Project Management Contracts in the City of London

Project Management
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 27 20
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 179 259 330
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.09% 7.08% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.94% 7.72% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 172 240
10th Percentile £340 £375 £363
25th Percentile £430 £475 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £718 £738 £638
90th Percentile £787 £829 £738
Central London median daily rate £551 £595 £525
% change year-on-year -7.39% +13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £26.50
25th Percentile £19.92 £50.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £20.61 £51.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.99% -14.17% -
75th Percentile £21.29 £52.75 £62.50
90th Percentile - - £68.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.80 £51.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.96% -14.17% +207.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 3,357 3,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,258 2,945
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the City of London

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in the City of London

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in the City of London

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in the City of London

Project Management
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 Management within the City of London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 3 £200 -54.29%
Project Management
Central London

Project Management
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 15 (8.38%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (7.82%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (3.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.68%) Loan IQ
2 3 (1.68%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.12%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.56%) Primavera
4 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.56%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.56%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.85%) Azure
2 15 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Purview
4 7 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.79%) OneDrive
5 5 (2.79%) WhatsApp
6 4 (2.23%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.23%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.68%) GitHub
8 2 (1.12%) AWS
8 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.12%) GCP
8 2 (1.12%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.12%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.12%) SaaS
9 1 (0.56%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.56%) IBM Blueworks
9 1 (0.56%) MailChimp
9 1 (0.56%) OCI
9 1 (0.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) Firewall
2 3 (1.68%) VoIP
3 2 (1.12%) PBX
3 2 (1.12%) PSTN
3 2 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.56%) Intranet
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.68%) MySQL
1 3 (1.68%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.12%) Metadata
2 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.56%) Power BI
3 1 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 16 (8.94%) JIRA
2 3 (1.68%) GitLab
2 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.12%) Git
3 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.12%) Subversion
3 2 (1.12%) TestRail
3 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.56%) AppScan
4 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.56%) Postman
4 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 80 (44.69%) Finance
2 64 (35.75%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.41%) Legal
5 23 (12.85%) Banking
6 18 (10.06%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (7.26%) Marketing
8 10 (5.59%) Public Sector
9 9 (5.03%) Front Office
9 9 (5.03%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.35%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.79%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.79%) Investment Banking
12 4 (2.23%) Law
13 3 (1.68%) Back Office
14 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.12%) International Banking
14 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.12%) Publishing
14 2 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (39.66%) Project Manager
2 15 (8.38%) Analyst
2 15 (8.38%) Senior
3 14 (7.82%) IT Manager
4 12 (6.70%) IT Project Manager
4 12 (6.70%) Lead
5 11 (6.15%) Senior Manager
6 10 (5.59%) Business Analyst
7 9 (5.03%) Senior Project Manager
8 8 (4.47%) Scrum Master
8 8 (4.47%) Technical Manager
9 7 (3.91%) Architect
9 7 (3.91%) Consultant
9 7 (3.91%) Developer
10 6 (3.35%) Technical Project Manager
11 5 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
11 5 (2.79%) Infrastructure Manager
11 5 (2.79%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 5 (2.79%) Programme Manager
11 5 (2.79%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.68%) CSS
1 3 (1.68%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (1.68%) jQuery
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (1.12%) ADO
2 2 (1.12%) EDI
2 2 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.56%) Laravel
3 1 (0.56%) React
3 1 (0.56%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.56%) Vue
3 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.47%) Management Information System
1 8 (4.47%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.79%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.79%) Photography
3 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.68%) Smart Meter
3 3 (1.68%) Social Media
4 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.12%) NHS
4 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.12%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.56%) HACMP
5 1 (0.56%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.23%) Windows
2 3 (1.68%) Linux
3 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.56%) AIX
4 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.87%) Agile
2 40 (22.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (15.08%) Project Delivery
4 26 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (13.97%) PRINCE2
6 23 (12.85%) Change Management
7 22 (12.29%) ITIL
7 22 (12.29%) Migration
8 19 (10.61%) Risk Management
8 19 (10.61%) Waterfall
9 17 (9.50%) Computer Science
9 17 (9.50%) Scrum
10 14 (7.82%) Budget Management
11 12 (6.70%) DevOps
11 12 (6.70%) Programme Management
12 11 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (6.15%) Data Loss Prevention
12 11 (6.15%) Decision-Making
13 9 (5.03%) SDLC
13 9 (5.03%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.15%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.68%) JavaScript
2 3 (1.68%) Python
2 3 (1.68%) SQL
3 2 (1.12%) Bash
3 2 (1.12%) C#
4 1 (0.56%) Java
4 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.56%) PHP
4 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (19.55%) Degree
2 14 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.70%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (5.03%) PMP
5 7 (3.91%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.68%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) CCNA
7 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.12%) FFIEC
7 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) APMP
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CAPM
8 1 (0.56%) CISSP
8 1 (0.56%) MBA
8 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.29%) PMO
2 8 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.35%) QA
4 4 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.68%) EMIR
5 3 (1.68%) SLA
6 2 (1.12%) Basel III
6 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.12%) NIST
6 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.56%) COBIT
7 1 (0.56%) GAAP
7 1 (0.56%) IFRS
7 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.56%) MiFID
7 1 (0.56%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (1.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 8 (4.47%) PingFederate
2 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.12%) Ansible
3 2 (1.12%) Grafana
3 2 (1.12%) Graylog
3 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.12%) Nagios
3 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.12%) Puppet
3 2 (1.12%) Terraform
4 1 (0.56%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.56%) Nessus
4 1 (0.56%) SCCM
4 1 (0.56%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 35 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.70%) SAP
3 5 (2.79%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.23%) Cisco
4 4 (2.23%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.68%) Arista
5 3 (1.68%) Oracle
5 3 (1.68%) Proofpoint
5 3 (1.68%) Symantec
5 3 (1.68%) Workday
6 2 (1.12%) Adobe
6 2 (1.12%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.12%) BT
6 2 (1.12%) Radianz
6 2 (1.12%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.12%) Reuters
6 2 (1.12%) Splunk
7 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.56%) Google