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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 309 336
Rank change year-on-year +39 +27 -11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 405 227 273
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 0.76% 0.61%
As % of the Applications category 14.00% 9.71% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 152 178
10th Percentile £350 £300 £279
25th Percentile £420 £381 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £627 £573 £600
90th Percentile £738 £650 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £449 £460
% change year-on-year +11.48% -2.49% +1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 13
10th Percentile £24.57 £30.88 £26.66
25th Percentile £25.47 £31.25 £27.26
Median hourly rate £29.50 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% -13.33% -1.83%
75th Percentile £58.71 £40.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £46.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.72 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +6.82% -13.33% -14.32%

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 2,892 2,337 3,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.93% 7.83% 8.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 1,410 1,974
10th Percentile £203 £176 £160
25th Percentile £314 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -9.60%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £543
90th Percentile £650 £631 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £356 £350
% change year-on-year +19.38% +1.71% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 205 587
10th Percentile £12.95 £15.24 £11.95
25th Percentile £15.55 £17.61 £14.16
Median hourly rate £19.50 £27.35 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.70% +40.26% -44.29%
75th Percentile £27.74 £46.30 £43.75
90th Percentile £60.31 £79.85 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.95 £27.35 £19.00
% change year-on-year -30.71% +43.95% -45.71%

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 March 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 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Top 17 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 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
England +42 368 £513 +2.50% 81
UK excluding London +27 255 £500 +11.48% 63
London +2 129 £550 +4.76% 26
Work from Home +5 109 £550 +5.97% 42
South East +39 92 £500 -1.23% 18
South West +34 64 £725 +126.56% 7
Midlands -42 44 £450 +3.45% 12
North of England -59 31 £450 +25.00% 15
West Midlands -47 25 £500 +8.11% 9
Scotland +17 20 £425 -15.00% 5
East Midlands -21 19 £356 -18.16% 3
Yorkshire -54 15 £488 +62.50% 4
North West -45 14 £418 +3.59% 10
East of England -25 10 £538 +13.16% 6
Wales -6 2 £433 -8.84% 2
North East -11 2 £450 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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
1 114 (28.15%) Confluence
2 46 (11.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.74%) MS Project Server
5 2 (0.49%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 124 (30.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 89 (21.98%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (5.19%) MS Visio
5 14 (3.46%) Trello
6 8 (1.98%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.25%) InDesign
7 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 25 (6.17%) Primavera
2 13 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (2.72%) Loan IQ
4 5 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.49%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.49%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.49%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.25%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 58 (14.32%) Power Platform
2 46 (11.36%) Azure
3 23 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (4.20%) AWS
5 16 (3.95%) Smartsheet
6 13 (3.21%) GCP
7 12 (2.96%) Asana
8 10 (2.47%) SaaS
9 6 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.23%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.99%) Collibra
11 4 (0.99%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.74%) Google Ads
12 3 (0.74%) Miro
12 3 (0.74%) OneDrive
12 3 (0.74%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.49%) OCI
14 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Copilot
14 1 (0.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.22%) WAN
2 4 (0.99%) LAN
2 4 (0.99%) VPN
3 3 (0.74%) Softphone
3 3 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.49%) NAS
4 2 (0.49%) SAN
5 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.25%) HTTP
5 1 (0.25%) MPLS
5 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (13.83%) Power BI
2 9 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (1.23%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.99%) Big Data
4 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.99%) EDMS
4 4 (0.99%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.99%) Metadata
4 4 (0.99%) Tableau
5 2 (0.49%) Power Query
6 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.25%) QlikView
6 1 (0.25%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 225 (55.56%) JIRA
2 4 (0.99%) Git
3 1 (0.25%) Ant
3 1 (0.25%) JUnit
3 1 (0.25%) LSMW
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.25%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.25%) Toad
General
1 210 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 179 (44.20%) Finance
3 126 (31.11%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (10.37%) Organisational Skills
5 32 (7.90%) Military
5 32 (7.90%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.91%) Banking
7 15 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (3.46%) Legal
8 14 (3.46%) Retail
9 13 (3.21%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.22%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.98%) Corporate Banking
12 8 (1.98%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.99%) Local Government
13 4 (0.99%) Publishing
14 3 (0.74%) Law
15 2 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 130 (32.10%) Project Manager
2 63 (15.56%) Analyst
3 32 (7.90%) Architect
4 31 (7.65%) Lead
5 30 (7.41%) PMO Analyst
5 30 (7.41%) Project Planner
5 30 (7.41%) Service Architect
6 28 (6.91%) Senior
7 20 (4.94%) SAP Manager
8 17 (4.20%) Coordinator
8 17 (4.20%) Senior Manager
9 16 (3.95%) PMO Lead
10 15 (3.70%) Project Officer
11 13 (3.21%) Project Coordinator
12 12 (2.96%) Engagement Manager
12 12 (2.96%) Programme Manager
13 11 (2.72%) Migration Analyst
13 11 (2.72%) Technical Manager
13 11 (2.72%) Transformation Analyst
14 10 (2.47%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.95%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.48%) Middleware
3 5 (1.23%) ADO
4 3 (0.74%) SOAP
5 2 (0.49%) REST
5 2 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.49%) Web Services
6 1 (0.25%) EDI
6 1 (0.25%) FHIR
6 1 (0.25%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (0.25%) Kafka
6 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 36 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.19%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.69%) PMI
5 16 (3.95%) Data Centre
6 15 (3.70%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.73%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.73%) Tandem
9 5 (1.23%) NHS
10 4 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.99%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.74%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.49%) Derivative
12 2 (0.49%) Life Science
12 2 (0.49%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.99%) Windows
2 2 (0.49%) Linux
2 2 (0.49%) Unix
3 1 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (54.07%) Project Management
2 209 (51.60%) Agile
3 155 (38.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 116 (28.64%) PRINCE2
5 115 (28.40%) Project Delivery
6 98 (24.20%) Change Management
7 88 (21.73%) Waterfall
8 85 (20.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 79 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (17.28%) Decision-Making
11 66 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 64 (15.80%) Migration
13 57 (14.07%) Business Intelligence
13 57 (14.07%) Risk Management
14 56 (13.83%) Budget Management
15 54 (13.33%) Project Planning
16 45 (11.11%) Project Governance
16 45 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 43 (10.62%) Analytical Thinking
17 43 (10.62%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.96%) SQL
2 4 (0.99%) Korn
3 3 (0.74%) Python
4 2 (0.49%) ABAP
4 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.25%) Java
5 1 (0.25%) Perl
5 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.25%) Ruby
5 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 200 (49.38%) Degree
2 122 (30.12%) Security Cleared
3 99 (24.44%) SC Cleared
4 65 (16.05%) PMI Certification
5 64 (15.80%) PMP
6 30 (7.41%) TOGAF Certification
7 21 (5.19%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.47%) APMP
8 10 (2.47%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.22%) MBA
10 8 (1.98%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (1.73%) CISSP
12 6 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (1.23%) CISM
14 3 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
14 3 (0.74%) MCSE
14 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (34.32%) PMO
2 34 (8.40%) QA
3 20 (4.94%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.47%) P3O
5 8 (1.98%) Basel III
6 7 (1.73%) GDPR
6 7 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.48%) GRC
8 5 (1.23%) NIST
9 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.49%) PSD2
11 1 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.25%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (7.41%) OPNET
2 3 (0.74%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.74%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 126 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 58 (14.32%) ServiceNow
3 48 (11.85%) SAP
4 36 (8.89%) Atlassian
5 32 (7.90%) Oracle
6 30 (7.41%) Remedy
7 14 (3.46%) Planview
8 7 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.23%) Cisco
10 4 (0.99%) Arista
11 2 (0.49%) Adobe
11 2 (0.49%) Ariba
12 1 (0.25%) BT
12 1 (0.25%) Genesys
12 1 (0.25%) IBM
12 1 (0.25%) Juniper
12 1 (0.25%) Nokia
12 1 (0.25%) Perforce
12 1 (0.25%) Progress
12 1 (0.25%) Siemens