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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,820 1,893 2,786
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.19% 7.49% 7.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 8.20% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 1,165 1,703
10th Percentile £317 £310 £310
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £616
90th Percentile £726 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 105 253
10th Percentile £16.40 £22.52 £18.35
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.76 £26.68
Median hourly rate £37.50 £46.18 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +23.15% -16.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £45.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -18.33% +18.05% -15.29%

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 37,112 23,092 31,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,409 14,893 20,664
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,320 1,127 2,324
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -24 850 £550 - 303
North of England -27 282 £475 - 190
South East -23 265 £500 - 284
North West -13 173 £473 +5.11% 110
Midlands -37 171 £500 +11.11% 134
South West -22 131 £450 - 90
West Midlands -44 118 £550 +22.22% 87
Yorkshire -32 104 £500 - 64
East of England -12 94 £510 -1.73% 108
East Midlands -11 53 £409 -0.15% 46
North East -39 8 £388 -23.65% 19
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
1 110 (6.04%) Confluence
2 97 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.21%) CMS
4 16 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.38%) Apache
6 7 (0.38%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 4 (0.22%) Moodle
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.055%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.055%) nginx
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.055%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 171 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 159 (8.74%) Microsoft Project
3 123 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
4 111 (6.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 43 (2.36%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.44%) Trello
8 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.16%) Windchill
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 1 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.055%) CATIA
13 1 (0.055%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 74 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.88%) Primavera
3 11 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
4 9 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 9 (0.49%) Shopify
5 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.44%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.38%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.33%) Magento
7 6 (0.33%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.33%) SAP MM
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
8 5 (0.27%) Endur
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 132 (7.25%) Azure
2 97 (5.33%) Power Platform
3 77 (4.23%) SaaS
4 72 (3.96%) AWS
5 64 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (1.37%) Smartsheet
8 24 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (1.15%) GCP
10 19 (1.04%) Google Workspace
11 17 (0.93%) Asana
12 14 (0.77%) Entra ID
13 10 (0.55%) Google Sheets
14 9 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (0.49%) BigCommerce
14 9 (0.49%) GitHub
14 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (0.44%) Google Drive
15 8 (0.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.48%) Network Security
2 22 (1.21%) WAN
3 21 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.04%) DNS
5 18 (0.99%) Structured Cabling
6 16 (0.88%) LAN
7 15 (0.82%) Firewall
8 14 (0.77%) MPLS
8 14 (0.77%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.71%) BGP
10 12 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.60%) VPN
12 10 (0.55%) BIG-IP
12 10 (0.55%) DHCP
13 9 (0.49%) Internet
13 9 (0.49%) Intranet
14 7 (0.38%) DKIM
14 7 (0.38%) DMARC
14 7 (0.38%) SAN
15 6 (0.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (5.11%) Power BI
2 13 (0.71%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.71%) Tableau
3 11 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (0.55%) Metadata
5 9 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.38%) Power Query
8 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
9 5 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.16%) QlikView
11 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.11%) GIS
Development Applications
1 236 (12.97%) JIRA
2 20 (1.10%) Git
3 16 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.33%) Subversion
6 5 (0.27%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) Hudson
7 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.055%) Appium
8 1 (0.055%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.055%) LSMW
8 1 (0.055%) Maven
8 1 (0.055%) minitest
8 1 (0.055%) MSI
8 1 (0.055%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.055%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.055%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.055%) TestDirector
General
1 819 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 711 (39.07%) Finance
3 294 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (10.33%) Organisational Skills
5 144 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 127 (6.98%) Banking
7 110 (6.04%) Marketing
8 106 (5.82%) Retail
9 70 (3.85%) Manufacturing
10 66 (3.63%) Legal
11 63 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
12 51 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (2.64%) Telecoms
14 35 (1.92%) Financial Institution
15 32 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.54%) Front Office
16 28 (1.54%) Investment Banking
17 22 (1.21%) Local Government
18 21 (1.15%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 706 (38.79%) Project Manager
2 194 (10.66%) Analyst
3 184 (10.11%) Senior
4 148 (8.13%) Lead
5 130 (7.14%) Senior Manager
6 110 (6.04%) Senior Project Manager
7 104 (5.71%) Business Analyst
8 88 (4.84%) IT Manager
9 76 (4.18%) IT Project Manager
10 73 (4.01%) Programme Manager
11 68 (3.74%) Consultant
12 55 (3.02%) Technical Manager
13 54 (2.97%) Infrastructure Manager
14 47 (2.58%) Architect
14 47 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
15 44 (2.42%) Technical Project Manager
16 43 (2.36%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 42 (2.31%) Project Officer
18 37 (2.03%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 36 (1.98%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.43%) Middleware
2 22 (1.21%) REST
3 18 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.82%) SOAP
5 13 (0.71%) OAuth
5 13 (0.71%) VML
6 12 (0.66%) Web Services
7 11 (0.60%) HTML
8 10 (0.55%) JSON
9 9 (0.49%) CSS
10 8 (0.44%) .NET
10 8 (0.44%) SailPoint
11 7 (0.38%) SAML
12 6 (0.33%) ADO
12 6 (0.33%) React
12 6 (0.33%) XML
13 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.27%) OpenID
13 5 (0.27%) RESTful
14 4 (0.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.22%) Management Information System
2 89 (4.89%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.63%) Data Centre
4 53 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 52 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 48 (2.64%) PMI
7 35 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 34 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.37%) Operational Technology
11 23 (1.26%) FMCG
12 22 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.04%) Social Media
14 15 (0.82%) EPoS
15 14 (0.77%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.77%) Life Science
15 14 (0.77%) NHS
16 13 (0.71%) CMDB
17 12 (0.66%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.42%) Windows
2 26 (1.43%) Linux
3 16 (0.88%) Unix
4 14 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.22%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.22%) zOS
6 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.055%) AIX
7 1 (0.055%) Android
7 1 (0.055%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.055%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.055%) Solaris
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (36.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 662 (36.37%) Agile
3 473 (25.99%) Project Delivery
4 365 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
5 342 (18.79%) PRINCE2
6 295 (16.21%) Migration
7 283 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 278 (15.27%) Change Management
9 252 (13.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 227 (12.47%) Decision-Making
11 220 (12.09%) Risk Management
12 217 (11.92%) Waterfall
13 165 (9.07%) Scrum
14 164 (9.01%) ERP
15 155 (8.52%) AI
16 136 (7.47%) Budget Management
17 125 (6.87%) Data Migration
18 122 (6.70%) Validation
19 119 (6.54%) Roadmaps
20 117 (6.43%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 79 (4.34%) SQL
2 52 (2.86%) Python
3 18 (0.99%) JavaScript
4 14 (0.77%) VBA
5 13 (0.71%) Java
6 10 (0.55%) C#
7 9 (0.49%) C++
8 7 (0.38%) C
8 7 (0.38%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.33%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.27%) ABAP
10 5 (0.27%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.22%) Ada
11 4 (0.22%) JCL
11 4 (0.22%) R
12 3 (0.16%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.16%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.16%) SOQL
13 2 (0.11%) REXX
13 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 293 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 265 (14.56%) Degree
3 262 (14.40%) PMP
4 220 (12.09%) PMI Certification
5 213 (11.70%) SC Cleared
6 67 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 47 (2.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 30 (1.65%) ACCA
8 30 (1.65%) CIMA
9 27 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (1.04%) APMP
11 19 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (0.93%) CISSP
13 14 (0.77%) CISM
14 12 (0.66%) CBAP
14 12 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 11 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.60%) MBA
16 10 (0.55%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (11.87%) PMO
2 108 (5.93%) QA
3 50 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 42 (2.31%) GDPR
5 38 (2.09%) SLA
6 30 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.54%) NIST
8 20 (1.10%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.82%) GRC
10 8 (0.44%) GMP
10 8 (0.44%) MiFID
11 7 (0.38%) EMIR
11 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.27%) GxP
13 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.22%) Basel III
14 4 (0.22%) COREP
14 4 (0.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 27 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.27%) RACF
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.055%) ACF2
8 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (0.93%) Ansible
1 17 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.16%) Terraform
6 2 (0.11%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
6 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.055%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.055%) logstash
7 1 (0.055%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.055%) SCOM
7 1 (0.055%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.055%) vRealize
7 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 285 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 162 (8.90%) SAP
3 97 (5.33%) ServiceNow
4 71 (3.90%) Oracle
5 52 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 38 (2.09%) Google
7 31 (1.70%) Adobe
8 24 (1.32%) Cisco
9 20 (1.10%) Sitecore
10 19 (1.04%) VMware
11 18 (0.99%) Workday
12 13 (0.71%) CyberArk
12 13 (0.71%) Databricks
12 13 (0.71%) NEC
12 13 (0.71%) Sage
13 12 (0.66%) IBM
14 11 (0.60%) F5
14 11 (0.60%) JD Edwards
15 10 (0.55%) Guidewire
15 10 (0.55%) IFS