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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -23 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 855 963 1,205
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.49% 7.70% 6.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 8.33% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 583 817
10th Percentile £357 £310 £305
25th Percentile £425 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £753 £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 52
10th Percentile £28.00 £26.25 £19.98
25th Percentile £30.38 £33.25 £23.40
Median hourly rate £39.50 £43.08 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +32.97% -23.33%
75th Percentile £55.75 £51.59 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.25 £63.75 £54.85
England median hourly rate £36.00 £46.30 £37.00
% change year-on-year -22.25% +25.14% -17.78%

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 16,916 11,555 15,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.87% 92.40% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,270 7,751 11,170
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -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 259 210 314
10th Percentile £18.06 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +18.39% -29.38%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -17 130 £561 -2.39% 33
West London -27 20 £550 +18.92% 25
South London -2 11 £688 +62.15% 7
East London -9 5 £523 +16.11% 16
North London +3 2 £500 - 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 43 (5.03%) Confluence
1 43 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.87%) CMS
3 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.70%) Apache
4 6 (0.70%) WordPress
5 4 (0.47%) Moodle
6 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.12%) SAS
8 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 69 (8.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (6.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 56 (6.55%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.58%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.35%) Trello
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.12%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 10 (1.17%) Shopify
2 9 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.94%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.70%) ProductWriter
5 4 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.47%) Endur
5 4 (0.47%) Magento
5 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.23%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 70 (8.19%) Azure
2 56 (6.55%) SaaS
3 51 (5.96%) AWS
4 38 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 30 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.11%) Smartsheet
8 10 (1.17%) Asana
8 10 (1.17%) BigCommerce
8 10 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.17%) GCP
9 7 (0.82%) Google Ads
9 7 (0.82%) Google Workspace
10 6 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (0.70%) Entra ID
10 6 (0.70%) GitHub
10 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (0.58%) Google Drive
11 5 (0.58%) OCI
12 4 (0.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.52%) Network Security
2 8 (0.94%) WAN
3 7 (0.82%) Firewall
4 6 (0.70%) 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 (0.23%) BGP
7 2 (0.23%) Broadband
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 (4.21%) Power BI
2 10 (1.17%) Tableau
3 7 (0.82%) Data Lake
3 7 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (0.82%) Metadata
4 4 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
4 4 (0.47%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.47%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.35%) QlikView
6 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.23%) Power Query
7 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) Big Data
7 1 (0.12%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 97 (11.35%) JIRA
2 17 (1.99%) Git
3 10 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.58%) Subversion
5 3 (0.35%) 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
1 383 (44.80%) Social Skills
2 343 (40.12%) Finance
3 120 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (10.88%) Organisational Skills
5 91 (10.64%) Marketing
6 89 (10.41%) Banking
7 71 (8.30%) Public Sector
8 60 (7.02%) Retail
9 50 (5.85%) Legal
10 34 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (3.39%) Financial Institution
13 27 (3.16%) Front Office
14 25 (2.92%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.52%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.29%) Advertising
17 11 (1.29%) Law
17 11 (1.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 371 (43.39%) Project Manager
2 104 (12.16%) Senior
3 97 (11.35%) Analyst
4 88 (10.29%) Lead
5 77 (9.01%) Senior Manager
6 70 (8.19%) Business Analyst
7 65 (7.60%) Senior Project Manager
8 44 (5.15%) IT Manager
9 39 (4.56%) IT Project Manager
9 39 (4.56%) Programme Manager
10 35 (4.09%) Technical Manager
11 30 (3.51%) Technical Project Manager
12 28 (3.27%) Developer
13 27 (3.16%) Infrastructure Manager
14 26 (3.04%) Delivery Manager
15 25 (2.92%) Architect
16 24 (2.81%) Consultant
16 24 (2.81%) Migration Manager
16 24 (2.81%) Migration Project Manager
17 22 (2.57%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.11%) REST
2 13 (1.52%) VML
3 11 (1.29%) SOAP
4 9 (1.05%) Middleware
5 8 (0.94%) HTML
6 6 (0.70%) .NET
6 6 (0.70%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.58%) ADO
7 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.58%) Web Services
8 4 (0.47%) OAuth
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.47%) React
8 4 (0.47%) XML
9 3 (0.35%) CSS
9 3 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (0.35%) RESTful
10 2 (0.23%) HTML5
10 2 (0.23%) pytest
11 1 (0.12%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.15%) Onboarding
2 43 (5.03%) Management Information System
3 32 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.04%) PMI
5 25 (2.92%) Data Centre
5 25 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.11%) Social Media
7 15 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.40%) FMCG
11 11 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.17%) Web Conferencing
13 9 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.94%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.94%) Market Risk
15 7 (0.82%) CMDB
15 7 (0.82%) Derivative
15 7 (0.82%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.52%) 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
1 342 (40.00%) Agile
2 326 (38.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 241 (28.19%) Project Delivery
4 149 (17.43%) PRINCE2
5 148 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 138 (16.14%) Migration
7 121 (14.15%) Decision-Making
8 118 (13.80%) Change Management
9 115 (13.45%) Waterfall
10 112 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 103 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 88 (10.29%) Risk Management
13 86 (10.06%) Scrum
14 84 (9.82%) AI
15 67 (7.84%) Analytics
15 67 (7.84%) Business Analysis
16 64 (7.49%) DevOps
16 64 (7.49%) Requirements Gathering
17 63 (7.37%) Programme Management
18 61 (7.13%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (5.03%) SQL
2 25 (2.92%) Python
3 11 (1.29%) Java
4 8 (0.94%) C#
5 6 (0.70%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.58%) C++
7 4 (0.47%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.47%) R
8 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.23%) VBA
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
Qualifications
1 149 (17.43%) PMP
2 124 (14.50%) PMI Certification
3 115 (13.45%) Degree
4 70 (8.19%) Security Cleared
5 50 (5.85%) SC Cleared
6 15 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.52%) APMP
8 12 (1.40%) CBAP
8 12 (1.40%) CISSP
8 12 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.17%) IIBA
9 10 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 9 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.05%) CISM
11 8 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.82%) APMG
13 5 (0.58%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.58%) MBA
13 5 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (12.75%) PMO
2 60 (7.02%) QA
3 31 (3.63%) Data Quality
4 27 (3.16%) GDPR
5 19 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.99%) NIST
7 15 (1.75%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.64%) SLA
9 8 (0.94%) MiFID
10 7 (0.82%) EMIR
10 7 (0.82%) GRC
11 5 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.47%) COREP
12 4 (0.47%) FINREP
13 3 (0.35%) GxP
13 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.23%) COBIT
14 2 (0.23%) GAAP
System Software
1 11 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.58%) 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 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.47%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.35%) Ansible
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.23%) Terraform
5 1 (0.12%) Control-M
5 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.12%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 114 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.85%) ServiceNow
3 45 (5.26%) SAP
4 43 (5.03%) Salesforce
5 31 (3.63%) Oracle
6 26 (3.04%) Adobe
7 20 (2.34%) Sitecore
8 19 (2.22%) Google
9 12 (1.40%) CyberArk
9 12 (1.40%) Workday
10 10 (1.17%) Murex
11 8 (0.94%) Cisco
11 8 (0.94%) Guidewire
12 6 (0.70%) Avaloq
12 6 (0.70%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.70%) Databricks
12 6 (0.70%) NEC
13 5 (0.58%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.58%) Okta
14 4 (0.47%) VMware