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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 338 298
Rank change year-on-year +81 -40 +18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 387 221 324
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 0.65% 0.74%
As % of the Applications category 13.35% 9.06% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 145 227
10th Percentile £353 £312 £278
25th Percentile £442 £406 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £653 £600 £588
90th Percentile £738 £720 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £450 £455
% change year-on-year +12.22% -1.10% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 7
10th Percentile - £20.75 £28.66
25th Percentile £25.47 £30.31 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.43 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.32% -9.72% +12.91%
75th Percentile £62.57 £38.44 £43.81
90th Percentile £93.75 £41.13 £49.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +73.85% +8.33% -5.91%

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 2,439 3,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.79% 7.23% 7.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 1,438 2,129
10th Percentile £200 £170 £163
25th Percentile £305 £250 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £663 £638 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £364 £350
% change year-on-year +14.91% +3.93% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 214 275
10th Percentile £12.82 - £13.74
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £16.85
Median hourly rate £20.35 £25.09 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% -6.31% +7.12%
75th Percentile £29.61 £43.97 £46.47
90th Percentile £63.90 £70.88 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.91 £25.09 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.65% -3.50% +4.00%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 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 +52 344 £528 +5.50% 254
UK excluding London +50 247 £505 +12.22% 239
London +24 119 £550 - 54
Work from Home +43 109 £536 +3.67% 129
South East +33 69 £500 +9.59% 72
South West +35 60 £725 +126.56% 24
Midlands -25 52 £510 +13.97% 38
North of England -44 38 £463 +31.67% 39
West Midlands -18 37 £540 +8.00% 22
Yorkshire -21 24 £475 +58.33% 16
Scotland +16 21 £450 -5.26% 15
East Midlands -12 15 £424 -0.35% 15
North West -30 14 £458 +30.25% 20
East of England -25 8 £479 +8.68% 35
Wales +4 5 £308 -41.43% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 10

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 95 (24.55%) Confluence
2 49 (12.66%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.03%) CMS
4 2 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.26%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 115 (29.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (24.55%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (14.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (6.98%) MS Visio
5 21 (5.43%) Trello
6 3 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.26%) InDesign
7 1 (0.26%) Notion
7 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (4.65%) Primavera
2 9 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.29%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (1.29%) SAP ERP
3 5 (1.29%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.78%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.52%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.26%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 45 (11.63%) Power Platform
2 36 (9.30%) Azure
3 24 (6.20%) Smartsheet
4 19 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (3.88%) Asana
5 15 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.10%) AWS
7 11 (2.84%) SaaS
8 9 (2.33%) GCP
9 8 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.03%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.03%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.03%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.78%) Miro
11 3 (0.78%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.78%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.52%) Contentstack
12 2 (0.52%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.52%) OCI
12 2 (0.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.55%) WAN
2 5 (1.29%) VPN
3 4 (1.03%) LAN
3 4 (1.03%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (0.78%) Firewall
4 3 (0.78%) Softphone
5 2 (0.52%) Network Security
6 1 (0.26%) Broadband
6 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.26%) HTTP
6 1 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.26%) MPLS
6 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.11%) Power BI
2 8 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (1.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.03%) EDMS
4 4 (1.03%) Tableau
5 3 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.78%) Power Query
6 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.26%) DTS
7 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 188 (48.58%) JIRA
2 2 (0.52%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.26%) Ant
3 1 (0.26%) JUnit
3 1 (0.26%) LSMW
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.26%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.26%) Toad
General
1 206 (53.23%) Social Skills
2 157 (40.57%) Finance
3 109 (28.17%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.08%) Organisational Skills
5 33 (8.53%) Military
6 25 (6.46%) Public Sector
7 24 (6.20%) Banking
8 17 (4.39%) Legal
9 16 (4.13%) Manufacturing
10 15 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (3.88%) Telecoms
11 12 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.81%) Marketing
14 6 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.55%) Retail
14 6 (1.55%) Retail Banking
15 5 (1.29%) Corporate Banking
16 4 (1.03%) Billing
16 4 (1.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (34.63%) Project Manager
2 39 (10.08%) Analyst
3 34 (8.79%) Senior
4 33 (8.53%) Architect
5 30 (7.75%) Service Architect
6 27 (6.98%) Lead
7 22 (5.68%) Senior Manager
8 21 (5.43%) Project Planner
9 17 (4.39%) Coordinator
10 16 (4.13%) PMO Analyst
10 16 (4.13%) Senior Project Manager
11 14 (3.62%) IT Manager
11 14 (3.62%) Programme Manager
11 14 (3.62%) Project Officer
11 14 (3.62%) Technical Manager
12 12 (3.10%) IT Project Manager
12 12 (3.10%) Planning Manager
12 12 (3.10%) PMO Lead
12 12 (3.10%) Project Coordinator
13 10 (2.58%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.81%) Middleware
3 4 (1.03%) SOAP
4 2 (0.52%) ADO
4 2 (0.52%) React
4 2 (0.52%) REST
4 2 (0.52%) Web Services
4 2 (0.52%) XML
5 1 (0.26%) .NET
5 1 (0.26%) EDI
5 1 (0.26%) FHIR
5 1 (0.26%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.26%) Kafka
5 1 (0.26%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.26%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.85%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.72%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.17%) PMI
4 19 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (4.39%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.10%) Data Centre
6 12 (3.10%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.81%) NHS
9 6 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.55%) Educational Technology
10 4 (1.03%) SCADA
11 3 (0.78%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.78%) Learning Management System
12 2 (0.52%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.52%) Derivative
12 2 (0.52%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.52%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.52%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.29%) Windows
2 3 (0.78%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) AIX
4 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (52.45%) Project Management
2 186 (48.06%) Agile
3 126 (32.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 112 (28.94%) PRINCE2
5 96 (24.81%) Project Delivery
6 90 (23.26%) Change Management
7 85 (21.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 71 (18.35%) Waterfall
9 69 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (13.70%) Project Planning
12 48 (12.40%) Risk Management
13 46 (11.89%) Decision-Making
13 46 (11.89%) Migration
14 45 (11.63%) Budget Management
15 42 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
16 40 (10.34%) Project Governance
17 39 (10.08%) ITIL
18 38 (9.82%) ERP
18 38 (9.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.84%) SQL
2 5 (1.29%) Korn
3 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.26%) ABAP
4 1 (0.26%) Java
4 1 (0.26%) Perl
4 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 186 (48.06%) Degree
2 99 (25.58%) Security Cleared
3 82 (21.19%) SC Cleared
4 71 (18.35%) PMI Certification
5 69 (17.83%) PMP
6 30 (7.75%) TOGAF Certification
7 15 (3.88%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.58%) APMP
9 8 (2.07%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.55%) CISM
10 6 (1.55%) CISSP
10 6 (1.55%) MBA
10 6 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (1.29%) HNC
11 5 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
12 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.78%) ISEB
13 3 (0.78%) MCSE
13 3 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (29.46%) PMO
2 25 (6.46%) QA
3 12 (3.10%) P3O
4 8 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.55%) NIST
6 5 (1.29%) Basel III
7 4 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.03%) GDPR
7 4 (1.03%) GRC
7 4 (1.03%) SLA
8 2 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) GMP
9 1 (0.26%) HL7
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.26%) Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (7.75%) OPNET
2 3 (0.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.78%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.26%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.26%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 130 (33.59%) Microsoft
2 56 (14.47%) ServiceNow
3 51 (13.18%) SAP
4 36 (9.30%) Atlassian
5 30 (7.75%) Oracle
5 30 (7.75%) Remedy
6 13 (3.36%) Planview
7 8 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.55%) Workday
9 5 (1.29%) Cisco
10 4 (1.03%) Arista
10 4 (1.03%) Progress
11 3 (0.78%) Adobe
11 3 (0.78%) Google
12 2 (0.52%) Databricks
12 2 (0.52%) HP
12 2 (0.52%) Siemens
12 2 (0.52%) Sitecore
13 1 (0.26%) Terracotta
13 1 (0.26%) Zoho