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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -19 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,860 1,866 2,823
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.46% 7.85% 7.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 8.60% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,147 1,733
10th Percentile £331 £300 £311
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £514 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.47% -0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 94 253
10th Percentile £14.64 £21.65 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.76 £26.42
Median hourly rate £36.00 £46.30 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -22.25% +21.46% -22.20%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.53 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.77 £46.30 £38.12
% change year-on-year -22.75% +21.46% -22.20%

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 35,337 21,704 31,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 91.29% 85.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,449 14,185 20,585
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 923 2,285
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -19 874 £550 +1.85% 493
North of England -23 291 £475 - 223
South East -14 266 £520 +8.79% 243
Midlands -31 188 £492 +7.07% 150
North West -14 162 £468 -1.58% 127
South West -15 143 £450 -10.00% 101
West Midlands -38 129 £502 +1.83% 100
Yorkshire -25 122 £480 +1.05% 74
East of England -13 79 £518 +1.57% 107
East Midlands -14 61 £390 -4.65% 50
North East -23 12 £410 -20.00% 25
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
1 128 (6.88%) Confluence
2 91 (4.89%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.02%) CMS
4 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.38%) Apache
7 6 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.27%) WordPress
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.16%) Moodle
10 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.11%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.054%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.054%) nginx
12 1 (0.054%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 178 (9.57%) Microsoft Project
2 160 (8.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 128 (6.88%) Microsoft Office
4 100 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 44 (2.37%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.65%) Trello
8 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 1 (0.054%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.054%) InVision
12 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.054%) Sketch
12 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 73 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.70%) Primavera
3 11 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.54%) Shopify
5 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
6 8 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.38%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
9 5 (0.27%) Magento
9 5 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 139 (7.47%) Azure
2 94 (5.05%) Power Platform
3 76 (4.09%) SaaS
4 72 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (3.82%) AWS
6 42 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (1.40%) Smartsheet
8 25 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (1.34%) GCP
9 21 (1.13%) Asana
9 21 (1.13%) Google Workspace
10 15 (0.81%) Entra ID
11 14 (0.75%) OpenShift
12 12 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (0.54%) BigCommerce
13 10 (0.54%) GitHub
13 10 (0.54%) Google Sheets
14 8 (0.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.40%) WAN
2 20 (1.08%) Network Security
2 20 (1.08%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.02%) DNS
3 19 (1.02%) Firewall
4 17 (0.91%) LAN
5 16 (0.86%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
6 15 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (0.75%) MPLS
8 12 (0.65%) BGP
9 11 (0.59%) VPN
10 10 (0.54%) Internet
11 8 (0.43%) DHCP
12 7 (0.38%) BIG-IP
12 7 (0.38%) DKIM
12 7 (0.38%) DMARC
12 7 (0.38%) Intranet
12 7 (0.38%) SAN
13 6 (0.32%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.78%) Power BI
2 15 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (0.81%) Metadata
3 14 (0.75%) Tableau
4 12 (0.65%) SQL Server
5 10 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
6 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
8 5 (0.27%) Power Query
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.11%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 268 (14.41%) JIRA
2 21 (1.13%) Git
3 13 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.38%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Subversion
6 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.054%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.054%) Capybara
9 1 (0.054%) Gradle
9 1 (0.054%) LSMW
9 1 (0.054%) Maven
9 1 (0.054%) MSI
9 1 (0.054%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.054%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.054%) RSpec
General
1 842 (45.27%) Social Skills
2 730 (39.25%) Finance
3 310 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (10.27%) Organisational Skills
5 159 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 138 (7.42%) Banking
7 106 (5.70%) Marketing
7 106 (5.70%) Retail
8 71 (3.82%) Legal
9 64 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
10 60 (3.23%) Manufacturing
11 51 (2.74%) Telecoms
12 40 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.83%) Financial Institution
14 28 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
14 28 (1.51%) Investment Banking
15 25 (1.34%) Front Office
16 23 (1.24%) Local Government
17 22 (1.18%) Military
18 19 (1.02%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 716 (38.49%) Project Manager
2 210 (11.29%) Analyst
3 192 (10.32%) Senior
4 151 (8.12%) Lead
5 135 (7.26%) Senior Manager
6 114 (6.13%) Senior Project Manager
7 110 (5.91%) Business Analyst
8 86 (4.62%) IT Manager
9 77 (4.14%) IT Project Manager
10 75 (4.03%) Programme Manager
11 64 (3.44%) Consultant
12 56 (3.01%) Delivery Manager
13 55 (2.96%) Infrastructure Manager
13 55 (2.96%) Technical Manager
14 51 (2.74%) Architect
15 44 (2.37%) SC Cleared Project Manager
16 42 (2.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 42 (2.26%) Technical Project Manager
17 40 (2.15%) Developer
18 37 (1.99%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.29%) Middleware
2 22 (1.18%) REST
3 15 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.75%) OAuth
4 14 (0.75%) SOAP
5 13 (0.70%) VML
5 13 (0.70%) Web Services
6 12 (0.65%) HTML
7 11 (0.59%) CSS
8 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
8 8 (0.43%) SAML
9 7 (0.38%) .NET
9 7 (0.38%) JSON
10 6 (0.32%) ADO
10 6 (0.32%) OpenID
10 6 (0.32%) XML
11 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
11 5 (0.27%) RESTful
11 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (4.95%) Management Information System
2 87 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.66%) Data Centre
4 59 (3.17%) PMI
4 59 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 54 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
6 39 (2.10%) Virtual Team
7 33 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 21 (1.13%) Operational Technology
9 20 (1.08%) Social Media
10 19 (1.02%) NHS
11 18 (0.97%) CMDB
12 17 (0.91%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.86%) FMCG
14 15 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.81%) EPoS
15 14 (0.75%) Life Science
16 12 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.42%) Windows
2 25 (1.34%) Linux
3 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.54%) Unix
5 7 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.22%) zOS
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.054%) AIX
8 1 (0.054%) Android
8 1 (0.054%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.054%) Solaris
8 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (37.42%) Agile
2 654 (35.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 486 (26.13%) Project Delivery
4 415 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
5 355 (19.09%) PRINCE2
6 297 (15.97%) Migration
7 285 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 280 (15.05%) Change Management
9 264 (14.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 236 (12.69%) Decision-Making
10 236 (12.69%) Waterfall
11 220 (11.83%) Risk Management
12 182 (9.78%) Scrum
13 175 (9.41%) ERP
14 159 (8.55%) Budget Management
15 146 (7.85%) AI
16 130 (6.99%) Roadmaps
17 126 (6.77%) Data Migration
18 125 (6.72%) Validation
19 124 (6.67%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 79 (4.25%) SQL
2 46 (2.47%) Python
3 17 (0.91%) JavaScript
4 16 (0.86%) Java
5 12 (0.65%) VBA
6 10 (0.54%) C#
7 8 (0.43%) C++
8 7 (0.38%) C
8 7 (0.38%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.27%) ABAP
9 5 (0.27%) R
9 5 (0.27%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.22%) Ada
10 4 (0.22%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.22%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.16%) JCL
11 3 (0.16%) Perl
11 3 (0.16%) SOQL
12 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 315 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 288 (15.48%) Degree
3 268 (14.41%) PMP
4 231 (12.42%) SC Cleared
5 226 (12.15%) PMI Certification
6 63 (3.39%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 39 (2.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 30 (1.61%) ACCA
8 30 (1.61%) APMP
8 30 (1.61%) CIMA
9 27 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.13%) CISSP
11 20 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.02%) MBA
13 18 (0.97%) CISM
14 17 (0.91%) CBAP
15 14 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 12 (0.65%) IIBA
17 10 (0.54%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (12.15%) PMO
2 121 (6.51%) QA
3 58 (3.12%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.47%) GDPR
5 38 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.77%) SLA
7 31 (1.67%) NIST
8 20 (1.08%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.75%) GRC
10 10 (0.54%) Basel III
11 7 (0.38%) EMIR
11 7 (0.38%) MiFID
11 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.32%) GMP
12 6 (0.32%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) GxP
13 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 29 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.27%) RACF
4 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.16%) NFS
5 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.11%) Docker
6 2 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.054%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (0.75%) Ansible
3 7 (0.38%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 4 (0.22%) SCCM
5 4 (0.22%) Terraform
6 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) logstash
7 2 (0.11%) SCOM
8 1 (0.054%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.054%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.054%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.054%) Kibana
8 1 (0.054%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.054%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.054%) vRealize
Vendors
1 283 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 162 (8.71%) SAP
3 102 (5.48%) ServiceNow
4 63 (3.39%) Oracle
5 48 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 39 (2.10%) Google
7 28 (1.51%) Adobe
8 24 (1.29%) Cisco
9 23 (1.24%) Workday
10 20 (1.08%) Sitecore
11 18 (0.97%) VMware
12 15 (0.81%) CyberArk
12 15 (0.81%) Databricks
12 15 (0.81%) NEC
13 14 (0.75%) Sage
14 12 (0.65%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.54%) IBM
15 10 (0.54%) IFS
16 8 (0.43%) F5
16 8 (0.43%) Murex