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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -29 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,788 1,917 2,498
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.92% 6.95% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 7.65% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 1,191 1,488
10th Percentile £313 £313 £309
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £630
90th Percentile £737 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 102 193
10th Percentile £21.00 £21.39 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.87 £29.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £43.83 £42.07 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +10.36% -3.62%
75th Percentile £63.77 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £83.03 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £42.65 £37.02 £38.12
% change year-on-year +15.21% -2.89% -4.70%

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 38,776 25,061 28,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.80% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,043 15,975 18,472
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,543 1,444 1,583
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.88 £18.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.21 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -28 868 £550 +2.80% 778
North of England -35 261 £475 -3.46% 278
South East -27 247 £500 - 359
North West -19 160 £475 -1.30% 149
Midlands -45 143 £530 +17.78% 200
South West -19 142 £438 -2.78% 166
West Midlands -58 95 £550 +17.27% 123
Yorkshire -38 94 £475 -5.00% 98
East of England -5 85 £515 -1.90% 128
East Midlands -22 48 £500 +18.41% 77
North East -39 9 £420 -12.95% 34
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 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 87 (4.87%) Confluence
3 34 (1.90%) CMS
4 21 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.39%) 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%) Moodle
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.056%) Appian
12 1 (0.056%) Camunda
12 1 (0.056%) IIS
Applications
1 174 (9.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 158 (8.84%) Microsoft Project
3 142 (7.94%) Microsoft Office
4 111 (6.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (2.29%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.78%) Trello
8 10 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.17%) InDesign
12 3 (0.17%) Windchill
13 2 (0.11%) Houdini
13 2 (0.11%) NUKE
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.056%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 54 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.06%) Primavera
3 12 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (0.67%) Magento
4 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.45%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.34%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.34%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.34%) Shopify
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.28%) SAP PS
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CRM
9 4 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 154 (8.61%) Azure
2 121 (6.77%) Power Platform
3 89 (4.98%) SaaS
4 71 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (3.75%) AWS
6 59 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.90%) Smartsheet
8 25 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (1.40%) Google Workspace
9 19 (1.06%) Asana
10 16 (0.89%) Entra ID
10 16 (0.89%) GitHub
11 14 (0.78%) GCP
12 12 (0.67%) Google Sheets
12 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (0.67%) PowerApps
13 11 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (0.56%) OCI
14 10 (0.56%) Power Automate
15 8 (0.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.73%) Network Security
2 22 (1.23%) DNS
2 22 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 20 (1.12%) Structured Cabling
4 19 (1.06%) WAN
5 15 (0.84%) Firewall
5 15 (0.84%) LAN
6 14 (0.78%) VPN
6 14 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (0.73%) DHCP
8 12 (0.67%) Intranet
9 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.56%) BGP
10 10 (0.56%) Internet
10 10 (0.56%) MPLS
11 8 (0.45%) 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
1 110 (6.15%) Power BI
2 17 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (0.73%) Tableau
4 12 (0.67%) Metadata
5 11 (0.62%) SQL Server
6 10 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.50%) Power Query
8 8 (0.45%) GIS
9 7 (0.39%) Big Data
9 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
9 7 (0.39%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.28%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.17%) QlikView
13 3 (0.17%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
14 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 230 (12.86%) JIRA
2 24 (1.34%) Git
3 19 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.50%) Subversion
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) GitLab
7 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
8 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.11%) Hudson
9 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.056%) minitest
10 1 (0.056%) Postman
10 1 (0.056%) RSpec
10 1 (0.056%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.056%) Snyk
10 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.056%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.056%) Terragrunt
General
1 811 (45.36%) Social Skills
2 682 (38.14%) Finance
3 313 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (10.01%) Organisational Skills
5 152 (8.50%) Banking
6 151 (8.45%) Public Sector
7 136 (7.61%) Marketing
8 115 (6.43%) Retail
9 68 (3.80%) Manufacturing
10 64 (3.58%) Telecoms
11 62 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (3.36%) Legal
13 46 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (1.68%) Financial Institution
15 28 (1.57%) Investment Banking
16 26 (1.45%) Front Office
16 26 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 26 (1.45%) Local Government
17 25 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
18 24 (1.34%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 688 (38.48%) Project Manager
2 177 (9.90%) Senior
3 161 (9.00%) Lead
4 144 (8.05%) Analyst
5 135 (7.55%) Senior Manager
6 104 (5.82%) Senior Project Manager
7 98 (5.48%) IT Manager
8 87 (4.87%) Programme Manager
9 76 (4.25%) Business Analyst
9 76 (4.25%) IT Project Manager
10 61 (3.41%) Technical Manager
11 59 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
12 55 (3.08%) Consultant
13 49 (2.74%) Infrastructure Manager
14 48 (2.68%) Technical Project Manager
15 38 (2.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 38 (2.13%) SC Cleared Project Manager
16 36 (2.01%) Developer
16 36 (2.01%) Project Officer
17 34 (1.90%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.23%) Middleware
2 18 (1.01%) REST
3 15 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.78%) HTML
5 13 (0.73%) ADO
5 13 (0.73%) VML
6 12 (0.67%) Web Services
7 10 (0.56%) JSON
8 9 (0.50%) .NET
8 9 (0.50%) OAuth
8 9 (0.50%) React
8 9 (0.50%) SOAP
9 6 (0.34%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.34%) CSS
9 6 (0.34%) Terraform
9 6 (0.34%) XML
10 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
10 5 (0.28%) RESTful
11 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
11 4 (0.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.43%) Management Information System
2 82 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.63%) PMI
6 46 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
7 43 (2.40%) Virtual Team
8 28 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.45%) Operational Technology
11 24 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.34%) FMCG
12 23 (1.29%) Social Media
13 22 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
14 20 (1.12%) Credit Risk
15 18 (1.01%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.78%) Mobile App
17 13 (0.73%) Life Science
17 13 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 51 (2.85%) Windows
2 41 (2.29%) Linux
3 17 (0.95%) Unix
3 17 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.22%) zOS
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.056%) Android
8 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (42.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 709 (39.65%) Agile
3 501 (28.02%) Project Delivery
4 422 (23.60%) PRINCE2
5 318 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
6 307 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 300 (16.78%) Change Management
8 259 (14.49%) Migration
9 250 (13.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 240 (13.42%) Decision-Making
11 229 (12.81%) Waterfall
12 224 (12.53%) Risk Management
13 183 (10.23%) Scrum
14 177 (9.90%) AI
15 148 (8.28%) Project Governance
16 143 (8.00%) Roadmaps
17 140 (7.83%) Analytics
18 137 (7.66%) Project Planning
19 132 (7.38%) ITIL
20 130 (7.27%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 72 (4.03%) SQL
2 65 (3.64%) Python
3 18 (1.01%) JavaScript
4 16 (0.89%) VBA
5 12 (0.67%) C++
5 12 (0.67%) Java
6 9 (0.50%) C#
6 9 (0.50%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.45%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.39%) Ada
9 6 (0.34%) C
10 5 (0.28%) ABAP
10 5 (0.28%) Korn
10 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.22%) Bash
11 4 (0.22%) JCL
11 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 296 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 289 (16.16%) PMP
3 288 (16.11%) Degree
4 247 (13.81%) PMI Certification
5 201 (11.24%) SC Cleared
6 74 (4.14%) DV Cleared
7 65 (3.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 25 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.17%) ACCA
10 21 (1.17%) CIMA
11 17 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (0.89%) APMP
12 16 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 13 (0.73%) CISSP
13 13 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.62%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.56%) CIPFA
15 10 (0.56%) MBA
15 10 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (12.08%) PMO
2 90 (5.03%) QA
3 56 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 34 (1.90%) GDPR
5 28 (1.57%) SLA
6 23 (1.29%) GRC
7 22 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.12%) NIST
9 8 (0.45%) P3O
10 7 (0.39%) FINREP
10 7 (0.39%) GMP
10 7 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.34%) COREP
11 6 (0.34%) EMIR
11 6 (0.34%) MiFID
12 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.22%) GxP
13 4 (0.22%) Solvency II
13 4 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.056%) ACF2
8 1 (0.056%) Docker
8 1 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.056%) RACF
8 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (1.06%) Ansible
2 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.34%) Puppet
4 6 (0.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.11%) SCCM
8 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.056%) Nessus
8 1 (0.056%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.056%) SCOM
8 1 (0.056%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.056%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 310 (17.34%) Microsoft
2 129 (7.21%) SAP
3 98 (5.48%) ServiceNow
4 73 (4.08%) Oracle
5 52 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 46 (2.57%) Google
7 45 (2.52%) Adobe
8 28 (1.57%) VMware
9 25 (1.40%) Cisco
10 24 (1.34%) Sitecore
11 20 (1.12%) Atlassian
12 19 (1.06%) NEC
13 18 (1.01%) Workday
14 14 (0.78%) Databricks
15 13 (0.73%) IBM
16 12 (0.67%) Alteryx
17 11 (0.62%) JD Edwards
18 10 (0.56%) IFS
18 10 (0.56%) Murex
19 9 (0.50%) Guidewire