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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,885 1,940 2,890
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.65% 8.01% 7.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.49% 8.78% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,173 1,794
10th Percentile £338 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £636
90th Percentile £725 £725 £735
UK median daily rate £511 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 103 241
10th Percentile £14.64 £23.63 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.25 £26.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £46.18 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +21.14% -22.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -21.11% +18.05% -22.20%

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 34,360 22,106 31,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 91.23% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,945 14,454 20,903
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,132 926 2,241
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.56 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -16 882 £550 +4.76% 410
South East -13 283 £525 +8.25% 288
North of England -21 280 £474 -0.21% 239
Midlands -28 197 £496 +5.76% 157
North West -19 155 £463 -2.12% 134
South West -17 145 £450 -4.66% 106
West Midlands -31 130 £500 - 94
Yorkshire -29 116 £480 +1.05% 77
East of England -23 77 £510 -1.73% 119
East Midlands -9 69 £394 -3.96% 63
North East -18 14 £430 -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
1 142 (7.53%) Confluence
2 81 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.17%) CMS
4 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.37%) Apache
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
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%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.053%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.053%) WebSphere
Applications
1 201 (10.66%) Microsoft Project
2 181 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 138 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
4 111 (5.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 45 (2.39%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.80%) Trello
8 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 2 (0.11%) InVision
12 2 (0.11%) Sketch
12 2 (0.11%) Windchill
13 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.053%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.053%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 74 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.74%) Primavera
3 11 (0.58%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
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%) 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
1 137 (7.27%) Azure
2 86 (4.56%) Power Platform
3 75 (3.98%) SaaS
4 73 (3.87%) AWS
5 67 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (1.43%) GCP
8 26 (1.38%) Smartsheet
9 23 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (1.17%) Asana
11 20 (1.06%) Google Workspace
12 13 (0.69%) Entra ID
12 13 (0.69%) OpenShift
13 12 (0.64%) GitHub
13 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.58%) OCI
15 10 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (0.53%) BigCommerce
15 10 (0.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.38%) WAN
2 24 (1.27%) Network Security
3 21 (1.11%) Firewall
4 19 (1.01%) DNS
4 19 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.90%) LAN
5 17 (0.90%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
6 15 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (0.74%) MPLS
8 13 (0.69%) Internet
9 12 (0.64%) VPN
10 10 (0.53%) DHCP
11 9 (0.48%) BGP
12 7 (0.37%) BIG-IP
13 6 (0.32%) Intranet
13 6 (0.32%) IPsec
13 6 (0.32%) SSL
14 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
14 5 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.40%) Power BI
2 17 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (0.85%) Metadata
4 15 (0.80%) Tableau
5 14 (0.74%) 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%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.16%) GIS
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.16%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 288 (15.28%) JIRA
2 19 (1.01%) Git
3 11 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.32%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) Subversion
8 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
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%) minitest
9 1 (0.053%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.053%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.053%) Travis CI
General
1 873 (46.31%) Social Skills
2 732 (38.83%) Finance
3 323 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
5 171 (9.07%) Public Sector
6 142 (7.53%) Banking
7 106 (5.62%) Marketing
8 101 (5.36%) Retail
9 69 (3.66%) Legal
10 68 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
11 57 (3.02%) Manufacturing
12 53 (2.81%) Telecoms
13 42 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.80%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.54%) Investment Banking
16 28 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
17 27 (1.43%) Local Government
18 22 (1.17%) Front Office
18 22 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 21 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 723 (38.36%) Project Manager
2 214 (11.35%) Analyst
3 179 (9.50%) Senior
4 152 (8.06%) Lead
5 124 (6.58%) Senior Manager
6 111 (5.89%) Business Analyst
7 105 (5.57%) Senior Project Manager
8 89 (4.72%) IT Manager
9 80 (4.24%) Programme Manager
10 79 (4.19%) IT Project Manager
11 63 (3.34%) Consultant
12 59 (3.13%) Technical Manager
13 57 (3.02%) Delivery Manager
14 53 (2.81%) Infrastructure Manager
15 51 (2.71%) Architect
16 45 (2.39%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 43 (2.28%) Project Officer
18 42 (2.23%) Technical Project Manager
19 41 (2.18%) Infrastructure Project Manager
20 39 (2.07%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.27%) Middleware
2 23 (1.22%) REST
3 17 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.85%) SOAP
5 14 (0.74%) HTML
5 14 (0.74%) Web Services
6 12 (0.64%) CSS
6 12 (0.64%) OAuth
7 11 (0.58%) VML
8 9 (0.48%) .NET
8 9 (0.48%) XML
9 8 (0.42%) ADO
9 8 (0.42%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.42%) SAML
10 7 (0.37%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.37%) JSON
11 6 (0.32%) OpenID
11 6 (0.32%) React
11 6 (0.32%) RESTful
12 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.15%) Management Information System
2 89 (4.72%) Onboarding
3 67 (3.55%) Data Centre
4 65 (3.45%) PMI
5 56 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
6 54 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 43 (2.28%) Virtual Team
8 36 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.22%) Operational Technology
11 20 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.01%) Social Media
13 18 (0.95%) CMDB
14 17 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 17 (0.90%) NHS
15 16 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (0.74%) EPoS
16 14 (0.74%) Web Conferencing
17 13 (0.69%) Life Science
18 12 (0.64%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.33%) Windows
2 23 (1.22%) Linux
3 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.37%) Unix
4 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.21%) zOS
6 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.11%) AIX
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.053%) Android
8 1 (0.053%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.053%) Solaris
8 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (37.14%) Agile
2 648 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 493 (26.15%) Project Delivery
4 428 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
5 363 (19.26%) PRINCE2
6 301 (15.97%) Migration
7 290 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 282 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 278 (14.75%) Change Management
10 242 (12.84%) Decision-Making
11 239 (12.68%) Waterfall
12 224 (11.88%) Risk Management
13 181 (9.60%) Scrum
14 174 (9.23%) ERP
15 164 (8.70%) Budget Management
16 137 (7.27%) Roadmaps
17 134 (7.11%) Project Planning
18 133 (7.06%) AI
19 128 (6.79%) Data Migration
20 124 (6.58%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 78 (4.14%) SQL
2 43 (2.28%) Python
3 18 (0.95%) Java
3 18 (0.95%) JavaScript
4 12 (0.64%) VBA
5 11 (0.58%) C#
6 9 (0.48%) C++
7 8 (0.42%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.37%) C
9 6 (0.32%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.27%) ABAP
10 5 (0.27%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.27%) R
11 4 (0.21%) Ada
11 4 (0.21%) Perl
12 3 (0.16%) JCL
12 3 (0.16%) SOQL
12 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 341 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 301 (15.97%) Degree
3 281 (14.91%) PMP
4 251 (13.32%) SC Cleared
5 244 (12.94%) PMI Certification
6 76 (4.03%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 35 (1.86%) APMP
10 33 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.49%) ACCA
11 28 (1.49%) CIMA
12 24 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.06%) CISSP
13 20 (1.06%) MBA
14 18 (0.95%) CISM
15 17 (0.90%) CBAP
16 16 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 12 (0.64%) IIBA
18 11 (0.58%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (12.68%) PMO
2 135 (7.16%) QA
3 58 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 48 (2.55%) GDPR
5 42 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.75%) NIST
7 31 (1.64%) SLA
8 18 (0.95%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.74%) GRC
10 11 (0.58%) Basel III
11 8 (0.42%) EMIR
11 8 (0.42%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.42%) MiFID
11 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.32%) GMP
13 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.27%) Docker
3 5 (0.27%) RACF
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 15 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (0.58%) Ansible
3 8 (0.42%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.27%) RSA Archer
5 5 (0.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (0.21%) logstash
7 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.16%) Kibana
7 3 (0.16%) SCCM
7 3 (0.16%) Terraform
7 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.11%) Grafana
8 2 (0.11%) SCOM
9 1 (0.053%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.053%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.053%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.053%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.053%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.053%) vRealize
Vendors
1 290 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 165 (8.75%) SAP
3 100 (5.31%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.66%) Oracle
5 50 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 36 (1.91%) Google
7 29 (1.54%) Adobe
8 27 (1.43%) Workday
9 25 (1.33%) Cisco
10 20 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 17 (0.90%) CyberArk
11 17 (0.90%) VMware
12 15 (0.80%) Databricks
12 15 (0.80%) Sitecore
13 14 (0.74%) Sage
14 13 (0.69%) NEC
15 10 (0.53%) IBM
15 10 (0.53%) IFS
15 10 (0.53%) Juniper
16 8 (0.42%) CheckPoint