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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 341 304
Rank change year-on-year +75 -37 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 383 220 327
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 0.64% 0.75%
As % of the Applications category 13.13% 8.94% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 143 234
10th Percentile £367 £319 £275
25th Percentile £449 £408 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £668 £600 £576
90th Percentile £738 £723 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.17% -0.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 5
10th Percentile - £20.75 -
25th Percentile £25.47 £30.31 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.43 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.32% -9.72% +10.77%
75th Percentile £62.57 £38.44 £43.86
90th Percentile £93.75 £41.13 £52.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +73.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 2,916 2,462 3,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.93% 7.16% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,673 1,440 2,127
10th Percentile £195 £164 £163
25th Percentile £304 £250 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £403 £402
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% +0.25% -9.66%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £661 £638 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £365 £350
% change year-on-year +13.01% +4.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 224 269
10th Percentile £12.82 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.33 £15.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £24.35 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.41% -9.83% +6.89%
75th Percentile £30.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £57.80 £68.50 £50.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.91 £24.18 £26.39
% change year-on-year -17.66% -8.37% +5.56%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 +67 340 £528 +4.40% 87
UK excluding London +45 238 £500 +11.11% 81
London +20 124 £550 -1.35% 17
Work from Home +41 109 £535 +3.38% 37
South East +24 61 £500 +8.11% 27
South West +42 60 £725 +126.56% 8
Midlands -8 50 £514 +14.22% 17
North of England -31 40 £463 +31.67% 16
West Midlands -18 37 £540 +8.00% 9
Yorkshire -21 28 £464 +54.58% 11
Scotland +18 21 £450 -5.26%
East Midlands -16 13 £448 +5.29% 8
North West -33 12 £458 +30.25% 5
East of England -18 7 £408 -7.49% 10
Wales +5 5 £308 -41.43% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 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 97 (25.33%) Confluence
2 50 (13.05%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.04%) CMS
4 2 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 110 (28.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (24.28%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (14.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (7.31%) MS Visio
5 20 (5.22%) Trello
6 3 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.26%) InDesign
7 1 (0.26%) Notion
7 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (4.96%) Primavera
2 9 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.31%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (1.31%) SAP ERP
3 5 (1.31%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.78%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.52%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.26%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 41 (10.70%) Power Platform
2 34 (8.88%) Azure
3 24 (6.27%) Smartsheet
4 19 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.66%) Asana
6 13 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.87%) AWS
7 11 (2.87%) SaaS
8 9 (2.35%) GCP
9 8 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.04%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.04%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.04%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.78%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.78%) Miro
11 3 (0.78%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.78%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.52%) Contentstack
12 2 (0.52%) OCI
12 2 (0.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.57%) Firewall
2 5 (1.31%) VPN
2 5 (1.31%) WAN
3 4 (1.04%) LAN
3 4 (1.04%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (0.78%) Softphone
5 2 (0.52%) Network Security
6 1 (0.26%) Broadband
6 1 (0.26%) DNS
6 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.26%) HTTP
6 1 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.26%) MPLS
6 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.18%) Power BI
2 8 (2.09%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (1.83%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.04%) EDMS
4 4 (1.04%) Tableau
5 3 (0.78%) Power Query
6 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.26%) DTS
7 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.26%) Metadata
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 189 (49.35%) JIRA
2 2 (0.52%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.26%) Ant
3 1 (0.26%) JUnit
3 1 (0.26%) LSMW
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.26%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.26%) Toad
General
1 207 (54.05%) Social Skills
2 150 (39.16%) Finance
3 100 (26.11%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.92%) Organisational Skills
5 33 (8.62%) Military
6 24 (6.27%) Banking
6 24 (6.27%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.44%) Legal
8 16 (4.18%) Manufacturing
8 16 (4.18%) Telecoms
9 15 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.09%) Marketing
13 6 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.57%) Retail
14 4 (1.04%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.04%) Billing
14 4 (1.04%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 139 (36.29%) Project Manager
2 38 (9.92%) Analyst
3 33 (8.62%) Architect
3 33 (8.62%) Senior
4 30 (7.83%) Service Architect
5 28 (7.31%) Lead
6 22 (5.74%) Senior Manager
7 16 (4.18%) Project Planner
7 16 (4.18%) Senior Project Manager
8 15 (3.92%) Coordinator
8 15 (3.92%) Programme Manager
9 14 (3.66%) IT Manager
9 14 (3.66%) Technical Manager
10 13 (3.39%) PMO Analyst
11 12 (3.13%) IT Project Manager
11 12 (3.13%) Planning Manager
11 12 (3.13%) PMO Lead
11 12 (3.13%) Programme Planner
11 12 (3.13%) Project Officer
12 10 (2.61%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.83%) Middleware
3 4 (1.04%) SOAP
4 2 (0.52%) ADO
4 2 (0.52%) React
4 2 (0.52%) REST
4 2 (0.52%) Web Services
4 2 (0.52%) XML
5 1 (0.26%) .NET
5 1 (0.26%) EDI
5 1 (0.26%) FHIR
5 1 (0.26%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.26%) Kafka
5 1 (0.26%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.26%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.44%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.53%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.70%) PMI
5 17 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.92%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.87%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.83%) NHS
10 6 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.57%) Educational Technology
11 4 (1.04%) SCADA
12 3 (0.78%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.78%) Learning Management System
13 2 (0.52%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.52%) Derivative
13 2 (0.52%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.52%) Life Science
13 2 (0.52%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.31%) Windows
2 3 (0.78%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) AIX
4 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (50.13%) Project Management
2 180 (47.00%) Agile
3 124 (32.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 108 (28.20%) PRINCE2
5 96 (25.07%) Project Delivery
6 91 (23.76%) Change Management
7 87 (22.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 67 (17.49%) Waterfall
9 62 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (13.05%) Project Planning
12 48 (12.53%) Migration
13 47 (12.27%) Risk Management
14 43 (11.23%) Decision-Making
15 41 (10.70%) Budget Management
16 39 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
16 39 (10.18%) ITIL
16 39 (10.18%) Programme Management
17 38 (9.92%) ERP
18 37 (9.66%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.87%) SQL
2 5 (1.31%) Korn
3 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.26%) ABAP
4 1 (0.26%) Java
4 1 (0.26%) Perl
4 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 184 (48.04%) Degree
2 99 (25.85%) Security Cleared
3 81 (21.15%) SC Cleared
4 70 (18.28%) PMI Certification
5 67 (17.49%) PMP
6 30 (7.83%) TOGAF Certification
7 15 (3.92%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.61%) APMP
9 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 5 (1.31%) CISM
10 5 (1.31%) CISSP
10 5 (1.31%) HNC
11 4 (1.04%) MBA
11 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.78%) ISEB
12 3 (0.78%) MCP
12 3 (0.78%) MCSE
12 3 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (27.68%) PMO
2 23 (6.01%) QA
3 12 (3.13%) P3O
4 8 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.31%) NIST
7 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.04%) GDPR
7 4 (1.04%) GRC
7 4 (1.04%) SLA
8 3 (0.78%) Basel III
9 2 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.26%) GMP
10 1 (0.26%) HL7
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.26%) Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (7.83%) OPNET
2 3 (0.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.78%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.26%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.26%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 128 (33.42%) Microsoft
2 56 (14.62%) ServiceNow
3 50 (13.05%) SAP
4 36 (9.40%) Atlassian
5 30 (7.83%) Oracle
5 30 (7.83%) Remedy
6 13 (3.39%) Planview
7 9 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.57%) Workday
9 5 (1.31%) Cisco
10 4 (1.04%) Arista
10 4 (1.04%) Google
10 4 (1.04%) Progress
11 3 (0.78%) Adobe
12 2 (0.52%) Databricks
12 2 (0.52%) HP
12 2 (0.52%) Siemens
12 2 (0.52%) Sitecore
13 1 (0.26%) Terracotta
13 1 (0.26%) Zoho
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