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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -30 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,779 1,767 2,447
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.82% 6.40% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 7.05% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,086 1,398
10th Percentile £312 £325 £310
25th Percentile £421 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £625 £650 £634
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.46% -2.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 96 133
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.24 £21.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £25.47 £26.68
Median hourly rate £51.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.10% +0.71% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.88 £65.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £47.75 £34.42 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.73% -1.66% -15.97%

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 39,416 25,077 27,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.84% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,046 15,915 17,172
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,836 1,513 1,250
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.58
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -26 874 £550 - 2,090
North of England -43 251 £473 -5.35% 566
South East -25 250 £500 - 732
North West -22 148 £474 -3.66% 302
Midlands -51 140 £534 +12.37% 381
South West -25 134 £475 +5.56% 278
Yorkshire -29 97 £475 -9.52% 194
West Midlands -52 93 £550 +12.02% 224
East of England -19 76 £513 -1.44% 259
East Midlands -24 47 £525 +17.45% 157
North East -40 8 £420 +3.07% 74
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
1 110 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 86 (4.83%) Confluence
3 33 (1.85%) CMS
4 20 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.34%) Apache
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) JBoss
9 5 (0.28%) Moodle
9 5 (0.28%) SAS
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.056%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.056%) CICS
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.056%) WinCC
Applications
1 184 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (8.49%) Microsoft Project
3 146 (8.21%) Microsoft Office
4 120 (6.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.97%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.73%) Trello
8 9 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.34%) Windchill
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) Houdini
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 2 (0.11%) NUKE
13 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.056%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 46 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.96%) Primavera
3 13 (0.73%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.73%) Magento
4 9 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.51%) SAP MM
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.45%) SAP CO
5 8 (0.45%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.45%) SAP PS
6 7 (0.39%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.39%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.28%) ProductWriter
8 5 (0.28%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.22%) Endur
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 150 (8.43%) Azure
2 126 (7.08%) Power Platform
3 82 (4.61%) SaaS
4 73 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (3.77%) AWS
6 55 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (1.74%) Smartsheet
8 26 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.41%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.12%) Asana
11 19 (1.07%) GCP
12 17 (0.96%) Entra ID
13 14 (0.79%) GitHub
14 12 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (0.62%) PowerApps
16 10 (0.56%) Power Automate
17 9 (0.51%) Amazon S3
17 9 (0.51%) Google Drive
17 9 (0.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.80%) Network Security
2 24 (1.35%) DNS
3 21 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.01%) Firewall
5 17 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
5 17 (0.96%) WAN
6 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.67%) DHCP
7 12 (0.67%) LAN
7 12 (0.67%) VPN
8 10 (0.56%) BGP
8 10 (0.56%) Intranet
9 8 (0.45%) 3GPP
9 8 (0.45%) 4G
9 8 (0.45%) 5G
9 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
9 8 (0.45%) LTE
9 8 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
9 8 (0.45%) Wireless
9 8 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (6.41%) Power BI
2 18 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (0.79%) Metadata
3 14 (0.79%) Tableau
4 12 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 11 (0.62%) SQL Server
6 9 (0.51%) Power Query
7 8 (0.45%) GIS
8 7 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) Big Data
9 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.17%) QlikView
12 3 (0.17%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.11%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.11%) Data Mart
13 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 224 (12.59%) JIRA
2 26 (1.46%) Git
3 17 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) Subversion
5 8 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
7 3 (0.17%) GitLab
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Selenium
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.056%) Capybara
9 1 (0.056%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.056%) Gradle
9 1 (0.056%) Hudson
9 1 (0.056%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.056%) TestRail
General
1 811 (45.59%) Social Skills
2 706 (39.69%) Finance
3 297 (16.69%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (10.23%) Organisational Skills
5 154 (8.66%) Banking
6 148 (8.32%) Public Sector
7 126 (7.08%) Marketing
8 113 (6.35%) Retail
9 89 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
10 69 (3.88%) Manufacturing
11 68 (3.82%) Legal
12 61 (3.43%) Telecoms
13 50 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.63%) Aerospace
15 28 (1.57%) Investment Banking
16 27 (1.52%) Front Office
16 27 (1.52%) Local Government
17 24 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
17 24 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 673 (37.83%) Project Manager
2 169 (9.50%) Senior
3 166 (9.33%) Lead
4 129 (7.25%) Senior Manager
5 122 (6.86%) Analyst
6 102 (5.73%) IT Manager
7 96 (5.40%) Senior Project Manager
8 80 (4.50%) Programme Manager
9 75 (4.22%) IT Project Manager
10 69 (3.88%) Delivery Manager
11 67 (3.77%) Business Analyst
12 64 (3.60%) Technical Manager
13 58 (3.26%) Consultant
14 45 (2.53%) Technical Project Manager
15 41 (2.30%) Project Officer
16 40 (2.25%) Infrastructure Manager
17 35 (1.97%) Coordinator
18 32 (1.80%) Developer
18 32 (1.80%) Project Coordinator
19 31 (1.74%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.07%) Middleware
2 18 (1.01%) REST
3 14 (0.79%) ADO
4 13 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (0.67%) Web Services
6 11 (0.62%) HTML
6 11 (0.62%) VML
7 10 (0.56%) JSON
7 10 (0.56%) React
8 9 (0.51%) .NET
8 9 (0.51%) OAuth
9 8 (0.45%) SOAP
9 8 (0.45%) Terraform
10 7 (0.39%) pytest
11 6 (0.34%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
12 5 (0.28%) RESTful
12 5 (0.28%) XML
13 3 (0.17%) ASP.NET
13 3 (0.17%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 108 (6.07%) Management Information System
2 87 (4.89%) Product Ownership
3 86 (4.83%) Onboarding
4 58 (3.26%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 44 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 42 (2.36%) PMI
8 28 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (1.52%) Operational Technology
10 25 (1.41%) FMCG
10 25 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (1.35%) Social Media
12 22 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.18%) Credit Risk
14 18 (1.01%) AI Agents
15 17 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (0.84%) Life Science
16 15 (0.84%) Mobile App
17 14 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 50 (2.81%) Windows
2 47 (2.64%) Linux
3 21 (1.18%) Unix
3 21 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.28%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.28%) zOS
6 4 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.056%) Android
8 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.056%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.056%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (45.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 686 (38.56%) Agile
3 514 (28.89%) Project Delivery
4 410 (23.05%) PRINCE2
5 310 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 304 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
7 299 (16.81%) Change Management
8 258 (14.50%) Decision-Making
9 249 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 234 (13.15%) Migration
11 230 (12.93%) Risk Management
12 224 (12.59%) Waterfall
13 203 (11.41%) AI
14 185 (10.40%) Scrum
15 184 (10.34%) Project Governance
16 160 (8.99%) Project Planning
17 155 (8.71%) Roadmaps
18 146 (8.21%) Change Control
19 140 (7.87%) Programme Management
20 138 (7.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 68 (3.82%) SQL
2 67 (3.77%) Python
3 15 (0.84%) Java
3 15 (0.84%) VBA
4 14 (0.79%) JavaScript
5 12 (0.67%) C++
6 9 (0.51%) C#
6 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.45%) Korn
8 7 (0.39%) Ada
8 7 (0.39%) Bash
9 6 (0.34%) C
9 6 (0.34%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.17%) ABAP
12 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.17%) JCL
13 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 295 (16.58%) Degree
2 292 (16.41%) Security Cleared
3 277 (15.57%) PMP
4 241 (13.55%) PMI Certification
5 199 (11.19%) SC Cleared
6 75 (4.22%) DV Cleared
7 74 (4.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 33 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.90%) ACCA
10 16 (0.90%) CIMA
11 15 (0.84%) CISSP
11 15 (0.84%) ISTQB
11 15 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
11 15 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 14 (0.79%) APMP
13 12 (0.67%) Azure Certification
13 12 (0.67%) CISM
13 12 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.62%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (12.42%) PMO
2 86 (4.83%) QA
3 54 (3.04%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.69%) GDPR
5 24 (1.35%) GRC
6 21 (1.18%) SLA
7 20 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.07%) NIST
9 8 (0.45%) P3O
10 7 (0.39%) FINREP
10 7 (0.39%) GMP
11 6 (0.34%) COREP
11 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.22%) MiFID
13 4 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.51%) vSphere
4 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) NFS
7 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.056%) ACF2
9 1 (0.056%) Docker
9 1 (0.056%) RACF
9 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (1.18%) Ansible
2 10 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.34%) Puppet
4 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.11%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (0.11%) BMC Performance Manager
6 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.11%) Perfmon
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.056%) Nessus
7 1 (0.056%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.056%) SCOM
7 1 (0.056%) vRealize
7 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 323 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 123 (6.91%) SAP
3 95 (5.34%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.88%) Oracle
5 43 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.30%) Adobe
6 41 (2.30%) Google
7 36 (2.02%) VMware
8 24 (1.35%) Cisco
9 20 (1.12%) Sitecore
10 19 (1.07%) NEC
11 18 (1.01%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.01%) IBM
12 17 (0.96%) Workday
13 16 (0.90%) Databricks
14 14 (0.79%) Planview
15 12 (0.67%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.62%) JD Edwards
17 10 (0.56%) Ariba
18 9 (0.51%) Murex