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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 20 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,694 2,261 2,973
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.44% 8.39% 8.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.16% 9.42% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 1,256 1,943
10th Percentile £338 £275 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -
75th Percentile £618 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 101 152
10th Percentile £18.27 £21.25 £20.31
25th Percentile £24.00 £27.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.88% -20.00% +5.49%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.15 £65.00 £70.05
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year +25.37% -22.94% +6.85%

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 27,490 23,991 31,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.32% 89.05% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,508 14,731 21,614
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,729 768 1,481
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -17 795 £525 -4.55% 280
South East -7 257 £525 - 345
North of England -21 255 £480 +1.05% 225
Midlands -20 199 £492 -6.29% 196
North West -12 145 £492 +9.33% 107
West Midlands -22 135 £500 -9.09% 123
South West -26 105 £450 -6.49% 125
Yorkshire -15 101 £475 +5.56% 96
East Midlands -11 66 £463 +15.63% 73
East of England -35 51 £469 -3.85% 154
North East -25 11 £450 -21.74% 30
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
1 153 (9.03%) Confluence
2 101 (5.96%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.12%) CMS
4 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.47%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.35%) WordPress
8 5 (0.30%) nginx
9 4 (0.24%) Apache
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.059%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.059%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.059%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.059%) Moodle
11 1 (0.059%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.059%) SAS
11 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 187 (11.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 185 (10.92%) Microsoft Project
3 149 (8.80%) Microsoft Office
4 111 (6.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (3.48%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.36%) Trello
7 8 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.24%) Revit
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.18%) InVision
9 3 (0.18%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.18%) Sketch
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.12%) InDesign
10 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.12%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.059%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 43 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.89%) Primavera
3 12 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.47%) Loan IQ
7 7 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
7 7 (0.41%) Shopify
8 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 5 (0.30%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.30%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.30%) Workfront
10 4 (0.24%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
11 3 (0.18%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 136 (8.03%) Azure
2 101 (5.96%) Power Platform
3 82 (4.84%) AWS
4 53 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (2.30%) SaaS
6 34 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (1.65%) GCP
8 24 (1.42%) Asana
9 22 (1.30%) Smartsheet
10 17 (1.00%) GitHub
10 17 (1.00%) OpenShift
11 15 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (0.89%) Google Workspace
11 15 (0.89%) OneDrive
11 15 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
12 13 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (0.59%) Serverless
14 9 (0.53%) Entra ID
14 9 (0.53%) IaaS
14 9 (0.53%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.89%) Firewall
2 20 (1.18%) WAN
3 14 (0.83%) LAN
4 13 (0.77%) Structured Cabling
5 12 (0.71%) Network Security
6 10 (0.59%) DNS
6 10 (0.59%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.53%) Skype
7 9 (0.53%) SSH
7 9 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.47%) VPN
9 7 (0.41%) Internet
10 6 (0.35%) Broadband
10 6 (0.35%) DHCP
10 6 (0.35%) SSL
11 4 (0.24%) BGP
11 4 (0.24%) Multicast
11 4 (0.24%) VLAN
11 4 (0.24%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (5.49%) Power BI
2 26 (1.53%) Tableau
3 24 (1.42%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.00%) Metadata
5 16 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (0.59%) SAP HANA
7 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.30%) Power Query
9 3 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.18%) Big Data
9 3 (0.18%) GIS
9 3 (0.18%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.12%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 288 (17.00%) JIRA
2 15 (0.89%) Git
3 11 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.35%) GitLab
5 4 (0.24%) Selenium
5 4 (0.24%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.12%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.059%) Ant
8 1 (0.059%) Appium
8 1 (0.059%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.059%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.059%) Gradle
8 1 (0.059%) JUnit
8 1 (0.059%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.059%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.059%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.059%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 839 (49.53%) Social Skills
2 630 (37.19%) Finance
3 301 (17.77%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 159 (9.39%) Banking
6 149 (8.80%) Organisational Skills
7 82 (4.84%) Marketing
8 81 (4.78%) Legal
8 81 (4.78%) Retail
9 67 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
10 66 (3.90%) Manufacturing
11 45 (2.66%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
13 40 (2.36%) Investment Banking
14 37 (2.18%) Local Government
15 35 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 27 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
17 26 (1.53%) Front Office
18 24 (1.42%) Financial Institution
19 19 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 630 (37.19%) Project Manager
2 208 (12.28%) Analyst
3 156 (9.21%) Lead
4 137 (8.09%) Senior
5 110 (6.49%) Business Analyst
6 92 (5.43%) IT Manager
7 83 (4.90%) Senior Manager
8 79 (4.66%) IT Project Manager
9 73 (4.31%) Consultant
10 63 (3.72%) Senior Project Manager
11 53 (3.13%) Technical Manager
12 47 (2.77%) Programme Manager
13 45 (2.66%) Delivery Manager
13 45 (2.66%) Infrastructure Manager
14 43 (2.54%) Coordinator
15 37 (2.18%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 34 (2.01%) Architect
16 34 (2.01%) Technical Project Manager
17 32 (1.89%) SAP Manager
17 32 (1.89%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (1.00%) Middleware
3 12 (0.71%) .NET
3 12 (0.71%) EDI
3 12 (0.71%) REST
4 11 (0.65%) SOAP
5 10 (0.59%) HTML
6 9 (0.53%) ADO
6 9 (0.53%) AngularJS
6 9 (0.53%) XML
7 8 (0.47%) Web Services
8 7 (0.41%) React
8 7 (0.41%) RESTful
9 6 (0.35%) CSS
9 6 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (0.35%) LangChain
9 6 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.30%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.30%) Entity Framework
11 4 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 106 (6.26%) Onboarding
2 97 (5.73%) Management Information System
3 56 (3.31%) PMI
4 50 (2.95%) Data Centre
4 50 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
5 48 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 46 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
7 44 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 28 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.00%) NHS
12 15 (0.89%) Operational Technology
12 15 (0.89%) Social Media
13 14 (0.83%) Life Science
14 13 (0.77%) CMDB
14 13 (0.77%) Mobile App
15 12 (0.71%) SCADA
16 11 (0.65%) Learning Management System
16 11 (0.65%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.66%) Windows
2 16 (0.94%) Linux
3 13 (0.77%) Unix
4 12 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
8 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) VMS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.059%) Android
9 1 (0.059%) Solaris
9 1 (0.059%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (38.08%) Agile
2 567 (33.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 433 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
4 411 (24.26%) Project Delivery
5 358 (21.13%) PRINCE2
6 315 (18.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 287 (16.94%) Change Management
8 231 (13.64%) Migration
9 223 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 205 (12.10%) Waterfall
11 187 (11.04%) Decision-Making
12 183 (10.80%) Risk Management
13 162 (9.56%) Scrum
14 150 (8.85%) Budget Management
15 144 (8.50%) Project Governance
16 140 (8.26%) ITIL
17 129 (7.62%) DevOps
18 122 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
19 118 (6.97%) ERP
20 117 (6.91%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 77 (4.55%) SQL
2 39 (2.30%) Python
3 17 (1.00%) Java
4 14 (0.83%) JavaScript
5 11 (0.65%) C#
6 6 (0.35%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.30%) Perl
7 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.24%) C++
8 4 (0.24%) R
8 4 (0.24%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.24%) VBA
9 3 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.18%) Korn
9 3 (0.18%) VB
10 2 (0.12%) ABAP
10 2 (0.12%) C
10 2 (0.12%) Go
10 2 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 320 (18.89%) Degree
2 244 (14.40%) PMP
3 239 (14.11%) Security Cleared
4 238 (14.05%) PMI Certification
5 172 (10.15%) SC Cleared
6 53 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.18%) APMP
8 36 (2.13%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 24 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 21 (1.24%) CISSP
14 19 (1.12%) CISM
15 17 (1.00%) MBA
16 12 (0.71%) CBAP
17 10 (0.59%) A+ Certification
17 10 (0.59%) IIBA
18 9 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (11.28%) PMO
2 105 (6.20%) QA
3 46 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.60%) GDPR
6 28 (1.65%) NIST
7 22 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.89%) GRC
10 11 (0.65%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.65%) P3O
11 9 (0.53%) Basel III
11 9 (0.53%) SLA
12 7 (0.41%) ISO 19650
13 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.35%) GxP
13 6 (0.35%) WCAG
14 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.30%) EMIR
14 5 (0.30%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 30 (1.77%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.83%) Docker
3 5 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.24%) 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%) RACF
7 1 (0.059%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.83%) Terraform
3 11 (0.65%) SCCM
4 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.41%) Ansible
6 6 (0.35%) Kibana
7 5 (0.30%) logstash
8 4 (0.24%) Consul
8 4 (0.24%) Packer
9 3 (0.18%) Grafana
9 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.059%) Cisco UCCE
11 1 (0.059%) Cisco UCCX
11 1 (0.059%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.059%) Puppet
11 1 (0.059%) SCOM
Vendors
1 267 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 132 (7.79%) SAP
3 76 (4.49%) Oracle
4 70 (4.13%) ServiceNow
5 64 (3.78%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.07%) Google
7 24 (1.42%) Cisco
8 22 (1.30%) Workday
9 21 (1.24%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.12%) Adobe
11 18 (1.06%) Planview
12 14 (0.83%) IBM
13 13 (0.77%) Databricks
14 11 (0.65%) Palo Alto
14 11 (0.65%) VMware
15 10 (0.59%) CyberArk
16 9 (0.53%) Juniper
17 8 (0.47%) Guidewire
17 8 (0.47%) NEC
17 8 (0.47%) Splunk