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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,823 1,983 2,690
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.07% 7.29% 7.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 8.04% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 1,232 1,635
10th Percentile £325 £310 £310
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -1.44% -1.89%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £619
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.17% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 106 240
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.45 £19.99
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.50 £27.19
Median hourly rate £39.04 £44.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +16.74% -15.29%
75th Percentile £59.38 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £38.27 £42.07 £38.12
% change year-on-year -9.03% +10.36% -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 38,249 24,669 31,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 90.67% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,837 20,183
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,307 2,114
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.26 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.67
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.33 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -26 855 £569 +5.32% 403
North of England -25 296 £475 -1.30% 277
South East -22 261 £500 +4.71% 301
North West -10 189 £475 +5.56% 142
Midlands -39 158 £525 +16.67% 146
South West -25 133 £450 - 104
West Midlands -49 111 £550 +17.27% 89
Yorkshire -35 101 £498 -0.50% 105
East of England -5 92 £525 +5.00% 114
East Midlands -12 47 £488 +19.19% 57
North East -39 10 £420 -17.24% 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
1 101 (5.54%) Confluence
2 92 (5.05%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.37%) CMS
4 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.38%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.27%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) Apache
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.16%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.055%) MS Project Server
12 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.055%) Umbraco
Applications
1 176 (9.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 161 (8.83%) Microsoft Project
3 136 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
4 117 (6.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.30%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.60%) Trello
8 7 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.16%) Windchill
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) Houdini
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 2 (0.11%) NUKE
13 1 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.055%) CATIA
13 1 (0.055%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 69 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.99%) Primavera
3 9 (0.49%) Magento
4 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.44%) SAP HCM
5 7 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.38%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.33%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
6 6 (0.33%) Shopify
6 6 (0.33%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.27%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 153 (8.39%) Azure
2 102 (5.60%) Power Platform
3 82 (4.50%) SaaS
4 73 (4.00%) AWS
5 66 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (1.65%) Smartsheet
8 24 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.21%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.10%) GCP
11 19 (1.04%) Asana
12 16 (0.88%) Entra ID
13 15 (0.82%) GitHub
14 10 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (0.55%) Google Sheets
14 10 (0.55%) IaaS
14 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (0.49%) OCI
16 8 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.32%) Network Security
2 23 (1.26%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.15%) DNS
4 19 (1.04%) Structured Cabling
4 19 (1.04%) WAN
5 15 (0.82%) LAN
6 14 (0.77%) Intranet
7 13 (0.71%) SD-WAN
7 13 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.66%) DHCP
8 12 (0.66%) Firewall
8 12 (0.66%) MPLS
8 12 (0.66%) VPN
9 10 (0.55%) BGP
10 9 (0.49%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.49%) Internet
11 7 (0.38%) DKIM
11 7 (0.38%) DMARC
11 7 (0.38%) SAN
12 6 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.21%) Power BI
2 13 (0.71%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (0.60%) Metadata
5 10 (0.55%) Tableau
6 9 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
8 7 (0.38%) Power Query
9 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.27%) GIS
11 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.16%) QlikView
13 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 235 (12.89%) JIRA
2 20 (1.10%) Git
3 18 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.49%) Subversion
5 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.22%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) Hudson
7 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.055%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.055%) Capybara
8 1 (0.055%) Gradle
8 1 (0.055%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.055%) LSMW
8 1 (0.055%) Maven
8 1 (0.055%) MSI
8 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.055%) RSpec
8 1 (0.055%) TestDirector
General
1 816 (44.76%) Social Skills
2 688 (37.74%) Finance
3 297 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
5 154 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 128 (7.02%) Marketing
7 126 (6.91%) Banking
8 106 (5.81%) Retail
9 71 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
10 69 (3.78%) Manufacturing
11 65 (3.57%) Legal
12 48 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 32 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (1.70%) Financial Institution
15 27 (1.48%) Front Office
16 26 (1.43%) Investment Banking
17 22 (1.21%) Aerospace
17 22 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 20 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 708 (38.84%) Project Manager
2 185 (10.15%) Senior
3 179 (9.82%) Analyst
4 152 (8.34%) Lead
5 139 (7.62%) Senior Manager
6 116 (6.36%) Senior Project Manager
7 96 (5.27%) Business Analyst
8 93 (5.10%) IT Manager
9 85 (4.66%) Programme Manager
10 75 (4.11%) IT Project Manager
11 60 (3.29%) Consultant
12 57 (3.13%) Technical Manager
13 54 (2.96%) Infrastructure Manager
14 49 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
15 45 (2.47%) Technical Project Manager
16 42 (2.30%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 41 (2.25%) Architect
18 40 (2.19%) Project Officer
19 36 (1.97%) SC Cleared Project Manager
20 35 (1.92%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.48%) Middleware
2 16 (0.88%) REST
3 13 (0.71%) OAuth
3 13 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.71%) VML
4 12 (0.66%) HTML
4 12 (0.66%) Web Services
5 10 (0.55%) JSON
6 9 (0.49%) ADO
6 9 (0.49%) CSS
6 9 (0.49%) SOAP
7 8 (0.44%) React
8 7 (0.38%) .NET
8 7 (0.38%) SailPoint
8 7 (0.38%) SAML
8 7 (0.38%) XML
9 6 (0.33%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.27%) OpenID
10 5 (0.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.16%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.62%) Data Centre
4 63 (3.46%) Product Ownership
5 52 (2.85%) PMI
6 51 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 41 (2.25%) Virtual Team
8 29 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.37%) FMCG
11 23 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.26%) Social Media
12 22 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.21%) Operational Technology
13 17 (0.93%) AI Agents
14 16 (0.88%) Life Science
15 15 (0.82%) EPoS
16 14 (0.77%) Data Structures
17 13 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 12 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.52%) Windows
2 27 (1.48%) Linux
3 18 (0.99%) Unix
4 13 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.22%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.22%) zOS
6 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.055%) AIX
7 1 (0.055%) Android
7 1 (0.055%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.055%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.055%) Solaris
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (37.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 678 (37.19%) Agile
3 485 (26.60%) Project Delivery
4 368 (20.19%) PRINCE2
5 353 (19.36%) Problem-Solving
6 306 (16.79%) Change Management
7 303 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 289 (15.85%) Migration
9 269 (14.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 241 (13.22%) Decision-Making
11 232 (12.73%) Risk Management
11 232 (12.73%) Waterfall
12 179 (9.82%) Scrum
13 178 (9.76%) AI
14 154 (8.45%) ERP
15 135 (7.41%) Budget Management
16 128 (7.02%) Project Planning
17 125 (6.86%) Roadmaps
18 124 (6.80%) Analytics
19 123 (6.75%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 71 (3.89%) SQL
2 59 (3.24%) Python
3 18 (0.99%) JavaScript
4 15 (0.82%) VBA
5 9 (0.49%) C++
5 9 (0.49%) Java
5 9 (0.49%) TypeScript
6 8 (0.44%) ABAP
6 8 (0.44%) C#
7 7 (0.38%) C
7 7 (0.38%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.27%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.27%) MATLAB
9 4 (0.22%) Ada
9 4 (0.22%) JCL
9 4 (0.22%) R
9 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.16%) SOQL
11 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 285 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 283 (15.52%) Degree
3 278 (15.25%) PMP
4 243 (13.33%) PMI Certification
5 198 (10.86%) SC Cleared
6 64 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 54 (2.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 32 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.48%) ACCA
9 27 (1.48%) CIMA
9 27 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 18 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 15 (0.82%) CISSP
13 14 (0.77%) APMP
13 14 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.55%) CIPFA
14 10 (0.55%) CISM
14 10 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 9 (0.49%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (11.68%) PMO
2 99 (5.43%) QA
3 51 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.03%) GDPR
5 35 (1.92%) SLA
6 24 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.32%) NIST
7 20 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.10%) GRC
8 7 (0.38%) EMIR
8 7 (0.38%) GMP
8 7 (0.38%) MiFID
9 6 (0.33%) FINREP
9 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.27%) COREP
10 5 (0.27%) GxP
10 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.27%) P3O
11 4 (0.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 31 (1.70%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.27%) RACF
4 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.16%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.055%) ACF2
8 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (0.93%) Ansible
1 17 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.16%) Terraform
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.055%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.055%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.055%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.055%) logstash
7 1 (0.055%) Nessus
7 1 (0.055%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.055%) SCOM
7 1 (0.055%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.055%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.055%) vRealize
7 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 303 (16.62%) Microsoft
2 154 (8.45%) SAP
3 102 (5.60%) ServiceNow
4 67 (3.68%) Oracle
5 54 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.25%) Google
7 37 (2.03%) Adobe
8 21 (1.15%) VMware
9 18 (0.99%) Cisco
9 18 (0.99%) Sitecore
10 16 (0.88%) Workday
11 14 (0.77%) Databricks
11 14 (0.77%) IBM
11 14 (0.77%) NEC
12 12 (0.66%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.60%) JD Edwards
14 10 (0.55%) Alteryx
14 10 (0.55%) F5
14 10 (0.55%) Murex
14 10 (0.55%) Sage