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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -20 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 122 168 190
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.82% 8.39% 8.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 8.93% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 123 128
10th Percentile £355 £350 £394
25th Percentile £431 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £743 £700 £693
90th Percentile £815 £742 £787
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £51.98 £27.33 £33.20
25th Percentile £52.69 £29.70 £33.50
Median hourly rate £55.25 £34.79 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.82% +2.32% -10.53%
75th Percentile £57.69 £40.27 £34.50
90th Percentile £58.33 £42.88 £34.80
London median hourly rate £40.96 £35.25 £36.50
% change year-on-year +16.20% -3.42% -6.91%

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 2,242 1,881 2,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.58% 93.91% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,254 1,408
10th Percentile £368 £317 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 21
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £50.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -25 103 £600 +4.35% 53
City of Westminster -8 5 £725 +16.00% 26
West End of London -9 4 £725 +16.00% 15
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £350 -
Southwark - 1 £600 -
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 11 (9.02%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.46%) Confluence
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.64%) WordPress
4 1 (0.82%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (4.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.46%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.82%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.82%) Primavera
2 1 (0.82%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (10.66%) Azure
2 8 (6.56%) AWS
3 7 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.10%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.28%) SaaS
6 3 (2.46%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.64%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.82%) Asana
8 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.82%) GCP
8 1 (0.82%) GitHub
8 1 (0.82%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.82%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.10%) Network Security
2 4 (3.28%) Multicast
3 3 (2.46%) Firewall
3 3 (2.46%) VPN
4 2 (1.64%) BGP
4 2 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.82%) LAN
5 1 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.82%) WAN
5 1 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.28%) Power BI
2 1 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.82%) QlikView
2 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (9.84%) JIRA
2 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.82%) Git
3 1 (0.82%) GitLab
3 1 (0.82%) Zephyr
General
1 62 (50.82%) Social Skills
2 46 (37.70%) Finance
3 14 (11.48%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.02%) Banking
6 9 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.38%) Retail
7 8 (6.56%) Legal
8 7 (5.74%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (4.92%) Financial Institution
10 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (3.28%) Law
10 4 (3.28%) Marketing
11 3 (2.46%) Electronics
11 3 (2.46%) Police
12 2 (1.64%) Front Office
12 2 (1.64%) German Language
12 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.64%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 68 (55.74%) Project Manager
2 15 (12.30%) Senior
3 13 (10.66%) Senior Manager
4 12 (9.84%) Programme Manager
5 10 (8.20%) Bid Manager
5 10 (8.20%) Lead
6 9 (7.38%) Senior Project Manager
7 6 (4.92%) IT Manager
7 6 (4.92%) IT Project Manager
8 5 (4.10%) Analyst
8 5 (4.10%) Business Change Manager
8 5 (4.10%) Consultant
9 4 (3.28%) Bid Project Manager
9 4 (3.28%) Business Manager
9 4 (3.28%) Change Manager
9 4 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.28%) Migration Manager
9 4 (3.28%) Programme Director
9 4 (3.28%) Transformation Manager
9 4 (3.28%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.28%) ADO
2 3 (2.46%) Middleware
3 1 (0.82%) .NET
3 1 (0.82%) CSS
3 1 (0.82%) HTML
3 1 (0.82%) OAuth
3 1 (0.82%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.82%) OpenID
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.82%) REST
3 1 (0.82%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.82%) SAML
3 1 (0.82%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.56%) Data Centre
1 8 (6.56%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.10%) PMI
2 5 (4.10%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.46%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.46%) FMCG
3 3 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.46%) Replication
3 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.64%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.64%) CCTV
4 2 (1.64%) IoT
4 2 (1.64%) Learning Management System
4 2 (1.64%) Life Science
4 2 (1.64%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.82%) CMDB
5 1 (0.82%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.82%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.10%) Windows
2 4 (3.28%) Linux
3 3 (2.46%) Unix
4 1 (0.82%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.82%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.82%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (55.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 53 (43.44%) Agile
3 42 (34.43%) PRINCE2
4 31 (25.41%) Project Delivery
5 26 (21.31%) Change Management
5 26 (21.31%) Migration
6 20 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (15.57%) Decision-Making
7 19 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (13.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (13.11%) Programme Management
10 15 (12.30%) Waterfall
11 12 (9.84%) Project Governance
12 11 (9.02%) AI
13 10 (8.20%) Process Improvement
13 10 (8.20%) Scrum
14 9 (7.38%) Business Case
15 7 (5.74%) Data Migration
15 7 (5.74%) Matrix Organization
15 7 (5.74%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.92%) Python
2 4 (3.28%) SQL
3 3 (2.46%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.64%) Java
4 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.82%) BeanShell
5 1 (0.82%) C++
5 1 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (29.51%) PMI Certification
1 36 (29.51%) PMP
2 13 (10.66%) Degree
3 7 (5.74%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.64%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.82%) CISM
6 1 (0.82%) CISSP
6 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.82%) NVQ Level 3
6 1 (0.82%) NVQ Level 4
6 1 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.82%) RIBA
6 1 (0.82%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.93%) PMO
2 7 (5.74%) GDPR
3 4 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.28%) NIST
4 3 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.64%) P3O
5 2 (1.64%) QA
6 1 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.82%) Basel III
6 1 (0.82%) GRC
6 1 (0.82%) MiFID
6 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.82%) UCITS
System Software
1 6 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (3.28%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.82%) Ansible
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.82%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.56%) SAP
2 8 (6.56%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.28%) Oracle
4 3 (2.46%) CyberArk
4 3 (2.46%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.46%) Solace
5 2 (1.64%) Cisco
5 2 (1.64%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.64%) Workday
5 2 (1.64%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.82%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.82%) Charles River
6 1 (0.82%) Google
6 1 (0.82%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.82%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.82%) Juniper
6 1 (0.82%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.82%) Splunk
6 1 (0.82%) Wrike