Software Project Manager Contracts in the City of London

Software Project Manager
Central London > City of London

The median Software Project Manager daily rate in the City of London is £530 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 - 196
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Project Manager 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.089% - 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% - 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £484 - £450
25th Percentile £496 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £494
75th Percentile £551 - £545
90th Percentile £557 - £593
Central London median daily rate £530 - £494

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,128 3,557 4,059
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 95.21% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,516 2,396 3,077
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £595 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% +5.31% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £789 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 31 50
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £19.99 £18.48 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -6.04% +77.47%
75th Percentile £27.38 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £43.08 £85.00 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +77.47%

Software Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Software Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Project Manager in the City of London

Software Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Project Manager in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Software Project Manager in the City of London

Software Project Manager Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Software Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Software Project Manager in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Development
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) DataOps
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Software Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Development
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) DataOps
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft