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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 207 276 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 8.41% 7.12% 7.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.30% 7.77% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 185 262
10th Percentile £348 £368 £363
25th Percentile £440 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £595 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £683 £738 £634
90th Percentile £787 £834 £724
London median daily rate £550 £568 £543
% change year-on-year -3.08% +4.61% +8.50%
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% +207.69%
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 2,227 3,551 4,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.66% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 2,404 3,185
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 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 40
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.25 £20.22 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.83
London median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%

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 26 April 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 26 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
City of London +8 179 £565 -5.83% 109
West End of London +8 10 £324 -37.69% 3
City of Westminster +2 7 £550 -31.25% 2
Camden +2 4 £505 +44.29% 5
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £400 - 1
Southwark +4 1 £550 +37.50% 3
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 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.97%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Drupal
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.48%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (7.25%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (3.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (3.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.45%) Loan IQ
2 3 (1.45%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.97%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.48%) Primavera
4 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.48%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.48%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.48%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.59%) Azure
2 16 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (5.80%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.90%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.42%) WhatsApp
8 4 (1.93%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.45%) GitHub
9 3 (1.45%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.97%) AWS
10 2 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.97%) GCP
10 2 (0.97%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.97%) SaaS
11 1 (0.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.48%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.48%) IBM Blueworks
11 1 (0.48%) MailChimp
11 1 (0.48%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.93%) Firewall
2 3 (1.45%) VoIP
3 2 (0.97%) Network Security
3 2 (0.97%) PBX
3 2 (0.97%) PSTN
3 2 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.48%) 5G
4 1 (0.48%) Broadband
4 1 (0.48%) Internet
4 1 (0.48%) Intranet
4 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.86%) Power BI
3 6 (2.90%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 6 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.90%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.45%) MySQL
4 3 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.97%) Metadata
5 2 (0.97%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.48%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 19 (9.18%) JIRA
2 3 (1.45%) GitLab
2 3 (1.45%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.97%) Git
3 2 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.97%) Subversion
3 2 (0.97%) TestRail
3 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (0.97%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.48%) AppScan
4 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.48%) Postman
4 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 87 (42.03%) Finance
2 78 (37.68%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.59%) Legal
5 23 (11.11%) Banking
6 21 (10.14%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (6.76%) Marketing
8 13 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (5.80%) Public Sector
10 9 (4.35%) Front Office
11 8 (3.86%) Law
11 8 (3.86%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.42%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.42%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.45%) Back Office
13 3 (1.45%) Retail
14 2 (0.97%) International Banking
14 2 (0.97%) Local Government
14 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (38.65%) Project Manager
2 20 (9.66%) Analyst
3 15 (7.25%) Senior
4 14 (6.76%) Business Analyst
4 14 (6.76%) IT Manager
5 13 (6.28%) Consultant
5 13 (6.28%) Lead
6 12 (5.80%) IT Project Manager
7 11 (5.31%) Senior Manager
8 10 (4.83%) Developer
9 9 (4.35%) Senior Project Manager
9 9 (4.35%) Technical Manager
9 9 (4.35%) Transformation Manager
10 8 (3.86%) Scrum Master
11 7 (3.38%) Architect
11 7 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (3.38%) Technical Project Manager
12 5 (2.42%) Infrastructure Manager
12 5 (2.42%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 5 (2.42%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.38%) XML
2 3 (1.45%) CSS
2 3 (1.45%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (1.45%) jQuery
2 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.97%) ADO
3 2 (0.97%) EDI
3 2 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.48%) Laravel
4 1 (0.48%) React
4 1 (0.48%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.86%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.42%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.42%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.42%) Photography
4 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.45%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.45%) Smart Meter
4 3 (1.45%) Social Media
5 2 (0.97%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (0.97%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.97%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.97%) NHS
5 2 (0.97%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.48%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.93%) Windows
2 3 (1.45%) Linux
3 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) AIX
4 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (37.20%) Agile
2 40 (19.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (14.98%) Project Delivery
4 28 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (12.08%) Change Management
5 25 (12.08%) Migration
5 25 (12.08%) PRINCE2
5 25 (12.08%) Risk Management
6 24 (11.59%) Scrum
7 22 (10.63%) ITIL
8 20 (9.66%) Waterfall
9 17 (8.21%) Computer Science
10 15 (7.25%) Budget Management
11 12 (5.80%) Decision-Making
11 12 (5.80%) DevOps
11 12 (5.80%) Programme Management
11 12 (5.80%) User Acceptance Testing
12 11 (5.31%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (5.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (5.31%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.31%) PowerShell
2 10 (4.83%) SQL
3 6 (2.90%) PL/SQL
3 6 (2.90%) XPath
3 6 (2.90%) XQuery
4 3 (1.45%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.45%) Python
5 2 (0.97%) Bash
5 2 (0.97%) C#
5 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.48%) Java
6 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.48%) PHP
6 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (18.84%) Degree
2 14 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.28%) Security Cleared
4 12 (5.80%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (4.83%) PMP
6 7 (3.38%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.90%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.93%) ACCA
9 2 (0.97%) CCNA
9 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.97%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.48%) APMP
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.48%) CAPM
10 1 (0.48%) CISSP
10 1 (0.48%) MBA
10 1 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.08%) PMO
2 8 (3.86%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.90%) QA
4 4 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.45%) EMIR
5 3 (1.45%) SLA
6 2 (0.97%) Basel III
6 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.97%) NIST
6 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.48%) COBIT
7 1 (0.48%) GAAP
7 1 (0.48%) IFRS
7 1 (0.48%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.48%) MiFID
7 1 (0.48%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (0.97%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 8 (3.86%) PingFederate
2 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.97%) Ansible
3 2 (0.97%) Grafana
3 2 (0.97%) Graylog
3 2 (0.97%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.97%) Nagios
3 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.97%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.97%) Puppet
3 2 (0.97%) Terraform
4 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.48%) Nessus
4 1 (0.48%) SCCM
4 1 (0.48%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 37 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.70%) SAP
3 14 (6.76%) Oracle
4 7 (3.38%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.93%) Cisco
7 3 (1.45%) Arista
7 3 (1.45%) Proofpoint
7 3 (1.45%) Symantec
7 3 (1.45%) Workday
8 2 (0.97%) Adobe
8 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.97%) BT
8 2 (0.97%) Radianz
8 2 (0.97%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.97%) Reuters
8 2 (0.97%) Splunk
9 1 (0.48%) Apple
9 1 (0.48%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.48%) IBM