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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 20 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,742 2,447 3,116
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.72% 7.92% 7.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.36% 9.07% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,369 2,089
10th Percentile £333 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £626 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £733 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 123 136
10th Percentile £20.49 £21.25 £21.38
25th Percentile £25.75 £27.00 £30.02
Median hourly rate £40.00 £33.93 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -24.60% +5.72%
75th Percentile £62.11 £55.52 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.24 £66.00 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.39 £33.00 £46.53
% change year-on-year +13.30% -29.07% +16.32%

All Process and 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 27,406 26,969 34,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.94% 87.30% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,388 16,451 23,708
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 990 1,453
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -13 831 £525 -4.55% 585
North of England -25 255 £500 +5.26% 390
South East -9 239 £525 +0.96% 566
Midlands -18 200 £485 -7.62% 357
North West -13 159 £496 +14.15% 219
West Midlands -19 136 £491 -10.73% 232
South West -24 101 £450 -6.49% 187
Yorkshire -22 88 £500 - 111
East of England -21 70 £500 +11.11% 208
East Midlands -9 64 £463 +15.26% 124
North East -27 8 £413 -28.26% 67
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
1 140 (8.04%) Confluence
2 108 (6.20%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.49%) CMS
4 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.46%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (0.40%) WordPress
7 5 (0.29%) nginx
8 2 (0.11%) Apache
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) IIS
8 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.057%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.057%) Moodle
9 1 (0.057%) SAS
Applications
1 194 (11.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 159 (9.13%) Microsoft Project
3 150 (8.61%) Microsoft Office
4 114 (6.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 53 (3.04%) MS Visio
6 24 (1.38%) Trello
7 10 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.23%) InDesign
9 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.23%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.17%) Simulink
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.11%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 53 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Primavera
3 12 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.52%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.46%) Loan IQ
8 7 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
8 7 (0.40%) Workfront
9 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.34%) Shopify
10 5 (0.29%) Eloqua
10 5 (0.29%) ResourceLink
10 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.17%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 128 (7.35%) Azure
2 97 (5.57%) AWS
3 91 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 53 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (2.70%) SaaS
6 31 (1.78%) GCP
7 30 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (1.44%) Asana
9 23 (1.32%) Google Workspace
10 22 (1.26%) Smartsheet
11 21 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
12 20 (1.15%) GitHub
13 17 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (0.92%) OneDrive
15 13 (0.75%) Serverless
16 11 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (0.57%) PowerApps
18 9 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
18 9 (0.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.30%) Firewall
2 20 (1.15%) WAN
3 18 (1.03%) LAN
4 16 (0.92%) DNS
5 15 (0.86%) Network Security
6 13 (0.75%) DHCP
7 12 (0.69%) Wireless
8 11 (0.63%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
10 9 (0.52%) Skype
10 9 (0.52%) SSH
11 8 (0.46%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.46%) VPN
11 8 (0.46%) WLAN
12 7 (0.40%) PuTTY
13 6 (0.34%) SSL
13 6 (0.34%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.29%) Broadband
15 4 (0.23%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (4.71%) Power BI
2 32 (1.84%) Tableau
3 29 (1.66%) SQL Server
4 15 (0.86%) SAP HANA
5 11 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (0.63%) Metadata
6 9 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.29%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.29%) GIS
8 5 (0.29%) Power Query
9 4 (0.23%) Big Data
9 4 (0.23%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.23%) MySQL
9 4 (0.23%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.17%) DB2
10 3 (0.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 270 (15.50%) JIRA
2 13 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.63%) Git
4 6 (0.34%) SpecFlow
5 5 (0.29%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.29%) JUnit
5 5 (0.29%) Maven
6 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.17%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.11%) Selenium
7 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.057%) Ant
8 1 (0.057%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.057%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.057%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.057%) Toad
General
1 847 (48.62%) Social Skills
2 635 (36.45%) Finance
3 293 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (9.70%) Banking
5 143 (8.21%) Public Sector
6 125 (7.18%) Organisational Skills
7 100 (5.74%) Marketing
8 81 (4.65%) Manufacturing
9 79 (4.54%) Legal
10 72 (4.13%) Retail
11 68 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
12 50 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (2.64%) Telecoms
14 45 (2.58%) Investment Banking
15 44 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 42 (2.41%) Local Government
17 38 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
18 37 (2.12%) Front Office
19 34 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
20 19 (1.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 610 (35.02%) Project Manager
2 216 (12.40%) Analyst
3 164 (9.41%) Lead
4 135 (7.75%) Senior
5 121 (6.95%) Business Analyst
6 90 (5.17%) IT Manager
7 79 (4.54%) Consultant
8 77 (4.42%) Senior Manager
9 75 (4.31%) IT Project Manager
10 58 (3.33%) Technical Manager
11 57 (3.27%) Senior Project Manager
12 56 (3.21%) Programme Manager
13 43 (2.47%) Delivery Manager
13 43 (2.47%) Infrastructure Manager
13 43 (2.47%) Security Manager
14 40 (2.30%) SAP Manager
15 39 (2.24%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 38 (2.18%) Coordinator
16 38 (2.18%) Technical Project Manager
17 35 (2.01%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.32%) .NET
2 17 (0.98%) AngularJS
2 17 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.80%) Middleware
3 14 (0.80%) REST
4 13 (0.75%) EDI
4 13 (0.75%) React
5 12 (0.69%) HTML
6 10 (0.57%) RESTful
7 9 (0.52%) .NET Framework
7 9 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.46%) Web Services
9 7 (0.40%) CSS
9 7 (0.40%) Entity Framework
10 6 (0.34%) ADO
10 6 (0.34%) NHibernate
10 6 (0.34%) Playwright
10 6 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
10 6 (0.34%) SOAP
10 6 (0.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.80%) Management Information System
2 92 (5.28%) Onboarding
3 51 (2.93%) Virtual Team
4 48 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 47 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 46 (2.64%) PMI
7 40 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 34 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 29 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.09%) Social Media
13 17 (0.98%) Mobile App
13 17 (0.98%) Operational Technology
14 15 (0.86%) Life Science
15 13 (0.75%) Learning Management System
15 13 (0.75%) Reinsurance
16 12 (0.69%) Cloud Native
16 12 (0.69%) Digital Media
16 12 (0.69%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 64 (3.67%) Windows
2 18 (1.03%) Linux
3 14 (0.80%) Unix
4 9 (0.52%) Windows 10
4 9 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.23%) VMS
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.057%) Android
7 1 (0.057%) Solaris
7 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (38.17%) Agile
2 531 (30.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 409 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
4 403 (23.13%) Project Delivery
5 325 (18.66%) PRINCE2
6 305 (17.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 302 (17.34%) Change Management
8 217 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 217 (12.46%) Migration
9 198 (11.37%) Risk Management
10 197 (11.31%) Waterfall
11 175 (10.05%) Decision-Making
12 155 (8.90%) Scrum
13 141 (8.09%) ITIL
14 130 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
15 128 (7.35%) Business Analysis
16 127 (7.29%) Project Governance
17 122 (7.00%) Budget Management
18 117 (6.72%) DevOps
19 116 (6.66%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 81 (4.65%) SQL
2 56 (3.21%) Python
3 22 (1.26%) Java
4 17 (0.98%) JavaScript
5 15 (0.86%) C#
6 13 (0.75%) PowerShell
7 11 (0.63%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.34%) VBA
9 5 (0.29%) C++
9 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.29%) VB
10 4 (0.23%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.17%) ABAP
11 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.17%) Korn
11 3 (0.17%) Perl
11 3 (0.17%) R
12 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.11%) Go
12 2 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 336 (19.29%) Degree
2 228 (13.09%) PMP
3 219 (12.57%) PMI Certification
4 207 (11.88%) Security Cleared
5 148 (8.50%) SC Cleared
6 53 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.38%) APMP
9 23 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 21 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.15%) Master's Degree
12 18 (1.03%) CISSP
13 17 (0.98%) CISM
13 17 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 14 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.69%) CCNP
16 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.57%) A+ Certification
18 8 (0.46%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (9.76%) PMO
2 98 (5.63%) QA
3 41 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (2.30%) GDPR
5 34 (1.95%) NIST
6 33 (1.89%) Data Quality
7 22 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (1.09%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.92%) GRC
10 12 (0.69%) P3O
11 11 (0.63%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.52%) MiFID
13 7 (0.40%) APQC
13 7 (0.40%) EMIR
13 7 (0.40%) GxP
14 6 (0.34%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.34%) SLA
15 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.29%) ISO 19650
16 4 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 32 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.32%) Docker
3 5 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.057%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.057%) IAG
6 1 (0.057%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.057%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (0.86%) Kubernetes
1 15 (0.86%) Terraform
2 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (0.52%) Kibana
3 9 (0.52%) SCCM
4 8 (0.46%) Ansible
4 8 (0.46%) logstash
5 6 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.23%) Consul
6 4 (0.23%) Packer
7 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.17%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.11%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
8 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.11%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.057%) Cisco UCCE
9 1 (0.057%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 307 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 154 (8.84%) SAP
3 76 (4.36%) Oracle
4 74 (4.25%) Salesforce
5 71 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 55 (3.16%) Google
7 29 (1.66%) Cisco
8 23 (1.32%) Adobe
9 20 (1.15%) Workday
10 17 (0.98%) Atlassian
11 14 (0.80%) Databricks
11 14 (0.80%) Planview
11 14 (0.80%) Remedy
12 12 (0.69%) IBM
13 11 (0.63%) VMware
14 9 (0.52%) IFS
14 9 (0.52%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.46%) Splunk
16 7 (0.40%) Ariba
16 7 (0.40%) Peregrine