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 2 May 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 22 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 110 167 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.26% 7.60% 7.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.73% 7.99% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 111 191
10th Percentile £457 £400 £412
25th Percentile £503 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £613
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% +11.36%

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 1,634 2,090 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.13% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,486 2,357
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 71 (64.55%) Project Management
2 54 (49.09%) Finance
3 41 (37.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (34.55%) Social Skills
5 37 (33.64%) Agile
6 32 (29.09%) Project Delivery
7 24 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (21.82%) PMI Certification
8 20 (18.18%) PMP
8 20 (18.18%) Migration
9 19 (17.27%) PRINCE2
10 17 (15.45%) Microsoft Project
11 15 (13.64%) Banking
11 15 (13.64%) Degree
12 14 (12.73%) Waterfall
12 14 (12.73%) Budget Management
13 11 (10.00%) Azure
13 11 (10.00%) JIRA
13 11 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
13 11 (10.00%) Microsoft
14 10 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (9.09%) Resource Allocation
14 10 (9.09%) PMO
15 9 (8.18%) Decision-Making
15 9 (8.18%) Business Case
15 9 (8.18%) Scrum
15 9 (8.18%) Risk Management
15 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Office
16 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
16 8 (7.27%) 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 5 (4.55%) Confluence
2 3 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.91%) Kentico
4 1 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.91%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (15.45%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.64%) Trello
5 2 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) Endur
2 1 (0.91%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.00%) Azure
2 8 (7.27%) AWS
3 6 (5.45%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.73%) GCP
4 3 (2.73%) SaaS
5 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.82%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) WLAN
2 2 (1.82%) Firewall
2 2 (1.82%) Network Security
2 2 (1.82%) VPN
2 2 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.64%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.73%) Power BI
4 2 (1.82%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.82%) Looker
4 2 (1.82%) Tableau
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.91%) Power Query
5 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 54 (49.09%) Finance
2 38 (34.55%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.64%) Banking
4 11 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.36%) Legal
5 7 (6.36%) Retail
6 6 (5.45%) Back Office
6 6 (5.45%) Front Office
7 4 (3.64%) Law
7 4 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.73%) Marketing
8 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.82%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.91%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.91%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.91%) .NET
1 1 (0.91%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.27%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.45%) PMI
3 5 (4.55%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.73%) Derivative
6 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.82%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.91%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.91%) FMCG
7 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.91%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Linux
1 3 (2.73%) Windows
2 2 (1.82%) Unix
3 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (64.55%) Project Management
2 41 (37.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (33.64%) Agile
4 32 (29.09%) Project Delivery
5 24 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (18.18%) Migration
7 19 (17.27%) PRINCE2
8 14 (12.73%) Budget Management
8 14 (12.73%) Waterfall
9 10 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (9.09%) Resource Allocation
10 9 (8.18%) Business Case
10 9 (8.18%) Decision-Making
10 9 (8.18%) Risk Management
10 9 (8.18%) Scrum
11 8 (7.27%) Data Management
12 7 (6.36%) User Acceptance Testing
13 6 (5.45%) Project Planning
13 6 (5.45%) Regulatory Compliance
13 6 (5.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (21.82%) PMI Certification
2 20 (18.18%) PMP
3 15 (13.64%) Degree
4 4 (3.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 4 (3.64%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.82%) CISA
5 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.91%) CISM
6 1 (0.91%) CISSP
6 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.91%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.09%) PMO
2 3 (2.73%) QA
3 2 (1.82%) COBIT
3 2 (1.82%) COSO
3 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.82%) GDPR
3 2 (1.82%) NIST
3 2 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.82%) SLA
4 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.91%) GxP
4 1 (0.91%) MiFID
4 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.82%) SCCM
2 1 (0.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.55%) Planview
3 3 (2.73%) Citrix
4 2 (1.82%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.82%) Cisco
4 2 (1.82%) Databricks
4 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.91%) Aruba
5 1 (0.91%) BMC
5 1 (0.91%) Dell
5 1 (0.91%) Google
5 1 (0.91%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.91%) HP
5 1 (0.91%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle
5 1 (0.91%) Pure Storage
5 1 (0.91%) Remedy
5 1 (0.91%) SAP
5 1 (0.91%) Sitecore