People Management Contracts in London

People Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring People Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited People Management over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 339 344
Rank change year-on-year +17 +5 +113
Contract jobs citing People Management 50 52 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.32% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.36% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 29 99
10th Percentile £353 £493 £373
25th Percentile £459 £538 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £670
90th Percentile £891 £830 £825
England median daily rate £578 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +5.09% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £36.33 - -
25th Percentile £36.98 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £38.70 - £52.97
75th Percentile £41.04 - £54.50
90th Percentile £42.06 - £63.05
England median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £57.75
% change year-on-year +7.14% +21.21% +95.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

People 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,490 14,392 21,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.33% 88.79% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,321 10,076 15,575
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £778 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 201 228
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.08 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £23.35
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.71 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -11.28% +8.46%
75th Percentile £49.31 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £82.33
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for People Management in London

People Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing People Management in London.

Daily rate trend for People Management in London

People Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing People Management in London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for People Management in London

People Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing People Management in London.

Hourly rate trend for People Management in London

People Management
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 People Management within the London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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 +9 13 £581 -45.93% 17
South London - 4 £581 - 4
West London -6 3 - - 6
People Management
England

People Management
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 5 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (6.00%) SaaS
2 2 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.00%) Figma
3 1 (2.00%) GCP
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (2.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) 5G
1 1 (2.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Looker
1 3 (6.00%) Mixpanel
1 3 (6.00%) Power BI
1 3 (6.00%) Tableau
2 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) JMeter
2 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.00%) Postman
2 1 (2.00%) Selenium
2 1 (2.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (50.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Banking
5 5 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Marketing
6 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Law
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Local Government
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Publishing
8 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (12.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 4 (8.00%) Consultant
3 4 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (8.00%) Lead
3 4 (8.00%) Operations Manager
3 4 (8.00%) Service Delivery Manager
3 4 (8.00%) Service Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Analyst
4 3 (6.00%) Architect
4 3 (6.00%) Deployment Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Deployment Project Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Integration Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Integration Project Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Salesforce Project Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Senior
4 3 (6.00%) Test Manager
5 2 (4.00%) ITSM Consultant
5 2 (4.00%) Programme Test Manager
5 2 (4.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) .NET
1 1 (2.00%) PySpark
1 1 (2.00%) SOAP
1 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.00%) PMI
3 3 (6.00%) Reinsurance
4 2 (4.00%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (4.00%) NHS
4 2 (4.00%) Pricing Data
4 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) IoT
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Linux
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
1 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (28.00%) Agile
2 14 (28.00%) Change Management
2 14 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (24.00%) Project Management
3 12 (24.00%) Service Delivery
4 10 (20.00%) Analytics
5 9 (18.00%) Programme Management
5 9 (18.00%) Risk Management
6 8 (16.00%) ITIL
6 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
7 7 (14.00%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (14.00%) Decision-Making
7 7 (14.00%) Project Delivery
8 6 (12.00%) DevOps
8 6 (12.00%) Matrix Organization
8 6 (12.00%) Service Management
9 5 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (10.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) SQL
2 6 (12.00%) Python
3 3 (6.00%) R
4 1 (2.00%) C
4 1 (2.00%) C++
4 1 (2.00%) Java
4 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) PMI Certification
2 4 (8.00%) PMP
2 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) CISSP
4 2 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.00%) CBAP
5 1 (2.00%) CCAB
5 1 (2.00%) CISA
5 1 (2.00%) CISM
5 1 (2.00%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) GIAC
5 1 (2.00%) GSEC
5 1 (2.00%) ISACA
5 1 (2.00%) ISEB
5 1 (2.00%) MAPM
5 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.00%) SANS
5 1 (2.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) PMO
2 6 (12.00%) QA
2 6 (12.00%) SLA
3 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) HP ALM
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.00%) SCCM
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) Amplitude
3 3 (6.00%) SAP
4 2 (4.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.00%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.00%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.00%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.00%) HP
5 1 (2.00%) Reuters
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Snow