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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -28 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,789 1,922 2,507
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.92% 6.95% 7.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 7.66% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,110 1,198 1,499
10th Percentile £317 £313 £307
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £734 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 101 206
10th Percentile £20.22 £21.39 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.40 £29.00 £27.32
Median hourly rate £43.83 £41.06 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% +7.71% -4.16%
75th Percentile £64.88 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.07 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £42.65 £36.75 £38.12
% change year-on-year +16.05% -3.59% -5.88%

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 38,785 25,097 28,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.06% 90.81% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,091 16,007 18,621
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,429 1,649
10th Percentile £14.48 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.19% -39.40% -2.35%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -25 870 £550 +2.80% 1,668
North of England -35 267 £475 -3.46% 428
South East -25 251 £500 - 462
North West -14 165 £475 - 249
Midlands -48 142 £540 +15.94% 266
South West -23 138 £436 -3.06% 259
West Midlands -61 96 £550 +15.79% 173
Yorkshire -38 95 £495 -1.00% 123
East of England -8 85 £525 -1.13% 181
East Midlands -22 46 £500 +18.41% 93
North East -43 9 £420 -12.95% 60
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 95 (5.31%) Confluence
2 93 (5.20%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.79%) CMS
4 19 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.34%) Apache
7 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.34%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) Moodle
9 4 (0.22%) JBoss
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.056%) CICS
12 1 (0.056%) IIS
Applications
1 167 (9.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 158 (8.83%) Microsoft Project
3 140 (7.83%) Microsoft Office
4 108 (6.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.35%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.95%) 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 11 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
3 11 (0.61%) 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%) Shopify
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.22%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) SAP PS
9 4 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 159 (8.89%) Azure
2 112 (6.26%) Power Platform
3 89 (4.97%) SaaS
4 68 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (3.75%) AWS
6 59 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.90%) Smartsheet
8 27 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.40%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.12%) Asana
11 17 (0.95%) GitHub
12 15 (0.84%) Entra ID
12 15 (0.84%) GCP
13 12 (0.67%) Google Sheets
14 11 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (0.56%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.56%) Snowflake
16 9 (0.50%) Power Automate
17 8 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.68%) Network Security
2 22 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.17%) DNS
4 20 (1.12%) Structured Cabling
5 19 (1.06%) WAN
6 15 (0.84%) LAN
7 14 (0.78%) Firewall
7 14 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.73%) VPN
9 12 (0.67%) DHCP
9 12 (0.67%) Intranet
10 11 (0.61%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.56%) BGP
11 10 (0.56%) Internet
11 10 (0.56%) MPLS
12 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.39%) DKIM
13 7 (0.39%) DMARC
13 7 (0.39%) SAN
13 7 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (5.65%) Power BI
2 18 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (0.78%) Data Lake
3 14 (0.78%) SQL Server
4 13 (0.73%) Tableau
5 11 (0.61%) Metadata
6 8 (0.45%) GIS
6 8 (0.45%) Power Query
7 7 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.34%) Big Data
9 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.22%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.22%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.17%) QlikView
11 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 229 (12.80%) 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 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.056%) Capybara
9 1 (0.056%) Gradle
9 1 (0.056%) minitest
9 1 (0.056%) Postman
9 1 (0.056%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.056%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.056%) Snyk
9 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.056%) Terragrunt
General
1 806 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 670 (37.45%) Finance
3 312 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (10.12%) Organisational Skills
5 151 (8.44%) Public Sector
6 141 (7.88%) Banking
7 138 (7.71%) Marketing
8 112 (6.26%) Retail
9 69 (3.86%) Manufacturing
10 65 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
11 63 (3.52%) Telecoms
12 62 (3.47%) Legal
13 41 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.73%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.57%) Investment Banking
17 27 (1.51%) Front Office
18 25 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 24 (1.34%) Aerospace
19 24 (1.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 688 (38.46%) Project Manager
2 181 (10.12%) Senior
3 159 (8.89%) Lead
4 143 (7.99%) Analyst
5 137 (7.66%) Senior Manager
6 108 (6.04%) Senior Project Manager
7 100 (5.59%) IT Manager
8 88 (4.92%) Programme Manager
9 78 (4.36%) IT Project Manager
10 77 (4.30%) Business Analyst
11 63 (3.52%) Technical Manager
12 57 (3.19%) Delivery Manager
13 55 (3.07%) Consultant
14 51 (2.85%) Infrastructure Manager
15 50 (2.79%) Technical Project Manager
16 40 (2.24%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 38 (2.12%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 37 (2.07%) Project Officer
19 36 (2.01%) Developer
20 34 (1.90%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.29%) Middleware
2 19 (1.06%) REST
3 13 (0.73%) ADO
3 13 (0.73%) HTML
3 13 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.73%) VML
4 12 (0.67%) Web Services
5 10 (0.56%) JSON
5 10 (0.56%) SOAP
6 9 (0.50%) .NET
6 9 (0.50%) OAuth
6 9 (0.50%) React
7 6 (0.34%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.34%) XML
8 5 (0.28%) CSS
8 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
8 5 (0.28%) RESTful
8 5 (0.28%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (0.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.37%) Management Information System
2 81 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 72 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 48 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
5 48 (2.68%) PMI
6 43 (2.40%) Virtual Team
7 30 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.40%) Operational Technology
10 23 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.29%) FMCG
10 23 (1.29%) Social Media
11 22 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.06%) Credit Risk
13 16 (0.89%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 14 (0.78%) Life Science
14 14 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.91%) Windows
2 37 (2.07%) Linux
3 17 (0.95%) Unix
4 16 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.22%) zOS
8 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.056%) AIX
9 1 (0.056%) Android
9 1 (0.056%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.056%) Solaris
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (41.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 690 (38.57%) Agile
3 490 (27.39%) Project Delivery
4 414 (23.14%) PRINCE2
5 319 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
6 309 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 298 (16.66%) Change Management
8 266 (14.87%) Migration
9 254 (14.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 237 (13.25%) Decision-Making
11 229 (12.80%) Risk Management
12 227 (12.69%) Waterfall
13 182 (10.17%) Scrum
14 176 (9.84%) AI
15 144 (8.05%) Roadmaps
16 140 (7.83%) Project Governance
17 136 (7.60%) Project Planning
18 135 (7.55%) Analytics
18 135 (7.55%) ITIL
19 133 (7.43%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 72 (4.02%) SQL
2 60 (3.35%) Python
3 18 (1.01%) JavaScript
4 14 (0.78%) VBA
5 13 (0.73%) Java
6 9 (0.50%) C#
6 9 (0.50%) C++
6 9 (0.50%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.45%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.34%) C
9 5 (0.28%) ABAP
9 5 (0.28%) Korn
9 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.22%) Ada
10 4 (0.22%) JCL
10 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.17%) Bash
11 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 297 (16.60%) Security Cleared
2 289 (16.15%) Degree
3 287 (16.04%) PMP
4 247 (13.81%) PMI Certification
5 202 (11.29%) SC Cleared
6 74 (4.14%) DV Cleared
7 64 (3.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 25 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.23%) ACCA
10 22 (1.23%) CIMA
11 17 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 16 (0.89%) APMP
13 14 (0.78%) CISSP
14 13 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.56%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.56%) CIPFA
15 10 (0.56%) CISM
15 10 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (11.79%) PMO
2 91 (5.09%) QA
3 51 (2.85%) Data Quality
4 33 (1.84%) GDPR
5 30 (1.68%) SLA
6 24 (1.34%) GRC
7 23 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.29%) NIST
8 22 (1.23%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.45%) P3O
10 7 (0.39%) FINREP
10 7 (0.39%) GMP
10 7 (0.39%) MiFID
10 7 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.34%) COREP
11 6 (0.34%) EMIR
11 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.22%) GxP
13 4 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 33 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.01%) 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%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
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 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.34%) Terraform
4 6 (0.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (0.28%) Puppet
6 4 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
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%) vRealize
8 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 307 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 133 (7.43%) SAP
3 101 (5.65%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.91%) Oracle
5 49 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 45 (2.52%) Google
7 44 (2.46%) Adobe
8 26 (1.45%) VMware
9 25 (1.40%) Cisco
10 23 (1.29%) Sitecore
11 20 (1.12%) Workday
12 19 (1.06%) NEC
13 18 (1.01%) Atlassian
14 17 (0.95%) Databricks
15 13 (0.73%) IBM
16 11 (0.61%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.61%) JD Edwards
17 10 (0.56%) Guidewire
17 10 (0.56%) IFS
17 10 (0.56%) Murex