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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -19 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,875 1,856 2,820
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.46% 7.72% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.25% 8.46% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,174 1,138 1,725
10th Percentile £325 £307 £310
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £623
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 98 254
10th Percentile £14.64 £22.01 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.76 £26.66
Median hourly rate £36.00 £46.24 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +21.30% -22.20%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.53 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.77 £46.22 £38.12
% change year-on-year -22.61% +21.24% -22.20%

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 35,705 21,941 31,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.32% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,665 14,273 20,637
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 953 2,305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -18 882 £550 - 419
North of England -22 295 £475 - 201
South East -18 264 £512 +6.21% 227
Midlands -30 187 £488 +8.33% 132
North West -11 164 £468 -1.58% 116
South West -17 142 £444 -11.25% 85
West Midlands -38 128 £500 +5.26% 82
Yorkshire -29 124 £480 +1.05% 64
East of England -18 81 £518 -0.29% 102
East Midlands -14 61 £390 -4.88% 50
North East -23 12 £410 -20.00% 24
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
1 128 (6.83%) Confluence
2 95 (5.07%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.07%) CMS
4 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.37%) Apache
7 6 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.27%) WordPress
9 4 (0.21%) Moodle
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.11%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.053%) CICS
12 1 (0.053%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.053%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.053%) WebLogic
Applications
1 174 (9.28%) Microsoft Project
2 165 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 126 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
4 104 (5.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 44 (2.35%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.59%) Trello
8 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.21%) Simulink
10 4 (0.21%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.053%) InVision
13 1 (0.053%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.053%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 75 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.75%) Primavera
3 11 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.53%) Shopify
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
6 8 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.37%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
9 5 (0.27%) Magento
9 5 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 137 (7.31%) Azure
2 95 (5.07%) Power Platform
3 77 (4.11%) SaaS
4 74 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (3.68%) AWS
6 41 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
7 26 (1.39%) Smartsheet
8 24 (1.28%) GCP
9 21 (1.12%) Google Workspace
10 19 (1.01%) Asana
11 15 (0.80%) Entra ID
12 14 (0.75%) OpenShift
13 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (0.53%) BigCommerce
14 10 (0.53%) GitHub
14 10 (0.53%) Google Sheets
15 9 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (0.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.44%) WAN
2 22 (1.17%) Network Security
2 22 (1.17%) TCP/IP
3 20 (1.07%) DNS
3 20 (1.07%) Firewall
4 17 (0.91%) LAN
5 16 (0.85%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
6 15 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (0.69%) MPLS
8 11 (0.59%) BGP
9 10 (0.53%) DHCP
9 10 (0.53%) Internet
9 10 (0.53%) VPN
10 9 (0.48%) BIG-IP
11 7 (0.37%) DKIM
11 7 (0.37%) DMARC
11 7 (0.37%) Intranet
11 7 (0.37%) SAN
12 6 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.80%) Power BI
2 14 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (0.75%) Metadata
2 14 (0.75%) Tableau
3 12 (0.64%) SQL Server
4 10 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
5 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.27%) Power Query
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.16%) QlikView
9 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.11%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.11%) GIS
10 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 266 (14.19%) JIRA
2 21 (1.12%) Git
3 14 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.37%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Subversion
6 4 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.053%) Appium
9 1 (0.053%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.053%) LSMW
9 1 (0.053%) Maven
9 1 (0.053%) minitest
9 1 (0.053%) MSI
9 1 (0.053%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.053%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.053%) Travis CI
General
1 854 (45.55%) Social Skills
2 726 (38.72%) Finance
3 309 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (10.13%) Organisational Skills
5 158 (8.43%) Public Sector
6 138 (7.36%) Banking
7 108 (5.76%) Marketing
7 108 (5.76%) Retail
8 70 (3.73%) Legal
9 64 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
10 61 (3.25%) Manufacturing
11 49 (2.61%) Telecoms
12 42 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.81%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (1.49%) Investment Banking
16 25 (1.33%) Front Office
17 23 (1.23%) Local Government
18 21 (1.12%) Military
19 20 (1.07%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 725 (38.67%) Project Manager
2 214 (11.41%) Analyst
3 192 (10.24%) Senior
4 154 (8.21%) Lead
5 135 (7.20%) Senior Manager
6 113 (6.03%) Business Analyst
6 113 (6.03%) Senior Project Manager
7 88 (4.69%) IT Manager
8 79 (4.21%) IT Project Manager
9 75 (4.00%) Programme Manager
10 66 (3.52%) Consultant
11 56 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
11 56 (2.99%) Infrastructure Manager
12 54 (2.88%) Technical Manager
13 51 (2.72%) Architect
14 45 (2.40%) SC Cleared Project Manager
15 42 (2.24%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 42 (2.24%) Technical Project Manager
16 38 (2.03%) Developer
17 37 (1.97%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.33%) Middleware
2 22 (1.17%) REST
3 15 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.75%) OAuth
4 14 (0.75%) SOAP
5 13 (0.69%) VML
5 13 (0.69%) Web Services
6 12 (0.64%) HTML
7 11 (0.59%) CSS
8 9 (0.48%) JSON
9 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.43%) SAML
10 7 (0.37%) .NET
11 6 (0.32%) ADO
11 6 (0.32%) OpenID
11 6 (0.32%) XML
12 5 (0.27%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.27%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.27%) RESTful
12 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (4.96%) Management Information System
2 87 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 71 (3.79%) Data Centre
4 60 (3.20%) PMI
4 60 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 53 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
6 38 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 34 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 21 (1.12%) Operational Technology
10 20 (1.07%) Social Media
11 19 (1.01%) FMCG
11 19 (1.01%) NHS
12 18 (0.96%) CMDB
13 17 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 16 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.80%) EPoS
16 14 (0.75%) Life Science
17 13 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.51%) Windows
2 26 (1.39%) Linux
3 14 (0.75%) Unix
4 13 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.27%) zOS
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.053%) AIX
9 1 (0.053%) Android
9 1 (0.053%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.053%) Solaris
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (36.96%) Agile
2 664 (35.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 486 (25.92%) Project Delivery
4 412 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
5 358 (19.09%) PRINCE2
6 296 (15.79%) Migration
7 285 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 277 (14.77%) Change Management
9 274 (14.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 241 (12.85%) Decision-Making
11 237 (12.64%) Waterfall
12 229 (12.21%) Risk Management
13 178 (9.49%) Scrum
14 173 (9.23%) ERP
15 159 (8.48%) Budget Management
16 149 (7.95%) AI
17 131 (6.99%) Roadmaps
18 125 (6.67%) Data Migration
19 124 (6.61%) Project Planning
20 123 (6.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 79 (4.21%) SQL
2 49 (2.61%) Python
3 19 (1.01%) JavaScript
4 16 (0.85%) Java
5 14 (0.75%) VBA
6 10 (0.53%) C#
7 8 (0.43%) C++
8 7 (0.37%) C
9 6 (0.32%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.27%) ABAP
10 5 (0.27%) R
10 5 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.21%) Ada
11 4 (0.21%) JCL
11 4 (0.21%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.21%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.16%) Perl
12 3 (0.16%) SOQL
13 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 309 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 285 (15.20%) Degree
3 271 (14.45%) PMP
4 229 (12.21%) PMI Certification
4 229 (12.21%) SC Cleared
5 60 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 39 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 38 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 30 (1.60%) ACCA
8 30 (1.60%) CIMA
9 29 (1.55%) APMP
10 27 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.12%) CISSP
12 20 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 18 (0.96%) CISM
13 18 (0.96%) MBA
14 17 (0.91%) CBAP
15 16 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 12 (0.64%) IIBA
17 10 (0.53%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (12.05%) PMO
2 122 (6.51%) QA
3 58 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.35%) GDPR
5 37 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.81%) SLA
7 31 (1.65%) NIST
8 20 (1.07%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.75%) GRC
10 10 (0.53%) Basel III
11 7 (0.37%) EMIR
11 7 (0.37%) MiFID
11 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.32%) GMP
12 6 (0.32%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) GxP
13 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.32%) RACF
4 4 (0.21%) NFS
4 4 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
4 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 2 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.053%) ACF2
6 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.053%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (0.91%) Ansible
3 7 (0.37%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.37%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.21%) RSA Archer
5 4 (0.21%) Terraform
6 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.16%) SCCM
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) logstash
7 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.053%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.053%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.053%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.053%) Kibana
8 1 (0.053%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.053%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.053%) SCOM
8 1 (0.053%) vRealize
Vendors
1 286 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 161 (8.59%) SAP
3 100 (5.33%) ServiceNow
4 61 (3.25%) Oracle
5 48 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 39 (2.08%) Google
7 29 (1.55%) Adobe
8 23 (1.23%) Cisco
8 23 (1.23%) Workday
9 20 (1.07%) Sitecore
10 17 (0.91%) VMware
11 15 (0.80%) NEC
12 14 (0.75%) CyberArk
12 14 (0.75%) Databricks
12 14 (0.75%) Sage
13 13 (0.69%) IBM
14 11 (0.59%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.53%) F5
15 10 (0.53%) IFS
16 8 (0.43%) Infoblox