Microsoft Project Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Project
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 91 135 95
Rank change year-on-year +44 -40 -29
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 11 10 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.73% 0.37% 1.95%
As % of the Applications category 9.32% 3.66% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 39
10th Percentile £335 £350 £303
25th Percentile £506 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £460 £510
Median % change year-on-year +17.94% -9.81% +10.87%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £550
90th Percentile £614 £628 £677
South East median daily rate £506 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +11.27% -9.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.30 - -
South East median hourly rate £46.30 - £27.40
% change year-on-year - - +88.85%

All Software Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 118 273 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.81% 10.16% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 156 175
10th Percentile £152 £133 £193
25th Percentile £214 £185 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £215 £400
Median % change year-on-year +94.77% -46.25% +5.57%
75th Percentile £500 £438 £510
90th Percentile £604 £531 £625
South East median daily rate £413 £275 £375
% change year-on-year +50.00% -26.67% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 14
10th Percentile £13.75 £11.79 £14.42
25th Percentile - £15.85 £18.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £22.90 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.98% -8.41% +132.13%
75th Percentile £32.05 £43.75 £29.77
90th Percentile £50.78 £61.55 £32.30
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year +8.57% -45.82% +65.64%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Project in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Project in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Project in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Project in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Project
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +30 5 £435 -24.35% 9
Buckinghamshire +15 3 £543 +26.17% 11
Oxfordshire - 3 - - 9
Microsoft Project
South East

Microsoft Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Google Workspace
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Police
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Project Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Project Planner
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Coordinator
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Network Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) PMO Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) PMI
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Life Science
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Project Management
2 8 (72.73%) PRINCE2
3 6 (54.55%) Risk Management
4 5 (45.45%) Cost Management
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Gantt Chart
5 4 (36.36%) Project Planning
5 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (27.27%) Change Control
6 3 (27.27%) Critical Path Analysis
6 3 (27.27%) Resource Allocation
6 3 (27.27%) Resource Management
6 3 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (27.27%) Work Breakdown Structure
7 2 (18.18%) Contract Management
7 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 2 (18.18%) Order Management
7 2 (18.18%) Product Management
7 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) APMP
3 3 (27.27%) ISEB
3 3 (27.27%) PMI Certification
3 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (18.18%) PMP
5 1 (9.09%) CISA
5 1 (9.09%) CISM
5 1 (9.09%) CISSP
5 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) PMO
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Snow