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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 344 302
Rank change year-on-year +85 -42 +18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Project 372 223 346
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 0.62% 0.76%
As % of the Applications category 12.86% 8.83% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 146 252
10th Percentile £360 £320 £280
25th Percentile £447 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £668 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £728 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +13.33% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 5
10th Percentile - £20.75 -
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.13 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.43 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.32% -9.72% -17.75%
75th Percentile £62.57 £36.88 £43.86
90th Percentile £93.75 £40.75 £52.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +73.85% +8.33% -7.81%

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 2,893 2,525 3,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.10% 7.02% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,669 1,458 2,242
10th Percentile £188 £165 £164
25th Percentile £300 £252 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £402 £405
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -0.80% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £649 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £371 £363
% change year-on-year +12.46% +2.41% -9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 240 281
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.26 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.36 £15.62 £17.13
Median hourly rate £22.32 £24.09 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% -9.09% +7.24%
75th Percentile £31.00 £42.81 £45.21
90th Percentile £57.65 £65.00 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.02 £23.11 £26.00
% change year-on-year -13.37% -11.12% +7.04%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +65 328 £540 +6.88% 103
UK excluding London +53 230 £510 +13.33% 96
London +36 122 £584 +6.23% 25
Work from Home +33 102 £550 +6.28% 40
South West +44 60 £725 +104.95% 13
South East +22 52 £500 +9.59% 38
Midlands -11 51 £527 +17.11% 16
West Midlands -5 40 £540 +8.00% 10
North of England -26 36 £464 +32.03% 14
Yorkshire -18 25 £464 +19.68% 8
Scotland +16 20 £450 -5.26% 6
East Midlands -6 11 £480 +12.94% 6
North West -23 11 £466 +37.13% 4
Wales +2 7 £308 -41.43%
East of England -20 7 £408 -7.49% 13
Northern Ireland - 3 £588 -

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 90 (24.19%) Confluence
2 49 (13.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.81%) CMS
4 2 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 104 (27.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (25.81%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (14.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (8.06%) MS Visio
5 21 (5.65%) Trello
6 3 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.27%) Notion
Business Applications
1 22 (5.91%) Primavera
2 9 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (1.34%) SAP ERP
3 5 (1.34%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.81%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.81%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.54%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.27%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.27%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 38 (10.22%) Power Platform
2 36 (9.68%) Azure
3 24 (6.45%) Smartsheet
4 16 (4.30%) Asana
5 15 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (3.23%) SaaS
8 11 (2.96%) AWS
9 9 (2.42%) GCP
10 8 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.08%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.08%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.08%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.81%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.81%) Miro
12 3 (0.81%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.54%) Contentstack
13 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.54%) OCI
13 2 (0.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.61%) Firewall
2 5 (1.34%) VPN
3 4 (1.08%) LAN
3 4 (1.08%) Structured Cabling
3 4 (1.08%) WAN
4 3 (0.81%) Softphone
5 2 (0.54%) Network Security
6 1 (0.27%) Broadband
6 1 (0.27%) DNS
6 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.27%) HTTP
6 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.27%) MPLS
6 1 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.68%) Power BI
2 7 (1.88%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.34%) Tableau
5 4 (1.08%) EDMS
6 3 (0.81%) Power Query
7 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.27%) DTS
8 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.27%) Metadata
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 167 (44.89%) JIRA
2 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.27%) Ant
3 1 (0.27%) JUnit
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.27%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.27%) Toad
General
1 200 (53.76%) Social Skills
2 148 (39.78%) Finance
3 92 (24.73%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (11.02%) Organisational Skills
5 29 (7.80%) Military
6 26 (6.99%) Public Sector
7 25 (6.72%) Banking
8 17 (4.57%) Legal
9 16 (4.30%) Manufacturing
10 15 (4.03%) Telecoms
11 14 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (2.15%) Marketing
14 6 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.34%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.08%) Billing
16 4 (1.08%) Front Office
16 4 (1.08%) Investment Banking
16 4 (1.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 133 (35.75%) Project Manager
2 40 (10.75%) Analyst
3 35 (9.41%) Lead
4 34 (9.14%) Senior
5 30 (8.06%) Architect
6 26 (6.99%) Service Architect
7 21 (5.65%) Senior Manager
8 19 (5.11%) Project Planner
9 18 (4.84%) Coordinator
10 17 (4.57%) IT Manager
11 15 (4.03%) IT Project Manager
11 15 (4.03%) Senior Project Manager
12 14 (3.76%) Programme Manager
13 13 (3.49%) Project Coordinator
13 13 (3.49%) Technical Manager
14 12 (3.23%) PMO Analyst
14 12 (3.23%) PMO Lead
14 12 (3.23%) Project Officer
15 11 (2.96%) Business Analyst
16 10 (2.69%) Engagement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.08%) Middleware
2 4 (1.08%) SOAP
3 3 (0.81%) ADO
3 3 (0.81%) REST
4 2 (0.54%) React
4 2 (0.54%) Web Services
4 2 (0.54%) XML
5 1 (0.27%) .NET
5 1 (0.27%) EDI
5 1 (0.27%) FHIR
5 1 (0.27%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.27%) Kafka
5 1 (0.27%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.99%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.30%) Management Information System
4 16 (4.30%) PMI
5 15 (4.03%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.69%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.61%) Educational Technology
9 6 (1.61%) NHS
10 4 (1.08%) Derivative
10 4 (1.08%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.08%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.08%) SCADA
11 3 (0.81%) Learning Management System
12 2 (0.54%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.54%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.54%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.34%) Windows
2 3 (0.81%) Unix
3 2 (0.54%) Linux
4 1 (0.27%) AIX
4 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (50.81%) Project Management
2 169 (45.43%) Agile
3 117 (31.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 104 (27.96%) PRINCE2
5 101 (27.15%) Project Delivery
6 91 (24.46%) Change Management
7 88 (23.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 70 (18.82%) Waterfall
9 59 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (12.63%) Migration
11 45 (12.10%) Risk Management
12 43 (11.56%) Project Planning
13 42 (11.29%) Decision-Making
14 39 (10.48%) Project Governance
15 38 (10.22%) Budget Management
16 36 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (9.68%) Programme Management
17 35 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
17 35 (9.41%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.42%) SQL
2 5 (1.34%) Korn
3 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.27%) Java
4 1 (0.27%) Perl
4 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 179 (48.12%) Degree
2 94 (25.27%) Security Cleared
3 75 (20.16%) SC Cleared
4 70 (18.82%) PMI Certification
5 66 (17.74%) PMP
6 26 (6.99%) TOGAF Certification
7 15 (4.03%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.69%) APMP
9 6 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 5 (1.34%) CISM
10 5 (1.34%) CISSP
10 5 (1.34%) HNC
10 5 (1.34%) ISEB
11 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.81%) MCP
12 3 (0.81%) MCSE
12 3 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (25.81%) PMO
2 23 (6.18%) QA
3 15 (4.03%) P3O
4 8 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.88%) NIST
6 5 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.08%) GDPR
7 4 (1.08%) GRC
7 4 (1.08%) SLA
8 2 (0.54%) Basel III
8 2 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) GMP
9 1 (0.27%) HL7
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.27%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (6.99%) OPNET
2 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.81%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.27%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 133 (35.75%) Microsoft
2 52 (13.98%) ServiceNow
3 48 (12.90%) SAP
4 32 (8.60%) Atlassian
5 26 (6.99%) Remedy
6 21 (5.65%) Oracle
7 12 (3.23%) Planview
8 9 (2.42%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.88%) Workday
10 5 (1.34%) Cisco
11 4 (1.08%) Arista
11 4 (1.08%) Google
11 4 (1.08%) Progress
12 2 (0.54%) Adobe
12 2 (0.54%) Databricks
12 2 (0.54%) HP
12 2 (0.54%) IFS
12 2 (0.54%) Siemens
12 2 (0.54%) Sitecore
13 1 (0.27%) Compaq