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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -25 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,820 1,972 2,599
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.06% 7.21% 7.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 7.96% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 1,225 1,569
10th Percentile £317 £313 £310
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £621
90th Percentile £738 £725 £726
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 108 232
10th Percentile £17.87 £21.39 £20.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £28.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £44.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +16.74% -11.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £40.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -2.47% +6.24% -13.36%

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 38,297 24,783 30,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.63% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 15,884 19,726
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,330 1,950
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.29 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.99 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £71.46 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -26 854 £563 +4.17% 571
North of England -27 289 £475 -3.55% 246
South East -24 268 £500 +2.56% 281
North West -13 183 £475 - 132
Midlands -45 150 £514 +14.22% 142
South West -21 136 £450 - 99
West Midlands -54 103 £545 +16.20% 85
Yorkshire -42 98 £498 -0.50% 86
East of England -9 90 £525 +0.96% 105
East Midlands -14 47 £488 +22.95% 57
North East -37 11 £420 -18.05% 30
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
1 101 (5.55%) Confluence
2 96 (5.27%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.48%) CMS
4 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.38%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.33%) Apache
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.27%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.055%) CICS
12 1 (0.055%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.055%) IIS
Applications
1 173 (9.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 165 (9.07%) Microsoft Project
3 132 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
4 112 (6.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.31%) MS Visio
6 19 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.66%) Trello
8 8 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.33%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.16%) InDesign
12 3 (0.16%) Windchill
13 2 (0.11%) Houdini
13 2 (0.11%) NUKE
14 1 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.055%) CATIA
14 1 (0.055%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 68 (3.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.04%) Primavera
3 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.49%) Magento
3 9 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
4 8 (0.44%) SAP HCM
5 6 (0.33%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
5 6 (0.33%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (0.33%) Shopify
5 6 (0.33%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.27%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 158 (8.68%) Azure
2 103 (5.66%) Power Platform
3 87 (4.78%) SaaS
4 73 (4.01%) AWS
5 68 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.81%) Smartsheet
8 26 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.21%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.10%) Asana
10 20 (1.10%) GCP
11 16 (0.88%) Entra ID
11 16 (0.88%) GitHub
12 11 (0.60%) Google Sheets
12 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (0.55%) IaaS
14 9 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (0.49%) OCI
14 9 (0.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.48%) Network Security
2 24 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 22 (1.21%) DNS
3 22 (1.21%) WAN
4 20 (1.10%) Structured Cabling
5 17 (0.93%) LAN
6 15 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (0.77%) Firewall
7 14 (0.77%) Intranet
8 13 (0.71%) DHCP
8 13 (0.71%) MPLS
8 13 (0.71%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.71%) VPN
9 11 (0.60%) BGP
10 9 (0.49%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.49%) Internet
11 7 (0.38%) DKIM
11 7 (0.38%) DMARC
11 7 (0.38%) SAN
11 7 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.22%) Power BI
2 13 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (0.71%) SQL Server
3 11 (0.60%) Tableau
4 10 (0.55%) Metadata
5 9 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
7 7 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.38%) Power Query
8 6 (0.33%) GIS
8 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.27%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.16%) QlikView
12 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 234 (12.86%) JIRA
2 21 (1.15%) Git
3 19 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.49%) Subversion
5 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.27%) GitLab
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.055%) Appium
9 1 (0.055%) Gradle
9 1 (0.055%) minitest
9 1 (0.055%) Postman
9 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.055%) RSpec
9 1 (0.055%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.055%) Snyk
9 1 (0.055%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.055%) Terragrunt
General
1 818 (44.95%) Social Skills
2 677 (37.20%) Finance
3 301 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (9.78%) Organisational Skills
5 156 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 132 (7.25%) Marketing
7 124 (6.81%) Banking
8 109 (5.99%) Retail
9 73 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
10 68 (3.74%) Manufacturing
11 65 (3.57%) Legal
12 50 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 45 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (1.65%) Financial Institution
16 26 (1.43%) Front Office
16 26 (1.43%) Investment Banking
17 23 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 22 (1.21%) Aerospace
19 21 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 696 (38.24%) Project Manager
2 183 (10.05%) Senior
3 166 (9.12%) Analyst
4 154 (8.46%) Lead
5 140 (7.69%) Senior Manager
6 117 (6.43%) Senior Project Manager
7 94 (5.16%) IT Manager
8 87 (4.78%) Business Analyst
9 86 (4.73%) Programme Manager
10 75 (4.12%) IT Project Manager
11 59 (3.24%) Consultant
12 58 (3.19%) Technical Manager
13 54 (2.97%) Infrastructure Manager
14 53 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
15 46 (2.53%) Technical Project Manager
16 42 (2.31%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 41 (2.25%) Project Officer
18 40 (2.20%) Architect
19 38 (2.09%) Coordinator
20 36 (1.98%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.21%) Middleware
2 20 (1.10%) REST
3 13 (0.71%) HTML
3 13 (0.71%) OAuth
3 13 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.71%) VML
4 12 (0.66%) Web Services
5 11 (0.60%) JSON
5 11 (0.60%) SOAP
6 10 (0.55%) ADO
7 9 (0.49%) CSS
7 9 (0.49%) React
8 8 (0.44%) .NET
9 7 (0.38%) SAML
9 7 (0.38%) XML
10 6 (0.33%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.27%) FastAPI
11 5 (0.27%) OpenID
11 5 (0.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.27%) Management Information System
2 82 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.68%) Data Centre
5 50 (2.75%) PMI
6 49 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
7 42 (2.31%) Virtual Team
8 30 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.37%) FMCG
9 25 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.32%) Social Media
11 23 (1.26%) Operational Technology
12 22 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (0.88%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.82%) EPoS
14 15 (0.82%) Life Science
15 14 (0.77%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (0.71%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.58%) Windows
2 27 (1.48%) Linux
3 18 (0.99%) 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%) 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
1 700 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 680 (37.36%) Agile
3 475 (26.10%) Project Delivery
4 383 (21.04%) PRINCE2
5 351 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
6 308 (16.92%) Change Management
7 307 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 280 (15.38%) Migration
9 262 (14.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 242 (13.30%) Decision-Making
11 235 (12.91%) Risk Management
12 225 (12.36%) Waterfall
13 183 (10.05%) AI
14 180 (9.89%) Scrum
15 147 (8.08%) ERP
16 138 (7.58%) Budget Management
17 132 (7.25%) Roadmaps
18 129 (7.09%) Project Planning
19 127 (6.98%) Analytics
19 127 (6.98%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 74 (4.07%) SQL
2 60 (3.30%) Python
3 19 (1.04%) JavaScript
4 13 (0.71%) VBA
5 12 (0.66%) Java
6 10 (0.55%) TypeScript
7 9 (0.49%) C++
8 8 (0.44%) ABAP
8 8 (0.44%) C#
8 8 (0.44%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.38%) C
10 5 (0.27%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.22%) Ada
11 4 (0.22%) JCL
11 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.16%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.16%) R
13 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 297 (16.32%) Security Cleared
2 283 (15.55%) Degree
3 281 (15.44%) PMP
4 245 (13.46%) PMI Certification
5 208 (11.43%) SC Cleared
6 68 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 28 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.43%) ACCA
10 26 (1.43%) CIMA
11 19 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 15 (0.82%) CISSP
14 14 (0.77%) APMP
14 14 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.60%) CISM
16 10 (0.55%) CIPFA
16 10 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 9 (0.49%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (11.81%) PMO
2 98 (5.38%) QA
3 51 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.92%) SLA
5 33 (1.81%) GDPR
6 24 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.32%) NIST
7 21 (1.15%) GRC
8 20 (1.10%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.38%) EMIR
9 7 (0.38%) MiFID
9 7 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.33%) FINREP
10 6 (0.33%) GMP
10 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.27%) COREP
11 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.27%) P3O
12 4 (0.22%) GxP
12 4 (0.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 33 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.27%) RACF
6 4 (0.22%) NFS
6 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.16%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.055%) ACF2
9 1 (0.055%) Docker
9 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (0.99%) Ansible
2 17 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 4 (0.22%) Terraform
6 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.055%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.055%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.055%) logstash
7 1 (0.055%) Nessus
7 1 (0.055%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.055%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.055%) Puppet
7 1 (0.055%) SCOM
7 1 (0.055%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.055%) vRealize
7 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 305 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 153 (8.41%) SAP
3 105 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.74%) Oracle
5 51 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 42 (2.31%) Google
7 38 (2.09%) Adobe
8 22 (1.21%) VMware
9 20 (1.10%) Cisco
10 19 (1.04%) Sitecore
11 17 (0.93%) Workday
12 16 (0.88%) NEC
13 14 (0.77%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.77%) Databricks
13 14 (0.77%) IBM
14 11 (0.60%) F5
14 11 (0.60%) JD Edwards
15 10 (0.55%) Alteryx
15 10 (0.55%) IFS
16 9 (0.49%) Guidewire