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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -20 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 134 170 192
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.36% 8.58% 8.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.01% 9.14% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 122 126
10th Percentile £366 £351 £403
25th Percentile £445 £452 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £569 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -1.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £737 £700 £689
90th Percentile £826 £742 £781
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 £34.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +18.72% +4.32% -16.11%

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 2,231 1,860 2,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.28% 93.84% 92.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,535 1,236 1,400
10th Percentile £360 £321 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £475
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 £774 £788
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 33 25
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.07 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -11.91% +5.60%
75th Percentile £42.13 £50.75 £42.25
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £119.50
London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -18 116 £550 -4.35% 103
City of Westminster -8 4 £725 +5.45% 18
West End of London -11 3 - - 8
Southwark - 1 £600 - 3
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 11 (8.21%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.22%) Confluence
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.49%) WordPress
5 1 (0.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.75%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (6.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.24%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.75%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.75%) Primavera
2 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.96%) Azure
2 8 (5.97%) AWS
3 7 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.73%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.99%) SaaS
6 3 (2.24%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (2.24%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.49%) GCP
7 2 (1.49%) Harvey AI
7 2 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.75%) Asana
8 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.75%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.73%) Network Security
2 4 (2.99%) Multicast
3 3 (2.24%) Firewall
3 3 (2.24%) VPN
4 2 (1.49%) BGP
4 2 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.75%) LAN
5 1 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.75%) WAN
5 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.99%) Power BI
2 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.75%) Flink
2 1 (0.75%) QlikView
2 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (12.69%) JIRA
2 2 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.75%) Git
3 1 (0.75%) GitLab
3 1 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 67 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 53 (39.55%) Finance
3 16 (11.94%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.70%) Banking
5 9 (6.72%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.72%) Retail
6 8 (5.97%) Legal
6 8 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.48%) Marketing
8 5 (3.73%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.99%) Law
10 3 (2.24%) Electronics
10 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.24%) Police
11 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.49%) German Language
Job Titles
1 73 (54.48%) Project Manager
2 17 (12.69%) Senior
3 15 (11.19%) Senior Manager
4 13 (9.70%) Programme Manager
5 11 (8.21%) Lead
6 10 (7.46%) Bid Manager
6 10 (7.46%) Senior Project Manager
7 8 (5.97%) IT Manager
8 6 (4.48%) Analyst
8 6 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (4.48%) IT Project Manager
8 6 (4.48%) Technical Manager
9 5 (3.73%) Business Change Manager
9 5 (3.73%) Change Manager
9 5 (3.73%) Consultant
10 4 (2.99%) Business Manager
10 4 (2.99%) Digital Project Manager
10 4 (2.99%) Programme Director
10 4 (2.99%) Technical Project Manager
10 4 (2.99%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.99%) ADO
2 3 (2.24%) Middleware
3 1 (0.75%) .NET
3 1 (0.75%) CSS
3 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.75%) HTML
3 1 (0.75%) Kafka
3 1 (0.75%) OAuth
3 1 (0.75%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.75%) OpenID
3 1 (0.75%) REST
3 1 (0.75%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.75%) SAML
3 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.72%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.97%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.48%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.48%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.73%) PMI
5 4 (2.99%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.99%) Life Science
6 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.24%) FMCG
6 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.24%) Replication
6 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.49%) CCTV
7 2 (1.49%) Derivative
7 2 (1.49%) IoT
7 2 (1.49%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.49%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.99%) Linux
1 4 (2.99%) Windows
2 3 (2.24%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 59 (44.03%) Agile
3 43 (32.09%) PRINCE2
4 35 (26.12%) Project Delivery
5 29 (21.64%) Change Management
6 28 (20.90%) Migration
7 23 (17.16%) Decision-Making
8 22 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (14.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (14.18%) Waterfall
11 17 (12.69%) Project Governance
12 16 (11.94%) Programme Management
13 14 (10.45%) AI
14 13 (9.70%) Scrum
15 12 (8.96%) Business Case
15 12 (8.96%) Process Improvement
16 11 (8.21%) Roadmaps
17 9 (6.72%) Matrix Organization
17 9 (6.72%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.48%) Python
2 4 (2.99%) SQL
3 3 (2.24%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.49%) Java
4 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.75%) BeanShell
5 1 (0.75%) C++
5 1 (0.75%) Korn
5 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (30.60%) PMI Certification
1 41 (30.60%) PMP
2 16 (11.94%) Degree
3 7 (5.22%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.49%) CAPM
5 2 (1.49%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.75%) CISM
6 1 (0.75%) CISSP
6 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.75%) NVQ Level 3
6 1 (0.75%) NVQ Level 4
6 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.75%) RIBA
6 1 (0.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.91%) PMO
2 6 (4.48%) GDPR
3 4 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.24%) NIST
5 2 (1.49%) P3O
5 2 (1.49%) QA
6 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) Basel III
6 1 (0.75%) GRC
6 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.75%) MiFID
6 1 (0.75%) SEPA
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.75%) TARGET2
6 1 (0.75%) UCITS
System Software
1 5 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (2.99%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.75%) Ansible
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.75%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) SAP
3 8 (5.97%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.73%) Oracle
5 4 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.24%) Solace
7 2 (1.49%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.49%) Cisco
7 2 (1.49%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.49%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.49%) Planview
7 2 (1.49%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.49%) Workday
7 2 (1.49%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.75%) BMC
8 1 (0.75%) Charles River
8 1 (0.75%) Google
8 1 (0.75%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.75%) Juniper
8 1 (0.75%) Remedy