Project Manager Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Project Manager
Central London > City of London

The median Project Manager daily rate in the City of London is £590, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 43 30
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 114 81 133
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.02% 4.59% 6.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.32% 4.90% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 47 76
10th Percentile £412 £374 £434
25th Percentile £477 £458 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +0.97% -0.96%
75th Percentile £684 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £725 £781
Central London median daily rate £590 £531 £600
% change year-on-year +11.06% -11.46% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,143 1,652 1,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 93.65% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,450 1,101 1,256
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
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 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 14
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.87
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.88
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +4.91% -25.00%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £89.06
90th Percentile £49.64 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £28.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year -15.27% +4.91% -22.86%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Project Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Project Manager job vacancy trend in the City of London

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in the City of London

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in the City of London

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in the City of London

Project Manager
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 Manager within the City of London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Moorgate -1 1 £525 -16.00%
Project Manager
Central London

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 4 September 2026, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 59 (51.75%) Project Management
2 49 (42.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (37.72%) Agile
4 33 (28.95%) PRINCE2
5 31 (27.19%) Project Delivery
6 27 (23.68%) PMI Certification
6 27 (23.68%) PMP
7 23 (20.18%) Migration
8 22 (19.30%) Decision-Making
9 16 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (13.16%) Waterfall
11 14 (12.28%) Change Management
11 14 (12.28%) Project Governance
12 12 (10.53%) Azure
13 11 (9.65%) Microsoft
14 10 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (7.89%) AI
15 9 (7.89%) Business Case
16 8 (7.02%) Change Control
16 8 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
16 8 (7.02%) Network Security
16 8 (7.02%) Risk Management
16 8 (7.02%) Scrum
17 7 (6.14%) Budget Management
17 7 (6.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 7 (6.14%) JIRA
17 7 (6.14%) PMO
17 7 (6.14%) Process Improvement
17 7 (6.14%) SAP
18 6 (5.26%) AWS

Project Manager Skill Set
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 5 (4.39%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.75%) Confluence
2 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.88%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.75%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.88%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.53%) Azure
2 6 (5.26%) AWS
2 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.51%) SaaS
5 3 (2.63%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.75%) Harvey AI
6 2 (1.75%) IaaS
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (1.75%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.75%) PaaS
6 2 (1.75%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.88%) Asana
7 1 (0.88%) Basecamp
7 1 (0.88%) GCP
7 1 (0.88%) GitHub
7 1 (0.88%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.88%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.02%) Network Security
2 2 (1.75%) Firewall
2 2 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.88%) BGP
3 1 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.88%) LAN
3 1 (0.88%) SSH
3 1 (0.88%) SSL
3 1 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.88%) WAN
3 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.63%) Power BI
2 2 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.88%) Metadata
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.14%) JIRA
General
1 44 (38.60%) Finance
2 31 (27.19%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.79%) Banking
4 9 (7.89%) Retail
5 8 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (6.14%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.26%) Law
8 5 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.39%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.39%) Legal
9 3 (2.63%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.63%) Marketing
9 3 (2.63%) Police
10 2 (1.75%) Advertising
10 2 (1.75%) Front Office
10 2 (1.75%) German Language
10 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.75%) ADO
2 1 (0.88%) Middleware
2 1 (0.88%) REST
2 1 (0.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.02%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.63%) FMCG
3 3 (2.63%) PMI
3 3 (2.63%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.75%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.75%) Social Media
4 2 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.88%) CCTV
5 1 (0.88%) Derivative
5 1 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.88%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.88%) Life Science
5 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.88%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (51.75%) Project Management
2 49 (42.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (37.72%) Agile
4 33 (28.95%) PRINCE2
5 31 (27.19%) Project Delivery
6 23 (20.18%) Migration
7 22 (19.30%) Decision-Making
8 16 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (13.16%) Waterfall
10 14 (12.28%) Change Management
10 14 (12.28%) Project Governance
11 10 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (7.89%) AI
12 9 (7.89%) Business Case
13 8 (7.02%) Change Control
13 8 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (7.02%) Risk Management
13 8 (7.02%) Scrum
14 7 (6.14%) Budget Management
14 7 (6.14%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.88%) Java
1 1 (0.88%) Korn
1 1 (0.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (23.68%) PMI Certification
1 27 (23.68%) PMP
2 5 (4.39%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.51%) Degree
3 4 (3.51%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.63%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.75%) CISM
5 2 (1.75%) CISSP
5 2 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.88%) NVQ Level 3
6 1 (0.88%) NVQ Level 4
6 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) PMO
2 5 (4.39%) GDPR
2 5 (4.39%) NIST
3 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.75%) GRC
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.88%) SEPA
5 1 (0.88%) SLA
5 1 (0.88%) TARGET2
System Software
1 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (9.65%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.14%) SAP
3 4 (3.51%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.63%) CyberArk
4 3 (2.63%) Oracle
4 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.75%) Google
5 2 (1.75%) Splunk
5 2 (1.75%) VMware
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco
6 1 (0.88%) Intapp
6 1 (0.88%) Juniper
6 1 (0.88%) Palo Alto