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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -30 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,749 1,730 2,451
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 6.28% 7.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 6.90% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 1,068 1,395
10th Percentile £309 £325 £308
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £625 £644 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 95 122
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.24 £21.25
25th Percentile £30.30 £24.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £34.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.62% -1.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £55.65
90th Percentile £82.80 £65.00 £67.48
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +47.06% -2.86% -22.22%

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 39,188 25,068 27,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.60% 90.98% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,853 15,921 17,051
10th Percentile £325 £298 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,855 1,537 1,209
10th Percentile £13.91 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.19
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +58.05% -40.82% -1.16%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -27 861 £550 - 1,569
North of England -34 251 £475 -5.00% 440
South East -29 246 £500 - 544
North West -23 147 £475 -3.01% 236
Midlands -48 139 £538 +13.16% 319
South West -25 129 £450 - 224
Yorkshire -19 98 £475 -5.00% 155
West Midlands -58 92 £550 +12.02% 188
East of England -20 71 £510 +3.82% 211
East Midlands -20 47 £525 +17.45% 131
North East -42 8 £420 +3.07% 50
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 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 85 (4.86%) Confluence
3 32 (1.83%) CMS
4 20 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 17 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.40%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.34%) Apache
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.29%) JBoss
9 5 (0.29%) Moodle
9 5 (0.29%) SAS
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.057%) CICS
12 1 (0.057%) IIS
12 1 (0.057%) nginx
12 1 (0.057%) WinCC
Applications
1 182 (10.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (8.46%) Microsoft Project
3 144 (8.23%) Microsoft Office
4 116 (6.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 19 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.74%) Trello
8 9 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Windchill
10 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.23%) Simulink
11 4 (0.23%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.11%) Houdini
13 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 2 (0.11%) NUKE
14 1 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.057%) CATIA
14 1 (0.057%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 46 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.97%) Primavera
3 13 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.74%) Magento
4 9 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.51%) SAP MM
5 8 (0.46%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.46%) SAP CO
5 8 (0.46%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.46%) SAP PS
6 7 (0.40%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.40%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.29%) ProductWriter
8 5 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.29%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.23%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 148 (8.46%) Azure
2 126 (7.20%) Power Platform
3 81 (4.63%) SaaS
4 71 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (3.49%) AWS
6 54 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (1.72%) Smartsheet
8 26 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (1.37%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.14%) Asana
11 19 (1.09%) GCP
12 17 (0.97%) Entra ID
13 14 (0.80%) GitHub
14 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (0.63%) PowerApps
16 10 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (0.57%) Power Automate
17 9 (0.51%) Amazon S3
17 9 (0.51%) Snowflake
18 8 (0.46%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.89%) Network Security
2 25 (1.43%) DNS
3 20 (1.14%) Firewall
3 20 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.03%) WAN
5 17 (0.97%) Structured Cabling
6 13 (0.74%) LAN
6 13 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.69%) DHCP
7 12 (0.69%) VPN
8 10 (0.57%) BGP
8 10 (0.57%) Intranet
9 8 (0.46%) 3GPP
9 8 (0.46%) 4G
9 8 (0.46%) 5G
9 8 (0.46%) BIG-IP
9 8 (0.46%) LTE
9 8 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
9 8 (0.46%) Wireless
9 8 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (6.52%) Power BI
2 18 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (0.80%) Data Lake
3 14 (0.80%) Tableau
4 13 (0.74%) Metadata
5 11 (0.63%) SQL Server
6 8 (0.46%) GIS
6 8 (0.46%) Power Query
7 7 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.34%) Big Data
9 5 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.29%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.17%) QlikView
11 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.17%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.11%) DataStage
12 2 (0.11%) EDMS
12 2 (0.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 222 (12.69%) JIRA
2 25 (1.43%) Git
3 17 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
4 8 (0.46%) Subversion
5 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.23%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (0.17%) GitLab
6 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.11%) Selenium
7 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.057%) Capybara
8 1 (0.057%) Gradle
8 1 (0.057%) Hudson
8 1 (0.057%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.057%) RSpec
8 1 (0.057%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.057%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.057%) Toad
General
1 796 (45.51%) Social Skills
2 690 (39.45%) Finance
3 284 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (10.29%) Organisational Skills
5 154 (8.81%) Banking
6 144 (8.23%) Public Sector
7 123 (7.03%) Marketing
8 109 (6.23%) Retail
9 88 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
10 68 (3.89%) Manufacturing
11 65 (3.72%) Legal
12 59 (3.37%) Telecoms
13 49 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.66%) Aerospace
15 27 (1.54%) Investment Banking
15 27 (1.54%) Local Government
16 24 (1.37%) Front Office
17 23 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
19 20 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 676 (38.65%) Project Manager
2 160 (9.15%) Lead
3 159 (9.09%) Senior
4 121 (6.92%) Senior Manager
5 113 (6.46%) Analyst
6 101 (5.77%) IT Manager
7 91 (5.20%) Senior Project Manager
8 80 (4.57%) Programme Manager
9 74 (4.23%) IT Project Manager
10 68 (3.89%) Delivery Manager
11 63 (3.60%) Business Analyst
11 63 (3.60%) Technical Manager
12 57 (3.26%) Consultant
13 45 (2.57%) Technical Project Manager
14 43 (2.46%) Project Officer
15 38 (2.17%) Infrastructure Manager
16 35 (2.00%) Coordinator
17 32 (1.83%) Digital Project Manager
17 32 (1.83%) Project Coordinator
18 31 (1.77%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.09%) Middleware
2 14 (0.80%) ADO
3 13 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 12 (0.69%) REST
5 10 (0.57%) HTML
5 10 (0.57%) JSON
5 10 (0.57%) VML
6 9 (0.51%) OAuth
6 9 (0.51%) Web Services
7 8 (0.46%) .NET
7 8 (0.46%) React
8 7 (0.40%) pytest
8 7 (0.40%) SOAP
8 7 (0.40%) Terraform
9 5 (0.29%) FastAPI
9 5 (0.29%) XML
10 4 (0.23%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.17%) ASP.NET
11 3 (0.17%) HTML5 Canvas
11 3 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.83%) Management Information System
2 90 (5.15%) Onboarding
3 84 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.37%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 41 (2.34%) PMI
7 40 (2.29%) Virtual Team
8 28 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 25 (1.43%) FMCG
10 25 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.32%) Social Media
12 19 (1.09%) Credit Risk
12 19 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.03%) AI Agents
13 18 (1.03%) Life Science
14 16 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (0.91%) Fixed Income
15 15 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.69%) Windows
2 46 (2.63%) Linux
3 21 (1.20%) Unix
4 20 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.29%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.29%) zOS
7 4 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.057%) Android
9 1 (0.057%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.057%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (45.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 672 (38.42%) Agile
3 507 (28.99%) Project Delivery
4 405 (23.16%) PRINCE2
5 301 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 296 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
7 293 (16.75%) Change Management
8 250 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 243 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 231 (13.21%) Migration
11 226 (12.92%) Risk Management
12 221 (12.64%) Waterfall
13 200 (11.44%) AI
14 187 (10.69%) Project Governance
15 181 (10.35%) Scrum
16 156 (8.92%) Project Planning
17 148 (8.46%) Roadmaps
18 146 (8.35%) Change Control
19 135 (7.72%) Budget Management
19 135 (7.72%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (3.83%) SQL
2 64 (3.66%) Python
3 15 (0.86%) VBA
4 13 (0.74%) Java
5 12 (0.69%) JavaScript
6 11 (0.63%) C++
7 9 (0.51%) C#
8 8 (0.46%) Korn
9 7 (0.40%) Ada
9 7 (0.40%) Bash
9 7 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.29%) C
10 5 (0.29%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.29%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.23%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.17%) ABAP
12 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.17%) JCL
13 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 285 (16.30%) Degree
2 284 (16.24%) Security Cleared
3 268 (15.32%) PMP
4 232 (13.26%) PMI Certification
5 194 (11.09%) SC Cleared
6 72 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 72 (4.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 31 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 15 (0.86%) ISTQB
9 15 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 14 (0.80%) ACCA
10 14 (0.80%) CIMA
10 14 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 13 (0.74%) APMP
11 13 (0.74%) CISSP
12 12 (0.69%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.63%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.57%) CISM
15 9 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (12.35%) PMO
2 85 (4.86%) QA
3 53 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.72%) GDPR
5 23 (1.32%) GRC
6 20 (1.14%) SLA
7 19 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.97%) NIST
10 8 (0.46%) P3O
11 7 (0.40%) FINREP
11 7 (0.40%) GMP
12 6 (0.34%) COREP
12 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.29%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.23%) ITGC
14 4 (0.23%) MiFID
14 4 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.57%) vSphere
4 9 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) NFS
7 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.057%) ACF2
9 1 (0.057%) Docker
9 1 (0.057%) RACF
9 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (1.14%) Ansible
2 10 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.34%) Puppet
4 5 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (0.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.11%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (0.11%) BMC Performance Manager
6 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.11%) Perfmon
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.057%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.057%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.057%) Nessus
7 1 (0.057%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.057%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.057%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.057%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 319 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 121 (6.92%) SAP
3 87 (4.97%) ServiceNow
4 66 (3.77%) Oracle
5 44 (2.52%) Salesforce
6 39 (2.23%) Adobe
7 38 (2.17%) Google
8 35 (2.00%) VMware
9 23 (1.32%) Cisco
10 19 (1.09%) NEC
10 19 (1.09%) Sitecore
11 18 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.03%) IBM
12 17 (0.97%) Workday
13 16 (0.91%) Databricks
14 14 (0.80%) Planview
15 12 (0.69%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.63%) Ariba
16 11 (0.63%) JD Edwards
17 9 (0.51%) Murex