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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,879 1,939 2,834
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.59% 7.92% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 8.69% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 1,183 1,743
10th Percentile £333 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -1.41%
75th Percentile £625 £611 £627
90th Percentile £725 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 106 248
10th Percentile £14.64 £22.27 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.25 £26.19
Median hourly rate £37.58 £44.75 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% +17.39% -17.13%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £60.38
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £44.75 £38.12
% change year-on-year -19.55% +17.39% -17.13%

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 34,677 22,323 31,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 91.22% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,105 14,603 20,624
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,142 946 2,251
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.41 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £15.97
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%
75th Percentile £67.96 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -18 879 £550 +3.77% 399
North of England -19 284 £474 -3.02% 232
South East -11 277 £525 +10.53% 277
Midlands -29 190 £500 +6.61% 139
North West -16 159 £465 -2.11% 128
South West -10 151 £450 -7.12% 101
West Midlands -35 128 £500 - 91
Yorkshire -35 117 £480 +1.05% 76
East of England -21 79 £518 +1.57% 135
East Midlands -14 64 £393 -4.52% 48
North East -19 13 £410 -20.96% 31
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
1 135 (7.18%) Confluence
2 83 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.12%) CMS
4 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.37%) Apache
7 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Moodle
9 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
10 2 (0.11%) SAS
11 1 (0.053%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.053%) IIS
11 1 (0.053%) nginx
11 1 (0.053%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.053%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.053%) WebSphere
Applications
1 189 (10.06%) Microsoft Project
2 174 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 134 (7.13%) Microsoft Office
4 109 (5.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 43 (2.29%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.64%) Trello
8 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Simulink
11 2 (0.11%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.11%) Windchill
12 1 (0.053%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.053%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.053%) InDesign
12 1 (0.053%) InVision
12 1 (0.053%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 75 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.75%) Primavera
3 11 (0.59%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.53%) Shopify
5 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
7 6 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.27%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.21%) Magento
9 4 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 132 (7.03%) Azure
2 88 (4.68%) Power Platform
3 78 (4.15%) SaaS
4 71 (3.78%) AWS
5 68 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (1.38%) GCP
7 26 (1.38%) Smartsheet
8 24 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.17%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.12%) Asana
11 14 (0.75%) OpenShift
12 13 (0.69%) Entra ID
13 10 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (0.53%) BigCommerce
13 10 (0.53%) GitHub
13 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (0.53%) PaaS
14 9 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.38%) WAN
2 22 (1.17%) Network Security
3 20 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.01%) DNS
4 19 (1.01%) Firewall
5 17 (0.90%) LAN
5 17 (0.90%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
7 14 (0.75%) MPLS
7 14 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.64%) BGP
8 12 (0.64%) VPN
9 10 (0.53%) Internet
10 8 (0.43%) DHCP
11 7 (0.37%) BIG-IP
11 7 (0.37%) DKIM
11 7 (0.37%) DMARC
12 6 (0.32%) IPsec
12 6 (0.32%) SAN
12 6 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (4.47%) Power BI
2 17 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (0.85%) Metadata
4 14 (0.75%) Tableau
5 13 (0.69%) SQL Server
6 10 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
7 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.21%) Big Data
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.16%) GIS
11 3 (0.16%) Power Query
12 2 (0.11%) DataStage
12 2 (0.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 281 (14.95%) JIRA
2 19 (1.01%) Git
3 13 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.37%) GitLab
5 4 (0.21%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.21%) Subversion
6 3 (0.16%) Selenium
6 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.11%) Hudson
7 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.053%) Appium
8 1 (0.053%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.053%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.053%) LSMW
8 1 (0.053%) Maven
8 1 (0.053%) MSI
8 1 (0.053%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.053%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.053%) RSpec
General
1 852 (45.34%) Social Skills
2 732 (38.96%) Finance
3 317 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (10.27%) Organisational Skills
5 162 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 134 (7.13%) Banking
7 107 (5.69%) Marketing
8 103 (5.48%) Retail
9 68 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
10 67 (3.57%) Legal
11 60 (3.19%) Manufacturing
12 51 (2.71%) Telecoms
13 42 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.76%) Financial Institution
15 30 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.49%) Investment Banking
17 24 (1.28%) Front Office
18 23 (1.22%) Local Government
19 22 (1.17%) Military
20 18 (0.96%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 724 (38.53%) Project Manager
2 211 (11.23%) Analyst
3 188 (10.01%) Senior
4 152 (8.09%) Lead
5 132 (7.03%) Senior Manager
6 111 (5.91%) Senior Project Manager
7 110 (5.85%) Business Analyst
8 86 (4.58%) IT Manager
9 78 (4.15%) Programme Manager
10 77 (4.10%) IT Project Manager
11 62 (3.30%) Consultant
12 58 (3.09%) Technical Manager
13 56 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
14 53 (2.82%) Infrastructure Manager
15 51 (2.71%) Architect
16 46 (2.45%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 43 (2.29%) Technical Project Manager
18 42 (2.24%) Developer
19 41 (2.18%) Infrastructure Project Manager
20 38 (2.02%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.28%) Middleware
2 22 (1.17%) REST
3 16 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.80%) SOAP
5 14 (0.75%) OAuth
5 14 (0.75%) Web Services
6 13 (0.69%) HTML
7 12 (0.64%) VML
8 11 (0.59%) CSS
9 8 (0.43%) .NET
9 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.43%) SAML
9 8 (0.43%) XML
10 7 (0.37%) ADO
10 7 (0.37%) JSON
11 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.32%) OpenID
12 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.27%) React
12 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (4.90%) Management Information System
2 88 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.46%) Data Centre
4 63 (3.35%) PMI
5 55 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
6 53 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 42 (2.24%) Virtual Team
8 34 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.22%) Operational Technology
11 19 (1.01%) Social Media
12 18 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (0.90%) CMDB
13 17 (0.90%) NHS
14 16 (0.85%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.80%) EPoS
16 13 (0.69%) FMCG
16 13 (0.69%) Life Science
17 12 (0.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.34%) Windows
2 25 (1.33%) Linux
3 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.53%) Unix
5 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.21%) zOS
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.053%) AIX
9 1 (0.053%) Android
9 1 (0.053%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.053%) Solaris
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (37.04%) Agile
2 650 (34.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 494 (26.29%) Project Delivery
4 418 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
5 353 (18.79%) PRINCE2
6 303 (16.13%) Migration
7 287 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 279 (14.85%) Change Management
8 279 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 246 (13.09%) Decision-Making
10 238 (12.67%) Waterfall
11 222 (11.81%) Risk Management
12 183 (9.74%) Scrum
13 180 (9.58%) ERP
14 165 (8.78%) Budget Management
15 135 (7.18%) Roadmaps
16 134 (7.13%) AI
17 129 (6.87%) Data Migration
17 129 (6.87%) Project Planning
18 125 (6.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 76 (4.04%) SQL
2 46 (2.45%) Python
3 17 (0.90%) JavaScript
4 16 (0.85%) Java
5 12 (0.64%) VBA
6 11 (0.59%) C#
7 9 (0.48%) C++
8 7 (0.37%) C
9 6 (0.32%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.32%) R
10 5 (0.27%) ABAP
10 5 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.21%) Ada
11 4 (0.21%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.16%) JCL
12 3 (0.16%) Perl
12 3 (0.16%) SOQL
12 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 333 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 300 (15.97%) Degree
3 279 (14.85%) PMP
4 248 (13.20%) SC Cleared
5 239 (12.72%) PMI Certification
6 70 (3.73%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 32 (1.70%) APMP
9 32 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.49%) ACCA
10 28 (1.49%) CIMA
11 23 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (1.06%) CISSP
12 20 (1.06%) MBA
13 18 (0.96%) CISM
14 17 (0.90%) CBAP
15 15 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 12 (0.64%) IIBA
17 10 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (12.45%) PMO
2 126 (6.71%) QA
3 58 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.50%) GDPR
5 41 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.76%) NIST
6 33 (1.76%) SLA
7 15 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.69%) GRC
9 11 (0.59%) Basel III
10 8 (0.43%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.37%) EMIR
11 7 (0.37%) MiFID
11 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.32%) GMP
12 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.27%) RACF
4 3 (0.16%) NFS
4 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.053%) Firmware
6 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.053%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.053%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (0.75%) Ansible
3 7 (0.37%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (0.21%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.21%) Terraform
7 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.16%) SCCM
7 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.11%) Grafana
8 2 (0.11%) logstash
8 2 (0.11%) SCOM
9 1 (0.053%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.053%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.053%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.053%) Kibana
9 1 (0.053%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.053%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.053%) vRealize
Vendors
1 280 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 164 (8.73%) SAP
3 100 (5.32%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.62%) Oracle
5 50 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 39 (2.08%) Google
7 28 (1.49%) Adobe
8 26 (1.38%) Cisco
8 26 (1.38%) Workday
9 17 (0.90%) CyberArk
9 17 (0.90%) VMware
10 16 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 15 (0.80%) Databricks
11 15 (0.80%) Sitecore
12 14 (0.75%) Sage
13 13 (0.69%) NEC
14 11 (0.59%) IBM
15 10 (0.53%) IFS
16 8 (0.43%) F5
16 8 (0.43%) Murex