Project Management Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Project Management
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Project Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 29 27
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing Project Management 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.59% 1.00% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.08% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £825 £613 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% +13.64% -3.93%
75th Percentile £875 £638 £644
90th Percentile - - £685
South London median daily rate £650 £424 £613
% change year-on-year +53.30% -30.78% +11.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

Project Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 168 93 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 88.89% 93.00% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 69 80
10th Percentile £456 £425 £362
25th Percentile £496 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £578
90th Percentile £643 £655 £630
South London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £17.00
25th Percentile - - £17.13
Median hourly rate - - £23.50
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £58.94 £15.84 £23.50
% change year-on-year +272.06% -32.60% +0.17%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Project Management job vacancy trend in Croydon

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Project Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Project Management

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Project Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Project Management

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Glacier
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Case Management
3 1 (33.33%) Practice Management
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow