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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 292 356
Rank change year-on-year +14 +64 -52
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 414 244 243
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 0.83% 0.56%
As % of the Applications category 14.37% 10.00% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 163 153
10th Percentile £344 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £383 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £625
90th Percentile £738 £637 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 11
10th Percentile £23.68 - £26.66
25th Percentile £25.47 £31.25 £26.96
Median hourly rate £29.00 £38.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +2.67% -24.14%
75th Percentile £30.00 £45.66 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.75 £46.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -20.27% -12.94% -22.73%

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 2,882 2,440 3,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.29% 8.33% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,480 1,766
10th Percentile £220 £188 £161
25th Percentile £339 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 237 628
10th Percentile £13.13 £14.20 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.06 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £24.22 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.98% +36.07% -49.14%
75th Percentile £32.69 £44.50 £39.94
90th Percentile £68.38 £74.25 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.71 £24.22 £16.06
% change year-on-year -18.64% +50.81% -49.47%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 +18 387 £514 +3.52% 68
UK excluding London +3 246 £500 +11.11% 53
London -5 141 £556 +5.81% 22
Work from Home +13 113 £530 +1.53% 33
South East +25 98 £500 -1.23% 19
South West +18 60 £725 +132.00% 3
Midlands -59 38 £425 - 13
North of England -63 37 £441 +9.36% 11
West Midlands -63 23 £500 +8.11% 8
North West -39 22 £433 +7.25% 8
East Midlands -24 15 £356 -16.24% 5
Yorkshire -50 12 £425 +41.67% 2
Scotland -4 11 £425 -15.00% 3
East of England -29 9 £600 +33.33% 4
North East -19 3 £450 - 1

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
1 105 (25.36%) Confluence
2 47 (11.35%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.72%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.24%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 136 (32.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (14.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (3.62%) MS Visio
5 12 (2.90%) Trello
6 9 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.24%) InDesign
8 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.24%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 28 (6.76%) Primavera
2 17 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (2.90%) Loan IQ
4 5 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.97%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.72%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.48%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.48%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.24%) Actimize
8 1 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 62 (14.98%) Power Platform
2 59 (14.25%) Azure
3 40 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (4.59%) Smartsheet
6 14 (3.38%) AWS
7 12 (2.90%) Asana
7 12 (2.90%) SaaS
8 8 (1.93%) GCP
9 6 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.21%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.21%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.97%) Collibra
11 4 (0.97%) OCI
12 3 (0.72%) GitHub
12 3 (0.72%) Google Ads
13 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.48%) Miro
13 2 (0.48%) OneDrive
14 1 (0.24%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.66%) WAN
2 6 (1.45%) Firewall
2 6 (1.45%) NAS
2 6 (1.45%) SAN
3 5 (1.21%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.97%) VPN
5 3 (0.72%) LAN
5 3 (0.72%) Softphone
6 1 (0.24%) DHCP
6 1 (0.24%) DNS
6 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.24%) FTP
6 1 (0.24%) HTTP
6 1 (0.24%) Internet
6 1 (0.24%) MPLS
6 1 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (14.98%) Power BI
2 7 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (1.69%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.97%) Big Data
3 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.97%) Hadoop
3 4 (0.97%) Metadata
3 4 (0.97%) Power Query
4 3 (0.72%) Tableau
5 2 (0.48%) EDMS
5 2 (0.48%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.24%) QlikView
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 231 (55.80%) JIRA
2 4 (0.97%) Git
3 1 (0.24%) Ant
3 1 (0.24%) JUnit
3 1 (0.24%) LSMW
3 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.24%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.24%) Toad
General
1 193 (46.62%) Social Skills
2 173 (41.79%) Finance
3 127 (30.68%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 34 (8.21%) Banking
6 31 (7.49%) Military
6 31 (7.49%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.83%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (4.59%) Retail
9 10 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.42%) Legal
9 10 (2.42%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
10 9 (2.17%) Retail Banking
10 9 (2.17%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.45%) Public Speaking
13 5 (1.21%) Advertising
14 4 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 136 (32.85%) Project Manager
2 67 (16.18%) Analyst
3 40 (9.66%) Senior
4 33 (7.97%) PMO Analyst
5 31 (7.49%) Architect
5 31 (7.49%) Lead
6 30 (7.25%) Project Planner
6 30 (7.25%) Service Architect
7 24 (5.80%) Senior Manager
8 18 (4.35%) SAP Manager
9 17 (4.11%) Project Officer
10 16 (3.86%) Programme Manager
10 16 (3.86%) Technical Manager
11 15 (3.62%) Coordinator
12 14 (3.38%) Programme Planner
12 14 (3.38%) Project Coordinator
12 14 (3.38%) Senior Project Manager
13 13 (3.14%) SC Cleared Project Manager
13 13 (3.14%) Transformation Analyst
14 12 (2.90%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.93%) ADO
2 8 (1.93%) Middleware
3 2 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.24%) FHIR
4 1 (0.24%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.24%) Kafka
4 1 (0.24%) SOAP
4 1 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.76%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.31%) PMI
4 19 (4.59%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.62%) Virtual Team
6 13 (3.14%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.69%) Life Science
7 7 (1.69%) Tandem
8 5 (1.21%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.97%) FMCG
9 4 (0.97%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.97%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.97%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.72%) Replication
11 2 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.17%) Windows
2 5 (1.21%) Linux
3 2 (0.48%) Unix
4 1 (0.24%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (52.90%) Agile
2 214 (51.69%) Project Management
3 152 (36.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 120 (28.99%) Project Delivery
5 118 (28.50%) PRINCE2
6 88 (21.26%) Change Management
7 87 (21.01%) Waterfall
8 82 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (18.60%) Decision-Making
10 74 (17.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 69 (16.67%) Migration
12 68 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 60 (14.49%) Business Intelligence
14 55 (13.29%) Budget Management
14 55 (13.29%) ITIL
15 53 (12.80%) DevOps
15 53 (12.80%) Risk Management
16 51 (12.32%) Project Planning
17 45 (10.87%) Analytical Thinking
18 43 (10.39%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.66%) SQL
2 4 (0.97%) Python
3 3 (0.72%) VBA
4 2 (0.48%) ABAP
4 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.24%) Java
5 1 (0.24%) Korn
5 1 (0.24%) Perl
5 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 202 (48.79%) Degree
2 130 (31.40%) Security Cleared
3 107 (25.85%) SC Cleared
4 69 (16.67%) PMI Certification
5 64 (15.46%) PMP
6 30 (7.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 22 (5.31%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.42%) APMP
10 8 (1.93%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.93%) MBA
10 8 (1.93%) SAFe Agilist
11 6 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.97%) CISSP
13 3 (0.72%) CISA
13 3 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.72%) MCSE
13 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.48%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (36.23%) PMO
2 31 (7.49%) QA
3 23 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.42%) P3O
5 9 (2.17%) GDPR
6 8 (1.93%) Basel III
7 4 (0.97%) GRC
8 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.72%) NIST
8 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.48%) PSD2
10 1 (0.24%) GxP
10 1 (0.24%) HL7
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.24%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (7.25%) OPNET
2 3 (0.72%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.48%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 128 (30.92%) Microsoft
2 64 (15.46%) ServiceNow
3 41 (9.90%) SAP
4 35 (8.45%) Atlassian
5 31 (7.49%) Oracle
6 30 (7.25%) Remedy
7 9 (2.17%) Planview
8 7 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.21%) Adobe
10 3 (0.72%) Cisco
11 2 (0.48%) Ariba
11 2 (0.48%) Arista
11 2 (0.48%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.24%) BeyondTrust
12 1 (0.24%) Cerner
12 1 (0.24%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.24%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.24%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.24%) iManage
12 1 (0.24%) Snow