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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,757 2,165 3,135
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.16% 8.33% 8.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.90% 9.27% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,100 1,237 2,028
10th Percentile £334 £275 £325
25th Percentile £417 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -2.10% -
75th Percentile £618 £620 £625
90th Percentile £713 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 94 194
10th Percentile £15.60 £23.70 £18.32
25th Percentile £20.79 £31.25 £25.10
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.56 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +3.91% -27.72%
75th Percentile £63.58 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £65.00 £63.37
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £37.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +6.76% -2.94% -22.20%

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 29,784 23,344 33,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.41% 89.82% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,034 14,461 22,141
10th Percentile £310 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,874 730 1,983
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.23 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% - -
75th Percentile £60.41 £64.73 £60.32
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.03 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.28
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.35% -1.12%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -15 812 £540 +2.86% 295
South East -12 273 £525 +4.95% 314
North of England -24 273 £480 +5.49% 192
Midlands -22 202 £492 -1.60% 156
North West -13 158 £492 +9.33% 98
West Midlands -24 139 £500 -10.79% 82
South West -26 110 £450 -10.00% 108
Yorkshire -27 105 £480 +6.67% 73
East Midlands -14 65 £402 -2.90% 74
East of England -37 61 £450 -10.00% 130
North East -22 14 £410 -24.60% 26
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
1 157 (8.94%) Confluence
2 91 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.25%) CMS
4 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.46%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.34%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) nginx
9 4 (0.23%) Apache
10 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.057%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.057%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.057%) IIS
12 1 (0.057%) Moodle
12 1 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 198 (11.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 197 (11.21%) Microsoft Project
3 144 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
4 107 (6.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 50 (2.85%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.25%) Trello
7 12 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.23%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.17%) InVision
10 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.17%) Sketch
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
11 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.11%) ProjectWise
12 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 49 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.02%) Primavera
3 15 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
4 13 (0.74%) Loan IQ
5 11 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 10 (0.57%) SAP Payroll
7 9 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
8 8 (0.46%) Shopify
9 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.28%) SAP HCM
11 5 (0.28%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 141 (8.03%) Azure
2 91 (5.18%) Power Platform
3 90 (5.12%) AWS
4 52 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (2.73%) SaaS
6 33 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (1.76%) GCP
8 22 (1.25%) Asana
9 20 (1.14%) OpenShift
10 18 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (0.91%) Google Workspace
11 16 (0.91%) Smartsheet
12 14 (0.80%) GitHub
12 14 (0.80%) OneDrive
12 14 (0.80%) Serverless
13 13 (0.74%) IaaS
14 12 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.68%) PaaS
15 9 (0.51%) Entra ID
15 9 (0.51%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.71%) Firewall
2 26 (1.48%) WAN
3 18 (1.02%) LAN
4 16 (0.91%) Network Security
5 15 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
6 12 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.63%) DNS
7 11 (0.63%) VPN
7 11 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.51%) Skype
9 9 (0.51%) SSL
10 8 (0.46%) BGP
10 8 (0.46%) Internet
10 8 (0.46%) MPLS
11 7 (0.40%) DHCP
12 6 (0.34%) Broadband
12 6 (0.34%) IPsec
13 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (4.78%) Power BI
2 28 (1.59%) Tableau
3 18 (1.02%) SQL Server
4 17 (0.97%) Metadata
5 14 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.46%) SAP HANA
7 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.23%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.23%) GIS
10 3 (0.17%) Big Data
10 3 (0.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) Power Query
10 3 (0.17%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 289 (16.45%) JIRA
2 16 (0.91%) Git
3 11 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.40%) GitLab
5 4 (0.23%) Selenium
6 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.11%) Appium
7 2 (0.11%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.11%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.11%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.057%) Ant
8 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.057%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.057%) ERwin
8 1 (0.057%) JUnit
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.057%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.057%) Toad
8 1 (0.057%) Visual Studio
General
1 880 (50.09%) Social Skills
2 667 (37.96%) Finance
3 299 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (9.73%) Organisational Skills
5 170 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 159 (9.05%) Banking
7 89 (5.07%) Retail
8 79 (4.50%) Marketing
9 73 (4.15%) Legal
10 71 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
11 62 (3.53%) Manufacturing
12 51 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (2.45%) Telecoms
14 42 (2.39%) Investment Banking
15 30 (1.71%) Local Government
16 29 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 27 (1.54%) Front Office
18 24 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
18 24 (1.37%) Financial Institution
19 17 (0.97%) Billing
Job Titles
1 659 (37.51%) Project Manager
2 211 (12.01%) Analyst
3 161 (9.16%) Lead
4 146 (8.31%) Senior
5 113 (6.43%) Business Analyst
6 95 (5.41%) Senior Manager
7 85 (4.84%) IT Manager
8 77 (4.38%) IT Project Manager
8 77 (4.38%) Senior Project Manager
9 76 (4.33%) Consultant
10 54 (3.07%) Delivery Manager
11 52 (2.96%) Infrastructure Manager
12 51 (2.90%) Technical Manager
13 49 (2.79%) Programme Manager
14 46 (2.62%) Coordinator
15 43 (2.45%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 41 (2.33%) Architect
17 34 (1.94%) SAP Manager
18 33 (1.88%) Security Manager
19 32 (1.82%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.08%) Middleware
2 18 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (0.85%) Web Services
4 13 (0.74%) REST
4 13 (0.74%) SOAP
5 12 (0.68%) EDI
6 11 (0.63%) .NET
7 10 (0.57%) XML
8 8 (0.46%) AngularJS
8 8 (0.46%) CSS
9 7 (0.40%) HTML
10 6 (0.34%) ADO
10 6 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (0.34%) OAuth
10 6 (0.34%) OpenID
10 6 (0.34%) React
11 5 (0.28%) OAuth2
11 5 (0.28%) RESTful
11 5 (0.28%) SAML
11 5 (0.28%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 114 (6.49%) Onboarding
2 93 (5.29%) Management Information System
3 54 (3.07%) Data Centre
4 53 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
5 49 (2.79%) PMI
5 49 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 43 (2.45%) Virtual Team
7 38 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.25%) Operational Technology
10 21 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (1.08%) NHS
12 18 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.02%) Social Media
13 16 (0.91%) CMDB
13 16 (0.91%) SCADA
14 13 (0.74%) Cloud Native
15 12 (0.68%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.63%) Web Conferencing
17 10 (0.57%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.96%) Windows
2 14 (0.80%) Linux
3 11 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.57%) Unix
4 10 (0.57%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.057%) AIX
6 1 (0.057%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.057%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.057%) VMS
6 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.057%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (38.47%) Agile
2 581 (33.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 434 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
4 420 (23.90%) Project Delivery
5 362 (20.60%) PRINCE2
6 309 (17.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 281 (15.99%) Change Management
8 261 (14.85%) Migration
9 234 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 200 (11.38%) Waterfall
11 195 (11.10%) Decision-Making
12 186 (10.59%) Risk Management
13 182 (10.36%) Scrum
14 169 (9.62%) Budget Management
15 136 (7.74%) ERP
16 134 (7.63%) DevOps
17 131 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
18 129 (7.34%) ITIL
19 126 (7.17%) Business Analysis
20 125 (7.11%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 80 (4.55%) SQL
2 41 (2.33%) Python
3 14 (0.80%) Java
4 13 (0.74%) C#
5 12 (0.68%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.34%) VBA
7 5 (0.28%) Perl
7 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.28%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.23%) ABAP
8 4 (0.23%) R
8 4 (0.23%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.17%) C++
9 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.17%) Korn
9 3 (0.17%) SOQL
10 2 (0.11%) Go
10 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.11%) Ruby
10 2 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 319 (18.16%) Degree
2 277 (15.77%) Security Cleared
3 251 (14.29%) PMP
4 231 (13.15%) PMI Certification
5 203 (11.55%) SC Cleared
6 60 (3.41%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 37 (2.11%) APMP
9 33 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 25 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 22 (1.25%) CISSP
12 22 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 20 (1.14%) CISM
14 17 (0.97%) MBA
15 15 (0.85%) CBAP
15 15 (0.85%) IIBA
16 10 (0.57%) ACCA
16 10 (0.57%) CIMA
17 9 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (11.21%) PMO
2 123 (7.00%) QA
3 48 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.62%) GDPR
5 45 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.76%) NIST
7 20 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (0.91%) GRC
9 16 (0.91%) SLA
10 12 (0.68%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.57%) Basel III
12 7 (0.40%) ISO 19650
13 6 (0.34%) EMIR
13 6 (0.34%) NCSC
13 6 (0.34%) PSD2
13 6 (0.34%) WCAG
14 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 29 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.80%) Docker
3 7 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.28%) RACF
4 5 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.057%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.057%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.057%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (0.91%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.80%) Terraform
3 11 (0.63%) SCCM
4 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.34%) Ansible
6 6 (0.34%) Kibana
6 6 (0.34%) logstash
7 4 (0.23%) Consul
7 4 (0.23%) Packer
8 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.17%) Grafana
8 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.057%) Cisco UCCE
9 1 (0.057%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.057%) Puppet
9 1 (0.057%) SCOM
9 1 (0.057%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.057%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 281 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 146 (8.31%) SAP
3 84 (4.78%) ServiceNow
4 71 (4.04%) Oracle
5 64 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 31 (1.76%) Google
7 27 (1.54%) Cisco
8 20 (1.14%) Adobe
8 20 (1.14%) Atlassian
9 19 (1.08%) Workday
10 15 (0.85%) Planview
11 14 (0.80%) VMware
12 13 (0.74%) CyberArk
12 13 (0.74%) Databricks
12 13 (0.74%) Sage
13 12 (0.68%) Palo Alto
14 11 (0.63%) IBM
15 9 (0.51%) Juniper
16 8 (0.46%) CheckPoint
16 8 (0.46%) Splunk