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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 180 145
Rank change year-on-year +41 -35 -25
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 20 25 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.66% 0.45% 1.33%
As % of the Applications category 9.30% 6.01% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 49
10th Percentile £274 £360 £317
25th Percentile £395 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% -9.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £567 £566 £550
90th Percentile £644 £684 £631
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.81
25th Percentile - - £24.11
Median hourly rate £46.30 - £27.40
75th Percentile - - £30.21
90th Percentile - - £31.23
England median hourly rate £37.00 £40.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -7.50% -8.80% -1.44%

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 215 416 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.14% 7.48% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 205 326
10th Percentile £150 £134 £186
25th Percentile £225 £200 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £275 £375
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -26.67% -3.54%
75th Percentile £513 £465 £500
90th Percentile £600 £573 £618
England median daily rate £423 £400 £429
% change year-on-year +5.75% -6.76% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 82 51
10th Percentile £14.06 £11.71 £17.72
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.41 £20.85
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -45.82% +65.64%
75th Percentile £32.05 £26.88 £47.50
90th Percentile £61.50 £45.00 £50.00
England median hourly rate £24.40 £17.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +39.44% -55.13% +81.40%

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 1 May 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 1 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
Thames Valley +44 11 £543 +17.94% 18
Berkshire +30 5 £435 -24.35% 5
Buckinghamshire +15 3 £543 +26.17% 7
Hampshire +15 3 £388 -9.36% 15
Oxfordshire - 3 - - 7
Surrey - 2 £500 - 6
Kent - 1 £450 - 6
Middlesex - 1 £750 - 1
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 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Google Workspace
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Asana
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) OCI
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Smartsheet
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) MPLS
2 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle ODI
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) QlikView
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Local Government
6 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Project Planner
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Senior Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Data Manager
3 2 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Coordinator
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Network Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (5.00%) Project Support Officer
4 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.00%) PMI
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Life Science
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Project Management
2 15 (75.00%) PRINCE2
3 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) Risk Management
4 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (30.00%) Waterfall
6 5 (25.00%) Cost Management
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) Gantt Chart
7 4 (20.00%) Project Planning
7 4 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
8 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (15.00%) Change Control
8 3 (15.00%) Contract Management
8 3 (15.00%) Critical Path Analysis
8 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
8 3 (15.00%) Resource Management
8 3 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (15.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Degree
2 7 (35.00%) PMP
3 6 (30.00%) PMI Certification
4 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (20.00%) APMP
6 3 (15.00%) ISEB
6 3 (15.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (15.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (5.00%) CISA
7 1 (5.00%) CISM
7 1 (5.00%) CISSP
7 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (5.00%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) PMO
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) NEC
4 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Snow