Microsoft Project Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Project
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft Project skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 134 145
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 -16
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 76 29 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.13% 0.82% 0.85%
As % of the Applications category 18.58% 10.39% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 22 24
10th Percentile £375 £350 £309
25th Percentile £457 £422 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £456
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +10.96% +2.59%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £512
90th Percentile £610 £649 £560
England median daily rate £510 £530 £510
% change year-on-year -3.77% +3.92% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile - £28.77 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £40.04 £60.85
Median hourly rate £60.00 £46.30 £61.71
Median % change year-on-year +29.59% -24.97% -
75th Percentile £85.00 - £62.56
90th Percentile £90.63 - -
England median hourly rate £39.04 £46.30 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.68% +30.42% -32.38%

All Software Application Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 409 279 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.08% 7.93% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 134 195
10th Percentile £233 £151 £165
25th Percentile £325 £202 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £373 £400
Median % change year-on-year +24.03% -6.88% +6.67%
75th Percentile £539 £513 £510
90th Percentile £603 £600 £635
England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 59 48
10th Percentile £13.17 £13.23 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.75 £15.25 £22.04
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% -30.81% +3.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £28.60 £45.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £46.30 £54.59
England median hourly rate £22.68 £23.54 £17.39
% change year-on-year -3.65% +35.40% -25.19%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Project relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Microsoft Project job vacancy trend in the South East

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Project.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Project in the South East over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the South East

Microsoft Project
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Project.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Project in the South East over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the South East

Microsoft Project
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Thames Valley -17 40 £510 +3.29% 6
Hampshire -10 28 £525 +55.56% 7
Buckinghamshire -19 23 £500 -2.44% 1
Berkshire -13 15 £550 +18.92% 4
Surrey -18 7 £525 -16.00% 2
Oxfordshire -29 2 £460 -45.88% 1
West Sussex -20 1 £550 -4.35%
Microsoft Project
England

Microsoft Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 10 (13.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 31 (40.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (17.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (14.47%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.95%) Windchill
5 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (13.16%) Primavera
2 3 (3.95%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.32%) ENOVIA
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.00%) Azure
2 12 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (11.84%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.89%) Smartsheet
5 4 (5.26%) AWS
6 2 (2.63%) IaaS
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.32%) dbt
7 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.32%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) NAS
1 4 (5.26%) SAN
2 2 (2.63%) Firewall
2 2 (2.63%) FTP
3 1 (1.32%) DHCP
3 1 (1.32%) DNS
3 1 (1.32%) LAN
3 1 (1.32%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) Power BI
2 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (34.21%) JIRA
General
1 32 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 27 (35.53%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (27.63%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (23.68%) Finance
5 14 (18.42%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.95%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Automotive
8 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Project Manager
2 9 (11.84%) PMO Planner
3 8 (10.53%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 7 (9.21%) Project Officer
4 7 (9.21%) Project Planner
5 6 (7.89%) Programme Planner
5 6 (7.89%) Senior
6 5 (6.58%) IT Manager
6 5 (6.58%) Senior Manager
6 5 (6.58%) Senior Project Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Lead
7 4 (5.26%) Project Control Officer
8 3 (3.95%) Construction Planner
8 3 (3.95%) IT Project Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Project Support Officer
8 3 (3.95%) Support Officer
9 2 (2.63%) Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared Project Manager
9 2 (2.63%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 2 (2.63%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) .NET
1 2 (2.63%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.58%) PMI
2 5 (6.58%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.95%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.95%) Replication
4 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) Windows
2 4 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (53.95%) Project Management
2 36 (47.37%) Agile
3 33 (43.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 30 (39.47%) PRINCE2
5 26 (34.21%) Project Delivery
6 22 (28.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (23.68%) Waterfall
9 13 (17.11%) DevOps
9 13 (17.11%) ITIL
10 12 (15.79%) Change Management
11 11 (14.47%) Change Control
11 11 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (13.16%) Decision-Making
12 10 (13.16%) Scrum
13 9 (11.84%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (11.84%) Dependency Management
14 8 (10.53%) Migration
15 7 (9.21%) Project Planning
15 7 (9.21%) Scaled Agile Framework
Qualifications
1 52 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 33 (43.42%) DV Cleared
3 32 (42.11%) Degree
4 25 (32.89%) SC Cleared
5 12 (15.79%) PMI Certification
6 8 (10.53%) PMP
7 6 (7.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 5 (6.58%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.32%) APMP
10 1 (1.32%) CAPM
10 1 (1.32%) CISA
10 1 (1.32%) ISEB
10 1 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.32%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (40.79%) PMO
2 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.32%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 44 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.53%) Oracle
2 8 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.63%) Adobe
3 2 (2.63%) CheckPoint
3 2 (2.63%) VMware
4 1 (1.32%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.32%) Citrix
4 1 (1.32%) Commvault
4 1 (1.32%) EMC
4 1 (1.32%) Google
4 1 (1.32%) NetApp
4 1 (1.32%) Planview
4 1 (1.32%) SAP
4 1 (1.32%) Veeam
4 1 (1.32%) Veritas