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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,898 1,990 2,932
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.84% 8.16% 7.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.66% 8.96% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,186 1,842
10th Percentile £335 £300 £313
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £606 £638
90th Percentile £725 £722 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.02% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 105 244
10th Percentile £14.64 £24.44 £18.35
25th Percentile £20.87 £31.25 £26.60
Median hourly rate £40.25 £46.30 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +21.46% -23.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £49.31
90th Percentile £76.88 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £46.18 £38.12
% change year-on-year -13.38% +21.14% -23.76%

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 33,504 22,203 32,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 91.02% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,453 14,593 21,161
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 880 2,196
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.83 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.07 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.50 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -17 897 £550 +4.76% 403
North of England -21 287 £475 - 239
South East -15 286 £525 +5.00% 265
Midlands -29 197 £500 +8.81% 148
North West -15 169 £475 +4.40% 119
West Midlands -35 133 £500 - 92
South West -18 131 £450 -10.00% 88
Yorkshire -34 110 £480 +2.35% 83
East of England -26 75 £509 -1.93% 124
East Midlands -14 66 £393 -4.52% 55
North East -22 12 £430 -20.00% 42
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
1 149 (7.85%) Confluence
2 74 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.16%) CMS
4 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.32%) Apache
5 6 (0.32%) nginx
6 4 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
8 2 (0.11%) WordPress
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.053%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.053%) IIS
9 1 (0.053%) Moodle
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.053%) SAS
9 1 (0.053%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.053%) WebSphere
Applications
1 203 (10.70%) Microsoft Project
2 191 (10.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 143 (7.53%) Microsoft Office
4 105 (5.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 46 (2.42%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.84%) Trello
7 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.16%) InVision
9 3 (0.16%) Sketch
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.11%) InDesign
10 2 (0.11%) Windchill
11 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.053%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.053%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 66 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.00%) Primavera
3 13 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (0.63%) Loan IQ
5 11 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 9 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
7 9 (0.47%) Shopify
8 8 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
9 7 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
9 7 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.32%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.32%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.26%) NEC Housing
11 5 (0.26%) SAP HCM
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 137 (7.22%) Azure
2 90 (4.74%) Power Platform
3 83 (4.37%) AWS
4 66 (3.48%) SaaS
5 60 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (1.32%) GCP
8 24 (1.26%) Smartsheet
9 21 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (0.95%) Asana
10 18 (0.95%) OpenShift
11 16 (0.84%) Google Workspace
12 12 (0.63%) GitHub
13 11 (0.58%) Entra ID
13 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (0.58%) OCI
14 10 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (0.53%) PaaS
15 9 (0.47%) BigCommerce
15 9 (0.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.58%) WAN
2 26 (1.37%) Firewall
3 25 (1.32%) Network Security
4 19 (1.00%) LAN
4 19 (1.00%) SD-WAN
5 16 (0.84%) MPLS
5 16 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
5 16 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (0.74%) DNS
7 14 (0.74%) VPN
8 13 (0.68%) Internet
9 10 (0.53%) BGP
9 10 (0.53%) DHCP
10 6 (0.32%) Intranet
10 6 (0.32%) IPsec
10 6 (0.32%) OSPF
10 6 (0.32%) SSL
11 5 (0.26%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.26%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (4.43%) Power BI
2 20 (1.05%) Tableau
3 18 (0.95%) SQL Server
4 17 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (0.90%) Metadata
5 12 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
6 9 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.21%) Big Data
9 4 (0.21%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.21%) Power Query
9 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.16%) GIS
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 291 (15.33%) JIRA
2 19 (1.00%) Git
3 10 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.32%) GitLab
5 5 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
8 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.053%) Ant
9 1 (0.053%) JUnit
9 1 (0.053%) LSMW
9 1 (0.053%) Maven
9 1 (0.053%) MSI
9 1 (0.053%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.053%) RSpec
9 1 (0.053%) Subversion
9 1 (0.053%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.053%) Toad
General
1 935 (49.26%) Social Skills
2 734 (38.67%) Finance
3 337 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (9.80%) Organisational Skills
5 176 (9.27%) Public Sector
6 157 (8.27%) Banking
7 103 (5.43%) Marketing
8 102 (5.37%) Retail
9 74 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
9 74 (3.90%) Legal
10 62 (3.27%) Manufacturing
11 53 (2.79%) Telecoms
12 49 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
13 40 (2.11%) Investment Banking
14 32 (1.69%) Financial Institution
15 31 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.48%) Local Government
17 27 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.26%) Front Office
19 18 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 729 (38.41%) Project Manager
2 221 (11.64%) Analyst
3 176 (9.27%) Senior
4 164 (8.64%) Lead
5 121 (6.38%) Business Analyst
5 121 (6.38%) Senior Manager
6 100 (5.27%) Senior Project Manager
7 89 (4.69%) IT Manager
8 80 (4.21%) IT Project Manager
9 78 (4.11%) Programme Manager
10 70 (3.69%) Consultant
11 64 (3.37%) Technical Manager
12 60 (3.16%) Infrastructure Manager
13 58 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
14 49 (2.58%) Architect
15 48 (2.53%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 45 (2.37%) Project Officer
16 45 (2.37%) Technical Project Manager
17 40 (2.11%) Coordinator
18 39 (2.05%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.21%) Middleware
2 21 (1.11%) REST
3 18 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.84%) Web Services
5 14 (0.74%) SOAP
6 13 (0.68%) CSS
6 13 (0.68%) HTML
7 11 (0.58%) XML
8 10 (0.53%) EDI
9 9 (0.47%) .NET
9 9 (0.47%) VML
10 8 (0.42%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.42%) React
10 8 (0.42%) SailPoint
11 7 (0.37%) RESTful
11 7 (0.37%) SAML
12 6 (0.32%) ADO
12 6 (0.32%) OAuth
12 6 (0.32%) OpenID
13 5 (0.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.22%) Management Information System
1 99 (5.22%) Onboarding
2 67 (3.53%) PMI
3 64 (3.37%) Data Centre
4 54 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
4 54 (2.85%) Virtual Team
5 52 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 44 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.21%) NHS
9 22 (1.16%) Operational Technology
10 19 (1.00%) CMDB
11 18 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.84%) Data Structures
13 14 (0.74%) Cloud Native
13 14 (0.74%) Social Media
13 14 (0.74%) Web Conferencing
14 11 (0.58%) FMCG
14 11 (0.58%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.32%) Windows
2 23 (1.21%) Linux
3 13 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.26%) Unix
4 5 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.16%) zOS
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.053%) Android
7 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.053%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.053%) Solaris
7 1 (0.053%) VMS
7 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (37.99%) Agile
2 644 (33.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 479 (25.24%) Project Delivery
4 457 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
5 400 (21.07%) PRINCE2
6 307 (16.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 297 (15.65%) Change Management
8 281 (14.81%) Migration
9 272 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 225 (11.85%) Decision-Making
11 224 (11.80%) Waterfall
12 215 (11.33%) Risk Management
13 199 (10.48%) Scrum
14 173 (9.11%) Budget Management
15 164 (8.64%) ERP
16 138 (7.27%) Roadmaps
17 137 (7.22%) DevOps
18 128 (6.74%) Business Analysis
18 128 (6.74%) Data Migration
19 127 (6.69%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 82 (4.32%) SQL
2 36 (1.90%) Python
3 20 (1.05%) JavaScript
4 18 (0.95%) Java
5 11 (0.58%) C#
6 10 (0.53%) VBA
7 7 (0.37%) C++
7 7 (0.37%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.32%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.26%) ABAP
9 5 (0.26%) C
9 5 (0.26%) Perl
9 5 (0.26%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.26%) R
10 4 (0.21%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.16%) SOQL
12 2 (0.11%) Ada
12 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.11%) JCL
Qualifications
1 330 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 317 (16.70%) Degree
3 294 (15.49%) PMP
4 263 (13.86%) PMI Certification
5 247 (13.01%) SC Cleared
6 66 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 43 (2.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 40 (2.11%) Master's Degree
9 37 (1.95%) APMP
10 36 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.32%) ACCA
12 25 (1.32%) CIMA
13 24 (1.26%) CISSP
14 22 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 20 (1.05%) CISM
15 20 (1.05%) MBA
16 17 (0.90%) CBAP
17 14 (0.74%) IIBA
18 12 (0.63%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (11.70%) PMO
2 128 (6.74%) QA
3 57 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.48%) GDPR
5 45 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (1.84%) NIST
7 30 (1.58%) SLA
8 16 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.79%) GRC
10 11 (0.58%) Basel III
11 10 (0.53%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.47%) EMIR
12 9 (0.47%) MiFID
12 9 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.32%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.26%) NCSC
14 5 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.53%) Docker
3 8 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.26%) RACF
5 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.11%) NFS
6 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.053%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (0.68%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.58%) Terraform
3 10 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.47%) Ansible
5 6 (0.32%) RSA Archer
6 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.21%) Consul
7 4 (0.21%) logstash
7 4 (0.21%) Packer
7 4 (0.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.16%) Kibana
8 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.11%) Grafana
9 2 (0.11%) SCCM
9 2 (0.11%) SCOM
10 1 (0.053%) Control-M
10 1 (0.053%) Puppet
10 1 (0.053%) vRealize
10 1 (0.053%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 287 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 170 (8.96%) SAP
3 110 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 78 (4.11%) Oracle
5 65 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 31 (1.63%) Google
7 29 (1.53%) Cisco
8 28 (1.48%) Workday
9 27 (1.42%) Adobe
10 19 (1.00%) Atlassian
11 18 (0.95%) VMware
12 17 (0.90%) CyberArk
13 14 (0.74%) Sage
14 13 (0.68%) Databricks
14 13 (0.68%) Sitecore
15 12 (0.63%) Palo Alto
16 11 (0.58%) NEC
16 11 (0.58%) Planview
17 9 (0.47%) IBM
17 9 (0.47%) Juniper