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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 310 323
Rank change year-on-year +45 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 394 222 295
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 0.72% 0.65%
As % of the Applications category 13.93% 9.30% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 143 203
10th Percentile £347 £300 £276
25th Percentile £425 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £600
90th Percentile £738 £698 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £457
% change year-on-year +17.65% -7.10% +1.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 11
10th Percentile - £26.25 £26.66
25th Percentile £25.47 £31.25 £28.33
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -23.53% +30.69%
75th Percentile £62.57 £38.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £40.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.43 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +21.32% -23.53% +30.61%

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 2,828 2,388 3,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.25% 7.73% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,664 1,397 2,077
10th Percentile £203 £170 £163
25th Percentile £313 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -8.83%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +21.43% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 198 513
10th Percentile £12.93 £15.56 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.81 £14.14
Median hourly rate £19.10 £27.13 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.59% +35.63% -38.46%
75th Percentile £29.61 £43.75 £41.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £77.18 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £27.13 £19.50
% change year-on-year -30.43% +39.10% -40.91%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +42 352 £502 +0.30% 86
UK excluding London +46 258 £500 +17.65% 67
London -16 114 £550 +1.85% 30
Work from Home +33 110 £535 +6.57% 43
South East +47 90 £500 +11.11% 21
South West +27 59 £725 +126.56% 10
Midlands -35 45 £475 +2.70% 9
North of England -44 36 £441 +31.13% 13
West Midlands -46 25 £500 -0.20% 8
Scotland +20 22 £440 -7.37% 6
Yorkshire -42 21 £441 +47.08% 4
East Midlands -17 20 £358 -17.70% 1
North West -28 14 £418 +15.31% 8
East of England -19 10 £538 +13.16% 7
Wales -1 4 £308 -35.26% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East -14 1 £450 - 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
1 107 (27.16%) Confluence
2 45 (11.42%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.76%) MS Project Server
4 2 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 115 (29.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (23.86%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (13.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (5.58%) MS Visio
5 16 (4.06%) Trello
6 4 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.25%) InDesign
7 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (5.58%) Primavera
2 11 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.03%) Loan IQ
4 5 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.51%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.51%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.51%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.25%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 54 (13.71%) Power Platform
2 43 (10.91%) Azure
3 21 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (4.06%) AWS
4 16 (4.06%) Smartsheet
5 13 (3.30%) GCP
6 11 (2.79%) Asana
7 9 (2.28%) SaaS
8 8 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.27%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.02%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.76%) Collibra
11 3 (0.76%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.76%) Miro
11 3 (0.76%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.76%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.51%) Contentstack
12 2 (0.51%) OCI
12 2 (0.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.28%) WAN
2 4 (1.02%) LAN
2 4 (1.02%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.02%) VPN
3 3 (0.76%) Softphone
4 2 (0.51%) NAS
4 2 (0.51%) SAN
5 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.25%) HTTP
5 1 (0.25%) MPLS
5 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (13.20%) Power BI
2 9 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (1.52%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.02%) EDMS
5 3 (0.76%) Big Data
5 3 (0.76%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.76%) Metadata
5 3 (0.76%) Tableau
6 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.51%) Power Query
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.25%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 206 (52.28%) JIRA
2 3 (0.76%) 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
1 207 (52.54%) Social Skills
2 176 (44.67%) Finance
3 119 (30.20%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.91%) Organisational Skills
5 33 (8.38%) Military
6 31 (7.87%) Banking
6 31 (7.87%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.30%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.05%) Legal
8 12 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.79%) Retail
10 9 (2.28%) Retail Banking
11 8 (2.03%) Corporate Banking
11 8 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.02%) Billing
12 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.02%) Local Government
13 3 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 132 (33.50%) Project Manager
2 57 (14.47%) Analyst
3 32 (8.12%) Architect
4 30 (7.61%) Lead
4 30 (7.61%) Service Architect
5 28 (7.11%) Senior
6 27 (6.85%) PMO Analyst
6 27 (6.85%) Project Planner
7 19 (4.82%) Coordinator
8 18 (4.57%) SAP Manager
9 17 (4.31%) Senior Manager
10 16 (4.06%) PMO Lead
11 15 (3.81%) Technical Manager
12 14 (3.55%) Project Coordinator
13 13 (3.30%) Planning Manager
13 13 (3.30%) Programme Manager
14 12 (3.05%) Engagement Manager
14 12 (3.05%) Project Officer
15 11 (2.79%) Business Analyst
16 10 (2.54%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.78%) ADO
3 6 (1.52%) Middleware
4 3 (0.76%) SOAP
5 2 (0.51%) React
5 2 (0.51%) REST
5 2 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.51%) 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 48 (12.18%) Product Ownership
2 34 (8.63%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 20 (5.08%) PMI
4 16 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.55%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.79%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.78%) NHS
8 6 (1.52%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.27%) Tandem
10 3 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.76%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.76%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.51%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.51%) Life Science
11 2 (0.51%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.51%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.51%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.27%) Windows
2 2 (0.51%) Linux
2 2 (0.51%) Unix
3 1 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (53.81%) Project Management
2 199 (50.51%) Agile
3 144 (36.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 110 (27.92%) PRINCE2
5 106 (26.90%) Project Delivery
6 96 (24.37%) Change Management
7 84 (21.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 82 (20.81%) Waterfall
9 74 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (15.23%) Risk Management
12 59 (14.97%) Decision-Making
12 59 (14.97%) Migration
13 54 (13.71%) Project Planning
14 53 (13.45%) Budget Management
15 52 (13.20%) Business Intelligence
16 43 (10.91%) Scrum
17 42 (10.66%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 41 (10.41%) Analytical Thinking
18 41 (10.41%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 13 (3.30%) SQL
2 5 (1.27%) Korn
3 3 (0.76%) Python
4 2 (0.51%) ABAP
4 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.25%) Java
5 1 (0.25%) Perl
5 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 192 (48.73%) Degree
2 117 (29.70%) Security Cleared
3 99 (25.13%) SC Cleared
4 67 (17.01%) PMI Certification
4 67 (17.01%) PMP
5 30 (7.61%) TOGAF Certification
6 16 (4.06%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.54%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.28%) APMP
8 9 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.28%) MBA
9 8 (2.03%) SAFe Agilist
10 6 (1.52%) CISSP
10 6 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (1.27%) CISM
12 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.76%) MCSE
13 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (31.98%) PMO
2 33 (8.38%) QA
3 17 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.28%) P3O
5 8 (2.03%) Basel III
6 7 (1.78%) GDPR
6 7 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.52%) GRC
8 5 (1.27%) NIST
9 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.51%) PSD2
11 2 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.25%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 4 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (7.61%) OPNET
2 3 (0.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.76%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.25%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 130 (32.99%) Microsoft
2 59 (14.97%) ServiceNow
3 50 (12.69%) SAP
4 36 (9.14%) Atlassian
5 33 (8.38%) Oracle
6 30 (7.61%) Remedy
7 12 (3.05%) Planview
8 7 (1.78%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.27%) Cisco
10 4 (1.02%) Arista
11 2 (0.51%) Adobe
11 2 (0.51%) 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%) Nokia
12 1 (0.25%) Perforce
12 1 (0.25%) Progress
12 1 (0.25%) Siemens