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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -22 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,842 1,864 2,786
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.34% 7.65% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 8.38% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 1,140 1,690
10th Percentile £325 £308 £310
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 99 261
10th Percentile £14.64 £22.09 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.63 £26.66
Median hourly rate £37.50 £46.30 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% +21.46% -21.40%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.88 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.45 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £46.22 £38.12
% change year-on-year -20.48% +21.24% -21.81%

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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -20 866 £550 - 314
North of England -24 286 £475 - 195
South East -16 262 £515 +6.18% 246
Midlands -34 182 £500 +11.11% 125
North West -7 167 £468 +3.89% 92
South West -17 138 £444 -5.38% 83
West Midlands -40 125 £525 +11.23% 71
Yorkshire -33 112 £500 +3.90% 80
East of England -15 85 £510 +0.10% 106
East Midlands -16 59 £392 -6.23% 54
North East -25 10 £450 -11.76% 26
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
1 118 (6.41%) Confluence
2 96 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.14%) CMS
4 15 (0.81%) 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
10 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.054%) CICS
12 1 (0.054%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.054%) IIS
12 1 (0.054%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 167 (9.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 164 (8.90%) Microsoft Project
3 117 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
4 108 (5.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 44 (2.39%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.54%) 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 Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 1 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 75 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.71%) Primavera
3 11 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.54%) Shopify
5 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.43%) Loan IQ
7 7 (0.38%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
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%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 136 (7.38%) Azure
2 90 (4.89%) Power Platform
3 77 (4.18%) SaaS
4 71 (3.85%) AWS
5 69 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (1.36%) Smartsheet
8 23 (1.25%) GCP
9 21 (1.14%) Google Workspace
10 18 (0.98%) Asana
11 14 (0.76%) Entra ID
12 11 (0.60%) OpenShift
13 10 (0.54%) BigCommerce
13 10 (0.54%) Google Sheets
14 9 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (0.49%) GitHub
14 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.49%) OCI
15 8 (0.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.36%) Network Security
1 25 (1.36%) WAN
2 21 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.03%) DNS
4 18 (0.98%) Firewall
5 16 (0.87%) LAN
5 16 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
6 15 (0.81%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.71%) MPLS
9 12 (0.65%) BGP
10 10 (0.54%) DHCP
11 9 (0.49%) BIG-IP
12 8 (0.43%) Internet
12 8 (0.43%) VPN
13 7 (0.38%) DKIM
13 7 (0.38%) DMARC
13 7 (0.38%) Intranet
13 7 (0.38%) SAN
14 5 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.61%) Power BI
2 13 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (0.65%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.65%) Tableau
4 11 (0.60%) Metadata
5 9 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
6 8 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.27%) Power Query
9 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.16%) QlikView
10 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.11%) GIS
11 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 247 (13.41%) JIRA
2 20 (1.09%) Git
3 13 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.33%) 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%) Capybara
9 1 (0.054%) Gradle
9 1 (0.054%) minitest
9 1 (0.054%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.054%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.054%) RSpec
9 1 (0.054%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.054%) Terragrunt
General
1 830 (45.06%) Social Skills
2 721 (39.14%) Finance
3 299 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (10.10%) Organisational Skills
5 148 (8.03%) Public Sector
6 134 (7.27%) Banking
7 108 (5.86%) Retail
8 106 (5.75%) Marketing
9 68 (3.69%) Legal
10 62 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
11 60 (3.26%) Manufacturing
12 50 (2.71%) Telecoms
13 45 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.85%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.47%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.36%) Front Office
18 23 (1.25%) Local Government
19 20 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 20 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 723 (39.25%) Project Manager
2 210 (11.40%) Analyst
3 189 (10.26%) Senior
4 153 (8.31%) Lead
5 133 (7.22%) Senior Manager
6 114 (6.19%) Business Analyst
7 112 (6.08%) Senior Project Manager
8 86 (4.67%) IT Manager
9 77 (4.18%) IT Project Manager
10 72 (3.91%) Programme Manager
11 67 (3.64%) Consultant
12 55 (2.99%) Infrastructure Manager
13 53 (2.88%) Technical Manager
14 51 (2.77%) Architect
15 48 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
16 45 (2.44%) Technical Project Manager
17 43 (2.33%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 42 (2.28%) Infrastructure Project Manager
19 37 (2.01%) Developer
19 37 (2.01%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.19%) Middleware
1 22 (1.19%) REST
2 17 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.76%) OAuth
3 14 (0.76%) SOAP
4 13 (0.71%) VML
4 13 (0.71%) Web Services
5 11 (0.60%) HTML
6 10 (0.54%) CSS
7 8 (0.43%) JSON
7 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
7 8 (0.43%) SAML
8 7 (0.38%) .NET
9 6 (0.33%) ADO
9 6 (0.33%) OpenID
10 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.27%) React
10 5 (0.27%) RESTful
10 5 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (4.94%) Management Information System
2 89 (4.83%) Onboarding
3 69 (3.75%) Data Centre
4 54 (2.93%) PMI
5 53 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
6 52 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 38 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 33 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.19%) Operational Technology
11 21 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 20 (1.09%) FMCG
13 19 (1.03%) Social Media
14 18 (0.98%) CMDB
15 16 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (0.87%) NHS
16 15 (0.81%) EPoS
17 14 (0.76%) Data Structures
17 14 (0.76%) Life Science
18 12 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.61%) Windows
2 26 (1.41%) Linux
3 14 (0.76%) Unix
3 14 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.22%) zOS
6 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.054%) AIX
7 1 (0.054%) Android
7 1 (0.054%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.054%) Solaris
7 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (35.94%) Agile
2 660 (35.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 483 (26.22%) Project Delivery
4 392 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
5 340 (18.46%) PRINCE2
6 289 (15.69%) Migration
7 281 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 273 (14.82%) Change Management
9 261 (14.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 239 (12.98%) Decision-Making
11 229 (12.43%) Waterfall
12 223 (12.11%) Risk Management
13 168 (9.12%) ERP
14 166 (9.01%) Scrum
15 152 (8.25%) Budget Management
16 144 (7.82%) AI
17 123 (6.68%) Data Migration
17 123 (6.68%) Roadmaps
18 121 (6.57%) Project Planning
19 120 (6.51%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 77 (4.18%) SQL
2 47 (2.55%) 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%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.27%) ABAP
10 5 (0.27%) PowerShell
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%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 300 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 263 (14.28%) PMP
3 260 (14.12%) Degree
4 224 (12.16%) SC Cleared
5 221 (12.00%) PMI Certification
6 59 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 35 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 31 (1.68%) ACCA
9 31 (1.68%) CIMA
10 24 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.25%) APMP
12 20 (1.09%) CISSP
12 20 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 17 (0.92%) CBAP
13 17 (0.92%) CISM
14 16 (0.87%) MBA
15 12 (0.65%) IIBA
16 10 (0.54%) CIPFA
16 10 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (12.32%) PMO
2 119 (6.46%) QA
3 53 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 43 (2.33%) GDPR
5 37 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.79%) SLA
7 31 (1.68%) NIST
8 18 (0.98%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.81%) GRC
10 8 (0.43%) 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
14 4 (0.22%) 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 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.054%) ACF2
7 1 (0.054%) Docker
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.054%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (0.92%) Ansible
3 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.16%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.16%) Terraform
7 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.054%) Control-M
8 1 (0.054%) Grafana
8 1 (0.054%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.054%) logstash
8 1 (0.054%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.054%) SCOM
8 1 (0.054%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.054%) vRealize
Vendors
1 278 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 156 (8.47%) SAP
3 99 (5.37%) ServiceNow
4 64 (3.47%) Oracle
5 48 (2.61%) Salesforce
6 39 (2.12%) Google
7 28 (1.52%) Adobe
8 24 (1.30%) Cisco
9 22 (1.19%) Workday
10 20 (1.09%) Sitecore
11 16 (0.87%) VMware
12 14 (0.76%) CyberArk
12 14 (0.76%) NEC
12 14 (0.76%) Sage
13 13 (0.71%) Databricks
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