Project Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Project Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Project Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 103 165 168
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.40% 9.03% 8.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.01% 9.59% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 119 115
10th Percentile £387 £350 £391
25th Percentile £430 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.42% -5.83%
75th Percentile £745 £694 £689
90th Percentile £788 £738 £795
Central London median daily rate £600 £533 £566
% change year-on-year +12.68% -5.96% -5.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £55.25 £34.79 £33.00
% change year-on-year +58.82% +5.42% -13.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,056 1,721 1,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.79% 94.20% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 1,130 1,260
10th Percentile £380 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £424 £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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 16
10th Percentile - £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.21 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -30.73% +5.73% +6.50%
75th Percentile £33.10 £50.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £28.79 £26.78
% change year-on-year -19.54% +7.49% -14.30%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Project Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Project Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Project Management

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the City of London

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Project Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Project Management

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 9 (8.74%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.97%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.94%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.94%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.97%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.97%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.65%) Azure
2 8 (7.77%) AWS
3 7 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.85%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (2.91%) SaaS
6 2 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.94%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.97%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.97%) GCP
7 1 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.97%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.97%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) Multicast
1 4 (3.88%) Network Security
2 3 (2.91%) VPN
3 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.97%) Firewall
4 1 (0.97%) LAN
4 1 (0.97%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.97%) WAN
4 1 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.88%) Power BI
2 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.97%) QlikView
2 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.74%) JIRA
2 2 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.97%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.97%) Git
3 1 (0.97%) GitLab
3 1 (0.97%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (50.49%) Social Skills
2 40 (38.83%) Finance
3 13 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.62%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (9.71%) Banking
5 8 (7.77%) Retail
6 7 (6.80%) Financial Institution
6 7 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.85%) Legal
8 4 (3.88%) Law
8 4 (3.88%) Marketing
9 3 (2.91%) Police
10 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.94%) German Language
10 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.97%) Advertising
11 1 (0.97%) Automotive
11 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 54 (52.43%) Project Manager
2 13 (12.62%) Programme Manager
3 12 (11.65%) Senior
4 11 (10.68%) Bid Manager
5 10 (9.71%) Senior Manager
6 7 (6.80%) Lead
6 7 (6.80%) Senior Project Manager
7 5 (4.85%) Bid Project Manager
7 5 (4.85%) Business Change Manager
7 5 (4.85%) Consultant
7 5 (4.85%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.85%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.85%) IT Project Manager
8 4 (3.88%) Analyst
8 4 (3.88%) Business Manager
8 4 (3.88%) Change Manager
8 4 (3.88%) Digital Project Manager
8 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (3.88%) Migration Project Manager
8 4 (3.88%) Programme Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.91%) ADO
1 3 (2.91%) Middleware
2 1 (0.97%) .NET
2 1 (0.97%) OAuth
2 1 (0.97%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.97%) OpenID
2 1 (0.97%) REST
2 1 (0.97%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.97%) SAML
2 1 (0.97%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.77%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.85%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.88%) PMI
3 4 (3.88%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.91%) Fixed Income
4 3 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.91%) Replication
5 2 (1.94%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.94%) CCTV
5 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.97%) Cybercrime
6 1 (0.97%) Derivative
6 1 (0.97%) FMCG
6 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.97%) PKI
6 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.97%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.88%) Linux
2 3 (2.91%) Unix
2 3 (2.91%) Windows
3 1 (0.97%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.97%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (59.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 50 (48.54%) Agile
3 40 (38.83%) PRINCE2
4 26 (25.24%) Project Delivery
5 21 (20.39%) Migration
6 18 (17.48%) Change Management
6 18 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (15.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (14.56%) Waterfall
9 12 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (11.65%) Decision-Making
9 12 (11.65%) Project Governance
10 11 (10.68%) Programme Management
11 9 (8.74%) Scrum
12 8 (7.77%) Process Improvement
13 7 (6.80%) AI
13 7 (6.80%) Budgeting
14 6 (5.83%) Budget Management
14 6 (5.83%) Business Case
14 6 (5.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.83%) Python
2 4 (3.88%) SQL
3 3 (2.91%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.94%) Java
4 2 (1.94%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.97%) BeanShell
5 1 (0.97%) C++
5 1 (0.97%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (32.04%) PMP
2 32 (31.07%) PMI Certification
3 9 (8.74%) Degree
4 6 (5.83%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.88%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.97%) CISM
7 1 (0.97%) CISSP
7 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.59%) PMO
2 6 (5.83%) GDPR
3 5 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.85%) NIST
4 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.94%) QA
5 1 (0.97%) Basel III
5 1 (0.97%) GRC
5 1 (0.97%) MiFID
5 1 (0.97%) P3O
5 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.97%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.97%) UCITS
System Software
1 4 (3.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.88%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.97%) Ansible
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.97%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.97%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.77%) SAP
3 7 (6.80%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.88%) CyberArk
4 4 (3.88%) Oracle
5 3 (2.91%) Solace
6 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.97%) Charles River
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco
7 1 (0.97%) Google
7 1 (0.97%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.97%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.97%) Juniper
7 1 (0.97%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.97%) Splunk