Digital Project Manager Contracts in London

Digital Project Manager
England > London

The median Digital Project Manager daily rate in London is £558, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 358 445
Rank change year-on-year +23 +87 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Project Manager 18 33 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 29 43
10th Percentile £332 £263 £305
25th Percentile £423 £275 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +39.38% -11.11% -8.16%
75th Percentile £788 £504 £607
90th Percentile £820 £638 £700
England median daily rate £505 £425 £498
% change year-on-year +18.82% -14.57% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £31.71 -
England median hourly rate - £28.61 £23.83
% change year-on-year - +20.04% -68.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Digital Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Digital Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Project Manager in London

Digital Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Project Manager in London.

Daily rate trend for Digital Project Manager in London

Digital Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Project Manager in London

Digital Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Project Manager in London.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Project Manager in London

Digital 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 Digital Project Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +4 3 £469 +4.17% 3
North London - 1 £500 -
Digital Project Manager
England

Digital Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Digital Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Digital Project Manager in the job title.

1 12 (66.67%) Agile
1 12 (66.67%) Project Management
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (27.78%) User Experience
3 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 4 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (22.22%) Budget Management
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (22.22%) Marketing
4 4 (22.22%) Degree
5 3 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (16.67%) PMP
5 3 (16.67%) PMI Certification
5 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (16.67%) Legal
5 3 (16.67%) CMS
5 3 (16.67%) Banking
5 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
5 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
5 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (11.11%) Business Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Source to Pay

Digital Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (16.67%) CMS
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Kentico
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (5.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
3 1 (5.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Magento
1 1 (5.56%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Metadata
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Marketing
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Legal
4 3 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Local Government
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.11%) Retail
5 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Agile
1 12 (66.67%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (27.78%) User Experience
3 4 (22.22%) Budget Management
3 4 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (11.11%) Business Strategy
5 2 (11.11%) KYC
5 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
5 2 (11.11%) Project Governance
5 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 2 (11.11%) Six Sigma
5 2 (11.11%) Source to Pay
5 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 3 (16.67%) PMP
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Adobe
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.56%) SAP
1 1 (5.56%) Sitecore
1 1 (5.56%) Workday