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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 20 19
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,709 2,393 3,025
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.43% 8.29% 8.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.11% 9.35% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 1,341 2,004
10th Percentile £334 £277 £329
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 113 139
10th Percentile £20.18 £21.25 £21.61
25th Percentile £24.61 £27.00 £30.65
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -22.22% +3.14%
75th Percentile £63.40 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £67.40 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +10.29% -30.61% +21.63%

All Process and 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 27,948 25,588 32,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.76% 88.59% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,756 15,817 22,467
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,828 844 1,393
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.80
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%
75th Percentile £53.81 £64.79 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.66 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

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 20 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -16 798 £525 -4.55% 276
South East -9 261 £525 - 282
North of England -29 259 £500 +5.26% 222
Midlands -22 193 £492 -6.29% 167
North West -18 151 £496 +10.22% 121
West Midlands -23 133 £500 -9.09% 99
Yorkshire -24 100 £500 +5.26% 87
South West -25 99 £475 - 100
East Midlands -9 62 £468 +17.00% 68
East of England -35 59 £450 - 96
North East -25 10 £410 -28.70% 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
1 146 (8.54%) Confluence
2 104 (6.09%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.58%) CMS
4 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.47%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (0.41%) WordPress
7 5 (0.29%) nginx
8 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.059%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.059%) Apache
9 1 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.059%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.059%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.059%) IIS
9 1 (0.059%) Moodle
9 1 (0.059%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.059%) SAS
Applications
1 187 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 170 (9.95%) Microsoft Project
3 152 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
4 111 (6.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 55 (3.22%) MS Visio
6 26 (1.52%) Trello
7 9 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.23%) Revit
10 3 (0.18%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.18%) InDesign
10 3 (0.18%) InVision
10 3 (0.18%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.18%) Sketch
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.12%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.12%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 40 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.76%) Primavera
3 12 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.47%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.41%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
6 7 (0.41%) Workfront
7 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.35%) Shopify
8 5 (0.29%) ResourceLink
8 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.23%) Eloqua
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.18%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 130 (7.61%) Azure
2 99 (5.79%) Power Platform
3 83 (4.86%) AWS
4 56 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (2.34%) SaaS
6 33 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (1.81%) GCP
8 29 (1.70%) Asana
9 22 (1.29%) Google Workspace
9 22 (1.29%) Smartsheet
10 20 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
11 18 (1.05%) GitHub
12 17 (0.99%) OpenShift
13 16 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (0.88%) OneDrive
15 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
16 11 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (0.53%) Entra ID
17 9 (0.53%) OCI
17 9 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.99%) Firewall
2 19 (1.11%) WAN
3 16 (0.94%) LAN
4 15 (0.88%) Network Security
5 13 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
6 12 (0.70%) DNS
7 11 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.59%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.59%) SSH
9 9 (0.53%) Skype
9 9 (0.53%) VPN
10 8 (0.47%) DHCP
11 7 (0.41%) Internet
11 7 (0.41%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.41%) Wireless
12 6 (0.35%) Broadband
12 6 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.29%) SSL
14 4 (0.23%) BGP
14 4 (0.23%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.27%) Power BI
2 30 (1.76%) Tableau
3 26 (1.52%) SQL Server
4 17 (0.99%) Metadata
5 15 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (0.76%) SAP HANA
7 10 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.29%) Power Query
10 3 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.18%) Big Data
10 3 (0.18%) GIS
10 3 (0.18%) MySQL
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.18%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 281 (16.44%) JIRA
2 13 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.70%) Git
4 6 (0.35%) SpecFlow
5 5 (0.29%) GitLab
6 4 (0.23%) Selenium
7 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.059%) Ant
9 1 (0.059%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.059%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.059%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.059%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.059%) JUnit
9 1 (0.059%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.059%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.059%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.059%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 831 (48.62%) Social Skills
2 616 (36.04%) Finance
3 293 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (9.13%) Banking
5 150 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 136 (7.96%) Organisational Skills
7 95 (5.56%) Marketing
8 80 (4.68%) Legal
9 78 (4.56%) Retail
10 72 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
10 72 (4.21%) Manufacturing
11 48 (2.81%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (2.52%) Investment Banking
14 38 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 36 (2.11%) Local Government
16 30 (1.76%) Front Office
17 29 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
17 29 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (1.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 622 (36.40%) Project Manager
2 197 (11.53%) Analyst
3 142 (8.31%) Lead
4 132 (7.72%) Senior
5 108 (6.32%) Business Analyst
6 89 (5.21%) IT Manager
7 79 (4.62%) Senior Manager
8 76 (4.45%) IT Project Manager
9 69 (4.04%) Consultant
10 59 (3.45%) Senior Project Manager
10 59 (3.45%) Technical Manager
11 52 (3.04%) Programme Manager
12 51 (2.98%) Infrastructure Manager
13 45 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
14 43 (2.52%) Coordinator
14 43 (2.52%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 39 (2.28%) Security Manager
16 38 (2.22%) Technical Project Manager
17 34 (1.99%) SAP Manager
18 33 (1.93%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (0.94%) .NET
1 16 (0.94%) Middleware
2 15 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 12 (0.70%) AngularJS
3 12 (0.70%) EDI
3 12 (0.70%) HTML
4 10 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (0.59%) RESTful
5 8 (0.47%) CSS
5 8 (0.47%) React
5 8 (0.47%) REST
5 8 (0.47%) Web Services
5 8 (0.47%) XML
6 7 (0.41%) .NET Framework
6 7 (0.41%) Entity Framework
7 6 (0.35%) LangChain
7 6 (0.35%) NHibernate
7 6 (0.35%) Playwright
7 6 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (0.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.85%) Onboarding
2 97 (5.68%) Management Information System
3 50 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
3 50 (2.93%) PMI
4 47 (2.75%) Virtual Team
5 44 (2.57%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 43 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 23 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.11%) Social Media
11 17 (0.99%) Mobile App
12 15 (0.88%) Cloud Native
12 15 (0.88%) NHS
12 15 (0.88%) Operational Technology
13 14 (0.82%) Life Science
14 12 (0.70%) CMDB
14 12 (0.70%) Driving Licence
14 12 (0.70%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.63%) Windows
2 18 (1.05%) Linux
3 14 (0.82%) Unix
4 12 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.18%) VMS
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
8 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.059%) Android
9 1 (0.059%) Solaris
9 1 (0.059%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.059%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (38.33%) Agile
2 537 (31.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 412 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
4 400 (23.41%) Project Delivery
5 347 (20.30%) PRINCE2
6 321 (18.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 303 (17.73%) Change Management
8 230 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 230 (13.46%) Migration
9 206 (12.05%) Waterfall
10 187 (10.94%) Decision-Making
11 185 (10.83%) Risk Management
12 167 (9.77%) Scrum
13 144 (8.43%) Project Governance
14 141 (8.25%) ITIL
15 135 (7.90%) Budget Management
16 129 (7.55%) DevOps
17 122 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
18 116 (6.79%) Roadmaps
19 114 (6.67%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 73 (4.27%) SQL
2 46 (2.69%) Python
3 16 (0.94%) JavaScript
4 15 (0.88%) C#
5 14 (0.82%) Java
6 10 (0.59%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.29%) Perl
8 4 (0.23%) C++
8 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.23%) R
8 4 (0.23%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.23%) VB
8 4 (0.23%) VBA
9 3 (0.18%) ABAP
9 3 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.18%) Korn
10 2 (0.12%) C
10 2 (0.12%) Go
10 2 (0.12%) Ruby
10 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 333 (19.49%) Degree
2 233 (13.63%) PMP
3 228 (13.34%) PMI Certification
3 228 (13.34%) Security Cleared
4 159 (9.30%) SC Cleared
5 52 (3.04%) DV Cleared
6 41 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (1.87%) APMP
8 26 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 24 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 23 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (1.11%) CISSP
13 16 (0.94%) CISM
14 10 (0.59%) A+ Certification
15 9 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (0.47%) CCNP
16 8 (0.47%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (9.89%) PMO
2 108 (6.32%) QA
3 47 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 43 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (2.34%) GDPR
6 26 (1.52%) NIST
7 21 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.99%) GRC
10 12 (0.70%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.64%) P3O
12 7 (0.41%) ISO 19650
13 6 (0.35%) Basel III
13 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.35%) SLA
14 5 (0.29%) EMIR
14 5 (0.29%) GxP
14 5 (0.29%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.29%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.99%) Docker
3 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.059%) IAG
7 1 (0.059%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.059%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.11%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.88%) Terraform
3 11 (0.64%) SCCM
4 10 (0.59%) Kibana
5 9 (0.53%) logstash
5 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.41%) Ansible
7 6 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.23%) Consul
8 4 (0.23%) Packer
9 3 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.18%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Grafana
10 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.059%) SCOM
11 1 (0.059%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 285 (16.68%) Microsoft
2 133 (7.78%) SAP
3 70 (4.10%) Oracle
3 70 (4.10%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.98%) Salesforce
5 49 (2.87%) Google
6 27 (1.58%) Cisco
7 20 (1.17%) Adobe
8 19 (1.11%) Atlassian
8 19 (1.11%) Workday
9 18 (1.05%) Planview
10 14 (0.82%) Databricks
10 14 (0.82%) IBM
11 13 (0.76%) VMware
12 10 (0.59%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.53%) Juniper
13 9 (0.53%) Remedy
14 8 (0.47%) NEC
14 8 (0.47%) Splunk
15 7 (0.41%) CyberArk