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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,742 2,200 3,103
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.21% 8.37% 8.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.95% 9.34% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 1,243 2,009
10th Percentile £334 £275 £325
25th Percentile £420 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £619 £625 £628
90th Percentile £713 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 96 190
10th Percentile £15.60 £21.76 £19.27
25th Percentile £20.79 £30.48 £25.10
Median hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -8.18% -23.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £56.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £65.53 £65.00 £63.83
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +15.00% -12.50% -20.00%

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 29,288 23,559 32,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.67% 89.65% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,737 14,462 22,056
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £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 1,829 754 1,953
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.01 £16.66
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - +1.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -19 809 £540 -1.82% 428
South East -10 275 £525 - 362
North of England -26 262 £484 +4.59% 202
Midlands -24 199 £492 -6.29% 198
North West -16 146 £500 +11.11% 105
West Midlands -24 139 £500 -9.09% 121
South West -27 107 £450 -10.00% 120
Yorkshire -25 106 £484 +7.50% 71
East Midlands -15 62 £445 +7.49% 77
East of England -32 62 £438 -12.50% 147
North East -27 14 £410 -28.70% 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
1 156 (8.96%) Confluence
2 92 (5.28%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.15%) CMS
4 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.46%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.34%) WordPress
8 5 (0.29%) nginx
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.23%) Apache
10 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.057%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.057%) IIS
12 1 (0.057%) Moodle
12 1 (0.057%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 192 (11.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 189 (10.85%) Microsoft Project
3 150 (8.61%) Microsoft Office
4 107 (6.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 53 (3.04%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.32%) Trello
7 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.23%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.17%) InVision
10 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.17%) Sketch
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
11 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.11%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 44 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.03%) Primavera
3 13 (0.75%) Loan IQ
3 13 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 8 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
6 8 (0.46%) Shopify
7 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 145 (8.32%) Azure
2 89 (5.11%) AWS
2 89 (5.11%) Power Platform
3 54 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (2.58%) SaaS
5 35 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (1.61%) GCP
7 23 (1.32%) Asana
8 19 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (1.09%) OpenShift
9 17 (0.98%) GitHub
10 16 (0.92%) Smartsheet
11 15 (0.86%) Google Workspace
12 14 (0.80%) OneDrive
12 14 (0.80%) Serverless
13 13 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (0.75%) IaaS
13 13 (0.75%) PaaS
14 10 (0.57%) Entra ID
15 9 (0.52%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.78%) Firewall
2 26 (1.49%) WAN
3 18 (1.03%) LAN
4 16 (0.92%) Network Security
5 14 (0.80%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
6 12 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.63%) DNS
7 11 (0.63%) VPN
8 10 (0.57%) SSL
8 10 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.52%) Skype
10 8 (0.46%) BGP
10 8 (0.46%) Internet
11 7 (0.40%) Broadband
11 7 (0.40%) DHCP
11 7 (0.40%) MPLS
12 6 (0.34%) IPsec
13 5 (0.29%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (4.71%) Power BI
2 28 (1.61%) Tableau
3 21 (1.21%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.03%) Metadata
5 15 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.29%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.23%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.23%) GIS
8 4 (0.23%) Power Query
9 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.17%) Big Data
9 3 (0.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.17%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.11%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 288 (16.53%) JIRA
2 14 (0.80%) Git
3 10 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.40%) GitLab
5 4 (0.23%) Selenium
5 4 (0.23%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.057%) Ant
8 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.057%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.057%) ERwin
8 1 (0.057%) JUnit
8 1 (0.057%) LSMW
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.057%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.057%) Toad
8 1 (0.057%) Visual Studio
General
1 866 (49.71%) Social Skills
2 654 (37.54%) Finance
3 291 (16.70%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (9.93%) Organisational Skills
5 165 (9.47%) Public Sector
6 163 (9.36%) Banking
7 86 (4.94%) Retail
8 75 (4.31%) Legal
9 73 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
10 72 (4.13%) Marketing
11 60 (3.44%) Manufacturing
12 48 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (2.64%) Telecoms
14 41 (2.35%) Investment Banking
15 33 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 33 (1.89%) Local Government
16 26 (1.49%) Front Office
17 24 (1.38%) Financial Institution
18 23 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
19 17 (0.98%) Billing
Job Titles
1 661 (37.94%) Project Manager
2 205 (11.77%) Analyst
3 159 (9.13%) Lead
4 143 (8.21%) Senior
5 113 (6.49%) Business Analyst
6 89 (5.11%) Senior Manager
7 82 (4.71%) IT Manager
8 73 (4.19%) Consultant
8 73 (4.19%) IT Project Manager
9 70 (4.02%) Senior Project Manager
10 55 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
11 52 (2.99%) Technical Manager
12 50 (2.87%) Infrastructure Manager
13 47 (2.70%) Programme Manager
14 46 (2.64%) Coordinator
15 41 (2.35%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 39 (2.24%) Architect
17 35 (2.01%) Developer
18 34 (1.95%) Technical Project Manager
19 33 (1.89%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.21%) Middleware
2 19 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.80%) Web Services
4 13 (0.75%) .NET
5 12 (0.69%) EDI
5 12 (0.69%) REST
5 12 (0.69%) SOAP
6 9 (0.52%) ADO
6 9 (0.52%) AngularJS
6 9 (0.52%) XML
7 7 (0.40%) CSS
7 7 (0.40%) HTML
7 7 (0.40%) RESTful
8 6 (0.34%) .NET Framework
8 6 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (0.34%) OAuth
8 6 (0.34%) OpenID
8 6 (0.34%) React
9 5 (0.29%) LangChain
9 5 (0.29%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 113 (6.49%) Onboarding
2 94 (5.40%) Management Information System
3 57 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
4 52 (2.99%) PMI
5 51 (2.93%) Data Centre
6 48 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.53%) Virtual Team
8 39 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.32%) Operational Technology
11 20 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 20 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.09%) NHS
13 17 (0.98%) Social Media
14 16 (0.92%) CMDB
14 16 (0.92%) SCADA
15 12 (0.69%) Cloud Native
15 12 (0.69%) Mobile App
16 10 (0.57%) Derivative
16 10 (0.57%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.10%) Windows
2 15 (0.86%) Linux
3 12 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.57%) Unix
4 10 (0.57%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.057%) AIX
7 1 (0.057%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.057%) VMS
7 1 (0.057%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (39.27%) Agile
2 580 (33.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 434 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
4 419 (24.05%) Project Delivery
5 361 (20.72%) PRINCE2
6 314 (18.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 283 (16.25%) Change Management
8 257 (14.75%) Migration
9 226 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 207 (11.88%) Waterfall
11 193 (11.08%) Decision-Making
12 188 (10.79%) Risk Management
13 182 (10.45%) Scrum
14 161 (9.24%) Budget Management
15 135 (7.75%) DevOps
16 132 (7.58%) ITIL
17 131 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
18 128 (7.35%) ERP
19 126 (7.23%) Project Governance
20 122 (7.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 80 (4.59%) SQL
2 40 (2.30%) Python
3 14 (0.80%) C#
3 14 (0.80%) Java
4 12 (0.69%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.34%) VBA
6 5 (0.29%) Perl
6 5 (0.29%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.23%) C++
7 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.23%) R
7 4 (0.23%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.17%) C
8 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.17%) Korn
8 3 (0.17%) SOQL
9 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.11%) Go
9 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 321 (18.43%) Degree
2 261 (14.98%) Security Cleared
3 252 (14.47%) PMP
4 235 (13.49%) PMI Certification
5 191 (10.96%) SC Cleared
6 56 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.24%) Master's Degree
8 38 (2.18%) APMP
9 34 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 23 (1.32%) CISSP
13 21 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 20 (1.15%) CISM
15 18 (1.03%) MBA
16 15 (0.86%) CBAP
16 15 (0.86%) IIBA
17 9 (0.52%) A+ Certification
17 9 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
17 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (10.91%) PMO
2 120 (6.89%) QA
3 51 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.70%) GDPR
5 46 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.72%) NIST
7 19 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.86%) GRC
10 11 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.63%) SLA
11 9 (0.52%) Basel III
12 7 (0.40%) ISO 19650
12 7 (0.40%) PSD2
13 6 (0.34%) EMIR
13 6 (0.34%) NCSC
13 6 (0.34%) WCAG
14 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.29%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 29 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.80%) Docker
3 7 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.29%) RACF
4 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.057%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.057%) Firmware
7 1 (0.057%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.057%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.057%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (0.92%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.80%) Terraform
3 11 (0.63%) SCCM
4 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.34%) Ansible
6 6 (0.34%) Kibana
6 6 (0.34%) logstash
7 4 (0.23%) Consul
7 4 (0.23%) Packer
8 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.17%) Grafana
8 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.057%) Cisco UCCE
9 1 (0.057%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.057%) Puppet
9 1 (0.057%) SCOM
9 1 (0.057%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.057%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 284 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 133 (7.63%) SAP
3 82 (4.71%) ServiceNow
4 75 (4.31%) Oracle
5 64 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 31 (1.78%) Google
7 27 (1.55%) Cisco
8 20 (1.15%) Adobe
8 20 (1.15%) Atlassian
8 20 (1.15%) Workday
9 15 (0.86%) Planview
10 14 (0.80%) VMware
11 13 (0.75%) Databricks
12 12 (0.69%) CyberArk
12 12 (0.69%) Palo Alto
13 11 (0.63%) Sage
14 10 (0.57%) IBM
15 9 (0.52%) Juniper
16 8 (0.46%) Splunk
17 7 (0.40%) Fortinet