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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -29 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,773 1,839 2,528
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.88% 6.67% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 7.35% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,087 1,141 1,486
10th Percentile £313 £319 £313
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £633
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £511 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 95 175
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.65 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.98 £29.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.02 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +21.56% -2.89% -3.62%
75th Percentile £63.88 £60.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £82.95 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £34.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +30.43% -8.00% -6.25%

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 38,738 25,035 28,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.79% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,882 15,942 18,107
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,595 1,467 1,443
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.63
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -31 857 £550 - 1,873
North of England -37 259 £475 -3.46% 451
South East -23 257 £500 - 506
North West -28 157 £475 - 269
Midlands -48 143 £538 +17.81% 286
South West -22 134 £450 - 307
Yorkshire -29 95 £475 -5.00% 132
West Midlands -60 93 £550 +17.27% 174
East of England -11 81 £525 - 209
East Midlands -17 50 £513 +15.23% 112
North East -45 9 £420 -4.55% 57
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
1 101 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 93 (5.25%) Confluence
3 35 (1.97%) CMS
4 21 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.02%) 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
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.056%) Appian
12 1 (0.056%) Camunda
12 1 (0.056%) IIS
Applications
1 175 (9.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 160 (9.02%) Microsoft Project
3 146 (8.23%) Microsoft Office
4 115 (6.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (2.20%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.73%) Trello
8 11 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.34%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.23%) Simulink
10 4 (0.23%) 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 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.056%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 55 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.07%) Primavera
3 13 (0.73%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.73%) Magento
4 9 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.51%) SAP MM
5 8 (0.45%) NEC Housing
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.39%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.39%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.39%) SAP PS
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.34%) Shopify
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.28%) ProductWriter
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.23%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (8.69%) Azure
2 124 (6.99%) Power Platform
3 86 (4.85%) SaaS
4 74 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 64 (3.61%) AWS
6 59 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.92%) Smartsheet
8 26 (1.47%) Google Workspace
9 24 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (1.13%) Asana
11 19 (1.07%) Entra ID
12 15 (0.85%) GitHub
13 14 (0.79%) GCP
14 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
15 12 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (0.62%) PowerApps
17 10 (0.56%) Google Sheets
17 10 (0.56%) Power Automate
18 9 (0.51%) OCI
19 8 (0.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.97%) Network Security
2 23 (1.30%) DNS
2 23 (1.30%) TCP/IP
2 23 (1.30%) WAN
3 20 (1.13%) Firewall
4 17 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
5 16 (0.90%) VPN
6 15 (0.85%) LAN
7 14 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.73%) BGP
8 13 (0.73%) DHCP
9 12 (0.68%) Intranet
10 11 (0.62%) Internet
10 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.51%) MPLS
11 9 (0.51%) SAN
12 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
12 8 (0.45%) Wireless
13 7 (0.39%) DKIM
13 7 (0.39%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (6.32%) Power BI
2 17 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (0.85%) Tableau
4 12 (0.68%) Metadata
5 11 (0.62%) SQL Server
6 9 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.51%) Power Query
7 8 (0.45%) GIS
8 7 (0.39%) Big Data
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.17%) QlikView
11 3 (0.17%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.11%) Looker
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 233 (13.14%) JIRA
2 24 (1.35%) Git
3 19 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.51%) Subversion
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) GitLab
7 4 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.23%) Rational Rhapsody
8 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.056%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.056%) LSMW
10 1 (0.056%) minitest
10 1 (0.056%) MSI
10 1 (0.056%) Postman
10 1 (0.056%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.056%) Snyk
10 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.056%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.056%) TestDirector
General
1 810 (45.69%) Social Skills
2 691 (38.97%) Finance
3 310 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (10.15%) Organisational Skills
5 153 (8.63%) Public Sector
6 151 (8.52%) Banking
7 134 (7.56%) Marketing
8 115 (6.49%) Retail
9 72 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
10 67 (3.78%) Telecoms
11 59 (3.33%) Legal
12 58 (3.27%) Manufacturing
13 49 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (1.69%) Investment Banking
15 27 (1.52%) Front Office
16 26 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
16 26 (1.47%) Local Government
17 25 (1.41%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 23 (1.30%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 666 (37.56%) Project Manager
2 172 (9.70%) Senior
3 168 (9.48%) Lead
4 143 (8.07%) Analyst
5 130 (7.33%) Senior Manager
6 100 (5.64%) Senior Project Manager
7 97 (5.47%) IT Manager
8 80 (4.51%) Programme Manager
9 76 (4.29%) Business Analyst
10 71 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
11 59 (3.33%) Consultant
11 59 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
12 58 (3.27%) Technical Manager
13 47 (2.65%) Infrastructure Manager
14 46 (2.59%) Technical Project Manager
15 37 (2.09%) Digital Project Manager
16 36 (2.03%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 36 (2.03%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 34 (1.92%) Developer
18 33 (1.86%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.18%) Middleware
2 18 (1.02%) REST
3 14 (0.79%) ADO
3 14 (0.79%) HTML
3 14 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (0.73%) VML
5 12 (0.68%) Web Services
6 10 (0.56%) JSON
7 9 (0.51%) .NET
7 9 (0.51%) OAuth
7 9 (0.51%) React
8 8 (0.45%) 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 3 (0.17%) HTML5
11 3 (0.17%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.70%) Management Information System
2 84 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 83 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
6 45 (2.54%) PMI
7 41 (2.31%) Virtual Team
8 26 (1.47%) FMCG
8 26 (1.47%) Operational Technology
9 25 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.35%) Social Media
11 22 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (1.18%) Credit Risk
13 17 (0.96%) AI Agents
14 16 (0.90%) Mobile App
15 14 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.79%) Life Science
16 13 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 58 (3.27%) Windows
2 45 (2.54%) Linux
3 21 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.13%) Unix
5 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.28%) zOS
8 4 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.056%) Android
10 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (44.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 707 (39.88%) Agile
3 508 (28.65%) Project Delivery
4 407 (22.96%) PRINCE2
5 310 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
6 308 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 297 (16.75%) Change Management
8 249 (14.04%) Migration
9 246 (13.87%) Decision-Making
10 244 (13.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 232 (13.09%) Waterfall
12 224 (12.63%) Risk Management
13 189 (10.66%) AI
14 182 (10.27%) Scrum
15 159 (8.97%) Project Governance
16 151 (8.52%) Roadmaps
17 146 (8.23%) Analytics
18 142 (8.01%) Project Planning
19 136 (7.67%) ITIL
20 133 (7.50%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (3.84%) SQL
2 66 (3.72%) Python
3 16 (0.90%) JavaScript
3 16 (0.90%) VBA
4 13 (0.73%) Java
5 12 (0.68%) C++
6 9 (0.51%) C#
6 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.45%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.39%) Ada
9 6 (0.34%) C
10 5 (0.28%) Korn
10 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.23%) Bash
11 4 (0.23%) JCL
11 4 (0.23%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.17%) ABAP
12 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 303 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 290 (16.36%) Degree
3 272 (15.34%) PMP
4 236 (13.31%) PMI Certification
5 208 (11.73%) SC Cleared
6 73 (4.12%) DV Cleared
7 65 (3.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 24 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.18%) ACCA
10 21 (1.18%) CIMA
11 15 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
12 14 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 13 (0.73%) APMP
13 13 (0.73%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.62%) Azure Certification
14 11 (0.62%) CISSP
15 10 (0.56%) CIPFA
15 10 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (12.18%) PMO
2 92 (5.19%) QA
3 50 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 33 (1.86%) GDPR
5 23 (1.30%) GRC
5 23 (1.30%) SLA
6 22 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.07%) 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%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.34%) EMIR
12 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.28%) MiFID
12 5 (0.28%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.23%) NFS
5 4 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.23%) vSphere
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
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
Systems Management
1 20 (1.13%) Ansible
2 10 (0.56%) 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 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.11%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.11%) BMC Performance Manager
8 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.11%) Perfmon
8 2 (0.11%) SCCM
9 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.056%) Nessus
9 1 (0.056%) OMEGAMON
9 1 (0.056%) SCOM
9 1 (0.056%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 317 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 127 (7.16%) SAP
3 99 (5.58%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.95%) Oracle
5 51 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 47 (2.65%) Adobe
7 44 (2.48%) Google
8 34 (1.92%) VMware
9 25 (1.41%) Cisco
10 24 (1.35%) Sitecore
11 21 (1.18%) Atlassian
12 19 (1.07%) NEC
13 17 (0.96%) Workday
14 14 (0.79%) IBM
15 13 (0.73%) Databricks
16 12 (0.68%) Alteryx
17 10 (0.56%) Ariba
17 10 (0.56%) Planview
18 9 (0.51%) Dell
18 9 (0.51%) JD Edwards