Microsoft Project Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Project
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Microsoft Project skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 294 350
Rank change year-on-year +20 +56 -40
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 410 243 246
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.84% 0.56%
As % of the Applications category 14.15% 10.26% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 164 153
10th Percentile £341 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £497 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% +1.85% -2.50%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £610
90th Percentile £738 £650 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £462
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% +2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 12
10th Percentile - - £26.66
25th Percentile £25.47 £31.25 £27.11
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -7.50% -8.80%
75th Percentile £44.09 £45.03 £43.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £46.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.72 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -0.10% -18.24% -22.73%

All Software Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,898 2,368 3,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.46% 8.14% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,707 1,459 1,825
10th Percentile £213 £190 £158
25th Percentile £331 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £409 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +2.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £643 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -12.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 233 618
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.26 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.91 £25.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% +38.89% -44.62%
75th Percentile £30.59 £45.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £68.38 £76.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £25.00 £16.58
% change year-on-year -23.30% +50.76% -41.11%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Project relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Project job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Project.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Project over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Project.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Project over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 April 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
England +22 382 £520 +4.00% 86
UK excluding London -2 250 £500 +11.11% 71
London -24 133 £556 +5.81% 30
Work from Home +6 115 £535 +1.90% 45
South East +23 97 £500 -2.44% 22
South West +19 61 £725 +132.00% 1
Midlands -56 40 £444 +4.41% 17
North of England -63 36 £435 -2.68% 17
West Midlands -65 23 £500 +8.11% 10
North West -45 21 £418 -6.49% 12
East Midlands -22 17 £356 -16.24% 7
Yorkshire -58 12 £425 +41.67% 2
Scotland -1 11 £392 -21.70% 8
East of England -36 11 £600 +33.33% 5
North East -13 3 £450 - 3
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 1

Microsoft Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 109 (26.59%) Confluence
2 45 (10.98%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.73%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.24%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 133 (32.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (22.20%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (14.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (4.15%) MS Visio
5 12 (2.93%) Trello
6 9 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.24%) InDesign
8 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.24%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 28 (6.83%) Primavera
2 17 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (2.93%) Loan IQ
4 5 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.98%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.73%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.49%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.49%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 60 (14.63%) Power Platform
2 57 (13.90%) Azure
3 38 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (4.88%) Smartsheet
6 14 (3.41%) AWS
7 13 (3.17%) Asana
8 11 (2.68%) SaaS
9 7 (1.71%) GCP
10 5 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.22%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.22%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.98%) Collibra
11 4 (0.98%) OCI
12 3 (0.73%) GitHub
12 3 (0.73%) Google Ads
13 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.49%) Miro
13 2 (0.49%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.68%) WAN
2 6 (1.46%) Firewall
2 6 (1.46%) NAS
2 6 (1.46%) SAN
3 5 (1.22%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.98%) VPN
5 3 (0.73%) LAN
5 3 (0.73%) Softphone
6 1 (0.24%) DHCP
6 1 (0.24%) DNS
6 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.24%) FTP
6 1 (0.24%) HTTP
6 1 (0.24%) Internet
6 1 (0.24%) MPLS
6 1 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.39%) Power BI
2 8 (1.95%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (1.71%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.98%) Big Data
4 4 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.98%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.98%) Metadata
4 4 (0.98%) Power Query
4 4 (0.98%) Tableau
5 3 (0.73%) EDMS
6 2 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.49%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.24%) QlikView
7 1 (0.24%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 230 (56.10%) JIRA
2 4 (0.98%) Git
3 1 (0.24%) Ant
3 1 (0.24%) JUnit
3 1 (0.24%) LSMW
3 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.24%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.24%) Toad
General
1 199 (48.54%) Social Skills
2 176 (42.93%) Finance
3 126 (30.73%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (10.73%) Organisational Skills
5 35 (8.54%) Banking
6 32 (7.80%) Public Sector
7 31 (7.56%) Military
8 19 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (4.39%) Retail
10 10 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.44%) Legal
10 10 (2.44%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.44%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.20%) Corporate Banking
11 9 (2.20%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.22%) Public Speaking
14 4 (0.98%) Advertising
14 4 (0.98%) Law
Job Titles
1 136 (33.17%) Project Manager
2 66 (16.10%) Analyst
3 40 (9.76%) Senior
4 33 (8.05%) PMO Analyst
5 31 (7.56%) Architect
5 31 (7.56%) Lead
6 30 (7.32%) Service Architect
7 29 (7.07%) Project Planner
8 24 (5.85%) Senior Manager
9 18 (4.39%) SAP Manager
10 17 (4.15%) Programme Manager
11 16 (3.90%) Project Officer
11 16 (3.90%) Technical Manager
12 15 (3.66%) Coordinator
13 14 (3.41%) Programme Planner
13 14 (3.41%) Project Coordinator
13 14 (3.41%) Senior Project Manager
14 13 (3.17%) SC Cleared Project Manager
14 13 (3.17%) Transformation Analyst
15 12 (2.93%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.66%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.95%) ADO
2 8 (1.95%) Middleware
3 2 (0.49%) FHIR
3 2 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.24%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.24%) Kafka
4 1 (0.24%) SOAP
4 1 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.22%) Product Ownership
2 29 (7.07%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.37%) PMI
4 20 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.66%) Virtual Team
6 14 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.17%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.71%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.71%) Tandem
9 6 (1.46%) Life Science
10 5 (1.22%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.98%) FMCG
11 4 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.98%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.73%) NHS
12 3 (0.73%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.20%) Windows
2 5 (1.22%) Linux
3 2 (0.49%) Unix
4 1 (0.24%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (53.41%) Agile
2 214 (52.20%) Project Management
3 154 (37.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 116 (28.29%) PRINCE2
5 113 (27.56%) Project Delivery
6 90 (21.95%) Change Management
7 86 (20.98%) Waterfall
8 82 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (18.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 74 (18.05%) Decision-Making
11 65 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (15.85%) Migration
12 58 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
13 56 (13.66%) Budget Management
14 55 (13.41%) ITIL
15 53 (12.93%) DevOps
16 52 (12.68%) Risk Management
17 50 (12.20%) Project Planning
18 43 (10.49%) Analytical Thinking
19 42 (10.24%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.68%) SQL
2 4 (0.98%) Python
3 3 (0.73%) VBA
4 2 (0.49%) ABAP
4 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.24%) Java
5 1 (0.24%) Korn
5 1 (0.24%) Perl
5 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 200 (48.78%) Degree
2 128 (31.22%) Security Cleared
3 103 (25.12%) SC Cleared
4 68 (16.59%) PMI Certification
5 64 (15.61%) PMP
6 30 (7.32%) TOGAF Certification
7 23 (5.61%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.44%) APMP
10 8 (1.95%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.95%) MBA
10 8 (1.95%) SAFe Agilist
11 6 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.98%) CISSP
13 3 (0.73%) CISA
13 3 (0.73%) MCSE
13 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.49%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (36.10%) PMO
2 29 (7.07%) QA
3 23 (5.61%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.20%) P3O
5 8 (1.95%) Basel III
5 8 (1.95%) GDPR
6 5 (1.22%) GRC
7 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.49%) HL7
8 2 (0.49%) NIST
8 2 (0.49%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 11 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (7.32%) OPNET
2 3 (0.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.73%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 126 (30.73%) Microsoft
2 64 (15.61%) ServiceNow
3 41 (10.00%) SAP
4 35 (8.54%) Atlassian
5 33 (8.05%) Oracle
6 30 (7.32%) Remedy
7 9 (2.20%) Planview
8 8 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.73%) Adobe
9 3 (0.73%) Cisco
10 2 (0.49%) Ariba
10 2 (0.49%) Arista
11 1 (0.24%) BeyondTrust
11 1 (0.24%) Cerner
11 1 (0.24%) Commvault
11 1 (0.24%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.24%) Databricks
11 1 (0.24%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.24%) iManage
11 1 (0.24%) NetApp