Microsoft Project Contracts in Lancashire

Microsoft Project
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire requiring Microsoft Project skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Project over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 26 34
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 1 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.55% 3.02% 1.23%
As % of the Applications category 4.35% 13.64% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £504 £287
25th Percentile - £547 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £638 £325
Median % change year-on-year -16.86% +96.15% +1.56%
75th Percentile - £656 £404
90th Percentile - - £444
North West median daily rate £475 £512 £320
% change year-on-year -7.26% +60.07% -24.71%

All Software Application Skills
Lancashire

Microsoft Project falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 23 44 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 12.71% 22.11% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 13
10th Percentile £438 £200 £140
25th Percentile £440 £269 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £569 £350
Median % change year-on-year -20.88% +62.50% +100.00%
75th Percentile £463 £655 £404
90th Percentile £496 £656 £464
North West median daily rate £447 £433 £400
% change year-on-year +3.35% +8.13% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 32 7
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.77 £37.80
25th Percentile £15.87 - £38.52
Median hourly rate £33.79 £16.06 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year +110.41% -67.60% +44.20%
75th Percentile £55.60 - £54.88
90th Percentile £61.35 £45.85 £56.84
North West median hourly rate £29.81 £16.06 £40.00
% change year-on-year +85.63% -59.85% +100.00%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Microsoft Project as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Project in Lancashire

Microsoft Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Project in Lancashire

Microsoft Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in Lancashire.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Project in Lancashire

Microsoft Project
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Project within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Preston -1 1 £530 +6.00% 1
Microsoft Project
North West

Microsoft Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (100.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA