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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 27 22
Rank change year-on-year -28 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,783 1,795 2,500
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.87% 6.46% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 7.11% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 1,096 1,444
10th Percentile £313 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -0.90% -
75th Percentile £625 £644 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 99 146
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.34 £21.25
25th Percentile £30.08 £26.13 £27.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £36.00 £36.48
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -1.32% -9.36%
75th Percentile £65.94 £60.00 £55.65
90th Percentile £83.03 £74.00 £67.88
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £34.50 £35.52
% change year-on-year +39.13% -2.86% -14.73%

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 39,062 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.72% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,917 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
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 2,725 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -31 870 £550 - 2,588
South East -21 254 £500 - 676
North of England -34 254 £475 -3.46% 580
North West -23 154 £475 -3.46% 330
Midlands -44 142 £538 +14.61% 414
South West -24 137 £463 +2.78% 303
West Midlands -55 95 £550 +15.79% 251
Yorkshire -33 92 £475 -5.00% 186
East of England -12 78 £525 - 256
East Midlands -16 47 £525 +17.45% 163
North East -39 10 £420 +3.07% 68
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
1 107 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 85 (4.77%) Confluence
3 34 (1.91%) CMS
4 19 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.34%) Apache
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) JBoss
9 5 (0.28%) Moodle
9 5 (0.28%) SAS
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.056%) CICS
12 1 (0.056%) Drupal
12 1 (0.056%) IIS
12 1 (0.056%) nginx
Applications
1 183 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (8.47%) Microsoft Project
3 142 (7.96%) Microsoft Office
4 119 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (2.13%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.73%) Trello
8 11 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
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
14 1 (0.056%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 49 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.95%) Primavera
3 13 (0.73%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.73%) Magento
4 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.50%) SAP MM
5 8 (0.45%) SAP CO
5 8 (0.45%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.45%) SAP PS
6 7 (0.39%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.28%) ProductWriter
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP SD
8 5 (0.28%) Shopify
8 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 159 (8.92%) Azure
2 126 (7.07%) Power Platform
3 84 (4.71%) SaaS
4 75 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (3.76%) AWS
6 59 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (1.74%) Smartsheet
8 26 (1.46%) Google Workspace
9 25 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (1.07%) Asana
11 18 (1.01%) Entra ID
12 16 (0.90%) GCP
13 15 (0.84%) GitHub
14 12 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (0.62%) PowerApps
16 10 (0.56%) Power Automate
17 9 (0.50%) Google Drive
17 9 (0.50%) OCI
17 9 (0.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.79%) Network Security
2 23 (1.29%) DNS
3 22 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.01%) Firewall
4 18 (1.01%) WAN
5 17 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
6 13 (0.73%) LAN
6 13 (0.73%) VPN
6 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.67%) DHCP
8 11 (0.62%) BGP
8 11 (0.62%) Intranet
9 8 (0.45%) 3GPP
9 8 (0.45%) 4G
9 8 (0.45%) 5G
9 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
9 8 (0.45%) LTE
9 8 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
9 8 (0.45%) Wireless
9 8 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (6.39%) Power BI
2 18 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (0.79%) Tableau
4 13 (0.73%) Metadata
5 12 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 12 (0.67%) SQL Server
6 9 (0.50%) Power Query
7 8 (0.45%) GIS
8 7 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.39%) Big Data
9 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.17%) QlikView
12 3 (0.17%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.11%) DataStage
13 2 (0.11%) EDMS
13 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 226 (12.68%) JIRA
2 25 (1.40%) Git
3 18 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.50%) Subversion
5 5 (0.28%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.22%) GitLab
6 4 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Selenium
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.056%) minitest
9 1 (0.056%) Postman
9 1 (0.056%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.056%) Snyk
9 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.056%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.056%) TestRail
General
1 809 (45.37%) Social Skills
2 698 (39.15%) Finance
3 300 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (10.38%) Organisational Skills
5 151 (8.47%) Banking
5 151 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 126 (7.07%) Marketing
7 113 (6.34%) Retail
8 83 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
9 64 (3.59%) Legal
10 63 (3.53%) Manufacturing
10 63 (3.53%) Telecoms
11 49 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (1.63%) Investment Banking
13 28 (1.57%) Front Office
14 27 (1.51%) Aerospace
14 27 (1.51%) Local Government
15 26 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
16 24 (1.35%) Financial Institution
16 24 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 678 (38.03%) Project Manager
2 171 (9.59%) Senior
3 168 (9.42%) Lead
4 130 (7.29%) Senior Manager
5 129 (7.23%) Analyst
6 104 (5.83%) IT Manager
7 98 (5.50%) Senior Project Manager
8 79 (4.43%) Programme Manager
9 77 (4.32%) IT Project Manager
10 72 (4.04%) Business Analyst
11 66 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
12 63 (3.53%) Technical Manager
13 61 (3.42%) Consultant
14 46 (2.58%) Technical Project Manager
15 41 (2.30%) Infrastructure Manager
16 37 (2.08%) Project Officer
17 34 (1.91%) Coordinator
18 32 (1.79%) Developer
18 32 (1.79%) Digital Project Manager
18 32 (1.79%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.07%) Middleware
2 17 (0.95%) REST
3 14 (0.79%) ADO
4 13 (0.73%) HTML
4 13 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (0.67%) VML
5 12 (0.67%) Web Services
6 10 (0.56%) JSON
7 9 (0.50%) .NET
7 9 (0.50%) OAuth
7 9 (0.50%) React
8 8 (0.45%) SOAP
9 6 (0.34%) pytest
9 6 (0.34%) Terraform
10 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.28%) CSS
10 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
10 5 (0.28%) RESTful
10 5 (0.28%) XML
11 3 (0.17%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 108 (6.06%) Management Information System
2 87 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 83 (4.66%) Onboarding
4 58 (3.25%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
6 44 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 42 (2.36%) PMI
8 30 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.51%) Operational Technology
10 26 (1.46%) FMCG
11 24 (1.35%) Social Media
12 23 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.18%) Credit Risk
14 17 (0.95%) AI Agents
14 17 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (0.90%) Life Science
16 15 (0.84%) Mobile App
17 14 (0.79%) Fixed Income
17 14 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 53 (2.97%) Windows
2 46 (2.58%) Linux
3 21 (1.18%) Unix
3 21 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.28%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.28%) zOS
6 4 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
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%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.056%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (45.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 694 (38.92%) Agile
3 517 (29.00%) Project Delivery
4 409 (22.94%) PRINCE2
5 312 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 307 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
7 296 (16.60%) Change Management
8 259 (14.53%) Decision-Making
9 251 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 242 (13.57%) Migration
11 229 (12.84%) Risk Management
11 229 (12.84%) Waterfall
12 202 (11.33%) AI
13 187 (10.49%) Scrum
14 178 (9.98%) Project Governance
15 157 (8.81%) Project Planning
16 152 (8.52%) Roadmaps
17 147 (8.24%) Analytics
18 142 (7.96%) Change Control
19 140 (7.85%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (3.76%) SQL
2 65 (3.65%) Python
3 16 (0.90%) VBA
4 15 (0.84%) JavaScript
5 14 (0.79%) Java
6 12 (0.67%) C++
7 9 (0.50%) C#
8 8 (0.45%) Korn
8 8 (0.45%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.39%) Ada
9 7 (0.39%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.34%) Bash
10 6 (0.34%) C
11 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.17%) ABAP
13 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.17%) JCL
14 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 298 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 288 (16.15%) Degree
3 277 (15.54%) PMP
4 240 (13.46%) PMI Certification
5 202 (11.33%) SC Cleared
6 74 (4.15%) DV Cleared
7 73 (4.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 29 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.01%) ACCA
10 18 (1.01%) CIMA
11 15 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
12 14 (0.79%) APMP
12 14 (0.79%) CISSP
12 14 (0.79%) ISTQB
12 14 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 13 (0.73%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (0.62%) CISM
16 10 (0.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (12.39%) PMO
2 89 (4.99%) QA
3 52 (2.92%) Data Quality
4 33 (1.85%) GDPR
5 23 (1.29%) GRC
6 22 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.18%) SLA
8 19 (1.07%) NIST
9 8 (0.45%) P3O
10 7 (0.39%) FINREP
10 7 (0.39%) GMP
10 7 (0.39%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.34%) COREP
11 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.34%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.22%) EMIR
12 4 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 34 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.39%) vSphere
5 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.17%) NFS
7 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.056%) ACF2
9 1 (0.056%) Docker
9 1 (0.056%) RACF
9 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (1.18%) Ansible
2 10 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.34%) Puppet
4 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.11%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.11%) BMC Performance Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.11%) Perfmon
7 2 (0.11%) SCCM
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
1 325 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 124 (6.95%) SAP
3 97 (5.44%) ServiceNow
4 73 (4.09%) Oracle
5 48 (2.69%) Salesforce
6 44 (2.47%) Adobe
7 40 (2.24%) Google
8 34 (1.91%) VMware
9 24 (1.35%) Cisco
10 23 (1.29%) Sitecore
11 19 (1.07%) NEC
12 18 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 18 (1.01%) Workday
13 16 (0.90%) Databricks
14 15 (0.84%) IBM
15 14 (0.79%) Planview
16 12 (0.67%) Alteryx
17 11 (0.62%) JD Edwards
18 10 (0.56%) Ariba
19 9 (0.50%) Murex