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 £595, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 118 105 180
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.67% 5.89% 7.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.02% 6.33% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 64 124
10th Percentile £425 £463 £400
25th Percentile £513 £500 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £610 £606
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +0.62% -1.02%
75th Percentile £720 £695 £700
90th Percentile £800 £787 £784
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

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 1,959 1,658 2,223
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 93.04% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 1,046 1,592
10th Percentile £350 £363 £340
25th Percentile £439 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £561
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +2.45% -5.27%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 17
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £34.25 £32.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% +35.42% -31.43%
75th Percentile £51.00 £112.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £127.10 £49.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.75 £27.81
% change year-on-year -17.76% +14.17% -20.54%

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 18 March 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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 March 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 64 (54.24%) Project Management
2 50 (42.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 46 (38.98%) Agile
4 37 (31.36%) Project Delivery
5 32 (27.12%) PRINCE2
6 26 (22.03%) PMP
7 23 (19.49%) Migration
8 20 (16.95%) PMI Certification
9 18 (15.25%) Project Governance
10 17 (14.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (12.71%) Scrum
12 14 (11.86%) Waterfall
13 13 (11.02%) Azure
13 13 (11.02%) PMO
14 12 (10.17%) AWS
14 12 (10.17%) Decision-Making
14 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
15 11 (9.32%) Change Management
15 11 (9.32%) GDPR
16 10 (8.47%) CyberArk
16 10 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 10 (8.47%) NIST
16 10 (8.47%) Security Architecture
16 10 (8.47%) Validation
17 8 (6.78%) Budget Management
17 8 (6.78%) Cybersecurity
17 8 (6.78%) Degree
17 8 (6.78%) SAP
18 7 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement

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 4 (3.39%) Confluence
1 4 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.85%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.85%) Notion
4 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.02%) Azure
2 12 (10.17%) AWS
3 2 (1.69%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (0.85%) Asana
4 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (0.85%) ChatGPT
4 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.85%) Cloud Run
4 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.85%) Figma
4 1 (0.85%) GCP
4 1 (0.85%) GitHub
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) LAN
1 4 (3.39%) WAN
2 3 (2.54%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (1.69%) Broadband
3 2 (1.69%) Network Security
3 2 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.85%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.69%) Power BI
2 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.08%) JIRA
2 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.85%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.85%) Git
General
1 60 (50.85%) Finance
2 35 (29.66%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.64%) Banking
4 11 (9.32%) Financial Institution
5 10 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.93%) Front Office
8 6 (5.08%) Law
9 5 (4.24%) Legal
9 5 (4.24%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.39%) Retail
11 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.54%) Marketing
11 3 (2.54%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.69%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.85%) ADO
1 1 (0.85%) FastAPI
1 1 (0.85%) Kafka
1 1 (0.85%) LangGraph
1 1 (0.85%) Middleware
1 1 (0.85%) Playwright
1 1 (0.85%) React
1 1 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.93%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.08%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.24%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.69%) Derivative
4 2 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.69%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.85%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.85%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.85%) FMCG
5 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) IPTV
5 1 (0.85%) Life Science
5 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.85%) New Media
5 1 (0.85%) PMI
5 1 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.69%) Windows
2 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (54.24%) Project Management
2 50 (42.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 46 (38.98%) Agile
4 37 (31.36%) Project Delivery
5 32 (27.12%) PRINCE2
6 23 (19.49%) Migration
7 18 (15.25%) Project Governance
8 17 (14.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (12.71%) Scrum
10 14 (11.86%) Waterfall
11 12 (10.17%) Decision-Making
12 11 (9.32%) Change Management
13 10 (8.47%) Security Architecture
13 10 (8.47%) Validation
14 8 (6.78%) Budget Management
14 8 (6.78%) Cybersecurity
15 7 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (5.93%) Requirements Gathering
16 6 (5.08%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.85%) Java
1 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.85%) Korn
1 1 (0.85%) Python
1 1 (0.85%) SQL
1 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (22.03%) PMP
2 20 (16.95%) PMI Certification
3 8 (6.78%) Degree
4 3 (2.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.54%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.69%) APMP
5 2 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) CISSP
6 1 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.02%) PMO
2 11 (9.32%) GDPR
3 10 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (8.47%) NIST
4 4 (3.39%) QA
5 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.69%) GRC
5 2 (1.69%) MiFID
6 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.85%) logstash
1 1 (0.85%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.47%) CyberArk
3 8 (6.78%) SAP
4 7 (5.93%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.08%) Workday
6 5 (4.24%) Oracle
7 4 (3.39%) Cisco
8 3 (2.54%) Arista
9 1 (0.85%) Adaptive Insights
9 1 (0.85%) Aderant
9 1 (0.85%) Adobe
9 1 (0.85%) BT
9 1 (0.85%) Calypso
9 1 (0.85%) Charles River
9 1 (0.85%) Databricks
9 1 (0.85%) Google
9 1 (0.85%) Kronos
9 1 (0.85%) Murex
9 1 (0.85%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.85%) Vermilion