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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 300 347
Rank change year-on-year +23 +47 -40
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 402 233 269
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 0.79% 0.60%
As % of the Applications category 13.89% 9.96% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 158 172
10th Percentile £350 £254 £276
25th Percentile £425 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £571 £600
90th Percentile £738 £658 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £460
% change year-on-year +17.65% -7.60% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 14
10th Percentile £24.57 - £26.66
25th Percentile £25.47 £31.25 £27.94
Median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% -10.96% -26.16%
75th Percentile £37.07 £40.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £46.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% -13.33% -31.82%

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 2,895 2,339 3,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.82% 7.91% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 1,429 1,940
10th Percentile £205 £176 £159
25th Percentile £319 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +21.43% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 217 631
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.84 £11.50
25th Percentile £15.55 £16.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.91 £26.34 £19.38
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +35.92% -48.33%
75th Percentile £27.61 £46.30 £43.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £76.25 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.13 £17.80
% change year-on-year -29.95% +52.39% -50.56%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +30 369 £511 +2.97% 86
UK excluding London +15 253 £500 +17.65% 78
London +7 129 £550 +4.76% 17
Work from Home -1 103 £543 +4.83% 54
South East +30 93 £500 -1.23% 28
South West +21 61 £725 +126.56% 4
Midlands -55 45 £463 +8.82% 17
North of England -61 33 £450 +11.52% 16
West Midlands -56 27 £500 +17.65% 11
East Midlands -24 18 £354 -18.62% 6
Scotland +9 17 £450 -10.00% 10
Yorkshire -49 16 £488 +62.50% 4
North West -40 15 £418 +3.59% 11
East of England -30 10 £538 +13.16% 6
Wales -3 2 £433 -8.84% 1
North East -14 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 (28.36%) Confluence
2 46 (11.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.75%) MS Project Server
5 2 (0.50%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 123 (30.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (21.64%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (12.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (5.22%) MS Visio
5 12 (2.99%) Trello
6 9 (2.24%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.25%) InDesign
8 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 29 (7.21%) Primavera
2 12 (2.99%) Loan IQ
2 12 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.24%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.75%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.50%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.50%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
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
Cloud Services
1 59 (14.68%) Power Platform
2 46 (11.44%) Azure
3 24 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (4.23%) AWS
6 15 (3.73%) Smartsheet
7 13 (3.23%) Asana
7 13 (3.23%) GCP
8 9 (2.24%) SaaS
9 6 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.24%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.00%) Collibra
12 3 (0.75%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.75%) Google Ads
12 3 (0.75%) Miro
12 3 (0.75%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.50%) OCI
13 2 (0.50%) OneDrive
14 1 (0.25%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.24%) WAN
2 4 (1.00%) LAN
2 4 (1.00%) VPN
3 3 (0.75%) Softphone
3 3 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.50%) NAS
4 2 (0.50%) SAN
5 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.25%) HTTP
5 1 (0.25%) Internet
5 1 (0.25%) MPLS
5 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (14.18%) Power BI
2 9 (2.24%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (1.24%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.00%) Big Data
4 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.00%) EDMS
4 4 (1.00%) Hadoop
4 4 (1.00%) Metadata
4 4 (1.00%) Tableau
5 2 (0.50%) 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
1 226 (56.22%) JIRA
2 4 (1.00%) 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 (52.24%) Social Skills
2 178 (44.28%) Finance
3 123 (30.60%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (9.95%) Organisational Skills
5 32 (7.96%) Military
6 31 (7.71%) Public Sector
7 30 (7.46%) Banking
8 15 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (3.73%) Retail
9 14 (3.48%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.99%) Legal
11 10 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (2.49%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.99%) Corporate Banking
12 8 (1.99%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.00%) Local Government
13 4 (1.00%) Publishing
14 3 (0.75%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 130 (32.34%) Project Manager
2 62 (15.42%) Analyst
3 31 (7.71%) Lead
3 31 (7.71%) Senior
4 30 (7.46%) Architect
4 30 (7.46%) PMO Analyst
4 30 (7.46%) Service Architect
5 29 (7.21%) Project Planner
6 21 (5.22%) SAP Manager
7 19 (4.73%) Senior Manager
8 16 (3.98%) PMO Lead
9 15 (3.73%) Coordinator
9 15 (3.73%) Project Officer
10 13 (3.23%) Programme Manager
10 13 (3.23%) Project Coordinator
11 12 (2.99%) Engagement Manager
11 12 (2.99%) Migration Analyst
11 12 (2.99%) Technical Manager
11 12 (2.99%) Transformation Analyst
12 11 (2.74%) Programme Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.74%) Middleware
3 5 (1.24%) ADO
4 3 (0.75%) SOAP
5 2 (0.50%) REST
5 2 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.50%) 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 (11.44%) Product Ownership
2 37 (9.20%) Onboarding
3 23 (5.72%) Management Information System
4 21 (5.22%) PMI
5 16 (3.98%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.98%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.74%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.74%) Tandem
8 6 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.24%) NHS
9 5 (1.24%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.00%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.75%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.50%) FMCG
12 2 (0.50%) Life Science
12 2 (0.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.00%) Windows
2 2 (0.50%) Linux
2 2 (0.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (53.73%) Project Management
2 209 (51.99%) Agile
3 154 (38.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 119 (29.60%) PRINCE2
5 117 (29.10%) Project Delivery
6 95 (23.63%) Change Management
7 89 (22.14%) Waterfall
8 79 (19.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 76 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
10 73 (18.16%) Decision-Making
11 65 (16.17%) Migration
12 64 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (14.43%) Business Intelligence
14 57 (14.18%) Budget Management
15 54 (13.43%) Project Planning
16 53 (13.18%) Risk Management
17 44 (10.95%) DevOps
17 44 (10.95%) Project Governance
17 44 (10.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 43 (10.70%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.99%) SQL
2 4 (1.00%) Korn
3 3 (0.75%) Python
4 2 (0.50%) ABAP
4 2 (0.50%) 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
1 199 (49.50%) Degree
2 121 (30.10%) Security Cleared
3 98 (24.38%) SC Cleared
4 67 (16.67%) PMI Certification
5 63 (15.67%) PMP
6 30 (7.46%) TOGAF Certification
7 21 (5.22%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.49%) APMP
8 10 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.49%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.24%) MBA
10 8 (1.99%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (1.74%) CISSP
12 6 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (1.24%) CISM
14 3 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
14 3 (0.75%) MCSE
14 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.50%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (35.57%) PMO
2 35 (8.71%) QA
3 21 (5.22%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.24%) P3O
5 8 (1.99%) Basel III
6 7 (1.74%) GDPR
6 7 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.49%) GRC
8 5 (1.24%) NIST
9 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.50%) 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 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (7.46%) OPNET
2 3 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.75%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 124 (30.85%) Microsoft
2 57 (14.18%) ServiceNow
3 44 (10.95%) SAP
4 36 (8.96%) Atlassian
5 32 (7.96%) Oracle
6 30 (7.46%) Remedy
7 13 (3.23%) Planview
8 7 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.24%) Cisco
10 4 (1.00%) Arista
11 2 (0.50%) Adobe
11 2 (0.50%) 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%) NEC
12 1 (0.25%) Nokia
12 1 (0.25%) Perforce
12 1 (0.25%) Progress