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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,870 1,925 2,850
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.64% 7.98% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.48% 8.75% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 1,169 1,760
10th Percentile £338 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £633
90th Percentile £725 £719 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 104 242
10th Percentile £14.64 £22.63 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.25 £26.28
Median hourly rate £35.53 £45.59 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -22.07% +19.60% -21.40%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.59 £38.12
% change year-on-year -22.13% +19.60% -21.40%

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 34,138 22,003 31,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.23% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,766 14,379 20,694
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 924 2,243
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.42 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
% change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -18 878 £550 +4.76% 406
South East -12 282 £525 +10.29% 294
North of England -20 280 £474 -1.51% 234
Midlands -29 189 £500 +6.61% 136
North West -13 156 £463 -2.63% 133
South West -17 147 £450 -4.05% 107
West Midlands -34 127 £500 - 82
Yorkshire -33 116 £480 +1.05% 72
East of England -28 74 £525 +5.00% 131
East Midlands -14 64 £394 -4.43% 54
North East -19 13 £410 -20.00% 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
1 137 (7.33%) Confluence
2 82 (4.39%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.12%) CMS
4 15 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.37%) Apache
7 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Moodle
8 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
10 1 (0.053%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.053%) IIS
10 1 (0.053%) nginx
10 1 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.053%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.053%) WebSphere
Applications
1 192 (10.27%) Microsoft Project
2 176 (9.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 136 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
4 110 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 43 (2.30%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.70%) Trello
8 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
11 2 (0.11%) Simulink
11 2 (0.11%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.11%) Windchill
12 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.053%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.053%) InVision
12 1 (0.053%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 75 (4.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.75%) Primavera
3 11 (0.59%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.53%) Shopify
5 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
7 6 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.27%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.27%) ProductWriter
8 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 134 (7.17%) Azure
2 88 (4.71%) Power Platform
3 79 (4.22%) SaaS
4 74 (3.96%) AWS
5 66 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (1.50%) Smartsheet
8 27 (1.44%) GCP
9 23 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.12%) Asana
10 21 (1.12%) Google Workspace
11 13 (0.70%) Entra ID
11 13 (0.70%) OpenShift
12 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (0.59%) OCI
14 10 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (0.53%) BigCommerce
14 10 (0.53%) GitHub
14 10 (0.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.34%) WAN
2 24 (1.28%) Network Security
3 22 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 21 (1.12%) Firewall
5 20 (1.07%) DNS
6 17 (0.91%) SD-WAN
7 16 (0.86%) LAN
8 15 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
9 14 (0.75%) MPLS
9 14 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.64%) BGP
10 12 (0.64%) Internet
10 12 (0.64%) VPN
11 10 (0.53%) DHCP
12 7 (0.37%) BIG-IP
13 6 (0.32%) DKIM
13 6 (0.32%) DMARC
13 6 (0.32%) Intranet
13 6 (0.32%) IPsec
13 6 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.55%) Power BI
2 17 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (0.86%) Metadata
4 14 (0.75%) Tableau
5 13 (0.70%) SQL Server
6 10 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
7 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.21%) Big Data
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.16%) GIS
11 3 (0.16%) Power Query
12 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 282 (15.08%) JIRA
2 19 (1.02%) Git
3 12 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.32%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.21%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.21%) Subversion
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.053%) Appium
9 1 (0.053%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.053%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.053%) Gradle
9 1 (0.053%) LSMW
9 1 (0.053%) minitest
9 1 (0.053%) MSI
9 1 (0.053%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.053%) Travis CI
General
1 854 (45.67%) Social Skills
2 734 (39.25%) Finance
3 323 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (10.37%) Organisational Skills
5 167 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 137 (7.33%) Banking
7 107 (5.72%) Marketing
8 100 (5.35%) Retail
9 68 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
10 65 (3.48%) Legal
11 61 (3.26%) Manufacturing
12 53 (2.83%) Telecoms
13 43 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.82%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
15 29 (1.55%) Investment Banking
16 23 (1.23%) Front Office
16 23 (1.23%) Local Government
17 22 (1.18%) Military
18 17 (0.91%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 717 (38.34%) Project Manager
2 212 (11.34%) Analyst
3 182 (9.73%) Senior
4 149 (7.97%) Lead
5 127 (6.79%) Senior Manager
6 110 (5.88%) Business Analyst
7 108 (5.78%) Senior Project Manager
8 87 (4.65%) IT Manager
9 78 (4.17%) Programme Manager
10 77 (4.12%) IT Project Manager
11 62 (3.32%) Consultant
12 58 (3.10%) Technical Manager
13 57 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
14 53 (2.83%) Infrastructure Manager
15 51 (2.73%) Architect
16 46 (2.46%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 43 (2.30%) Technical Project Manager
18 40 (2.14%) Developer
18 40 (2.14%) Infrastructure Project Manager
19 39 (2.09%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.28%) Middleware
2 22 (1.18%) REST
3 16 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.80%) SOAP
5 14 (0.75%) Web Services
6 13 (0.70%) HTML
6 13 (0.70%) OAuth
7 12 (0.64%) VML
8 11 (0.59%) CSS
9 8 (0.43%) .NET
9 8 (0.43%) ADO
9 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.43%) SAML
9 8 (0.43%) XML
10 7 (0.37%) JSON
11 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.32%) OpenID
12 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.27%) React
12 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 89 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.53%) Data Centre
4 64 (3.42%) PMI
5 55 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 53 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 43 (2.30%) Virtual Team
8 35 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.23%) Operational Technology
11 21 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.02%) Social Media
13 17 (0.91%) CMDB
13 17 (0.91%) NHS
14 16 (0.86%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.80%) EPoS
16 13 (0.70%) FMCG
16 13 (0.70%) Life Science
17 12 (0.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.46%) Windows
2 24 (1.28%) Linux
3 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.48%) Unix
5 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.21%) zOS
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.053%) AIX
9 1 (0.053%) Android
9 1 (0.053%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.053%) Solaris
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (37.06%) Agile
2 640 (34.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 493 (26.36%) Project Delivery
4 423 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
5 352 (18.82%) PRINCE2
6 301 (16.10%) Migration
7 287 (15.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 282 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 279 (14.92%) Change Management
10 243 (12.99%) Decision-Making
11 237 (12.67%) Waterfall
12 220 (11.76%) Risk Management
13 182 (9.73%) Scrum
14 179 (9.57%) ERP
15 162 (8.66%) Budget Management
16 137 (7.33%) Roadmaps
17 133 (7.11%) AI
18 129 (6.90%) Project Planning
19 128 (6.84%) Data Migration
20 124 (6.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 79 (4.22%) SQL
2 46 (2.46%) Python
3 17 (0.91%) Java
3 17 (0.91%) JavaScript
4 12 (0.64%) C#
4 12 (0.64%) VBA
5 10 (0.53%) C++
6 8 (0.43%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.37%) C
8 6 (0.32%) R
8 6 (0.32%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.27%) ABAP
10 4 (0.21%) Ada
10 4 (0.21%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.16%) JCL
11 3 (0.16%) Perl
11 3 (0.16%) SOQL
11 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 335 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 302 (16.15%) Degree
3 278 (14.87%) PMP
4 246 (13.16%) SC Cleared
5 241 (12.89%) PMI Certification
6 75 (4.01%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 33 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 32 (1.71%) APMP
11 28 (1.50%) ACCA
11 28 (1.50%) CIMA
12 26 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.07%) CISSP
13 20 (1.07%) MBA
14 18 (0.96%) CISM
15 17 (0.91%) CBAP
16 15 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 12 (0.64%) IIBA
18 10 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (12.67%) PMO
2 128 (6.84%) QA
3 57 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.51%) GDPR
5 41 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.76%) NIST
6 33 (1.76%) SLA
7 16 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.70%) GRC
9 11 (0.59%) Basel III
10 8 (0.43%) EMIR
10 8 (0.43%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.43%) MiFID
10 8 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.32%) GMP
12 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 29 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.27%) RACF
4 3 (0.16%) Docker
4 3 (0.16%) NFS
4 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.053%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.053%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (0.75%) Ansible
3 6 (0.32%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.21%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.16%) SCCM
6 3 (0.16%) Terraform
6 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) logstash
7 2 (0.11%) SCOM
8 1 (0.053%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.053%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.053%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.053%) Kibana
8 1 (0.053%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.053%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.053%) vRealize
Vendors
1 284 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 164 (8.77%) SAP
3 99 (5.29%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.69%) Oracle
5 51 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 38 (2.03%) Google
7 28 (1.50%) Adobe
7 28 (1.50%) Cisco
8 27 (1.44%) Workday
9 18 (0.96%) VMware
10 17 (0.91%) Atlassian
10 17 (0.91%) CyberArk
11 15 (0.80%) Databricks
11 15 (0.80%) Sitecore
12 14 (0.75%) Sage
13 12 (0.64%) NEC
14 11 (0.59%) IBM
15 10 (0.53%) IFS
15 10 (0.53%) Juniper
16 8 (0.43%) Murex