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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 135 170
Rank change year-on-year -20 +35 -33
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 70 26 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.08% 0.77% 0.59%
As % of the Applications category 16.51% 9.92% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 20 17
10th Percentile £362 £350 £341
25th Percentile £415 £441 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +8.11% +4.88%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £510
90th Percentile £610 £639 £580
England median daily rate £500 £502 £500
% change year-on-year -0.40% +0.40% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £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 £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 424 262 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.53% 7.80% 7.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 134 198
10th Percentile £223 £150 £150
25th Percentile £325 £193 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £368 £375
Median % change year-on-year +28.16% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £543 £500 £497
90th Percentile £594 £596 £635
England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 53 78
10th Percentile £12.57 £13.57 £11.71
25th Percentile £13.38 £14.20 £12.72
Median hourly rate £22.25 £15.50 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +43.55% -12.92% -28.80%
75th Percentile £46.25 £32.31 £33.12
90th Percentile £85.03 £47.26 £53.63
England median hourly rate £23.00 £25.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year -8.00% +54.04% -36.87%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -16 35 £500 +1.27% 8
Hampshire -10 26 £525 +55.56% 11
Buckinghamshire -19 19 £500 -5.21% 1
Berkshire -21 15 £525 +13.51% 5
Surrey -16 6 £550 -2.22% 1
West Sussex -16 4 £527 -8.43% 1
Oxfordshire -28 1 - - 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 8 (11.43%) Confluence
1 8 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.43%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 24 (34.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Primavera
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.29%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.43%) ENOVIA
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.71%) Azure
2 13 (18.57%) Power Platform
3 10 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.00%) AWS
5 3 (4.29%) GCP
6 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.86%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.43%) dbt
7 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) NAS
1 4 (5.71%) SAN
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) FTP
3 1 (1.43%) DHCP
3 1 (1.43%) DNS
3 1 (1.43%) LAN
3 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.57%) Power BI
2 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (38.57%) JIRA
General
1 26 (37.14%) Finance
2 24 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
4 14 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (15.71%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.29%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Automotive
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 10 (14.29%) Analyst
3 9 (12.86%) Project Planner
4 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared Project Manager
5 7 (10.00%) PMO Analyst
6 6 (8.57%) Senior
7 5 (7.14%) PMO Planner
7 5 (7.14%) Programme Planner
7 5 (7.14%) Senior Manager
8 4 (5.71%) Integration Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Project Manager
9 3 (4.29%) Engagement Manager
9 3 (4.29%) IT Manager
9 3 (4.29%) Project Officer
10 2 (2.86%) Infrastructure Manager
10 2 (2.86%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 2 (2.86%) Programme Manager
10 2 (2.86%) Project Support Officer
10 2 (2.86%) SAP Manager
10 2 (2.86%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) ADO
2 1 (1.43%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
1 5 (7.14%) Virtual Team
2 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.29%) PMI
3 3 (4.29%) Replication
4 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.14%) Windows
2 4 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (58.57%) Project Management
2 34 (48.57%) Agile
3 30 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (31.43%) PRINCE2
5 21 (30.00%) Project Delivery
6 19 (27.14%) Waterfall
7 18 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (21.43%) Change Management
9 14 (20.00%) DevOps
10 13 (18.57%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (18.57%) ITIL
11 12 (17.14%) Budget Management
11 12 (17.14%) Change Control
12 11 (15.71%) Decision-Making
12 11 (15.71%) Migration
13 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 9 (12.86%) Dependency Management
15 8 (11.43%) Business Case
15 8 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 26 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 23 (32.86%) Degree
3 23 (32.86%) DV Cleared
4 9 (12.86%) PMI Certification
5 6 (8.57%) PMP
6 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.43%) APMP
7 1 (1.43%) CISA
7 1 (1.43%) ISEB
7 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.43%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (47.14%) PMO
2 5 (7.14%) QA
3 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 35 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 7 (10.00%) Oracle
4 5 (7.14%) SAP
5 2 (2.86%) Adobe
5 2 (2.86%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.86%) VMware
6 1 (1.43%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.43%) Citrix
6 1 (1.43%) Commvault
6 1 (1.43%) EMC
6 1 (1.43%) NetApp
6 1 (1.43%) Planview
6 1 (1.43%) Veeam
6 1 (1.43%) Veritas