Project Management Contract Job Trends in East London

Project Management
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Project Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 6 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 5.22% 5.71% 7.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 6.02% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 19
10th Percentile £282 £396 £312
25th Percentile £297 £413 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £474 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% -12.31% +18.68%
75th Percentile £546 £600 £614
90th Percentile £593 £641 £690
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £107.14 - -
London median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year -1.43% -11.21% +59.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East London

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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 108 133 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.91% 95.00% 91.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 112 219
10th Percentile £190 £300 £213
25th Percentile £313 £413 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -5.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £585 £595 £650
90th Percentile £731 £674 £750
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £23.33 - £14.45
25th Percentile £24.70 - £14.85
Median hourly rate £33.25 £21.09 £15.52
Median % change year-on-year +57.65% +35.93% -52.41%
75th Percentile £56.88 - £16.18
90th Percentile £75.89 - £16.58
London median hourly rate £30.50 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -15.28% -4.00% +4.17%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in East London

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Project Management

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in East London over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in East London

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Project Management

Project Management
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 30 September 2025. 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
Tower Hamlets +1 3 £520 -13.33% 6
Lewisham - 1 - - 1
Project Management
London

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JMeter
General
1 2 (33.33%) Local Government
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Environmental Health
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Change Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Change Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Change Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Change Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Junior PMO
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Sass
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Business Case
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Culture Change
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle