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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 21 19
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,715 2,354 3,009
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.39% 8.25% 8.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.10% 9.30% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 1,310 1,984
10th Percentile £334 £275 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% - -
75th Percentile £620 £629 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 112 146
10th Percentile £18.59 £21.25 £21.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £27.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £42.28 £34.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.67% -22.78% +10.91%
75th Percentile £63.49 £58.07 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £67.58 £72.17
UK median hourly rate £38.54 £33.27 £46.53
% change year-on-year +15.84% -28.49% +16.98%

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 28,126 25,301 32,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.47% 88.70% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,892 15,616 22,141
10th Percentile £301 £311 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,807 836 1,442
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.98 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.79 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 -16 805 £525 -4.55% 681
North of England -24 262 £492 +3.58% 555
South East -9 261 £525 - 623
Midlands -23 191 £496 -5.52% 461
North West -12 148 £492 +9.33% 271
West Midlands -23 133 £500 -9.09% 262
Yorkshire -16 105 £488 +4.00% 247
South West -25 101 £450 -6.49% 261
East Midlands -14 60 £468 +17.00% 181
East of England -31 59 £450 -5.26% 330
North East -23 11 £430 -25.22% 43
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
1 150 (8.75%) Confluence
2 105 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.46%) CMS
4 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.47%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (0.41%) WordPress
7 5 (0.29%) nginx
8 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.058%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.058%) Apache
9 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.058%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.058%) IIS
9 1 (0.058%) Moodle
9 1 (0.058%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.058%) SAS
9 1 (0.058%) WebSphere
Applications
1 193 (11.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 183 (10.67%) Microsoft Project
3 154 (8.98%) Microsoft Office
4 113 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 58 (3.38%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.46%) 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%) InDesign
11 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.12%) ProjectWise
12 1 (0.058%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.76%) Primavera
3 12 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.47%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.41%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
7 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.35%) Shopify
7 6 (0.35%) Workfront
8 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.23%) Eloqua
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.23%) ResourceLink
10 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 137 (7.99%) Azure
2 104 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 83 (4.84%) AWS
4 58 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (2.57%) SaaS
6 36 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (1.81%) GCP
8 27 (1.57%) Asana
9 22 (1.28%) Smartsheet
10 21 (1.22%) Google Workspace
11 18 (1.05%) SuccessFactors
12 17 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (0.99%) GitHub
12 17 (0.99%) OpenShift
13 15 (0.87%) OneDrive
14 12 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
16 10 (0.58%) OCI
16 10 (0.58%) PaaS
16 10 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.92%) Firewall
2 18 (1.05%) WAN
3 15 (0.87%) Network Security
4 14 (0.82%) LAN
5 13 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
6 11 (0.64%) DNS
7 10 (0.58%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.58%) SSH
7 10 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.52%) Skype
8 9 (0.52%) VPN
9 8 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.41%) Internet
11 6 (0.35%) Broadband
11 6 (0.35%) DHCP
11 6 (0.35%) SSL
12 4 (0.23%) BGP
12 4 (0.23%) Junos
12 4 (0.23%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.54%) Power BI
2 31 (1.81%) Tableau
3 25 (1.46%) SQL Server
4 17 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (0.99%) Metadata
5 12 (0.70%) SAP HANA
6 8 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.29%) Power Query
9 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.17%) Big Data
9 3 (0.17%) GIS
9 3 (0.17%) MySQL
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 287 (16.73%) JIRA
2 12 (0.70%) Git
2 12 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.35%) GitLab
4 4 (0.23%) Selenium
4 4 (0.23%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.12%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.058%) Appium
7 1 (0.058%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.058%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.058%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.058%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.058%) Gradle
7 1 (0.058%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.058%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.058%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.058%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 832 (48.51%) Social Skills
2 627 (36.56%) Finance
3 300 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 157 (9.15%) Banking
6 141 (8.22%) Organisational Skills
7 92 (5.36%) Marketing
8 83 (4.84%) Legal
9 80 (4.66%) Retail
10 72 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
11 69 (4.02%) Manufacturing
12 46 (2.68%) Telecoms
13 42 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (2.39%) Investment Banking
15 38 (2.22%) Local Government
16 37 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 30 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
18 29 (1.69%) Front Office
19 26 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
20 21 (1.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 632 (36.85%) Project Manager
2 198 (11.55%) Analyst
3 148 (8.63%) Lead
4 134 (7.81%) Senior
5 106 (6.18%) Business Analyst
6 89 (5.19%) IT Manager
7 81 (4.72%) Senior Manager
8 76 (4.43%) IT Project Manager
9 70 (4.08%) Consultant
10 61 (3.56%) Senior Project Manager
11 55 (3.21%) Technical Manager
12 53 (3.09%) Programme Manager
13 49 (2.86%) Infrastructure Manager
14 46 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
15 42 (2.45%) Coordinator
16 41 (2.39%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 37 (2.16%) Security Manager
18 36 (2.10%) Technical Project Manager
19 34 (1.98%) SAP Manager
20 31 (1.81%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (0.99%) Middleware
2 16 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.76%) .NET
4 12 (0.70%) EDI
4 12 (0.70%) HTML
5 9 (0.52%) AngularJS
5 9 (0.52%) Web Services
5 9 (0.52%) XML
6 8 (0.47%) CSS
6 8 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (0.47%) RESTful
7 7 (0.41%) ADO
7 7 (0.41%) React
7 7 (0.41%) REST
8 6 (0.35%) LangChain
8 6 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (0.35%) SOAP
9 5 (0.29%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.29%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.23%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 104 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 98 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 53 (3.09%) PMI
4 51 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
5 46 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 46 (2.68%) Virtual Team
6 44 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 22 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.05%) Social Media
11 16 (0.93%) Mobile App
11 16 (0.93%) NHS
12 14 (0.82%) Life Science
12 14 (0.82%) Operational Technology
13 13 (0.76%) Cloud Native
14 12 (0.70%) CMDB
14 12 (0.70%) Driving Licence
14 12 (0.70%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 64 (3.73%) Windows
2 18 (1.05%) Linux
3 14 (0.82%) Unix
4 13 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.17%) VMS
7 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
8 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.058%) Android
9 1 (0.058%) Solaris
9 1 (0.058%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.058%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (38.37%) Agile
2 546 (31.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 425 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
4 408 (23.79%) Project Delivery
5 358 (20.87%) PRINCE2
6 318 (18.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 300 (17.49%) Change Management
8 234 (13.64%) Migration
9 229 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 207 (12.07%) Waterfall
11 196 (11.43%) Decision-Making
12 184 (10.73%) Risk Management
13 165 (9.62%) Scrum
14 143 (8.34%) Budget Management
15 142 (8.28%) Project Governance
16 140 (8.16%) ITIL
17 134 (7.81%) DevOps
18 124 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
19 119 (6.94%) Roadmaps
20 113 (6.59%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 72 (4.20%) SQL
2 39 (2.27%) Python
3 16 (0.93%) JavaScript
4 14 (0.82%) Java
5 11 (0.64%) C#
6 8 (0.47%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.29%) Perl
7 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.23%) C++
8 4 (0.23%) R
8 4 (0.23%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.23%) VB
8 4 (0.23%) VBA
9 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.17%) Korn
10 2 (0.12%) ABAP
10 2 (0.12%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.12%) Go
10 2 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 331 (19.30%) Degree
2 239 (13.94%) PMP
3 237 (13.82%) Security Cleared
4 233 (13.59%) PMI Certification
5 167 (9.74%) SC Cleared
6 54 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 38 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.04%) APMP
9 30 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 24 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 21 (1.22%) CISSP
13 18 (1.05%) CISM
14 13 (0.76%) MBA
15 10 (0.58%) A+ Certification
16 9 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.47%) CBAP
17 8 (0.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (10.50%) PMO
2 109 (6.36%) QA
3 48 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.51%) GDPR
6 28 (1.63%) NIST
7 22 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.99%) GRC
10 12 (0.70%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.64%) P3O
12 8 (0.47%) Basel III
13 7 (0.41%) ISO 19650
13 7 (0.41%) SLA
14 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.29%) EMIR
15 5 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.29%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.93%) Docker
3 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.058%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.058%) IAG
7 1 (0.058%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.058%) RACF
7 1 (0.058%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.058%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (0.99%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.87%) Terraform
3 11 (0.64%) SCCM
4 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.47%) Ansible
5 8 (0.47%) Kibana
6 7 (0.41%) logstash
7 4 (0.23%) Consul
7 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.23%) Packer
7 4 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.17%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.17%) Grafana
8 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.058%) Cisco UCCE
10 1 (0.058%) Puppet
Vendors
1 283 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 134 (7.81%) SAP
3 73 (4.26%) Oracle
4 69 (4.02%) ServiceNow
5 68 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 47 (2.74%) Google
7 25 (1.46%) Cisco
8 21 (1.22%) Workday
9 20 (1.17%) Atlassian
10 18 (1.05%) Adobe
10 18 (1.05%) Planview
11 15 (0.87%) IBM
12 14 (0.82%) Databricks
13 13 (0.76%) VMware
14 10 (0.58%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.52%) Juniper
15 9 (0.52%) Splunk
16 8 (0.47%) CyberArk
16 8 (0.47%) NEC
17 6 (0.35%) HubSpot