Microsoft Project Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Project
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Microsoft Project skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 112 110
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 +49
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Project 9 18 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.36% 0.78% 0.62%
As % of the Applications category 4.04% 7.00% 6.58%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 5
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,675 £45,400
25th Percentile £40,500 £47,813 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £52,500 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% +5.02% +14.12%
75th Percentile £87,500 £56,250 £52,193
90th Percentile - £57,600 £53,877
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,438 £56,000
% change year-on-year +3.72% -1.00% -2.61%

All Software Application Skills
East Midlands

Microsoft Project falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring software application skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 223 257 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.85% 11.17% 9.37%
Number of salaries quoted 88 79 93
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £25,550
25th Percentile £32,188 £31,250 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £33,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +25.93% -10.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £44,000
90th Percentile £68,925 £64,000 £50,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,683 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.11% +12.20% -8.60%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Project relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Microsoft Project job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Microsoft Project
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Microsoft Project.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Project in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Project in the East Midlands

Microsoft Project
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Project within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire +13 5 £40,750 -24.54% 6
Leicestershire +6 3 £85,000 +61.90% 6
Derbyshire -12 1 £80,000 +52.38% 11
Microsoft Project
England

Microsoft Project
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (33.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Electronics
2 3 (33.33%) Law
2 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) IT Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Planning Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Change Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Coordinator
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Change Manager
3 1 (11.11%) PMO Coordinator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Change Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior PMO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Project Management
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) PRINCE2
2 4 (44.44%) Programme Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
3 3 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Data Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 3 (33.33%) ERP
3 3 (33.33%) Lean Six Sigma
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) PMI Certification
2 4 (44.44%) PMP
3 3 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 3 (33.33%) MBA
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) PMO
3 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) QAD
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) NEC
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow