Project Management Contracts in Central London

Project Management
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 27 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 197 273 366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 8.15% 7.12% 8.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.00% 7.80% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 183 264
10th Percentile £338 £375 £363
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% +11.90% -
75th Percentile £683 £701 £638
90th Percentile £788 £813 £734
London median daily rate £550 £575 £546
% change year-on-year -4.35% +5.41% +9.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £21.23 - £26.50
25th Percentile £23.19 £50.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £26.80 £51.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.96% -14.17% +140.00%
75th Percentile £30.07 £52.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £31.83 - £68.05
London median hourly rate £31.71 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.26% -3.37% +66.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,190 3,501 4,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.61% 91.34% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 2,371 3,191
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 42
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £29.11 £57.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.43
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Central London

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Central London

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Central London

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Central London

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
City of London +7 169 £565 -5.83% 110
West End of London +10 10 £324 -37.69% 7
City of Westminster +3 7 £550 -31.25% 5
Camden +2 4 £505 +26.25% 7
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £400 - 2
Southwark +4 1 £550 +37.50% 1
Project Management
London

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 18 (9.14%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.02%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) Drupal
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.60%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (4.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (3.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.52%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.02%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.51%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.51%) Primavera
4 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.51%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.51%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.51%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.18%) Azure
2 16 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (6.09%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.05%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.54%) WhatsApp
8 4 (2.03%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.52%) GitHub
9 3 (1.52%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.02%) AWS
10 2 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.02%) GCP
10 2 (1.02%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.02%) SaaS
11 1 (0.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.51%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.51%) IBM Blueworks
11 1 (0.51%) MailChimp
11 1 (0.51%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.03%) Firewall
2 3 (1.52%) VoIP
3 2 (1.02%) Network Security
3 2 (1.02%) PBX
3 2 (1.02%) PSTN
3 2 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.51%) 5G
4 1 (0.51%) Broadband
4 1 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) Intranet
4 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.57%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.06%) Power BI
3 6 (3.05%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 6 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.05%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.52%) MySQL
4 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.02%) Metadata
5 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.51%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 17 (8.63%) JIRA
2 3 (1.52%) GitLab
2 3 (1.52%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.02%) Git
3 2 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.02%) Subversion
3 2 (1.02%) TestRail
3 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (1.02%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.51%) AppScan
4 1 (0.51%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.51%) Postman
4 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 81 (41.12%) Finance
2 71 (36.04%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.68%) Legal
5 22 (11.17%) Banking
6 17 (8.63%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (7.61%) Marketing
8 13 (6.60%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (6.09%) Public Sector
10 8 (4.06%) Law
10 8 (4.06%) Telecoms
11 7 (3.55%) Front Office
12 5 (2.54%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.54%) Investment Banking
13 4 (2.03%) Retail
14 2 (1.02%) Advertising
14 2 (1.02%) Back Office
14 2 (1.02%) International Banking
14 2 (1.02%) Local Government
14 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (38.58%) Project Manager
2 17 (8.63%) Analyst
3 15 (7.61%) Senior
4 13 (6.60%) Business Analyst
4 13 (6.60%) Consultant
5 12 (6.09%) IT Manager
5 12 (6.09%) Lead
6 11 (5.58%) Senior Manager
7 10 (5.08%) IT Project Manager
8 9 (4.57%) Developer
8 9 (4.57%) Senior Project Manager
8 9 (4.57%) Technical Manager
8 9 (4.57%) Transformation Manager
9 8 (4.06%) Scrum Master
10 7 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (3.55%) Technical Project Manager
11 6 (3.05%) Architect
12 5 (2.54%) Infrastructure Manager
12 5 (2.54%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 5 (2.54%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.55%) XML
2 3 (1.52%) CSS
2 3 (1.52%) EDI
2 3 (1.52%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (1.52%) jQuery
2 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (1.02%) ADO
3 2 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.51%) Laravel
4 1 (0.51%) React
4 1 (0.51%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.51%) SAP ALE
4 1 (0.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.06%) Management Information System
1 8 (4.06%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.54%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.54%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.54%) Photography
3 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.52%) Public Cloud
3 3 (1.52%) Social Media
4 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.02%) NHS
4 2 (1.02%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.03%) Windows
2 3 (1.52%) Linux
3 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) AIX
4 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (36.55%) Agile
2 39 (19.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (15.23%) Project Delivery
4 27 (13.71%) Change Management
4 27 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (12.18%) PRINCE2
5 24 (12.18%) Risk Management
5 24 (12.18%) Scrum
6 23 (11.68%) Migration
7 22 (11.17%) ITIL
8 18 (9.14%) Waterfall
9 16 (8.12%) Computer Science
10 14 (7.11%) Budget Management
11 12 (6.09%) Business Case
11 12 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (6.09%) Decision-Making
11 12 (6.09%) DevOps
11 12 (6.09%) Programme Management
11 12 (6.09%) User Acceptance Testing
12 11 (5.58%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.58%) PowerShell
2 10 (5.08%) SQL
3 6 (3.05%) PL/SQL
3 6 (3.05%) XPath
3 6 (3.05%) XQuery
4 3 (1.52%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.52%) Python
5 2 (1.02%) Bash
5 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.51%) C#
6 1 (0.51%) Java
6 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.51%) PHP
6 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (18.78%) Degree
2 13 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (6.60%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.09%) ITIL Certification
4 10 (5.08%) PMP
5 7 (3.55%) PMI Certification
6 6 (3.05%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.03%) ACCA
8 2 (1.02%) CCNA
8 2 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.02%) FFIEC
8 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) APMP
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CAPM
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) MBA
9 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.51%) SANS
9 1 (0.51%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.18%) PMO
2 8 (4.06%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.06%) QA
3 6 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.52%) EMIR
5 3 (1.52%) SLA
6 2 (1.02%) Basel III
6 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.02%) NIST
6 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) COBIT
7 1 (0.51%) GAAP
7 1 (0.51%) GxP
7 1 (0.51%) IFRS
7 1 (0.51%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.51%) MiFID
7 1 (0.51%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 8 (4.06%) PingFederate
2 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.02%) Ansible
3 2 (1.02%) Grafana
3 2 (1.02%) Graylog
3 2 (1.02%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) Nagios
3 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.02%) Puppet
3 2 (1.02%) Terraform
4 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.51%) Nessus
4 1 (0.51%) SCCM
4 1 (0.51%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 35 (17.77%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.63%) SAP
3 14 (7.11%) Oracle
4 7 (3.55%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.54%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.03%) Cisco
7 3 (1.52%) Arista
7 3 (1.52%) Proofpoint
7 3 (1.52%) Symantec
7 3 (1.52%) Workday
8 2 (1.02%) Adobe
8 2 (1.02%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.02%) BT
8 2 (1.02%) Radianz
8 2 (1.02%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.02%) Reuters
8 2 (1.02%) Splunk
9 1 (0.51%) Apple
9 1 (0.51%) IBM
9 1 (0.51%) Progress