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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -23 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,826 1,888 2,818
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.24% 7.59% 7.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 8.31% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,160 1,710
10th Percentile £319 £308 £305
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £621 £613
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 100 262
10th Percentile £15.58 £21.39 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.70 £26.48
Median hourly rate £36.00 £46.30 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.25% +23.47% -16.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.94 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.61 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £46.22 £38.12
% change year-on-year -22.10% +21.24% -15.29%

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 36,727 22,725 32,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.37% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,194 14,704 20,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,299 1,073 2,390
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%
75th Percentile £68.55 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.05%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -23 858 £550 - 266
North of England -27 281 £475 - 183
South East -22 262 £500 +4.17% 239
Midlands -32 173 £500 +11.11% 113
North West -10 169 £470 +4.50% 96
South West -18 138 £450 - 81
West Midlands -43 118 £550 +17.27% 61
Yorkshire -36 106 £495 -1.00% 63
East of England -13 89 £525 +1.16% 105
East Midlands -11 55 £393 -7.44% 52
North East -37 9 £450 -11.33% 29
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
1 111 (6.08%) Confluence
2 95 (5.20%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.20%) CMS
4 15 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.38%) Apache
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.22%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
12 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.055%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.055%) Umbraco
Applications
1 167 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 166 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
3 118 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
4 107 (5.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (2.25%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.49%) Trello
8 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 1 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.055%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.055%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 73 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.82%) Primavera
3 11 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.55%) Shopify
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.44%) Loan IQ
7 7 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.38%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
9 5 (0.27%) Magento
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.27%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 133 (7.28%) Azure
2 94 (5.15%) Power Platform
3 79 (4.33%) SaaS
4 73 (4.00%) AWS
5 66 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
7 24 (1.31%) Smartsheet
8 23 (1.26%) GCP
9 21 (1.15%) Google Workspace
10 18 (0.99%) Asana
11 14 (0.77%) Entra ID
12 10 (0.55%) BigCommerce
12 10 (0.55%) Google Sheets
13 9 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (0.49%) GitHub
13 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (0.49%) OCI
14 8 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (0.44%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.31%) Network Security
2 22 (1.20%) WAN
3 21 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.04%) DNS
5 16 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
6 15 (0.82%) Firewall
6 15 (0.82%) LAN
7 13 (0.71%) MPLS
7 13 (0.71%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.66%) BGP
8 12 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.55%) DHCP
10 9 (0.49%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.49%) Intranet
10 9 (0.49%) VPN
11 8 (0.44%) Internet
12 7 (0.38%) DKIM
12 7 (0.38%) DMARC
12 7 (0.38%) SAN
13 5 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.93%) Power BI
2 14 (0.77%) Tableau
3 13 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (0.71%) SQL Server
4 10 (0.55%) Metadata
5 9 (0.49%) Data Lake
5 9 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
6 7 (0.38%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.33%) Power Query
7 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.16%) QlikView
10 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.11%) Big Data
11 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 239 (13.09%) JIRA
2 20 (1.10%) Git
3 15 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.33%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.27%) Subversion
6 2 (0.11%) Hudson
6 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.055%) Appium
7 1 (0.055%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.055%) Capybara
7 1 (0.055%) Gradle
7 1 (0.055%) Maven
7 1 (0.055%) minitest
7 1 (0.055%) MSI
7 1 (0.055%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.055%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.055%) Terragrunt
General
1 825 (45.18%) Social Skills
2 721 (39.49%) Finance
3 291 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (10.41%) Organisational Skills
5 147 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 134 (7.34%) Banking
7 107 (5.86%) Marketing
7 107 (5.86%) Retail
8 68 (3.72%) Legal
9 63 (3.45%) Manufacturing
10 58 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
11 47 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (2.57%) Telecoms
12 38 (2.08%) Financial Institution
13 31 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
14 28 (1.53%) Investment Banking
15 27 (1.48%) Front Office
16 23 (1.26%) Local Government
17 21 (1.15%) Military
18 20 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 723 (39.59%) Project Manager
2 198 (10.84%) Analyst
3 186 (10.19%) Senior
4 150 (8.21%) Lead
5 131 (7.17%) Senior Manager
6 111 (6.08%) Senior Project Manager
7 106 (5.81%) Business Analyst
8 91 (4.98%) IT Manager
9 80 (4.38%) IT Project Manager
10 72 (3.94%) Programme Manager
11 67 (3.67%) Consultant
12 53 (2.90%) Infrastructure Manager
13 52 (2.85%) Technical Manager
14 49 (2.68%) Architect
15 47 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
16 44 (2.41%) Technical Project Manager
17 41 (2.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
18 40 (2.19%) Project Officer
18 40 (2.19%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 36 (1.97%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.26%) Middleware
2 22 (1.20%) REST
3 18 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.77%) OAuth
4 14 (0.77%) SOAP
5 13 (0.71%) VML
5 13 (0.71%) Web Services
6 11 (0.60%) HTML
7 9 (0.49%) CSS
7 9 (0.49%) JSON
8 8 (0.44%) .NET
8 8 (0.44%) SailPoint
8 8 (0.44%) SAML
9 6 (0.33%) ADO
9 6 (0.33%) OpenID
9 6 (0.33%) XML
10 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.27%) RESTful
10 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (5.09%) Management Information System
1 93 (5.09%) Onboarding
2 65 (3.56%) Data Centre
3 52 (2.85%) PMI
3 52 (2.85%) Product Ownership
4 51 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
5 36 (1.97%) Virtual Team
6 33 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 22 (1.20%) Operational Technology
9 20 (1.10%) FMCG
10 19 (1.04%) Social Media
11 17 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.88%) NHS
13 15 (0.82%) EPoS
14 14 (0.77%) Life Science
15 13 (0.71%) CMDB
15 13 (0.71%) Data Structures
16 12 (0.66%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.52%) Windows
2 27 (1.48%) Linux
3 16 (0.88%) Unix
4 15 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.22%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.22%) zOS
6 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.055%) AIX
7 1 (0.055%) Android
7 1 (0.055%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.055%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.055%) Solaris
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (36.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 651 (35.65%) Agile
3 472 (25.85%) Project Delivery
4 373 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
5 342 (18.73%) PRINCE2
6 295 (16.16%) Migration
7 282 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 270 (14.79%) Change Management
9 250 (13.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 233 (12.76%) Decision-Making
11 222 (12.16%) Risk Management
12 218 (11.94%) Waterfall
13 170 (9.31%) ERP
14 160 (8.76%) Scrum
15 148 (8.11%) AI
16 145 (7.94%) Budget Management
17 125 (6.85%) Data Migration
18 123 (6.74%) Validation
19 122 (6.68%) Project Planning
20 118 (6.46%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 78 (4.27%) SQL
2 49 (2.68%) Python
3 18 (0.99%) JavaScript
4 14 (0.77%) Java
4 14 (0.77%) VBA
5 10 (0.55%) C#
6 9 (0.49%) C++
7 7 (0.38%) C
8 6 (0.33%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.33%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.27%) ABAP
9 5 (0.27%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.22%) Ada
10 4 (0.22%) JCL
10 4 (0.22%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.22%) R
11 3 (0.16%) SOQL
12 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.11%) REXX
12 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 294 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 264 (14.46%) Degree
2 264 (14.46%) PMP
3 221 (12.10%) PMI Certification
4 218 (11.94%) SC Cleared
5 63 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 43 (2.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 35 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.70%) ACCA
8 31 (1.70%) CIMA
9 24 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.26%) APMP
11 20 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.04%) CISSP
13 16 (0.88%) CISM
13 16 (0.88%) MBA
14 14 (0.77%) CBAP
15 12 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 10 (0.55%) CIPFA
16 10 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (12.05%) PMO
2 110 (6.02%) QA
3 49 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.41%) GDPR
5 34 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (1.86%) SLA
6 31 (1.70%) NIST
7 20 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.82%) GRC
9 8 (0.44%) MiFID
10 7 (0.38%) Basel III
10 7 (0.38%) EMIR
10 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.33%) GMP
11 6 (0.33%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.27%) GxP
13 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 26 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.33%) RACF
4 5 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.055%) ACF2
8 1 (0.055%) Docker
8 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.055%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (0.99%) Ansible
1 18 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.16%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.16%) Terraform
6 2 (0.11%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
6 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.055%) Control-M
7 1 (0.055%) Grafana
7 1 (0.055%) logstash
7 1 (0.055%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.055%) SCOM
7 1 (0.055%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.055%) vRealize
7 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 275 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 157 (8.60%) SAP
3 93 (5.09%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.72%) Oracle
5 50 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 40 (2.19%) Google
7 29 (1.59%) Adobe
8 21 (1.15%) Cisco
8 21 (1.15%) Sitecore
9 20 (1.10%) Workday
10 16 (0.88%) VMware
11 14 (0.77%) CyberArk
11 14 (0.77%) Sage
12 13 (0.71%) Databricks
12 13 (0.71%) NEC
13 12 (0.66%) IBM
14 11 (0.60%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.55%) Guidewire
15 10 (0.55%) IFS
15 10 (0.55%) Murex