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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,882 1,941 2,872
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.64% 7.98% 7.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.48% 8.75% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,190 1,176 1,775
10th Percentile £338 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £631
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.55% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 107 244
10th Percentile £14.64 £23.00 £18.32
25th Percentile £21.00 £31.25 £26.37
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +18.05% -22.20%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.88 £49.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.77 £45.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -20.52% +18.05% -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 34,368 22,176 31,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,897 14,509 20,833
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 935 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.45 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.40 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -17 885 £550 +4.76% 408
South East -13 285 £525 +9.38% 292
North of England -25 278 £474 -1.51% 232
Midlands -26 191 £500 +6.61% 136
North West -16 156 £463 -2.63% 135
South West -17 147 £450 -4.05% 98
West Midlands -35 129 £500 - 85
Yorkshire -32 114 £480 +1.05% 70
East of England -25 76 £510 +0.10% 139
East Midlands -15 64 £394 -4.43% 51
North East -19 13 £410 -20.96% 29
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
1 142 (7.55%) Confluence
2 84 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.17%) CMS
4 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.37%) Apache
7 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Moodle
8 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
10 1 (0.053%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.053%) IIS
10 1 (0.053%) nginx
10 1 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.053%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.053%) WebSphere
Applications
1 195 (10.36%) Microsoft Project
2 182 (9.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 138 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
4 111 (5.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 45 (2.39%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.74%) Trello
8 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
11 2 (0.11%) Simulink
11 2 (0.11%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.11%) Windchill
12 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.053%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.053%) InVision
12 1 (0.053%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 75 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.74%) Primavera
3 11 (0.58%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.53%) Shopify
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
7 6 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.27%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.27%) ProductWriter
8 5 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 135 (7.17%) Azure
2 89 (4.73%) Power Platform
3 77 (4.09%) SaaS
4 72 (3.83%) AWS
5 67 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (1.43%) Smartsheet
8 26 (1.38%) GCP
9 23 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.12%) Asana
11 20 (1.06%) Google Workspace
12 13 (0.69%) Entra ID
12 13 (0.69%) OpenShift
13 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.58%) GitHub
14 11 (0.58%) OCI
15 10 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (0.53%) BigCommerce
15 10 (0.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.33%) WAN
2 24 (1.28%) Network Security
3 20 (1.06%) Firewall
3 20 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.01%) DNS
5 17 (0.90%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.85%) LAN
7 15 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
8 14 (0.74%) MPLS
8 14 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.64%) Internet
9 12 (0.64%) VPN
10 10 (0.53%) BGP
10 10 (0.53%) DHCP
11 7 (0.37%) BIG-IP
12 6 (0.32%) Intranet
12 6 (0.32%) IPsec
12 6 (0.32%) SSL
13 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.57%) Power BI
2 17 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (0.85%) Metadata
4 15 (0.80%) Tableau
5 14 (0.74%) SQL Server
6 10 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
7 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.21%) Big Data
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.16%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.16%) GIS
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.16%) Power Query
12 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 286 (15.20%) JIRA
2 20 (1.06%) Git
3 12 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.32%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.21%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.21%) Subversion
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.053%) Ant
9 1 (0.053%) Appium
9 1 (0.053%) Capybara
9 1 (0.053%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.053%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.053%) Gradle
9 1 (0.053%) minitest
9 1 (0.053%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.053%) Travis CI
General
1 866 (46.01%) Social Skills
2 733 (38.95%) Finance
3 326 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (10.36%) Organisational Skills
5 164 (8.71%) Public Sector
6 141 (7.49%) Banking
7 107 (5.69%) Marketing
8 102 (5.42%) Retail
9 68 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
9 68 (3.61%) Legal
10 61 (3.24%) Manufacturing
11 53 (2.82%) Telecoms
12 43 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.81%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.54%) Investment Banking
15 28 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (1.22%) Front Office
16 23 (1.22%) Local Government
17 21 (1.12%) Military
18 17 (0.90%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 725 (38.52%) Project Manager
2 214 (11.37%) Analyst
3 182 (9.67%) Senior
4 150 (7.97%) Lead
5 126 (6.70%) Senior Manager
6 111 (5.90%) Business Analyst
7 107 (5.69%) Senior Project Manager
8 90 (4.78%) IT Manager
9 80 (4.25%) IT Project Manager
10 79 (4.20%) Programme Manager
11 63 (3.35%) Consultant
12 58 (3.08%) Technical Manager
13 57 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
14 53 (2.82%) Infrastructure Manager
15 51 (2.71%) Architect
16 45 (2.39%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 43 (2.28%) Technical Project Manager
18 41 (2.18%) Developer
19 40 (2.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
20 39 (2.07%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.28%) Middleware
2 23 (1.22%) REST
3 16 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 16 (0.85%) SOAP
4 14 (0.74%) Web Services
5 13 (0.69%) HTML
6 12 (0.64%) OAuth
6 12 (0.64%) VML
7 11 (0.58%) CSS
8 9 (0.48%) .NET
8 9 (0.48%) XML
9 8 (0.43%) ADO
9 8 (0.43%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.43%) SAML
10 7 (0.37%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.37%) JSON
11 6 (0.32%) OpenID
11 6 (0.32%) React
11 6 (0.32%) RESTful
12 5 (0.27%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.10%) Management Information System
2 89 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.51%) Data Centre
4 63 (3.35%) PMI
5 56 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
6 54 (2.87%) Product Ownership
7 42 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 36 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.22%) Operational Technology
11 20 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.01%) Social Media
13 18 (0.96%) CMDB
14 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (0.90%) NHS
15 16 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 14 (0.74%) EPoS
17 13 (0.69%) FMCG
17 13 (0.69%) Life Science
17 13 (0.69%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.44%) Windows
2 24 (1.28%) Linux
3 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.53%) Unix
5 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.21%) zOS
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.11%) AIX
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 2016
9 1 (0.053%) Android
9 1 (0.053%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.053%) Solaris
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (37.19%) Agile
2 646 (34.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 493 (26.20%) Project Delivery
4 427 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
5 356 (18.92%) PRINCE2
6 297 (15.78%) Migration
7 290 (15.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 281 (14.93%) Change Management
8 281 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 245 (13.02%) Decision-Making
10 236 (12.54%) Waterfall
11 223 (11.85%) Risk Management
12 183 (9.72%) Scrum
13 178 (9.46%) ERP
14 163 (8.66%) Budget Management
15 138 (7.33%) Roadmaps
16 133 (7.07%) AI
17 130 (6.91%) Project Planning
18 127 (6.75%) Data Migration
19 123 (6.54%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 80 (4.25%) SQL
2 46 (2.44%) Python
3 18 (0.96%) Java
3 18 (0.96%) JavaScript
4 13 (0.69%) C#
5 12 (0.64%) VBA
6 10 (0.53%) C++
7 8 (0.43%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.37%) C
9 6 (0.32%) R
9 6 (0.32%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.27%) ABAP
10 5 (0.27%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.21%) Ada
11 4 (0.21%) Perl
12 3 (0.16%) JCL
12 3 (0.16%) SOQL
12 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 335 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 303 (16.10%) Degree
3 283 (15.04%) PMP
4 247 (13.12%) SC Cleared
5 244 (12.96%) PMI Certification
6 74 (3.93%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 33 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 32 (1.70%) APMP
11 28 (1.49%) ACCA
11 28 (1.49%) CIMA
12 26 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.06%) CISSP
13 20 (1.06%) MBA
14 18 (0.96%) CISM
15 17 (0.90%) CBAP
16 16 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 12 (0.64%) IIBA
18 11 (0.58%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (12.65%) PMO
2 131 (6.96%) QA
3 57 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.50%) GDPR
5 41 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.75%) NIST
7 31 (1.65%) SLA
8 16 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.74%) GRC
10 11 (0.58%) Basel III
11 8 (0.43%) EMIR
11 8 (0.43%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.43%) MiFID
11 8 (0.43%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.32%) GMP
13 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.27%) RACF
4 4 (0.21%) Docker
5 3 (0.16%) NFS
5 3 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.053%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.053%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (0.64%) Ansible
3 7 (0.37%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.27%) RSA Archer
5 5 (0.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.16%) logstash
6 3 (0.16%) SCCM
6 3 (0.16%) Terraform
6 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) Kibana
7 2 (0.11%) SCOM
8 1 (0.053%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.053%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.053%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.053%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.053%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.053%) vRealize
Vendors
1 287 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 165 (8.77%) SAP
3 100 (5.31%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.67%) Oracle
5 52 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 36 (1.91%) Google
7 29 (1.54%) Adobe
8 27 (1.43%) Workday
9 26 (1.38%) Cisco
10 18 (0.96%) Atlassian
11 17 (0.90%) CyberArk
11 17 (0.90%) VMware
12 15 (0.80%) Databricks
12 15 (0.80%) Sitecore
13 14 (0.74%) Sage
14 12 (0.64%) IBM
14 12 (0.64%) NEC
15 10 (0.53%) IFS
15 10 (0.53%) Juniper
16 8 (0.43%) Murex