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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -29 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,780 1,883 2,508
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.90% 6.83% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 7.53% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,174 1,481
10th Percentile £313 £313 £308
25th Percentile £413 £412 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £737 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £511 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.23% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 100 184
10th Percentile £21.00 £21.38 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £29.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.07 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% +10.36% -3.62%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.94 £48.81
90th Percentile £83.10 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £37.02 £37.50
% change year-on-year +21.56% -1.28% -6.83%

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 38,747 25,016 28,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.80% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,944 15,923 18,325
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,477 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.23 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £69.79 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -30 855 £550 +1.85% 493
North of England -40 261 £475 -3.46% 166
South East -23 254 £500 - 191
North West -27 157 £475 - 91
Midlands -44 145 £534 +18.61% 126
South West -24 137 £444 -1.39% 172
Yorkshire -34 97 £475 -5.00% 52
West Midlands -59 96 £550 +17.27% 76
East of England -13 83 £520 -0.95% 91
East Midlands -20 49 £500 +12.42% 50
North East -41 9 £420 -4.55% 24
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 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 88 (4.94%) Confluence
3 34 (1.91%) CMS
4 21 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) Apache
9 5 (0.28%) JBoss
9 5 (0.28%) Moodle
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.056%) Appian
12 1 (0.056%) Camunda
12 1 (0.056%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 173 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 158 (8.88%) Microsoft Project
3 143 (8.03%) Microsoft Office
4 112 (6.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 40 (2.25%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.73%) Trello
8 11 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) 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 53 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.07%) Primavera
3 12 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (0.67%) Magento
4 9 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.45%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.34%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.34%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.34%) Shopify
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.28%) SAP PS
8 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (8.65%) Azure
2 120 (6.74%) Power Platform
3 86 (4.83%) SaaS
4 72 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
5 64 (3.60%) AWS
6 58 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.85%) Smartsheet
8 26 (1.46%) Google Workspace
9 25 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (1.07%) Asana
10 19 (1.07%) Entra ID
11 15 (0.84%) GitHub
12 14 (0.79%) GCP
13 12 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (0.67%) Google Sheets
13 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.62%) OCI
14 11 (0.62%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.56%) Power Automate
16 8 (0.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.91%) Network Security
2 23 (1.29%) TCP/IP
2 23 (1.29%) WAN
3 22 (1.24%) DNS
4 18 (1.01%) Firewall
4 18 (1.01%) Structured Cabling
5 16 (0.90%) VPN
6 15 (0.84%) LAN
6 15 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (0.73%) DHCP
8 12 (0.67%) BGP
8 12 (0.67%) Intranet
9 11 (0.62%) Internet
9 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.56%) MPLS
11 9 (0.51%) SAN
12 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.39%) DKIM
13 7 (0.39%) DMARC
13 7 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (6.12%) Power BI
2 17 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (0.84%) Tableau
4 12 (0.67%) Metadata
5 11 (0.62%) SQL Server
6 9 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.45%) GIS
7 8 (0.45%) Power Query
8 7 (0.39%) Big Data
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.17%) QlikView
11 3 (0.17%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.11%) Looker
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 228 (12.81%) JIRA
2 24 (1.35%) Git
3 19 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) Subversion
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) GitLab
7 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
8 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.11%) Hudson
9 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.056%) Capybara
10 1 (0.056%) minitest
10 1 (0.056%) Postman
10 1 (0.056%) RSpec
10 1 (0.056%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.056%) Snyk
10 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.056%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.056%) Terragrunt
General
1 812 (45.62%) Social Skills
2 683 (38.37%) Finance
3 316 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (9.94%) Organisational Skills
5 152 (8.54%) Public Sector
6 151 (8.48%) Banking
7 132 (7.42%) Marketing
8 115 (6.46%) Retail
9 68 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
10 67 (3.76%) Telecoms
11 66 (3.71%) Manufacturing
12 60 (3.37%) Legal
13 48 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 28 (1.57%) Investment Banking
15 27 (1.52%) Local Government
16 26 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
16 26 (1.46%) Front Office
16 26 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.35%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 673 (37.81%) Project Manager
2 172 (9.66%) Senior
3 165 (9.27%) Lead
4 143 (8.03%) Analyst
5 131 (7.36%) Senior Manager
6 101 (5.67%) Senior Project Manager
7 98 (5.51%) IT Manager
8 84 (4.72%) Programme Manager
9 77 (4.33%) Business Analyst
10 72 (4.04%) IT Project Manager
11 59 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
11 59 (3.31%) Technical Manager
12 57 (3.20%) Consultant
13 48 (2.70%) Infrastructure Manager
14 47 (2.64%) Technical Project Manager
15 37 (2.08%) SC Cleared Project Manager
16 36 (2.02%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 35 (1.97%) Developer
17 35 (1.97%) Digital Project Manager
18 34 (1.91%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.24%) Middleware
2 19 (1.07%) REST
3 17 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.79%) HTML
5 13 (0.73%) ADO
5 13 (0.73%) VML
6 12 (0.67%) Web Services
7 10 (0.56%) JSON
7 10 (0.56%) OAuth
8 9 (0.51%) .NET
8 9 (0.51%) React
8 9 (0.51%) SOAP
9 6 (0.34%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.34%) CSS
9 6 (0.34%) Terraform
9 6 (0.34%) XML
10 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
10 5 (0.28%) RESTful
11 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
11 4 (0.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 82 (4.61%) Onboarding
3 77 (4.33%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.37%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
6 44 (2.47%) PMI
7 42 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 26 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.40%) FMCG
9 25 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.40%) Operational Technology
10 24 (1.35%) Social Media
11 23 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.12%) Credit Risk
14 18 (1.01%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.79%) Mobile App
16 13 (0.73%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 56 (3.15%) Windows
2 44 (2.47%) Linux
3 21 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.07%) Unix
5 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.28%) zOS
8 4 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.056%) Android
10 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 778 (43.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 700 (39.33%) Agile
3 505 (28.37%) Project Delivery
4 412 (23.15%) PRINCE2
5 316 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
6 309 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 300 (16.85%) Change Management
8 255 (14.33%) Migration
9 243 (13.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 242 (13.60%) Decision-Making
11 230 (12.92%) Risk Management
12 229 (12.87%) Waterfall
13 185 (10.39%) AI
14 176 (9.89%) Scrum
15 152 (8.54%) Project Governance
16 150 (8.43%) Roadmaps
17 139 (7.81%) Analytics
17 139 (7.81%) Project Planning
18 134 (7.53%) ITIL
19 126 (7.08%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 68 (3.82%) SQL
2 66 (3.71%) Python
3 17 (0.96%) JavaScript
4 16 (0.90%) VBA
5 13 (0.73%) Java
6 12 (0.67%) C++
7 9 (0.51%) C#
7 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.45%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.39%) Ada
10 6 (0.34%) C
11 5 (0.28%) Korn
11 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.22%) ABAP
12 4 (0.22%) Bash
12 4 (0.22%) JCL
12 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 303 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 288 (16.18%) Degree
3 274 (15.39%) PMP
4 236 (13.26%) PMI Certification
5 207 (11.63%) SC Cleared
6 75 (4.21%) DV Cleared
7 65 (3.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 24 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 21 (1.18%) ACCA
9 21 (1.18%) CIMA
10 16 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (0.84%) APMP
11 15 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
11 15 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 11 (0.62%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.62%) CISSP
12 11 (0.62%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.56%) CIPFA
13 10 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (11.97%) PMO
2 93 (5.22%) QA
3 53 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 33 (1.85%) GDPR
5 27 (1.52%) SLA
6 24 (1.35%) GRC
7 22 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 21 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (1.12%) NIST
10 8 (0.45%) P3O
11 7 (0.39%) FINREP
11 7 (0.39%) GMP
11 7 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.34%) COREP
12 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.34%) EMIR
13 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.28%) MiFID
13 5 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
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 20 (1.12%) Ansible
2 10 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.34%) Puppet
4 6 (0.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.11%) SCCM
8 1 (0.056%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.056%) BMC Performance Manager
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%) SCOM
8 1 (0.056%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 312 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 125 (7.02%) SAP
3 99 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 74 (4.16%) Oracle
5 51 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 46 (2.58%) Adobe
6 46 (2.58%) Google
7 32 (1.80%) VMware
8 24 (1.35%) Cisco
8 24 (1.35%) Sitecore
9 20 (1.12%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.07%) NEC
10 19 (1.07%) Workday
11 14 (0.79%) IBM
12 13 (0.73%) Databricks
13 12 (0.67%) Alteryx
14 10 (0.56%) IFS
14 10 (0.56%) JD Edwards
14 10 (0.56%) Murex
15 9 (0.51%) Dell