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 £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 29 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 102 117 195
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.47% 6.26% 8.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.82% 6.72% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 60 129
10th Percentile £411 £438 £410
25th Percentile £513 £475 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £803 £738
Central London median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 1,754 1,742 2,276
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 93.16% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,225 1,066 1,631
10th Percentile £343 £363 £353
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.44% -2.14%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £788
Central London median daily rate £533 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -7.39% +2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 17
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.18 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.37 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% +13.54% -17.24%
75th Percentile £42.65 £58.19 £38.00
90th Percentile £50.63 £112.00 £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% +40.00% -1.96%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 £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 21 January 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 58 (56.86%) Project Management
2 48 (47.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (36.27%) Agile
4 28 (27.45%) Project Delivery
5 23 (22.55%) PRINCE2
6 21 (20.59%) Migration
7 19 (18.63%) PMP
7 19 (18.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (15.69%) PMI Certification
9 13 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.75%) Scrum
10 12 (11.76%) PMO
11 11 (10.78%) Change Management
11 11 (10.78%) Microsoft
11 11 (10.78%) Waterfall
12 10 (9.80%) AWS
12 10 (9.80%) Azure
12 10 (9.80%) Decision-Making
13 9 (8.82%) Project Governance
13 9 (8.82%) SAP
14 8 (7.84%) JIRA
14 8 (7.84%) Oracle
15 7 (6.86%) Cybersecurity
15 7 (6.86%) Degree
15 7 (6.86%) GDPR
15 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Project
15 7 (6.86%) Risk Management
15 7 (6.86%) Validation
16 6 (5.88%) Budget Management
16 6 (5.88%) CyberArk

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 (4.90%) Confluence
2 4 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) CMS
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.98%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.92%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.98%) Notion
6 1 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.96%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.96%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.98%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.98%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.98%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.80%) AWS
1 10 (9.80%) Azure
2 3 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (2.94%) GCP
2 3 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (2.94%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.96%) OCI
3 2 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (0.98%) Asana
4 1 (0.98%) ChatGPT
4 1 (0.98%) Cloud Run
4 1 (0.98%) Figma
4 1 (0.98%) GitHub
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (0.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.90%) LAN
1 5 (4.90%) WAN
2 4 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.94%) Firewall
3 3 (2.94%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.94%) Power BI
2 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.84%) JIRA
2 1 (0.98%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.98%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.98%) Git
General
1 54 (52.94%) Finance
2 30 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 21 (20.59%) Banking
4 8 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.86%) Financial Institution
5 7 (6.86%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.88%) Front Office
7 4 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.92%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.92%) Legal
7 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.94%) Law
8 3 (2.94%) Marketing
8 3 (2.94%) Retail
8 3 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.98%) Publishing
10 1 (0.98%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.98%) FastAPI
1 1 (0.98%) LangGraph
1 1 (0.98%) Middleware
1 1 (0.98%) Playwright
1 1 (0.98%) React
1 1 (0.98%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.86%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.96%) Derivative
3 2 (1.96%) Fixed Income
3 2 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.96%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.96%) Reinsurance
3 2 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (1.96%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.98%) Genomics
4 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.98%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (0.98%) IPTV
4 1 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Windows
2 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (56.86%) Project Management
2 48 (47.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (36.27%) Agile
4 28 (27.45%) Project Delivery
5 23 (22.55%) PRINCE2
6 21 (20.59%) Migration
7 19 (18.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (12.75%) Scrum
9 11 (10.78%) Change Management
9 11 (10.78%) Waterfall
10 10 (9.80%) Decision-Making
11 9 (8.82%) Project Governance
12 7 (6.86%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (6.86%) Risk Management
12 7 (6.86%) Validation
13 6 (5.88%) Budget Management
13 6 (5.88%) Matrix Organization
13 6 (5.88%) Security Architecture
13 6 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.98%) Java
1 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.98%) Korn
1 1 (0.98%) Python
1 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (18.63%) PMP
2 16 (15.69%) PMI Certification
3 7 (6.86%) Degree
4 2 (1.96%) APMP
4 2 (1.96%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.96%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.98%) APMG
5 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.98%) CISSP
5 1 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.76%) PMO
2 7 (6.86%) GDPR
3 6 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.88%) NIST
4 5 (4.90%) QA
5 2 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.96%) GRC
6 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.98%) MiFID
6 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.98%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 11 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.82%) SAP
3 8 (7.84%) Oracle
4 6 (5.88%) CyberArk
4 6 (5.88%) Workday
5 4 (3.92%) Cisco
5 4 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.94%) Arista
7 2 (1.96%) Google
8 1 (0.98%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.98%) Adobe
8 1 (0.98%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.98%) Calypso
8 1 (0.98%) Murex
8 1 (0.98%) Planview
8 1 (0.98%) Sitecore