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 £606, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -19 -5 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 86 129 210
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.84% 6.15% 7.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.16% 6.58% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 70 146
10th Percentile £412 £438 £419
25th Percentile £459 £502 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £609 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% +1.46% -
75th Percentile £684 £700 £688
90th Percentile £743 £776 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £611 £600
% change year-on-year -10.02% +1.88% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,666 1,959 2,549
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 93.33% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 1,202 1,795
10th Percentile £325 £363 £351
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 14
10th Percentile £16.96 £15.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £28.06 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.00 £67.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.52% +82.43% -11.90%
75th Percentile £44.72 £112.00 £51.56
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% -2.78% -11.11%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 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 £625 -
Project Manager
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 19 November 2025, 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 47 (54.65%) Project Management
2 35 (40.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (32.56%) Agile
4 23 (26.74%) Project Delivery
5 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (19.77%) Migration
7 15 (17.44%) PRINCE2
7 15 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.12%) Scrum
9 12 (13.95%) PMP
10 11 (12.79%) Degree
10 11 (12.79%) JIRA
10 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
10 11 (12.79%) Microsoft Project
11 10 (11.63%) Budget Management
11 10 (11.63%) Change Management
11 10 (11.63%) PMI Certification
11 10 (11.63%) Risk Management
12 9 (10.47%) PMO
13 7 (8.14%) Decision-Making
13 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
13 7 (8.14%) Waterfall
14 6 (6.98%) Cisco
14 6 (6.98%) Matrix Organization
15 5 (5.81%) AWS
15 5 (5.81%) Azure
15 5 (5.81%) Confluence
15 5 (5.81%) Cybersecurity
15 5 (5.81%) Data Migration
15 5 (5.81%) Firewall

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 (5.81%) Confluence
1 5 (5.81%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (4.65%) MS Visio
5 3 (3.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Workfront
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.16%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.81%) AWS
1 5 (5.81%) Azure
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (4.65%) GCP
2 4 (4.65%) OCI
2 4 (4.65%) SaaS
3 3 (3.49%) Asana
3 3 (3.49%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.16%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.16%) Cloud Run
4 1 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.16%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.16%) Figma
4 1 (1.16%) GitHub
4 1 (1.16%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (1.16%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) Firewall
1 5 (5.81%) LAN
1 5 (5.81%) WAN
1 5 (5.81%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (3.49%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.16%) DNS
3 1 (1.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) Power BI
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.16%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.16%) Git
General
1 43 (50.00%) Finance
2 26 (30.23%) Social Skills
3 18 (20.93%) Banking
4 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.98%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.65%) Front Office
8 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Law
8 3 (3.49%) Legal
8 3 (3.49%) Marketing
8 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.33%) Retail
10 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.16%) Police
10 1 (1.16%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.16%) FastAPI
1 1 (1.16%) LangGraph
1 1 (1.16%) Playwright
1 1 (1.16%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.14%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.49%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.33%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.33%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (2.33%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.16%) Derivative
5 1 (1.16%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.16%) Equities
5 1 (1.16%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.16%) IPTV
5 1 (1.16%) Life Science
5 1 (1.16%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.16%) New Media
5 1 (1.16%) PKI
5 1 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.65%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.65%) Project Management
2 35 (40.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (32.56%) Agile
4 23 (26.74%) Project Delivery
5 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (19.77%) Migration
7 15 (17.44%) PRINCE2
7 15 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.12%) Scrum
9 10 (11.63%) Budget Management
9 10 (11.63%) Change Management
9 10 (11.63%) Risk Management
10 7 (8.14%) Decision-Making
10 7 (8.14%) Waterfall
11 6 (6.98%) Matrix Organization
12 5 (5.81%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (5.81%) Data Migration
12 5 (5.81%) Logistics
12 5 (5.81%) Time Management
12 5 (5.81%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.16%) Java
1 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.16%) Python
1 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.95%) PMP
2 11 (12.79%) Degree
3 10 (11.63%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.33%) APMG
4 2 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.16%) CISSP
5 1 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.47%) PMO
2 3 (3.49%) QA
3 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.33%) GRC
4 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) MiFID
4 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.98%) Cisco
3 5 (5.81%) Oracle
3 5 (5.81%) SAP
4 4 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.49%) Arista
6 2 (2.33%) Adobe
6 2 (2.33%) Calypso
6 2 (2.33%) Google
7 1 (1.16%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.16%) AVEVA
7 1 (1.16%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.16%) Citrix
7 1 (1.16%) Concur
7 1 (1.16%) HP
7 1 (1.16%) Murex
7 1 (1.16%) Planview
7 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.16%) Workday
7 1 (1.16%) Wyse