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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -26 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,807 1,951 2,486
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.95% 7.07% 7.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 7.78% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 1,222 1,494
10th Percentile £318 £313 £310
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 99 209
10th Percentile £18.93 £21.39 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.19 £29.00 £28.00
Median hourly rate £42.65 £40.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +6.24% -5.29%
75th Percentile £65.75 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.23 £75.00 £65.55
UK median hourly rate £42.48 £36.24 £38.12
% change year-on-year +17.20% -4.93% -8.80%

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 39,026 25,062 28,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.78% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,293 16,024 18,683
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,529 1,392 1,676
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -37.90% -4.71%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -26 879 £550 +2.80% 857
North of England -33 269 £475 -3.01% 287
South East -23 252 £500 +1.27% 357
North West -17 170 £475 - 151
Midlands -49 144 £540 +20.00% 212
South West -20 140 £436 -3.06% 147
West Midlands -60 96 £550 +17.27% 128
Yorkshire -40 93 £500 - 97
East of England -4 90 £525 +0.48% 136
East Midlands -13 48 £488 +21.27% 84
North East -44 8 £420 -12.95% 46
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 98 (5.42%) Confluence
2 93 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.88%) CMS
4 19 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.33%) Apache
7 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.17%) JBoss
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.055%) CICS
12 1 (0.055%) IIS
Applications
1 171 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 165 (9.13%) Microsoft Project
3 139 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
4 107 (5.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.32%) MS Visio
6 19 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.77%) Trello
8 9 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.17%) InDesign
11 3 (0.17%) Windchill
12 2 (0.11%) Houdini
12 2 (0.11%) NUKE
13 1 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.055%) CATIA
13 1 (0.055%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 60 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.00%) Primavera
3 11 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
3 11 (0.61%) Magento
4 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.44%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.39%) SAP HCM
7 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.33%) Shopify
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
8 5 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 159 (8.80%) Azure
2 111 (6.14%) Power Platform
3 86 (4.76%) SaaS
4 69 (3.82%) AWS
5 67 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.88%) Smartsheet
8 27 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (1.33%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.11%) Asana
11 17 (0.94%) GCP
11 17 (0.94%) GitHub
12 16 (0.89%) Entra ID
13 12 (0.66%) Google Sheets
14 11 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (0.50%) OCI
15 9 (0.50%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.50%) PowerApps
16 8 (0.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.60%) Network Security
2 22 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.16%) DNS
3 21 (1.16%) Structured Cabling
4 19 (1.05%) WAN
5 15 (0.83%) LAN
5 15 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (0.77%) Firewall
7 13 (0.72%) Intranet
7 13 (0.72%) VPN
8 12 (0.66%) DHCP
9 11 (0.61%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.55%) BGP
10 10 (0.55%) Internet
10 10 (0.55%) MPLS
11 8 (0.44%) BIG-IP
12 7 (0.39%) DKIM
12 7 (0.39%) DMARC
12 7 (0.39%) SAN
12 7 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (5.53%) Power BI
2 16 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (0.72%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.72%) Tableau
4 12 (0.66%) Data Lake
5 11 (0.61%) Metadata
6 8 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.44%) GIS
6 8 (0.44%) Power Query
7 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.39%) SAP HANA
8 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.28%) Big Data
9 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.17%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.17%) QlikView
11 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 236 (13.06%) JIRA
2 25 (1.38%) Git
3 20 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.50%) Subversion
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) GitLab
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.055%) Appium
9 1 (0.055%) minitest
9 1 (0.055%) Postman
9 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.055%) RSpec
9 1 (0.055%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.055%) Snyk
9 1 (0.055%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.055%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.055%) Terragrunt
General
1 817 (45.21%) Social Skills
2 676 (37.41%) Finance
3 314 (17.38%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (9.96%) Organisational Skills
5 151 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 141 (7.80%) Marketing
7 133 (7.36%) Banking
8 108 (5.98%) Retail
9 66 (3.65%) Manufacturing
10 64 (3.54%) Legal
11 61 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (3.32%) Telecoms
13 41 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.72%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.49%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.38%) Front Office
17 25 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.33%) Aerospace
19 23 (1.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 692 (38.30%) Project Manager
2 182 (10.07%) Senior
3 161 (8.91%) Lead
4 149 (8.25%) Analyst
5 139 (7.69%) Senior Manager
6 113 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
7 100 (5.53%) IT Manager
8 89 (4.93%) Programme Manager
9 78 (4.32%) IT Project Manager
10 77 (4.26%) Business Analyst
11 62 (3.43%) Technical Manager
12 60 (3.32%) Consultant
13 56 (3.10%) Delivery Manager
14 53 (2.93%) Infrastructure Manager
15 47 (2.60%) Technical Project Manager
16 42 (2.32%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 39 (2.16%) Project Officer
18 37 (2.05%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 35 (1.94%) Developer
20 33 (1.83%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.22%) Middleware
2 20 (1.11%) REST
3 14 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (0.72%) HTML
4 13 (0.72%) VML
5 12 (0.66%) ADO
6 11 (0.61%) SOAP
6 11 (0.61%) Web Services
7 10 (0.55%) JSON
8 9 (0.50%) .NET
8 9 (0.50%) OAuth
8 9 (0.50%) React
9 7 (0.39%) XML
10 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.33%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.28%) CSS
11 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
11 5 (0.28%) RESTful
12 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
12 4 (0.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.42%) Management Information System
2 81 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 71 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.71%) Data Centre
5 50 (2.77%) PMI
6 47 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 43 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 31 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.38%) Operational Technology
11 24 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.33%) Social Media
12 23 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (1.27%) FMCG
13 17 (0.94%) Credit Risk
14 16 (0.89%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.77%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.77%) EPoS
15 14 (0.77%) Life Science
16 13 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.71%) Windows
2 36 (1.99%) Linux
3 17 (0.94%) Unix
4 15 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.22%) zOS
8 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.055%) AIX
9 1 (0.055%) Android
9 1 (0.055%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.055%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.055%) Solaris
9 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (40.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 685 (37.91%) Agile
3 492 (27.23%) Project Delivery
4 413 (22.86%) PRINCE2
5 329 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
6 311 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 298 (16.49%) Change Management
8 266 (14.72%) Migration
9 260 (14.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 237 (13.12%) Decision-Making
11 230 (12.73%) Risk Management
12 225 (12.45%) Waterfall
13 181 (10.02%) Scrum
14 179 (9.91%) AI
15 140 (7.75%) ERP
16 134 (7.42%) Roadmaps
17 132 (7.30%) Analytics
18 131 (7.25%) ITIL
18 131 (7.25%) Project Planning
19 130 (7.19%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 73 (4.04%) SQL
2 61 (3.38%) Python
3 18 (1.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (0.72%) Java
4 13 (0.72%) VBA
5 10 (0.55%) TypeScript
6 9 (0.50%) C#
6 9 (0.50%) C++
7 8 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.39%) ABAP
9 6 (0.33%) C
10 5 (0.28%) Korn
10 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.22%) Ada
11 4 (0.22%) JCL
11 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.17%) Bash
12 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 302 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 289 (15.99%) Degree
2 289 (15.99%) PMP
3 250 (13.84%) PMI Certification
4 206 (11.40%) SC Cleared
5 78 (4.32%) DV Cleared
6 63 (3.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 25 (1.38%) ACCA
7 25 (1.38%) CIMA
7 25 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 17 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (0.89%) APMP
12 14 (0.77%) CISSP
13 13 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.55%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.55%) CIPFA
14 10 (0.55%) CISM
15 9 (0.50%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (11.95%) PMO
2 89 (4.93%) QA
3 50 (2.77%) Data Quality
4 34 (1.88%) SLA
5 32 (1.77%) GDPR
6 25 (1.38%) GRC
7 24 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.33%) NIST
8 22 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.39%) FINREP
9 7 (0.39%) GMP
9 7 (0.39%) MiFID
9 7 (0.39%) P3O
10 6 (0.33%) COREP
10 6 (0.33%) EMIR
10 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.22%) GxP
12 4 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.055%) ACF2
8 1 (0.055%) Docker
8 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.055%) RACF
8 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (1.00%) Ansible
2 12 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (0.28%) Terraform
5 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.22%) Puppet
5 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.11%) SCCM
8 1 (0.055%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.055%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.055%) Nessus
8 1 (0.055%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.055%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.055%) SCOM
8 1 (0.055%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 305 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 144 (7.97%) SAP
3 102 (5.64%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.87%) Oracle
5 50 (2.77%) Salesforce
6 46 (2.55%) Google
7 43 (2.38%) Adobe
8 24 (1.33%) VMware
9 23 (1.27%) Cisco
9 23 (1.27%) Sitecore
10 20 (1.11%) Workday
11 19 (1.05%) NEC
12 18 (1.00%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.83%) Databricks
14 14 (0.77%) IBM
15 11 (0.61%) JD Edwards
16 10 (0.55%) Alteryx
16 10 (0.55%) Guidewire
16 10 (0.55%) IFS
17 9 (0.50%) F5