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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 293 364
Rank change year-on-year -56 +71 -86
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 352 286 212
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.87% 0.54%
As % of the Applications category 12.39% 10.20% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 199 114
10th Percentile £330 £345 £353
25th Percentile £400 £409 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.58% +1.37%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £582
90th Percentile £701 £680 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 10
10th Percentile £28.65 £24.40 £20.68
25th Percentile £30.00 £36.40 £26.50
Median hourly rate £38.03 £46.30 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +26.85% -30.48%
75th Percentile £51.56 £48.15 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £53.30 £53.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.04 £46.30 £38.75
% change year-on-year -15.68% +19.48% -26.19%

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 2,840 2,803 2,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.32% 8.53% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,541 1,586 1,414
10th Percentile £213 £200 £163
25th Percentile £325 £296 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £523
90th Percentile £631 £650 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 363 403
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.00 £11.79
25th Percentile £15.81 £15.84 £14.84
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.63 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year - +27.13% -28.80%
75th Percentile £36.70 £34.57 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.85 £59.86 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.72 £22.16 £16.23
% change year-on-year -1.97% +36.52% -26.23%

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 7 August 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 7 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Top 15 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 7 August 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 -44 328 £500 -5.66% 127
UK excluding London -70 191 £500 - 107
London -47 135 £558 +0.04% 45
Work from Home -38 87 £475 -13.64% 60
South East -19 77 £525 +5.00% 33
Midlands -67 35 £463 -14.59% 21
North of England -75 33 £462 -0.75% 17
South West -24 31 £410 -8.89% 11
West Midlands -79 26 £469 -13.31% 13
North West -37 16 £500 +5.26% 9
Yorkshire -45 14 £438 -5.66% 7
East Midlands -7 9 £425 -22.73% 8
Scotland -22 9 £500 - 13
East of England -21 7 £566 +36.04% 9
North East -41 3 £450 +36.36% 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 57 (16.19%) Confluence
2 54 (15.34%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 146 (41.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (19.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 51 (14.49%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (4.55%) MS Visio
5 12 (3.41%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (1.14%) Trello
7 3 (0.85%) Windchill
8 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 29 (8.24%) Primavera
2 13 (3.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.70%) SAP EWM
4 4 (1.14%) Loan IQ
4 4 (1.14%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.85%) Changepoint
5 3 (0.85%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.57%) BASE24
6 2 (0.57%) Endur
6 2 (0.57%) Findur
6 2 (0.57%) Maximo
6 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.28%) Actimize
7 1 (0.28%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.28%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 75 (21.31%) Azure
2 60 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (16.76%) Power Platform
4 31 (8.81%) Smartsheet
5 27 (7.67%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (2.56%) AWS
7 8 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (1.99%) SaaS
9 5 (1.42%) Asana
10 3 (0.85%) GitHub
10 3 (0.85%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.85%) IaaS
10 3 (0.85%) OCI
10 3 (0.85%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.57%) Azure AI
11 2 (0.57%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.28%) GCP
12 1 (0.28%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.28%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.27%) Firewall
1 8 (2.27%) WAN
2 5 (1.42%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.14%) NAS
3 4 (1.14%) SAN
4 3 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.57%) DNS
5 2 (0.57%) FTP
5 2 (0.57%) Internet
5 2 (0.57%) IPv4
5 2 (0.57%) IPv6
5 2 (0.57%) LAN
5 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.57%) Wireless
6 1 (0.28%) 4G
6 1 (0.28%) 5G
6 1 (0.28%) Broadband
6 1 (0.28%) DHCP
6 1 (0.28%) MPLS
6 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (16.76%) Power BI
2 7 (1.99%) Power Query
3 5 (1.42%) Tableau
4 2 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (0.57%) PowerPivot
4 2 (0.57%) QlikView
4 2 (0.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.28%) Big Data
5 1 (0.28%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.28%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.28%) DataStage
5 1 (0.28%) EDMS
5 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 148 (42.05%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) Git
2 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 160 (45.45%) Finance
2 149 (42.33%) Social Skills
3 80 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (16.48%) Organisational Skills
5 30 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.53%) Banking
7 18 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (4.83%) Manufacturing
9 16 (4.55%) Retail
10 12 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.13%) Aerospace
11 11 (3.13%) Legal
12 9 (2.56%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.70%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.42%) Advertising
15 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.42%) Public Speaking
16 4 (1.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (34.38%) Project Manager
2 44 (12.50%) Senior
3 35 (9.94%) Analyst
4 26 (7.39%) Lead
4 26 (7.39%) Senior Manager
5 23 (6.53%) IT Manager
5 23 (6.53%) Project Officer
6 20 (5.68%) IT Project Manager
6 20 (5.68%) PMO Analyst
6 20 (5.68%) Senior Project Manager
7 19 (5.40%) Coordinator
8 17 (4.83%) Programme Manager
8 17 (4.83%) Project Coordinator
9 16 (4.55%) Programme Planner
9 16 (4.55%) Project Planner
10 15 (4.26%) Project Control Officer
11 13 (3.69%) Technical Manager
12 12 (3.41%) PMO Manager
13 11 (3.13%) PMO Planner
13 11 (3.13%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.70%) Middleware
2 5 (1.42%) ADO
3 2 (0.57%) .NET
4 1 (0.28%) FHIR
4 1 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.83%) Onboarding
1 17 (4.83%) Product Ownership
1 17 (4.83%) Virtual Team
2 15 (4.26%) PMI
3 13 (3.69%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.70%) Life Science
6 6 (1.70%) Operational Technology
6 6 (1.70%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.42%) FMCG
8 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.85%) Replication
10 2 (0.57%) CCTV
10 2 (0.57%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.57%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.42%) Linux
1 5 (1.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (49.72%) Project Management
2 170 (48.30%) Agile
3 159 (45.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 124 (35.23%) PRINCE2
5 121 (34.38%) Project Delivery
6 79 (22.44%) Waterfall
7 75 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (19.32%) Decision-Making
9 66 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (17.90%) DevOps
11 62 (17.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 57 (16.19%) Business Intelligence
13 49 (13.92%) Change Control
14 47 (13.35%) Change Management
15 43 (12.22%) Migration
16 41 (11.65%) Budget Management
17 39 (11.08%) Project Planning
18 38 (10.80%) Dependency Management
19 37 (10.51%) Risk Management
20 36 (10.23%) Programme Governance
Programming Languages
1 3 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 3 (0.85%) Python
1 3 (0.85%) SQL
1 3 (0.85%) VBA
2 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 143 (40.63%) Degree
2 99 (28.13%) Security Cleared
3 64 (18.18%) PMI Certification
4 56 (15.91%) SC Cleared
5 54 (15.34%) PMP
6 47 (13.35%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 5 (1.42%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.42%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.14%) CISA
11 4 (1.14%) CISSP
11 4 (1.14%) RIBA
12 3 (0.85%) APMP
12 3 (0.85%) CAPM
12 3 (0.85%) MBA
13 2 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.57%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (38.92%) PMO
2 17 (4.83%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.83%) QA
3 12 (3.41%) P3O
4 7 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.14%) GDPR
6 3 (0.85%) NIST
7 2 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.57%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.28%) GxP
8 1 (0.28%) HL7
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 167 (47.44%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.94%) SAP
3 29 (8.24%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.55%) Oracle
5 11 (3.13%) Planview
6 6 (1.70%) Adobe
6 6 (1.70%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.42%) Wrike
8 4 (1.14%) Google
8 4 (1.14%) IFS
8 4 (1.14%) Xactly
9 3 (0.85%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.85%) NEC
10 2 (0.57%) Progress
10 2 (0.57%) Sage
10 2 (0.57%) VMware
10 2 (0.57%) Workday
11 1 (0.28%) BeyondTrust
11 1 (0.28%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.28%) Snow