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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 139 175
Rank change year-on-year +36 +36 -36
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 99 18 32
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.88% 0.61% 0.57%
As % of the Applications category 21.85% 8.11% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 10 25
10th Percentile £341 £365 £368
25th Percentile £434 £459 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £460
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +10.06% -8.96%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £550
90th Percentile £588 £660 £598
England median daily rate £510 £493 £505
% change year-on-year +3.45% -2.42% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £46.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year -10.77% -10.96% -26.16%

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 453 222 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.60% 7.48% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 120 268
10th Percentile £236 £150 £148
25th Percentile £352 £210 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £414 £328
Median % change year-on-year +14.80% +26.33% -9.84%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £488
90th Percentile £600 £560 £600
England median daily rate £450 £410 £400
% change year-on-year +9.76% +2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 30 82
10th Percentile £12.31 £14.11 £11.71
25th Percentile £13.13 £16.65 £13.05
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.42 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year -45.61% +65.27% -60.44%
75th Percentile £29.61 £46.30 £26.88
90th Percentile £47.59 £67.50 £52.90
England median hourly rate £19.91 £27.13 £18.94
% change year-on-year -26.60% +43.22% -49.49%

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 17 March 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
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 17 March 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 -9 46 £500 -5.21% 9
Hampshire +12 40 £475 +22.58% 5
Berkshire -8 28 £500 - 7
Buckinghamshire -5 17 £475 -12.44% 1
Surrey +4 12 £550 +10.00%
West Sussex - 7 £525 -
Oxfordshire -14 1 £500 - 1
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 14 (14.14%) SharePoint
2 10 (10.10%) Confluence
3 3 (3.03%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 38 (38.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (24.24%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.01%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (15.15%) Primavera
2 5 (5.05%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.01%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 11 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (7.07%) Azure
4 6 (6.06%) AWS
5 4 (4.04%) GCP
6 1 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) WAN
2 3 (3.03%) NAS
2 3 (3.03%) SAN
3 2 (2.02%) Firewall
4 1 (1.01%) DHCP
4 1 (1.01%) DNS
4 1 (1.01%) FTP
4 1 (1.01%) LAN
4 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.22%) Power BI
2 6 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.04%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (37.37%) JIRA
General
1 48 (48.48%) Finance
2 37 (37.37%) Social Skills
3 34 (34.34%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.10%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (8.08%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.08%) Retail
6 3 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (25.25%) Analyst
2 21 (21.21%) Project Planner
3 19 (19.19%) PMO Analyst
4 18 (18.18%) Project Manager
5 8 (8.08%) Lead
5 8 (8.08%) Programme Planner
5 8 (8.08%) Senior
6 7 (7.07%) PMO Lead
7 6 (6.06%) Data Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) SC Cleared Project Manager
8 5 (5.05%) Senior Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Data Centre Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Data Centre Project Manager
9 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared Project Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Engagement Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Integration Analyst
10 3 (3.03%) Project Analyst
10 3 (3.03%) SAP Engagement Manager
10 3 (3.03%) SAP Manager
10 3 (3.03%) Senior Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.01%) ADO
1 1 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.06%) PMI
2 6 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.04%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.02%) Replication
5 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.01%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.01%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.02%) Linux
1 2 (2.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (71.72%) Project Management
2 47 (47.47%) PRINCE2
3 30 (30.30%) Agile
4 27 (27.27%) Change Management
5 26 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (22.22%) Project Delivery
6 22 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (21.21%) Risk Management
8 20 (20.20%) Budget Management
9 19 (19.19%) Waterfall
10 15 (15.15%) Decision-Making
11 13 (13.13%) Data Analysis
11 13 (13.13%) Project Planning
12 12 (12.12%) Dependency Management
12 12 (12.12%) Migration
13 11 (11.11%) PRINCE
13 11 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
13 11 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (10.10%) Earned Value Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.01%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (42.42%) Degree
2 37 (37.37%) Security Cleared
3 29 (29.29%) SC Cleared
4 17 (17.17%) PMI Certification
5 16 (16.16%) PMP
6 12 (12.12%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.04%) CISM
7 4 (4.04%) CISSP
8 1 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (69.70%) PMO
2 6 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.05%) NIST
3 5 (5.05%) P3O
4 4 (4.04%) QA
5 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.01%) GDPR
5 1 (1.01%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 26 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.12%) SAP
2 12 (12.12%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.09%) Oracle
4 5 (5.05%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.01%) Adobe
5 1 (1.01%) BT
5 1 (1.01%) Commvault
5 1 (1.01%) EMC
5 1 (1.01%) NetApp
5 1 (1.01%) Veeam
5 1 (1.01%) Veritas
5 1 (1.01%) VMware