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

6 months to
16 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 1,817 1,984 2,717
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.06% 7.30% 7.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 8.05% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 1,232 1,660
10th Percentile £319 £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 £636 £617
90th Percentile £738 £726 £725
UK median daily rate £512 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.38% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 107 245
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.66 £19.95
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.38 £27.50
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 £41.06 £38.12
% change year-on-year -6.79% +7.71% -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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
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 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -24 850 £569 +3.88% 388
North of England -25 297 £475 -2.56% 213
South East -22 261 £500 +4.17% 264
North West -8 190 £477 +5.93% 114
Midlands -39 158 £514 +14.22% 117
South West -22 132 £450 - 89
West Midlands -47 110 £550 +17.27% 73
Yorkshire -37 101 £498 -0.50% 82
East of England -8 92 £525 +5.00% 81
East Midlands -11 48 £456 +11.42% 44
North East -40 10 £420 -17.24% 18
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 99 (5.45%) Confluence
2 93 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.32%) CMS
4 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) Apache
9 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.055%) CICS
12 1 (0.055%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.055%) nginx
Applications
1 174 (9.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 159 (8.75%) Microsoft Project
3 137 (7.54%) Microsoft Office
4 117 (6.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (2.26%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.50%) Trello
8 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.17%) Windchill
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.11%) InDesign
14 1 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.055%) CATIA
14 1 (0.055%) Houdini
14 1 (0.055%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 69 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.94%) Primavera
3 9 (0.50%) Magento
4 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.44%) SAP HCM
5 7 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.39%) 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 (0.28%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.22%) Endur
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 148 (8.15%) Azure
2 101 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 80 (4.40%) SaaS
4 72 (3.96%) AWS
5 64 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
6 47 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (1.54%) Smartsheet
8 23 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.21%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.10%) GCP
11 19 (1.05%) Asana
12 16 (0.88%) Entra ID
13 14 (0.77%) GitHub
14 10 (0.55%) Google Sheets
14 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (0.50%) IaaS
15 9 (0.50%) OCI
16 8 (0.44%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.32%) Network Security
2 22 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 20 (1.10%) DNS
4 18 (0.99%) Structured Cabling
4 18 (0.99%) WAN
5 14 (0.77%) Intranet
5 14 (0.77%) LAN
5 14 (0.77%) MPLS
6 13 (0.72%) Firewall
6 13 (0.72%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.66%) BGP
7 12 (0.66%) VPN
7 12 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.61%) DHCP
9 9 (0.50%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.50%) Internet
10 7 (0.39%) DKIM
10 7 (0.39%) DMARC
10 7 (0.39%) SAN
11 5 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.23%) Power BI
2 13 (0.72%) SQL Server
3 11 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (0.55%) Metadata
4 10 (0.55%) Tableau
5 9 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
7 7 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.39%) Power Query
8 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.28%) GIS
10 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.17%) QlikView
11 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.11%) Big Data
12 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 233 (12.82%) JIRA
2 20 (1.10%) Git
3 18 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.50%) Subversion
5 7 (0.39%) 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%) Appium
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%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.055%) RSpec
8 1 (0.055%) Selenium
8 1 (0.055%) TestDirector
General
1 808 (44.47%) Social Skills
2 689 (37.92%) Finance
3 295 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (9.85%) Organisational Skills
5 151 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 127 (6.99%) Marketing
7 124 (6.82%) Banking
8 106 (5.83%) Retail
9 71 (3.91%) Manufacturing
10 70 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
11 65 (3.58%) Legal
12 48 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (2.64%) Telecoms
13 31 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
14 30 (1.65%) Financial Institution
15 27 (1.49%) Front Office
16 26 (1.43%) Investment Banking
17 22 (1.21%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 707 (38.91%) Project Manager
2 188 (10.35%) Senior
3 178 (9.80%) Analyst
4 150 (8.26%) Lead
5 142 (7.82%) Senior Manager
6 119 (6.55%) Senior Project Manager
7 95 (5.23%) Business Analyst
8 92 (5.06%) IT Manager
9 83 (4.57%) Programme Manager
10 74 (4.07%) IT Project Manager
11 60 (3.30%) Consultant
12 55 (3.03%) Technical Manager
13 53 (2.92%) Infrastructure Manager
14 48 (2.64%) Delivery Manager
15 43 (2.37%) Technical Project Manager
16 42 (2.31%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 41 (2.26%) Architect
18 40 (2.20%) Project Officer
19 35 (1.93%) SC Cleared Project Manager
20 34 (1.87%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.43%) Middleware
2 16 (0.88%) REST
3 13 (0.72%) OAuth
3 13 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.72%) VML
4 12 (0.66%) HTML
4 12 (0.66%) Web Services
5 10 (0.55%) JSON
6 9 (0.50%) ADO
6 9 (0.50%) CSS
6 9 (0.50%) SOAP
7 8 (0.44%) React
8 7 (0.39%) .NET
8 7 (0.39%) SailPoint
8 7 (0.39%) SAML
8 7 (0.39%) XML
9 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (0.28%) OpenID
9 5 (0.28%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.01%) Management Information System
2 86 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.58%) Data Centre
4 58 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
5 50 (2.75%) PMI
6 40 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 29 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.38%) FMCG
10 24 (1.32%) Operational Technology
11 22 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.21%) Social Media
12 16 (0.88%) AI Agents
12 16 (0.88%) Life Science
13 15 (0.83%) EPoS
14 14 (0.77%) Data Structures
15 12 (0.66%) Credit Risk
15 12 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.42%) Windows
2 27 (1.49%) Linux
3 17 (0.94%) Unix
4 13 (0.72%) 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%) Ubuntu
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
1 681 (37.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 672 (36.98%) Agile
3 478 (26.31%) Project Delivery
4 363 (19.98%) PRINCE2
5 351 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
6 303 (16.68%) Change Management
7 298 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 288 (15.85%) Migration
9 267 (14.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 238 (13.10%) Decision-Making
11 233 (12.82%) Risk Management
12 230 (12.66%) Waterfall
13 173 (9.52%) AI
13 173 (9.52%) Scrum
14 150 (8.26%) ERP
15 134 (7.37%) Budget Management
16 125 (6.88%) Roadmaps
17 122 (6.71%) Analytics
17 122 (6.71%) Project Planning
18 121 (6.66%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 69 (3.80%) SQL
2 57 (3.14%) Python
3 18 (0.99%) JavaScript
4 14 (0.77%) VBA
5 9 (0.50%) C++
5 9 (0.50%) Java
5 9 (0.50%) TypeScript
6 8 (0.44%) ABAP
6 8 (0.44%) C#
7 7 (0.39%) C
7 7 (0.39%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
9 4 (0.22%) Ada
9 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.22%) JCL
9 4 (0.22%) R
10 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.17%) SOQL
11 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 282 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 281 (15.47%) Degree
3 273 (15.02%) PMP
4 235 (12.93%) PMI Certification
5 197 (10.84%) SC Cleared
6 65 (3.58%) DV Cleared
7 54 (2.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 30 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.49%) ACCA
9 27 (1.49%) CIMA
10 26 (1.43%) Master's Degree
11 18 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 15 (0.83%) APMP
13 15 (0.83%) CISSP
14 14 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.55%) CIPFA
15 10 (0.55%) CISM
15 10 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 9 (0.50%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (11.56%) PMO
2 98 (5.39%) QA
3 52 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.04%) GDPR
5 35 (1.93%) SLA
6 26 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.43%) NIST
7 19 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.05%) GRC
8 7 (0.39%) EMIR
8 7 (0.39%) GMP
8 7 (0.39%) MiFID
9 6 (0.33%) FINREP
9 6 (0.33%) P3O
9 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.28%) COREP
10 5 (0.28%) GxP
10 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (1.71%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.28%) RACF
4 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
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
Systems Management
1 17 (0.94%) Ansible
1 17 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.17%) Terraform
5 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
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%) vRealize
7 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 299 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 153 (8.42%) SAP
3 101 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 66 (3.63%) Oracle
5 54 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.26%) Google
7 36 (1.98%) Adobe
8 22 (1.21%) VMware
9 20 (1.10%) Cisco
10 18 (0.99%) Sitecore
11 16 (0.88%) Workday
12 14 (0.77%) Databricks
12 14 (0.77%) IBM
12 14 (0.77%) NEC
13 12 (0.66%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.61%) JD Edwards
15 10 (0.55%) CyberArk
15 10 (0.55%) IFS
15 10 (0.55%) Murex
15 10 (0.55%) Sage