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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 162 192 291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 8.32% 8.35% 8.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.86% 9.07% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 125 197
10th Percentile £353 £398 £370
25th Percentile £449 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +6.77%
75th Percentile £703 £700 £700
90th Percentile £741 £775 £816
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £27.33 - -
25th Percentile £29.70 - -
Median hourly rate £34.79 £35.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -7.89% +7.04%
75th Percentile £40.27 - -
90th Percentile £42.88 - -
London median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year -1.43% -11.21% +66.45%

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 1,828 2,117 2,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.89% 92.04% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,370 2,025
10th Percentile £318 £375 £358
25th Percentile £418 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £774 £787 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 17
10th Percentile £18.96 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.28 £16.61
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%
75th Percentile £50.75 £41.75 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.67% +7.82%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in Central London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 September 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 -1 150 £569 -1.09% 230
West End of London +3 6 £625 +19.62% 2
City of Westminster -3 4 £688 - 7
Camden - 2 £449 - 3
Lambeth +2 1 £240 -
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 8 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.32%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) CMS
3 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (9.26%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.85%) Trello
5 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Aladdin
1 4 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.23%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.23%) SAP PLM
2 2 (1.23%) SAP VC
2 2 (1.23%) Workfront
3 1 (0.62%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.62%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.62%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.62%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.62%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.62%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.02%) Azure
2 11 (6.79%) AWS
3 5 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (3.09%) GCP
4 4 (2.47%) OCI
4 4 (2.47%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.85%) SaaS
5 3 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.62%) Asana
7 1 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.62%) Collibra
7 1 (0.62%) Figma
7 1 (0.62%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.62%) Miro
7 1 (0.62%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.94%) Firewall
2 4 (2.47%) WAN
3 3 (1.85%) DNS
3 3 (1.85%) VPN
3 3 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.23%) BGP
4 2 (1.23%) LAN
4 2 (1.23%) MPLS
4 2 (1.23%) Multicast
4 2 (1.23%) OSPF
4 2 (1.23%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.62%) ATM
5 1 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.62%) IGMP
5 1 (0.62%) Network Security
5 1 (0.62%) SSH
5 1 (0.62%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.47%) Power BI
3 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.23%) Tableau
5 1 (0.62%) DB2
5 1 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (10.49%) JIRA
2 8 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.62%) eggPlant
4 1 (0.62%) GitLab
4 1 (0.62%) MSI
4 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (51.85%) Finance
2 72 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 28 (17.28%) Banking
4 23 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.02%) Front Office
6 11 (6.79%) Legal
6 11 (6.79%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 9 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.32%) Marketing
9 5 (3.09%) Back Office
9 5 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.47%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.47%) Law
10 4 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.47%) Retail
11 3 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.85%) Spanish Language
12 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (37.04%) Project Manager
2 28 (17.28%) Analyst
3 19 (11.73%) Business Analyst
4 17 (10.49%) Consultant
5 12 (7.41%) Lead
6 11 (6.79%) Senior
7 10 (6.17%) IT Manager
8 9 (5.56%) Lead Consultant
8 9 (5.56%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.94%) Programme Manager
10 7 (4.32%) Business Consultant
10 7 (4.32%) Lead Business Analyst
10 7 (4.32%) Technical Manager
11 6 (3.70%) IT Project Manager
11 6 (3.70%) Senior Project Manager
12 5 (3.09%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (3.09%) Infrastructure Manager
12 5 (3.09%) Technical Project Manager
12 5 (3.09%) Transformation Manager
13 4 (2.47%) Charles River Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (3.09%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (1.85%) ADO
2 3 (1.85%) CSS
2 3 (1.85%) HTML
2 3 (1.85%) Visualforce
3 1 (0.62%) ActiveX
3 1 (0.62%) JSON
3 1 (0.62%) OAuth
3 1 (0.62%) OpenID
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.94%) Onboarding
2 7 (4.32%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.70%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.09%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.09%) PMI
4 5 (3.09%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.47%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.47%) Reinsurance
5 4 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.23%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.23%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.79%) Linux
2 7 (4.32%) Windows
3 3 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (35.80%) Agile
2 48 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (25.31%) Project Delivery
4 36 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (16.05%) Change Management
6 24 (14.81%) PRINCE2
6 24 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (12.96%) Risk Management
7 21 (12.96%) Scrum
8 19 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (11.11%) Roadmaps
10 17 (10.49%) DevOps
11 16 (9.88%) Data Analysis
11 16 (9.88%) ITIL
12 14 (8.64%) Validation
13 13 (8.02%) Migration
13 13 (8.02%) Requirements Gathering
13 13 (8.02%) Waterfall
14 12 (7.41%) Time Management
15 11 (6.79%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.64%) SQL
2 10 (6.17%) Python
3 5 (3.09%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.85%) Apex Code
4 3 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.23%) ABAP
5 2 (1.23%) Java
5 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.62%) C#
6 1 (0.62%) RPG
6 1 (0.62%) RPG IV
6 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (17.28%) Degree
2 26 (16.05%) PMP
3 24 (14.81%) PMI Certification
4 14 (8.64%) Security Cleared
5 12 (7.41%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (1.23%) APMG
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.23%) CCNP
8 2 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.23%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.96%) PMO
2 8 (4.94%) EMIR
2 8 (4.94%) MiFID
3 4 (2.47%) QA
4 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.23%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.23%) PSD2
4 2 (1.23%) SEPA
5 1 (0.62%) COBIT
5 1 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.62%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.62%) NIST
5 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (4.32%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.70%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (3.09%) Kibana
3 5 (3.09%) logstash
4 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.23%) Puppet
4 2 (1.23%) Terraform
5 1 (0.62%) Ansible
5 1 (0.62%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.62%) SCCM
5 1 (0.62%) WSUS
5 1 (0.62%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.56%) SAP
3 5 (3.09%) Cisco
3 5 (3.09%) Oracle
3 5 (3.09%) Solace
4 4 (2.47%) Charles River
4 4 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.85%) Citrix
5 3 (1.85%) Databricks
5 3 (1.85%) Google
5 3 (1.85%) HP
5 3 (1.85%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.23%) Adobe
6 2 (1.23%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.23%) Dell
6 2 (1.23%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.23%) IBM
6 2 (1.23%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.23%) Pure Storage
6 2 (1.23%) SolarWinds