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 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 31 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 -9 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 111 109 181
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.71% 6.00% 7.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.08% 6.45% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 58 123
10th Percentile £425 £461 £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 £811 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £606 £588
% change year-on-year -5.15% +3.19% -2.08%

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 1,826 1,689 2,238
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 92.96% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 1,022 1,603
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +0.88% -3.39%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £794
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 21
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.37 £28.94 £18.93
Median hourly rate £37.25 £43.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% +79.17% -31.43%
75th Percentile £48.67 £112.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £134.65 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.74% +34.62% -20.00%

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 60 (54.05%) Project Management
2 45 (40.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (36.94%) Agile
4 29 (26.13%) Project Delivery
5 25 (22.52%) PRINCE2
6 20 (18.02%) PMP
6 20 (18.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (17.12%) Migration
8 15 (13.51%) PMI Certification
9 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (12.61%) Scrum
10 13 (11.71%) PMO
11 12 (10.81%) Change Management
11 12 (10.81%) Microsoft
11 12 (10.81%) Project Governance
12 11 (9.91%) Waterfall
13 9 (8.11%) AWS
13 9 (8.11%) Azure
13 9 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (8.11%) Decision-Making
13 9 (8.11%) Degree
13 9 (8.11%) SAP
14 8 (7.21%) JIRA
15 7 (6.31%) Budget Management
15 7 (6.31%) GDPR
15 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Project
15 7 (6.31%) Workday
16 6 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 6 (5.41%) CyberArk
16 6 (5.41%) 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 (4.50%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) CMS
4 1 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.90%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.60%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.90%) Notion
5 1 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.90%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.90%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.11%) AWS
1 9 (8.11%) Azure
2 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (0.90%) Asana
4 1 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (0.90%) ChatGPT
4 1 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.90%) Cloud Run
4 1 (0.90%) Figma
4 1 (0.90%) GCP
4 1 (0.90%) GitHub
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (0.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) LAN
1 4 (3.60%) WAN
2 3 (2.70%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.80%) Broadband
3 2 (1.80%) Firewall
4 1 (0.90%) Internet
4 1 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.70%) Power BI
2 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.21%) JIRA
2 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.90%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.90%) Git
General
1 53 (47.75%) Finance
2 38 (34.23%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.72%) Banking
4 9 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.21%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (6.31%) Financial Institution
6 7 (6.31%) Front Office
7 6 (5.41%) Law
7 6 (5.41%) Legal
8 5 (4.50%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.50%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.70%) Retail
10 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.80%) Marketing
11 2 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.90%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.90%) ADO
1 1 (0.90%) FastAPI
1 1 (0.90%) Kafka
1 1 (0.90%) LangGraph
1 1 (0.90%) Middleware
1 1 (0.90%) Playwright
1 1 (0.90%) React
1 1 (0.90%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.31%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.50%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.80%) Derivative
5 2 (1.80%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.80%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.80%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.90%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.90%) FMCG
6 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) IoT
6 1 (0.90%) Life Science
6 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.90%) New Media
6 1 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (54.05%) Project Management
2 45 (40.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (36.94%) Agile
4 29 (26.13%) Project Delivery
5 25 (22.52%) PRINCE2
6 20 (18.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (17.12%) Migration
8 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.61%) Scrum
9 12 (10.81%) Change Management
9 12 (10.81%) Project Governance
10 11 (9.91%) Waterfall
11 9 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (8.11%) Decision-Making
12 7 (6.31%) Budget Management
13 6 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (5.41%) Data Migration
13 6 (5.41%) Matrix Organization
13 6 (5.41%) Requirements Gathering
13 6 (5.41%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.90%) Java
1 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.90%) Korn
1 1 (0.90%) Python
1 1 (0.90%) SQL
1 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (18.02%) PMP
2 15 (13.51%) PMI Certification
3 9 (8.11%) Degree
4 3 (2.70%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.70%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.80%) APMP
6 1 (0.90%) APMG
6 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.90%) CISSP
6 1 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.71%) PMO
2 7 (6.31%) GDPR
3 6 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.41%) NIST
4 5 (4.50%) QA
5 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.80%) GRC
5 2 (1.80%) MiFID
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.90%) logstash
1 1 (0.90%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 12 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.11%) SAP
3 7 (6.31%) Workday
4 6 (5.41%) CyberArk
4 6 (5.41%) Oracle
4 6 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.60%) Cisco
6 3 (2.70%) Arista
7 1 (0.90%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (0.90%) Aderant
7 1 (0.90%) Adobe
7 1 (0.90%) BT
7 1 (0.90%) Calypso
7 1 (0.90%) Charles River
7 1 (0.90%) Databricks
7 1 (0.90%) Google
7 1 (0.90%) Kronos
7 1 (0.90%) Murex
7 1 (0.90%) Planview
7 1 (0.90%) Sitecore