Project Management Contracts in the City of London

Project Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 21 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Management 174 171 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 9.97% 7.82% 7.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.69% 8.63% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 118 171
10th Percentile £350 £330 £375
25th Percentile £463 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +13.21%
75th Percentile £675 £722 £707
90th Percentile £773 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £588
% change year-on-year -0.09% -6.30% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £19.92 £50.25
Median hourly rate - £20.61 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year - -59.99% -14.17%
75th Percentile - £21.29 £52.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £43.08 £26.80 £51.50
% change year-on-year +60.71% -47.96% -14.17%

All Process and 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 1,628 1,982 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.30% 90.59% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,403 2,228
10th Percentile £354 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £686 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the City of London

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the City of London

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 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the City of London

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the City of London

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Moorgate -1 1 £200 -
London Bridge - 1 - -
Project Management
Central London

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.87%) Confluence
3 2 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.57%) Drupal
4 1 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.57%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (13.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 23 (13.22%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (10.92%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (10.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (3.45%) Trello
5 2 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.57%) CiviCRM
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.57%) Endur
1 1 (0.57%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.57%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.57%) Orchestrade
1 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.57%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.34%) Azure
2 10 (5.75%) AWS
3 6 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.30%) GCP
5 4 (2.30%) SaaS
6 3 (1.72%) Asana
6 3 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.72%) OCI
6 3 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.15%) Miro
7 2 (1.15%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.57%) GitHub
8 1 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.57%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.02%) Firewall
2 4 (2.30%) Network Security
2 4 (2.30%) VPN
3 2 (1.15%) DNS
3 2 (1.15%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.15%) WAN
3 2 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.15%) WLAN
4 1 (0.57%) HTTP
4 1 (0.57%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.57%) LAN
4 1 (0.57%) Skype
4 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.57%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.87%) Power BI
1 5 (2.87%) Tableau
2 4 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.15%) Big Data
4 2 (1.15%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.15%) DB2
4 2 (1.15%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.15%) Looker
4 2 (1.15%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.57%) Metadata
5 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 24 (13.79%) JIRA
2 3 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.15%) Git
4 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.57%) eggPlant
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) MSI
4 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 88 (50.57%) Finance
2 80 (45.98%) Social Skills
3 35 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (14.37%) Banking
5 16 (9.20%) Front Office
6 12 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.17%) Legal
7 9 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.60%) Investment Banking
9 7 (4.02%) Back Office
9 7 (4.02%) Financial Institution
9 7 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.87%) Retail
10 5 (2.87%) Retail Banking
11 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.72%) Marketing
13 2 (1.15%) International Banking
13 2 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (39.66%) Project Manager
2 29 (16.67%) Analyst
3 19 (10.92%) Business Analyst
4 17 (9.77%) Lead
5 14 (8.05%) Senior
6 11 (6.32%) Infrastructure Manager
7 10 (5.75%) Senior Manager
8 9 (5.17%) IT Manager
9 8 (4.60%) Senior Project Manager
10 7 (4.02%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (4.02%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 7 (4.02%) Programme Manager
10 7 (4.02%) Risk Manager
11 6 (3.45%) Consultant
11 6 (3.45%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.45%) IT Project Manager
11 6 (3.45%) Risk Project Manager
12 5 (2.87%) Change Manager
12 5 (2.87%) Product Manager
12 5 (2.87%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.72%) OAuth
1 3 (1.72%) SAML
2 2 (1.15%) CSS
2 2 (1.15%) HTML
2 2 (1.15%) OpenID
2 2 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.15%) Visualforce
3 1 (0.57%) .NET
3 1 (0.57%) ADO
3 1 (0.57%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.57%) Bootstrap
3 1 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.57%) JWT
3 1 (0.57%) LDAP
3 1 (0.57%) Node.js
3 1 (0.57%) pytest
3 1 (0.57%) React
3 1 (0.57%) REST
3 1 (0.57%) SOAP
3 1 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.60%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.02%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.02%) Onboarding
2 7 (4.02%) PMI
3 6 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.87%) Fixed Income
4 5 (2.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.87%) Market Risk
4 5 (2.87%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.30%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.30%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.72%) Equities
6 3 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.15%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.15%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.02%) Windows
2 5 (2.87%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.30%) Linux
4 2 (1.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (31.03%) Agile
3 50 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (19.54%) Project Delivery
5 29 (16.67%) PRINCE2
6 28 (16.09%) Change Management
7 22 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (11.49%) Budget Management
8 20 (11.49%) Risk Management
9 18 (10.34%) Migration
10 17 (9.77%) Decision-Making
10 17 (9.77%) Waterfall
11 16 (9.20%) Data Analysis
11 16 (9.20%) Scrum
12 15 (8.62%) DevOps
12 15 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (8.05%) Business Analysis
13 14 (8.05%) Data Management
13 14 (8.05%) Resource Allocation
14 13 (7.47%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.20%) SQL
2 11 (6.32%) Python
3 5 (2.87%) Java
4 4 (2.30%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.15%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.57%) Bash
7 1 (0.57%) C#
7 1 (0.57%) Groovy
7 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.57%) RPG
7 1 (0.57%) RPG IV
7 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (21.26%) Degree
2 33 (18.97%) PMI Certification
3 28 (16.09%) PMP
4 18 (10.34%) Security Cleared
5 16 (9.20%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.02%) Master's Degree
7 6 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 4 (2.30%) CFA
9 3 (1.72%) CISA
10 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.15%) CBAP
10 2 (1.15%) MBA
10 2 (1.15%) OCP
10 2 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.90%) PMO
2 7 (4.02%) MiFID
3 6 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.45%) EMIR
3 6 (3.45%) QA
4 5 (2.87%) NIST
4 5 (2.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.30%) GDPR
6 3 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.72%) COBIT
6 3 (1.72%) COSO
7 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.15%) SLA
8 1 (0.57%) UCITS
System Software
1 3 (1.72%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) OpenAM
2 1 (0.57%) OpenDJ
2 1 (0.57%) OpenIDM
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.57%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (3.45%) Terraform
2 4 (2.30%) SCCM
3 3 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.15%) Puppet
5 1 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.57%) Ansible
5 1 (0.57%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 27 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.45%) Cisco
2 6 (3.45%) Planview
3 4 (2.30%) Databricks
3 4 (2.30%) Oracle
3 4 (2.30%) SAP
4 3 (1.72%) Citrix
4 3 (1.72%) Google
4 3 (1.72%) Logitech
4 3 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.15%) Dell
5 2 (1.15%) HP
5 2 (1.15%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.15%) Pure Storage
5 2 (1.15%) SimCorp
5 2 (1.15%) Splunk
6 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.57%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.57%) Workday