Project Management Contracts in England

Project Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,937 2,778 3,547
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.35% 7.44% 7.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.08% 8.70% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,703 2,454
10th Percentile £310 £310 £340
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +0.96%
75th Percentile £622 £619 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 249 134
10th Percentile £22.81 £18.35 £22.50
25th Percentile £31.50 £26.73 £30.54
Median hourly rate £45.59 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.57% -12.79% +46.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £38.12 £45.00
% change year-on-year +16.74% -15.29% +45.16%

All Process and 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 23,975 31,937 42,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.99% 85.52% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,423 20,731 29,966
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,196 2,302 1,555
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.85 £16.06 £16.62
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.94
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 2025. 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 +2 993 £550 +3.29% 6,246
North of England -5 253 £475 -6.86% 1,662
South East -4 226 £485 +2.11% 1,679
Midlands -1 187 £450 -10.00% 1,106
North West -9 145 £450 -10.00% 965
South West -7 136 £450 -14.29% 800
West Midlands -2 128 £450 -11.11% 683
Yorkshire -2 96 £500 - 585
East of England -19 71 £510 +6.59% 800
East Midlands -1 53 £410 -14.81% 420
North East -15 12 £508 -11.74% 120
Project Management
UK

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 97 (5.01%) Confluence
2 69 (3.56%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.19%) CMS
4 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.26%) CICS
6 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.21%) IIS
6 4 (0.21%) WordPress
7 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.15%) MS Project Server
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.10%) Apache
8 2 (0.10%) Camunda
8 2 (0.10%) Drupal
8 2 (0.10%) SAS
8 2 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.10%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.052%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.052%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 151 (7.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (6.30%) Microsoft Project
3 108 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
4 81 (4.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.76%) Trello
6 31 (1.60%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.36%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.31%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.21%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.15%) Simulink
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.10%) InDesign
12 2 (0.10%) Revit
12 2 (0.10%) Windchill
13 1 (0.052%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 53 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.24%) Primavera
3 19 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.57%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.52%) SAP PS
6 6 (0.31%) Endur
6 6 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.26%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.26%) Shopify
7 5 (0.26%) Workfront
8 4 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.15%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.15%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.15%) SAP GRC
9 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 166 (8.57%) Azure
2 115 (5.94%) AWS
3 67 (3.46%) SaaS
4 66 (3.41%) Power Platform
5 64 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (2.22%) GCP
7 42 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (1.24%) Entra ID
9 22 (1.14%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.08%) Asana
10 21 (1.08%) GitHub
11 20 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
12 16 (0.83%) Power Automate
13 13 (0.67%) Lucidchart
13 13 (0.67%) OCI
13 13 (0.67%) OneDrive
13 13 (0.67%) Smartsheet
14 12 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.84%) Firewall
2 47 (2.43%) VPN
3 40 (2.07%) WAN
4 34 (1.76%) LAN
5 30 (1.55%) DNS
6 20 (1.03%) DHCP
7 19 (0.98%) MPLS
8 17 (0.88%) Wireless
9 16 (0.83%) ATM
9 16 (0.83%) Ethernet
9 16 (0.83%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.72%) Frame Relay
10 14 (0.72%) GPRS
10 14 (0.72%) GSM
10 14 (0.72%) LTE
10 14 (0.72%) Network Security
10 14 (0.72%) SAN
10 14 (0.72%) SDH
10 14 (0.72%) UMTS
10 14 (0.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (2.84%) Power BI
2 23 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (1.14%) Tableau
4 21 (1.08%) SQL Server
5 14 (0.72%) Metadata
6 13 (0.67%) Big Data
6 13 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.46%) MySQL
8 9 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (0.41%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.41%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.41%) SAP HANA
10 6 (0.31%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.26%) DB2
11 5 (0.26%) GIS
11 5 (0.26%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.21%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 250 (12.91%) JIRA
2 19 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.46%) Git
4 6 (0.31%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.26%) JUnit
5 5 (0.26%) Maven
5 5 (0.26%) Postman
5 5 (0.26%) Selenium
5 5 (0.26%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.21%) MSI
6 4 (0.21%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.15%) GitLab
7 3 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.15%) Subversion
8 2 (0.10%) Ant
8 2 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.10%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.10%) TestRail
General
1 938 (48.43%) Social Skills
2 743 (38.36%) Finance
3 344 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (8.36%) Banking
5 144 (7.43%) Marketing
6 132 (6.81%) Public Sector
7 111 (5.73%) Legal
8 92 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
9 75 (3.87%) Manufacturing
10 73 (3.77%) Telecoms
11 72 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
12 69 (3.56%) Retail
13 61 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
14 50 (2.58%) Front Office
15 42 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
16 37 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 37 (1.91%) Local Government
17 34 (1.76%) Investment Banking
18 28 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
19 26 (1.34%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 632 (32.63%) Project Manager
2 232 (11.98%) Analyst
3 153 (7.90%) Lead
4 146 (7.54%) Business Analyst
5 138 (7.12%) Senior
6 94 (4.85%) IT Manager
7 76 (3.92%) Consultant
8 70 (3.61%) Architect
8 70 (3.61%) IT Project Manager
8 70 (3.61%) Senior Manager
9 67 (3.46%) Technical Manager
10 62 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
11 57 (2.94%) Programme Manager
12 55 (2.84%) Senior Project Manager
13 49 (2.53%) Infrastructure Manager
14 47 (2.43%) Developer
15 43 (2.22%) Technical Project Manager
16 41 (2.12%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 39 (2.01%) Business Manager
18 35 (1.81%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.70%) .NET
2 30 (1.55%) HTML
3 27 (1.39%) CSS
4 22 (1.14%) React
5 19 (0.98%) AngularJS
6 17 (0.88%) REST
7 16 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
8 14 (0.72%) Middleware
9 10 (0.52%) .NET Framework
9 10 (0.52%) ADO
9 10 (0.52%) OAuth
9 10 (0.52%) SAML
10 9 (0.46%) LDAP
11 7 (0.36%) SailPoint
11 7 (0.36%) Spring
12 6 (0.31%) JSON
12 6 (0.31%) OpenID
12 6 (0.31%) RESTful
12 6 (0.31%) Web Services
13 5 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.11%) Management Information System
2 64 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 63 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 49 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 48 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 35 (1.81%) PMI
8 34 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 31 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (0.93%) Market Risk
12 16 (0.83%) Social Media
13 15 (0.77%) Cloud Native
13 15 (0.77%) Security Posture
14 14 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.72%) Fixed Income
14 14 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (0.72%) Learning Management System
14 14 (0.72%) Life Science
14 14 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 80 (4.13%) Windows
2 44 (2.27%) Linux
3 19 (0.98%) Unix
4 18 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.62%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.15%) VMS
9 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.10%) Android
11 1 (0.052%) CentOS
11 1 (0.052%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (35.26%) Agile
2 521 (26.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 495 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
4 337 (17.40%) Project Delivery
5 267 (13.78%) PRINCE2
6 252 (13.01%) Change Management
7 246 (12.70%) Risk Management
8 219 (11.31%) Migration
9 202 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 198 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 194 (10.02%) Scrum
12 173 (8.93%) Decision-Making
13 165 (8.52%) Waterfall
14 133 (6.87%) Roadmaps
15 129 (6.66%) ITIL
16 117 (6.04%) DevOps
17 116 (5.99%) Business Analysis
18 115 (5.94%) Programme Management
19 114 (5.89%) Project Planning
20 111 (5.73%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 94 (4.85%) SQL
2 73 (3.77%) Python
3 63 (3.25%) Java
4 42 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 23 (1.19%) PowerShell
6 20 (1.03%) C#
7 16 (0.83%) PHP
8 11 (0.57%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.41%) C
9 8 (0.41%) VBA
10 6 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.26%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.26%) Bash
12 4 (0.21%) Bicep
12 4 (0.21%) C++
12 4 (0.21%) R
12 4 (0.21%) Ruby
12 4 (0.21%) VB
12 4 (0.21%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.15%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 341 (17.60%) Degree
2 230 (11.87%) Security Cleared
3 213 (11.00%) PMP
4 202 (10.43%) PMI Certification
5 161 (8.31%) SC Cleared
6 63 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (1.39%) CCNP
11 24 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.08%) CISSP
12 21 (1.08%) ISEB
13 16 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 15 (0.77%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 14 (0.72%) APMP
15 14 (0.72%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (7.64%) PMO
2 111 (5.73%) QA
3 56 (2.89%) GDPR
4 32 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 32 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.60%) NIST
6 25 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (0.98%) MiFID
9 18 (0.93%) SLA
10 17 (0.88%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.83%) HIPAA
12 15 (0.77%) EMIR
13 9 (0.46%) GRC
14 8 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.41%) P3O
15 7 (0.36%) GxP
16 5 (0.26%) Basel III
17 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
17 4 (0.21%) PMBOK
System Software
1 50 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.14%) Docker
3 20 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.36%) vSphere
8 6 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.10%) Firmware
10 2 (0.10%) IAG
10 2 (0.10%) Lustre
10 2 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.052%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.052%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.052%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.052%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.052%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 25 (1.29%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.14%) Terraform
3 20 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.72%) SCCM
5 9 (0.46%) Amdocs OSS
5 9 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.41%) Ansible
6 8 (0.41%) NSN NetAct
7 4 (0.21%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.21%) Kibana
7 4 (0.21%) logstash
7 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.15%) Grafana
8 3 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.10%) Puppet
9 2 (0.10%) SCOM
9 2 (0.10%) WSUS
9 2 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 307 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 189 (9.76%) SAP
3 68 (3.51%) Oracle
4 58 (2.99%) Salesforce
5 56 (2.89%) Google
6 53 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 51 (2.63%) Cisco
8 31 (1.60%) Workday
9 27 (1.39%) Adobe
10 23 (1.19%) VMware
11 18 (0.93%) Databricks
11 18 (0.93%) Juniper
12 16 (0.83%) Remedy
13 14 (0.72%) Citrix
13 14 (0.72%) Ericsson
13 14 (0.72%) Nokia
14 11 (0.57%) Ariba
14 11 (0.57%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.52%) IBM
15 10 (0.52%) IFS