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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 32 26
Rank change year-on-year -32 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 841 841 1,133
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.10% 6.29% 7.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 6.80% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 545 663
10th Percentile £350 £333 £315
25th Percentile £438 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £700 £650
90th Percentile £756 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 36 26
10th Percentile £28.00 £17.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £30.60 £24.00 £30.31
Median hourly rate £47.46 £34.50 £33.79
Median % change year-on-year +37.57% +2.12% -17.60%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.00 £42.25
90th Percentile £64.25 £64.38 £59.88
England median hourly rate £51.35 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +48.84% -1.43% -17.65%

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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -17 134 £555 +0.91% 29
West London -3 36 £680 +30.14% 11
South London -10 9 £650 +36.84% 5
East London +3 6 £495 -4.81% 7
North London - 1 £450 - 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 44 (5.23%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.52%) Confluence
3 22 (2.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 21 (2.50%) CMS
5 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.71%) WordPress
6 5 (0.59%) Apache
6 5 (0.59%) JBoss
7 4 (0.48%) Moodle
7 4 (0.48%) SAS
7 4 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) Appian
9 1 (0.12%) Camunda
Applications
1 84 (9.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (8.32%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (7.73%) Microsoft Project
4 62 (7.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.26%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.71%) Trello
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.24%) Windchill
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 14 (1.66%) Adobe Campaign
2 10 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.07%) Magento
4 6 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.48%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.48%) Endur
5 4 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.36%) Orchestrade
6 3 (0.36%) ProductWriter
6 3 (0.36%) Workfront
7 2 (0.24%) Changepoint
7 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.24%) Findur
7 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.12%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 87 (10.34%) Azure
2 55 (6.54%) SaaS
3 54 (6.42%) Power Platform
4 48 (5.71%) AWS
5 38 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (1.55%) Asana
9 12 (1.43%) Entra ID
9 12 (1.43%) GCP
10 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.19%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.07%) Smartsheet
13 8 (0.95%) Google Workspace
14 7 (0.83%) Snowflake
15 6 (0.71%) Adobe Analytics
15 6 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (0.71%) Serverless
16 5 (0.59%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.14%) Network Security
2 10 (1.19%) WAN
3 8 (0.95%) 3GPP
3 8 (0.95%) 4G
3 8 (0.95%) 5G
3 8 (0.95%) Firewall
3 8 (0.95%) LTE
3 8 (0.95%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (0.95%) Wireshark
4 7 (0.83%) LAN
4 7 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.71%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.71%) Wireless
6 5 (0.59%) BGP
6 5 (0.59%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.48%) DKIM
7 4 (0.48%) DMARC
7 4 (0.48%) DNS
7 4 (0.48%) Multicast
8 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.35%) Power BI
2 12 (1.43%) Tableau
3 10 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.07%) Metadata
5 8 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.71%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.59%) Big Data
8 5 (0.59%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.59%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.48%) Power Query
9 4 (0.48%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.36%) QlikView
11 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.24%) DataStage
11 2 (0.24%) Looker
11 2 (0.24%) MS Access
12 1 (0.12%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 113 (13.44%) JIRA
2 21 (2.50%) Git
3 14 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.95%) Subversion
5 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.12%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.12%) GitLab
7 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.12%) LSMW
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 394 (46.85%) Social Skills
2 367 (43.64%) Finance
3 128 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (13.56%) Banking
5 86 (10.23%) Marketing
6 80 (9.51%) Organisational Skills
7 63 (7.49%) Public Sector
8 51 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
9 47 (5.59%) Retail
10 41 (4.88%) Legal
11 28 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (3.21%) Investment Banking
12 27 (3.21%) Telecoms
13 24 (2.85%) Front Office
14 17 (2.02%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.66%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (1.31%) Law
18 10 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (1.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 374 (44.47%) Project Manager
2 94 (11.18%) Senior
3 73 (8.68%) Lead
3 73 (8.68%) Senior Manager
4 62 (7.37%) Analyst
5 57 (6.78%) Senior Project Manager
6 51 (6.06%) Programme Manager
7 48 (5.71%) IT Manager
8 44 (5.23%) Delivery Manager
9 39 (4.64%) Technical Manager
10 36 (4.28%) IT Project Manager
11 34 (4.04%) Business Analyst
12 32 (3.80%) Technical Project Manager
13 29 (3.45%) Consultant
14 19 (2.26%) Digital Project Manager
15 18 (2.14%) Developer
16 16 (1.90%) Junior
17 15 (1.78%) Administrator
18 14 (1.66%) Delivery Project Manager
18 14 (1.66%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.66%) ADO
2 8 (0.95%) pytest
2 8 (0.95%) VML
3 7 (0.83%) REST
3 7 (0.83%) Web Services
4 6 (0.71%) Middleware
4 6 (0.71%) OAuth
4 6 (0.71%) React
4 6 (0.71%) Terraform
5 5 (0.59%) FastAPI
5 5 (0.59%) HTML
5 5 (0.59%) SOAP
6 4 (0.48%) .NET
6 4 (0.48%) XML
7 3 (0.36%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.36%) DAO
7 3 (0.36%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.24%) JSON
8 2 (0.24%) Regular Expression
8 2 (0.24%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.18%) Management Information System
2 45 (5.35%) Onboarding
3 43 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.14%) Fixed Income
8 17 (2.02%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.55%) Derivative
11 12 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.43%) PMI
12 11 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.31%) Social Media
13 10 (1.19%) FMCG
13 10 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
14 9 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.07%) Life Science
14 9 (1.07%) Market Risk
15 8 (0.95%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.38%) Linux
2 16 (1.90%) Windows
3 7 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.48%) Unix
4 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (52.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 363 (43.16%) Agile
3 265 (31.51%) Project Delivery
4 201 (23.90%) PRINCE2
5 133 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
6 130 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 129 (15.34%) Migration
8 123 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 121 (14.39%) AI
9 121 (14.39%) Change Management
10 120 (14.27%) Decision-Making
11 114 (13.56%) Waterfall
12 112 (13.32%) Scrum
13 107 (12.72%) Risk Management
14 91 (10.82%) Roadmaps
15 90 (10.70%) Project Governance
16 82 (9.75%) Programme Management
17 81 (9.63%) Analytics
18 79 (9.39%) DevOps
19 70 (8.32%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (4.40%) SQL
2 33 (3.92%) Python
3 9 (1.07%) Java
4 7 (0.83%) Bash
5 6 (0.71%) C#
5 6 (0.71%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.48%) C++
6 4 (0.48%) Korn
6 4 (0.48%) VBA
7 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.12%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.12%) C
8 1 (0.12%) COBOL
8 1 (0.12%) Perl
8 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.12%) R
8 1 (0.12%) RPG
8 1 (0.12%) VB
8 1 (0.12%) VB6
8 1 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 171 (20.33%) PMP
2 146 (17.36%) PMI Certification
3 125 (14.86%) Degree
4 86 (10.23%) Security Cleared
5 66 (7.85%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 12 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 9 (1.07%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.95%) CISSP
10 8 (0.95%) PgMP
11 7 (0.83%) CISM
12 6 (0.71%) APMP
12 6 (0.71%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.59%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (0.59%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (14.15%) PMO
2 43 (5.11%) QA
3 33 (3.92%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.14%) GDPR
5 13 (1.55%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.07%) P3O
7 7 (0.83%) NIST
7 7 (0.83%) SLA
8 6 (0.71%) FINREP
8 6 (0.71%) GRC
9 5 (0.59%) COREP
10 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.36%) SEPA
11 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.36%) WCAG
12 2 (0.24%) EMIR
System Software
1 18 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.59%) Ansible
1 5 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
1 5 (0.59%) Puppet
1 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.12%) Grafana
4 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.12%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 153 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 40 (4.76%) SAP
3 35 (4.16%) ServiceNow
4 29 (3.45%) Adobe
4 29 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.38%) Oracle
6 19 (2.26%) Google
7 15 (1.78%) VMware
8 12 (1.43%) Atlassian
9 11 (1.31%) Cisco
9 11 (1.31%) Sitecore
10 9 (1.07%) Alteryx
10 9 (1.07%) Murex
10 9 (1.07%) Planview
11 8 (0.95%) Ericsson
11 8 (0.95%) Nokia
11 8 (0.95%) Workday
12 7 (0.83%) Guidewire
13 6 (0.71%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.71%) NEC