerApps
16 10 (0.56%) Power Automate
17 9 (0.51%) Amazon S3
17 9 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (0.51%) OneDrive
17 9 (0.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.86%) Network Security
2 24 (1.36%) DNS
3 21 (1.19%) Firewall
4 18 (1.02%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
5 17 (0.96%) WAN
6 13 (0.73%) LAN
6 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.68%) VPN
8 10 (0.56%) BGP
8 10 (0.56%) DHCP
8 10 (0.56%) Intranet
9 8 (0.45%) 3GPP
9 8 (0.45%) 4G
9 8 (0.45%) 5G
9 8 (0.45%) LTE
9 8 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
9 8 (0.45%) VLAN
9 8 (0.45%) Wireless
9 8 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (6.44%) Power BI
2 18 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (0.79%) Data Lake
3 14 (0.79%) Tableau
4 13 (0.73%) Metadata
5 11 (0.62%) SQL Server
6 8 (0.45%) GIS
6 8 (0.45%) Power Query
7 7 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.34%) Big Data
9 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.28%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.17%) QlikView
11 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.17%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.11%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.11%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.11%) Looker
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 228 (12.87%) JIRA
2 25 (1.41%) Git
3 17 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
5 8 (0.45%) Subversion
6 5 (0.28%) Rational Rhapsody
7 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.17%) GitLab
8 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.11%) Selenium
9 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.056%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.056%) Capybara
10 1 (0.056%) Gradle
10 1 (0.056%) Maven
10 1 (0.056%) RSpec
10 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.056%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.056%) TestRail
General
1 798 (45.06%) Social Skills
2 706 (39.86%) Finance
3 285 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (10.73%) Organisational Skills
5 157 (8.87%) Banking
6 145 (8.19%) Public Sector
7 126 (7.11%) Marketing
8 110 (6.21%) Retail
9 89 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
10 70 (3.95%) Manufacturing
11 64 (3.61%) Legal
12 57 (3.22%) Telecoms
13 50 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (1.69%) Aerospace
15 28 (1.58%) Investment Banking
16 26 (1.47%) Local Government
17 25 (1.41%) Front Office
18 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 21 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
20 19 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 694 (39.19%) Project Manager
2 167 (9.43%) Senior
3 153 (8.64%) Lead
4 129 (7.28%) Senior Manager
5 112 (6.32%) Analyst
6 105 (5.93%) IT Manager
7 98 (5.53%) Senior Project Manager
8 85 (4.80%) Programme Manager
9 79 (4.46%) IT Project Manager
10 68 (3.84%) Delivery Manager
11 63 (3.56%) Business Analyst
12 61 (3.44%) Technical Manager
13 58 (3.27%) Consultant
14 43 (2.43%) Project Officer
14 43 (2.43%) Technical Project Manager
15 38 (2.15%) Infrastructure Manager
16 37 (2.09%) Coordinator
17 33 (1.86%) Project Coordinator
18 32 (1.81%) Change Manager
18 32 (1.81%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.07%) Middleware
2 14 (0.79%) ADO
3 13 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (0.62%) REST
5 10 (0.56%) HTML
5 10 (0.56%) VML
6 9 (0.51%) OAuth
6 9 (0.51%) Web Services
7 8 (0.45%) JSON
8 7 (0.40%) .NET
8 7 (0.40%) pytest
8 7 (0.40%) React
8 7 (0.40%) SOAP
8 7 (0.40%) Terraform
9 5 (0.28%) DAO
9 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
9 5 (0.28%) XML
10 3 (0.17%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.17%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (5.87%) Management Information System
2 90 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 84 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
6 43 (2.43%) Virtual Team
7 41 (2.32%) PMI
8 29 (1.64%) Operational Technology
9 28 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (1.36%) FMCG
12 23 (1.30%) Social Media
13 21 (1.19%) Life Science
14 20 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (1.07%) Credit Risk
16 17 (0.96%) AI Agents
17 16 (0.90%) Fixed Income
18 15 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
18 15 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 15 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.65%) Linux
1 47 (2.65%) Windows
2 21 (1.19%) Unix
3 20 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.28%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.28%) zOS
6 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.056%) Android
7 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.056%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.056%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (45.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 683 (38.57%) Agile
3 518 (29.25%) Project Delivery
4 414 (23.38%) PRINCE2
5 307 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 307 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
6 290 (16.37%) Change Management
7 256 (14.46%) Decision-Making
8 253 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 232 (13.10%) Risk Management
10 230 (12.99%) Migration
11 227 (12.82%) Waterfall
12 204 (11.52%) AI
13 188 (10.62%) Project Governance
14 186 (10.50%) Scrum
15 163 (9.20%) Project Planning
16 153 (8.64%) Roadmaps
17 151 (8.53%) Change Control
18 138 (7.79%) Programme Management
19 134 (7.57%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (3.78%) SQL
2 63 (3.56%) Python
3 13 (0.73%) VBA
4 12 (0.68%) C++
4 12 (0.68%) Java
5 10 (0.56%) JavaScript
6 9 (0.51%) C#
7 8 (0.45%) Ada
7 8 (0.45%) Korn
8 7 (0.40%) Bash
9 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.28%) C
10 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.28%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.23%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.17%) ABAP
12 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.17%) JCL
13 2 (0.11%) R
13 2 (0.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 290 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 288 (16.26%) Degree
3 274 (15.47%) PMP
4 238 (13.44%) PMI Certification
5 200 (11.29%) SC Cleared
6 75 (4.23%) DV Cleared
6 75 (4.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 30 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 16 (0.90%) ISTQB
9 16 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 14 (0.79%) ACCA
10 14 (0.79%) CIMA
10 14 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
11 13 (0.73%) APMP
11 13 (0.73%) CISSP
12 12 (0.68%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.62%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.56%) CISM
15 9 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (12.76%) PMO
2 85 (4.80%) QA
3 53 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.47%) GDPR
5 25 (1.41%) GRC
6 20 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.13%) SLA
7 15 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.73%) NIST
9 8 (0.45%) P3O
10 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.40%) FINREP
10 7 (0.40%) GMP
11 6 (0.34%) COREP
11 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.23%) MiFID
13 4 (0.23%) MISRA
13 4 (0.23%) MISRA C
13 4 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (1.64%) Active Directory
1 29 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (0.62%) vSphere
3 9 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) NFS
7 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.056%) ACF2
9 1 (0.056%) Docker
9 1 (0.056%) RACF
9 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (1.02%) Ansible
2 9 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.34%) Puppet
4 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.11%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (0.11%) BMC Performance Manager
6 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.11%) Perfmon
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.056%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.056%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.056%) Nessus
7 1 (0.056%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.056%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 322 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 123 (6.95%) SAP
3 84 (4.74%) ServiceNow
4 65 (3.67%) Oracle
5 45 (2.54%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.32%) Adobe
7 37 (2.09%) Google
8 36 (2.03%) VMware
9 23 (1.30%) Cisco
10 19 (1.07%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.07%) NEC
10 19 (1.07%) Sitecore
11 18 (1.02%) IBM
12 17 (0.96%) Workday
13 16 (0.90%) Databricks
14 14 (0.79%) Planview
15 12 (0.68%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.62%) Ariba
16 11 (0.62%) JD Edwards
17 9 (0.51%) Murex