Applications Project Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Applications Project Manager
England > London

The median Applications Project Manager daily rate in London is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 360 370
Rank change year-on-year -80 +10 +64
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Project Manager 8 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.040% 0.030% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.032% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 12
10th Percentile £444 £478 £474
25th Percentile £500 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% +1.33%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £700
90th Percentile £629 £704 £768
England median daily rate £505 £573 £575
% change year-on-year -11.79% -0.43% +2.22%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 18,782 12,397 15,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 92.74% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,136 8,290 10,213
10th Percentile £363 £331 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 204 180
10th Percentile £17.39 £17.00 £17.48
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.98 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.54 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.43% -15.61% -3.50%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.40 £75.13
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.76% -45.54% +2.62%

Applications Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Applications Project Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Applications Project Manager job vacancy trend in London

Applications Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Project Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Project Manager job vacancies in London

Applications Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 21 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Project Manager in London

Applications Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Project Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Project Manager job vacancies in London

Applications Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Project Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 21 September 2026. 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
Central London - 3 £510 - 1
Applications Project Manager
England

Applications Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 21 September 2026, Applications 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 London region featuring Applications Project Manager in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (12.50%) AI
5 1 (12.50%) Application Security
5 1 (12.50%) AWS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (12.50%) Boomi
5 1 (12.50%) Change Control
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
5 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Dependency Management
5 1 (12.50%) GDPR
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub

Applications Project Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) Boomi
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Dependency Management
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) Project Governance
4 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
4 1 (12.50%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) GxP
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (12.50%) Siebel
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk