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 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 28 22
Rank change year-on-year -17 -6 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 86 136 183
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.77% 6.53% 7.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.10% 7.02% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 70 125
10th Percentile £413 £449 £425
25th Percentile £463 £508 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £738 £803 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -

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 1,685 1,936 2,385
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 92.94% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,189 1,184 1,717
10th Percentile £329 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £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 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 14
10th Percentile £19.94 £16.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.96 £23.25 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.00 £48.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +95.92% -30.00%
75th Percentile £41.85 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.25 £129.85 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.54 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -24.19% +40.08% -23.12%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 17 December 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 45 (52.33%) Project Management
2 34 (39.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (31.40%) Agile
4 23 (26.74%) Project Delivery
5 20 (23.26%) Migration
6 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (17.44%) PRINCE2
8 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.12%) Scrum
9 12 (13.95%) PMI Certification
9 12 (13.95%) PMP
10 10 (11.63%) Budget Management
10 10 (11.63%) Microsoft
11 9 (10.47%) Change Management
11 9 (10.47%) Degree
11 9 (10.47%) JIRA
11 9 (10.47%) Risk Management
11 9 (10.47%) SAP
12 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Project
12 8 (9.30%) PMO
13 7 (8.14%) Oracle
14 6 (6.98%) AWS
14 6 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (6.98%) Data Migration
14 6 (6.98%) Decision-Making
14 6 (6.98%) Matrix Organization
14 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
14 6 (6.98%) Waterfall
15 5 (5.81%) Cisco
15 5 (5.81%) Confluence

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
2 4 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (5.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (4.65%) MS Visio
5 2 (2.33%) Trello
6 1 (1.16%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (5.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.33%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.33%) Workfront
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.16%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.98%) AWS
2 4 (4.65%) Azure
2 4 (4.65%) GCP
3 3 (3.49%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.49%) OCI
3 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.33%) Asana
4 2 (2.33%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.16%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.16%) Cloud Run
5 1 (1.16%) Figma
5 1 (1.16%) GitHub
5 1 (1.16%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.16%) SaaS
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) Power BI
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (10.47%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.16%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.16%) Git
General
1 41 (47.67%) Finance
2 23 (26.74%) Social Skills
3 17 (19.77%) Banking
4 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.65%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.49%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.49%) Front Office
7 3 (3.49%) Law
7 3 (3.49%) Legal
7 3 (3.49%) Marketing
7 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.33%) Retail
9 1 (1.16%) General Ledger
9 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
1 1 (1.16%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.14%) Data Centre
1 7 (8.14%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.33%) Fixed Income
2 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.33%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (2.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.33%) Reinsurance
2 2 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.16%) Derivative
3 1 (1.16%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.16%) Equities
3 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.16%) IPTV
3 1 (1.16%) Life Science
3 1 (1.16%) New Media
3 1 (1.16%) PMI
3 1 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (52.33%) Project Management
2 34 (39.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (31.40%) Agile
4 23 (26.74%) Project Delivery
5 20 (23.26%) Migration
6 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (17.44%) PRINCE2
8 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.12%) Scrum
9 10 (11.63%) Budget Management
10 9 (10.47%) Change Management
10 9 (10.47%) Risk Management
11 6 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (6.98%) Data Migration
11 6 (6.98%) Decision-Making
11 6 (6.98%) Matrix Organization
11 6 (6.98%) Waterfall
12 5 (5.81%) ERP
12 5 (5.81%) Feasibility Study
12 5 (5.81%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.16%) Java
1 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.16%) Korn
1 1 (1.16%) Python
1 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.95%) PMI Certification
1 12 (13.95%) PMP
2 9 (10.47%) Degree
3 1 (1.16%) APMG
3 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.16%) CISSP
3 1 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (1.16%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) PMO
2 3 (3.49%) QA
3 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.33%) GDPR
3 2 (2.33%) GRC
4 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.16%) MiFID
4 1 (1.16%) NIST
4 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 10 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.47%) SAP
3 7 (8.14%) Oracle
4 5 (5.81%) Cisco
5 4 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.65%) Workday
6 3 (3.49%) Arista
7 2 (2.33%) Adobe
7 2 (2.33%) Google
8 1 (1.16%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.16%) AVEVA
8 1 (1.16%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.16%) Calypso
8 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.16%) HP
8 1 (1.16%) Murex
8 1 (1.16%) Planview
8 1 (1.16%) Red Hat