Project Manager Contracts in London

Project Manager
England > London

The median Project Manager daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 32 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 1,107 1,703 2,553
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.25% 6.29% 6.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.71% 6.60% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 1,263 1,861
10th Percentile £375 £408 £406
25th Percentile £463 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £640
90th Percentile £738 £750 £730
England median daily rate £525 £533 £513
% change year-on-year -1.50% +4.00% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 18
10th Percentile £23.88 £32.04 £43.80
25th Percentile £30.00 £58.25 £50.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £64.75 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -44.46% +19.35% +50.34%
75th Percentile £39.63 £73.06 £66.41
90th Percentile £49.89 £87.50 £68.61
England median hourly rate £35.96 £64.50 £47.25
% change year-on-year -44.25% +36.51% +68.06%

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 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £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 £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in London

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in London

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in London

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in London

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Manager in London

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 Project Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 27 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 +2 186 £575 -6.12% 18
East London +12 38 £650 +8.33% 16
West London +21 36 £500 -4.21% 13
South London +14 13 £513 - 4
North London +3 2 £538 +19.44% 6
Project Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Project Manager in the job title.

1 483 (43.63%) Project Management
2 425 (38.39%) Finance
3 295 (26.65%) Agile
4 252 (22.76%) Social Skills
5 216 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 190 (17.16%) Project Delivery
7 167 (15.09%) Migration
8 140 (12.65%) Change Management
9 124 (11.20%) PRINCE2
10 114 (10.30%) Banking
11 95 (8.58%) Microsoft
12 94 (8.49%) Risk Management
13 84 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
14 83 (7.50%) Scrum
15 82 (7.41%) Budget Management
16 75 (6.78%) Waterfall
17 69 (6.23%) Public Sector
18 67 (6.05%) Security Cleared
19 66 (5.96%) Data Migration
19 66 (5.96%) Degree
20 65 (5.87%) Decision-Making
21 60 (5.42%) Business Case
21 60 (5.42%) Azure
22 59 (5.33%) Retail
23 58 (5.24%) SC Cleared
24 57 (5.15%) Marketing
24 57 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
25 55 (4.97%) PMO
25 55 (4.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 53 (4.79%) Legal

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 35 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.36%) CMS
4 10 (0.90%) Confluence
5 5 (0.45%) Drupal
5 5 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.27%) Documentum
6 3 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.090%) Appian
7 1 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.090%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.090%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.090%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.090%) WordPress
Applications
1 40 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (3.43%) Microsoft Project
3 30 (2.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 10 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.090%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.63%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.54%) Sage 200
4 6 (0.54%) Sage 50
5 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle HRMS
7 2 (0.18%) Summit
7 2 (0.18%) Temenos Globus
7 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.090%) ION MarketView
8 1 (0.090%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.090%) Magento
8 1 (0.090%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.090%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 60 (5.42%) Azure
2 30 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (2.08%) SaaS
4 19 (1.72%) Power Platform
5 13 (1.17%) WhatsApp
6 12 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (0.81%) AWS
8 8 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.63%) OneDrive
10 6 (0.54%) Asana
10 6 (0.54%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.45%) Smartsheet
11 5 (0.45%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (0.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.36%) GCP
13 3 (0.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.27%) FinancialForce
13 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.27%) Snowflake
14 2 (0.18%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (0.72%) Structured Cabling
3 7 (0.63%) LAN
4 6 (0.54%) 5G
4 6 (0.54%) WAN
5 5 (0.45%) Firewall
5 5 (0.45%) Network Security
6 4 (0.36%) Internet
6 4 (0.36%) MPLS
6 4 (0.36%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.36%) VPN
6 4 (0.36%) Wireless
7 3 (0.27%) Broadband
7 3 (0.27%) SNA
8 2 (0.18%) 4G
8 2 (0.18%) BGP
8 2 (0.18%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.18%) VoIP
9 1 (0.090%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.090%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (1.26%) Power BI
3 12 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.45%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.36%) SAP HANA
5 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.27%) Big Data
6 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.18%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.18%) Metadata
7 2 (0.18%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.18%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.18%) Tableau
8 1 (0.090%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.090%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.090%) GIS
8 1 (0.090%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 48 (4.34%) JIRA
2 1 (0.090%) LSMW
2 1 (0.090%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (0.090%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 425 (38.39%) Finance
2 252 (22.76%) Social Skills
3 114 (10.30%) Banking
4 69 (6.23%) Public Sector
5 59 (5.33%) Retail
6 57 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (5.15%) Marketing
7 53 (4.79%) Legal
8 50 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (3.61%) Local Government
11 33 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (2.71%) Manufacturing
13 29 (2.62%) Investment Banking
14 28 (2.53%) Financial Institution
14 28 (2.53%) Front Office
15 25 (2.26%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (1.08%) Law
18 11 (0.99%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (0.63%) ADO
3 5 (0.45%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.18%) OpenID
4 2 (0.18%) SAML
4 2 (0.18%) Web Services
5 1 (0.090%) .NET
5 1 (0.090%) EDI
5 1 (0.090%) Express.js
5 1 (0.090%) MERN Stack
5 1 (0.090%) Node.js
5 1 (0.090%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.090%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (3.25%) Data Centre
2 35 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 25 (2.26%) Onboarding
4 23 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 21 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.63%) Derivative
6 18 (1.63%) FMCG
7 13 (1.17%) NHS
7 13 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 12 (1.08%) PMI
9 11 (0.99%) Equities
10 10 (0.90%) Fixed Income
10 10 (0.90%) Mobile App
11 9 (0.81%) Taxonomies
12 8 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.72%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.54%) Over-the-Top Content
14 6 (0.54%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.08%) Windows
2 4 (0.36%) Linux
3 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.18%) AIX
5 1 (0.090%) Android
5 1 (0.090%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.090%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (43.63%) Project Management
2 295 (26.65%) Agile
3 216 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 190 (17.16%) Project Delivery
5 167 (15.09%) Migration
6 140 (12.65%) Change Management
7 124 (11.20%) PRINCE2
8 94 (8.49%) Risk Management
9 84 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
10 83 (7.50%) Scrum
11 82 (7.41%) Budget Management
12 75 (6.78%) Waterfall
13 66 (5.96%) Data Migration
14 65 (5.87%) Decision-Making
15 60 (5.42%) Business Case
16 55 (4.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 53 (4.79%) Project Governance
18 51 (4.61%) Programme Management
19 44 (3.97%) Asset Management
20 42 (3.79%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 17 (1.54%) SQL
2 10 (0.90%) Python
3 3 (0.27%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.18%) C#
4 2 (0.18%) R
4 2 (0.18%) VBA
5 1 (0.090%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.090%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.090%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (6.05%) Security Cleared
2 66 (5.96%) Degree
3 58 (5.24%) SC Cleared
4 41 (3.70%) PMP
5 38 (3.43%) PMI Certification
6 26 (2.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 14 (1.26%) CISM
8 13 (1.17%) CISSP
9 12 (1.08%) CISA
10 8 (0.72%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (0.45%) APMP
14 4 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.36%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.27%) HNC
16 2 (0.18%) CCIE
16 2 (0.18%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.97%) PMO
2 24 (2.17%) QA
3 14 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 11 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 10 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.72%) NIST
7 7 (0.63%) SLA
8 5 (0.45%) MiFID
9 4 (0.36%) Basel III
9 4 (0.36%) EMIR
9 4 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.27%) GDPR
10 3 (0.27%) GRC
10 3 (0.27%) IFRS
11 2 (0.18%) COREP
11 2 (0.18%) FINREP
11 2 (0.18%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.090%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.18%) IAG
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.090%) Firmware
4 1 (0.090%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.27%) TrustSec
2 2 (0.18%) Matomo
2 2 (0.18%) SCCM
2 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.090%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (0.090%) Ansible
3 1 (0.090%) Argo
3 1 (0.090%) CASB
3 1 (0.090%) Rundeck
3 1 (0.090%) WSUS
Vendors
1 95 (8.58%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.16%) SAP
3 28 (2.53%) ServiceNow
4 19 (1.72%) Oracle
4 19 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 17 (1.54%) Cisco
6 8 (0.72%) BT
6 8 (0.72%) Splunk
7 7 (0.63%) Databricks
7 7 (0.63%) Google
7 7 (0.63%) Sage
7 7 (0.63%) Workday
8 6 (0.54%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.45%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.36%) Calypso
10 4 (0.36%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.36%) Progress
10 4 (0.36%) Screaming Frog
10 4 (0.36%) Temenos
11 3 (0.27%) CyberArk