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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 280 365
Rank change year-on-year -76 +85 -90
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 350 293 212
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.89% 0.54%
As % of the Applications category 12.58% 10.40% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 202 115
10th Percentile £340 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £504
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +1.75% +0.74%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £580
90th Percentile £705 £675 £680
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 2,783 2,818 2,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.27% 8.56% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,525 1,591 1,431
10th Percentile £213 £200 £163
25th Percentile £325 £296 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £523
90th Percentile £638 £650 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 368 407
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.96 £11.79
25th Percentile £16.09 £15.84 £14.84
Median hourly rate £22.68 £22.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +25.72% -28.00%
75th Percentile £37.02 £34.76 £43.20
90th Percentile £74.25 £59.51 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year +2.86% +35.55% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -57 326 £500 -4.76% 129
UK excluding London -64 193 £500 - 110
London -44 131 £575 +8.49% 43
Work from Home -43 88 £475 -13.20% 67
South East -16 79 £525 +5.00% 29
Midlands -62 35 £469 -13.43% 26
North of England -58 34 £450 -3.23% 18
South West -33 31 £410 -8.89% 13
West Midlands -73 26 £475 -12.16% 14
North West -47 17 £492 +3.47% 8
Yorkshire -47 14 £438 -5.66% 8
East Midlands -2 9 £425 -22.73% 12
Scotland -23 9 £500 - 12
East of England -17 7 £566 +36.04% 6
North East -39 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 (16.29%) Confluence
2 51 (14.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 143 (40.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (19.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 51 (14.57%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (4.29%) MS Visio
5 12 (3.43%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (1.14%) Trello
7 3 (0.86%) Windchill
8 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 29 (8.29%) Primavera
2 13 (3.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.71%) SAP EWM
4 4 (1.14%) Loan IQ
4 4 (1.14%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.86%) Changepoint
5 3 (0.86%) 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 (0.29%) Actimize
7 1 (0.29%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.29%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.29%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 72 (20.57%) Azure
2 62 (17.71%) Power Platform
3 56 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (8.57%) Smartsheet
5 25 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.86%) AWS
7 8 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (2.00%) SaaS
9 5 (1.43%) Asana
10 3 (0.86%) GitHub
10 3 (0.86%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.86%) IaaS
10 3 (0.86%) OCI
10 3 (0.86%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.57%) Azure AI
11 2 (0.57%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.57%) GCP
12 1 (0.29%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.29%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.29%) Firewall
1 8 (2.29%) WAN
2 5 (1.43%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.14%) NAS
3 4 (1.14%) SAN
4 2 (0.57%) DNS
4 2 (0.57%) FTP
4 2 (0.57%) LAN
4 2 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.57%) Wireless
5 1 (0.29%) 4G
5 1 (0.29%) 5G
5 1 (0.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.29%) Internet
5 1 (0.29%) IPv4
5 1 (0.29%) IPv6
5 1 (0.29%) MPLS
5 1 (0.29%) Network Security
5 1 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (17.71%) Power BI
2 7 (2.00%) Power Query
3 5 (1.43%) 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 (0.29%) Big Data
5 1 (0.29%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.29%) DataStage
5 1 (0.29%) EDMS
5 1 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 148 (42.29%) JIRA
2 1 (0.29%) Git
2 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 159 (45.43%) Finance
2 146 (41.71%) Social Skills
3 80 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (15.71%) Organisational Skills
5 31 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.57%) Banking
7 18 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (4.86%) Manufacturing
9 15 (4.29%) Retail
10 12 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.14%) Aerospace
12 10 (2.86%) Legal
13 7 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (2.00%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.43%) Advertising
15 5 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.43%) Public Speaking
16 4 (1.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 120 (34.29%) Project Manager
2 45 (12.86%) Senior
3 37 (10.57%) Analyst
4 27 (7.71%) Senior Manager
5 26 (7.43%) Lead
6 22 (6.29%) PMO Analyst
6 22 (6.29%) Project Officer
7 21 (6.00%) IT Manager
7 21 (6.00%) Senior Project Manager
8 19 (5.43%) Coordinator
9 18 (5.14%) IT Project Manager
10 17 (4.86%) Project Coordinator
11 16 (4.57%) Programme Manager
11 16 (4.57%) Programme Planner
11 16 (4.57%) Project Planner
12 15 (4.29%) Project Control Officer
13 12 (3.43%) PMO Manager
13 12 (3.43%) Technical Manager
14 11 (3.14%) SC Cleared Project Manager
15 10 (2.86%) PMO Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.71%) Middleware
2 5 (1.43%) ADO
3 2 (0.57%) .NET
4 1 (0.29%) FHIR
4 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.14%) Onboarding
1 18 (5.14%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.86%) Virtual Team
3 16 (4.57%) PMI
4 13 (3.71%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.71%) Life Science
7 6 (1.71%) Operational Technology
7 6 (1.71%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.43%) FMCG
9 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.86%) Replication
11 2 (0.57%) CCTV
11 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.57%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.57%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.57%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.43%) Linux
1 5 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (50.00%) Project Management
2 167 (47.71%) Agile
3 159 (45.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 119 (34.00%) PRINCE2
5 117 (33.43%) Project Delivery
6 77 (22.00%) Waterfall
7 76 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 70 (20.00%) Decision-Making
9 67 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (18.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 60 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
11 60 (17.14%) DevOps
12 50 (14.29%) Change Management
13 49 (14.00%) Change Control
14 44 (12.57%) Migration
15 41 (11.71%) Budget Management
16 38 (10.86%) Dependency Management
17 37 (10.57%) Project Planning
18 36 (10.29%) Programme Governance
19 35 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 3 (0.86%) Python
1 3 (0.86%) SQL
1 3 (0.86%) VBA
2 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 139 (39.71%) Degree
2 99 (28.29%) Security Cleared
3 61 (17.43%) PMI Certification
4 56 (16.00%) SC Cleared
5 51 (14.57%) PMP
6 46 (13.14%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.43%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.43%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.14%) CISA
10 4 (1.14%) CISSP
10 4 (1.14%) RIBA
11 3 (0.86%) APMP
11 3 (0.86%) CAPM
11 3 (0.86%) MBA
11 3 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.57%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (39.14%) PMO
2 19 (5.43%) QA
3 17 (4.86%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.43%) P3O
5 7 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.14%) GDPR
7 3 (0.86%) NIST
8 2 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.57%) SLA
9 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.29%) Basel III
9 1 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.29%) GxP
9 1 (0.29%) HL7
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (2.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.29%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 163 (46.57%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.29%) SAP
3 30 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.57%) Oracle
5 11 (3.14%) Planview
6 6 (1.71%) Adobe
6 6 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.43%) Wrike
8 4 (1.14%) Google
8 4 (1.14%) IFS
8 4 (1.14%) Xactly
9 3 (0.86%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.86%) NEC
10 2 (0.57%) Progress
10 2 (0.57%) Sage
10 2 (0.57%) VMware
10 2 (0.57%) Workday
11 1 (0.29%) BeyondTrust
11 1 (0.29%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.29%) Snow