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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,855 1,902 2,825
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.49% 7.93% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.30% 8.69% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,157 1,737
10th Percentile £331 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -3.33% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 101 247
10th Percentile £14.64 £21.39 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.50 £26.14
Median hourly rate £36.00 £46.18 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -22.04% +21.14% -16.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.68 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.77 £46.24 £38.12
% change year-on-year -22.65% +21.30% -16.22%

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 34,973 21,894 31,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.30% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,266 14,295 20,565
10th Percentile £325 £305 £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 £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 929 2,246
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.44 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.82% +0.13%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -18 865 £550 +1.85% 441
North of England -21 291 £474 -0.21% 221
South East -13 266 £521 +9.74% 238
Midlands -30 188 £492 +7.07% 131
North West -12 162 £463 -2.63% 121
South West -15 146 £438 -12.50% 97
West Midlands -34 127 £500 - 85
Yorkshire -32 121 £488 +2.63% 81
East of England -21 78 £518 +1.57% 117
East Midlands -13 63 £393 -4.05% 46
North East -26 13 £410 -20.00% 21
Project Management
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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
1 131 (7.06%) Confluence
2 86 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.08%) CMS
4 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.38%) Apache
7 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 4 (0.22%) WordPress
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%) IIS
10 2 (0.11%) SAS
11 1 (0.054%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.054%) nginx
11 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.054%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 181 (9.76%) Microsoft Project
2 162 (8.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 127 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
4 101 (5.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 43 (2.32%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.65%) Trello
8 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.16%) Simulink
10 3 (0.16%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.054%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.054%) InVision
12 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 73 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.70%) Primavera
3 11 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.54%) Shopify
5 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
6 8 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.38%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
8 6 (0.32%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.27%) Magento
9 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.22%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 133 (7.17%) Azure
2 89 (4.80%) Power Platform
3 77 (4.15%) SaaS
4 69 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (3.67%) AWS
6 39 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (1.40%) Smartsheet
8 25 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (1.35%) GCP
9 22 (1.19%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.13%) Asana
11 14 (0.75%) Entra ID
11 14 (0.75%) OpenShift
12 10 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (0.54%) BigCommerce
12 10 (0.54%) GitHub
12 10 (0.54%) Google Sheets
12 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (0.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.40%) WAN
2 21 (1.13%) Network Security
3 20 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.02%) DNS
4 19 (1.02%) Firewall
5 18 (0.97%) LAN
6 16 (0.86%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
7 15 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (0.75%) MPLS
9 12 (0.65%) BGP
10 11 (0.59%) VPN
11 10 (0.54%) Internet
12 8 (0.43%) DHCP
13 7 (0.38%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.38%) DKIM
13 7 (0.38%) DMARC
13 7 (0.38%) SAN
14 6 (0.32%) Intranet
14 6 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (4.53%) Power BI
2 17 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (0.86%) Metadata
4 14 (0.75%) Tableau
5 12 (0.65%) SQL Server
6 10 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
7 9 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
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%) Big Data
10 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.16%) Power Query
11 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.11%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 269 (14.50%) JIRA
2 21 (1.13%) Git
3 14 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.38%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Subversion
6 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.054%) Appium
9 1 (0.054%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.054%) Capybara
9 1 (0.054%) Gradle
9 1 (0.054%) LSMW
9 1 (0.054%) Maven
9 1 (0.054%) MSI
9 1 (0.054%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.054%) RSpec
General
1 838 (45.18%) Social Skills
2 725 (39.08%) Finance
3 316 (17.04%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (10.40%) Organisational Skills
5 159 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 133 (7.17%) Banking
7 107 (5.77%) Marketing
8 102 (5.50%) Retail
9 69 (3.72%) Legal
10 64 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
11 58 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 51 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 39 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.78%) Financial Institution
15 28 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (1.51%) Investment Banking
16 24 (1.29%) Front Office
17 23 (1.24%) Local Government
17 23 (1.24%) Military
18 18 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 713 (38.44%) Project Manager
2 207 (11.16%) Analyst
3 191 (10.30%) Senior
4 150 (8.09%) Lead
5 134 (7.22%) Senior Manager
6 114 (6.15%) Senior Project Manager
7 109 (5.88%) Business Analyst
8 85 (4.58%) IT Manager
9 76 (4.10%) IT Project Manager
10 72 (3.88%) Programme Manager
11 63 (3.40%) Consultant
12 57 (3.07%) Technical Manager
13 56 (3.02%) Delivery Manager
14 55 (2.96%) Infrastructure Manager
15 51 (2.75%) Architect
16 44 (2.37%) Technical Project Manager
17 43 (2.32%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 42 (2.26%) Developer
18 42 (2.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
19 38 (2.05%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.24%) Middleware
2 22 (1.19%) REST
3 15 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.75%) OAuth
4 14 (0.75%) SOAP
5 13 (0.70%) HTML
5 13 (0.70%) VML
5 13 (0.70%) Web Services
6 11 (0.59%) CSS
7 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
7 8 (0.43%) SAML
7 8 (0.43%) XML
8 7 (0.38%) .NET
8 7 (0.38%) ADO
8 7 (0.38%) JSON
9 6 (0.32%) OpenID
10 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.27%) RESTful
10 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 86 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.56%) Data Centre
4 57 (3.07%) PMI
5 56 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
6 54 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 40 (2.16%) Virtual Team
8 34 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.08%) Operational Technology
10 19 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.02%) Social Media
11 17 (0.92%) CMDB
11 17 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 17 (0.92%) NHS
12 15 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (0.81%) EPoS
13 14 (0.75%) Life Science
14 13 (0.70%) FMCG
15 12 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.37%) Windows
2 25 (1.35%) Linux
3 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.54%) Unix
5 7 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.22%) zOS
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.054%) AIX
8 1 (0.054%) Android
8 1 (0.054%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.054%) Solaris
8 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 690 (37.20%) Agile
2 651 (35.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 481 (25.93%) Project Delivery
4 414 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
5 349 (18.81%) PRINCE2
6 300 (16.17%) Migration
7 286 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 276 (14.88%) Change Management
9 274 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 239 (12.88%) Decision-Making
11 234 (12.61%) Waterfall
12 225 (12.13%) Risk Management
13 179 (9.65%) Scrum
14 174 (9.38%) ERP
15 160 (8.63%) Budget Management
16 140 (7.55%) AI
17 133 (7.17%) Roadmaps
18 128 (6.90%) Data Migration
19 126 (6.79%) Validation
20 124 (6.68%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 76 (4.10%) SQL
2 44 (2.37%) Python
3 17 (0.92%) JavaScript
4 16 (0.86%) Java
5 12 (0.65%) VBA
6 10 (0.54%) C#
7 8 (0.43%) C++
8 7 (0.38%) C
8 7 (0.38%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.27%) ABAP
9 5 (0.27%) R
9 5 (0.27%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.22%) Ada
10 4 (0.22%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.16%) JCL
11 3 (0.16%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.16%) Perl
11 3 (0.16%) SOQL
12 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 321 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 292 (15.74%) Degree
3 265 (14.29%) PMP
4 235 (12.67%) SC Cleared
5 223 (12.02%) PMI Certification
6 67 (3.61%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 31 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.56%) ACCA
10 29 (1.56%) APMP
10 29 (1.56%) CIMA
11 22 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (1.13%) CISSP
13 20 (1.08%) MBA
14 18 (0.97%) CISM
15 17 (0.92%) CBAP
16 14 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 12 (0.65%) IIBA
18 10 (0.54%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (12.18%) PMO
2 123 (6.63%) QA
3 58 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.48%) GDPR
5 39 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.78%) SLA
7 32 (1.73%) NIST
8 19 (1.02%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.75%) GRC
10 10 (0.54%) Basel III
11 7 (0.38%) EMIR
11 7 (0.38%) MiFID
11 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.32%) GMP
12 6 (0.32%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
14 4 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 28 (1.51%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.43%) 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
5 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.054%) Firmware
6 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.054%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (0.75%) Ansible
3 7 (0.38%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 4 (0.22%) SCCM
5 4 (0.22%) Terraform
6 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) logstash
7 2 (0.11%) SCOM
8 1 (0.054%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.054%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.054%) Kibana
8 1 (0.054%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.054%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.054%) Puppet
8 1 (0.054%) vRealize
Vendors
1 282 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 161 (8.68%) SAP
3 100 (5.39%) ServiceNow
4 63 (3.40%) Oracle
5 49 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 40 (2.16%) Google
7 29 (1.56%) Adobe
8 25 (1.35%) Cisco
9 23 (1.24%) Workday
10 19 (1.02%) Sitecore
11 17 (0.92%) VMware
12 16 (0.86%) CyberArk
13 15 (0.81%) Databricks
14 14 (0.75%) NEC
14 14 (0.75%) Sage
15 12 (0.65%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.65%) IBM
16 10 (0.54%) IFS
17 8 (0.43%) F5
17 8 (0.43%) Murex