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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,860 2,020 3,003
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.98% 8.18% 7.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.76% 9.01% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,179 1,223 1,894
10th Percentile £340 £278 £316
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £600 £638
90th Percentile £716 £718 £734
UK median daily rate £512 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 103 244
10th Percentile £15.02 £25.03 £18.35
25th Percentile £20.79 £31.25 £26.66
Median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% +11.49% -22.20%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £50.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £61.85
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -5.88% +11.49% -22.20%

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 32,274 22,410 32,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.33% 90.76% 86.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,683 14,625 21,650
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 1,981 836 2,152
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.86 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.26 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.25% +2.32% -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.35 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% - -7.14%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -16 865 £550 +4.76% 401
North of England -21 289 £480 +2.35% 255
South East -11 288 £525 +2.44% 311
Midlands -24 205 £500 +11.11% 181
North West -10 172 £484 +7.56% 128
West Midlands -32 140 £503 +0.60% 97
South West -17 117 £450 -10.00% 106
Yorkshire -35 108 £492 +5.64% 96
East of England -27 72 £500 -1.86% 149
East Midlands -17 67 £398 +0.60% 84
North East -19 13 £430 -18.10% 34
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
1 169 (9.09%) Confluence
2 77 (4.14%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.13%) CMS
4 8 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.27%) Apache
5 5 (0.27%) nginx
6 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.22%) 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%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) WordPress
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.054%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.054%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.054%) IIS
9 1 (0.054%) Moodle
9 1 (0.054%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 212 (11.40%) Microsoft Project
2 195 (10.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 139 (7.47%) Microsoft Office
4 102 (5.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 46 (2.47%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
7 17 (0.91%) Trello
8 6 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.16%) InDesign
11 3 (0.16%) InVision
11 3 (0.16%) Sketch
12 2 (0.11%) Windchill
13 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.054%) Navisworks
13 1 (0.054%) Revit
Business Applications
1 62 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.24%) Primavera
3 15 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (0.65%) Loan IQ
4 12 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 10 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
7 9 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
8 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
8 8 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.32%) SAP HCM
10 6 (0.32%) Shopify
10 6 (0.32%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.22%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 139 (7.47%) Azure
2 86 (4.62%) Power Platform
3 80 (4.30%) AWS
4 59 (3.17%) SaaS
5 44 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (1.34%) GCP
8 22 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (1.08%) Smartsheet
10 17 (0.91%) Asana
10 17 (0.91%) Google Workspace
10 17 (0.91%) OpenShift
11 15 (0.81%) GitHub
12 11 (0.59%) Entra ID
12 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (0.59%) PaaS
13 10 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (0.54%) OCI
13 10 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (0.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.77%) WAN
2 27 (1.45%) Firewall
3 22 (1.18%) LAN
4 21 (1.13%) Network Security
5 19 (1.02%) SD-WAN
6 17 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
7 15 (0.81%) MPLS
8 14 (0.75%) VPN
8 14 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.65%) Internet
9 12 (0.65%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.59%) DNS
11 10 (0.54%) BGP
12 7 (0.38%) DHCP
13 6 (0.32%) Intranet
13 6 (0.32%) IPsec
13 6 (0.32%) OSPF
13 6 (0.32%) SSL
14 5 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (4.25%) Power BI
2 23 (1.24%) Tableau
3 17 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (0.91%) SQL Server
4 16 (0.86%) Metadata
5 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
5 9 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
6 8 (0.43%) SAP HANA
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.27%) Power Query
9 4 (0.22%) Big Data
9 4 (0.22%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.22%) GIS
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.16%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 306 (16.45%) JIRA
2 17 (0.91%) Git
3 12 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.48%) GitLab
5 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.16%) Selenium
7 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.054%) Ant
8 1 (0.054%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.054%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.054%) ERwin
8 1 (0.054%) Hudson
8 1 (0.054%) JUnit
8 1 (0.054%) LSMW
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.054%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.054%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.054%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.054%) Toad
General
1 936 (50.32%) Social Skills
2 715 (38.44%) Finance
3 334 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (10.11%) Organisational Skills
5 181 (9.73%) Public Sector
6 159 (8.55%) Banking
7 90 (4.84%) Marketing
8 89 (4.78%) Retail
9 73 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
10 71 (3.82%) Legal
11 63 (3.39%) Manufacturing
12 49 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 42 (2.26%) Investment Banking
14 34 (1.83%) Financial Institution
15 33 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
16 25 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.34%) Local Government
17 24 (1.29%) Front Office
18 19 (1.02%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 738 (39.68%) Project Manager
2 219 (11.77%) Analyst
3 161 (8.66%) Senior
4 152 (8.17%) Lead
5 118 (6.34%) Business Analyst
6 109 (5.86%) Senior Manager
7 91 (4.89%) Senior Project Manager
8 87 (4.68%) IT Manager
9 80 (4.30%) IT Project Manager
10 79 (4.25%) Consultant
11 71 (3.82%) Programme Manager
12 61 (3.28%) Infrastructure Manager
12 61 (3.28%) Technical Manager
13 55 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
14 50 (2.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 43 (2.31%) Technical Project Manager
16 40 (2.15%) Coordinator
17 39 (2.10%) Architect
18 37 (1.99%) Data Manager
18 37 (1.99%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.34%) Middleware
2 22 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.70%) REST
3 13 (0.70%) SOAP
3 13 (0.70%) Web Services
4 11 (0.59%) CSS
4 11 (0.59%) EDI
4 11 (0.59%) XML
5 9 (0.48%) HTML
6 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
7 7 (0.38%) OAuth
8 6 (0.32%) .NET
8 6 (0.32%) ADO
8 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.32%) OpenID
8 6 (0.32%) SAML
8 6 (0.32%) VML
9 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.27%) XACML
10 4 (0.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 108 (5.81%) Onboarding
2 95 (5.11%) Management Information System
3 66 (3.55%) Data Centre
4 56 (3.01%) PMI
5 52 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
6 47 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 46 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 43 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.24%) Operational Technology
11 22 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.18%) NHS
12 20 (1.08%) CMDB
13 16 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 15 (0.81%) SCADA
14 15 (0.81%) Social Media
15 14 (0.75%) Web Conferencing
16 13 (0.70%) Cloud Native
17 11 (0.59%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 50 (2.69%) Windows
2 19 (1.02%) Linux
3 12 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.48%) Unix
5 7 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.11%) zOS
7 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.054%) Solaris
7 1 (0.054%) VMS
7 1 (0.054%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (37.74%) Agile
2 630 (33.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 462 (24.84%) Project Delivery
4 457 (24.57%) Problem-Solving
5 401 (21.56%) PRINCE2
6 307 (16.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 287 (15.43%) Change Management
8 277 (14.89%) Migration
9 263 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 214 (11.51%) Waterfall
11 213 (11.45%) Decision-Making
12 202 (10.86%) Risk Management
13 199 (10.70%) Scrum
14 166 (8.92%) Budget Management
15 160 (8.60%) ERP
16 141 (7.58%) DevOps
17 126 (6.77%) Business Analysis
17 126 (6.77%) Data Migration
18 125 (6.72%) Project Governance
18 125 (6.72%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 83 (4.46%) SQL
2 36 (1.94%) Python
3 13 (0.70%) JavaScript
4 12 (0.65%) Java
5 9 (0.48%) C#
6 6 (0.32%) ABAP
6 6 (0.32%) PowerShell
6 6 (0.32%) VBA
7 5 (0.27%) Perl
7 5 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.27%) R
8 4 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.22%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.16%) C++
9 3 (0.16%) SOQL
9 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.11%) C
10 2 (0.11%) Korn
10 2 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 321 (17.26%) Security Cleared
2 314 (16.88%) Degree
3 280 (15.05%) PMP
4 251 (13.49%) PMI Certification
5 234 (12.58%) SC Cleared
6 65 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 38 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.94%) APMP
9 34 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 28 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (1.34%) CISSP
12 22 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 21 (1.13%) CISM
14 18 (0.97%) MBA
15 17 (0.91%) CBAP
16 16 (0.86%) ACCA
16 16 (0.86%) CIMA
17 15 (0.81%) IIBA
18 9 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (11.83%) PMO
2 125 (6.72%) QA
3 53 (2.85%) Data Quality
4 48 (2.58%) GDPR
5 46 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.83%) NIST
7 27 (1.45%) SLA
8 14 (0.75%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.75%) GRC
9 12 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.54%) Basel III
12 8 (0.43%) EMIR
13 7 (0.38%) MiFID
14 6 (0.32%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.32%) WCAG
15 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.27%) NCSC
15 5 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.59%) Docker
3 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.27%) RACF
5 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.054%) NFS
7 1 (0.054%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.054%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.59%) Terraform
3 9 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.32%) RSA Archer
5 5 (0.27%) Ansible
5 5 (0.27%) logstash
5 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.22%) Consul
6 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.22%) Kibana
6 4 (0.22%) Packer
7 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.11%) Grafana
8 2 (0.11%) SCCM
8 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.054%) Cisco UCCE
9 1 (0.054%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.054%) Control-M
9 1 (0.054%) SCOM
9 1 (0.054%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 277 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 163 (8.76%) SAP
3 94 (5.05%) ServiceNow
4 77 (4.14%) Oracle
5 71 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 31 (1.67%) Cisco
7 30 (1.61%) Google
8 28 (1.51%) Adobe
9 25 (1.34%) Workday
10 24 (1.29%) Atlassian
11 17 (0.91%) CyberArk
12 16 (0.86%) VMware
13 14 (0.75%) Databricks
13 14 (0.75%) Sage
14 12 (0.65%) Palo Alto
15 11 (0.59%) IBM
15 11 (0.59%) Planview
16 9 (0.48%) CheckPoint
16 9 (0.48%) Juniper
17 8 (0.43%) Sitecore