Microsoft Project Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Project
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 255 188
Rank change year-on-year +37 -67 -25
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 125 146 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.70% 1.26%
As % of the Applications category 9.34% 7.57% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 65 189
10th Percentile £250 £313 £292
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £538
90th Percentile £594 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -5.70% +0.74% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 13
10th Percentile £32.10 £26.66 £20.59
25th Percentile £38.00 £31.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £46.30 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.94% -22.73% +193.26%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £47.78 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £46.30 £40.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +15.75% -25.58% +20.79%

All Software Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,338 1,928 2,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.27% 9.30% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 849 1,279
10th Percentile £160 £156 £164
25th Percentile £225 £200 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £388
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £594 £613 £600
UK median daily rate £413 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 538 187
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.11 £13.91
25th Percentile £15.44 £13.55 £16.58
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.06 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +40.10% -36.40% +31.20%
75th Percentile £46.30 £36.18 £49.00
90th Percentile £72.63 £57.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.45 £16.23 £27.50
% change year-on-year +44.49% -40.98% +27.91%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft Project as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Project in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Project in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Project in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Project in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Project
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Project in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Project
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Midlands +32 34 £489 +8.56% 35
West Midlands +25 26 £540 +13.68% 21
Scotland +16 24 £475 +13.10% 7
North of England +9 23 £450 -11.76% 36
South East +34 21 £480 -1.41% 52
South West +17 14 £375 -31.82% 14
North West +1 11 £475 -7.06% 20
Yorkshire +14 10 £413 -8.33% 14
East Midlands +16 8 £450 +66.67% 13
East of England +19 7 £425 -15.00% 22
Northern Ireland - 3 £588 - 4
North East +1 2 £330 -32.31% 2
Wales +3 1 £425 - 3
Microsoft Project
UK

Microsoft Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.80%) Confluence
3 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.40%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 19 (15.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (13.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (7.20%) MS Visio
5 8 (6.40%) Trello
6 1 (0.80%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Primavera
2 2 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.80%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 12 (9.60%) Azure
2 11 (8.80%) Power Platform
3 8 (6.40%) Asana
3 8 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.00%) Power Automate
5 4 (3.20%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.20%) Google Workspace
5 4 (3.20%) Smartsheet
6 3 (2.40%) AWS
6 3 (2.40%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (2.40%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.60%) GCP
7 2 (1.60%) SaaS
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.80%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.80%) ShareGate
8 1 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) Internet
2 3 (2.40%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.60%) WAN
3 2 (1.60%) WebEx
4 1 (0.80%) LAN
4 1 (0.80%) MPLS
4 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.80%) VPN
4 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.40%) Power BI
2 2 (1.60%) Big Data
2 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.80%) QlikView
3 1 (0.80%) Tableau
3 1 (0.80%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 21 (16.80%) JIRA
General
1 54 (43.20%) Finance
2 50 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.60%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (13.60%) Public Sector
5 14 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.20%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.60%) Banking
8 5 (4.00%) Legal
9 4 (3.20%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.20%) Law
9 4 (3.20%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Local Government
10 2 (1.60%) Military
11 1 (0.80%) Automotive
11 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.80%) Police
11 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (40.80%) Project Manager
2 16 (12.80%) Analyst
3 14 (11.20%) Senior
4 11 (8.80%) Lead
5 10 (8.00%) PMO Analyst
5 10 (8.00%) Project Planner
6 9 (7.20%) Senior Manager
7 8 (6.40%) Senior Project Manager
8 6 (4.80%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 6 (4.80%) Engagement Manager
8 6 (4.80%) IT Manager
8 6 (4.80%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
8 6 (4.80%) Security Manager
8 6 (4.80%) Security Project Manager
9 5 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
9 5 (4.00%) Programme Manager
10 4 (3.20%) Infrastructure Manager
10 4 (3.20%) Programme Planner
10 4 (3.20%) Project Analyst
10 4 (3.20%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.40%) ADO
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.80%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) PMI
2 8 (6.40%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.20%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.40%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.40%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.60%) IoT
5 2 (1.60%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.80%) CMDB
6 1 (0.80%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.80%) Equities
6 1 (0.80%) PDA
6 1 (0.80%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.80%) SCADA
6 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Windows
2 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.80%) Windows 7
2 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.80%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (57.60%) Project Management
2 46 (36.80%) Project Delivery
3 42 (33.60%) PRINCE2
4 37 (29.60%) Agile
5 32 (25.60%) Project Planning
6 30 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (20.80%) Change Management
8 25 (20.00%) Waterfall
9 24 (19.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (16.80%) Risk Management
11 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (12.80%) Resource Management
13 15 (12.00%) Migration
13 15 (12.00%) Project Governance
14 14 (11.20%) Contingency Planning
15 12 (9.60%) Budget Management
15 12 (9.60%) Change Control
15 12 (9.60%) Programme Management
16 11 (8.80%) Resource Allocation
17 10 (8.00%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.80%) Python
1 1 (0.80%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (40.00%) Degree
2 26 (20.80%) PMI Certification
3 22 (17.60%) Security Cleared
4 17 (13.60%) PMP
5 16 (12.80%) SC Cleared
6 7 (5.60%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.80%) Master's Degree
7 6 (4.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 5 (4.00%) ISEB
9 4 (3.20%) APMP
9 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (1.60%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.60%) CCA
12 1 (0.80%) CISA
12 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.80%) CISM
12 1 (0.80%) CISSP
12 1 (0.80%) MBA
12 1 (0.80%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (25.60%) PMO
2 4 (3.20%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.20%) QA
3 2 (1.60%) P3O
4 1 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.80%) NIST
4 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.80%) PMBOK
System Software
1 4 (3.20%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.80%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 45 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.60%) SAP
3 4 (3.20%) Google
3 4 (3.20%) Oracle
4 3 (2.40%) Citrix
4 3 (2.40%) VMware
5 2 (1.60%) Bomgar
5 2 (1.60%) Cisco
5 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.80%) Adobe
6 1 (0.80%) HP
6 1 (0.80%) Informatica
6 1 (0.80%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.80%) Pega
6 1 (0.80%) Peregrine
6 1 (0.80%) Remedy
6 1 (0.80%) Snow