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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 31 24
Rank change year-on-year -28 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,772 1,720 2,448
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 6.11% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 6.73% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,086 1,393
10th Percentile £312 £333 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.03% -1.41% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 103 122
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.19 £21.25
25th Percentile £30.70 £24.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £34.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.62% -1.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £64.75 £63.40 £54.88
90th Percentile £82.65 £65.00 £67.48
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £34.00 £34.22
% change year-on-year +41.18% -0.63% -23.97%

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 39,775 25,570 27,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.94% 90.90% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,015 16,235 16,841
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,044 1,594 1,106
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.41 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.80 £66.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -32 844 £550 - 1,096
North of England -28 268 £477 -4.70% 228
South East -23 265 £511 +1.24% 275
North West -31 154 £500 +1.63% 126
Midlands -51 144 £544 +14.47% 155
South West -21 129 £475 +5.56% 104
Yorkshire -5 108 £473 -5.50% 86
West Midlands -58 93 £550 +10.00% 92
East of England -26 74 £510 - 129
East Midlands -22 51 £538 +19.44% 63
North East -43 8 £420 +12.00% 17
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
1 106 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 90 (5.08%) Confluence
3 30 (1.69%) CMS
4 23 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.40%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.40%) 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%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) Moodle
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.056%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.056%) Appian
12 1 (0.056%) Camunda
12 1 (0.056%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.056%) WinCC
Applications
1 187 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 161 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
3 143 (8.07%) Microsoft Office
4 114 (6.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.98%) MS Visio
6 21 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.68%) Trello
8 9 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Windchill
10 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.23%) Simulink
11 4 (0.23%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.11%) Houdini
13 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 2 (0.11%) NUKE
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.056%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 44 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.07%) Primavera
3 14 (0.79%) Adobe Campaign
4 13 (0.73%) Magento
5 9 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.51%) SAP MM
6 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.45%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.45%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.45%) SAP PS
6 8 (0.45%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.34%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.28%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP SD
8 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.23%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 160 (9.03%) Azure
2 119 (6.72%) Power Platform
3 79 (4.46%) SaaS
4 67 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (3.39%) AWS
7 30 (1.69%) Smartsheet
8 27 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (1.30%) Google Workspace
10 19 (1.07%) Asana
11 18 (1.02%) GCP
12 17 (0.96%) Entra ID
13 14 (0.79%) GitHub
13 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.62%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.56%) Amazon S3
15 10 (0.56%) Snowflake
16 9 (0.51%) Power Automate
17 8 (0.45%) Google Drive
18 7 (0.40%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.75%) Network Security
2 23 (1.30%) DNS
3 21 (1.19%) Firewall
4 18 (1.02%) WAN
5 17 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
5 17 (0.96%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.73%) LAN
6 13 (0.73%) VPN
6 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.62%) BGP
8 10 (0.56%) Intranet
9 9 (0.51%) DHCP
9 9 (0.51%) Wireless
10 8 (0.45%) 3GPP
10 8 (0.45%) 4G
10 8 (0.45%) Internet
10 8 (0.45%) LTE
10 8 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
10 8 (0.45%) VLAN
10 8 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.98%) Power BI
2 20 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (0.85%) Data Lake
4 14 (0.79%) Tableau
5 13 (0.73%) SQL Server
6 11 (0.62%) Metadata
7 9 (0.51%) Power Query
8 8 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.45%) GIS
9 6 (0.34%) Big Data
10 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.23%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.17%) QlikView
12 3 (0.17%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.11%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 236 (13.32%) JIRA
2 23 (1.30%) Git
3 17 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
5 8 (0.45%) Subversion
6 6 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
7 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.17%) GitLab
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.056%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.056%) Postman
9 1 (0.056%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.056%) Snyk
9 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.056%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.056%) TestRail
9 1 (0.056%) Toad
General
1 822 (46.39%) Social Skills
2 700 (39.50%) Finance
3 288 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (10.84%) Organisational Skills
5 163 (9.20%) Banking
6 148 (8.35%) Public Sector
7 116 (6.55%) Marketing
8 102 (5.76%) Retail
9 93 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
10 73 (4.12%) Manufacturing
11 63 (3.56%) Legal
12 59 (3.33%) Telecoms
13 54 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.86%) Aerospace
15 31 (1.75%) Local Government
16 27 (1.52%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 23 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
18 23 (1.30%) Front Office
19 22 (1.24%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 713 (40.24%) Project Manager
2 163 (9.20%) Senior
3 151 (8.52%) Lead
4 127 (7.17%) Senior Manager
5 110 (6.21%) Analyst
6 104 (5.87%) IT Manager
7 95 (5.36%) Senior Project Manager
8 94 (5.30%) Programme Manager
9 79 (4.46%) Delivery Manager
10 77 (4.35%) IT Project Manager
11 71 (4.01%) Technical Manager
12 61 (3.44%) Business Analyst
13 56 (3.16%) Consultant
14 50 (2.82%) Technical Project Manager
15 40 (2.26%) Project Officer
16 39 (2.20%) Coordinator
17 35 (1.98%) Infrastructure Manager
17 35 (1.98%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 34 (1.92%) Project Coordinator
19 33 (1.86%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.19%) Middleware
2 17 (0.96%) ADO
3 13 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (0.56%) REST
5 9 (0.51%) OAuth
5 9 (0.51%) VML
6 8 (0.45%) pytest
6 8 (0.45%) Web Services
7 7 (0.40%) .NET
7 7 (0.40%) HTML
7 7 (0.40%) JSON
7 7 (0.40%) Terraform
8 6 (0.34%) React
8 6 (0.34%) SOAP
9 5 (0.28%) DAO
9 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
10 4 (0.23%) XML
11 3 (0.17%) ASP.NET
11 3 (0.17%) Lightning Web Components
11 3 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (6.26%) Management Information System
2 92 (5.19%) Onboarding
3 85 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
6 45 (2.54%) Virtual Team
7 34 (1.92%) PMI
8 33 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.86%) Operational Technology
9 25 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.30%) Social Media
11 22 (1.24%) FMCG
11 22 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.19%) Life Science
13 20 (1.13%) AI Agents
13 20 (1.13%) Credit Risk
14 17 (0.96%) Fixed Income
15 15 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (0.85%) Mobile App
16 14 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.77%) Linux
2 46 (2.60%) Windows
3 21 (1.19%) Unix
4 20 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.23%) zOS
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.056%) macOS
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (47.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 688 (38.83%) Agile
3 539 (30.42%) Project Delivery
4 425 (23.98%) PRINCE2
5 319 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 313 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
7 286 (16.14%) Change Management
8 256 (14.45%) Decision-Making
9 253 (14.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 235 (13.26%) Risk Management
11 233 (13.15%) Migration
12 225 (12.70%) Waterfall
13 212 (11.96%) AI
14 195 (11.00%) Project Governance
15 189 (10.67%) Scrum
16 166 (9.37%) Project Planning
17 159 (8.97%) Roadmaps
18 144 (8.13%) Change Control
19 139 (7.84%) Programme Management
20 138 (7.79%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (3.67%) SQL
2 64 (3.61%) Python
3 13 (0.73%) VBA
4 12 (0.68%) C++
5 11 (0.62%) Java
6 8 (0.45%) Ada
6 8 (0.45%) Bash
6 8 (0.45%) C#
6 8 (0.45%) Korn
7 7 (0.40%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
9 5 (0.28%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.17%) ABAP
10 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.17%) C
10 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.11%) JCL
11 2 (0.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 297 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 282 (15.91%) Degree
3 270 (15.24%) PMP
4 238 (13.43%) PMI Certification
5 200 (11.29%) SC Cleared
6 79 (4.46%) DV Cleared
7 70 (3.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 33 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.90%) ISTQB
10 16 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 15 (0.85%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (0.73%) APMP
14 12 (0.68%) CISSP
15 10 (0.56%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
16 9 (0.51%) PgMP
16 9 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (12.87%) PMO
2 79 (4.46%) QA
3 50 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.47%) GDPR
5 24 (1.35%) GRC
6 20 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.02%) SLA
8 16 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.73%) NIST
10 12 (0.68%) P3O
11 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.34%) FINREP
12 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.28%) COREP
13 5 (0.28%) GMP
13 5 (0.28%) MISRA
13 5 (0.28%) MISRA C
14 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.23%) ITGC
14 4 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (0.62%) vSphere
4 7 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) KVM
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.056%) ACF2
9 1 (0.056%) Docker
9 1 (0.056%) RACF
9 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (0.96%) Ansible
2 9 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.40%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.34%) Puppet
5 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.17%) BMC PATROL
7 3 (0.17%) BMC Performance Manager
7 3 (0.17%) Perfmon
7 3 (0.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (0.11%) SCCM
9 1 (0.056%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.056%) Grafana
9 1 (0.056%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.056%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 328 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 121 (6.83%) SAP
3 74 (4.18%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.84%) Oracle
5 46 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.43%) VMware
7 41 (2.31%) Adobe
8 35 (1.98%) Google
9 26 (1.47%) Cisco
10 20 (1.13%) Atlassian
10 20 (1.13%) IBM
11 16 (0.90%) Databricks
11 16 (0.90%) Sitecore
11 16 (0.90%) Workday
12 15 (0.85%) NEC
13 14 (0.79%) Planview
14 12 (0.68%) Alteryx
15 11 (0.62%) Ariba
15 11 (0.62%) JD Edwards
16 9 (0.51%) Murex