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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,830 2,110 3,085
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.03% 8.21% 8.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.79% 9.08% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,239 1,977
10th Percentile £340 £275 £320
25th Percentile £420 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% -4.06% -
75th Percentile £618 £600 £625
90th Percentile £720 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £517 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.30% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 100 218
10th Percentile £15.02 £25.98 £18.34
25th Percentile £20.79 £31.25 £26.08
Median hourly rate £40.00 £41.25 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +8.21% -27.39%
75th Percentile £63.58 £60.00 £54.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £66.90 £62.14
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £40.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -1.25% +4.93% -26.69%

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 31,633 23,246 33,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.88% 90.44% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,235 14,775 22,032
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £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 1,951 810 2,137
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.49 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.81 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.66% +0.95% -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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -16 860 £550 +4.76% 389
North of England -23 279 £480 +1.05% 222
South East -10 272 £525 - 340
Midlands -24 208 £500 +4.17% 179
North West -12 160 £488 +8.33% 115
West Midlands -26 146 £500 -4.76% 100
South West -21 116 £450 -10.00% 106
Yorkshire -34 110 £490 +4.48% 86
East of England -32 67 £450 -11.68% 152
East Midlands -17 64 £402 -0.62% 78
North East -20 13 £410 -23.72% 25
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
1 164 (8.96%) Confluence
2 82 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.15%) CMS
4 7 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.27%) Apache
5 5 (0.27%) nginx
6 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
6 3 (0.16%) WordPress
7 2 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.055%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.055%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.055%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.055%) Moodle
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 202 (11.04%) Microsoft Project
2 196 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 138 (7.54%) Microsoft Office
4 106 (5.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 45 (2.46%) MS Visio
6 19 (1.04%) Trello
7 16 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.16%) InVision
10 3 (0.16%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.16%) Sketch
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.055%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.055%) Revit
12 1 (0.055%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.09%) Primavera
3 16 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
4 14 (0.77%) Loan IQ
5 12 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 10 (0.55%) SAP Payroll
8 9 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
9 8 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
10 7 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
10 7 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.33%) SAP HCM
11 6 (0.33%) Teamcenter
12 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 139 (7.60%) Azure
2 89 (4.86%) AWS
3 87 (4.75%) Power Platform
4 52 (2.84%) SaaS
5 44 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (1.64%) GCP
8 21 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (1.09%) Asana
9 20 (1.09%) OpenShift
10 18 (0.98%) Smartsheet
11 17 (0.93%) Google Workspace
12 15 (0.82%) GitHub
13 13 (0.71%) Serverless
14 12 (0.66%) IaaS
15 11 (0.60%) PaaS
16 10 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 10 (0.55%) Entra ID
17 9 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
17 9 (0.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.64%) Firewall
2 29 (1.58%) WAN
3 19 (1.04%) LAN
3 19 (1.04%) Network Security
4 17 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
5 15 (0.82%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.66%) MPLS
7 12 (0.66%) VPN
8 11 (0.60%) DNS
8 11 (0.60%) Internet
8 11 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.44%) BGP
9 8 (0.44%) SSL
10 7 (0.38%) DHCP
11 6 (0.33%) IPsec
12 5 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.22%) Intranet
13 4 (0.22%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (4.43%) Power BI
2 25 (1.37%) Tableau
3 18 (0.98%) SQL Server
4 17 (0.93%) Metadata
5 16 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.22%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.22%) GIS
11 4 (0.22%) Power Query
11 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.16%) Big Data
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.16%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 299 (16.34%) JIRA
2 17 (0.93%) Git
3 10 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.38%) GitLab
5 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.16%) Selenium
7 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.055%) Ant
8 1 (0.055%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.055%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.055%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.055%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.055%) Hudson
8 1 (0.055%) JUnit
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.055%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.055%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.055%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.055%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.055%) Visual Studio
General
1 910 (49.73%) Social Skills
2 705 (38.52%) Finance
3 308 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.05%) Organisational Skills
5 172 (9.40%) Public Sector
6 159 (8.69%) Banking
7 90 (4.92%) Retail
8 83 (4.54%) Marketing
9 75 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
10 73 (3.99%) Legal
11 69 (3.77%) Manufacturing
12 55 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (2.24%) Telecoms
14 40 (2.19%) Investment Banking
15 31 (1.69%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
17 28 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (1.42%) Local Government
19 24 (1.31%) Front Office
20 19 (1.04%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 723 (39.51%) Project Manager
2 209 (11.42%) Analyst
3 160 (8.74%) Senior
4 155 (8.47%) Lead
5 112 (6.12%) Senior Manager
6 111 (6.07%) Business Analyst
7 92 (5.03%) Senior Project Manager
8 88 (4.81%) IT Manager
9 81 (4.43%) IT Project Manager
10 77 (4.21%) Consultant
11 59 (3.22%) Infrastructure Manager
11 59 (3.22%) Programme Manager
11 59 (3.22%) Technical Manager
12 58 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
13 50 (2.73%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 40 (2.19%) Coordinator
15 38 (2.08%) Technical Project Manager
16 36 (1.97%) Architect
16 36 (1.97%) Project Officer
16 36 (1.97%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.20%) Middleware
2 21 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (0.82%) SOAP
4 14 (0.77%) REST
4 14 (0.77%) Web Services
5 11 (0.60%) EDI
6 10 (0.55%) XML
7 9 (0.49%) CSS
8 8 (0.44%) HTML
8 8 (0.44%) SailPoint
9 7 (0.38%) .NET
9 7 (0.38%) OAuth
10 6 (0.33%) ADO
10 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (0.33%) OpenID
10 6 (0.33%) SAML
11 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
11 5 (0.27%) React
11 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 113 (6.17%) Onboarding
2 90 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 67 (3.66%) Data Centre
4 55 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
5 54 (2.95%) PMI
6 47 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 46 (2.51%) Virtual Team
8 40 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.37%) Operational Technology
11 22 (1.20%) NHS
12 21 (1.15%) CMDB
13 20 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (0.93%) Social Media
15 16 (0.87%) SCADA
16 15 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.77%) Cloud Native
18 13 (0.71%) Web Conferencing
19 11 (0.60%) Tandem
20 10 (0.55%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.35%) Windows
2 15 (0.82%) Linux
3 11 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.49%) Unix
5 6 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.055%) Solaris
7 1 (0.055%) VMS
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (37.32%) Agile
2 620 (33.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 445 (24.32%) Project Delivery
4 440 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
5 392 (21.42%) PRINCE2
6 313 (17.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 289 (15.79%) Change Management
8 281 (15.36%) Migration
9 257 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 201 (10.98%) Decision-Making
11 200 (10.93%) Risk Management
11 200 (10.93%) Waterfall
12 196 (10.71%) Scrum
13 167 (9.13%) Budget Management
14 150 (8.20%) ERP
15 136 (7.43%) DevOps
16 131 (7.16%) Cybersecurity
16 131 (7.16%) Roadmaps
17 127 (6.94%) ITIL
17 127 (6.94%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 81 (4.43%) SQL
2 37 (2.02%) Python
3 13 (0.71%) Java
3 13 (0.71%) JavaScript
4 11 (0.60%) C#
5 6 (0.33%) ABAP
5 6 (0.33%) VBA
6 5 (0.27%) Perl
6 5 (0.27%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.27%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.27%) R
6 5 (0.27%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.16%) C++
8 3 (0.16%) Korn
8 3 (0.16%) SOQL
9 2 (0.11%) C
9 2 (0.11%) Go
9 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 303 (16.56%) Degree
2 294 (16.07%) Security Cleared
3 278 (15.19%) PMP
4 250 (13.66%) PMI Certification
5 215 (11.75%) SC Cleared
6 59 (3.22%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.97%) APMP
9 32 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 31 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.37%) CISSP
13 21 (1.15%) CISM
13 21 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 17 (0.93%) MBA
15 16 (0.87%) CBAP
16 15 (0.82%) IIBA
17 11 (0.60%) ACCA
17 11 (0.60%) CIMA
18 8 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (11.31%) PMO
2 118 (6.45%) QA
3 51 (2.79%) Data Quality
4 49 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.40%) GDPR
6 36 (1.97%) NIST
7 25 (1.37%) SLA
8 20 (1.09%) GRC
9 19 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.60%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.55%) Basel III
13 7 (0.38%) EMIR
14 6 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.33%) MiFID
14 6 (0.33%) WCAG
15 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.27%) P3O
15 5 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 22 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.71%) Docker
3 7 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.27%) RACF
4 5 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.055%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.055%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (0.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.66%) Terraform
3 9 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.33%) Kibana
4 6 (0.33%) logstash
5 5 (0.27%) Ansible
6 4 (0.22%) Consul
6 4 (0.22%) Packer
6 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.22%) SCCM
7 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.16%) Grafana
7 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.055%) Argo
8 1 (0.055%) CASB
8 1 (0.055%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.055%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.055%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 277 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 160 (8.74%) SAP
3 95 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 74 (4.04%) Oracle
5 65 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 34 (1.86%) Google
7 29 (1.58%) Cisco
8 24 (1.31%) Atlassian
9 23 (1.26%) Workday
10 22 (1.20%) Adobe
11 16 (0.87%) CyberArk
11 16 (0.87%) Databricks
12 15 (0.82%) Sage
12 15 (0.82%) VMware
13 14 (0.77%) Planview
14 12 (0.66%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.55%) IBM
16 9 (0.49%) Juniper
16 9 (0.49%) Splunk
17 8 (0.44%) NEC