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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,903 2,001 2,968
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.85% 8.22% 7.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.66% 9.04% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 1,195 1,865
10th Percentile £338 £300 £313
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £604 £638
90th Percentile £725 £717 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 102 248
10th Percentile £14.64 £24.90 £18.35
25th Percentile £20.81 £31.25 £26.60
Median hourly rate £39.50 £46.30 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -14.69% +21.46% -23.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £44.63 £38.12
% change year-on-year -11.49% +17.07% -23.76%

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 33,625 22,142 32,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.72% 90.94% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,563 14,591 21,374
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,074 866 2,196
10th Percentile £15.41 £14.95 £12.96
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.92 £15.93
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.03 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year +24.90% -6.10% -9.05%
75th Percentile £65.81 £64.52 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.85 £75.88 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
% change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -17 899 £550 +4.76% 403
North of England -23 289 £475 - 233
South East -15 288 £525 +5.00% 313
Midlands -25 199 £500 +11.11% 175
North West -10 170 £475 +5.56% 119
West Midlands -31 135 £514 +2.80% 98
South West -18 127 £450 -10.00% 104
Yorkshire -32 111 £480 +1.05% 85
East of England -31 76 £509 -1.93% 137
East Midlands -12 66 £393 -4.05% 76
North East -19 12 £430 -18.10% 31
Project Management
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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
1 155 (8.15%) Confluence
2 74 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.10%) CMS
4 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.32%) Apache
5 6 (0.32%) nginx
6 4 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
8 2 (0.11%) Moodle
8 2 (0.11%) WordPress
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.053%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.053%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.053%) IIS
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.053%) SAS
9 1 (0.053%) WebSphere
Applications
1 207 (10.88%) Microsoft Project
2 191 (10.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 142 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
4 104 (5.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 46 (2.42%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.89%) Trello
7 16 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.26%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.16%) InDesign
11 3 (0.16%) InVision
11 3 (0.16%) 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 64 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.00%) Primavera
3 13 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (0.63%) Loan IQ
5 11 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 9 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
8 8 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
8 8 (0.42%) Shopify
9 7 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
9 7 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.32%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.32%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.26%) NEC Housing
11 5 (0.26%) SAP HCM
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 134 (7.04%) Azure
2 91 (4.78%) Power Platform
3 84 (4.41%) AWS
4 65 (3.42%) SaaS
5 58 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (1.31%) GCP
8 23 (1.21%) Smartsheet
9 21 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (1.00%) Asana
11 18 (0.95%) OpenShift
12 17 (0.89%) Google Workspace
13 13 (0.68%) GitHub
14 11 (0.58%) Entra ID
14 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.58%) OCI
15 10 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (0.53%) PaaS
16 9 (0.47%) IaaS
16 9 (0.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.63%) WAN
2 26 (1.37%) Firewall
3 23 (1.21%) Network Security
4 20 (1.05%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.00%) LAN
6 16 (0.84%) MPLS
6 16 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.74%) DNS
7 14 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
7 14 (0.74%) VPN
8 13 (0.68%) Internet
8 13 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.53%) BGP
9 10 (0.53%) DHCP
10 6 (0.32%) Intranet
10 6 (0.32%) IPsec
10 6 (0.32%) OSPF
10 6 (0.32%) SSL
11 5 (0.26%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.47%) Power BI
2 21 (1.10%) Tableau
3 16 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (0.84%) Metadata
3 16 (0.84%) SQL Server
4 12 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
5 8 (0.42%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.21%) Big Data
8 4 (0.21%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.21%) Power Query
8 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.16%) GIS
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 299 (15.71%) JIRA
2 19 (1.00%) Git
3 10 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.32%) GitLab
5 5 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
8 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
9 1 (0.053%) Appium
9 1 (0.053%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.053%) Capybara
9 1 (0.053%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.053%) Gradle
9 1 (0.053%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.053%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.053%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.053%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.053%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.053%) Zephyr
General
1 938 (49.29%) Social Skills
2 743 (39.04%) Finance
3 341 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (9.72%) Organisational Skills
5 175 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 164 (8.62%) Banking
7 102 (5.36%) Marketing
8 96 (5.04%) Retail
9 74 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
9 74 (3.89%) Legal
10 60 (3.15%) Manufacturing
11 54 (2.84%) Telecoms
12 49 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (2.26%) Investment Banking
14 33 (1.73%) Financial Institution
15 31 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.47%) Local Government
17 27 (1.42%) Front Office
18 26 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 18 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 736 (38.68%) Project Manager
2 224 (11.77%) Analyst
3 175 (9.20%) Senior
4 162 (8.51%) Lead
5 124 (6.52%) Business Analyst
6 120 (6.31%) Senior Manager
7 99 (5.20%) Senior Project Manager
8 88 (4.62%) IT Manager
9 80 (4.20%) IT Project Manager
10 76 (3.99%) Programme Manager
11 70 (3.68%) Consultant
12 64 (3.36%) Technical Manager
13 59 (3.10%) Infrastructure Manager
14 58 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
15 51 (2.68%) Architect
16 47 (2.47%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 45 (2.36%) Technical Project Manager
18 44 (2.31%) Project Officer
19 40 (2.10%) Coordinator
20 38 (2.00%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.21%) Middleware
2 21 (1.10%) REST
3 19 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.79%) Web Services
5 14 (0.74%) SOAP
6 13 (0.68%) CSS
6 13 (0.68%) HTML
7 10 (0.53%) EDI
7 10 (0.53%) XML
8 9 (0.47%) .NET
8 9 (0.47%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.42%) React
9 8 (0.42%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.42%) VML
10 7 (0.37%) SAML
11 6 (0.32%) ADO
11 6 (0.32%) OAuth
11 6 (0.32%) OpenID
11 6 (0.32%) RESTful
12 5 (0.26%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.41%) Onboarding
2 102 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 64 (3.36%) PMI
4 62 (3.26%) Data Centre
5 56 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 54 (2.84%) Virtual Team
7 53 (2.79%) Product Ownership
8 43 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.31%) NHS
11 23 (1.21%) Operational Technology
12 20 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (1.00%) CMDB
14 18 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
15 17 (0.89%) Data Structures
16 15 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
17 14 (0.74%) Social Media
18 13 (0.68%) Cloud Native
18 13 (0.68%) SCADA
19 12 (0.63%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.36%) Windows
2 22 (1.16%) Linux
3 13 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.26%) Unix
6 3 (0.16%) zOS
7 2 (0.11%) AIX
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.053%) Android
8 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.053%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.053%) Solaris
8 1 (0.053%) VMS
8 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (37.78%) Agile
2 648 (34.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 483 (25.38%) Project Delivery
4 456 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
5 398 (20.91%) PRINCE2
6 310 (16.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 294 (15.45%) Change Management
8 279 (14.66%) Migration
9 272 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 224 (11.77%) Decision-Making
11 222 (11.67%) Waterfall
12 216 (11.35%) Risk Management
13 205 (10.77%) Scrum
14 172 (9.04%) Budget Management
15 162 (8.51%) ERP
16 140 (7.36%) DevOps
17 137 (7.20%) Roadmaps
18 131 (6.88%) Business Analysis
19 127 (6.67%) Analytics
20 126 (6.62%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 82 (4.31%) SQL
2 35 (1.84%) Python
3 20 (1.05%) JavaScript
4 17 (0.89%) Java
5 10 (0.53%) C#
5 10 (0.53%) VBA
6 7 (0.37%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.32%) C++
7 6 (0.32%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.26%) ABAP
8 5 (0.26%) Perl
8 5 (0.26%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.26%) R
9 4 (0.21%) C
9 4 (0.21%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.16%) SOQL
11 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.11%) JCL
Qualifications
1 325 (17.08%) Security Cleared
2 322 (16.92%) Degree
3 294 (15.45%) PMP
4 261 (13.72%) PMI Certification
5 241 (12.66%) SC Cleared
6 67 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 40 (2.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 36 (1.89%) APMP
8 36 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (1.26%) ACCA
10 24 (1.26%) CIMA
10 24 (1.26%) CISSP
11 22 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 20 (1.05%) CISM
12 20 (1.05%) MBA
13 17 (0.89%) CBAP
14 15 (0.79%) IIBA
15 11 (0.58%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (11.61%) PMO
2 128 (6.73%) QA
3 55 (2.89%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.63%) GDPR
5 45 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (1.84%) NIST
7 29 (1.52%) SLA
8 17 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 16 (0.84%) GRC
10 11 (0.58%) Basel III
10 11 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.53%) EMIR
11 10 (0.53%) MiFID
12 8 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.32%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.32%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.26%) NCSC
15 5 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (1.31%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.53%) Docker
3 8 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.26%) RACF
5 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.11%) NFS
6 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.053%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (0.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.63%) Terraform
3 10 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.47%) Ansible
5 7 (0.37%) RSA Archer
6 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.21%) Consul
7 4 (0.21%) logstash
7 4 (0.21%) Packer
7 4 (0.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.16%) Kibana
8 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.11%) Grafana
9 2 (0.11%) SCCM
9 2 (0.11%) SCOM
10 1 (0.053%) CASB
10 1 (0.053%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.053%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.053%) vRealize
Vendors
1 284 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 164 (8.62%) SAP
3 110 (5.78%) ServiceNow
4 77 (4.05%) Oracle
5 67 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 34 (1.79%) Google
7 30 (1.58%) Cisco
8 28 (1.47%) Adobe
9 27 (1.42%) Workday
10 20 (1.05%) Atlassian
11 18 (0.95%) CyberArk
11 18 (0.95%) VMware
12 14 (0.74%) Sage
13 12 (0.63%) Palo Alto
14 11 (0.58%) Databricks
14 11 (0.58%) NEC
14 11 (0.58%) Planview
14 11 (0.58%) Sitecore
15 9 (0.47%) IBM
15 9 (0.47%) Juniper