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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,863 1,934 2,833
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.53% 7.96% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.35% 8.73% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,177 1,742
10th Percentile £333 £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 £610 £627
90th Percentile £725 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £511 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.26% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 106 248
10th Percentile £14.64 £22.27 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.31 £26.19
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.59 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% +19.60% -21.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.81 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.38
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £45.59 £38.12
% change year-on-year -19.39% +19.60% -21.81%

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 34,792 22,163 31,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.27% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,183 14,469 20,624
10th Percentile £325 £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 £510 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 960 2,252
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.93
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.20 £15.99
Median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -20 870 £550 +2.80% 412
North of England -20 291 £475 -1.40% 215
South East -16 268 £520 +9.24% 244
Midlands -29 188 £492 +4.90% 134
North West -11 163 £464 -2.37% 125
South West -17 148 £450 -4.05% 94
West Midlands -34 127 £500 - 90
Yorkshire -30 120 £495 +4.21% 71
East of England -22 78 £518 +3.50% 111
East Midlands -16 63 £393 -4.52% 44
North East -22 13 £410 -20.96% 21
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
1 132 (7.09%) Confluence
2 86 (4.62%) 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
9 3 (0.16%) WordPress
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%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.054%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 182 (9.77%) Microsoft Project
2 165 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 130 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
4 103 (5.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 43 (2.31%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.64%) Trello
8 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.16%) Simulink
10 3 (0.16%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.054%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.054%) InVision
12 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 75 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.70%) Primavera
3 11 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.54%) Loan IQ
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%) NEC Housing
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%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 135 (7.25%) Azure
2 88 (4.72%) Power Platform
3 79 (4.24%) SaaS
4 71 (3.81%) AWS
5 68 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (1.40%) GCP
7 26 (1.40%) Smartsheet
8 25 (1.34%) Google Workspace
9 24 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.13%) Asana
11 14 (0.75%) OpenShift
12 13 (0.70%) Entra ID
13 10 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (0.54%) BigCommerce
13 10 (0.54%) GitHub
13 10 (0.54%) Google Sheets
13 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (0.54%) PaaS
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
7 15 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (0.75%) MPLS
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%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.46%) Power BI
2 17 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (0.86%) Metadata
4 14 (0.75%) Tableau
5 13 (0.70%) SQL Server
6 10 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
7 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.16%) Big Data
11 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.16%) GIS
11 3 (0.16%) Power Query
12 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 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%) Appium
9 1 (0.054%) Atlassian Bamboo
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 Rhapsody
9 1 (0.054%) RSpec
General
1 845 (45.36%) Social Skills
2 725 (38.92%) Finance
3 316 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (10.36%) Organisational Skills
5 161 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 133 (7.14%) Banking
7 107 (5.74%) Marketing
8 102 (5.48%) Retail
9 68 (3.65%) Legal
10 66 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
11 59 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 51 (2.74%) Telecoms
13 41 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (1.88%) Financial Institution
15 28 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (1.50%) Investment Banking
16 25 (1.34%) Front Office
17 23 (1.23%) Military
18 22 (1.18%) Local Government
19 19 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 720 (38.65%) Project Manager
2 210 (11.27%) Analyst
3 189 (10.14%) Senior
4 150 (8.05%) Lead
5 132 (7.09%) Senior Manager
6 112 (6.01%) Senior Project Manager
7 109 (5.85%) Business Analyst
8 86 (4.62%) IT Manager
9 77 (4.13%) IT Project Manager
10 74 (3.97%) Programme Manager
11 61 (3.27%) Consultant
12 58 (3.11%) Technical Manager
13 56 (3.01%) 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%) React
10 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (4.94%) Management Information System
2 87 (4.67%) 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 40 (2.15%) Virtual Team
8 34 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (1.77%) 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
1 695 (37.31%) Agile
2 652 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 481 (25.82%) Project Delivery
4 419 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
5 350 (18.79%) PRINCE2
6 297 (15.94%) Migration
7 285 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 276 (14.81%) Change Management
9 275 (14.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 240 (12.88%) Decision-Making
11 237 (12.72%) Waterfall
12 223 (11.97%) Risk Management
13 181 (9.72%) Scrum
14 178 (9.55%) ERP
15 162 (8.70%) Budget Management
16 140 (7.51%) AI
17 133 (7.14%) Roadmaps
18 128 (6.87%) Data Migration
19 126 (6.76%) Project Planning
20 125 (6.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 76 (4.08%) SQL
2 45 (2.42%) 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 5 (0.27%) ABAP
9 5 (0.27%) R
9 5 (0.27%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.21%) Ada
10 4 (0.21%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.16%) JCL
11 3 (0.16%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.16%) Perl
11 3 (0.16%) SOQL
11 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.11%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 321 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 294 (15.78%) Degree
3 268 (14.39%) PMP
4 238 (12.78%) SC Cleared
5 228 (12.24%) PMI Certification
6 67 (3.60%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.20%) Master's Degree
8 38 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 31 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.56%) ACCA
10 29 (1.56%) CIMA
11 28 (1.50%) APMP
12 22 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.07%) CISSP
13 20 (1.07%) MBA
14 18 (0.97%) CISM
15 17 (0.91%) CBAP
16 14 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 12 (0.64%) IIBA
18 10 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (12.18%) PMO
2 124 (6.66%) QA
3 57 (3.06%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.47%) GDPR
5 40 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.77%) NIST
6 33 (1.77%) SLA
7 18 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.70%) GRC
9 10 (0.54%) 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%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.21%) GxP
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%) 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%) Control-M
8 1 (0.054%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.054%) Kibana
8 1 (0.054%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.054%) Puppet
8 1 (0.054%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 280 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 162 (8.70%) SAP
3 98 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 64 (3.44%) Oracle
5 49 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.31%) Google
7 29 (1.56%) Adobe
8 26 (1.40%) Cisco
9 23 (1.23%) Workday
10 18 (0.97%) Sitecore
10 18 (0.97%) VMware
11 17 (0.91%) CyberArk
12 15 (0.81%) Databricks
13 14 (0.75%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.75%) Sage
14 13 (0.70%) NEC
15 12 (0.64%) IBM
16 10 (0.54%) IFS
17 8 (0.43%) F5
17 8 (0.43%) Murex