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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 26 23
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,823 1,967 2,515
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.04% 7.17% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 7.90% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 1,226 1,519
10th Percentile £317 £313 £310
25th Percentile £415 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £738 £725 £729
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 105 224
10th Percentile £17.87 £21.39 £20.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £29.00 £28.00
Median hourly rate £41.44 £43.08 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +13.00% -10.09%
75th Percentile £63.94 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £85.15 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £40.48 £37.28 £38.12
% change year-on-year +8.58% -2.20% -13.36%

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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
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 £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -24 859 £550 +4.76% 469
North of England -30 283 £477 -3.11% 234
South East -24 269 £500 +2.56% 279
North West -14 181 £477 +0.36% 124
Midlands -43 150 £525 +16.67% 159
South West -19 138 £436 -3.06% 108
West Midlands -55 103 £550 +17.27% 98
Yorkshire -44 95 £500 - 80
East of England -7 92 £525 +0.48% 101
East Midlands -14 47 £488 +30.00% 61
North East -40 10 £420 -12.95% 32
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
1 101 (5.54%) Confluence
2 96 (5.27%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.65%) CMS
4 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.38%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.33%) Apache
7 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.27%) Moodle
8 5 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.055%) CICS
12 1 (0.055%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.055%) IIS
Applications
1 173 (9.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 168 (9.22%) Microsoft Project
3 131 (7.19%) Microsoft Office
4 110 (6.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.30%) MS Visio
6 20 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.71%) Trello
8 8 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.33%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.16%) InDesign
12 3 (0.16%) Windchill
13 2 (0.11%) Houdini
13 2 (0.11%) NUKE
14 1 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.055%) CATIA
14 1 (0.055%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 65 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.04%) Primavera
3 10 (0.55%) Magento
4 9 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
5 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.44%) SAP HCM
6 6 (0.33%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
6 6 (0.33%) Shopify
6 6 (0.33%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.27%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.27%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 161 (8.83%) Azure
2 109 (5.98%) Power Platform
3 87 (4.77%) SaaS
4 74 (4.06%) AWS
5 67 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.81%) Smartsheet
8 27 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.21%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.15%) Asana
10 21 (1.15%) GCP
11 17 (0.93%) GitHub
12 15 (0.82%) Entra ID
13 11 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (0.60%) Google Sheets
14 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (0.49%) OCI
16 8 (0.44%) Power Automate
16 8 (0.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.59%) Network Security
2 23 (1.26%) TCP/IP
3 22 (1.21%) DNS
4 20 (1.10%) Structured Cabling
4 20 (1.10%) WAN
5 16 (0.88%) LAN
5 16 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (0.77%) Intranet
7 13 (0.71%) DHCP
7 13 (0.71%) Firewall
8 12 (0.66%) MPLS
8 12 (0.66%) VPN
9 11 (0.60%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.55%) BGP
11 9 (0.49%) BIG-IP
12 8 (0.44%) Internet
13 7 (0.38%) DKIM
13 7 (0.38%) DMARC
13 7 (0.38%) SAN
13 7 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (5.43%) Power BI
2 15 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (0.71%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.71%) Tableau
4 11 (0.60%) Metadata
5 10 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
7 7 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.38%) GIS
7 7 (0.38%) Power Query
8 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.27%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.16%) Big Data
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.16%) QlikView
12 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 236 (12.95%) JIRA
2 21 (1.15%) Git
3 19 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.49%) Subversion
5 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.27%) GitLab
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.055%) Appium
9 1 (0.055%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.055%) Capybara
9 1 (0.055%) Gradle
9 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.055%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.055%) RSpec
9 1 (0.055%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.055%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.055%) Terragrunt
General
1 819 (44.93%) Social Skills
2 684 (37.52%) Finance
3 303 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (9.71%) Organisational Skills
5 152 (8.34%) Public Sector
6 133 (7.30%) Marketing
7 126 (6.91%) Banking
8 108 (5.92%) Retail
9 67 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
9 67 (3.68%) Manufacturing
10 63 (3.46%) Legal
11 53 (2.91%) Telecoms
12 43 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
14 29 (1.59%) Financial Institution
15 27 (1.48%) Investment Banking
16 26 (1.43%) Front Office
17 23 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 22 (1.21%) Aerospace
19 21 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 691 (37.90%) Project Manager
2 183 (10.04%) Senior
3 166 (9.11%) Analyst
4 158 (8.67%) Lead
5 140 (7.68%) Senior Manager
6 118 (6.47%) Senior Project Manager
7 96 (5.27%) IT Manager
8 88 (4.83%) Business Analyst
9 84 (4.61%) Programme Manager
10 76 (4.17%) IT Project Manager
11 60 (3.29%) Consultant
12 57 (3.13%) Technical Manager
13 55 (3.02%) Infrastructure Manager
14 54 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
15 46 (2.52%) Technical Project Manager
16 43 (2.36%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 41 (2.25%) Project Officer
18 39 (2.14%) Architect
19 38 (2.08%) Coordinator
20 37 (2.03%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.21%) Middleware
2 20 (1.10%) REST
3 13 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.71%) VML
4 12 (0.66%) ADO
4 12 (0.66%) HTML
4 12 (0.66%) OAuth
5 11 (0.60%) JSON
5 11 (0.60%) SOAP
5 11 (0.60%) Web Services
6 9 (0.49%) React
7 8 (0.44%) .NET
7 8 (0.44%) CSS
8 7 (0.38%) XML
9 6 (0.33%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.33%) SAML
10 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.27%) FastAPI
10 5 (0.27%) RESTful
11 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.32%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.62%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.80%) PMI
6 50 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
7 43 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 30 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.32%) FMCG
10 24 (1.32%) Social Media
11 23 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.26%) Operational Technology
12 17 (0.93%) AI Agents
13 16 (0.88%) Credit Risk
14 15 (0.82%) EPoS
15 14 (0.77%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.63%) Windows
2 28 (1.54%) Linux
3 18 (0.99%) Unix
4 14 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.22%) zOS
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.055%) AIX
8 1 (0.055%) Android
8 1 (0.055%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.055%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.055%) Solaris
8 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (39.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 683 (37.47%) Agile
3 482 (26.44%) Project Delivery
4 395 (21.67%) PRINCE2
5 343 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
6 304 (16.68%) Change Management
7 302 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 270 (14.81%) Migration
9 258 (14.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 241 (13.22%) Decision-Making
11 236 (12.95%) Risk Management
12 228 (12.51%) Waterfall
13 184 (10.09%) AI
14 182 (9.98%) Scrum
15 145 (7.95%) ERP
16 135 (7.41%) Budget Management
17 132 (7.24%) Analytics
17 132 (7.24%) Roadmaps
18 130 (7.13%) Project Planning
19 126 (6.91%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 74 (4.06%) SQL
2 62 (3.40%) Python
3 18 (0.99%) JavaScript
4 13 (0.71%) Java
4 13 (0.71%) VBA
5 10 (0.55%) TypeScript
6 9 (0.49%) C++
7 8 (0.44%) ABAP
7 8 (0.44%) C#
7 8 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.38%) C
9 5 (0.27%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.22%) Ada
10 4 (0.22%) JCL
10 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.16%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.16%) R
12 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 303 (16.62%) Security Cleared
2 286 (15.69%) PMP
3 284 (15.58%) Degree
4 249 (13.66%) PMI Certification
5 212 (11.63%) SC Cleared
6 73 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 29 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 25 (1.37%) ACCA
10 25 (1.37%) CIMA
11 20 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 15 (0.82%) CISSP
14 13 (0.71%) APMP
14 13 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.60%) CISM
16 10 (0.55%) CIPFA
16 10 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 9 (0.49%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (11.90%) PMO
2 98 (5.38%) QA
3 53 (2.91%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.92%) SLA
5 33 (1.81%) GDPR
6 23 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.26%) NIST
7 22 (1.21%) GRC
8 21 (1.15%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.38%) EMIR
9 7 (0.38%) FINREP
9 7 (0.38%) MiFID
9 7 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.33%) COREP
10 6 (0.33%) GMP
10 6 (0.33%) P3O
10 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.22%) GxP
12 4 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (1.76%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.22%) NFS
5 4 (0.22%) RACF
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.16%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.055%) ACF2
8 1 (0.055%) Docker
8 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (0.99%) Ansible
2 15 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.22%) RSA Archer
4 4 (0.22%) Terraform
5 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.11%) Puppet
5 2 (0.11%) SCCM
6 1 (0.055%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.055%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.055%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.055%) Nessus
6 1 (0.055%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.055%) SCOM
6 1 (0.055%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.055%) vRealize
6 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 303 (16.62%) Microsoft
2 153 (8.39%) SAP
3 107 (5.87%) ServiceNow
4 67 (3.68%) Oracle
5 51 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.36%) Google
7 37 (2.03%) Adobe
8 21 (1.15%) Sitecore
8 21 (1.15%) VMware
9 20 (1.10%) Cisco
10 18 (0.99%) Workday
11 16 (0.88%) Atlassian
11 16 (0.88%) NEC
12 14 (0.77%) Databricks
12 14 (0.77%) IBM
13 11 (0.60%) JD Edwards
14 10 (0.55%) Alteryx
14 10 (0.55%) F5
14 10 (0.55%) Guidewire
14 10 (0.55%) IFS