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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 898 994 1,362
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.19% 7.85% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.82% 8.54% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 590 939
10th Percentile £350 £308 £325
25th Percentile £438 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £668 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £771 £771
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 52
10th Percentile £27.78 £23.07 £19.98
25th Percentile £32.84 £30.00 £23.40
Median hourly rate £37.54 £38.11 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +20.18% -26.26%
75th Percentile £47.38 £45.18 £49.31
90th Percentile £57.15 £51.05 £55.00
England median hourly rate £40.25 £46.30 £38.12
% change year-on-year -13.07% +21.46% -23.76%

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 15,428 11,636 15,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.09% 91.87% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,331 7,886 11,336
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £755 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 168 334
10th Percentile £18.37 £16.48 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.75 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.00 £50.56 £49.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £63.40 £66.93
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -13 130 £588 +7.80% 113
West London -31 18 £465 +36.76% 31
South London -6 14 £650 +53.30% 12
East London -13 4 £495 -0.50% 18
North London +2 1 £550 +10.00% 2
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 63 (7.02%) Confluence
2 31 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.22%) CMS
4 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.45%) Apache
5 4 (0.45%) nginx
6 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.22%) Moodle
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 83 (9.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (7.35%) Microsoft Project
3 56 (6.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.00%) Trello
7 7 (0.78%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.45%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.33%) InVision
9 3 (0.33%) Sketch
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.22%) InDesign
11 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 12 (1.34%) Loan IQ
2 10 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.00%) Shopify
4 4 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.33%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 3 (0.33%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.33%) ProductWriter
5 3 (0.33%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.22%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.22%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 73 (8.13%) Azure
2 55 (6.12%) AWS
3 48 (5.35%) SaaS
4 41 (4.57%) Power Platform
5 29 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.23%) Smartsheet
7 16 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (1.67%) Asana
9 13 (1.45%) GCP
10 11 (1.22%) Google Workspace
11 9 (1.00%) BigCommerce
11 9 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (0.89%) Figma
12 8 (0.89%) OpenShift
13 7 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (0.78%) OCI
14 6 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (0.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.56%) Firewall
2 13 (1.45%) Network Security
2 13 (1.45%) WAN
3 8 (0.89%) LAN
4 6 (0.67%) Internet
4 6 (0.67%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.56%) DNS
6 4 (0.45%) Broadband
7 3 (0.33%) DKIM
7 3 (0.33%) DMARC
7 3 (0.33%) Intranet
7 3 (0.33%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.33%) VPN
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.22%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.22%) Multicast
8 2 (0.22%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.22%) OpenScape
8 2 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.23%) Power BI
2 16 (1.78%) Tableau
3 12 (1.34%) Metadata
4 11 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
5 7 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.45%) Big Data
8 3 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.22%) DataStage
9 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.22%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.11%) Cognos Query Studio
10 1 (0.11%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (0.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 129 (14.37%) JIRA
2 14 (1.56%) Git
3 4 (0.45%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.33%) GitLab
4 3 (0.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.22%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.11%) Ant
6 1 (0.11%) Appium
6 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.11%) JUnit
6 1 (0.11%) LSMW
6 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.11%) Subversion
6 1 (0.11%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.11%) Toad
6 1 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 434 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 370 (41.20%) Finance
3 150 (16.70%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (11.80%) Banking
5 89 (9.91%) Organisational Skills
6 85 (9.47%) Public Sector
7 82 (9.13%) Marketing
8 65 (7.24%) Retail
9 51 (5.68%) Legal
10 41 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (3.56%) Investment Banking
13 27 (3.01%) Financial Institution
14 24 (2.67%) Front Office
15 19 (2.12%) Manufacturing
16 18 (2.00%) Telecoms
17 14 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (1.34%) Advertising
19 8 (0.89%) Law
Job Titles
1 371 (41.31%) Project Manager
2 115 (12.81%) Analyst
3 100 (11.14%) Senior
4 89 (9.91%) Business Analyst
5 81 (9.02%) Lead
6 72 (8.02%) Senior Manager
7 57 (6.35%) Senior Project Manager
8 50 (5.57%) IT Manager
9 45 (5.01%) IT Project Manager
10 40 (4.45%) Programme Manager
11 36 (4.01%) Technical Manager
12 35 (3.90%) Infrastructure Manager
13 33 (3.67%) Delivery Manager
14 29 (3.23%) Technical Project Manager
15 28 (3.12%) Migration Manager
16 27 (3.01%) Developer
16 27 (3.01%) Migration Project Manager
17 26 (2.90%) Consultant
17 26 (2.90%) Infrastructure Project Manager
18 24 (2.67%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.00%) REST
2 12 (1.34%) SOAP
3 11 (1.22%) HTML
4 9 (1.00%) Middleware
4 9 (1.00%) VML
4 9 (1.00%) Web Services
5 8 (0.89%) .NET
5 8 (0.89%) AngularJS
6 7 (0.78%) CSS
6 7 (0.78%) React
6 7 (0.78%) XML
7 6 (0.67%) SailPoint
8 5 (0.56%) RESTful
9 4 (0.45%) ADO
9 4 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.33%) Bootstrap
10 3 (0.33%) OAuth
10 3 (0.33%) pytest
10 3 (0.33%) XSLT
11 2 (0.22%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.35%) Onboarding
2 43 (4.79%) Management Information System
3 34 (3.79%) PMI
4 31 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.34%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.89%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.45%) Web Conferencing
11 11 (1.22%) Social Media
12 9 (1.00%) CMDB
12 9 (1.00%) FMCG
13 8 (0.89%) Digital Media
13 8 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.89%) Tandem
14 7 (0.78%) Cloud Native
14 7 (0.78%) Derivative
14 7 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.45%) Windows
2 10 (1.11%) Linux
3 6 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.33%) Unix
5 1 (0.11%) AIX
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (40.98%) Agile
2 340 (37.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 229 (25.50%) Project Delivery
4 186 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
5 157 (17.48%) PRINCE2
6 145 (16.15%) Migration
7 124 (13.81%) Waterfall
8 118 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 114 (12.69%) Decision-Making
10 112 (12.47%) Change Management
11 111 (12.36%) Scrum
12 103 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 94 (10.47%) Risk Management
14 79 (8.80%) Business Analysis
15 75 (8.35%) Roadmaps
16 71 (7.91%) Analytics
17 70 (7.80%) AI
18 68 (7.57%) Budget Management
18 68 (7.57%) Time Management
19 66 (7.35%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 50 (5.57%) SQL
2 23 (2.56%) Python
3 12 (1.34%) Java
4 9 (1.00%) C#
4 9 (1.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.67%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.56%) C++
6 5 (0.56%) R
7 3 (0.33%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.22%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.22%) Korn
8 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.22%) VBA
9 1 (0.11%) C
9 1 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.11%) Go
9 1 (0.11%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.11%) Perl
9 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 156 (17.37%) PMP
2 142 (15.81%) PMI Certification
3 130 (14.48%) Degree
4 82 (9.13%) Security Cleared
5 66 (7.35%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.67%) APMP
8 15 (1.67%) CBAP
8 15 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.45%) CISSP
9 13 (1.45%) IIBA
10 11 (1.22%) CISM
11 9 (1.00%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 7 (0.78%) APMG
13 7 (0.78%) MBA
14 5 (0.56%) CFA
15 4 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (11.14%) PMO
2 64 (7.13%) QA
3 35 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 34 (3.79%) GDPR
5 24 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.12%) NIST
7 13 (1.45%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.22%) SLA
9 8 (0.89%) EMIR
9 8 (0.89%) GRC
9 8 (0.89%) MiFID
9 8 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.56%) WCAG
11 4 (0.45%) Basel III
12 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.22%) IFRS
13 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 11 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.45%) Docker
3 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.11%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (0.67%) RSA Archer
1 6 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (0.56%) Terraform
3 3 (0.33%) Consul
3 3 (0.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.33%) Packer
4 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.11%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) CASB
5 1 (0.11%) Control-M
5 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.11%) logstash
5 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 117 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.46%) SAP
3 55 (6.12%) ServiceNow
4 45 (5.01%) Salesforce
5 36 (4.01%) Oracle
6 25 (2.78%) Adobe
7 21 (2.34%) Google
8 18 (2.00%) Workday
9 15 (1.67%) CyberArk
10 13 (1.45%) Sitecore
11 12 (1.34%) Cisco
12 10 (1.11%) NEC
13 9 (1.00%) Databricks
14 7 (0.78%) Avaloq
14 7 (0.78%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.78%) Planview
15 6 (0.67%) Atlassian
16 5 (0.56%) Guidewire
16 5 (0.56%) IBM
16 5 (0.56%) VMware