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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 20 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Project Management 185 190 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 9.73% 7.93% 7.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.41% 8.72% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 126 182
10th Percentile £410 £331 £375
25th Percentile £469 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £544 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% -7.45% +11.90%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £700
90th Percentile £775 £781 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +5.99%
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% -14.88%
75th Percentile £44.61 £30.07 £52.75
90th Percentile - £31.83 -
London median hourly rate £37.30 £32.40 £42.25
% change year-on-year +15.13% -23.33% -5.06%

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 1,777 2,179 3,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.48% 90.94% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,539 2,277
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 26
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.38 £52.69
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%

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 30 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 30 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 +6 167 £575 +4.50% 55
West End of London -1 7 £538 +65.90% 12
City of Westminster 0 4 £588 +6.82% 3
Camden +3 2 £449 -11.19% 1
Lambeth - 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 6 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.70%) Confluence
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 24 (12.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (11.35%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (10.27%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (9.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (2.16%) Trello
6 2 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.16%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.62%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.54%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.54%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.54%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.54%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.54%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.54%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.54%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.54%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (10.27%) Azure
2 10 (5.41%) AWS
3 7 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.24%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.24%) SuccessFactors
5 5 (2.70%) SaaS
6 4 (2.16%) GCP
6 4 (2.16%) OCI
7 3 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.08%) Miro
8 2 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.54%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.54%) BigCommerce
9 1 (0.54%) Collibra
9 1 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.16%) Firewall
1 4 (2.16%) VPN
2 3 (1.62%) DNS
3 2 (1.08%) Network Security
3 2 (1.08%) WAN
3 2 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.08%) WLAN
4 1 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.54%) HTTP
4 1 (0.54%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.54%) IGMP
4 1 (0.54%) LAN
4 1 (0.54%) MPLS
4 1 (0.54%) Multicast
4 1 (0.54%) OSPF
4 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.54%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.54%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.70%) Power BI
1 5 (2.70%) Tableau
2 4 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.62%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.08%) Big Data
4 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.08%) Looker
4 2 (1.08%) Metadata
5 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.54%) DB2
5 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 24 (12.97%) JIRA
2 4 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.08%) Git
3 2 (1.08%) GitLab
4 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.54%) eggPlant
4 1 (0.54%) MSI
4 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 91 (49.19%) Finance
2 83 (44.86%) Social Skills
3 34 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.97%) Banking
5 16 (8.65%) Front Office
6 11 (5.95%) Legal
6 11 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (5.95%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.32%) Back Office
7 8 (4.32%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.24%) Retail
10 5 (2.70%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.70%) Retail Banking
11 4 (2.16%) Marketing
12 3 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.62%) Law
12 3 (1.62%) Local Government
13 2 (1.08%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (40.54%) Project Manager
2 27 (14.59%) Analyst
3 18 (9.73%) Business Analyst
4 17 (9.19%) Lead
4 17 (9.19%) Senior
5 12 (6.49%) Infrastructure Manager
5 12 (6.49%) Senior Manager
6 11 (5.95%) Consultant
7 10 (5.41%) Senior Project Manager
8 9 (4.86%) Delivery Manager
9 8 (4.32%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 8 (4.32%) Programme Manager
10 7 (3.78%) IT Manager
10 7 (3.78%) Lead Consultant
10 7 (3.78%) Transformation Manager
11 6 (3.24%) Change Manager
12 5 (2.70%) Business Consultant
12 5 (2.70%) Business Manager
12 5 (2.70%) Network Manager
12 5 (2.70%) Network Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.62%) OAuth
1 3 (1.62%) SAML
2 2 (1.08%) ADO
2 2 (1.08%) CSS
2 2 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.08%) HTML
2 2 (1.08%) OpenID
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.08%) Visualforce
3 1 (0.54%) .NET
3 1 (0.54%) ActiveX
3 1 (0.54%) Bootstrap
3 1 (0.54%) JWT
3 1 (0.54%) LDAP
3 1 (0.54%) Node.js
3 1 (0.54%) pytest
3 1 (0.54%) React
3 1 (0.54%) REST
3 1 (0.54%) SOAP
3 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.32%) Data Centre
1 8 (4.32%) Management Information System
1 8 (4.32%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.78%) PMI
3 5 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.70%) Reference Data
3 5 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.16%) Fixed Income
4 4 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.16%) Market Risk
4 4 (2.16%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.08%) Derivative
6 2 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.08%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.24%) Linux
1 6 (3.24%) Windows
2 4 (2.16%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.08%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.08%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (34.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 62 (33.51%) Agile
3 49 (26.49%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 32 (17.30%) Change Management
6 31 (16.76%) PRINCE2
7 24 (12.97%) Scrum
8 22 (11.89%) Decision-Making
8 22 (11.89%) Risk Management
9 21 (11.35%) Migration
10 20 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (10.27%) Budget Management
11 19 (10.27%) DevOps
11 19 (10.27%) Waterfall
12 16 (8.65%) Business Analysis
12 16 (8.65%) Data Analysis
12 16 (8.65%) Roadmaps
13 14 (7.57%) Data Management
13 14 (7.57%) Resource Allocation
13 14 (7.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.11%) SQL
2 9 (4.86%) Python
3 5 (2.70%) Java
4 4 (2.16%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.62%) Bash
5 3 (1.62%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.08%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.54%) ABAP
7 1 (0.54%) C#
7 1 (0.54%) Groovy
7 1 (0.54%) RPG
7 1 (0.54%) RPG IV
7 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (17.84%) Degree
2 29 (15.68%) PMI Certification
3 27 (14.59%) PMP
4 19 (10.27%) Security Cleared
5 16 (8.65%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.08%) CFA
8 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.08%) OCP
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CAPM
9 1 (0.54%) CCNP
9 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.49%) PMO
2 9 (4.86%) MiFID
3 8 (4.32%) EMIR
4 6 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.70%) QA
6 4 (2.16%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.62%) NIST
7 3 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.08%) SLA
9 1 (0.54%) COBIT
9 1 (0.54%) COSO
9 1 (0.54%) GDPR
9 1 (0.54%) SEPA
9 1 (0.54%) UCITS
System Software
1 4 (2.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.54%) OpenAM
2 1 (0.54%) OpenDJ
2 1 (0.54%) OpenIDM
2 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (3.24%) Terraform
2 4 (2.16%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.62%) SCCM
4 2 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.08%) Puppet
5 1 (0.54%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.54%) Kibana
5 1 (0.54%) logstash
5 1 (0.54%) Rancher
5 1 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.95%) SAP
3 7 (3.78%) Cisco
4 6 (3.24%) Oracle
4 6 (3.24%) Planview
5 4 (2.16%) Databricks
6 3 (1.62%) Charles River
6 3 (1.62%) Citrix
6 3 (1.62%) Google
6 3 (1.62%) Logitech
6 3 (1.62%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.08%) Apple
7 2 (1.08%) Dell
7 2 (1.08%) HP
7 2 (1.08%) IBM
7 2 (1.08%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.08%) Pure Storage
7 2 (1.08%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.08%) Splunk
8 1 (0.54%) Tenable