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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 130 165
Rank change year-on-year -8 +35 -34
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 75 23 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.23% 0.76% 0.57%
As % of the Applications category 18.12% 9.70% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 16 19
10th Percentile £308 £306 £350
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £490 £474
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% +3.43% +4.18%
75th Percentile £573 £548 £581
90th Percentile £610 £619 £615
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £50.19 - -
25th Percentile £56.09 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £46.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.49% - -
75th Percentile £82.97 - -
90th Percentile £89.81 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £46.30 £40.00
% change year-on-year -35.21% +15.75% -27.27%

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 414 237 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.80% 7.84% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 126 207
10th Percentile £238 £150 £147
25th Percentile £325 £188 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £387 £356
Median % change year-on-year +22.90% +8.52% -5.03%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £478
90th Percentile £600 £575 £588
England median daily rate £450 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 50 84
10th Percentile £12.29 £13.79 £11.71
25th Percentile £13.13 £14.20 £12.55
Median hourly rate £20.00 £16.06 £17.55
Median % change year-on-year +24.57% -8.52% -33.14%
75th Percentile £31.50 £32.87 £26.88
90th Percentile £49.50 £47.50 £50.60
England median hourly rate £22.66 £25.15 £16.23
% change year-on-year -9.91% +54.96% -39.89%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -15 39 £500 -2.44% 11
Hampshire -4 26 £500 +48.15% 3
Buckinghamshire -17 20 £500 -7.83% 3
Berkshire -13 19 £525 +31.25% 3
Surrey -14 9 £600 +20.00% 1
West Sussex - 4 £527 - 2
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 5 (6.67%) Confluence
1 5 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.00%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 22 (29.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (10.67%) Primavera
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.00%) Power Platform
2 12 (16.00%) Azure
3 7 (9.33%) AWS
4 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (1.33%) dbt
6 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) NAS
1 4 (5.33%) SAN
2 3 (4.00%) WAN
3 2 (2.67%) Firewall
4 1 (1.33%) DHCP
4 1 (1.33%) DNS
4 1 (1.33%) FTP
4 1 (1.33%) LAN
4 1 (1.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.00%) Power BI
2 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (37.33%) JIRA
General
1 32 (42.67%) Finance
2 29 (38.67%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 11 (14.67%) Public Sector
5 10 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (8.00%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Project Manager
2 19 (25.33%) Analyst
3 16 (21.33%) PMO Analyst
4 15 (20.00%) Project Planner
5 10 (13.33%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 8 (10.67%) Senior
7 6 (8.00%) Integration Analyst
8 5 (6.67%) Senior Manager
9 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared Project Manager
9 4 (5.33%) Senior Project Manager
10 3 (4.00%) Engagement Manager
10 3 (4.00%) Lead
10 3 (4.00%) Project Officer
10 3 (4.00%) Project Support Officer
10 3 (4.00%) Senior Project Planner
10 3 (4.00%) Support Officer
11 2 (2.67%) Financial Analyst
11 2 (2.67%) Infrastructure Manager
11 2 (2.67%) Programme Planner
11 2 (2.67%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.67%) ADO
2 1 (1.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.67%) PMI
2 5 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.00%) Replication
3 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Windows
2 4 (5.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (68.00%) Project Management
2 30 (40.00%) Agile
3 24 (32.00%) PRINCE2
4 23 (30.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (30.67%) Waterfall
5 21 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (25.33%) Project Delivery
7 18 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (22.67%) Budget Management
9 14 (18.67%) Change Management
10 12 (16.00%) ITIL
10 12 (16.00%) Risk Management
11 11 (14.67%) Migration
12 10 (13.33%) Change Control
13 9 (12.00%) Decision-Making
13 9 (12.00%) Dependency Management
13 9 (12.00%) Project Planning
13 9 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 8 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
14 8 (10.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (49.33%) Security Cleared
2 30 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (28.00%) Degree
4 13 (17.33%) DV Cleared
5 9 (12.00%) PMI Certification
6 6 (8.00%) PMP
7 1 (1.33%) APMP
7 1 (1.33%) ISEB
7 1 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.33%) PgMP
7 1 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (54.67%) PMO
2 3 (4.00%) QA
3 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.33%) NIST
4 1 (1.33%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 30 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.00%) ServiceNow
3 7 (9.33%) SAP
4 5 (6.67%) Oracle
5 2 (2.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.67%) VMware
6 1 (1.33%) Adobe
6 1 (1.33%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.33%) BT
6 1 (1.33%) Citrix
6 1 (1.33%) Commvault
6 1 (1.33%) EMC
6 1 (1.33%) NetApp
6 1 (1.33%) Veeam
6 1 (1.33%) Veritas