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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -23 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,840 1,851 2,799
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.42% 7.69% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 8.42% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,134 1,709
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -2.35% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £620
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 98 258
10th Percentile £14.64 £22.01 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.76 £26.66
Median hourly rate £36.00 £46.24 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +21.30% -22.20%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £48.19
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.77 £46.22 £38.12
% change year-on-year -22.61% +21.24% -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 35,421 21,987 31,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.31% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,454 14,284 20,634
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,213 963 2,325
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.84% -23.32% +0.29%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -20 864 £550 - 558
North of England -21 289 £475 - 242
South East -15 261 £510 +5.15% 270
Midlands -31 182 £488 +8.33% 158
North West -10 163 £468 -1.58% 136
South West -12 142 £438 -12.50% 97
West Midlands -35 124 £500 +5.26% 104
Yorkshire -30 119 £495 +4.21% 81
East of England -16 81 £518 -0.29% 123
East Midlands -16 60 £392 -4.51% 54
North East -27 10 £450 -12.20% 29
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
1 125 (6.79%) Confluence
2 94 (5.11%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.09%) CMS
4 15 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.38%) Apache
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.27%) WordPress
9 4 (0.22%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.11%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.054%) CICS
12 1 (0.054%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.054%) WebLogic
Applications
1 168 (9.13%) Microsoft Project
2 164 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 125 (6.79%) Microsoft Office
4 105 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 44 (2.39%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.60%) Trello
8 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 1 (0.054%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.054%) InVision
13 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 75 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.76%) Primavera
3 11 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.54%) Shopify
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
6 8 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.38%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
9 5 (0.27%) Magento
9 5 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 136 (7.39%) Azure
2 91 (4.95%) Power Platform
3 75 (4.08%) SaaS
4 69 (3.75%) AWS
4 69 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (1.36%) Smartsheet
8 24 (1.30%) GCP
9 21 (1.14%) Google Workspace
10 19 (1.03%) Asana
11 14 (0.76%) Entra ID
11 14 (0.76%) OpenShift
12 10 (0.54%) BigCommerce
12 10 (0.54%) GitHub
12 10 (0.54%) Google Sheets
13 9 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (0.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.36%) WAN
2 22 (1.20%) Network Security
2 22 (1.20%) TCP/IP
3 20 (1.09%) DNS
4 19 (1.03%) Firewall
5 16 (0.87%) LAN
6 15 (0.82%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
6 15 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (0.71%) MPLS
8 11 (0.60%) BGP
9 10 (0.54%) DHCP
9 10 (0.54%) Internet
10 9 (0.49%) BIG-IP
10 9 (0.49%) VPN
11 7 (0.38%) DKIM
11 7 (0.38%) DMARC
11 7 (0.38%) SAN
12 6 (0.33%) Intranet
12 6 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.67%) Power BI
2 14 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (0.65%) Metadata
3 12 (0.65%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.65%) Tableau
4 10 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
5 9 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.27%) Power Query
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.16%) QlikView
9 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.11%) GIS
10 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 262 (14.24%) JIRA
2 21 (1.14%) Git
3 14 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.38%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Subversion
6 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.054%) Appium
9 1 (0.054%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.054%) Maven
9 1 (0.054%) minitest
9 1 (0.054%) MSI
9 1 (0.054%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.054%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.054%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.054%) Travis CI
General
1 832 (45.22%) Social Skills
2 713 (38.75%) Finance
3 305 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (10.27%) Organisational Skills
5 155 (8.42%) Public Sector
6 136 (7.39%) Banking
7 108 (5.87%) Retail
8 106 (5.76%) Marketing
9 69 (3.75%) Legal
10 61 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
11 60 (3.26%) Manufacturing
12 47 (2.55%) Telecoms
13 42 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.79%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.52%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.36%) Front Office
18 23 (1.25%) Local Government
19 20 (1.09%) Aerospace
19 20 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 709 (38.53%) Project Manager
2 211 (11.47%) Analyst
3 188 (10.22%) Senior
4 153 (8.32%) Lead
5 132 (7.17%) Senior Manager
6 113 (6.14%) Business Analyst
7 110 (5.98%) Senior Project Manager
8 84 (4.57%) IT Manager
9 75 (4.08%) IT Project Manager
10 73 (3.97%) Programme Manager
11 64 (3.48%) Consultant
12 54 (2.93%) Technical Manager
13 53 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
14 52 (2.83%) Infrastructure Manager
15 51 (2.77%) Architect
16 43 (2.34%) SC Cleared Project Manager
16 43 (2.34%) Technical Project Manager
17 39 (2.12%) Infrastructure Project Manager
18 38 (2.07%) Developer
19 37 (2.01%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.36%) Middleware
2 22 (1.20%) REST
3 15 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.76%) OAuth
4 14 (0.76%) SOAP
5 13 (0.71%) VML
5 13 (0.71%) Web Services
6 12 (0.65%) HTML
7 11 (0.60%) CSS
8 9 (0.49%) JSON
9 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.43%) SAML
10 7 (0.38%) .NET
11 6 (0.33%) ADO
11 6 (0.33%) OpenID
11 6 (0.33%) XML
12 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.27%) RESTful
12 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (5.05%) Management Information System
2 87 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 70 (3.80%) Data Centre
4 59 (3.21%) PMI
5 56 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 51 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
7 38 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 33 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.14%) Operational Technology
11 19 (1.03%) FMCG
11 19 (1.03%) NHS
11 19 (1.03%) Social Media
12 18 (0.98%) CMDB
13 16 (0.87%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.82%) EPoS
15 14 (0.76%) Life Science
16 13 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.55%) Windows
2 26 (1.41%) Linux
3 14 (0.76%) Unix
4 13 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.22%) zOS
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.054%) AIX
9 1 (0.054%) Android
9 1 (0.054%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.054%) Solaris
9 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 672 (36.52%) Agile
2 654 (35.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 479 (26.03%) Project Delivery
4 403 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
5 348 (18.91%) PRINCE2
6 288 (15.65%) Migration
7 281 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 274 (14.89%) Change Management
9 263 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 239 (12.99%) Decision-Making
11 234 (12.72%) Waterfall
12 226 (12.28%) Risk Management
13 172 (9.35%) Scrum
14 170 (9.24%) ERP
15 154 (8.37%) Budget Management
16 146 (7.93%) AI
17 126 (6.85%) Roadmaps
18 123 (6.68%) Data Migration
19 122 (6.63%) DevOps
20 120 (6.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 78 (4.24%) SQL
2 48 (2.61%) Python
3 19 (1.03%) JavaScript
4 16 (0.87%) Java
5 13 (0.71%) VBA
6 10 (0.54%) C#
7 8 (0.43%) C++
8 7 (0.38%) C
9 6 (0.33%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.27%) ABAP
10 5 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.22%) Ada
11 4 (0.22%) JCL
11 4 (0.22%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.22%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.22%) R
12 3 (0.16%) Perl
12 3 (0.16%) SOQL
13 2 (0.11%) REXX
13 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 304 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 272 (14.78%) Degree
3 266 (14.46%) PMP
4 226 (12.28%) PMI Certification
5 224 (12.17%) SC Cleared
6 58 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 37 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.63%) ACCA
9 30 (1.63%) CIMA
10 27 (1.47%) APMP
11 25 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (1.14%) CISSP
13 20 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (0.98%) CISM
15 17 (0.92%) CBAP
15 17 (0.92%) MBA
16 13 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 12 (0.65%) IIBA
18 10 (0.54%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (12.17%) PMO
2 121 (6.58%) QA
3 53 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.39%) GDPR
5 37 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.79%) SLA
7 31 (1.68%) NIST
8 20 (1.09%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.71%) GRC
10 9 (0.49%) Basel III
11 7 (0.38%) EMIR
11 7 (0.38%) MiFID
11 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.33%) GMP
12 6 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) GxP
13 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.33%) RACF
4 4 (0.22%) NFS
4 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
4 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 2 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.054%) ACF2
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 19 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (0.92%) Ansible
3 7 (0.38%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 4 (0.22%) Terraform
6 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.16%) SCCM
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) logstash
7 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.054%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.054%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.054%) Kibana
8 1 (0.054%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.054%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.054%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.054%) SCOM
8 1 (0.054%) vRealize
Vendors
1 279 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 158 (8.59%) SAP
3 100 (5.43%) ServiceNow
4 62 (3.37%) Oracle
5 46 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 39 (2.12%) Google
7 29 (1.58%) Adobe
8 23 (1.25%) Cisco
9 22 (1.20%) Workday
10 20 (1.09%) Sitecore
11 17 (0.92%) VMware
12 15 (0.82%) NEC
13 14 (0.76%) CyberArk
13 14 (0.76%) Databricks
13 14 (0.76%) Sage
14 12 (0.65%) IBM
15 11 (0.60%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.54%) F5
16 10 (0.54%) IFS
17 9 (0.49%) Murex