Project Manager Contracts 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 3 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 28 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 0
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 99 132 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.51% 6.18% 7.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.89% 6.48% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 91 193
10th Percentile £450 £400 £425
25th Percentile £500 £516 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £665 £700 £713
90th Percentile £729 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.21% -2.00% +5.73%

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 1,682 2,038 3,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 95.46% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,403 2,209
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.33 £15.24
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -29.64% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £40.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £86.43 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in the City of London

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Project Manager 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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in the City of London

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in the City of London

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 66 (66.67%) Project Management
2 52 (52.53%) Finance
3 38 (38.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (36.36%) Agile
4 36 (36.36%) Social Skills
5 29 (29.29%) Project Delivery
6 27 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (21.21%) PMP
8 20 (20.20%) PMI Certification
8 20 (20.20%) PRINCE2
9 19 (19.19%) Microsoft Project
10 17 (17.17%) Migration
11 16 (16.16%) Degree
12 15 (15.15%) JIRA
13 14 (14.14%) Azure
13 14 (14.14%) Banking
14 13 (13.13%) Scrum
15 12 (12.12%) Waterfall
15 12 (12.12%) Decision-Making
15 12 (12.12%) PMO
15 12 (12.12%) Budget Management
16 11 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (11.11%) Microsoft
17 10 (10.10%) Microsoft Office
17 10 (10.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 9 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
18 9 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
18 9 (9.09%) Change Management
19 8 (8.08%) Risk Management
19 8 (8.08%) Data Management

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.06%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.01%) CMS
3 1 (1.01%) Kentico
3 1 (1.01%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.01%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (19.19%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (10.10%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (8.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (6.06%) Trello
6 2 (2.02%) MS Visio
7 1 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.14%) Azure
2 7 (7.07%) AWS
3 5 (5.05%) SaaS
4 4 (4.04%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.03%) GCP
6 2 (2.02%) Asana
6 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.01%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.01%) OCI
7 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) Firewall
2 3 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (3.03%) WLAN
3 2 (2.02%) Network Security
3 2 (2.02%) VPN
4 1 (1.01%) DNS
4 1 (1.01%) SSH
4 1 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.04%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.03%) Power BI
4 2 (2.02%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.02%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.02%) Looker
4 2 (2.02%) Tableau
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.01%) Power Query
5 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (15.15%) JIRA
General
1 52 (52.53%) Finance
2 36 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.14%) Banking
4 9 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.07%) Legal
5 7 (7.07%) Retail
6 6 (6.06%) Front Office
6 6 (6.06%) Law
7 5 (5.05%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.04%) Back Office
9 3 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.03%) Marketing
9 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.03%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.02%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.02%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.01%) Police
11 1 (1.01%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.01%) .NET
1 1 (1.01%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.05%) PMI
2 5 (5.05%) Reference Data
3 4 (4.04%) Derivative
4 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.03%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.02%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.01%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.01%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.01%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.01%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.01%) PKI
6 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.01%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Windows
2 1 (1.01%) Linux
2 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (66.67%) Project Management
2 38 (38.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (36.36%) Agile
4 29 (29.29%) Project Delivery
5 27 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (20.20%) PRINCE2
7 17 (17.17%) Migration
8 13 (13.13%) Scrum
9 12 (12.12%) Budget Management
9 12 (12.12%) Decision-Making
9 12 (12.12%) Waterfall
10 11 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (10.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (9.09%) Change Management
13 8 (8.08%) Data Management
13 8 (8.08%) Risk Management
14 7 (7.07%) Resource Allocation
14 7 (7.07%) User Acceptance Testing
15 6 (6.06%) Business Case
15 6 (6.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (21.21%) PMP
2 20 (20.20%) PMI Certification
3 16 (16.16%) Degree
4 5 (5.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (3.03%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.02%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.02%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.01%) APMG
7 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.12%) PMO
2 3 (3.03%) QA
3 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.02%) SLA
4 1 (1.01%) GDPR
4 1 (1.01%) GxP
4 1 (1.01%) MiFID
4 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.02%) SCCM
2 1 (1.01%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.04%) Cisco
2 4 (4.04%) Citrix
3 3 (3.03%) Planview
3 3 (3.03%) SAP
4 2 (2.02%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.02%) Databricks
4 2 (2.02%) HP
4 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.01%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.01%) Aruba
5 1 (1.01%) Calypso
5 1 (1.01%) Dell
5 1 (1.01%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.01%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle
5 1 (1.01%) Pure Storage
5 1 (1.01%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.01%) Wyse