Project Management Contracts in Central London

Project Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 199 204 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 9.95% 8.37% 7.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.70% 9.24% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 133 184
10th Percentile £355 £328 £375
25th Percentile £463 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £672 £675 £704
90th Percentile £775 £787 £818
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £21.23 -
25th Percentile £41.54 £23.19 £50.25
Median hourly rate £43.08 £26.80 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -47.96% -14.17%
75th Percentile £44.61 £30.07 £52.75
90th Percentile - £31.83 -
London median hourly rate £37.56 £31.71 £43.00
% change year-on-year +18.43% -26.26% -3.37%

All Process and 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 1,860 2,208 3,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.95% 90.60% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,571 2,388
10th Percentile £357 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.45
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £33.00 £28.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year +15.79% -26.45% +6.43%

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 3 May 2025.

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 3 May 2025. 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 +2 174 £575 +1.77% 87
West End of London -2 9 £588 +81.33% 15
City of Westminster +1 7 £588 +6.82% 3
Kensington and Chelsea 0 3 - - 1
Camden -1 2 £449 -11.19% 3
Southwark -3 1 - -
Lambeth - 1 £240 - 1
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 7 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.51%) Confluence
3 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.01%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) Drupal
4 1 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (12.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (11.56%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (10.55%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (9.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (3.02%) Trello
6 2 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (2.01%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.50%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Endur
2 1 (0.50%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.50%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.50%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.50%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.55%) Azure
2 9 (4.52%) AWS
3 6 (3.02%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.02%) SuccessFactors
4 5 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.51%) SaaS
5 4 (2.01%) GCP
5 4 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.01%) OCI
6 3 (1.51%) Asana
6 3 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.51%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.01%) BigCommerce
7 2 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.01%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.01%) IBM Blueworks
7 2 (1.01%) Miro
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.50%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.02%) Firewall
2 4 (2.01%) Network Security
3 3 (1.51%) VPN
3 3 (1.51%) WAN
4 2 (1.01%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.01%) Skype
4 2 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.01%) WLAN
5 1 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.50%) DNS
5 1 (0.50%) HTTP
5 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.50%) IGMP
5 1 (0.50%) LAN
5 1 (0.50%) Multicast
5 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.51%) Power BI
1 5 (2.51%) Tableau
2 4 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.51%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.01%) Big Data
4 2 (1.01%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.01%) DB2
4 2 (1.01%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.01%) Looker
4 2 (1.01%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.50%) Metadata
5 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 25 (12.56%) JIRA
2 2 (1.01%) Git
2 2 (1.01%) GitLab
2 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.50%) eggPlant
3 1 (0.50%) MSI
3 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 98 (49.25%) Finance
2 90 (45.23%) Social Skills
3 40 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.56%) Banking
5 18 (9.05%) Public Sector
6 16 (8.04%) Front Office
7 10 (5.03%) Legal
8 9 (4.52%) Back Office
8 9 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (4.02%) Investment Banking
10 7 (3.52%) Financial Institution
10 7 (3.52%) Local Government
10 7 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.52%) Retail
11 5 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.51%) Retail Banking
12 4 (2.01%) Marketing
13 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (1.01%) French Language
Job Titles
1 81 (40.70%) Project Manager
2 29 (14.57%) Analyst
3 19 (9.55%) Business Analyst
4 18 (9.05%) Lead
4 18 (9.05%) Senior
5 13 (6.53%) Senior Manager
6 12 (6.03%) Infrastructure Manager
7 11 (5.53%) Senior Project Manager
8 10 (5.03%) Delivery Manager
9 9 (4.52%) IT Manager
10 8 (4.02%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 8 (4.02%) Programme Manager
11 7 (3.52%) Consultant
11 7 (3.52%) Risk Manager
12 6 (3.02%) Change Manager
12 6 (3.02%) Data Analyst
12 6 (3.02%) IT Project Manager
12 6 (3.02%) Risk Project Manager
12 6 (3.02%) Transformation Manager
13 5 (2.51%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.51%) OAuth
1 3 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (1.51%) SAML
2 2 (1.01%) OpenID
3 1 (0.50%) .NET
3 1 (0.50%) ADO
3 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.50%) Bootstrap
3 1 (0.50%) CSS
3 1 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.50%) HTML
3 1 (0.50%) JSON
3 1 (0.50%) JWT
3 1 (0.50%) LDAP
3 1 (0.50%) Node.js
3 1 (0.50%) pytest
3 1 (0.50%) React
3 1 (0.50%) REST
3 1 (0.50%) SOAP
3 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.52%) Data Centre
1 9 (4.52%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.02%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.52%) PMI
4 5 (2.51%) Fixed Income
4 5 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.51%) Market Risk
4 5 (2.51%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.01%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.51%) Equities
6 3 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.51%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.01%) BYOD
7 2 (1.01%) Derivative
7 2 (1.01%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.01%) Social Media
8 1 (0.50%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.02%) Windows
2 6 (3.02%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.51%) Linux
4 2 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.50%) SUSE
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (33.17%) Agile
2 65 (32.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 55 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (20.60%) Project Delivery
5 33 (16.58%) PRINCE2
6 31 (15.58%) Change Management
7 26 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (12.56%) Risk Management
9 22 (11.06%) Migration
10 21 (10.55%) Decision-Making
10 21 (10.55%) Scrum
11 20 (10.05%) Budget Management
11 20 (10.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (9.55%) Waterfall
13 17 (8.54%) Resource Allocation
13 17 (8.54%) Roadmaps
14 15 (7.54%) Data Analysis
14 15 (7.54%) Data Management
14 15 (7.54%) DevOps
15 14 (7.04%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.04%) SQL
2 10 (5.03%) Python
3 4 (2.01%) Java
4 3 (1.51%) Bash
4 3 (1.51%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.50%) C#
6 1 (0.50%) Groovy
6 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.50%) RPG
6 1 (0.50%) RPG IV
6 1 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (18.09%) Degree
2 35 (17.59%) PMI Certification
3 31 (15.58%) PMP
4 20 (10.05%) Security Cleared
5 18 (9.05%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.52%) Master's Degree
7 6 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 4 (2.01%) CFA
9 3 (1.51%) CISA
10 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.01%) CBAP
10 2 (1.01%) MBA
10 2 (1.01%) OCP
10 2 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.53%) PMO
2 7 (3.52%) MiFID
3 6 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.02%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.02%) EMIR
3 6 (3.02%) QA
4 5 (2.51%) NIST
4 5 (2.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.01%) GDPR
6 3 (1.51%) COBIT
6 3 (1.51%) COSO
6 3 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.01%) SLA
8 1 (0.50%) UCITS
System Software
1 4 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.01%) Docker
3 1 (0.50%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.50%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.50%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (2.51%) Terraform
2 4 (2.01%) SCCM
3 2 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.01%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 2 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.01%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.50%) Puppet
4 1 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 29 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.02%) Oracle
2 8 (4.02%) SAP
3 7 (3.52%) Cisco
4 6 (3.02%) Planview
5 4 (2.01%) Databricks
6 3 (1.51%) Citrix
6 3 (1.51%) Google
6 3 (1.51%) IBM
6 3 (1.51%) Logitech
7 2 (1.01%) Apple
7 2 (1.01%) Dell
7 2 (1.01%) HP
7 2 (1.01%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.01%) Pure Storage
7 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.01%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.01%) Splunk
8 1 (0.50%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.50%) GoldenSource