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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -29 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,785 1,903 2,508
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.91% 6.86% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 7.55% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,186 1,483
10th Percentile £313 £313 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £732 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £511 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.10% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 102 183
10th Percentile £21.00 £21.39 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £29.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.78 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% +6.98% -3.62%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £48.88
90th Percentile £83.10 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £43.83 £36.48 £38.12
% change year-on-year +20.13% -4.30% -5.88%

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 38,743 25,202 28,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.84% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,962 16,051 18,351
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,572 1,476 1,524
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.17 £17.87 £18.08
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% -3.67%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -29 857 £550 +2.80% 454
North of England -35 264 £475 -5.00% 257
South East -25 251 £500 - 334
North West -20 161 £474 -2.77% 139
Midlands -44 147 £534 +18.61% 181
South West -25 137 £444 -1.39% 165
West Midlands -52 98 £550 +17.27% 107
Yorkshire -31 96 £495 -1.00% 84
East of England -10 85 £515 -1.90% 120
East Midlands -16 49 £500 +12.42% 74
North East -40 9 £420 -12.95% 38
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
1 101 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 87 (4.87%) Confluence
3 34 (1.90%) CMS
4 21 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) Apache
9 5 (0.28%) JBoss
9 5 (0.28%) Moodle
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.056%) Appian
12 1 (0.056%) Camunda
12 1 (0.056%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 173 (9.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (8.80%) Microsoft Project
3 143 (8.01%) Microsoft Office
4 114 (6.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 40 (2.24%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.73%) Trello
8 11 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.17%) InDesign
12 3 (0.17%) Windchill
13 2 (0.11%) Houdini
13 2 (0.11%) NUKE
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.056%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 54 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.06%) Primavera
3 12 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (0.67%) Magento
4 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.45%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.34%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.34%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.34%) Shopify
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.28%) SAP PS
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CRM
9 4 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 149 (8.35%) Azure
2 121 (6.78%) Power Platform
3 89 (4.99%) SaaS
4 73 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
5 63 (3.53%) AWS
6 56 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.90%) Smartsheet
8 26 (1.46%) Google Workspace
9 25 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (1.06%) Asana
11 18 (1.01%) Entra ID
12 15 (0.84%) GitHub
13 14 (0.78%) GCP
14 12 (0.67%) Google Sheets
14 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (0.62%) OCI
15 11 (0.62%) PowerApps
16 10 (0.56%) Power Automate
17 8 (0.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.74%) Network Security
2 22 (1.23%) DNS
2 22 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.18%) WAN
4 19 (1.06%) Structured Cabling
5 15 (0.84%) Firewall
5 15 (0.84%) LAN
5 15 (0.84%) VPN
6 14 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (0.73%) DHCP
8 12 (0.67%) Intranet
9 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.56%) BGP
10 10 (0.56%) Internet
10 10 (0.56%) MPLS
11 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
12 7 (0.39%) DKIM
12 7 (0.39%) DMARC
12 7 (0.39%) SAN
12 7 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (6.16%) Power BI
2 17 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (0.84%) Tableau
4 12 (0.67%) Metadata
5 11 (0.62%) SQL Server
6 9 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.45%) GIS
7 8 (0.45%) Power Query
8 7 (0.39%) Big Data
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.17%) QlikView
12 3 (0.17%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.11%) Looker
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 227 (12.72%) JIRA
2 24 (1.34%) Git
3 19 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.50%) Subversion
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) GitLab
7 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
8 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.11%) Hudson
9 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.056%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.056%) minitest
10 1 (0.056%) Postman
10 1 (0.056%) RSpec
10 1 (0.056%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.056%) Snyk
10 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.056%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.056%) Terragrunt
General
1 809 (45.32%) Social Skills
2 684 (38.32%) Finance
3 317 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (9.97%) Organisational Skills
5 152 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 151 (8.46%) Banking
7 135 (7.56%) Marketing
8 114 (6.39%) Retail
9 68 (3.81%) Manufacturing
10 67 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
11 65 (3.64%) Telecoms
12 62 (3.47%) Legal
13 45 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 28 (1.57%) Investment Banking
15 27 (1.51%) Local Government
16 26 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
16 26 (1.46%) Front Office
16 26 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.34%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 684 (38.32%) Project Manager
2 175 (9.80%) Senior
3 165 (9.24%) Lead
4 142 (7.96%) Analyst
5 134 (7.51%) Senior Manager
6 103 (5.77%) Senior Project Manager
7 97 (5.43%) IT Manager
8 85 (4.76%) Programme Manager
9 76 (4.26%) Business Analyst
10 74 (4.15%) IT Project Manager
11 60 (3.36%) Technical Manager
12 59 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
13 56 (3.14%) Consultant
14 48 (2.69%) Infrastructure Manager
15 47 (2.63%) Technical Project Manager
16 38 (2.13%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 37 (2.07%) Infrastructure Project Manager
18 35 (1.96%) Developer
18 35 (1.96%) Digital Project Manager
18 35 (1.96%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.23%) Middleware
2 19 (1.06%) REST
3 17 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.78%) HTML
5 13 (0.73%) ADO
5 13 (0.73%) VML
6 12 (0.67%) Web Services
7 10 (0.56%) JSON
7 10 (0.56%) OAuth
8 9 (0.50%) .NET
8 9 (0.50%) React
8 9 (0.50%) SOAP
9 6 (0.34%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.34%) CSS
9 6 (0.34%) Terraform
9 6 (0.34%) XML
10 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
10 5 (0.28%) RESTful
11 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
11 4 (0.22%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.38%) Management Information System
2 82 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 75 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.63%) PMI
6 46 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
7 43 (2.41%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.46%) Operational Technology
10 25 (1.40%) FMCG
10 25 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.29%) Social Media
12 22 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.12%) Credit Risk
14 18 (1.01%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.78%) Mobile App
16 13 (0.73%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.91%) Windows
2 42 (2.35%) Linux
3 18 (1.01%) Unix
3 18 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.22%) zOS
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.056%) Android
8 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 774 (43.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 705 (39.50%) Agile
3 504 (28.24%) Project Delivery
4 417 (23.36%) PRINCE2
5 317 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
6 308 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 303 (16.97%) Change Management
8 252 (14.12%) Migration
9 247 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 239 (13.39%) Decision-Making
11 230 (12.89%) Waterfall
12 224 (12.55%) Risk Management
13 182 (10.20%) AI
14 180 (10.08%) Scrum
15 150 (8.40%) Project Governance
16 147 (8.24%) Roadmaps
17 140 (7.84%) Analytics
18 137 (7.68%) Project Planning
19 134 (7.51%) ITIL
20 130 (7.28%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 68 (3.81%) SQL
2 66 (3.70%) Python
3 17 (0.95%) JavaScript
4 16 (0.90%) VBA
5 13 (0.73%) Java
6 12 (0.67%) C++
7 9 (0.50%) C#
7 9 (0.50%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.45%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.39%) Ada
10 6 (0.34%) C
11 5 (0.28%) Korn
11 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.22%) ABAP
12 4 (0.22%) Bash
12 4 (0.22%) JCL
12 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 298 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 289 (16.19%) Degree
3 283 (15.85%) PMP
4 244 (13.67%) PMI Certification
5 202 (11.32%) SC Cleared
6 74 (4.15%) DV Cleared
7 65 (3.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 24 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 21 (1.18%) ACCA
9 21 (1.18%) CIMA
10 16 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (0.84%) APMP
11 15 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 14 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.67%) CISSP
14 11 (0.62%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.56%) CIPFA
15 10 (0.56%) MBA
15 10 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (11.93%) PMO
2 93 (5.21%) QA
3 53 (2.97%) Data Quality
4 33 (1.85%) GDPR
5 27 (1.51%) SLA
6 24 (1.34%) GRC
7 22 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (1.06%) NIST
10 8 (0.45%) P3O
11 7 (0.39%) FINREP
11 7 (0.39%) GMP
11 7 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.34%) COREP
12 6 (0.34%) EMIR
13 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.28%) MiFID
13 5 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.22%) Solvency II
14 4 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.056%) ACF2
8 1 (0.056%) Docker
8 1 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.056%) RACF
8 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (1.06%) Ansible
2 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.34%) Puppet
4 6 (0.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.11%) SCCM
8 1 (0.056%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.056%) BMC Performance Manager
8 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.056%) Nessus
8 1 (0.056%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.056%) SCOM
8 1 (0.056%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 310 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 128 (7.17%) SAP
3 98 (5.49%) ServiceNow
4 77 (4.31%) Oracle
5 52 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 46 (2.58%) Adobe
6 46 (2.58%) Google
7 29 (1.62%) VMware
8 24 (1.34%) Cisco
8 24 (1.34%) Sitecore
9 20 (1.12%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.06%) NEC
11 18 (1.01%) Workday
12 13 (0.73%) Databricks
12 13 (0.73%) IBM
13 12 (0.67%) Alteryx
14 10 (0.56%) IFS
14 10 (0.56%) JD Edwards
14 10 (0.56%) Murex
15 9 (0.50%) Guidewire