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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 285 352
Rank change year-on-year -62 +67 -73
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 352 290 215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.88% 0.55%
As % of the Applications category 12.41% 10.29% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 203 115
10th Percentile £331 £350 £354
25th Percentile £400 £409 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +2.94% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £701 £695 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 11
10th Percentile £28.65 £24.40 £20.75
25th Percentile £30.00 £36.40 £23.50
Median hourly rate £38.03 £46.30 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +30.42% -32.38%
75th Percentile £51.56 £48.15 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £53.30 £53.00
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 2,837 2,819 2,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.32% 8.55% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,543 1,593 1,421
10th Percentile £213 £200 £163
25th Percentile £325 £300 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £525
90th Percentile £638 £650 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 370 390
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.60 £11.79
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.63 £17.90
Median % change year-on-year - +26.42% -22.98%
75th Percentile £36.70 £34.92 £43.75
90th Percentile £71.00 £60.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £22.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year -2.27% +35.55% -24.51%

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 12 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 12 August 2026.

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 12 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 -48 328 £510 -3.77% 180
UK excluding London -75 192 £500 - 151
London -47 134 £558 +0.04% 63
Work from Home -40 90 £481 -12.50% 80
South East -20 75 £525 +5.00% 39
North of England -68 37 £492 +5.70% 25
Midlands -63 34 £469 -13.43% 24
South West -32 30 £410 -8.89% 24
West Midlands -64 25 £475 -12.16% 18
Yorkshire -44 18 £538 +15.90% 9
North West -42 16 £500 +5.26% 14
East Midlands -1 9 £425 -22.73% 6
East of England -17 8 £566 +36.04% 11
Scotland -21 8 £513 +5.13% 20
North East -41 3 £450 +36.36% 2
Wales -13 1 £450 +15.76% 4

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 59 (16.76%) Confluence
2 56 (15.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 144 (40.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (19.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 52 (14.77%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (4.55%) MS Visio
5 11 (3.13%) 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%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.28%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 74 (21.02%) Azure
2 59 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
3 56 (15.91%) Power Platform
4 31 (8.81%) Smartsheet
5 26 (7.39%) 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%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.28%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.28%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.27%) Firewall
2 7 (1.99%) WAN
3 5 (1.42%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.14%) NAS
4 4 (1.14%) SAN
5 3 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.57%) DNS
6 2 (0.57%) FTP
6 2 (0.57%) Internet
6 2 (0.57%) IPv4
6 2 (0.57%) IPv6
6 2 (0.57%) LAN
6 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.57%) Wireless
7 1 (0.28%) 4G
7 1 (0.28%) 5G
7 1 (0.28%) Broadband
7 1 (0.28%) DHCP
7 1 (0.28%) MPLS
7 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (15.91%) 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%) 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
Development Applications
1 147 (41.76%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 157 (44.60%) Finance
2 148 (42.05%) Social Skills
3 80 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (17.05%) Organisational Skills
5 30 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.25%) Banking
7 18 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (4.83%) Manufacturing
9 15 (4.26%) Retail
10 13 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (3.41%) Aerospace
12 11 (3.13%) Legal
13 9 (2.56%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.70%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.42%) Advertising
16 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (1.42%) Public Speaking
17 4 (1.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 119 (33.81%) Project Manager
2 45 (12.78%) Senior
3 33 (9.38%) Analyst
4 26 (7.39%) Lead
4 26 (7.39%) Senior Manager
5 24 (6.82%) IT Manager
6 23 (6.53%) Project Officer
7 21 (5.97%) IT Project Manager
8 20 (5.68%) Senior Project Manager
9 19 (5.40%) Coordinator
10 18 (5.11%) PMO Analyst
11 17 (4.83%) Programme Manager
11 17 (4.83%) Project Coordinator
11 17 (4.83%) Project Planner
12 16 (4.55%) Programme Planner
13 15 (4.26%) PMO Manager
14 14 (3.98%) Project Control Officer
15 13 (3.69%) Technical Manager
16 11 (3.13%) PMO Planner
16 11 (3.13%) Support Officer
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 16 (4.55%) Onboarding
1 16 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.26%) PMI
2 15 (4.26%) Virtual Team
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
7 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.42%) FMCG
7 5 (1.42%) Reinsurance
8 3 (0.85%) Replication
9 2 (0.57%) CCTV
9 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.57%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.57%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.42%) Linux
1 5 (1.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (48.30%) Project Management
2 167 (47.44%) Agile
3 162 (46.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 121 (34.38%) PRINCE2
5 120 (34.09%) Project Delivery
6 78 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 78 (22.16%) Waterfall
7 67 (19.03%) Decision-Making
8 63 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (17.61%) DevOps
9 62 (17.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 54 (15.34%) Business Intelligence
11 48 (13.64%) Change Control
12 46 (13.07%) Change Management
13 42 (11.93%) Migration
14 41 (11.65%) Project Planning
15 40 (11.36%) Budget Management
16 37 (10.51%) Dependency Management
16 37 (10.51%) Risk Management
17 35 (9.94%) 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
1 140 (39.77%) Degree
2 99 (28.13%) Security Cleared
3 63 (17.90%) PMI Certification
4 56 (15.91%) SC Cleared
5 52 (14.77%) PMP
6 46 (13.07%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 13 (3.69%) 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%) CAPM
12 3 (0.85%) MBA
13 2 (0.57%) APMP
13 2 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.57%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (38.64%) PMO
2 17 (4.83%) QA
3 16 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.41%) P3O
5 7 (1.99%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.85%) 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
1 173 (49.15%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.51%) SAP
3 30 (8.52%) 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%) Atlassian
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%) Snow