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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -27 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,786 1,973 2,485
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.96% 7.15% 7.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 7.88% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,232 1,495
10th Percentile £318 £313 £308
25th Percentile £415 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -0.76%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 104 210
10th Percentile £18.32 £21.39 £20.73
25th Percentile £28.00 £29.00 £27.63
Median hourly rate £42.30 £42.07 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% +10.36% -4.70%
75th Percentile £65.25 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.23 £75.00 £65.28
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £37.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +13.86% -2.54% -8.14%

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 38,456 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,987 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,460 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -27 855 £550 +4.76% 872
North of England -31 271 £475 -2.56% 318
South East -24 259 £500 +3.09% 354
North West -15 172 £475 - 176
Midlands -52 140 £538 +19.44% 221
South West -24 138 £438 -2.78% 161
Yorkshire -40 93 £500 - 101
West Midlands -62 93 £550 +17.27% 133
East of England -6 89 £525 +0.48% 131
East Midlands -11 47 £488 +24.68% 88
North East -41 8 £420 -12.95% 46
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 98 (5.49%) Confluence
2 93 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.74%) CMS
4 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.34%) Apache
7 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.34%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) JBoss
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.056%) CICS
12 1 (0.056%) IIS
Applications
1 171 (9.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 165 (9.24%) Microsoft Project
3 136 (7.61%) Microsoft Office
4 107 (5.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.35%) MS Visio
6 19 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.78%) Trello
8 9 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.34%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.17%) InDesign
11 3 (0.17%) Windchill
12 2 (0.11%) Houdini
12 2 (0.11%) NUKE
13 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.056%) CATIA
13 1 (0.056%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 60 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.01%) Primavera
3 10 (0.56%) Magento
4 9 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
5 8 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.39%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.39%) SAP HCM
7 6 (0.34%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.34%) Shopify
7 6 (0.34%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 158 (8.85%) Azure
2 109 (6.10%) Power Platform
3 87 (4.87%) SaaS
4 68 (3.81%) AWS
5 66 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.85%) Smartsheet
8 26 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (1.34%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.12%) Asana
11 18 (1.01%) GCP
12 17 (0.95%) GitHub
13 15 (0.84%) Entra ID
14 11 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.62%) Google Sheets
15 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
16 9 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (0.50%) OCI
16 9 (0.50%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.62%) Network Security
2 22 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.18%) DNS
4 20 (1.12%) Structured Cabling
5 19 (1.06%) WAN
6 15 (0.84%) LAN
6 15 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (0.78%) Firewall
8 13 (0.73%) Intranet
8 13 (0.73%) VPN
9 12 (0.67%) DHCP
10 11 (0.62%) MPLS
10 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.56%) BGP
12 9 (0.50%) Internet
13 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
14 7 (0.39%) DKIM
14 7 (0.39%) DMARC
14 7 (0.39%) SAN
14 7 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (5.54%) Power BI
2 14 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (0.73%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.73%) Tableau
4 11 (0.62%) Metadata
5 10 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.45%) GIS
7 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.39%) Power Query
7 7 (0.39%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.39%) SAP HANA
8 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.22%) Big Data
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) QlikView
10 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 233 (13.05%) JIRA
2 24 (1.34%) Git
3 20 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.50%) Subversion
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) GitLab
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) Appium
9 1 (0.056%) minitest
9 1 (0.056%) Postman
9 1 (0.056%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.056%) RSpec
9 1 (0.056%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.056%) Snyk
9 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.056%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.056%) Terragrunt
General
1 801 (44.85%) Social Skills
2 669 (37.46%) Finance
3 310 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (9.80%) Organisational Skills
5 146 (8.17%) Public Sector
6 137 (7.67%) Marketing
7 125 (7.00%) Banking
8 105 (5.88%) Retail
9 64 (3.58%) Manufacturing
10 63 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
11 62 (3.47%) Legal
12 56 (3.14%) Telecoms
13 42 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
14 30 (1.68%) Financial Institution
15 27 (1.51%) Investment Banking
16 25 (1.40%) Front Office
17 24 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 23 (1.29%) Aerospace
19 22 (1.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 675 (37.79%) Project Manager
2 179 (10.02%) Senior
3 162 (9.07%) Lead
4 156 (8.73%) Analyst
5 136 (7.61%) Senior Manager
6 114 (6.38%) Senior Project Manager
7 98 (5.49%) IT Manager
8 87 (4.87%) Programme Manager
9 80 (4.48%) Business Analyst
10 76 (4.26%) IT Project Manager
11 58 (3.25%) Consultant
12 57 (3.19%) Technical Manager
13 52 (2.91%) Infrastructure Manager
14 50 (2.80%) Delivery Manager
15 45 (2.52%) Technical Project Manager
16 41 (2.30%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 38 (2.13%) Project Officer
18 36 (2.02%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 35 (1.96%) Developer
20 33 (1.85%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.23%) Middleware
2 20 (1.12%) REST
3 14 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (0.73%) HTML
4 13 (0.73%) VML
5 12 (0.67%) ADO
6 11 (0.62%) SOAP
7 10 (0.56%) JSON
8 9 (0.50%) .NET
8 9 (0.50%) OAuth
8 9 (0.50%) React
9 7 (0.39%) Web Services
9 7 (0.39%) XML
10 6 (0.34%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.34%) CSS
10 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
11 5 (0.28%) RESTful
12 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
13 3 (0.17%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.32%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.86%) PMI
6 47 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 43 (2.41%) Virtual Team
8 29 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (1.34%) Operational Technology
10 24 (1.34%) Social Media
11 23 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.29%) FMCG
12 17 (0.95%) AI Agents
13 15 (0.84%) Credit Risk
14 14 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.78%) EPoS
15 13 (0.73%) CMDB
15 13 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.69%) Windows
2 34 (1.90%) Linux
3 17 (0.95%) Unix
4 15 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.28%) Windows 10
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%) AIX
8 1 (0.056%) Android
8 1 (0.056%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.056%) Solaris
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (40.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 669 (37.46%) Agile
3 483 (27.04%) Project Delivery
4 399 (22.34%) PRINCE2
5 331 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
6 299 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 297 (16.63%) Change Management
8 264 (14.78%) Migration
9 254 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 238 (13.33%) Decision-Making
11 230 (12.88%) Risk Management
12 224 (12.54%) Waterfall
13 178 (9.97%) AI
13 178 (9.97%) Scrum
14 143 (8.01%) ERP
15 132 (7.39%) Budget Management
16 131 (7.33%) Analytics
17 130 (7.28%) Roadmaps
18 127 (7.11%) ITIL
19 126 (7.05%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 73 (4.09%) SQL
2 61 (3.42%) Python
3 18 (1.01%) JavaScript
4 13 (0.73%) Java
5 12 (0.67%) VBA
6 10 (0.56%) TypeScript
7 9 (0.50%) C#
7 9 (0.50%) C++
8 8 (0.45%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.39%) ABAP
10 6 (0.34%) C
11 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.22%) Ada
12 4 (0.22%) JCL
12 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.17%) Korn
13 3 (0.17%) R
14 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 302 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 286 (16.01%) Degree
3 283 (15.85%) PMP
4 245 (13.72%) PMI Certification
5 206 (11.53%) SC Cleared
6 77 (4.31%) DV Cleared
7 61 (3.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 25 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.34%) ACCA
9 24 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.34%) CIMA
10 18 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 15 (0.84%) CISSP
13 14 (0.78%) APMP
14 13 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.62%) CISM
16 10 (0.56%) Azure Certification
16 10 (0.56%) CIPFA
17 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (11.93%) PMO
2 92 (5.15%) QA
3 51 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.96%) SLA
5 33 (1.85%) GDPR
6 25 (1.40%) GRC
7 24 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.34%) NIST
8 23 (1.29%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.39%) FINREP
9 7 (0.39%) MiFID
9 7 (0.39%) P3O
10 6 (0.34%) COREP
10 6 (0.34%) EMIR
10 6 (0.34%) GMP
10 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.22%) GxP
System Software
1 32 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.84%) 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%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.056%) ACF2
8 1 (0.056%) Docker
8 1 (0.056%) Hyper-V
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 17 (0.95%) Ansible
2 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
4 4 (0.22%) Terraform
5 3 (0.17%) Puppet
6 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.056%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.056%) SCOM
7 1 (0.056%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.056%) vRealize
7 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 301 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 143 (8.01%) SAP
3 103 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 71 (3.98%) Oracle
5 50 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 45 (2.52%) Google
7 41 (2.30%) Adobe
8 23 (1.29%) VMware
9 22 (1.23%) Cisco
9 22 (1.23%) Sitecore
10 20 (1.12%) Workday
11 18 (1.01%) NEC
12 16 (0.90%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.78%) Databricks
13 14 (0.78%) IBM
14 11 (0.62%) JD Edwards
15 10 (0.56%) Alteryx
15 10 (0.56%) Guidewire
15 10 (0.56%) IFS
16 9 (0.50%) F5