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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -26 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,797 1,917 2,496
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.92% 6.93% 7.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 7.62% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,192 1,489
10th Percentile £318 £313 £308
25th Percentile £415 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £735 £726 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 101 204
10th Percentile £20.22 £21.39 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.40 £29.00 £27.38
Median hourly rate £43.83 £41.06 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% +7.71% -4.70%
75th Percentile £64.88 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.07 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £42.65 £36.48 £38.12
% change year-on-year +16.91% -4.30% -7.02%

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 38,995 25,146 28,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.84% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,229 16,020 18,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 1,434 1,645
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.60 £50.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -26 874 £550 +2.80% 1,659
North of England -35 269 £475 -4.23% 437
South East -25 251 £500 - 454
North West -22 166 £475 - 255
Midlands -47 143 £539 +15.67% 267
South West -24 139 £435 -3.33% 263
West Midlands -57 97 £550 +15.79% 171
Yorkshire -43 96 £485 -3.00% 124
East of England -9 85 £525 -1.13% 177
East Midlands -17 46 £500 +18.41% 96
North East -43 9 £420 -12.95% 62
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 94 (5.23%) Confluence
1 94 (5.23%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.78%) CMS
3 20 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
5 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
5 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.33%) Apache
6 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.33%) WordPress
7 5 (0.28%) Moodle
8 4 (0.22%) JBoss
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 2 (0.11%) SAS
11 1 (0.056%) CICS
11 1 (0.056%) IIS
Applications
1 169 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 158 (8.79%) Microsoft Project
3 140 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
4 110 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.34%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.78%) Trello
8 10 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.17%) InDesign
12 3 (0.17%) Windchill
13 2 (0.11%) Houdini
13 2 (0.11%) NUKE
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.056%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 54 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.06%) Primavera
3 11 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
3 11 (0.61%) Magento
4 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.45%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.33%) Shopify
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.22%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) SAP PS
9 4 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 159 (8.85%) Azure
2 117 (6.51%) Power Platform
3 88 (4.90%) SaaS
4 69 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (3.73%) AWS
6 59 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.89%) Smartsheet
8 27 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.39%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.11%) Asana
11 17 (0.95%) GitHub
12 16 (0.89%) Entra ID
13 15 (0.83%) GCP
14 12 (0.67%) Google Sheets
14 12 (0.67%) PowerApps
15 11 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
16 10 (0.56%) Power Automate
16 10 (0.56%) Snowflake
17 8 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.67%) Network Security
2 22 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.17%) DNS
4 20 (1.11%) Structured Cabling
5 19 (1.06%) WAN
6 15 (0.83%) LAN
7 14 (0.78%) Firewall
7 14 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.72%) VPN
9 12 (0.67%) DHCP
9 12 (0.67%) Intranet
10 11 (0.61%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.56%) BGP
11 10 (0.56%) Internet
11 10 (0.56%) MPLS
12 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.39%) DKIM
13 7 (0.39%) DMARC
13 7 (0.39%) SAN
13 7 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.90%) Power BI
2 18 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (0.78%) Data Lake
3 14 (0.78%) SQL Server
4 13 (0.72%) Tableau
5 12 (0.67%) Metadata
6 8 (0.45%) GIS
6 8 (0.45%) Power Query
7 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.33%) Big Data
9 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.22%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.22%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.17%) QlikView
11 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 231 (12.85%) JIRA
2 24 (1.34%) Git
3 19 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.50%) Subversion
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) GitLab
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) Gradle
9 1 (0.056%) minitest
9 1 (0.056%) Postman
9 1 (0.056%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.056%) RSpec
9 1 (0.056%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.056%) Snyk
9 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.056%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.056%) Terragrunt
General
1 812 (45.19%) Social Skills
2 676 (37.62%) Finance
3 315 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (10.13%) Organisational Skills
5 151 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 143 (7.96%) Banking
7 138 (7.68%) Marketing
8 112 (6.23%) Retail
9 69 (3.84%) Manufacturing
10 68 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
11 63 (3.51%) Legal
11 63 (3.51%) Telecoms
12 41 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (1.73%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (1.56%) Investment Banking
16 27 (1.50%) Front Office
17 25 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.34%) Aerospace
18 24 (1.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 691 (38.45%) Project Manager
2 182 (10.13%) Senior
3 160 (8.90%) Lead
4 143 (7.96%) Analyst
5 138 (7.68%) Senior Manager
6 108 (6.01%) Senior Project Manager
7 101 (5.62%) IT Manager
8 89 (4.95%) Programme Manager
9 78 (4.34%) IT Project Manager
10 77 (4.28%) Business Analyst
11 64 (3.56%) Technical Manager
12 57 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
13 55 (3.06%) Consultant
14 51 (2.84%) Infrastructure Manager
14 51 (2.84%) Technical Project Manager
15 40 (2.23%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 38 (2.11%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 37 (2.06%) Developer
17 37 (2.06%) Project Officer
18 34 (1.89%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.28%) Middleware
2 19 (1.06%) REST
3 14 (0.78%) HTML
4 13 (0.72%) ADO
4 13 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (0.72%) VML
5 12 (0.67%) Web Services
6 10 (0.56%) JSON
6 10 (0.56%) SOAP
7 9 (0.50%) .NET
7 9 (0.50%) OAuth
7 9 (0.50%) React
8 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.33%) CSS
8 6 (0.33%) XML
9 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
9 5 (0.28%) RESTful
9 5 (0.28%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (0.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.34%) Management Information System
2 81 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 72 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.73%) PMI
6 48 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 44 (2.45%) Virtual Team
8 30 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.39%) Operational Technology
11 23 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.28%) FMCG
11 23 (1.28%) Social Media
12 19 (1.06%) Credit Risk
13 16 (0.89%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 14 (0.78%) Life Science
14 14 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.89%) Windows
2 37 (2.06%) Linux
3 17 (0.95%) Unix
4 16 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.22%) zOS
8 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.056%) AIX
9 1 (0.056%) Android
9 1 (0.056%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.056%) Solaris
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (42.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 696 (38.73%) Agile
3 494 (27.49%) Project Delivery
4 415 (23.09%) PRINCE2
5 322 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
6 313 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 300 (16.69%) Change Management
8 267 (14.86%) Migration
9 255 (14.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 239 (13.30%) Decision-Making
11 231 (12.85%) Risk Management
12 229 (12.74%) Waterfall
13 182 (10.13%) Scrum
14 177 (9.85%) AI
15 146 (8.12%) Roadmaps
16 142 (7.90%) Project Governance
17 136 (7.57%) Project Planning
18 135 (7.51%) Analytics
18 135 (7.51%) ITIL
19 134 (7.46%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 72 (4.01%) SQL
2 60 (3.34%) Python
3 18 (1.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (0.89%) VBA
5 13 (0.72%) Java
6 9 (0.50%) C#
6 9 (0.50%) C++
6 9 (0.50%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.45%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.33%) C
9 5 (0.28%) ABAP
9 5 (0.28%) Korn
9 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.22%) Ada
10 4 (0.22%) JCL
10 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.17%) Bash
11 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 297 (16.53%) Security Cleared
2 290 (16.14%) Degree
3 289 (16.08%) PMP
4 249 (13.86%) PMI Certification
5 202 (11.24%) SC Cleared
6 74 (4.12%) DV Cleared
7 64 (3.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 25 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.22%) ACCA
10 22 (1.22%) CIMA
11 17 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 16 (0.89%) APMP
13 14 (0.78%) CISSP
14 13 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.56%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.56%) CIPFA
15 10 (0.56%) CISM
15 10 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (11.91%) PMO
2 92 (5.12%) QA
3 51 (2.84%) Data Quality
4 34 (1.89%) GDPR
5 30 (1.67%) SLA
6 24 (1.34%) GRC
6 24 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.28%) NIST
8 22 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.45%) P3O
10 7 (0.39%) FINREP
10 7 (0.39%) GMP
10 7 (0.39%) MiFID
10 7 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.33%) COREP
11 6 (0.33%) EMIR
11 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.22%) GxP
13 4 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.056%) ACF2
8 1 (0.056%) Docker
8 1 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.056%) RACF
8 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (1.06%) Ansible
2 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.33%) Terraform
4 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (0.28%) Puppet
6 4 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.11%) SCCM
8 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.056%) Nessus
8 1 (0.056%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.056%) SCOM
8 1 (0.056%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 310 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 133 (7.40%) SAP
3 103 (5.73%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.90%) Oracle
5 50 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 45 (2.50%) Google
7 44 (2.45%) Adobe
8 26 (1.45%) VMware
9 25 (1.39%) Cisco
10 23 (1.28%) Sitecore
11 20 (1.11%) Workday
12 19 (1.06%) NEC
13 18 (1.00%) Atlassian
14 17 (0.95%) Databricks
15 13 (0.72%) IBM
16 11 (0.61%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.61%) JD Edwards
17 10 (0.56%) Guidewire
17 10 (0.56%) IFS
17 10 (0.56%) Murex