Project Management Contracts

Project Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 2,280 3,226 4,144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.28% 7.42% 7.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.02% 8.71% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,394 1,959 2,829
10th Percentile £308 £310 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £603 £608 £630
90th Percentile £725 £714 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 276 136
10th Percentile £21.50 £18.67 £22.50
25th Percentile £29.00 £26.93 £30.54
Median hourly rate £44.50 £38.12 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.74% -15.29% +45.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £66.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £61.63 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.30 £38.12 £42.40
% change year-on-year +21.46% -10.09% +46.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Project Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,438 37,047 49,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.78% 85.22% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,912 23,635 34,414
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,399 2,530 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the UK over the 6 months to 3 July 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 -4 1,931 £513 -2.38% 12,452
UK excluding London -7 1,041 £465 -7.00% 6,858
London +2 988 £550 +2.33% 6,359
Work from Home -1 713 £480 -4.00% 4,729
North of England -3 251 £475 -7.06% 1,641
South East -5 227 £493 +3.68% 1,668
Midlands +2 187 £450 -10.00% 1,098
North West -6 144 £450 -10.00% 959
South West -7 136 £450 -14.29% 801
Scotland -7 134 £450 - 511
West Midlands -1 128 £450 -11.11% 678
Yorkshire -2 95 £500 - 568
East of England -20 71 £510 +6.59% 795
East Midlands +1 53 £410 -13.68% 418
Northern Ireland 0 26 £525 +208.82% 177
Wales -11 19 £465 -12.26% 208
North East -14 12 £508 -11.74% 122
Channel Islands -5 1 - -

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 114 (5.00%) Confluence
2 93 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.05%) CMS
4 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.31%) CICS
6 6 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.18%) Apache
7 4 (0.18%) IIS
7 4 (0.18%) WordPress
8 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.13%) MS Project Server
8 3 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.088%) Camunda
9 2 (0.088%) Drupal
9 2 (0.088%) SAS
9 2 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.044%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.044%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 183 (8.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
3 120 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
4 108 (4.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 45 (1.97%) Trello
6 35 (1.54%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.31%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.22%) Revit
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.13%) Simulink
11 2 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.088%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.088%) InDesign
11 2 (0.088%) Notion
11 2 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 79 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.14%) Primavera
3 20 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.57%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.44%) SAP PS
6 8 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.35%) Workfront
7 6 (0.26%) Endur
7 6 (0.26%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.22%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 5 (0.22%) Shopify
9 4 (0.18%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.18%) SAP IBP
10 3 (0.13%) Magento
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.13%) SAP GRC
10 3 (0.13%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 202 (8.86%) Azure
2 136 (5.96%) AWS
3 78 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (3.20%) Power Platform
5 71 (3.11%) SaaS
6 55 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (2.24%) GCP
8 34 (1.49%) Asana
9 25 (1.10%) GitHub
10 24 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (1.05%) Entra ID
10 24 (1.05%) SuccessFactors
11 23 (1.01%) Google Workspace
12 18 (0.79%) Power Automate
13 17 (0.75%) IaaS
14 15 (0.66%) PaaS
15 14 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
15 14 (0.61%) OneDrive
16 13 (0.57%) OCI
16 13 (0.57%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.76%) Firewall
2 49 (2.15%) VPN
3 48 (2.11%) WAN
4 42 (1.84%) LAN
5 33 (1.45%) DNS
6 23 (1.01%) DHCP
7 20 (0.88%) MPLS
8 19 (0.83%) Wireless
9 17 (0.75%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.70%) ATM
10 16 (0.70%) Ethernet
10 16 (0.70%) SDH
11 15 (0.66%) Network Security
12 14 (0.61%) GPRS
12 14 (0.61%) GSM
12 14 (0.61%) LTE
12 14 (0.61%) SAN
12 14 (0.61%) UMTS
12 14 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (0.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (2.59%) Power BI
2 24 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (0.96%) Tableau
4 21 (0.92%) SQL Server
5 15 (0.66%) Big Data
5 15 (0.66%) Data Lake
6 14 (0.61%) Metadata
6 14 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (0.53%) MySQL
8 11 (0.48%) MongoDB
8 11 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.35%) SAP HANA
10 6 (0.26%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.26%) DB2
10 6 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (0.26%) GIS
11 5 (0.22%) MS Access
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 291 (12.76%) JIRA
2 22 (0.96%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.48%) Git
4 9 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.26%) Postman
6 5 (0.22%) JUnit
6 5 (0.22%) Maven
6 5 (0.22%) Selenium
6 5 (0.22%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.18%) MSI
7 4 (0.18%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.13%) GitLab
8 3 (0.13%) GoCD
8 3 (0.13%) MLflow
8 3 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.13%) Subversion
8 3 (0.13%) TestRail
9 2 (0.088%) REST Assured
General
1 1,105 (48.46%) Social Skills
2 844 (37.02%) Finance
3 429 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (8.51%) Banking
5 183 (8.03%) Public Sector
6 153 (6.71%) Marketing
7 120 (5.26%) Legal
8 115 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
9 90 (3.95%) Manufacturing
10 82 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
10 82 (3.60%) Telecoms
11 73 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
12 71 (3.11%) Retail
13 53 (2.32%) Front Office
14 52 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
15 40 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 40 (1.75%) Investment Banking
15 40 (1.75%) Local Government
16 29 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
16 29 (1.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 753 (33.03%) Project Manager
2 278 (12.19%) Analyst
3 174 (7.63%) Lead
4 167 (7.32%) Senior
5 166 (7.28%) Business Analyst
6 107 (4.69%) IT Manager
7 92 (4.04%) Consultant
8 82 (3.60%) IT Project Manager
9 81 (3.55%) Architect
10 80 (3.51%) Senior Manager
11 74 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
12 73 (3.20%) Technical Manager
13 65 (2.85%) Senior Project Manager
14 63 (2.76%) Programme Manager
15 55 (2.41%) SAP Manager
16 52 (2.28%) Infrastructure Manager
17 50 (2.19%) Developer
18 47 (2.06%) Technical Project Manager
19 44 (1.93%) Infrastructure Project Manager
20 41 (1.80%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (1.67%) .NET
2 35 (1.54%) HTML
3 31 (1.36%) CSS
4 25 (1.10%) React
5 23 (1.01%) AngularJS
6 22 (0.96%) REST
7 19 (0.83%) Middleware
8 16 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
9 12 (0.53%) SAML
10 11 (0.48%) .NET Framework
10 11 (0.48%) ADO
11 10 (0.44%) OAuth
11 10 (0.44%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.44%) XML
12 9 (0.39%) LDAP
13 8 (0.35%) JSON
14 7 (0.31%) EDI
14 7 (0.31%) Spring
14 7 (0.31%) Web Services
15 6 (0.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 120 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 80 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 75 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 63 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
5 59 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 53 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
7 48 (2.11%) PMI
8 38 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 32 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (0.96%) Market Risk
12 21 (0.92%) Life Science
13 16 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (0.70%) Security Posture
13 16 (0.70%) Social Media
14 15 (0.66%) Cloud Native
14 15 (0.66%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (0.61%) Reinsurance
15 14 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 97 (4.25%) Windows
2 52 (2.28%) Linux
3 23 (1.01%) Unix
4 21 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.13%) VMS
10 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.088%) Android
11 2 (0.088%) Solaris
11 2 (0.088%) zOS
12 1 (0.044%) CentOS
12 1 (0.044%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (35.00%) Agile
2 603 (26.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 598 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
4 414 (18.16%) Project Delivery
5 313 (13.73%) PRINCE2
6 302 (13.25%) Change Management
7 290 (12.72%) Risk Management
8 250 (10.96%) Migration
9 231 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 226 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 222 (9.74%) Scrum
12 209 (9.17%) Waterfall
13 197 (8.64%) Decision-Making
14 151 (6.62%) Roadmaps
15 147 (6.45%) DevOps
16 146 (6.40%) ITIL
17 137 (6.01%) Business Analysis
18 135 (5.92%) Project Planning
19 132 (5.79%) Programme Management
20 130 (5.70%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (4.47%) SQL
2 87 (3.82%) Python
3 70 (3.07%) Java
4 45 (1.97%) JavaScript
5 25 (1.10%) C#
5 25 (1.10%) PowerShell
6 19 (0.83%) PHP
7 13 (0.57%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.35%) C
8 8 (0.35%) VBA
9 7 (0.31%) ABAP
9 7 (0.31%) Ruby
10 6 (0.26%) Bash
10 6 (0.26%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.22%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.22%) Bicep
11 5 (0.22%) VB
11 5 (0.22%) VB.NET
12 4 (0.18%) C++
12 4 (0.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 426 (18.68%) Degree
2 261 (11.45%) Security Cleared
3 253 (11.10%) PMP
4 245 (10.75%) PMI Certification
5 182 (7.98%) SC Cleared
6 73 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (2.15%) DV Cleared
8 47 (2.06%) Master's Degree
9 32 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (1.27%) CCNP
11 27 (1.18%) ISEB
11 27 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 24 (1.05%) CISSP
13 20 (0.88%) Azure Certification
14 18 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 17 (0.75%) APMP
15 17 (0.75%) ISTQB
15 17 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 16 (0.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (7.76%) PMO
2 125 (5.48%) QA
3 64 (2.81%) GDPR
4 38 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 37 (1.62%) NIST
6 35 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.40%) Accessibility
8 25 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (1.01%) SLA
10 21 (0.92%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.88%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.83%) MiFID
13 15 (0.66%) EMIR
14 12 (0.53%) GxP
15 11 (0.48%) GRC
16 9 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 9 (0.39%) P3O
17 8 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
18 6 (0.26%) ISO 20022
19 5 (0.22%) Basel III
System Software
1 54 (2.37%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.01%) Docker
3 20 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.31%) vSphere
7 5 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.088%) Firmware
8 2 (0.088%) IAG
8 2 (0.088%) Lustre
8 2 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.088%) NFS
8 2 (0.088%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.088%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.044%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.044%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.044%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.044%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 27 (1.18%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.10%) Terraform
3 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.61%) SCCM
5 12 (0.53%) Ansible
6 11 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.39%) Amdocs OSS
8 8 (0.35%) NSN NetAct
9 5 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.13%) Grafana
11 3 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.13%) Kibana
11 3 (0.13%) logstash
12 2 (0.088%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.088%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.088%) Puppet
12 2 (0.088%) QRadar
12 2 (0.088%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 364 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 239 (10.48%) SAP
3 81 (3.55%) Oracle
4 66 (2.89%) ServiceNow
5 63 (2.76%) Cisco
6 61 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.59%) Google
8 40 (1.75%) Workday
9 32 (1.40%) Ariba
10 28 (1.23%) Adobe
11 24 (1.05%) VMware
12 22 (0.96%) Databricks
13 19 (0.83%) Juniper
13 19 (0.83%) Remedy
14 16 (0.70%) Atlassian
14 16 (0.70%) IBM
14 16 (0.70%) Nokia
15 14 (0.61%) Citrix
15 14 (0.61%) Dell
15 14 (0.61%) Ericsson