Microsoft Project Contracts

Microsoft Project
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 350 299
Rank change year-on-year +50 -51 -49
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 240 261 523
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.60% 0.88%
As % of the Applications category 9.90% 7.57% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 147 360
10th Percentile £261 £303 £300
25th Percentile £386 £399 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £600
90th Percentile £617 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £460 £450
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 17
10th Percentile - £26.66 £21.26
25th Percentile £31.25 £27.11 £22.63
Median hourly rate £38.50 £40.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -8.80% -1.44%
75th Percentile £45.66 £43.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £46.30 - £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.94% -22.73% +182.05%

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 2,424 3,448 4,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.29% 7.91% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 1,743 2,896
10th Percentile £188 £163 £188
25th Percentile £261 £213 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -0.76%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £350 £391
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.54% +4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 635 264
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.57 £13.94
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.00 £18.48
Median hourly rate £23.59 £17.80 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -51.23% +69.77%
75th Percentile £43.75 £39.92 £53.45
90th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £16.06 £32.30
% change year-on-year +40.10% -50.28% +70.00%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft Project as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Project over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Project over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +41 202 £500 -0.05% 191
UK excluding London +42 128 £450 -2.17% 144
London +27 90 £525 +0.15% 71
Work from Home +43 72 £511 +10.50% 111
Midlands +46 37 £463 +8.82% 23
North of England +22 28 £450 -12.15% 27
West Midlands +29 27 £500 +17.65% 15
South East +39 20 £506 +11.27% 46
Scotland +7 20 £500 +26.58% 13
North West +6 16 £450 -12.15% 21
South West +21 14 £313 -45.05% 16
East Midlands - 10 £425 - 8
Yorkshire +13 9 £300 -40.00% 4
East of England +32 7 £425 -2.86% 8
North East +1 3 £450 -7.69% 2
Wales +5 1 £425 - 1
Northern Ireland -8 1 £375 +78.57% 9

Microsoft Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (7.08%) SharePoint
2 16 (6.67%) Confluence
3 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) CMS
4 2 (0.83%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 47 (19.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (14.58%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (11.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (8.33%) Trello
5 14 (5.83%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.42%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.42%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.92%) Primavera
3 5 (2.08%) SAP PS
4 2 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (10.00%) Azure
2 19 (7.92%) Power Platform
3 15 (6.25%) Asana
4 10 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.33%) Smartsheet
6 7 (2.92%) SaaS
7 6 (2.50%) AWS
8 4 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.67%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.25%) GCP
9 3 (1.25%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.83%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.42%) BigCommerce
11 1 (0.42%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (0.42%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.42%) Miro
11 1 (0.42%) OCI
11 1 (0.42%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.08%) WAN
2 4 (1.67%) LAN
3 3 (1.25%) Internet
3 3 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.83%) Firewall
4 2 (0.83%) HTTP
4 2 (0.83%) VPN
4 2 (0.83%) WebEx
4 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.83%) Wireless
5 1 (0.42%) ATM
5 1 (0.42%) MPLS
5 1 (0.42%) Network Security
5 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.42%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.50%) Power BI
2 4 (1.67%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.25%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.25%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.25%) Tableau
4 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.83%) Looker
4 2 (0.83%) Metadata
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.42%) Big Data
5 1 (0.42%) IDMS
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.42%) QlikView
5 1 (0.42%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 68 (28.33%) JIRA
2 2 (0.83%) Ant
2 2 (0.83%) SoapUI
2 2 (0.83%) Toad
3 1 (0.42%) Git
3 1 (0.42%) JUnit
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 112 (46.67%) Finance
2 106 (44.17%) Social Skills
3 36 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.83%) Organisational Skills
4 26 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.67%) Banking
6 12 (5.00%) Legal
6 12 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.58%) Local Government
8 8 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.92%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.92%) Law
9 7 (2.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.50%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.08%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.25%) Back Office
13 3 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 25 (10.42%) Lead
3 21 (8.75%) Senior
4 17 (7.08%) Analyst
5 16 (6.67%) IT Manager
5 16 (6.67%) Senior Manager
6 15 (6.25%) PMO Analyst
6 15 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
7 13 (5.42%) IT Project Manager
7 13 (5.42%) Project Planner
8 11 (4.58%) Infrastructure Manager
9 9 (3.75%) Coordinator
9 9 (3.75%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 9 (3.75%) Project Coordinator
10 8 (3.33%) PMO Lead
10 8 (3.33%) Programme Manager
11 7 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (2.92%) Programme Planner
11 7 (2.92%) Support Officer
12 6 (2.50%) Project Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.08%) ADO
3 3 (1.25%) Middleware
4 2 (0.83%) CSS
4 2 (0.83%) EDI
4 2 (0.83%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (0.83%) Kafka
4 2 (0.83%) SOAP
4 2 (0.83%) XML
5 1 (0.42%) HTML
5 1 (0.42%) REST
5 1 (0.42%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.42%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.58%) PMI
2 11 (4.58%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.75%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.08%) NHS
6 3 (1.25%) Life Science
6 3 (1.25%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.25%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.25%) Smartphone
6 3 (1.25%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.83%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.42%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.42%) FMCG
8 1 (0.42%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.58%) Windows
2 4 (1.67%) Linux
2 4 (1.67%) Unix
3 2 (0.83%) AIX
4 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.42%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.42%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (61.67%) Project Management
2 88 (36.67%) Agile
3 71 (29.58%) PRINCE2
3 71 (29.58%) Project Delivery
4 65 (27.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (21.67%) Waterfall
7 46 (19.17%) Project Planning
8 45 (18.75%) Risk Management
9 43 (17.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 33 (13.75%) Change Management
11 29 (12.08%) Project Governance
12 26 (10.83%) Resource Allocation
13 25 (10.42%) Change Control
14 24 (10.00%) Budget Management
14 24 (10.00%) Decision-Making
14 24 (10.00%) Resource Management
15 21 (8.75%) Budgeting
15 21 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (8.75%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.50%) SQL
2 3 (1.25%) Java
3 2 (0.83%) Korn
3 2 (0.83%) Perl
3 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
3 2 (0.83%) Python
4 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 113 (47.08%) Degree
2 71 (29.58%) PMI Certification
3 57 (23.75%) PMP
4 40 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 30 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.58%) Master's Degree
7 10 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 7 (2.92%) HNC
9 6 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 5 (2.08%) APMP
10 5 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.25%) ISEB
13 2 (0.83%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.83%) CBAP
13 2 (0.83%) HND
13 2 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.83%) PgMP
14 1 (0.42%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (23.75%) PMO
2 6 (2.50%) QA
3 3 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.25%) SEPA
3 3 (1.25%) SLA
4 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.83%) EMIR
4 2 (0.83%) MiFID
4 2 (0.83%) P3O
5 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.42%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) GxP
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) PMBOK
System Software
1 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.25%) SCCM
2 2 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.42%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.42%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 86 (35.83%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.00%) SAP
3 9 (3.75%) Oracle
4 7 (2.92%) Planview
5 5 (2.08%) Adobe
5 5 (2.08%) Google
6 4 (1.67%) Ariba
7 3 (1.25%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.25%) NEC
7 3 (1.25%) Reuters
7 3 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.25%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.83%) Bomgar
8 2 (0.83%) Cisco
8 2 (0.83%) HP
8 2 (0.83%) IBM
8 2 (0.83%) Perforce
8 2 (0.83%) Wrike
9 1 (0.42%) Peregrine
9 1 (0.42%) Remedy