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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 31 23
Rank change year-on-year -28 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,768 1,722 2,457
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.77% 6.12% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 6.73% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 1,092 1,397
10th Percentile £312 £333 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £514 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -0.24% -0.97% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 103 122
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.19 £21.25
25th Percentile £30.70 £24.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £51.35 £34.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.84% -1.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £64.38 £63.40 £54.88
90th Percentile £82.65 £65.00 £67.48
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £34.00 £34.22
% change year-on-year +39.71% -0.63% -23.97%

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 39,799 25,590 27,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.90% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,011 16,250 16,937
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,071 1,598 1,107
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.53 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £44.78 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -32 841 £550 - 1,149
North of England -28 271 £475 -5.00% 237
South East -24 263 £513 +1.49% 311
North West -29 157 £500 +1.63% 132
Midlands -53 144 £550 +15.79% 168
South West -22 128 £475 +5.56% 108
Yorkshire -9 108 £473 -5.50% 86
West Midlands -58 93 £550 +10.89% 98
East of England -26 71 £510 - 126
East Midlands -17 51 £538 +19.44% 70
North East -38 8 £420 +12.00% 21
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 (6.05%) SharePoint
2 93 (5.26%) Confluence
3 29 (1.64%) CMS
4 23 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.40%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) Apache
9 5 (0.28%) JBoss
9 5 (0.28%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) Moodle
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.057%) Appian
12 1 (0.057%) Camunda
12 1 (0.057%) Drupal
12 1 (0.057%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 187 (10.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 164 (9.28%) Microsoft Project
3 144 (8.14%) Microsoft Office
4 114 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.98%) MS Visio
6 21 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.68%) Trello
8 9 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Windchill
10 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.23%) Simulink
11 4 (0.23%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.17%) 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 42 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.07%) Primavera
3 14 (0.79%) Adobe Campaign
4 13 (0.74%) Magento
5 9 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.51%) SAP MM
6 8 (0.45%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.45%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.45%) SAP PS
6 8 (0.45%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.34%) NEC Housing
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.28%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.28%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 158 (8.94%) Azure
2 119 (6.73%) Power Platform
3 78 (4.41%) SaaS
4 67 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
5 65 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (3.39%) AWS
7 29 (1.64%) Smartsheet
8 27 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (1.30%) Google Workspace
10 19 (1.07%) Asana
10 19 (1.07%) Entra ID
11 18 (1.02%) GCP
12 15 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (0.79%) GitHub
14 11 (0.62%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.57%) Amazon S3
16 9 (0.51%) Power Automate
17 8 (0.45%) Google Drive
17 8 (0.45%) Snowflake
18 7 (0.40%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.75%) Network Security
2 23 (1.30%) DNS
3 22 (1.24%) Firewall
4 19 (1.07%) WAN
5 17 (0.96%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
7 14 (0.79%) VPN
8 13 (0.74%) LAN
9 12 (0.68%) BGP
10 11 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.57%) Intranet
12 9 (0.51%) DHCP
12 9 (0.51%) VLAN
12 9 (0.51%) Wireless
13 8 (0.45%) 3GPP
13 8 (0.45%) 4G
13 8 (0.45%) 5G
13 8 (0.45%) LTE
13 8 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
13 8 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (6.00%) Power BI
2 18 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (0.74%) Data Lake
3 13 (0.74%) Metadata
3 13 (0.74%) Tableau
4 10 (0.57%) SQL Server
5 9 (0.51%) Power Query
6 8 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.45%) GIS
7 6 (0.34%) Big Data
8 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.28%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.23%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.17%) QlikView
10 3 (0.17%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.11%) MS Access
11 2 (0.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 239 (13.52%) JIRA
2 23 (1.30%) Git
3 17 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
5 8 (0.45%) Subversion
6 6 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
7 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.17%) GitLab
8 2 (0.11%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.057%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.057%) Postman
9 1 (0.057%) Selenium
9 1 (0.057%) Snyk
9 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.057%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.057%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.057%) TestRail
General
1 820 (46.38%) Social Skills
2 704 (39.82%) Finance
3 288 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (10.92%) Organisational Skills
5 166 (9.39%) Banking
6 147 (8.31%) Public Sector
7 112 (6.33%) Marketing
8 96 (5.43%) Retail
9 93 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
10 73 (4.13%) Manufacturing
11 62 (3.51%) Legal
12 57 (3.22%) Telecoms
13 55 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.87%) Aerospace
15 31 (1.75%) Local Government
16 27 (1.53%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
18 24 (1.36%) Front Office
19 23 (1.30%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 717 (40.55%) Project Manager
2 162 (9.16%) Senior
3 149 (8.43%) Lead
4 125 (7.07%) Senior Manager
5 107 (6.05%) Analyst
6 104 (5.88%) IT Manager
7 94 (5.32%) Senior Project Manager
8 93 (5.26%) Programme Manager
9 82 (4.64%) Delivery Manager
10 78 (4.41%) IT Project Manager
11 71 (4.02%) Technical Manager
12 60 (3.39%) Business Analyst
13 57 (3.22%) Consultant
14 50 (2.83%) Technical Project Manager
15 40 (2.26%) Project Officer
16 38 (2.15%) Coordinator
17 34 (1.92%) Infrastructure Manager
17 34 (1.92%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 33 (1.87%) Project Coordinator
19 31 (1.75%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.19%) Middleware
2 17 (0.96%) ADO
3 13 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (0.57%) OAuth
4 10 (0.57%) REST
5 8 (0.45%) pytest
5 8 (0.45%) VML
5 8 (0.45%) Web Services
6 7 (0.40%) HTML
6 7 (0.40%) JSON
6 7 (0.40%) Terraform
7 6 (0.34%) .NET
7 6 (0.34%) React
7 6 (0.34%) SOAP
8 5 (0.28%) DAO
8 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
9 4 (0.23%) XML
10 3 (0.17%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.17%) SAML
10 3 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (6.33%) Management Information System
2 92 (5.20%) Onboarding
3 86 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
6 44 (2.49%) Virtual Team
7 33 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (1.87%) Operational Technology
7 33 (1.87%) PMI
8 23 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.24%) FMCG
9 22 (1.24%) Social Media
10 21 (1.19%) Life Science
10 21 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.13%) AI Agents
11 20 (1.13%) Credit Risk
12 18 (1.02%) Fixed Income
13 15 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (0.85%) NHS
14 14 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 50 (2.83%) Linux
2 46 (2.60%) Windows
3 22 (1.24%) Unix
4 20 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.23%) zOS
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.057%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.057%) macOS
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 846 (47.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 680 (38.46%) Agile
3 541 (30.60%) Project Delivery
4 421 (23.81%) PRINCE2
5 321 (18.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 306 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
7 283 (16.01%) Change Management
8 256 (14.48%) Decision-Making
9 254 (14.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 235 (13.29%) Risk Management
11 232 (13.12%) Migration
12 219 (12.39%) Waterfall
13 217 (12.27%) AI
14 197 (11.14%) Project Governance
15 189 (10.69%) Scrum
16 161 (9.11%) Project Planning
16 161 (9.11%) Roadmaps
17 143 (8.09%) Change Control
18 139 (7.86%) Programme Management
19 137 (7.75%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (3.68%) SQL
2 63 (3.56%) Python
3 13 (0.74%) VBA
4 12 (0.68%) C++
5 11 (0.62%) Java
6 8 (0.45%) Ada
6 8 (0.45%) Bash
6 8 (0.45%) Korn
7 7 (0.40%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.34%) C#
8 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
9 5 (0.28%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.17%) ABAP
10 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.17%) C
10 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.11%) JCL
11 2 (0.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 296 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 282 (15.95%) Degree
3 271 (15.33%) PMP
4 239 (13.52%) PMI Certification
5 199 (11.26%) SC Cleared
6 80 (4.52%) DV Cleared
7 69 (3.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 34 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.90%) ISTQB
10 16 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 15 (0.85%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.68%) APMP
13 12 (0.68%) CISSP
14 11 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.57%) Azure Certification
16 9 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
16 9 (0.51%) PgMP
16 9 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (12.78%) PMO
2 79 (4.47%) QA
3 49 (2.77%) Data Quality
4 27 (1.53%) GDPR
5 24 (1.36%) GRC
6 20 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (0.96%) SLA
8 14 (0.79%) NIST
9 12 (0.68%) P3O
10 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.34%) FINREP
12 5 (0.28%) COREP
12 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.28%) GMP
12 5 (0.28%) MISRA
12 5 (0.28%) MISRA C
12 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.23%) WCAG
14 3 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (0.62%) vSphere
4 7 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) KVM
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.057%) ACF2
9 1 (0.057%) Docker
9 1 (0.057%) RACF
9 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (0.96%) Ansible
2 9 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.40%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.34%) Puppet
5 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (0.23%) BMC PATROL
6 4 (0.23%) BMC Performance Manager
6 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.23%) Perfmon
7 3 (0.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (0.11%) SCCM
9 1 (0.057%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.057%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.057%) Nessus
9 1 (0.057%) OMEGAMON
9 1 (0.057%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.057%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.057%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 329 (18.61%) Microsoft
2 116 (6.56%) SAP
3 74 (4.19%) ServiceNow
4 67 (3.79%) Oracle
5 46 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 44 (2.49%) VMware
7 41 (2.32%) Adobe
8 35 (1.98%) Google
9 27 (1.53%) Cisco
10 21 (1.19%) Atlassian
11 20 (1.13%) IBM
12 16 (0.90%) Workday
13 15 (0.85%) NEC
13 15 (0.85%) Sitecore
14 14 (0.79%) Planview
15 13 (0.74%) Databricks
16 12 (0.68%) Alteryx
17 11 (0.62%) JD Edwards
18 10 (0.57%) Ariba
19 9 (0.51%) Murex