IT Project Manager Contracts in London

IT Project Manager
England > London

The median IT Project Manager daily rate in London is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 325 318
Rank change year-on-year +30 -7 +34
Contract jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 97 175 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.65% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.68% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 140 229
10th Percentile £411 £396 £413
25th Percentile £513 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +6.80%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £687 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +38.89% -
England median hourly rate £25.28 £62.50 £48.25
% change year-on-year -59.56% +29.53% +4.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,618 25,758 37,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,017 18,663 27,056
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.03 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%

IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Project Manager in London

IT Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Project Manager in London.

Daily rate trend for IT Project Manager in London

IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Project Manager in London

IT Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Project Manager in London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Project Manager in London

IT Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Project Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Central London +39 22 £625 -
West London +11 5 £500 -4.21% 2
South London +9 2 £475 -13.64%
East London - 2 £508 - 1
IT Project Manager
England

IT Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, IT 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 London region featuring IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 48 (49.48%) Finance
2 47 (48.45%) Project Management
3 27 (27.84%) Agile
4 19 (19.59%) Banking
4 19 (19.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
5 12 (12.37%) Azure
5 12 (12.37%) Static Application Security Testing
5 12 (12.37%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 11 (11.34%) Migration
6 11 (11.34%) PRINCE2
7 10 (10.31%) Vulnerability Management
8 9 (9.28%) Project Delivery
8 9 (9.28%) JIRA
9 8 (8.25%) Microsoft
10 7 (7.22%) Waterfall
11 6 (6.19%) PMP
11 6 (6.19%) Change Management
11 6 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 6 (6.19%) Budget Management
12 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
12 5 (5.15%) Degree
12 5 (5.15%) Scrum
12 5 (5.15%) PMI Certification
12 5 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (5.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
12 5 (5.15%) Security Cleared
12 5 (5.15%) Analytics
12 5 (5.15%) WhatsApp

IT Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.09%) CMS
3 1 (1.03%) Appian
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.03%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 1 (1.03%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.03%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.37%) Azure
2 5 (5.15%) WhatsApp
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.09%) SaaS
4 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.03%) AWS
5 1 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.03%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.03%) Smartsheet
5 1 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) LAN
1 1 (1.03%) Skype
1 1 (1.03%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.03%) Mixpanel
2 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.03%) Power BI
2 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) JIRA
General
1 48 (49.48%) Finance
2 19 (19.59%) Banking
2 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (4.12%) Investment Banking
3 4 (4.12%) Law
4 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.09%) Front Office
4 3 (3.09%) Legal
4 3 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.06%) Back Office
5 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.03%) Aviation
6 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.03%) French Language
6 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.03%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.03%) ADO
1 1 (1.03%) Express.js
1 1 (1.03%) MERN Stack
1 1 (1.03%) Node.js
1 1 (1.03%) React
1 1 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.09%) Smart Meter
4 2 (2.06%) CMDB
4 2 (2.06%) Derivative
4 2 (2.06%) PMI
4 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.03%) CCTV
5 1 (1.03%) Equities
5 1 (1.03%) FMCG
5 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.03%) Life Science
5 1 (1.03%) LIMS
5 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.03%) NHS
5 1 (1.03%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.03%) Linux
1 1 (1.03%) Unix
1 1 (1.03%) Windows
1 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.45%) Project Management
2 27 (27.84%) Agile
3 19 (19.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (12.37%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 12 (12.37%) Static Application Security Testing
5 11 (11.34%) Migration
5 11 (11.34%) PRINCE2
6 10 (10.31%) Vulnerability Management
7 9 (9.28%) Project Delivery
8 7 (7.22%) Waterfall
9 6 (6.19%) Budget Management
9 6 (6.19%) Change Management
10 5 (5.15%) Analytics
10 5 (5.15%) Resource Allocation
10 5 (5.15%) Scrum
10 5 (5.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (4.12%) Asset Management
11 4 (4.12%) Data Migration
11 4 (4.12%) Data Protection
11 4 (4.12%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (6.19%) PMP
2 5 (5.15%) Degree
2 5 (5.15%) PMI Certification
2 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.03%) APMP
4 1 (1.03%) CCNA
4 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.09%) EMIR
2 3 (3.09%) NIST
2 3 (3.09%) PMO
3 2 (2.06%) Basel III
3 2 (2.06%) MiFID
4 1 (1.03%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.03%) GxP
4 1 (1.03%) IFRS
4 1 (1.03%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Matomo
1 1 (1.03%) SCCM
1 1 (1.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (8.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.12%) Cisco
3 3 (3.09%) SAP
4 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.06%) Workday
5 1 (1.03%) Arista
5 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.03%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.03%) BT
5 1 (1.03%) Concur
5 1 (1.03%) IBM
5 1 (1.03%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.03%) Meraki
5 1 (1.03%) Pega
5 1 (1.03%) Progress
5 1 (1.03%) Radianz
5 1 (1.03%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.03%) Reuters