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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Management 126 193 190
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.08% 9.91% 7.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.96% 10.63% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 119 126
10th Percentile £413 £362 £331
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £750 £683 £670
90th Percentile £800 £775 £787
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £21.23
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.54 £23.19
Median hourly rate £52.50 £43.08 £26.80
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +60.71% -47.96%
75th Percentile £53.75 £44.61 £30.07
90th Percentile - - £31.83
London median hourly rate £35.50 £38.11 £31.71
% change year-on-year -6.85% +20.18% -22.66%

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 2,114 1,816 2,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.31% 93.27% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,442 1,167 1,559
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £685
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 25 22
10th Percentile £18.45 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.75 £22.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £52.16 £43.75 £28.98
90th Percentile £59.72 £50.75 £40.00
London median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £27.92
% change year-on-year +9.56% +21.78% -25.23%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -17 115 £613 +6.52% 31
West End of London -10 2 £725 +23.40% 2
City of Westminster -7 1 £725 +23.40% 5
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 7 (5.56%) Confluence
2 6 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.59%) CMS
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.79%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.38%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.79%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.79%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.11%) Azure
2 12 (9.52%) AWS
3 4 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (3.17%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.59%) Google Workspace
4 2 (1.59%) OneDrive
4 2 (1.59%) SaaS
4 2 (1.59%) Slack
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.79%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.79%) OCI
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) Broadband
2 1 (0.79%) Internet
2 1 (0.79%) Intranet
2 1 (0.79%) Multicast
2 1 (0.79%) Network Security
2 1 (0.79%) VPN
2 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.17%) Power BI
1 4 (3.17%) Tableau
2 2 (1.59%) Metadata
3 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.79%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 16 (12.70%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) Git
2 1 (0.79%) GitLab
2 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (46.03%) Finance
2 50 (39.68%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.11%) Banking
5 13 (10.32%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (9.52%) Financial Institution
7 7 (5.56%) Marketing
8 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.76%) Retail
9 4 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.17%) Legal
9 4 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.38%) Law
11 2 (1.59%) Advertising
11 2 (1.59%) Front Office
11 2 (1.59%) German Language
11 2 (1.59%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (52.38%) Project Manager
2 18 (14.29%) Senior
3 12 (9.52%) Analyst
3 12 (9.52%) Migration Manager
3 12 (9.52%) Migration Project Manager
3 12 (9.52%) Senior Manager
4 10 (7.94%) Programme Manager
5 9 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
5 9 (7.14%) Senior Project Manager
6 8 (6.35%) Business Analyst
6 8 (6.35%) IT Manager
6 8 (6.35%) Lead
7 7 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
8 6 (4.76%) Workday Manager
8 6 (4.76%) Workday Project Manager
9 5 (3.97%) Consultant
9 5 (3.97%) Transformation Manager
10 4 (3.17%) CRM Manager
10 4 (3.17%) Infrastructure Manager
10 4 (3.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.38%) Middleware
2 2 (1.59%) HTML
3 1 (0.79%) ADO
3 1 (0.79%) CSS
3 1 (0.79%) Kafka
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.56%) PMI
3 4 (3.17%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.17%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.17%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.59%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.59%) FMCG
5 2 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.59%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.59%) Social Media
6 1 (0.79%) CMDB
6 1 (0.79%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.79%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.79%) Life Science
6 1 (0.79%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.79%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (0.79%) Linux
2 1 (0.79%) Mac OS X
2 1 (0.79%) Unix
2 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.79%) Windows 7
2 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (51.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 55 (43.65%) Agile
3 34 (26.98%) PRINCE2
3 34 (26.98%) Project Delivery
4 30 (23.81%) Migration
5 26 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (16.67%) Waterfall
7 18 (14.29%) Change Management
7 18 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (12.70%) Validation
9 15 (11.90%) Programme Management
9 15 (11.90%) Project Governance
10 14 (11.11%) Decision-Making
11 12 (9.52%) Security Architecture
12 11 (8.73%) Requirements Gathering
13 9 (7.14%) Data Migration
13 9 (7.14%) Roadmaps
13 9 (7.14%) Service Delivery
14 8 (6.35%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.59%) Python
1 2 (1.59%) SQL
2 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
2 1 (0.79%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 29 (23.02%) PMP
2 26 (20.63%) PMI Certification
3 9 (7.14%) Degree
4 5 (3.97%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.17%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.59%) APMP
7 2 (1.59%) CBAP
7 2 (1.59%) CISSP
7 2 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.79%) CFA
8 1 (0.79%) CISM
8 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.79%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.49%) PMO
2 14 (11.11%) GDPR
3 13 (10.32%) NIST
4 12 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (6.35%) QA
6 5 (3.97%) Data Quality
7 3 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.59%) Basel III
9 1 (0.79%) COBIT
9 1 (0.79%) MiFID
9 1 (0.79%) P3O
9 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.79%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (0.79%) logstash
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.79%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (8.73%) CyberArk
1 11 (8.73%) ServiceNow
2 10 (7.94%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.56%) SAP
4 6 (4.76%) Oracle
4 6 (4.76%) Workday
5 5 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.38%) Google
7 2 (1.59%) Adobe
8 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.79%) Avature
8 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.79%) BT
8 1 (0.79%) Charles River
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco
8 1 (0.79%) Databricks
8 1 (0.79%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.79%) Kronos
8 1 (0.79%) Reuters
8 1 (0.79%) Sitecore