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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 352 303
Rank change year-on-year +70 -49 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 354 215 352
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 0.59% 0.77%
As % of the Applications category 11.99% 8.71% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 137 252
10th Percentile £345 £324 £280
25th Percentile £430 £419 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +5.37% -4.52%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £728 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 5
10th Percentile - £20.75 -
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.43 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.32% -9.72% -34.55%
75th Percentile £62.57 £40.00 £43.86
90th Percentile £93.75 £41.88 £52.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +73.85% +8.33% -31.46%

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 2,953 2,468 3,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.25% 6.76% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 1,443 2,268
10th Percentile £195 £164 £164
25th Percentile £300 £250 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £375 £363
% change year-on-year +10.11% +3.34% -9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 224 279
10th Percentile £13.04 £15.00 £14.11
25th Percentile £16.51 £15.62 £16.93
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.53 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -12.64% +6.18%
75th Percentile £32.75 £40.00 £45.21
90th Percentile £50.00 £63.15 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.27 £21.46 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.89% -14.16% +6.88%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 20 November 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 +53 308 £525 +2.44% 191
UK excluding London +64 214 £500 +8.11% 132
London +11 120 £581 +6.65% 75
Work from Home +29 98 £535 +3.38% 77
Midlands +4 52 £540 +21.35% 23
South East +26 50 £500 +3.90% 41
West Midlands -9 42 £540 +10.77% 13
South West +21 41 £725 +87.10% 24
North of England -25 38 £460 +13.23% 20
Yorkshire -12 28 £461 -2.89% 8
Scotland +16 22 £445 -6.32% 6
East Midlands -11 10 £450 +5.88% 10
North West -25 10 £458 +34.56% 11
Wales +8 7 £308 -41.43% 2
East of England -28 7 £408 -14.21% 19
Northern Ireland - 4 £588 - 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 76 (21.47%) Confluence
2 51 (14.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.85%) CMS
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 98 (27.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (22.60%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (14.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (9.60%) MS Visio
5 21 (5.93%) Trello
6 3 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.28%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (6.78%) Primavera
2 10 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.41%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (1.41%) SAP ERP
3 5 (1.41%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.13%) SAP PS
5 3 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.56%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.28%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.28%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.28%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.28%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 41 (11.58%) Power Platform
2 35 (9.89%) Azure
3 24 (6.78%) Smartsheet
4 17 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (3.95%) Asana
7 12 (3.39%) SaaS
8 9 (2.54%) AWS
9 8 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.98%) GCP
11 5 (1.41%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.41%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.13%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.85%) Google Workspace
13 3 (0.85%) Miro
13 3 (0.85%) OneDrive
14 2 (0.56%) Contentstack
14 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
14 2 (0.56%) OCI
14 2 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.69%) Firewall
2 5 (1.41%) VPN
3 4 (1.13%) LAN
3 4 (1.13%) Structured Cabling
3 4 (1.13%) WAN
4 3 (0.85%) Softphone
5 2 (0.56%) DNS
5 2 (0.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.28%) Broadband
6 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.28%) HTTP
6 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.28%) MPLS
6 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.45%) Power BI
2 7 (1.98%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (1.41%) Tableau
4 4 (1.13%) EDMS
5 3 (0.85%) Power Query
6 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.28%) DTS
7 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.28%) Metadata
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 148 (41.81%) JIRA
2 2 (0.56%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.28%) Ant
3 1 (0.28%) JUnit
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.28%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 180 (50.85%) Social Skills
2 147 (41.53%) Finance
3 72 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.17%) Organisational Skills
5 29 (8.19%) Banking
6 26 (7.34%) Public Sector
7 18 (5.08%) Manufacturing
8 17 (4.80%) Legal
9 16 (4.52%) Telecoms
10 15 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (4.24%) Military
11 12 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (2.54%) Marketing
14 7 (1.98%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (1.41%) Law
17 4 (1.13%) Billing
17 4 (1.13%) Front Office
17 4 (1.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (37.57%) Project Manager
2 43 (12.15%) Analyst
3 36 (10.17%) Lead
4 34 (9.60%) Senior
5 20 (5.65%) Project Planner
5 20 (5.65%) Senior Manager
6 17 (4.80%) Architect
6 17 (4.80%) IT Manager
7 15 (4.24%) Coordinator
7 15 (4.24%) IT Project Manager
7 15 (4.24%) Senior Project Manager
8 14 (3.95%) Business Analyst
8 14 (3.95%) Programme Manager
9 13 (3.67%) PMO Analyst
10 12 (3.39%) Project Analyst
10 12 (3.39%) Service Architect
11 11 (3.11%) PMO Lead
11 11 (3.11%) Project Coordinator
11 11 (3.11%) Project Officer
11 11 (3.11%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.13%) ADO
1 4 (1.13%) Middleware
1 4 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (1.13%) SOAP
2 3 (0.85%) REST
3 2 (0.56%) React
3 2 (0.56%) Web Services
3 2 (0.56%) XML
4 1 (0.28%) .NET
4 1 (0.28%) ActiveX
4 1 (0.28%) EDI
4 1 (0.28%) FHIR
4 1 (0.28%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.28%) Kafka
4 1 (0.28%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.21%) Onboarding
2 20 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.52%) PMI
5 15 (4.24%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.95%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.54%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.69%) Educational Technology
9 6 (1.69%) NHS
10 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.41%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.13%) Derivative
11 4 (1.13%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.13%) SCADA
12 3 (0.85%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.85%) Learning Management System
13 2 (0.56%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.56%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.41%) Windows
2 3 (0.85%) Unix
3 2 (0.56%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) AIX
4 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (51.69%) Project Management
2 152 (42.94%) Agile
3 109 (30.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 103 (29.10%) PRINCE2
5 93 (26.27%) Project Delivery
6 91 (25.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 85 (24.01%) Change Management
8 67 (18.93%) Waterfall
9 56 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (12.99%) Migration
11 42 (11.86%) Risk Management
12 41 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
13 38 (10.73%) Decision-Making
13 38 (10.73%) Project Planning
14 37 (10.45%) Project Governance
15 35 (9.89%) Programme Management
16 34 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
17 33 (9.32%) Scrum
18 32 (9.04%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.54%) SQL
2 5 (1.41%) Korn
3 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (0.56%) Python
4 1 (0.28%) Java
4 1 (0.28%) Perl
4 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 161 (45.48%) Degree
2 76 (21.47%) Security Cleared
3 70 (19.77%) PMI Certification
4 66 (18.64%) PMP
5 58 (16.38%) SC Cleared
6 14 (3.95%) DV Cleared
7 12 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (2.26%) APMP
9 7 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.69%) ISEB
10 6 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (1.41%) CISM
11 5 (1.41%) CISSP
11 5 (1.41%) HNC
11 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.85%) MCP
13 3 (0.85%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (25.99%) PMO
2 20 (5.65%) QA
3 15 (4.24%) P3O
4 8 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.98%) NIST
6 5 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.13%) GDPR
7 4 (1.13%) GRC
7 4 (1.13%) SLA
8 2 (0.56%) Basel III
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.28%) DO-254
9 1 (0.28%) GMP
9 1 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (1.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.28%) Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (3.39%) OPNET
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.85%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.28%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 132 (37.29%) Microsoft
2 48 (13.56%) SAP
3 35 (9.89%) ServiceNow
4 19 (5.37%) Oracle
5 16 (4.52%) Atlassian
6 13 (3.67%) Planview
7 12 (3.39%) Remedy
8 9 (2.54%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.98%) Workday
10 5 (1.41%) Cisco
11 4 (1.13%) Arista
11 4 (1.13%) Google
11 4 (1.13%) Progress
12 2 (0.56%) Adobe
12 2 (0.56%) Databricks
12 2 (0.56%) HP
12 2 (0.56%) IFS
12 2 (0.56%) Siemens
12 2 (0.56%) Sitecore
13 1 (0.28%) Compaq