Project Management Contracts in England

Project Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,954 2,933 3,831
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.03% 7.88% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 9.11% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,163 1,829 2,640
10th Percentile £300 £313 £350
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £527
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.40% +5.42%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 241 151
10th Percentile £22.75 £18.32 £22.16
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.42 £30.13
Median hourly rate £46.18 £38.12 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.14% -22.20% +48.48%
75th Percentile £60.00 £48.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £43.08 £38.12 £49.00
% change year-on-year +13.00% -22.20% +47.41%

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 22,183 32,201 45,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.14% 86.52% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,119 31,974
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 2,240 1,592
10th Percentile £14.67 £12.91 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.44 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 30 April 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 30 April 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 -2 971 £525 -4.55% 1,823
North of England +1 267 £490 -2.00% 531
South East -1 244 £500 - 448
Midlands +4 177 £469 -7.13% 300
North West -1 151 £475 -7.96% 330
South West -7 137 £456 -13.14% 241
West Midlands +1 116 £500 -4.76% 179
Yorkshire +3 101 £475 -5.00% 155
East of England -10 83 £519 -1.14% 196
East Midlands +15 51 £410 -14.91% 113
North East -12 15 £538 -10.42% 54
Project Management
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Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 96 (4.91%) Confluence
2 54 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.13%) CMS
4 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.36%) WordPress
6 6 (0.31%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.26%) CICS
7 5 (0.26%) Drupal
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.15%) SAS
9 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.10%) Camunda
9 2 (0.10%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.10%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.051%) Apache
10 1 (0.051%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.051%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.051%) IIS
10 1 (0.051%) Umbraco
Applications
1 142 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (6.35%) Microsoft Project
3 94 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
4 85 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (1.69%) Trello
6 32 (1.64%) MS Visio
7 18 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.31%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.15%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.10%) Open Workbench
13 1 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.051%) FileZilla
13 1 (0.051%) Revit
13 1 (0.051%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.051%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 59 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.13%) Primavera
3 17 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.72%) SAP FI
5 13 (0.67%) SAP CO
5 13 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
6 12 (0.61%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.41%) SAP PS
8 7 (0.36%) Maximo
8 7 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.36%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.26%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.26%) SAP SD
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle ASCP
10 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.20%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 164 (8.39%) Azure
2 105 (5.37%) AWS
3 75 (3.84%) Power Platform
4 59 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (2.92%) SaaS
6 49 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (1.89%) GCP
8 27 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (1.07%) Entra ID
10 19 (0.97%) Asana
11 17 (0.87%) Google Workspace
12 16 (0.82%) OCI
12 16 (0.82%) SuccessFactors
13 15 (0.77%) GitHub
14 14 (0.72%) PaaS
14 14 (0.72%) Power Automate
15 13 (0.67%) IaaS
15 13 (0.67%) Smartsheet
16 12 (0.61%) OneDrive
17 11 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.20%) WAN
2 40 (2.05%) VPN
3 37 (1.89%) Firewall
4 35 (1.79%) LAN
5 23 (1.18%) DNS
6 19 (0.97%) LTE
7 18 (0.92%) MPLS
7 18 (0.92%) Network Security
7 18 (0.92%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.87%) ATM
8 17 (0.87%) DHCP
8 17 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
9 15 (0.77%) Ethernet
9 15 (0.77%) Frame Relay
9 15 (0.77%) GPRS
9 15 (0.77%) GSM
9 15 (0.77%) SAN
9 15 (0.77%) SDH
9 15 (0.77%) UMTS
9 15 (0.77%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (3.22%) Power BI
2 27 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (1.33%) Tableau
4 15 (0.77%) SQL Server
5 13 (0.67%) MySQL
6 12 (0.61%) MongoDB
6 12 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 11 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.56%) Metadata
8 10 (0.51%) Big Data
8 10 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (0.41%) DB2
9 8 (0.41%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.26%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.26%) MS Access
11 5 (0.26%) Power Query
11 5 (0.26%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 233 (11.92%) JIRA
2 15 (0.77%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.56%) Git
4 8 (0.41%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.36%) GitLab
5 7 (0.36%) Postman
5 7 (0.36%) Selenium
6 6 (0.31%) SoapUI
7 5 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.26%) MSI
8 4 (0.20%) JUnit
9 3 (0.15%) Jasmine
9 3 (0.15%) Maven
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.15%) TestRail
9 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.10%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.10%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 934 (47.80%) Social Skills
2 692 (35.41%) Finance
3 369 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 140 (7.16%) Banking
6 136 (6.96%) Marketing
7 117 (5.99%) Legal
8 92 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
9 81 (4.15%) Manufacturing
10 80 (4.09%) Retail
10 80 (4.09%) Telecoms
11 79 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
12 69 (3.53%) Local Government
13 66 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
15 38 (1.94%) Front Office
16 37 (1.89%) Automotive
17 30 (1.54%) Investment Banking
18 25 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 24 (1.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 657 (33.62%) Project Manager
2 201 (10.29%) Analyst
3 149 (7.63%) Lead
4 147 (7.52%) Senior
5 112 (5.73%) Business Analyst
6 104 (5.32%) IT Manager
7 81 (4.15%) Architect
8 80 (4.09%) Consultant
9 79 (4.04%) IT Project Manager
10 73 (3.74%) Senior Manager
11 70 (3.58%) Technical Manager
12 58 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
12 58 (2.97%) Infrastructure Manager
13 57 (2.92%) Senior Project Manager
14 48 (2.46%) Developer
14 48 (2.46%) Programme Manager
14 48 (2.46%) Technical Project Manager
15 47 (2.41%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 33 (1.69%) Implementation Manager
16 33 (1.69%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 28 (1.43%) CSS
3 27 (1.38%) HTML
4 20 (1.02%) .NET
5 17 (0.87%) React
5 17 (0.87%) REST
6 14 (0.72%) SAML
7 13 (0.67%) ADO
7 13 (0.67%) OAuth
8 12 (0.61%) Web Services
9 11 (0.56%) AngularJS
9 11 (0.56%) Middleware
9 11 (0.56%) SOAP
10 10 (0.51%) LDAP
11 9 (0.46%) Bootstrap
11 9 (0.46%) JSON
12 8 (0.41%) OpenID
13 7 (0.36%) Node.js
13 7 (0.36%) Spring
14 6 (0.31%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 93 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 73 (3.74%) Onboarding
3 63 (3.22%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
5 52 (2.66%) Data Centre
6 47 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 41 (2.10%) PMI
8 27 (1.38%) NHS
9 26 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.28%) IoT
11 23 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (1.07%) Life Science
13 20 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 19 (0.97%) Virtual Team
15 18 (0.92%) e-Learning
16 17 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
17 16 (0.82%) Social Media
18 15 (0.77%) Public Cloud
19 12 (0.61%) FMCG
20 11 (0.56%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 70 (3.58%) Windows
2 44 (2.25%) Linux
3 21 (1.07%) Unix
4 20 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.15%) Android
9 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.10%) AIX
10 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.051%) CentOS
11 1 (0.051%) SUSE
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (31.88%) Agile
2 505 (25.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 502 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
4 313 (16.02%) Project Delivery
5 265 (13.56%) PRINCE2
6 252 (12.90%) Risk Management
7 248 (12.69%) Change Management
8 207 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 199 (10.18%) Migration
10 180 (9.21%) Decision-Making
11 176 (9.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 160 (8.19%) Waterfall
13 147 (7.52%) Scrum
14 139 (7.11%) Roadmaps
15 137 (7.01%) Analytics
16 132 (6.76%) ITIL
17 127 (6.50%) Project Planning
18 120 (6.14%) DevOps
18 120 (6.14%) Programme Management
19 119 (6.09%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 89 (4.55%) SQL
2 65 (3.33%) Python
3 54 (2.76%) Java
4 48 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 19 (0.97%) PowerShell
6 16 (0.82%) PHP
7 14 (0.72%) C#
8 11 (0.56%) C
9 9 (0.46%) R
10 8 (0.41%) Bash
11 6 (0.31%) ABAP
11 6 (0.31%) Embedded C
11 6 (0.31%) Groovy
11 6 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.26%) Ruby
12 5 (0.26%) VBA
13 4 (0.20%) Bicep
13 4 (0.20%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.20%) VB
14 3 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 344 (17.60%) Degree
2 229 (11.72%) Security Cleared
3 204 (10.44%) PMI Certification
4 195 (9.98%) PMP
5 169 (8.65%) SC Cleared
6 50 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 23 (1.18%) CISSP
10 22 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (1.02%) ISEB
12 20 (1.02%) ISTQB
13 19 (0.97%) CCNP
14 18 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 15 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 14 (0.72%) CISM
16 14 (0.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (7.73%) PMO
2 97 (4.96%) QA
3 65 (3.33%) GDPR
4 44 (2.25%) Data Quality
5 32 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 25 (1.28%) NIST
9 18 (0.92%) SLA
10 15 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.67%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.56%) MiFID
13 10 (0.51%) GRC
14 9 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.41%) EMIR
16 5 (0.26%) GxP
16 5 (0.26%) P3O
17 4 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.20%) COBIT
17 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 50 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.77%) Docker
3 13 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.31%) Firmware
6 6 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.26%) vSphere
8 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.15%) OpenDJ
9 3 (0.15%) OpenIDM
10 2 (0.10%) IAG
10 2 (0.10%) Lustre
10 2 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.10%) RACF
10 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.051%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.38%) Terraform
3 21 (1.07%) SCCM
4 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.61%) Ansible
7 7 (0.36%) Amdocs OSS
8 6 (0.31%) MOM
9 4 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.15%) Grafana
10 3 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.15%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (0.15%) Packer
10 3 (0.15%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 3 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.10%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 2 (0.10%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.10%) Podman
11 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 270 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 181 (9.26%) SAP
3 94 (4.81%) Oracle
4 53 (2.71%) Salesforce
5 47 (2.41%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.25%) Cisco
6 44 (2.25%) Google
7 32 (1.64%) Workday
8 27 (1.38%) Adobe
9 20 (1.02%) Juniper
9 20 (1.02%) VMware
10 16 (0.82%) IBM
11 15 (0.77%) Planview
12 13 (0.67%) Databricks
12 13 (0.67%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.51%) Ariba
13 10 (0.51%) Red Hat
14 9 (0.46%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.46%) Splunk
15 8 (0.41%) Alteryx