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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -24 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,824 1,966 2,478
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.01% 7.12% 7.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 7.85% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,225 1,492
10th Percentile £319 £313 £310
25th Percentile £415 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £738 £725 £728
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 104 215
10th Percentile £17.87 £21.39 £20.60
25th Percentile £28.00 £29.00 £27.75
Median hourly rate £42.30 £42.07 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% +10.36% -8.80%
75th Percentile £65.13 £60.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £85.24 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £37.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +13.73% -2.54% -11.35%

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 38,823 25,045 28,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.31% 90.74% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,257 16,045 18,963
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
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 £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,475 1,380 1,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £17.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -27 862 £550 +4.76% 776
North of England -26 285 £475 -2.56% 285
South East -23 265 £500 +3.09% 326
North West -16 180 £475 - 155
Midlands -47 146 £525 +16.67% 195
South West -22 141 £438 -2.78% 141
West Midlands -63 99 £550 +16.53% 120
Yorkshire -34 98 £500 - 91
East of England -5 93 £525 +0.48% 125
East Midlands -15 47 £488 +24.68% 75
North East -38 10 £420 -12.95% 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
1 101 (5.54%) Confluence
2 93 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.64%) CMS
4 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.71%) 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%) JBoss
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.055%) CICS
12 1 (0.055%) IIS
Applications
1 171 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 170 (9.32%) Microsoft Project
3 136 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
4 108 (5.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 42 (2.30%) MS Visio
6 19 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.77%) 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 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.04%) Primavera
3 10 (0.55%) Magento
4 9 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
5 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.44%) SAP HCM
6 7 (0.38%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
7 6 (0.33%) Shopify
7 6 (0.33%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.27%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.27%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.27%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 163 (8.94%) Azure
2 110 (6.03%) Power Platform
3 89 (4.88%) SaaS
4 75 (4.11%) AWS
5 67 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.81%) Smartsheet
8 26 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (1.26%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.15%) GCP
11 20 (1.10%) Asana
12 17 (0.93%) GitHub
13 15 (0.82%) Entra ID
14 11 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.60%) Google Sheets
15 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
16 9 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (0.49%) OCI
16 9 (0.49%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.64%) 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
6 15 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (0.77%) Firewall
8 13 (0.71%) DHCP
8 13 (0.71%) Intranet
8 13 (0.71%) VPN
9 11 (0.60%) MPLS
9 11 (0.60%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.55%) BGP
11 9 (0.49%) BIG-IP
11 9 (0.49%) Internet
12 7 (0.38%) DKIM
12 7 (0.38%) DMARC
12 7 (0.38%) SAN
12 7 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (5.48%) Power BI
2 14 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (0.71%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.71%) Tableau
4 12 (0.66%) Metadata
5 10 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.44%) GIS
6 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
7 7 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (0.38%) Power Query
7 7 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.22%) Big Data
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.16%) QlikView
10 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 235 (12.88%) JIRA
2 24 (1.32%) 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%) Gradle
9 1 (0.055%) minitest
9 1 (0.055%) Postman
9 1 (0.055%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.055%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.055%) Snyk
9 1 (0.055%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.055%) Terragrunt
General
1 819 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 681 (37.34%) Finance
3 309 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (9.65%) Organisational Skills
5 153 (8.39%) Public Sector
6 134 (7.35%) Marketing
7 121 (6.63%) Banking
8 105 (5.76%) Retail
9 67 (3.67%) Manufacturing
10 66 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
11 64 (3.51%) Legal
12 56 (3.07%) Telecoms
13 43 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
14 29 (1.59%) Financial Institution
15 25 (1.37%) Investment Banking
16 24 (1.32%) Front Office
16 24 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (1.26%) Aerospace
18 22 (1.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 689 (37.77%) Project Manager
2 185 (10.14%) Senior
3 161 (8.83%) Lead
4 158 (8.66%) Analyst
5 139 (7.62%) Senior Manager
6 116 (6.36%) Senior Project Manager
7 97 (5.32%) IT Manager
8 86 (4.71%) Programme Manager
9 82 (4.50%) Business Analyst
10 76 (4.17%) IT Project Manager
11 60 (3.29%) Consultant
12 59 (3.23%) Technical Manager
13 54 (2.96%) Infrastructure Manager
14 53 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
15 47 (2.58%) Technical Project Manager
16 42 (2.30%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 40 (2.19%) Project Officer
18 38 (2.08%) Architect
19 37 (2.03%) SC Cleared Project Manager
20 35 (1.92%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.21%) Middleware
2 20 (1.10%) REST
3 13 (0.71%) HTML
3 13 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.71%) VML
4 12 (0.66%) ADO
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%) .NET
6 9 (0.49%) React
7 7 (0.38%) XML
8 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.33%) CSS
8 6 (0.33%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.33%) SAML
9 5 (0.27%) FastAPI
9 5 (0.27%) RESTful
10 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.37%) Management Information System
2 85 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.67%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.80%) PMI
6 46 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
7 43 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 30 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (1.32%) FMCG
10 24 (1.32%) Operational Technology
10 24 (1.32%) Social Media
11 23 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (0.99%) AI Agents
13 15 (0.82%) Credit Risk
14 14 (0.77%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.77%) EPoS
14 14 (0.77%) Life Science
15 13 (0.71%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.63%) Windows
2 34 (1.86%) Linux
3 17 (0.93%) Unix
4 15 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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%) 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
1 722 (39.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 676 (37.06%) Agile
3 484 (26.54%) Project Delivery
4 402 (22.04%) PRINCE2
5 342 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 308 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 301 (16.50%) Change Management
8 270 (14.80%) Migration
9 256 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 244 (13.38%) Decision-Making
11 235 (12.88%) Risk Management
12 225 (12.34%) Waterfall
13 184 (10.09%) AI
14 178 (9.76%) Scrum
15 146 (8.00%) ERP
16 134 (7.35%) Budget Management
17 131 (7.18%) Roadmaps
18 130 (7.13%) ITIL
18 130 (7.13%) Project Planning
19 129 (7.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 76 (4.17%) SQL
2 62 (3.40%) Python
3 19 (1.04%) JavaScript
4 13 (0.71%) Java
4 13 (0.71%) VBA
5 10 (0.55%) TypeScript
6 9 (0.49%) C#
6 9 (0.49%) C++
7 8 (0.44%) ABAP
7 8 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.33%) 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%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.16%) Korn
11 3 (0.16%) R
12 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 313 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 291 (15.95%) Degree
3 285 (15.63%) PMP
4 249 (13.65%) PMI Certification
5 216 (11.84%) SC Cleared
6 77 (4.22%) DV Cleared
7 61 (3.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 27 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.37%) ACCA
10 25 (1.37%) CIMA
11 20 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (0.88%) CISSP
12 16 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 14 (0.77%) APMP
14 13 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.66%) CISM
16 10 (0.55%) Azure Certification
16 10 (0.55%) CIPFA
16 10 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (12.01%) PMO
2 96 (5.26%) QA
3 51 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.92%) SLA
5 34 (1.86%) GDPR
6 24 (1.32%) GRC
6 24 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.32%) NIST
7 23 (1.26%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.38%) EMIR
8 7 (0.38%) FINREP
8 7 (0.38%) MiFID
8 7 (0.38%) P3O
8 7 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.33%) COREP
9 6 (0.33%) GMP
9 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.22%) GxP
System Software
1 32 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.82%) 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 3 (0.16%) Puppet
6 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.11%) SCCM
7 1 (0.055%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.055%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.055%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.055%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.055%) SCOM
7 1 (0.055%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.055%) vRealize
7 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 307 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 152 (8.33%) SAP
3 105 (5.76%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.73%) Oracle
5 49 (2.69%) Salesforce
6 44 (2.41%) Google
7 38 (2.08%) Adobe
8 23 (1.26%) VMware
9 22 (1.21%) Cisco
10 21 (1.15%) Sitecore
11 20 (1.10%) Workday
12 18 (0.99%) NEC
13 16 (0.88%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.77%) Databricks
14 14 (0.77%) IBM
15 11 (0.60%) JD Edwards
16 10 (0.55%) Alteryx
16 10 (0.55%) F5
16 10 (0.55%) Guidewire
16 10 (0.55%) IFS