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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -26 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 851 956 1,191
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.45% 7.57% 6.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.01% 8.19% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 577 811
10th Percentile £356 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £437 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £754 £775 £750
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 31 52
10th Percentile £28.00 £26.25 £19.98
25th Percentile £31.56 £33.25 £23.40
Median hourly rate £40.23 £43.08 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +32.97% -23.33%
75th Percentile £57.13 £51.59 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.25 £63.75 £54.85
England median hourly rate £37.50 £46.30 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.01% +23.47% -16.67%

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 17,000 11,667 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.40% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,819 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 214 309
10th Percentile £18.01 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £59.99 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -18 128 £560 -2.61% 28
West London -28 21 £550 +18.92% 30
South London -12 11 £688 +62.15% 8
East London -7 5 £523 +16.11% 17
North London +1 2 £500 - 4
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 44 (5.17%) Confluence
2 43 (5.05%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.88%) CMS
4 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.71%) Apache
6 6 (0.71%) WordPress
7 4 (0.47%) Moodle
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.24%) 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 72 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (7.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 59 (6.93%) Microsoft Project
4 51 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.65%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.35%) Trello
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.12%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 10 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.06%) Shopify
3 8 (0.94%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.71%) ProductWriter
5 5 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
5 5 (0.59%) Endur
5 5 (0.59%) Magento
6 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 71 (8.34%) Azure
2 55 (6.46%) SaaS
3 52 (6.11%) AWS
4 39 (4.58%) Power Platform
5 30 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.12%) Smartsheet
8 10 (1.18%) Asana
8 10 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.18%) GCP
9 9 (1.06%) BigCommerce
10 7 (0.82%) Google Ads
10 7 (0.82%) Google Workspace
11 6 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (0.71%) Entra ID
11 6 (0.71%) GitHub
11 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.59%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.59%) Google Drive
12 5 (0.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.53%) Network Security
2 8 (0.94%) WAN
3 7 (0.82%) Firewall
4 6 (0.71%) LAN
5 4 (0.47%) DKIM
5 4 (0.47%) DMARC
5 4 (0.47%) DNS
5 4 (0.47%) Intranet
5 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.35%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.24%) BGP
7 2 (0.24%) Broadband
7 2 (0.24%) Multicast
7 2 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.24%) Wireless
8 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.12%) MVNO
8 1 (0.12%) VPN
8 1 (0.12%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.35%) Power BI
2 10 (1.18%) Tableau
3 7 (0.82%) Data Lake
3 7 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (0.82%) Metadata
4 5 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.47%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.47%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.35%) QlikView
7 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.24%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.24%) Power Query
8 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.12%) Big Data
8 1 (0.12%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.12%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 98 (11.52%) JIRA
2 18 (2.12%) Git
3 11 (1.29%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.71%) Subversion
5 5 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.35%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.12%) Appium
8 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.12%) LSMW
8 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 380 (44.65%) Social Skills
2 341 (40.07%) Finance
3 116 (13.63%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (11.05%) Organisational Skills
5 93 (10.93%) Marketing
6 90 (10.58%) Banking
7 71 (8.34%) Public Sector
8 60 (7.05%) Retail
9 48 (5.64%) Legal
10 35 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (3.41%) Financial Institution
13 27 (3.17%) Front Office
14 25 (2.94%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (1.65%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (1.29%) Billing
18 11 (1.29%) Law
18 11 (1.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 367 (43.13%) Project Manager
2 105 (12.34%) Senior
3 97 (11.40%) Analyst
4 85 (9.99%) Lead
5 77 (9.05%) Senior Manager
6 70 (8.23%) Business Analyst
7 65 (7.64%) Senior Project Manager
8 43 (5.05%) IT Manager
9 39 (4.58%) Programme Manager
10 38 (4.47%) IT Project Manager
11 37 (4.35%) Technical Manager
12 31 (3.64%) Technical Project Manager
13 28 (3.29%) Developer
13 28 (3.29%) Infrastructure Manager
14 27 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
15 24 (2.82%) Architect
16 23 (2.70%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 23 (2.70%) Migration Manager
16 23 (2.70%) Migration Project Manager
17 22 (2.59%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.12%) REST
2 13 (1.53%) VML
3 11 (1.29%) SOAP
4 9 (1.06%) Middleware
5 8 (0.94%) HTML
6 6 (0.71%) .NET
6 6 (0.71%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.59%) ADO
7 5 (0.59%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.59%) React
7 5 (0.59%) Web Services
8 4 (0.47%) OAuth
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.47%) XML
9 3 (0.35%) CSS
9 3 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (0.35%) RESTful
10 2 (0.24%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.24%) HTML5
10 2 (0.24%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.29%) Onboarding
2 42 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 33 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 25 (2.94%) PMI
5 23 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.12%) Social Media
7 15 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.53%) FMCG
10 11 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.18%) Web Conferencing
12 8 (0.94%) Fixed Income
12 8 (0.94%) Market Risk
13 7 (0.82%) CMDB
13 7 (0.82%) IoT
13 7 (0.82%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.53%) Windows
2 7 (0.82%) Linux
3 4 (0.47%) Unix
4 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
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
1 343 (40.31%) Agile
2 330 (38.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 237 (27.85%) Project Delivery
4 149 (17.51%) PRINCE2
5 140 (16.45%) Migration
6 139 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
7 119 (13.98%) Decision-Making
8 117 (13.75%) Change Management
9 114 (13.40%) Waterfall
10 113 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 106 (12.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 87 (10.22%) Scrum
13 83 (9.75%) AI
13 83 (9.75%) Risk Management
14 68 (7.99%) Analytics
15 67 (7.87%) Business Analysis
16 65 (7.64%) DevOps
17 63 (7.40%) Requirements Gathering
18 61 (7.17%) Programme Management
18 61 (7.17%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 43 (5.05%) SQL
2 26 (3.06%) Python
3 11 (1.29%) Java
4 8 (0.94%) C#
5 7 (0.82%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.59%) C++
7 4 (0.47%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.47%) R
8 2 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.24%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.24%) VBA
9 1 (0.12%) C
9 1 (0.12%) COBOL
9 1 (0.12%) Korn
9 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.12%) RPG
9 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.12%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 148 (17.39%) PMP
2 123 (14.45%) PMI Certification
3 116 (13.63%) Degree
4 70 (8.23%) Security Cleared
5 49 (5.76%) SC Cleared
6 14 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.41%) APMP
7 12 (1.41%) CBAP
7 12 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.18%) CISSP
8 10 (1.18%) IIBA
8 10 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 8 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.82%) APMG
10 7 (0.82%) CISM
11 5 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.59%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (12.69%) PMO
2 60 (7.05%) QA
3 32 (3.76%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.94%) GDPR
5 16 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.65%) NIST
7 14 (1.65%) SLA
8 8 (0.94%) MiFID
9 7 (0.82%) EMIR
9 7 (0.82%) GRC
10 5 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.47%) COREP
11 4 (0.47%) FINREP
12 3 (0.35%) GxP
12 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.24%) Basel III
13 2 (0.24%) GAAP
System Software
1 12 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.24%) Firmware
3 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.47%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.35%) Ansible
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.24%) Terraform
5 1 (0.12%) Control-M
5 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.12%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 120 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.99%) ServiceNow
3 46 (5.41%) SAP
4 42 (4.94%) Salesforce
5 31 (3.64%) Oracle
6 26 (3.06%) Adobe
7 19 (2.23%) Google
7 19 (2.23%) Sitecore
8 12 (1.41%) Workday
9 11 (1.29%) CyberArk
10 10 (1.18%) Murex
11 8 (0.94%) Cisco
11 8 (0.94%) Guidewire
12 6 (0.71%) Avaloq
12 6 (0.71%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.71%) Databricks
12 6 (0.71%) NEC
13 5 (0.59%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.59%) VMware
13 5 (0.59%) Wrike