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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,863 1,930 2,834
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.54% 7.93% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 8.70% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 1,173 1,743
10th Percentile £335 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £627
90th Percentile £725 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £512 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 107 248
10th Percentile £14.64 £22.27 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.25 £26.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +18.05% -17.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.88 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.68 £75.00 £60.38
UK median hourly rate £35.53 £45.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -21.04% +18.05% -17.13%

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 34,728 22,194 31,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.24% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,149 14,504 20,626
10th Percentile £322 £306 £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 £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 949 2,251
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.38 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -19 871 £550 +2.33% 365
North of England -17 289 £475 -3.06% 219
South East -16 269 £517 +8.83% 266
Midlands -28 187 £492 +4.90% 133
North West -13 161 £465 -3.63% 123
South West -12 149 £450 -4.05% 88
West Midlands -37 126 £500 - 89
Yorkshire -35 120 £495 +4.21% 72
East of England -25 79 £518 +3.50% 122
East Midlands -15 63 £393 -4.52% 44
North East -20 13 £410 -20.96% 27
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
1 131 (7.03%) Confluence
2 84 (4.51%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.13%) CMS
4 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.38%) Apache
7 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
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%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.054%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 184 (9.88%) Microsoft Project
2 167 (8.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 130 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
4 105 (5.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 43 (2.31%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.64%) Trello
8 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.16%) Simulink
10 3 (0.16%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.11%) Windchill
12 1 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.054%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.054%) InDesign
12 1 (0.054%) InVision
12 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 75 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.70%) Primavera
3 11 (0.59%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.54%) Shopify
5 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
7 6 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.27%) Magento
8 5 (0.27%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 134 (7.19%) Azure
2 87 (4.67%) Power Platform
3 78 (4.19%) SaaS
4 71 (3.81%) AWS
5 69 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (1.40%) GCP
7 26 (1.40%) Smartsheet
8 24 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (1.29%) Google Workspace
9 21 (1.13%) Asana
10 14 (0.75%) OpenShift
11 13 (0.70%) Entra ID
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%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (0.54%) PaaS
13 9 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.40%) WAN
2 22 (1.18%) Network Security
3 21 (1.13%) TCP/IP
4 20 (1.07%) DNS
5 19 (1.02%) Firewall
6 17 (0.91%) LAN
6 17 (0.91%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
8 14 (0.75%) MPLS
8 14 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.64%) BGP
9 12 (0.64%) VPN
10 10 (0.54%) Internet
11 9 (0.48%) DHCP
12 7 (0.38%) BIG-IP
12 7 (0.38%) DKIM
12 7 (0.38%) DMARC
12 7 (0.38%) SAN
13 6 (0.32%) Intranet
13 6 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.46%) Power BI
2 17 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (0.86%) Metadata
4 14 (0.75%) SQL Server
4 14 (0.75%) Tableau
5 10 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
6 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.21%) Big Data
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.16%) GIS
10 3 (0.16%) Power Query
11 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 275 (14.76%) JIRA
2 20 (1.07%) Git
3 14 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.38%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Subversion
6 4 (0.21%) 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%) 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%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.054%) RSpec
General
1 848 (45.52%) Social Skills
2 725 (38.92%) Finance
3 317 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (10.31%) Organisational Skills
5 160 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 135 (7.25%) Banking
7 108 (5.80%) Marketing
8 103 (5.53%) Retail
9 67 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
10 64 (3.44%) Legal
11 59 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 51 (2.74%) Telecoms
13 42 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (1.88%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.50%) Investment Banking
17 24 (1.29%) Front Office
18 22 (1.18%) Local Government
18 22 (1.18%) Military
19 18 (0.97%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 718 (38.54%) Project Manager
2 209 (11.22%) Analyst
3 189 (10.14%) Senior
4 152 (8.16%) Lead
5 132 (7.09%) Senior Manager
6 112 (6.01%) Senior Project Manager
7 108 (5.80%) Business Analyst
8 86 (4.62%) IT Manager
9 77 (4.13%) IT Project Manager
10 74 (3.97%) Programme Manager
11 62 (3.33%) Consultant
12 58 (3.11%) Technical Manager
13 55 (2.95%) Delivery Manager
14 54 (2.90%) Infrastructure Manager
15 51 (2.74%) Architect
16 44 (2.36%) Technical Project Manager
17 43 (2.31%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 42 (2.25%) Developer
19 41 (2.20%) Infrastructure Project Manager
20 38 (2.04%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.29%) Middleware
2 22 (1.18%) REST
3 15 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (0.81%) SOAP
4 14 (0.75%) OAuth
4 14 (0.75%) Web Services
5 13 (0.70%) HTML
5 13 (0.70%) VML
6 11 (0.59%) CSS
7 8 (0.43%) .NET
7 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
7 8 (0.43%) SAML
7 8 (0.43%) XML
8 7 (0.38%) ADO
8 7 (0.38%) JSON
9 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.32%) OpenID
10 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.27%) RESTful
10 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (4.88%) Management Information System
2 88 (4.72%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.54%) Data Centre
4 58 (3.11%) PMI
5 57 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
6 53 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 41 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 34 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.13%) Operational Technology
11 19 (1.02%) Social Media
12 18 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (0.91%) CMDB
13 17 (0.91%) NHS
14 16 (0.86%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.81%) EPoS
16 14 (0.75%) Life Science
17 13 (0.70%) FMCG
18 12 (0.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.42%) Windows
2 25 (1.34%) Linux
3 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.54%) Unix
5 7 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.21%) 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
1 694 (37.25%) Agile
2 648 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 484 (25.98%) Project Delivery
4 419 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
5 348 (18.68%) PRINCE2
6 300 (16.10%) Migration
7 286 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 279 (14.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 278 (14.92%) Change Management
10 242 (12.99%) Decision-Making
11 238 (12.78%) Waterfall
12 222 (11.92%) Risk Management
13 182 (9.77%) Scrum
14 178 (9.55%) ERP
15 164 (8.80%) Budget Management
16 135 (7.25%) AI
17 133 (7.14%) Roadmaps
18 127 (6.82%) Data Migration
19 125 (6.71%) Project Planning
19 125 (6.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 76 (4.08%) SQL
2 46 (2.47%) Python
3 17 (0.91%) JavaScript
4 16 (0.86%) Java
5 12 (0.64%) VBA
6 11 (0.59%) C#
7 9 (0.48%) C++
8 7 (0.38%) C
8 7 (0.38%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.32%) R
10 5 (0.27%) ABAP
10 5 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.21%) Ada
11 4 (0.21%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.16%) JCL
12 3 (0.16%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.16%) Perl
12 3 (0.16%) SOQL
12 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 323 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 295 (15.83%) Degree
3 270 (14.49%) PMP
4 240 (12.88%) SC Cleared
5 231 (12.40%) PMI Certification
6 68 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.20%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 32 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.50%) ACCA
10 28 (1.50%) CIMA
11 27 (1.45%) APMP
12 23 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.07%) CISSP
13 20 (1.07%) MBA
14 18 (0.97%) CISM
15 17 (0.91%) CBAP
16 15 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 12 (0.64%) IIBA
18 10 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (12.18%) PMO
2 123 (6.60%) QA
3 58 (3.11%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.42%) GDPR
5 40 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.77%) NIST
6 33 (1.77%) SLA
7 15 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.70%) GRC
9 11 (0.59%) Basel III
10 7 (0.38%) EMIR
10 7 (0.38%) MiFID
10 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.32%) GMP
11 6 (0.32%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 29 (1.56%) 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
4 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.054%) Firmware
6 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.054%) PowerHA
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 (0.21%) RSA Archer
5 4 (0.21%) SCCM
5 4 (0.21%) 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%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.054%) Kibana
8 1 (0.054%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.054%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.054%) vRealize
Vendors
1 280 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 163 (8.75%) SAP
3 99 (5.31%) ServiceNow
4 66 (3.54%) Oracle
5 50 (2.68%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.20%) Google
7 28 (1.50%) Adobe
8 26 (1.40%) Cisco
9 24 (1.29%) Workday
10 18 (0.97%) VMware
11 17 (0.91%) CyberArk
12 15 (0.81%) Databricks
12 15 (0.81%) Sitecore
13 14 (0.75%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.75%) Sage
14 12 (0.64%) IBM
14 12 (0.64%) NEC
15 10 (0.54%) IFS
16 8 (0.43%) CheckPoint
16 8 (0.43%) Murex