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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,820 1,976 2,710
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.07% 7.28% 7.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 8.03% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 1,230 1,654
10th Percentile £319 £310 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.00% -1.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
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 133 107 245
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.66 £19.95
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.38 £27.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +16.74% -15.29%
75th Percentile £58.75 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £84.75 £75.00 £64.02
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £42.07 £38.12
% change year-on-year -10.86% +10.36% -15.29%

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 38,219 24,611 31,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.42% 90.71% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,063 15,813 20,400
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,290 2,230
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.60 £72.58
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -26 850 £568 +5.28% 562
North of England -26 296 £475 -2.56% 387
South East -23 260 £500 +4.71% 387
North West -7 189 £475 +5.56% 208
Midlands -37 162 £525 +16.67% 205
South West -20 132 £450 - 145
West Midlands -51 113 £550 +17.27% 112
Yorkshire -41 101 £495 -1.00% 140
East of England -9 93 £525 +5.00% 147
East Midlands -9 49 £456 +11.42% 92
North East -41 10 £420 -17.24% 40
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
1 100 (5.49%) Confluence
2 94 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.32%) CMS
4 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.38%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.27%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) Apache
9 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.16%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.055%) CICS
12 1 (0.055%) IIS
12 1 (0.055%) nginx
Applications
1 171 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 159 (8.74%) Microsoft Project
3 136 (7.47%) Microsoft Office
4 115 (6.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (2.25%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.44%) Trello
8 6 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.22%) Simulink
10 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.16%) Windchill
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 1 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.055%) CATIA
13 1 (0.055%) Houdini
13 1 (0.055%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 69 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.93%) Primavera
3 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.44%) Loan IQ
3 8 (0.44%) Magento
3 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.44%) SAP HCM
4 7 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
5 6 (0.33%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (0.33%) Shopify
5 6 (0.33%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 140 (7.69%) Azure
2 101 (5.55%) Power Platform
3 80 (4.40%) SaaS
4 72 (3.96%) AWS
5 64 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (1.43%) Smartsheet
8 24 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.21%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.10%) GCP
11 19 (1.04%) Asana
12 15 (0.82%) Entra ID
13 14 (0.77%) GitHub
14 10 (0.55%) Google Sheets
14 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (0.49%) OCI
16 8 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (0.44%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.43%) Network Security
2 22 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 20 (1.10%) DNS
4 18 (0.99%) Structured Cabling
4 18 (0.99%) WAN
5 14 (0.77%) LAN
5 14 (0.77%) MPLS
6 13 (0.71%) Firewall
6 13 (0.71%) Intranet
6 13 (0.71%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.66%) BGP
7 12 (0.66%) VPN
7 12 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.60%) DHCP
9 9 (0.49%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.49%) Internet
10 7 (0.38%) DKIM
10 7 (0.38%) DMARC
10 7 (0.38%) SAN
11 5 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.22%) Power BI
2 13 (0.71%) SQL Server
3 11 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (0.55%) Metadata
4 10 (0.55%) Tableau
5 9 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
7 7 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.38%) Power Query
8 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.27%) GIS
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.16%) QlikView
11 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.11%) Big Data
12 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 233 (12.80%) JIRA
2 19 (1.04%) Git
3 17 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.44%) Subversion
5 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.22%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) Hudson
7 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.055%) Appium
8 1 (0.055%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.055%) LSMW
8 1 (0.055%) Maven
8 1 (0.055%) MSI
8 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.055%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.055%) RSpec
8 1 (0.055%) Selenium
8 1 (0.055%) TestDirector
General
1 812 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 691 (37.97%) Finance
3 299 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (9.95%) Organisational Skills
5 144 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 126 (6.92%) Banking
6 126 (6.92%) Marketing
7 103 (5.66%) Retail
8 72 (3.96%) Manufacturing
9 70 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
10 67 (3.68%) Legal
11 50 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (2.58%) Telecoms
13 31 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
14 30 (1.65%) Financial Institution
15 28 (1.54%) Front Office
15 28 (1.54%) Investment Banking
16 22 (1.21%) Aerospace
17 21 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 708 (38.90%) Project Manager
2 187 (10.27%) Senior
3 180 (9.89%) Analyst
4 148 (8.13%) Lead
5 140 (7.69%) Senior Manager
6 117 (6.43%) Senior Project Manager
7 97 (5.33%) Business Analyst
8 89 (4.89%) IT Manager
9 79 (4.34%) Programme Manager
10 72 (3.96%) IT Project Manager
11 62 (3.41%) Consultant
12 55 (3.02%) Technical Manager
13 54 (2.97%) Infrastructure Manager
14 48 (2.64%) Delivery Manager
15 43 (2.36%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 43 (2.36%) Technical Project Manager
16 41 (2.25%) Architect
16 41 (2.25%) Project Officer
17 36 (1.98%) Developer
18 35 (1.92%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.43%) Middleware
2 16 (0.88%) REST
3 14 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (0.71%) OAuth
5 12 (0.66%) HTML
5 12 (0.66%) VML
5 12 (0.66%) Web Services
6 10 (0.55%) JSON
7 9 (0.49%) CSS
7 9 (0.49%) SOAP
8 8 (0.44%) .NET
8 8 (0.44%) ADO
8 8 (0.44%) React
9 7 (0.38%) SailPoint
9 7 (0.38%) SAML
9 7 (0.38%) XML
10 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.27%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (0.27%) OpenID
10 5 (0.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 88 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.52%) Data Centre
4 57 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 52 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 48 (2.64%) PMI
7 40 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 29 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.37%) Operational Technology
11 24 (1.32%) FMCG
12 22 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (1.21%) Social Media
13 21 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (0.88%) AI Agents
14 16 (0.88%) Life Science
15 15 (0.82%) EPoS
16 14 (0.77%) Data Structures
17 12 (0.66%) Credit Risk
17 12 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.42%) Windows
2 27 (1.48%) Linux
3 17 (0.93%) Unix
4 13 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.22%) 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 (0.055%) AIX
7 1 (0.055%) Android
7 1 (0.055%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.055%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.055%) Solaris
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 681 (37.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 672 (36.92%) Agile
3 474 (26.04%) Project Delivery
4 364 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 355 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
6 300 (16.48%) Change Management
7 293 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 289 (15.88%) Migration
9 263 (14.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 235 (12.91%) Decision-Making
11 234 (12.86%) Risk Management
12 225 (12.36%) Waterfall
13 176 (9.67%) AI
14 171 (9.40%) Scrum
15 150 (8.24%) ERP
16 132 (7.25%) Budget Management
17 124 (6.81%) Roadmaps
18 122 (6.70%) Analytics
18 122 (6.70%) Data Migration
19 119 (6.54%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 69 (3.79%) SQL
2 58 (3.19%) Python
3 18 (0.99%) JavaScript
4 15 (0.82%) VBA
5 10 (0.55%) C#
6 9 (0.49%) C++
6 9 (0.49%) Java
6 9 (0.49%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.44%) ABAP
8 7 (0.38%) C
8 7 (0.38%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.27%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.22%) Ada
10 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.22%) JCL
10 4 (0.22%) R
11 3 (0.16%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.16%) SOQL
12 2 (0.11%) Korn
12 2 (0.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 283 (15.55%) Security Cleared
2 280 (15.38%) Degree
3 273 (15.00%) PMP
4 232 (12.75%) PMI Certification
5 199 (10.93%) SC Cleared
6 65 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 51 (2.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 27 (1.48%) ACCA
8 27 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.48%) CIMA
9 26 (1.43%) Master's Degree
10 18 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (0.93%) CISSP
12 16 (0.88%) APMP
12 16 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 13 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.66%) CISM
15 10 (0.55%) CIPFA
15 10 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 9 (0.49%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (11.76%) PMO
2 99 (5.44%) QA
3 52 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.03%) GDPR
5 36 (1.98%) SLA
6 25 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.37%) NIST
7 19 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 16 (0.88%) GRC
9 8 (0.44%) MiFID
10 7 (0.38%) EMIR
10 7 (0.38%) GMP
11 6 (0.33%) P3O
11 6 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.27%) FINREP
12 5 (0.27%) GxP
12 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.22%) COREP
System Software
1 30 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.27%) RACF
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.055%) ACF2
8 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (0.93%) Ansible
1 17 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
5 3 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.16%) Terraform
5 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.055%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.055%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.055%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.055%) logstash
7 1 (0.055%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.055%) SCOM
7 1 (0.055%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.055%) vRealize
7 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 302 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 152 (8.35%) SAP
3 101 (5.55%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.79%) Oracle
5 54 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.25%) Google
7 36 (1.98%) Adobe
8 22 (1.21%) VMware
9 21 (1.15%) Cisco
10 18 (0.99%) Sitecore
11 15 (0.82%) Workday
12 14 (0.77%) Databricks
12 14 (0.77%) IBM
12 14 (0.77%) NEC
13 12 (0.66%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.60%) JD Edwards
14 11 (0.60%) Murex
15 10 (0.55%) CyberArk
15 10 (0.55%) IFS
15 10 (0.55%) Sage