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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -22 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,841 1,882 2,773
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.24% 7.51% 7.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 8.22% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,161 1,685
10th Percentile £318 £309 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £614
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.90% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 103 260
10th Percentile £16.11 £21.96 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.63 £26.37
Median hourly rate £36.75 £46.30 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +23.47% -16.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.18 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -20.00% +18.05% -15.29%

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 37,051 22,887 31,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.28% 91.38% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,430 14,787 20,644
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,322 1,108 2,367
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -23 857 £550 - 233
North of England -28 284 £475 - 195
South East -18 269 £502 +1.83% 263
North West -12 175 £468 +3.89% 103
Midlands -30 175 £500 +11.11% 120
South West -20 136 £450 - 81
West Midlands -43 120 £550 +17.27% 69
Yorkshire -39 104 £498 -0.50% 72
East of England -11 94 £518 -0.29% 105
East Midlands -12 55 £393 -5.78% 50
North East -38 8 £388 -23.65% 24
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
1 116 (6.30%) Confluence
2 97 (5.27%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.20%) CMS
4 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.38%) Apache
6 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.33%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 4 (0.22%) Moodle
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.054%) nginx
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.054%) Umbraco
Applications
1 174 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 170 (9.23%) Microsoft Project
3 122 (6.63%) Microsoft Office
4 112 (6.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 43 (2.34%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.49%) Trello
8 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 2 (0.11%) Windchill
13 1 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.054%) CATIA
13 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 76 (4.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.87%) Primavera
3 11 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.49%) Shopify
6 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.38%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.33%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.33%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.27%) Magento
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 132 (7.17%) Azure
2 100 (5.43%) Power Platform
3 80 (4.35%) SaaS
4 71 (3.86%) AWS
5 65 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (1.36%) Smartsheet
8 24 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (1.14%) GCP
10 20 (1.09%) Google Workspace
11 18 (0.98%) Asana
12 14 (0.76%) Entra ID
13 10 (0.54%) Google Sheets
14 9 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (0.49%) BigCommerce
14 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.49%) OCI
15 8 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (0.43%) GitHub
15 8 (0.43%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.36%) Network Security
2 22 (1.20%) WAN
3 21 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.03%) DNS
5 17 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
6 16 (0.87%) LAN
7 15 (0.81%) Firewall
8 14 (0.76%) MPLS
8 14 (0.76%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.71%) BGP
10 12 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.54%) BIG-IP
11 10 (0.54%) DHCP
11 10 (0.54%) VPN
12 9 (0.49%) Internet
12 9 (0.49%) Intranet
13 7 (0.38%) DKIM
13 7 (0.38%) DMARC
13 7 (0.38%) SAN
14 6 (0.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.21%) Power BI
2 14 (0.76%) SQL Server
2 14 (0.76%) Tableau
3 12 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (0.54%) Metadata
5 9 (0.49%) Data Lake
5 9 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
6 7 (0.38%) Power Query
7 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
8 5 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.16%) QlikView
10 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.11%) Big Data
11 2 (0.11%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 244 (13.25%) JIRA
2 19 (1.03%) Git
3 15 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.27%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Subversion
6 2 (0.11%) Hudson
6 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.054%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.054%) Capybara
7 1 (0.054%) Gradle
7 1 (0.054%) LSMW
7 1 (0.054%) Maven
7 1 (0.054%) MSI
7 1 (0.054%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.054%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.054%) RSpec
7 1 (0.054%) Selenium
General
1 832 (45.19%) Social Skills
2 725 (39.38%) Finance
3 298 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (10.27%) Organisational Skills
5 148 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 133 (7.22%) Banking
7 110 (5.98%) Marketing
8 106 (5.76%) Retail
9 70 (3.80%) Manufacturing
10 69 (3.75%) Legal
11 60 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
12 50 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (2.61%) Telecoms
14 37 (2.01%) Financial Institution
15 33 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.52%) Investment Banking
17 27 (1.47%) Front Office
18 24 (1.30%) Local Government
19 21 (1.14%) Military
20 20 (1.09%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 722 (39.22%) Project Manager
2 202 (10.97%) Analyst
3 189 (10.27%) Senior
4 154 (8.37%) Lead
5 133 (7.22%) Senior Manager
6 113 (6.14%) Senior Project Manager
7 107 (5.81%) Business Analyst
8 90 (4.89%) IT Manager
9 78 (4.24%) IT Project Manager
10 73 (3.97%) Programme Manager
11 68 (3.69%) Consultant
12 55 (2.99%) Technical Manager
13 54 (2.93%) Infrastructure Manager
14 49 (2.66%) Architect
15 45 (2.44%) Technical Project Manager
16 44 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
17 43 (2.34%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 43 (2.34%) Project Officer
18 37 (2.01%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 36 (1.96%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.36%) Middleware
2 22 (1.20%) REST
3 19 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.76%) SOAP
5 13 (0.71%) OAuth
6 12 (0.65%) VML
6 12 (0.65%) Web Services
7 11 (0.60%) HTML
8 9 (0.49%) CSS
8 9 (0.49%) JSON
9 8 (0.43%) .NET
9 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.38%) SAML
11 6 (0.33%) ADO
11 6 (0.33%) React
11 6 (0.33%) XML
12 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.27%) OpenID
12 5 (0.27%) RESTful
13 4 (0.22%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.21%) Management Information System
2 92 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.59%) Data Centre
4 55 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 52 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 51 (2.77%) PMI
7 34 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.85%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.25%) Operational Technology
10 22 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (1.20%) FMCG
11 19 (1.03%) Social Media
12 18 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (0.81%) EPoS
13 15 (0.81%) NHS
14 14 (0.76%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.76%) Life Science
15 13 (0.71%) CMDB
16 12 (0.65%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.44%) Windows
2 26 (1.41%) Linux
3 15 (0.81%) Unix
3 15 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.22%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.22%) zOS
5 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.054%) AIX
6 1 (0.054%) Android
6 1 (0.054%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.054%) Solaris
6 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 673 (36.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 662 (35.96%) Agile
3 476 (25.86%) Project Delivery
4 376 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
5 349 (18.96%) PRINCE2
6 300 (16.30%) Migration
7 283 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 280 (15.21%) Change Management
9 251 (13.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 233 (12.66%) Decision-Making
11 220 (11.95%) Risk Management
12 215 (11.68%) Waterfall
13 172 (9.34%) ERP
14 163 (8.85%) Scrum
15 153 (8.31%) AI
16 142 (7.71%) Budget Management
17 128 (6.95%) Data Migration
18 124 (6.74%) Validation
19 121 (6.57%) Project Planning
20 116 (6.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 80 (4.35%) SQL
2 50 (2.72%) Python
3 18 (0.98%) JavaScript
4 14 (0.76%) VBA
5 13 (0.71%) Java
6 10 (0.54%) C#
7 9 (0.49%) C++
8 7 (0.38%) C
8 7 (0.38%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.33%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.27%) ABAP
10 5 (0.27%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.22%) Ada
11 4 (0.22%) JCL
11 4 (0.22%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.22%) R
12 3 (0.16%) SOQL
13 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 295 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 273 (14.83%) Degree
3 265 (14.39%) PMP
4 223 (12.11%) PMI Certification
5 217 (11.79%) SC Cleared
6 67 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 46 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 33 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 31 (1.68%) ACCA
9 31 (1.68%) CIMA
10 24 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.14%) APMP
12 20 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 18 (0.98%) CISSP
14 15 (0.81%) CISM
14 15 (0.81%) MBA
15 14 (0.76%) CBAP
16 12 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 11 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
18 10 (0.54%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (12.11%) PMO
2 109 (5.92%) QA
3 49 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 43 (2.34%) GDPR
5 36 (1.96%) SLA
6 31 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.58%) NIST
8 20 (1.09%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.81%) GRC
10 8 (0.43%) GMP
10 8 (0.43%) MiFID
11 7 (0.38%) Basel III
11 7 (0.38%) EMIR
11 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.27%) GxP
13 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 27 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.27%) RACF
3 5 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.22%) NFS
4 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.054%) ACF2
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (0.92%) Ansible
1 17 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.16%) Terraform
6 2 (0.11%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
6 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.054%) Control-M
7 1 (0.054%) logstash
7 1 (0.054%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.054%) SCOM
7 1 (0.054%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.054%) vRealize
7 1 (0.054%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 285 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 165 (8.96%) SAP
3 96 (5.21%) ServiceNow
4 72 (3.91%) Oracle
5 52 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 39 (2.12%) Google
7 30 (1.63%) Adobe
8 22 (1.20%) Cisco
9 20 (1.09%) Sitecore
9 20 (1.09%) Workday
10 19 (1.03%) VMware
11 14 (0.76%) Sage
12 13 (0.71%) CyberArk
12 13 (0.71%) Databricks
12 13 (0.71%) IBM
12 13 (0.71%) NEC
13 11 (0.60%) F5
14 10 (0.54%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.54%) Guidewire
14 10 (0.54%) Murex