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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 27 23
Rank change year-on-year -31 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,791 1,787 2,512
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.85% 6.43% 7.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 7.07% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 1,091 1,451
10th Percentile £313 £325 £309
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -0.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £649 £628
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 100 142
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.35 £21.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £26.31 £27.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £36.00 £35.52
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% +1.37% -12.31%
75th Percentile £65.63 £60.00 £55.19
90th Percentile £82.95 £73.88 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £47.75 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.41% -1.43% -16.27%

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 39,448 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,805 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -29 877 £550 - 1,998
North of England -41 254 £475 -5.10% 513
South East -25 252 £500 - 687
North West -26 154 £475 -3.46% 276
Midlands -48 143 £538 +14.61% 361
South West -25 137 £475 +5.56% 273
West Midlands -57 94 £550 +15.79% 213
Yorkshire -26 93 £475 -5.00% 174
East of England -19 75 £513 -1.91% 245
East Midlands -16 49 £525 +17.45% 148
North East -51 9 £420 +3.07% 66
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
1 110 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 87 (4.86%) Confluence
3 34 (1.90%) CMS
4 19 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.34%) Apache
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) JBoss
9 5 (0.28%) Moodle
9 5 (0.28%) SAS
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.056%) Appian
12 1 (0.056%) Camunda
12 1 (0.056%) CICS
12 1 (0.056%) IIS
Applications
1 187 (10.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (8.49%) Microsoft Project
3 147 (8.21%) Microsoft Office
4 120 (6.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (2.07%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.73%) Trello
8 11 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.28%) Windchill
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.17%) InDesign
13 2 (0.11%) Houdini
13 2 (0.11%) NUKE
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.056%) CATIA
14 1 (0.056%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 47 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.95%) Primavera
3 13 (0.73%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.73%) Magento
4 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.50%) SAP MM
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.45%) SAP CO
5 8 (0.45%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.45%) SAP PS
6 7 (0.39%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.34%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.28%) ProductWriter
8 5 (0.28%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP SD
8 5 (0.28%) Shopify
9 4 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 155 (8.65%) Azure
2 127 (7.09%) Power Platform
3 82 (4.58%) SaaS
4 74 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (3.85%) AWS
6 59 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (1.73%) Smartsheet
8 26 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
8 26 (1.45%) Google Workspace
9 20 (1.12%) Asana
10 18 (1.01%) GCP
11 17 (0.95%) Entra ID
12 14 (0.78%) GitHub
13 12 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.61%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.56%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.50%) Amazon S3
16 9 (0.50%) Google Drive
16 9 (0.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.79%) Network Security
2 24 (1.34%) DNS
3 21 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.01%) Firewall
5 17 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
5 17 (0.95%) WAN
6 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (0.67%) DHCP
7 12 (0.67%) LAN
7 12 (0.67%) VPN
8 10 (0.56%) BGP
8 10 (0.56%) Intranet
9 8 (0.45%) 3GPP
9 8 (0.45%) 4G
9 8 (0.45%) 5G
9 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
9 8 (0.45%) LTE
9 8 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
9 8 (0.45%) Wireless
9 8 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (6.42%) Power BI
2 18 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (0.78%) Metadata
3 14 (0.78%) Tableau
4 12 (0.67%) Data Lake
4 12 (0.67%) SQL Server
5 10 (0.56%) Power Query
6 8 (0.45%) GIS
7 7 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.34%) Big Data
8 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.28%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (0.17%) QlikView
11 3 (0.17%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.11%) Data Mart
12 2 (0.11%) PowerPivot
12 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 227 (12.67%) JIRA
2 25 (1.40%) Git
3 17 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.50%) Subversion
5 7 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
7 3 (0.17%) GitLab
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Selenium
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.056%) Capybara
9 1 (0.056%) Gradle
9 1 (0.056%) Hudson
9 1 (0.056%) Maven
9 1 (0.056%) RSpec
9 1 (0.056%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.056%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.056%) Toad
General
1 817 (45.62%) Social Skills
2 703 (39.25%) Finance
3 301 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (10.22%) Organisational Skills
5 154 (8.60%) Banking
6 149 (8.32%) Public Sector
7 127 (7.09%) Marketing
8 114 (6.37%) Retail
9 88 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
10 68 (3.80%) Legal
11 67 (3.74%) Manufacturing
12 63 (3.52%) Telecoms
13 50 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.62%) Aerospace
15 28 (1.56%) Investment Banking
16 27 (1.51%) Front Office
16 27 (1.51%) Local Government
17 25 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
18 24 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 21 (1.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 675 (37.69%) Project Manager
2 171 (9.55%) Senior
3 169 (9.44%) Lead
4 130 (7.26%) Senior Manager
5 129 (7.20%) Analyst
6 103 (5.75%) IT Manager
7 97 (5.42%) Senior Project Manager
8 79 (4.41%) Programme Manager
9 76 (4.24%) IT Project Manager
10 71 (3.96%) Business Analyst
11 68 (3.80%) Delivery Manager
12 63 (3.52%) Technical Manager
13 59 (3.29%) Consultant
14 45 (2.51%) Technical Project Manager
15 41 (2.29%) Infrastructure Manager
16 39 (2.18%) Project Officer
17 35 (1.95%) Coordinator
18 32 (1.79%) Developer
18 32 (1.79%) Project Coordinator
19 31 (1.73%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.06%) Middleware
2 18 (1.01%) REST
3 14 (0.78%) ADO
4 13 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (0.67%) HTML
5 12 (0.67%) VML
5 12 (0.67%) Web Services
6 10 (0.56%) JSON
6 10 (0.56%) React
7 9 (0.50%) .NET
7 9 (0.50%) OAuth
8 8 (0.45%) SOAP
8 8 (0.45%) Terraform
9 6 (0.34%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.34%) pytest
10 5 (0.28%) FastAPI
10 5 (0.28%) RESTful
10 5 (0.28%) XML
11 4 (0.22%) CSS
12 3 (0.17%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 109 (6.09%) Management Information System
2 87 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 85 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.18%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
6 43 (2.40%) Virtual Team
7 41 (2.29%) PMI
8 30 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (1.51%) Operational Technology
10 26 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.40%) FMCG
12 24 (1.34%) Social Media
13 23 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.17%) Credit Risk
15 18 (1.01%) AI Agents
16 17 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
16 17 (0.95%) Life Science
17 15 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 15 (0.84%) Mobile App
18 14 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 51 (2.85%) Windows
2 46 (2.57%) Linux
3 21 (1.17%) Unix
3 21 (1.17%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.28%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.28%) zOS
6 4 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.056%) Android
8 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.056%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.056%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (45.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 688 (38.41%) Agile
3 515 (28.75%) Project Delivery
4 409 (22.84%) PRINCE2
5 314 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 306 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
7 298 (16.64%) Change Management
8 261 (14.57%) Decision-Making
9 255 (14.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 233 (13.01%) Migration
11 228 (12.73%) Risk Management
12 226 (12.62%) Waterfall
13 204 (11.39%) AI
14 184 (10.27%) Scrum
15 180 (10.05%) Project Governance
16 159 (8.88%) Project Planning
17 154 (8.60%) Roadmaps
18 143 (7.98%) Change Control
19 142 (7.93%) Analytics
20 139 (7.76%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (3.74%) SQL
2 66 (3.69%) Python
3 16 (0.89%) VBA
4 15 (0.84%) Java
4 15 (0.84%) JavaScript
5 12 (0.67%) C++
6 9 (0.50%) C#
6 9 (0.50%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.45%) Korn
8 7 (0.39%) Ada
8 7 (0.39%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.34%) Bash
9 6 (0.34%) C
10 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.22%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.17%) ABAP
12 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.17%) JCL
13 2 (0.11%) R
13 2 (0.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 299 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 296 (16.53%) Degree
3 276 (15.41%) PMP
4 240 (13.40%) PMI Certification
5 205 (11.45%) SC Cleared
6 74 (4.13%) DV Cleared
7 73 (4.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 31 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.01%) ACCA
10 18 (1.01%) CIMA
11 16 (0.89%) CISSP
12 15 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
12 15 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 14 (0.78%) APMP
13 14 (0.78%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.73%) Azure Certification
14 13 (0.73%) CISM
15 12 (0.67%) AWS Certification
15 12 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (12.45%) PMO
2 88 (4.91%) QA
3 53 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.68%) GDPR
5 23 (1.28%) GRC
6 21 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.17%) SLA
7 20 (1.12%) NIST
8 8 (0.45%) P3O
9 7 (0.39%) FINREP
9 7 (0.39%) GMP
10 6 (0.34%) COREP
10 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.22%) GxP
12 4 (0.22%) MiFID
12 4 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.45%) vSphere
5 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.17%) NFS
8 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.056%) ACF2
10 1 (0.056%) Docker
10 1 (0.056%) RACF
10 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (1.17%) Ansible
2 10 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.34%) Puppet
4 5 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.11%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.11%) BMC Performance Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.11%) Perfmon
7 2 (0.11%) SCCM
8 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.056%) Nessus
8 1 (0.056%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.056%) SCOM
8 1 (0.056%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 327 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 124 (6.92%) SAP
3 97 (5.42%) ServiceNow
4 72 (4.02%) Oracle
5 46 (2.57%) Salesforce
6 44 (2.46%) Adobe
7 42 (2.35%) Google
8 35 (1.95%) VMware
9 24 (1.34%) Cisco
10 23 (1.28%) Sitecore
11 19 (1.06%) NEC
12 18 (1.01%) Atlassian
13 17 (0.95%) IBM
13 17 (0.95%) Workday
14 16 (0.89%) Databricks
15 14 (0.78%) Planview
16 12 (0.67%) Alteryx
17 11 (0.61%) JD Edwards
18 10 (0.56%) Ariba
19 9 (0.50%) Dell