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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 26 21
Rank change year-on-year -23 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,839 1,972 2,763
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.11% 7.31% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 8.05% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,222 1,691
10th Percentile £318 £310 £310
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -1.44% -1.89%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 106 250
10th Percentile £17.10 £22.81 £19.27
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.50 £27.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.59 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% +19.60% -15.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £45.81
90th Percentile £83.10 £75.00 £62.06
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -15.73% +16.74% -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 38,237 24,502 31,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.52% 90.81% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,096 15,746 20,754
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,253 2,276
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.01 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -29 854 £558 +1.87% 540
North of England -27 294 £484 +1.89% 260
South East -23 264 £500 +4.17% 318
North West -7 185 £477 +5.93% 144
Midlands -38 165 £500 +11.11% 151
South West -23 136 £450 - 175
West Midlands -49 116 £550 +22.22% 95
Yorkshire -36 104 £500 - 87
East of England -7 98 £520 +2.06% 98
East Midlands -14 49 £425 +3.66% 55
North East -37 7 £325 -35.96% 32
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
1 102 (5.55%) Confluence
2 95 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.25%) CMS
4 17 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.38%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.27%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) Apache
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.054%) CICS
12 1 (0.054%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.054%) nginx
12 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 171 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (8.54%) Microsoft Project
3 135 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
4 112 (6.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 43 (2.34%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.38%) Trello
9 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.16%) Windchill
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 1 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.054%) CATIA
13 1 (0.054%) Houdini
13 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 73 (3.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.82%) Primavera
3 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.44%) Loan IQ
3 8 (0.44%) Magento
3 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.38%) Shopify
4 7 (0.38%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
5 6 (0.33%) SAP HCM
5 6 (0.33%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 140 (7.61%) Azure
2 99 (5.38%) Power Platform
3 80 (4.35%) SaaS
4 75 (4.08%) AWS
5 63 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
7 26 (1.41%) Smartsheet
8 22 (1.20%) GCP
9 21 (1.14%) Google Workspace
10 17 (0.92%) Asana
11 14 (0.76%) Entra ID
12 12 (0.65%) GitHub
13 10 (0.54%) Google Sheets
13 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (0.49%) OCI
15 8 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (0.44%) Google Drive
16 7 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.47%) Network Security
2 22 (1.20%) TCP/IP
2 22 (1.20%) WAN
3 20 (1.09%) DNS
4 18 (0.98%) Structured Cabling
5 16 (0.87%) LAN
6 15 (0.82%) Firewall
7 14 (0.76%) MPLS
7 14 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.71%) BGP
9 12 (0.65%) VPN
9 12 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (0.60%) DHCP
11 10 (0.54%) BIG-IP
12 9 (0.49%) Internet
12 9 (0.49%) Intranet
13 7 (0.38%) DKIM
13 7 (0.38%) DMARC
13 7 (0.38%) SAN
14 6 (0.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (5.06%) Power BI
2 13 (0.71%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.65%) Tableau
4 10 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (0.54%) Metadata
5 9 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
6 7 (0.38%) Power Query
7 6 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.22%) GIS
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.16%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.16%) QlikView
10 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 230 (12.51%) JIRA
2 19 (1.03%) Git
3 17 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.44%) Subversion
5 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
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 (0.054%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.054%) Capybara
8 1 (0.054%) Gradle
8 1 (0.054%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.054%) LSMW
8 1 (0.054%) MSI
8 1 (0.054%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.054%) RSpec
8 1 (0.054%) Selenium
8 1 (0.054%) TestDirector
General
1 817 (44.43%) Social Skills
2 705 (38.34%) Finance
3 295 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.01%) Organisational Skills
5 145 (7.88%) Public Sector
6 125 (6.80%) Banking
7 122 (6.63%) Marketing
8 106 (5.76%) Retail
9 74 (4.02%) Manufacturing
10 70 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
11 67 (3.64%) Legal
12 49 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (2.66%) Telecoms
13 32 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (1.69%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.58%) Front Office
16 28 (1.52%) Investment Banking
17 24 (1.31%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.14%) Military
18 21 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 718 (39.04%) Project Manager
2 186 (10.11%) Senior
3 183 (9.95%) Analyst
4 147 (7.99%) Lead
5 138 (7.50%) Senior Manager
6 117 (6.36%) Senior Project Manager
7 99 (5.38%) Business Analyst
8 91 (4.95%) IT Manager
9 78 (4.24%) Programme Manager
10 75 (4.08%) IT Project Manager
11 63 (3.43%) Consultant
12 57 (3.10%) Infrastructure Manager
13 53 (2.88%) Technical Manager
14 45 (2.45%) Architect
14 45 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
14 45 (2.45%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 44 (2.39%) Project Officer
16 43 (2.34%) Technical Project Manager
17 37 (2.01%) Change Manager
18 36 (1.96%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.41%) Middleware
2 18 (0.98%) REST
3 16 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (0.71%) OAuth
4 13 (0.71%) VML
5 12 (0.65%) HTML
5 12 (0.65%) Web Services
6 11 (0.60%) SOAP
7 10 (0.54%) JSON
8 9 (0.49%) CSS
9 8 (0.44%) .NET
9 8 (0.44%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.38%) ADO
10 7 (0.38%) React
10 7 (0.38%) SAML
11 6 (0.33%) XML
12 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.27%) Lightning Web Components
12 5 (0.27%) OpenID
12 5 (0.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 93 (5.06%) Management Information System
2 88 (4.79%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.53%) Data Centre
4 55 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 52 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
6 46 (2.50%) PMI
7 39 (2.12%) Virtual Team
8 30 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.41%) Operational Technology
11 23 (1.25%) FMCG
11 23 (1.25%) Social Media
12 22 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (0.87%) Life Science
15 15 (0.82%) EPoS
16 14 (0.76%) Data Structures
16 14 (0.76%) NHS
17 13 (0.71%) AI Agents
18 12 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.45%) Windows
2 27 (1.47%) Linux
3 17 (0.92%) Unix
4 14 (0.76%) 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 (0.054%) AIX
7 1 (0.054%) Android
7 1 (0.054%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.054%) Solaris
7 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 681 (37.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 676 (36.76%) Agile
3 478 (25.99%) Project Delivery
4 359 (19.52%) PRINCE2
5 358 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
6 297 (16.15%) Change Management
7 295 (16.04%) Migration
8 285 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 259 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 232 (12.62%) Decision-Making
11 231 (12.56%) Risk Management
12 222 (12.07%) Waterfall
13 171 (9.30%) Scrum
14 169 (9.19%) AI
15 160 (8.70%) ERP
16 136 (7.40%) Budget Management
17 125 (6.80%) Data Migration
18 122 (6.63%) Roadmaps
19 119 (6.47%) Analytics
19 119 (6.47%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 74 (4.02%) SQL
2 57 (3.10%) Python
3 18 (0.98%) JavaScript
4 15 (0.82%) VBA
5 10 (0.54%) C#
5 10 (0.54%) Java
6 9 (0.49%) C++
7 8 (0.44%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.38%) C
8 7 (0.38%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.33%) ABAP
10 5 (0.27%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.22%) Ada
11 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
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%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 294 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 276 (15.01%) Degree
3 268 (14.57%) PMP
4 225 (12.23%) PMI Certification
5 209 (11.36%) SC Cleared
6 67 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 50 (2.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 28 (1.52%) ACCA
8 28 (1.52%) CIMA
9 24 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (0.87%) APMP
12 16 (0.87%) CISSP
12 16 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 13 (0.71%) CISM
13 13 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.54%) APMG
14 10 (0.54%) CIPFA
14 10 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (11.69%) PMO
2 104 (5.66%) QA
3 51 (2.77%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.18%) GDPR
5 38 (2.07%) SLA
6 28 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.41%) NIST
8 19 (1.03%) Accessibility
9 16 (0.87%) GRC
10 8 (0.44%) MiFID
11 7 (0.38%) EMIR
11 7 (0.38%) GMP
11 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.33%) P3O
12 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.27%) FINREP
13 5 (0.27%) GxP
13 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 30 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.38%) 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
6 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.054%) ACF2
8 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (0.92%) Ansible
1 17 (0.92%) 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
5 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.11%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.054%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.054%) logstash
7 1 (0.054%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.054%) SCOM
7 1 (0.054%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.054%) vRealize
7 1 (0.054%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 300 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 159 (8.65%) SAP
3 101 (5.49%) ServiceNow
4 71 (3.86%) Oracle
5 56 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 42 (2.28%) Google
7 34 (1.85%) Adobe
8 24 (1.31%) Cisco
9 23 (1.25%) VMware
10 18 (0.98%) Sitecore
11 16 (0.87%) Workday
12 14 (0.76%) Databricks
12 14 (0.76%) NEC
13 12 (0.65%) IBM
14 11 (0.60%) CyberArk
14 11 (0.60%) F5
14 11 (0.60%) JD Edwards
14 11 (0.60%) Murex
14 11 (0.60%) Sage
15 10 (0.54%) Alteryx