Microsoft Project Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Project
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 166 142
Rank change year-on-year +26 -24 -19
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 25 34 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.60% 1.37%
As % of the Applications category 9.77% 8.63% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 59
10th Percentile £350 £350 £303
25th Percentile £431 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £465
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -0.54% -2.11%
75th Percentile £555 £510 £550
90th Percentile £640 £615 £628
England median daily rate £502 £502 £500
% change year-on-year +0.03% +0.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £46.30 £61.71 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% - -
England median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +15.75% -27.27% +23.60%

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 256 394 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.80% 6.92% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 193 346
10th Percentile £150 £146 £185
25th Percentile £188 £203 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £360 £386
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -6.74% -6.42%
75th Percentile £489 £475 £500
90th Percentile £598 £628 £638
England median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 80 56
10th Percentile £13.57 £11.71 £15.11
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £16.06
Median hourly rate £15.50 £17.70 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.43% -29.20% +28.21%
75th Percentile £32.31 £29.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £47.26 £51.26 £52.95
England median hourly rate £25.00 £16.23 £25.71
% change year-on-year +54.04% -36.87% +14.27%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microsoft Project as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Project in the South East

Microsoft Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Project in the South East

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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the South East

Microsoft Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 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
Thames Valley +16 13 £494 +9.72% 32
Berkshire +20 6 £463 +2.78% 16
Surrey - 5 £563 - 10
Buckinghamshire +2 4 £528 +18.87% 7
Kent - 3 £480 - 9
Oxfordshire - 3 - - 9
Hampshire +18 2 £338 -25.00% 20
Home Counties - 1 £550 -
Microsoft Project
England

Microsoft Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Primavera
1 1 (4.00%) SAP HCM
1 1 (4.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Asana
3 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (12.00%) Google Workspace
3 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) Smartsheet
5 1 (4.00%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) Internet
2 1 (4.00%) MPLS
2 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) QlikView
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Tableau
2 1 (4.00%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Finance
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Police
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Data Centre Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Data Manager
3 3 (12.00%) IT Manager
3 3 (12.00%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Project Planner
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Desktop Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Health and Safety Manager
5 1 (4.00%) HR Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Lead
5 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) SOAP
1 1 (4.00%) XML
1 1 (4.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (12.00%) PMI
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Project Management
2 14 (56.00%) PRINCE2
3 9 (36.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) Risk Management
4 8 (32.00%) Migration
5 6 (24.00%) Change Management
5 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (20.00%) Change Control
6 5 (20.00%) Cost Management
6 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (16.00%) Gantt Chart
7 4 (16.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (16.00%) Project Planning
7 4 (16.00%) Resource Allocation
7 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
8 3 (12.00%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (12.00%) Critical Path Analysis
8 3 (12.00%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Degree
2 7 (28.00%) PMI Certification
3 6 (24.00%) PMP
3 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (16.00%) ISEB
5 3 (12.00%) APMP
5 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.00%) CISA
6 1 (4.00%) CISM
6 1 (4.00%) CISSP
6 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.00%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
6 1 (4.00%) PgMP
6 1 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) PMO
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Citrix
2 3 (12.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) Compaq
3 1 (4.00%) HP
3 1 (4.00%) IFS
3 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) Snow
3 1 (4.00%) Terracotta
3 1 (4.00%) webMethods
3 1 (4.00%) Workday