Project Manager Contracts in Central London

Project Manager
London > Central London

The median Project Manager daily rate in Central London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 126 187 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 6.31% 7.65% 7.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.80% 8.03% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 128 209
10th Percentile £449 £400 £410
25th Percentile £481 £480 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% +11.36%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £779 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in Central London

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in Central London

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Central London

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in Central London

Project Manager
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 Manager within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 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 -5 111 £600 - 30
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 - -
City of Westminster +1 3 £375 -31.82% 1
West End of London 0 3 £449 +63.09% 3
Southwark -2 2 £450 -18.18% 1
Camden -7 2 £449 -0.88%
Project Manager
London

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 81 (64.29%) Project Management
2 56 (44.44%) Finance
3 43 (34.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (31.75%) Agile
4 40 (31.75%) Social Skills
5 39 (30.95%) Project Delivery
6 27 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (19.84%) PMI Certification
8 22 (17.46%) PMP
8 22 (17.46%) Migration
9 20 (15.87%) PRINCE2
10 16 (12.70%) Microsoft Project
11 15 (11.90%) Banking
11 15 (11.90%) Degree
12 14 (11.11%) Waterfall
12 14 (11.11%) Budget Management
13 12 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
13 12 (9.52%) JIRA
14 11 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (8.73%) Scrum
14 11 (8.73%) Microsoft
14 11 (8.73%) PMO
15 10 (7.94%) Resource Allocation
15 10 (7.94%) Risk Management
15 10 (7.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 10 (7.94%) Azure
16 9 (7.14%) Retail
16 9 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
16 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
16 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel

Project Manager Skill Set
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 5 (3.97%) Confluence
2 3 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.79%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) Kentico
4 1 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.79%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (12.70%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.17%) Trello
4 2 (1.59%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.79%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.59%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Endur
2 1 (0.79%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.94%) Azure
2 8 (6.35%) AWS
3 6 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.38%) GCP
4 3 (2.38%) SaaS
5 2 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.59%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) WLAN
2 2 (1.59%) Firewall
2 2 (1.59%) Network Security
2 2 (1.59%) VPN
2 2 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (3.97%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.38%) Power BI
4 2 (1.59%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.59%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.59%) Looker
4 2 (1.59%) Tableau
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.79%) Power Query
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) Eclipse
General
1 56 (44.44%) Finance
2 40 (31.75%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.90%) Banking
4 12 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.14%) Retail
6 7 (5.56%) Legal
6 7 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.76%) Back Office
7 6 (4.76%) Front Office
8 4 (3.17%) Law
8 4 (3.17%) Local Government
9 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.38%) Marketing
9 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.59%) French Language
10 2 (1.59%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.79%) .NET
1 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.35%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.76%) PMI
3 5 (3.97%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.38%) Derivative
6 2 (1.59%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.59%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.79%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.79%) NHS
7 1 (0.79%) PACS
7 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) Linux
1 3 (2.38%) Windows
2 2 (1.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (64.29%) Project Management
2 43 (34.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (31.75%) Agile
4 39 (30.95%) Project Delivery
5 27 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (17.46%) Migration
7 20 (15.87%) PRINCE2
8 14 (11.11%) Budget Management
8 14 (11.11%) Waterfall
9 11 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (8.73%) Scrum
10 10 (7.94%) Resource Allocation
10 10 (7.94%) Risk Management
10 10 (7.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (7.14%) Business Case
11 9 (7.14%) Decision-Making
12 8 (6.35%) Data Management
13 7 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
14 6 (4.76%) Change Control
14 6 (4.76%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (19.84%) PMI Certification
2 22 (17.46%) PMP
3 15 (11.90%) Degree
4 4 (3.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 4 (3.17%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.59%) CISA
5 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) CAPM
6 1 (0.79%) CISM
6 1 (0.79%) CISSP
6 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.79%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) PMO
2 3 (2.38%) QA
3 2 (1.59%) COBIT
3 2 (1.59%) COSO
3 2 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.59%) GDPR
3 2 (1.59%) NIST
3 2 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.59%) SLA
4 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) GxP
4 1 (0.79%) MiFID
4 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.59%) SCCM
2 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (8.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.97%) Planview
3 3 (2.38%) Citrix
4 2 (1.59%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.59%) Cisco
4 2 (1.59%) Databricks
4 2 (1.59%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.59%) SAP
4 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe
5 1 (0.79%) Aruba
5 1 (0.79%) BMC
5 1 (0.79%) Dell
5 1 (0.79%) Google
5 1 (0.79%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.79%) HP
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle
5 1 (0.79%) Pure Storage
5 1 (0.79%) Remedy
5 1 (0.79%) Sitecore