Microsoft Project Contracts in London

Microsoft Project
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 313 302
Rank change year-on-year +57 -11 -11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 85 83 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.48% 0.71%
As % of the Applications category 8.85% 7.74% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 62 131
10th Percentile £363 £350 £390
25th Percentile £418 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.15%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £648
90th Percentile £668 £698 £725
England median daily rate £480 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £21.35 £29.00
25th Percentile - £23.50 £38.55
Median hourly rate - £28.05 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year - -36.04% -1.44%
75th Percentile - £32.89 £53.52
90th Percentile - £35.20 £70.91
England median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +15.75% -23.81% +17.98%

All Software Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 960 1,072 1,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.92% 6.14% 6.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 697 1,236
10th Percentile £225 £188 £219
25th Percentile £319 £260 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -12.82% -2.50%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £738
England median daily rate £413 £400 £438
% change year-on-year +3.13% -8.57% -0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 81 51
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.75 £16.03
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.24 £18.93
Median hourly rate £24.66 £21.12 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.79% -18.79% -41.57%
75th Percentile £33.88 £27.25 £43.93
90th Percentile £51.35 £53.50 £53.75
England median hourly rate £24.83 £16.23 £29.08
% change year-on-year +52.99% -44.19% +31.97%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Project in London

Microsoft Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Project in London

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Project in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Project in London

Microsoft Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Project in London

Microsoft Project
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London +15 31 £475 -10.80% 2
East London +17 2 £415 -36.13% 3
Microsoft Project
England

Microsoft Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (11.76%) Confluence
2 4 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.35%) CMS
4 1 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 16 (18.82%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (16.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (8.24%) MS Visio
4 7 (8.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (8.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (7.06%) SAP PS
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (1.18%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (1.18%) Primavera
4 1 (1.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.82%) Azure
2 11 (12.94%) Power Platform
3 8 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.71%) Asana
6 3 (3.53%) AWS
6 3 (3.53%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.35%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.35%) SaaS
8 1 (1.18%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.18%) GCP
8 1 (1.18%) Miro
8 1 (1.18%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) HTTP
2 1 (1.18%) DNS
2 1 (1.18%) Network Security
2 1 (1.18%) SWIFTNet
2 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) Power BI
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.35%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.35%) Looker
3 2 (2.35%) Metadata
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (2.35%) Tableau
4 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 37 (43.53%) JIRA
2 3 (3.53%) Ant
2 3 (3.53%) SoapUI
2 3 (3.53%) Toad
3 2 (2.35%) JUnit
4 1 (1.18%) Git
4 1 (1.18%) Subversion
General
1 48 (56.47%) Finance
2 42 (49.41%) Social Skills
3 17 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.59%) Banking
5 8 (9.41%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (8.24%) Financial Institution
7 6 (7.06%) Aerospace
8 4 (4.71%) Legal
9 3 (3.53%) Back Office
9 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.35%) Law
10 2 (2.35%) Marketing
10 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.18%) Front Office
11 1 (1.18%) Police
11 1 (1.18%) Publishing
11 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (44.71%) Project Manager
2 8 (9.41%) Lead
3 4 (4.71%) Developer
3 4 (4.71%) IT Manager
3 4 (4.71%) IT Project Manager
3 4 (4.71%) PMO Lead
3 4 (4.71%) Project Planner
3 4 (4.71%) Senior
3 4 (4.71%) Senior Manager
3 4 (4.71%) Senior Project Manager
4 3 (3.53%) Analyst
4 3 (3.53%) Architect
4 3 (3.53%) Business Manager
4 3 (3.53%) Business Project Manager
4 3 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (3.53%) Digital Project Manager
4 3 (3.53%) Integration Developer
4 3 (3.53%) PMO Analyst
4 3 (3.53%) Project Officer
4 3 (3.53%) Project Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) Middleware
2 3 (3.53%) ADO
2 3 (3.53%) EDI
2 3 (3.53%) IBM Integration Bus
2 3 (3.53%) Kafka
2 3 (3.53%) SOAP
2 3 (3.53%) XML
3 2 (2.35%) HTML
4 1 (1.18%) ActiveX
4 1 (1.18%) CSS
4 1 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.18%) REST
4 1 (1.18%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) PMI
2 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.53%) Reference Data
3 3 (3.53%) Smartphone
3 3 (3.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.35%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.18%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.18%) DTCC
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.18%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.06%) Windows
2 3 (3.53%) AIX
2 3 (3.53%) Linux
2 3 (3.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (61.18%) Project Management
2 44 (51.76%) Agile
3 28 (32.94%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (31.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (30.59%) PRINCE2
6 20 (23.53%) Waterfall
7 18 (21.18%) Project Delivery
8 14 (16.47%) Scrum
8 14 (16.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (14.12%) Project Governance
10 11 (12.94%) Change Control
10 11 (12.94%) DevOps
11 10 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (11.76%) Change Management
11 10 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (10.59%) Risk Management
13 8 (9.41%) Budget Management
13 8 (9.41%) Data Management
13 8 (9.41%) Decision-Making
13 8 (9.41%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.06%) SQL
2 4 (4.71%) Java
3 3 (3.53%) Korn
3 3 (3.53%) Perl
3 3 (3.53%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.18%) Python
5 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (43.53%) Degree
2 29 (34.12%) PMI Certification
3 24 (28.24%) PMP
4 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
5 12 (14.12%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.53%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.18%) APMG
8 1 (1.18%) CBAP
8 1 (1.18%) CFA
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.00%) PMO
2 4 (4.71%) SEPA
3 3 (3.53%) SLA
4 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.35%) QA
5 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.18%) EMIR
5 1 (1.18%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.53%) SCCM
2 1 (1.18%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (43.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) SAP
3 4 (4.71%) Planview
4 3 (3.53%) Adobe
4 3 (3.53%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.53%) IBM
4 3 (3.53%) Oracle
4 3 (3.53%) Perforce
4 3 (3.53%) Reuters
5 2 (2.35%) Citrix
5 2 (2.35%) VMware
5 2 (2.35%) Wrike
6 1 (1.18%) Aruba
6 1 (1.18%) Avaloq
6 1 (1.18%) Databricks
6 1 (1.18%) eFront
6 1 (1.18%) Google
6 1 (1.18%) HP
6 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.18%) Sitecore