Project Management Contracts in England

Project Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 1,971 2,484 3,388
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.14% 7.41% 7.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.88% 8.63% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,495 2,339
10th Percentile £313 £308 £344
25th Percentile £412 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +1.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 210 124
10th Percentile £21.39 £20.73 £22.50
25th Percentile £29.00 £27.63 £30.54
Median hourly rate £42.07 £38.12 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.36% -5.29% +54.81%
75th Percentile £60.00 £48.75 £66.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.28 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £37.15 £38.12 £41.65
% change year-on-year -2.54% -8.48% +54.32%

All Process and 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 25,027 28,787 40,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.71% 85.92% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,013 18,800 28,287
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £758 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,396 1,684 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.15 £18.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%
75th Percentile £51.10 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.08 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

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 4 August 2025. 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 +2 1,005 £528 -1.86% 2,005
North of England -4 271 £488 -6.25% 633
South East -9 222 £485 -3.00% 688
Midlands -4 208 £450 -10.00% 465
North West -4 155 £475 -5.00% 341
West Midlands -3 147 £472 -8.57% 299
South West -3 136 £450 -10.00% 249
Yorkshire +6 107 £500 -9.09% 226
East of England -20 67 £523 +16.11% 247
East Midlands -3 57 £391 -13.11% 162
North East -20 9 £483 -13.84% 76
Project Management
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Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 112 (5.68%) Confluence
2 89 (4.52%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.27%) CMS
4 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.25%) CICS
6 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.15%) IIS
7 3 (0.15%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.15%) WordPress
8 2 (0.10%) Apache
8 2 (0.10%) Drupal
8 2 (0.10%) SAS
8 2 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.051%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.051%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.051%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.051%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 162 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (6.95%) Microsoft Project
3 122 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
4 91 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (1.67%) MS Visio
6 30 (1.52%) Trello
7 12 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.15%) Simulink
11 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.10%) InDesign
11 2 (0.10%) Revit
11 2 (0.10%) Windchill
12 1 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.051%) FileZilla
12 1 (0.051%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 59 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.01%) Primavera
3 19 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.61%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.46%) Workfront
6 8 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.36%) Endur
7 7 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.36%) SAP PS
8 6 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.25%) Shopify
10 4 (0.20%) Aladdin
10 4 (0.20%) ResourceLink
10 4 (0.20%) SAP GRC
10 4 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.20%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
11 3 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 164 (8.32%) Azure
2 102 (5.18%) AWS
3 80 (4.06%) Power Platform
4 67 (3.40%) SaaS
5 66 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (2.13%) GCP
7 40 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
10 24 (1.22%) Google Workspace
11 23 (1.17%) Asana
11 23 (1.17%) Entra ID
12 21 (1.07%) Smartsheet
13 16 (0.81%) OCI
14 15 (0.76%) GitHub
14 15 (0.76%) Lucidchart
15 14 (0.71%) PowerApps
16 13 (0.66%) OneDrive
17 11 (0.56%) Power Automate
17 11 (0.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.69%) Firewall
2 42 (2.13%) VPN
3 32 (1.62%) WAN
4 28 (1.42%) LAN
5 27 (1.37%) DNS
6 18 (0.91%) DHCP
7 17 (0.86%) Wireless
8 15 (0.76%) ATM
8 15 (0.76%) MPLS
9 14 (0.71%) Network Security
10 13 (0.66%) Ethernet
11 11 (0.56%) Frame Relay
11 11 (0.56%) GPRS
11 11 (0.56%) GSM
11 11 (0.56%) LTE
11 11 (0.56%) SAN
11 11 (0.56%) SDH
11 11 (0.56%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.56%) UMTS
11 11 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.45%) Power BI
2 23 (1.17%) Tableau
3 22 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (0.86%) SQL Server
5 15 (0.76%) Metadata
6 14 (0.71%) SAP HANA
7 13 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 12 (0.61%) Big Data
9 10 (0.51%) MySQL
9 10 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (0.41%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.30%) GIS
11 6 (0.30%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.25%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.20%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (0.15%) Looker
Development Applications
1 269 (13.65%) JIRA
2 15 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.25%) Cucumber
3 5 (0.25%) Git
3 5 (0.25%) SpecFlow
4 4 (0.20%) JUnit
4 4 (0.20%) Maven
4 4 (0.20%) MSI
5 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.15%) Postman
5 3 (0.15%) Selenium
5 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.10%) Ant
6 2 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.10%) GitLab
6 2 (0.10%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.10%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.10%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.10%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 936 (47.49%) Social Skills
2 779 (39.52%) Finance
3 351 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 172 (8.73%) Banking
5 142 (7.20%) Marketing
6 139 (7.05%) Public Sector
7 116 (5.89%) Legal
8 96 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
9 80 (4.06%) Manufacturing
10 72 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
11 69 (3.50%) Telecoms
12 66 (3.35%) Retail
13 62 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
14 50 (2.54%) Front Office
15 47 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
16 41 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 35 (1.78%) Investment Banking
18 34 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
18 34 (1.73%) Local Government
19 28 (1.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 661 (33.54%) Project Manager
2 245 (12.43%) Analyst
3 156 (7.91%) Lead
4 152 (7.71%) Business Analyst
5 151 (7.66%) Senior
6 99 (5.02%) IT Manager
7 78 (3.96%) Consultant
8 74 (3.75%) Senior Manager
9 73 (3.70%) IT Project Manager
10 71 (3.60%) Technical Manager
11 64 (3.25%) Architect
12 58 (2.94%) Senior Project Manager
13 51 (2.59%) Programme Manager
14 50 (2.54%) Technical Project Manager
15 49 (2.49%) Delivery Manager
16 44 (2.23%) Infrastructure Manager
17 43 (2.18%) Business Manager
18 38 (1.93%) Security Manager
19 37 (1.88%) Infrastructure Project Manager
20 35 (1.78%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.67%) HTML
2 27 (1.37%) CSS
3 26 (1.32%) .NET
4 20 (1.01%) React
5 17 (0.86%) AngularJS
6 16 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.76%) REST
8 14 (0.71%) Middleware
9 11 (0.56%) OAuth
10 10 (0.51%) ADO
11 9 (0.46%) SAML
12 8 (0.41%) .NET Framework
12 8 (0.41%) LDAP
13 7 (0.36%) OpenID
13 7 (0.36%) SailPoint
13 7 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
14 6 (0.30%) JSON
14 6 (0.30%) RESTful
14 6 (0.30%) Visualforce
14 6 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 105 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 68 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 60 (3.04%) Product Ownership
3 60 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
4 47 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
6 40 (2.03%) PMI
7 34 (1.73%) Virtual Team
8 29 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (0.86%) Life Science
11 17 (0.86%) Market Risk
12 16 (0.81%) Cloud Native
12 16 (0.81%) Reinsurance
12 16 (0.81%) Social Media
13 15 (0.76%) Fixed Income
14 13 (0.66%) Learning Management System
14 13 (0.66%) NHS
14 13 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 78 (3.96%) Windows
2 39 (1.98%) Linux
3 21 (1.07%) Unix
4 12 (0.61%) Windows 10
4 12 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.20%) VMS
8 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.10%) Android
9 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.051%) AIX
10 1 (0.051%) Solaris
10 1 (0.051%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (35.82%) Agile
2 555 (28.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 498 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
4 371 (18.82%) Project Delivery
5 280 (14.21%) PRINCE2
6 277 (14.05%) Change Management
7 251 (12.73%) Risk Management
8 236 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 227 (11.52%) Migration
10 212 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 191 (9.69%) Scrum
12 186 (9.44%) Decision-Making
13 176 (8.93%) Waterfall
14 135 (6.85%) ITIL
15 131 (6.65%) Roadmaps
16 126 (6.39%) Programme Management
17 120 (6.09%) Business Analysis
18 115 (5.83%) DevOps
19 113 (5.73%) ERP
20 112 (5.68%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 86 (4.36%) SQL
2 64 (3.25%) Python
3 58 (2.94%) Java
4 42 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 17 (0.86%) C#
5 17 (0.86%) PowerShell
6 13 (0.66%) PHP
7 11 (0.56%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.41%) VBA
9 7 (0.36%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.25%) C
10 5 (0.25%) C++
10 5 (0.25%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.25%) R
11 4 (0.20%) ABAP
11 4 (0.20%) Bicep
11 4 (0.20%) Ruby
11 4 (0.20%) VB
12 3 (0.15%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 350 (17.76%) Degree
2 228 (11.57%) Security Cleared
3 226 (11.47%) PMP
4 215 (10.91%) PMI Certification
5 156 (7.91%) SC Cleared
6 69 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.17%) CCNP
11 22 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.01%) CISSP
13 18 (0.91%) ISEB
14 16 (0.81%) APMP
14 16 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.76%) Azure Certification
16 14 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 14 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 13 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
18 12 (0.61%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (8.63%) PMO
2 97 (4.92%) QA
3 50 (2.54%) GDPR
4 37 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (1.73%) NIST
6 32 (1.62%) Data Quality
7 22 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.07%) Accessibility
9 20 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 16 (0.81%) SLA
11 15 (0.76%) P3O
12 14 (0.71%) MiFID
13 13 (0.66%) EMIR
14 12 (0.61%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.46%) GRC
16 8 (0.41%) GxP
17 7 (0.36%) APQC
17 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
18 5 (0.25%) Basel III
System Software
1 45 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.91%) Docker
3 14 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.30%) vSphere
8 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.15%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.15%) IAG
10 2 (0.10%) Firmware
10 2 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.051%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.051%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.051%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.051%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.051%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 20 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.76%) Terraform
4 13 (0.66%) SCCM
5 9 (0.46%) Amdocs OSS
6 8 (0.41%) NSN NetAct
7 7 (0.36%) Ansible
7 7 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (0.25%) Kibana
9 5 (0.25%) logstash
10 4 (0.20%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.15%) Functional Safety
12 2 (0.10%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.10%) Puppet
12 2 (0.10%) QRadar
12 2 (0.10%) WSUS
13 1 (0.051%) SCOM
Vendors
1 318 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 196 (9.94%) SAP
3 71 (3.60%) Oracle
4 70 (3.55%) Salesforce
5 60 (3.04%) Google
6 51 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 42 (2.13%) Cisco
8 29 (1.47%) Adobe
9 28 (1.42%) Workday
10 20 (1.01%) VMware
11 18 (0.91%) Databricks
12 15 (0.76%) Citrix
12 15 (0.76%) Juniper
12 15 (0.76%) Remedy
13 14 (0.71%) Ariba
13 14 (0.71%) Ericsson
13 14 (0.71%) Nokia
14 13 (0.66%) IBM
14 13 (0.66%) IFS
15 10 (0.51%) Palo Alto