Project Management Contract Job Trends in Central London

Project Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Project Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 26 20
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 128 153 196
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.38% 8.02% 8.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.91% 8.54% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 106 120
10th Percentile £368 £359 £394
25th Percentile £450 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £708 £700 £700
90th Percentile £842 £738 £789
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £20.73 -
25th Percentile £44.75 £21.57 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £23.43 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.63% -33.06% -7.89%
75th Percentile £64.25 £25.57 -
90th Percentile - £26.58 -
London median hourly rate £53.00 £34.50 £34.04
% change year-on-year +53.62% +1.37% -14.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Project Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,166 1,792 2,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.97% 93.92% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 1,211 1,372
10th Percentile £357 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £773 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 29
10th Percentile £15.92 £17.79 £18.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.00 £25.40
Median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £43.00 £36.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £64.15 £60.95 £117.10
London median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
% change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Project Management job vacancy trend in Central London

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Project Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Project Management

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Central London over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Central London

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Project Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Project Management

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 8 October 2026. 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 -19 109 £535 -3.91% 157
City of Westminster -3 9 £725 +5.45% 28
West End of London -11 3 £583 -6.80% 6
Camden -2 1 £583 +29.88% 3
Southwark - 1 £600 - 2
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £350 -
Project Management
London

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.03%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.91%) Confluence
3 2 (1.56%) WordPress
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) CMS
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.78%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.78%) Primavera
2 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.78%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.59%) Azure
2 7 (5.47%) AWS
3 5 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (3.91%) Power Platform
3 5 (3.91%) SaaS
4 3 (2.34%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.34%) Harvey AI
4 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (1.56%) GCP
5 2 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (0.78%) GitHub
6 1 (0.78%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.78%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.91%) Network Security
2 4 (3.13%) Multicast
3 3 (2.34%) Firewall
3 3 (2.34%) VPN
4 2 (1.56%) BGP
4 2 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.78%) LAN
5 1 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.78%) WAN
5 1 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.13%) Power BI
2 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.78%) Flink
2 1 (0.78%) QlikView
2 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (10.94%) JIRA
2 2 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.78%) Git
3 1 (0.78%) GitLab
3 1 (0.78%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (55.47%) Social Skills
2 49 (38.28%) Finance
3 15 (11.72%) Banking
4 14 (10.94%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.03%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.47%) Legal
7 7 (5.47%) Marketing
7 7 (5.47%) Retail
8 6 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.34%) Electronics
10 3 (2.34%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.34%) Police
11 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.56%) Legal Technology
11 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (54.69%) Project Manager
2 18 (14.06%) Senior
3 16 (12.50%) Senior Manager
4 13 (10.16%) Programme Manager
5 12 (9.38%) Senior Project Manager
6 10 (7.81%) Bid Manager
7 9 (7.03%) Lead
8 7 (5.47%) Analyst
9 5 (3.91%) Business Change Manager
9 5 (3.91%) Change Manager
9 5 (3.91%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.91%) IT Manager
9 5 (3.91%) Programme Director
9 5 (3.91%) Technical Manager
10 4 (3.13%) Bid Project Manager
10 4 (3.13%) Business Manager
10 4 (3.13%) Digital Project Manager
10 4 (3.13%) Technical Project Manager
11 3 (2.34%) Middleware Engineer
11 3 (2.34%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.13%) ADO
2 3 (2.34%) Middleware
3 2 (1.56%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.78%) .NET
4 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.78%) Kafka
4 1 (0.78%) OAuth
4 1 (0.78%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.78%) OpenID
4 1 (0.78%) REST
4 1 (0.78%) SAML
4 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.59%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.91%) Fixed Income
3 5 (3.91%) Life Science
3 5 (3.91%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.34%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.34%) Derivative
4 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.34%) Replication
4 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.56%) CCTV
5 2 (1.56%) FMCG
5 2 (1.56%) IoT
5 2 (1.56%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.56%) OTC Derivatives
5 2 (1.56%) PMI
5 2 (1.56%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.78%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.13%) Linux
2 3 (2.34%) Unix
3 2 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (57.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (42.19%) Agile
3 41 (32.03%) PRINCE2
4 35 (27.34%) Project Delivery
5 27 (21.09%) Change Management
6 26 (20.31%) Decision-Making
7 22 (17.19%) Migration
8 21 (16.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (14.84%) AI
11 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (12.50%) Project Governance
12 16 (12.50%) Waterfall
13 13 (10.16%) Roadmaps
13 13 (10.16%) Scrum
14 12 (9.38%) Process Improvement
15 10 (7.81%) Business Case
15 10 (7.81%) Programme Management
16 8 (6.25%) Budget Management
16 8 (6.25%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.69%) Python
2 4 (3.13%) SQL
3 3 (2.34%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.56%) Java
5 1 (0.78%) BeanShell
5 1 (0.78%) C++
5 1 (0.78%) Korn
5 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (31.25%) PMP
2 38 (29.69%) PMI Certification
3 17 (13.28%) Degree
4 6 (4.69%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.13%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.56%) CAPM
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.78%) CISM
7 1 (0.78%) CISSP
7 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.78%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.78%) NVQ Level 4
7 1 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.78%) RIBA
7 1 (0.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.41%) PMO
2 5 (3.91%) GDPR
3 4 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.56%) P3O
4 2 (1.56%) QA
5 1 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.78%) GRC
5 1 (0.78%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) SEPA
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.78%) TARGET2
System Software
1 4 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (3.13%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.78%) Ansible
2 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.81%) SAP
3 8 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.91%) Oracle
5 4 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.34%) Solace
7 2 (1.56%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.56%) Cisco
7 2 (1.56%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.56%) Planview
7 2 (1.56%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.56%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.78%) Google
8 1 (0.78%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.78%) Juniper
8 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.78%) Remedy
8 1 (0.78%) Splunk
8 1 (0.78%) Workday
8 1 (0.78%) Wrike