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 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 31 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 106 108 177
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.55% 5.94% 7.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.90% 6.39% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 57 119
10th Percentile £418 £457 £400
25th Percentile £513 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £815 £778
Central London median daily rate £563 £605 £583
% change year-on-year -7.02% +3.73% -0.72%

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 1,796 1,690 2,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 92.96% 94.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 1,014 1,620
10th Percentile £350 £354 £349
25th Percentile £431 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +2.22% -4.26%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.65% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 21
10th Percentile £20.10 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.14 £26.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £40.50 £38.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +60.42% -26.15%
75th Percentile £49.83 £80.38 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% +34.62% +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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 61 (57.55%) Project Management
2 44 (41.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (35.85%) Agile
4 29 (27.36%) Project Delivery
5 24 (22.64%) PRINCE2
6 20 (18.87%) PMP
6 20 (18.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (17.92%) Migration
8 15 (14.15%) PMI Certification
9 14 (13.21%) PMO
9 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (11.32%) Change Management
10 12 (11.32%) Project Governance
10 12 (11.32%) Scrum
11 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
11 10 (9.43%) Waterfall
12 9 (8.49%) AWS
12 9 (8.49%) Azure
12 9 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (8.49%) Decision-Making
12 9 (8.49%) SAP
13 8 (7.55%) JIRA
14 7 (6.60%) Degree
14 7 (6.60%) GDPR
14 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Project
14 7 (6.60%) Validation
14 7 (6.60%) Workday
15 6 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (5.66%) CyberArk
15 6 (5.66%) Data Migration

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 (4.72%) Confluence
2 4 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.94%) CMS
3 1 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.94%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.77%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.94%) Notion
6 1 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.89%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.94%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.49%) AWS
1 9 (8.49%) Azure
2 3 (2.83%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (0.94%) Asana
4 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (0.94%) ChatGPT
4 1 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.94%) Cloud Run
4 1 (0.94%) Figma
4 1 (0.94%) GCP
4 1 (0.94%) GitHub
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (0.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) LAN
1 4 (3.77%) WAN
2 3 (2.83%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.89%) Broadband
3 2 (1.89%) Firewall
4 1 (0.94%) Internet
4 1 (0.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.83%) Power BI
2 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.55%) JIRA
2 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.94%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.94%) Git
General
1 55 (51.89%) Finance
2 36 (33.96%) Social Skills
3 22 (20.75%) Banking
4 8 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (6.60%) Financial Institution
6 6 (5.66%) Front Office
7 5 (4.72%) Legal
7 5 (4.72%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.77%) Law
9 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.83%) Retail
9 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.89%) Marketing
10 2 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.94%) Military
11 1 (0.94%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.94%) ADO
1 1 (0.94%) FastAPI
1 1 (0.94%) Kafka
1 1 (0.94%) LangGraph
1 1 (0.94%) Middleware
1 1 (0.94%) Playwright
1 1 (0.94%) React
1 1 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.60%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.83%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.89%) Derivative
4 2 (1.89%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.89%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.94%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.94%) FMCG
5 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.94%) IoT
5 1 (0.94%) Life Science
5 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.94%) New Media
5 1 (0.94%) PMI
5 1 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.89%) Windows
2 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (57.55%) Project Management
2 44 (41.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (35.85%) Agile
4 29 (27.36%) Project Delivery
5 24 (22.64%) PRINCE2
6 20 (18.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (17.92%) Migration
8 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (11.32%) Change Management
9 12 (11.32%) Project Governance
9 12 (11.32%) Scrum
10 10 (9.43%) Waterfall
11 9 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (8.49%) Decision-Making
12 7 (6.60%) Validation
13 6 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (5.66%) Data Migration
13 6 (5.66%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 6 (5.66%) Matrix Organization
13 6 (5.66%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.94%) Java
1 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.94%) Korn
1 1 (0.94%) Python
1 1 (0.94%) SQL
1 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (18.87%) PMP
2 15 (14.15%) PMI Certification
3 7 (6.60%) Degree
4 3 (2.83%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.83%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.89%) APMP
6 1 (0.94%) APMG
6 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.94%) CISSP
6 1 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.21%) PMO
2 7 (6.60%) GDPR
3 6 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.66%) NIST
4 5 (4.72%) QA
5 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.94%) MiFID
6 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.94%) logstash
1 1 (0.94%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.49%) SAP
3 7 (6.60%) Workday
4 6 (5.66%) CyberArk
4 6 (5.66%) Oracle
4 6 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.77%) Cisco
6 3 (2.83%) Arista
7 1 (0.94%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (0.94%) Aderant
7 1 (0.94%) Adobe
7 1 (0.94%) BT
7 1 (0.94%) Calypso
7 1 (0.94%) Charles River
7 1 (0.94%) Databricks
7 1 (0.94%) Google
7 1 (0.94%) Kronos
7 1 (0.94%) Murex
7 1 (0.94%) Planview
7 1 (0.94%) Sitecore