Project Management Contract Job Trends in London

Project Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Project Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -22 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 865 947 1,194
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.58% 7.68% 6.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 8.32% 7.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 567 813
10th Percentile £358 £312 £305
25th Percentile £425 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -4.00%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £520 £513 £523
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.08% -0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 53
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.27 £20.03
25th Percentile £30.38 £33.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £39.50 £39.04 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +20.12% -21.69%
75th Percentile £55.75 £50.84 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.25 £63.75 £54.70
England median hourly rate £37.50 £46.24 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.90% +23.31% -17.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,786 11,384 15,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.33% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,180 7,623 11,100
10th Percentile £360 £343 £342
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 205 314
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +16.24% -26.18%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Project Management job vacancy trend in London

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in London over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in London

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in London over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Management in London

Project 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 Project Management within the London region over the 6 months to 16 June 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 -19 133 £575 - 96
West London -26 20 £550 +18.92% 31
South London -3 12 £700 +65.09% 7
East London -10 5 £523 +4.50% 18
North London +1 1 £550 +10.00% 3
Project Management
England

Project Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 47 (5.43%) Confluence
2 44 (5.09%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.73%) CMS
4 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.69%) Apache
6 5 (0.58%) WordPress
7 4 (0.46%) Moodle
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 69 (7.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 54 (6.24%) Microsoft Project
4 47 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.73%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.58%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.35%) Trello
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.12%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 10 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
1 10 (1.16%) Shopify
2 8 (0.92%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.69%) ProductWriter
4 4 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.46%) Magento
5 3 (0.35%) Endur
5 3 (0.35%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.23%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 70 (8.09%) Azure
2 53 (6.13%) SaaS
3 52 (6.01%) AWS
4 38 (4.39%) Power Platform
5 32 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.08%) Smartsheet
8 11 (1.27%) GCP
9 10 (1.16%) BigCommerce
9 10 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.04%) Asana
11 8 (0.92%) Google Workspace
12 7 (0.81%) Google Ads
13 6 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (0.69%) Entra ID
13 6 (0.69%) GitHub
13 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.58%) Google Drive
14 5 (0.58%) OCI
14 5 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.39%) Network Security
2 9 (1.04%) WAN
3 8 (0.92%) Firewall
4 6 (0.69%) LAN
5 4 (0.46%) DKIM
5 4 (0.46%) DMARC
5 4 (0.46%) DNS
5 4 (0.46%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) Broadband
6 3 (0.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.35%) Intranet
7 2 (0.23%) BGP
7 2 (0.23%) Multicast
7 2 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.23%) Wireless
8 1 (0.12%) MVNO
8 1 (0.12%) VPN
8 1 (0.12%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.16%) Power BI
2 10 (1.16%) Tableau
3 8 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (0.92%) Metadata
4 7 (0.81%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.35%) QlikView
6 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.35%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.23%) Power Query
8 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.12%) Big Data
8 1 (0.12%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.12%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 101 (11.68%) JIRA
2 17 (1.97%) Git
3 9 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.58%) Subversion
5 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.46%) GitLab
6 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.12%) Appium
7 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 384 (44.39%) Social Skills
2 346 (40.00%) Finance
3 121 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (10.98%) Organisational Skills
5 89 (10.29%) Banking
5 89 (10.29%) Marketing
6 76 (8.79%) Public Sector
7 61 (7.05%) Retail
8 51 (5.90%) Legal
9 35 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
10 29 (3.35%) Financial Institution
10 29 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (2.89%) Front Office
12 24 (2.77%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.50%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.39%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.27%) Advertising
16 11 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 372 (43.01%) Project Manager
2 105 (12.14%) Senior
3 97 (11.21%) Analyst
4 88 (10.17%) Lead
5 78 (9.02%) Senior Manager
6 73 (8.44%) Business Analyst
7 65 (7.51%) Senior Project Manager
8 43 (4.97%) IT Manager
9 41 (4.74%) Programme Manager
10 38 (4.39%) IT Project Manager
11 35 (4.05%) Technical Manager
12 30 (3.47%) Technical Project Manager
13 29 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
13 29 (3.35%) Developer
13 29 (3.35%) Infrastructure Manager
14 25 (2.89%) Architect
14 25 (2.89%) Migration Manager
15 24 (2.77%) Consultant
15 24 (2.77%) Migration Project Manager
16 21 (2.43%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.08%) REST
2 13 (1.50%) VML
3 11 (1.27%) SOAP
4 9 (1.04%) HTML
4 9 (1.04%) Middleware
5 6 (0.69%) .NET
5 6 (0.69%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.58%) ADO
6 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.58%) Web Services
7 4 (0.46%) CSS
7 4 (0.46%) OAuth
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.46%) React
8 3 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (0.35%) RESTful
8 3 (0.35%) XML
9 2 (0.23%) HTML5
9 2 (0.23%) pytest
10 1 (0.12%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.09%) Onboarding
2 43 (4.97%) Management Information System
3 32 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.12%) PMI
5 26 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.08%) Social Media
8 15 (1.73%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.39%) FMCG
11 10 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
12 9 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.04%) CMDB
12 9 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.92%) Market Risk
14 7 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.81%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.81%) IoT
14 7 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.62%) Windows
2 7 (0.81%) Linux
3 4 (0.46%) Unix
3 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (40.46%) Agile
2 333 (38.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 248 (28.67%) Project Delivery
4 156 (18.03%) PRINCE2
5 155 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
6 143 (16.53%) Migration
7 125 (14.45%) Decision-Making
8 122 (14.10%) Waterfall
9 118 (13.64%) Change Management
10 113 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 111 (12.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 92 (10.64%) Scrum
13 89 (10.29%) Risk Management
14 79 (9.13%) AI
15 68 (7.86%) Programme Management
16 67 (7.75%) Business Analysis
17 65 (7.51%) Analytics
17 65 (7.51%) SDLC
18 64 (7.40%) DevOps
19 63 (7.28%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (5.09%) SQL
2 24 (2.77%) Python
3 11 (1.27%) Java
4 8 (0.92%) C#
5 6 (0.69%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.58%) C++
6 5 (0.58%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.46%) R
8 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.12%) C
9 1 (0.12%) Korn
9 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.12%) SOQL
9 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 151 (17.46%) PMP
2 127 (14.68%) PMI Certification
3 115 (13.29%) Degree
4 77 (8.90%) Security Cleared
5 56 (6.47%) SC Cleared
6 15 (1.73%) APMP
6 15 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.62%) CBAP
8 12 (1.39%) CISSP
8 12 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.39%) IIBA
9 10 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.04%) CISM
11 8 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (0.81%) APMG
13 5 (0.58%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.58%) MBA
14 4 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (12.83%) PMO
2 67 (7.75%) QA
3 36 (4.16%) Data Quality
4 27 (3.12%) GDPR
5 20 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.97%) NIST
7 14 (1.62%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.39%) SLA
9 7 (0.81%) GRC
9 7 (0.81%) MiFID
10 5 (0.58%) EMIR
10 5 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.35%) Basel III
11 3 (0.35%) COREP
11 3 (0.35%) FINREP
11 3 (0.35%) GxP
11 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.23%) Firmware
3 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.46%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.35%) Ansible
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.23%) Terraform
5 1 (0.12%) Control-M
5 1 (0.12%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 114 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.90%) ServiceNow
3 46 (5.32%) SAP
4 41 (4.74%) Salesforce
5 30 (3.47%) Oracle
6 26 (3.01%) Adobe
7 20 (2.31%) Google
8 19 (2.20%) Sitecore
9 12 (1.39%) CyberArk
9 12 (1.39%) Workday
10 9 (1.04%) Murex
11 8 (0.92%) Cisco
11 8 (0.92%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.81%) NEC
13 6 (0.69%) Avaloq
13 6 (0.69%) Databricks
14 5 (0.58%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.58%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.58%) Okta
15 4 (0.46%) VMware