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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 21 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,731 2,239 3,134
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.23% 8.44% 8.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.96% 9.43% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 1,260 2,034
10th Percentile £338 £275 £325
25th Percentile £421 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £619 £625 £634
90th Percentile £713 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.02% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 98 181
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.25 £20.07
25th Percentile £21.17 £30.30 £26.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -8.18% -21.40%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £65.15 £65.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -13.75% -16.67%

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 29,029 23,736 33,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.78% 89.47% 87.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,558 14,524 22,275
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £643 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 756 1,886
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year -26.69% -5.80% +4.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +12.38%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -18 807 £540 -1.82% 323
South East -11 272 £525 +0.96% 390
North of England -28 254 £484 +7.50% 221
Midlands -24 200 £492 -6.29% 227
North West -22 143 £492 +9.33% 98
West Midlands -26 140 £500 -9.09% 131
South West -27 107 £450 -10.00% 139
Yorkshire -20 102 £490 +8.83% 89
East Midlands -13 62 £450 +8.70% 96
East of England -28 61 £425 -15.00% 162
North East -33 12 £430 -25.22% 39
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
1 154 (8.90%) Confluence
2 92 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.16%) CMS
4 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.46%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.35%) WordPress
8 5 (0.29%) nginx
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.23%) Apache
10 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.12%) SAS
12 1 (0.058%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.058%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.058%) IIS
12 1 (0.058%) Moodle
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.058%) WebSphere
Applications
1 191 (11.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 185 (10.69%) Microsoft Project
3 152 (8.78%) Microsoft Office
4 107 (6.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 57 (3.29%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.27%) Trello
7 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.23%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.17%) InVision
10 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.17%) Sketch
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.12%) InDesign
11 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.12%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 41 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.98%) Primavera
3 13 (0.75%) Loan IQ
3 13 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 8 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
7 8 (0.46%) Shopify
8 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
9 6 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 140 (8.09%) Azure
2 90 (5.20%) Power Platform
3 83 (4.79%) AWS
4 53 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (2.37%) SaaS
6 35 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (1.44%) GCP
8 22 (1.27%) Asana
9 19 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (1.04%) OpenShift
11 17 (0.98%) GitHub
11 17 (0.98%) Smartsheet
12 15 (0.87%) Google Workspace
13 14 (0.81%) OneDrive
14 13 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (0.64%) Serverless
16 10 (0.58%) Entra ID
16 10 (0.58%) IaaS
16 10 (0.58%) PaaS
17 9 (0.52%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.79%) Firewall
2 25 (1.44%) WAN
3 17 (0.98%) LAN
4 15 (0.87%) Network Security
5 14 (0.81%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
6 12 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.64%) VPN
8 10 (0.58%) DNS
9 9 (0.52%) Skype
9 9 (0.52%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.46%) BGP
10 8 (0.46%) Internet
11 7 (0.40%) MPLS
11 7 (0.40%) SSL
12 6 (0.35%) Broadband
12 6 (0.35%) DHCP
13 5 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.29%) SSH
14 4 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.79%) Power BI
2 28 (1.62%) Tableau
3 22 (1.27%) SQL Server
4 17 (0.98%) Metadata
5 15 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.29%) GIS
7 5 (0.29%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.23%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.23%) Power Query
9 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.17%) Big Data
9 3 (0.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 285 (16.46%) JIRA
2 15 (0.87%) Git
3 10 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.40%) GitLab
5 4 (0.23%) Selenium
5 4 (0.23%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.12%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.058%) Ant
8 1 (0.058%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.058%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.058%) ERwin
8 1 (0.058%) Gradle
8 1 (0.058%) JUnit
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.058%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.058%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.058%) Toad
8 1 (0.058%) Visual Studio
General
1 862 (49.80%) Social Skills
2 648 (37.44%) Finance
3 297 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (10.05%) Organisational Skills
5 165 (9.53%) Banking
6 162 (9.36%) Public Sector
7 84 (4.85%) Retail
8 75 (4.33%) Marketing
9 74 (4.27%) Legal
10 73 (4.22%) Influencing Skills
11 58 (3.35%) Manufacturing
12 47 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (2.72%) Telecoms
13 42 (2.43%) Investment Banking
14 34 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.96%) Local Government
15 28 (1.62%) Front Office
16 25 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
16 25 (1.44%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.04%) Billing
Job Titles
1 657 (37.95%) Project Manager
2 209 (12.07%) Analyst
3 159 (9.19%) Lead
4 138 (7.97%) Senior
5 113 (6.53%) Business Analyst
6 87 (5.03%) IT Manager
7 86 (4.97%) Senior Manager
8 76 (4.39%) IT Project Manager
9 73 (4.22%) Consultant
10 67 (3.87%) Senior Project Manager
11 53 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
11 53 (3.06%) Technical Manager
12 48 (2.77%) Infrastructure Manager
12 48 (2.77%) Programme Manager
13 44 (2.54%) Coordinator
14 40 (2.31%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 36 (2.08%) Architect
15 36 (2.08%) Developer
16 34 (1.96%) Technical Project Manager
17 33 (1.91%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.21%) Middleware
2 20 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.75%) .NET
3 13 (0.75%) REST
4 12 (0.69%) EDI
4 12 (0.69%) SOAP
5 10 (0.58%) Web Services
6 9 (0.52%) ADO
6 9 (0.52%) AngularJS
6 9 (0.52%) XML
7 8 (0.46%) CSS
7 8 (0.46%) HTML
8 7 (0.40%) React
8 7 (0.40%) RESTful
9 6 (0.35%) .NET Framework
9 6 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (0.35%) LangChain
10 5 (0.29%) Entity Framework
10 5 (0.29%) LlamaIndex
11 4 (0.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 110 (6.35%) Onboarding
2 94 (5.43%) Management Information System
3 57 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
4 53 (3.06%) PMI
5 50 (2.89%) Data Centre
6 49 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 45 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 39 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.27%) Operational Technology
11 21 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.10%) NHS
13 17 (0.98%) Social Media
14 16 (0.92%) SCADA
15 15 (0.87%) CMDB
16 12 (0.69%) Cloud Native
16 12 (0.69%) Mobile App
17 10 (0.58%) Driving Licence
17 10 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (3.24%) Windows
2 16 (0.92%) Linux
3 13 (0.75%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.58%) Unix
4 10 (0.58%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.12%) AIX
6 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.058%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.058%) Solaris
7 1 (0.058%) VMS
7 1 (0.058%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (39.23%) Agile
2 581 (33.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 432 (24.96%) Problem-Solving
4 418 (24.15%) Project Delivery
5 358 (20.68%) PRINCE2
6 320 (18.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 283 (16.35%) Change Management
8 252 (14.56%) Migration
9 219 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 208 (12.02%) Waterfall
11 192 (11.09%) Decision-Making
12 184 (10.63%) Risk Management
13 179 (10.34%) Scrum
14 157 (9.07%) Budget Management
15 134 (7.74%) ITIL
16 132 (7.63%) DevOps
16 132 (7.63%) Project Governance
17 129 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
18 127 (7.34%) ERP
19 124 (7.16%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 79 (4.56%) SQL
2 39 (2.25%) Python
3 15 (0.87%) Java
4 14 (0.81%) C#
5 12 (0.69%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.35%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.29%) Perl
7 5 (0.29%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.29%) VBA
8 4 (0.23%) C++
8 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.23%) R
9 3 (0.17%) C
9 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.17%) Korn
10 2 (0.12%) Go
10 2 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.12%) Ruby
10 2 (0.12%) SOQL
10 2 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 320 (18.49%) Degree
2 251 (14.50%) Security Cleared
3 249 (14.38%) PMP
4 232 (13.40%) PMI Certification
5 182 (10.51%) SC Cleared
6 56 (3.24%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.25%) APMP
8 36 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 32 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 23 (1.33%) CISSP
13 22 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 20 (1.16%) CISM
15 17 (0.98%) MBA
16 16 (0.92%) CBAP
17 15 (0.87%) IIBA
18 10 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
19 9 (0.52%) A+ Certification
19 9 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (10.86%) PMO
2 116 (6.70%) QA
3 51 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 48 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.66%) GDPR
6 31 (1.79%) NIST
7 19 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.92%) GRC
10 12 (0.69%) SLA
11 11 (0.64%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.52%) Basel III
12 9 (0.52%) P3O
13 7 (0.40%) ISO 19650
13 7 (0.40%) PSD2
14 6 (0.35%) NCSC
14 6 (0.35%) WCAG
15 5 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.29%) EMIR
15 5 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 30 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.81%) Docker
3 7 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.12%) RACF
8 1 (0.058%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.058%) Firmware
8 1 (0.058%) PowerHA
8 1 (0.058%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.058%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (0.92%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.81%) Terraform
3 11 (0.64%) SCCM
4 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.35%) Kibana
5 6 (0.35%) logstash
6 5 (0.29%) Ansible
6 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.23%) Consul
7 4 (0.23%) Packer
8 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.17%) Grafana
8 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.058%) Cisco UCCE
9 1 (0.058%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.058%) Puppet
9 1 (0.058%) SCOM
9 1 (0.058%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.058%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 280 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 128 (7.39%) SAP
3 78 (4.51%) Oracle
3 78 (4.51%) ServiceNow
4 64 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 31 (1.79%) Google
6 27 (1.56%) Cisco
7 20 (1.16%) Adobe
7 20 (1.16%) Atlassian
7 20 (1.16%) Workday
8 16 (0.92%) Planview
9 14 (0.81%) VMware
10 13 (0.75%) Databricks
11 12 (0.69%) CyberArk
11 12 (0.69%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.58%) IBM
12 10 (0.58%) Sage
13 9 (0.52%) Juniper
14 8 (0.46%) Splunk
15 7 (0.40%) Fortinet