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 £595, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 117 112 183
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.82% 6.23% 7.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.19% 6.71% 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 66 125
10th Percentile £425 £463 £400
25th Percentile £513 £503 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +1.67% -2.04%
75th Percentile £684 £689 £700
90th Percentile £796 £787 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £603 £600
% change year-on-year -4.56% +0.42% -

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 1,890 1,670 2,218
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 92.88% 94.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,292 1,033 1,591
10th Percentile £350 £357 £340
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.68% -5.08%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £16.15
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% +57.78% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.16 £96.19 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £119.55 £49.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +37.25% -27.14%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 63 (53.85%) Project Management
2 48 (41.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (37.61%) Agile
4 34 (29.06%) Project Delivery
5 30 (25.64%) PRINCE2
6 25 (21.37%) PMP
7 21 (17.95%) Migration
8 19 (16.24%) PMI Certification
8 19 (16.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (12.82%) Project Governance
10 14 (11.97%) Scrum
11 13 (11.11%) Microsoft
11 13 (11.11%) PMO
12 12 (10.26%) Decision-Making
12 12 (10.26%) Waterfall
13 11 (9.40%) AWS
13 11 (9.40%) Azure
13 11 (9.40%) Change Management
14 9 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
14 9 (7.69%) GDPR
14 9 (7.69%) SAP
15 8 (6.84%) Budget Management
15 8 (6.84%) CyberArk
15 8 (6.84%) Degree
15 8 (6.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 8 (6.84%) NIST
15 8 (6.84%) Security Architecture
15 8 (6.84%) Validation
16 7 (5.98%) Continuous Improvement

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 (4.27%) Confluence
2 4 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.85%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.85%) Notion
4 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.40%) AWS
1 11 (9.40%) Azure
2 2 (1.71%) Power Platform
2 2 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (0.85%) Asana
3 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (0.85%) ChatGPT
3 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (0.85%) Cloud Run
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (0.85%) Figma
3 1 (0.85%) GCP
3 1 (0.85%) GitHub
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) LAN
1 4 (3.42%) WAN
2 3 (2.56%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.71%) Broadband
3 2 (1.71%) Network Security
4 1 (0.85%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.71%) Power BI
2 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.98%) JIRA
2 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.85%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.85%) Git
General
1 58 (49.57%) Finance
2 37 (31.62%) Social Skills
3 24 (20.51%) Banking
4 9 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 9 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.98%) Front Office
6 6 (5.13%) Law
7 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.27%) Legal
7 5 (4.27%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.42%) Retail
9 3 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.56%) Marketing
9 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.85%) Military
11 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.85%) ADO
1 1 (0.85%) FastAPI
1 1 (0.85%) Kafka
1 1 (0.85%) LangGraph
1 1 (0.85%) Middleware
1 1 (0.85%) Playwright
1 1 (0.85%) React
1 1 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.98%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.27%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.71%) Derivative
4 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.71%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.71%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.85%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.85%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.85%) FMCG
5 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) IoT
5 1 (0.85%) IPTV
5 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.85%) New Media
5 1 (0.85%) PMI
5 1 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.71%) Windows
2 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (53.85%) Project Management
2 48 (41.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (37.61%) Agile
4 34 (29.06%) Project Delivery
5 30 (25.64%) PRINCE2
6 21 (17.95%) Migration
7 19 (16.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (12.82%) Project Governance
9 14 (11.97%) Scrum
10 12 (10.26%) Decision-Making
10 12 (10.26%) Waterfall
11 11 (9.40%) Change Management
12 9 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (6.84%) Budget Management
13 8 (6.84%) Security Architecture
13 8 (6.84%) Validation
14 7 (5.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (5.13%) Analytics
15 6 (5.13%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.85%) Java
1 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.85%) Korn
1 1 (0.85%) Python
1 1 (0.85%) SQL
1 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (21.37%) PMP
2 19 (16.24%) PMI Certification
3 8 (6.84%) Degree
4 3 (2.56%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.56%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.71%) APMP
5 2 (1.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) CISSP
6 1 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.11%) PMO
2 9 (7.69%) GDPR
3 8 (6.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.84%) NIST
4 4 (3.42%) QA
5 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.71%) GRC
5 2 (1.71%) MiFID
6 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.85%) logstash
1 1 (0.85%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 13 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.69%) SAP
3 8 (6.84%) CyberArk
4 7 (5.98%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.98%) Workday
5 5 (4.27%) Oracle
6 4 (3.42%) Cisco
7 3 (2.56%) Arista
8 1 (0.85%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.85%) Aderant
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe
8 1 (0.85%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.85%) BT
8 1 (0.85%) Calypso
8 1 (0.85%) Charles River
8 1 (0.85%) Databricks
8 1 (0.85%) Google
8 1 (0.85%) Kronos
8 1 (0.85%) Murex
8 1 (0.85%) Sitecore