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

6 months to
13 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 1,792 1,929 2,503
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.93% 6.98% 7.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 7.68% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,113 1,203 1,496
10th Percentile £318 £313 £309
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £733 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 101 207
10th Percentile £20.22 £21.39 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.40 £29.00 £27.38
Median hourly rate £43.83 £41.06 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% +7.71% -4.16%
75th Percentile £64.88 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.07 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £42.65 £36.75 £38.12
% change year-on-year +16.05% -3.59% -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 38,759 25,103 28,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.06% 90.80% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,089 16,021 18,628
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
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 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,424 1,656
10th Percentile £14.55 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -25 874 £550 +2.33% 1,655
North of England -35 266 £475 -2.56% 429
South East -22 250 £500 - 464
North West -19 165 £475 - 246
Midlands -51 142 £540 +16.76% 279
South West -20 138 £436 -3.06% 260
West Midlands -58 96 £550 +15.79% 180
Yorkshire -43 94 £498 -0.50% 126
East of England -9 86 £525 -0.57% 175
East Midlands -18 46 £500 +18.41% 99
North East -42 9 £420 -12.95% 61
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 95 (5.30%) Confluence
1 95 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.79%) CMS
3 19 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
5 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
5 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.33%) Apache
6 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.33%) WordPress
7 5 (0.28%) Moodle
8 4 (0.22%) JBoss
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 2 (0.11%) SAS
11 1 (0.056%) CICS
11 1 (0.056%) IIS
Applications
1 165 (9.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 159 (8.87%) Microsoft Project
3 140 (7.81%) Microsoft Office
4 107 (5.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.34%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.78%) Trello
8 10 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.33%) 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
Business Applications
1 55 (3.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.06%) Primavera
3 11 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
3 11 (0.61%) Magento
4 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.45%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.33%) Shopify
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.28%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP PS
9 4 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 161 (8.98%) Azure
2 111 (6.19%) Power Platform
3 89 (4.97%) SaaS
4 68 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (3.74%) AWS
6 60 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.90%) Smartsheet
8 27 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.40%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.12%) Asana
11 17 (0.95%) GitHub
12 16 (0.89%) Entra ID
12 16 (0.89%) GCP
13 12 (0.67%) Google Sheets
14 11 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (0.56%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.56%) Snowflake
16 9 (0.50%) Power Automate
17 8 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.67%) Network Security
2 22 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.17%) DNS
4 20 (1.12%) Structured Cabling
5 19 (1.06%) WAN
6 15 (0.84%) LAN
7 14 (0.78%) Firewall
7 14 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.73%) Intranet
8 13 (0.73%) VPN
9 12 (0.67%) DHCP
10 11 (0.61%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.56%) BGP
11 10 (0.56%) Internet
11 10 (0.56%) MPLS
12 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.39%) DKIM
13 7 (0.39%) DMARC
13 7 (0.39%) SAN
13 7 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (5.58%) Power BI
2 18 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (0.78%) Data Lake
3 14 (0.78%) SQL Server
4 13 (0.73%) Tableau
5 11 (0.61%) Metadata
6 8 (0.45%) GIS
6 8 (0.45%) Power Query
7 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.33%) Big Data
9 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.22%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.22%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.17%) QlikView
11 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 231 (12.89%) 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
1 802 (44.75%) Social Skills
2 670 (37.39%) Finance
3 310 (17.30%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (10.10%) Organisational Skills
5 150 (8.37%) Public Sector
6 139 (7.76%) Marketing
7 138 (7.70%) Banking
8 112 (6.25%) Retail
9 69 (3.85%) Manufacturing
10 64 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
11 62 (3.46%) Legal
11 62 (3.46%) Telecoms
12 39 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (1.73%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
14 29 (1.62%) Investment Banking
15 27 (1.51%) Front Office
16 25 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.34%) Aerospace
17 24 (1.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 691 (38.56%) Project Manager
2 184 (10.27%) Senior
3 161 (8.98%) Lead
4 142 (7.92%) Analyst
5 140 (7.81%) Senior Manager
6 111 (6.19%) Senior Project Manager
7 100 (5.58%) IT Manager
8 88 (4.91%) Programme Manager
9 78 (4.35%) Business Analyst
9 78 (4.35%) IT Project Manager
10 61 (3.40%) Technical Manager
11 56 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
12 55 (3.07%) Consultant
13 53 (2.96%) Infrastructure Manager
14 48 (2.68%) Technical Project Manager
15 42 (2.34%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 38 (2.12%) Project Officer
16 38 (2.12%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 36 (2.01%) Developer
18 34 (1.90%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.28%) Middleware
2 19 (1.06%) REST
3 13 (0.73%) HTML
3 13 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.73%) VML
4 12 (0.67%) ADO
4 12 (0.67%) Web Services
5 10 (0.56%) .NET
5 10 (0.56%) JSON
5 10 (0.56%) SOAP
6 9 (0.50%) OAuth
6 9 (0.50%) React
7 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.33%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.33%) XML
8 5 (0.28%) CSS
8 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
8 5 (0.28%) RESTful
9 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (0.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.30%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 69 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.63%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.73%) PMI
6 48 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 44 (2.46%) Virtual Team
8 30 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (1.34%) Operational Technology
10 24 (1.34%) Social Media
11 23 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.28%) FMCG
12 22 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.00%) Credit Risk
14 16 (0.89%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.78%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.78%) Life Science
16 13 (0.73%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.90%) Windows
2 37 (2.06%) Linux
3 17 (0.95%) Unix
4 16 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.22%) zOS
8 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.056%) AIX
9 1 (0.056%) Android
9 1 (0.056%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.056%) Solaris
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (41.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 689 (38.45%) Agile
3 488 (27.23%) Project Delivery
4 411 (22.94%) PRINCE2
5 319 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
6 306 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 296 (16.52%) Change Management
8 264 (14.73%) Migration
9 254 (14.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 235 (13.11%) Decision-Making
11 229 (12.78%) Risk Management
12 227 (12.67%) Waterfall
13 181 (10.10%) Scrum
14 175 (9.77%) AI
15 143 (7.98%) Roadmaps
16 135 (7.53%) Project Governance
17 134 (7.48%) Analytics
17 134 (7.48%) ITIL
18 133 (7.42%) ERP
19 132 (7.37%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 72 (4.02%) SQL
2 60 (3.35%) Python
3 18 (1.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (0.73%) Java
4 13 (0.73%) VBA
5 10 (0.56%) C#
6 9 (0.50%) C++
6 9 (0.50%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.45%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.33%) C
9 5 (0.28%) ABAP
9 5 (0.28%) Korn
9 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.22%) Ada
10 4 (0.22%) JCL
10 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.17%) Bash
11 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 295 (16.46%) Security Cleared
2 287 (16.02%) Degree
3 285 (15.90%) PMP
4 246 (13.73%) PMI Certification
5 201 (11.22%) SC Cleared
6 75 (4.19%) DV Cleared
7 63 (3.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 25 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.23%) ACCA
10 22 (1.23%) CIMA
11 18 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 17 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (0.89%) APMP
14 14 (0.78%) CISSP
15 13 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.56%) CIPFA
16 10 (0.56%) CISM
16 10 (0.56%) MBA
16 10 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (11.83%) PMO
2 89 (4.97%) QA
3 50 (2.79%) Data Quality
4 33 (1.84%) GDPR
5 31 (1.73%) SLA
6 24 (1.34%) GRC
6 24 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.28%) NIST
8 22 (1.23%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.45%) P3O
10 7 (0.39%) FINREP
10 7 (0.39%) GMP
10 7 (0.39%) MiFID
10 7 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.33%) COREP
11 6 (0.33%) EMIR
11 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.22%) GxP
13 4 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.33%) 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
7 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
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 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.33%) Terraform
4 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (0.28%) Puppet
6 4 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.11%) SCCM
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%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.056%) SCOM
8 1 (0.056%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 308 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 134 (7.48%) SAP
3 102 (5.69%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.91%) Oracle
5 50 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 45 (2.51%) Google
7 44 (2.46%) Adobe
8 26 (1.45%) VMware
9 25 (1.40%) Cisco
10 23 (1.28%) Sitecore
11 20 (1.12%) Workday
12 19 (1.06%) NEC
13 18 (1.00%) Atlassian
14 17 (0.95%) Databricks
15 13 (0.73%) IBM
16 11 (0.61%) JD Edwards
17 10 (0.56%) Alteryx
17 10 (0.56%) Guidewire
17 10 (0.56%) IFS
17 10 (0.56%) Murex