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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 26 27
Rank change year-on-year -25 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 870 968 1,115
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.33% 7.16% 6.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 7.75% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 603 723
10th Percentile £350 £314 £313
25th Percentile £439 £446 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -0.68%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 34
10th Percentile £28.00 £20.24 £20.58
25th Percentile £29.28 £26.88 £27.82
Median hourly rate £41.44 £36.00 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +15.11% -3.10% -5.76%
75th Percentile £58.31 £51.25 £49.69
90th Percentile £69.85 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £43.83 £41.06 £38.12
% change year-on-year +6.73% +7.71% -4.16%

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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -29 115 £625 +13.64% 88
West London -9 31 £653 +26.39% 39
South London -9 9 £575 +15.00% 16
East London -6 3 £550 -0.45% 28
North London - 1 £450 - 5
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 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.48%) Confluence
3 22 (2.53%) CMS
4 16 (1.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.69%) WordPress
7 5 (0.57%) Apache
7 5 (0.57%) Moodle
8 4 (0.46%) JBoss
8 4 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.11%) Appian
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 69 (7.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (7.36%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
4 56 (6.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.18%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.80%) Trello
7 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 11 (1.26%) Adobe Campaign
2 8 (0.92%) Magento
2 8 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.69%) ProductWriter
3 6 (0.69%) Shopify
4 4 (0.46%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.46%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.34%) Endur
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.34%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.23%) Changepoint
6 2 (0.23%) Findur
6 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 81 (9.31%) Azure
2 63 (7.24%) SaaS
3 54 (6.21%) AWS
4 48 (5.52%) Power Platform
5 28 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (2.07%) Smartsheet
8 14 (1.61%) Asana
9 13 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.38%) GCP
11 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (0.92%) Entra ID
12 8 (0.92%) GitHub
13 7 (0.80%) Adobe Analytics
13 7 (0.80%) Google Workspace
13 7 (0.80%) Snowflake
14 6 (0.69%) Amazon S3
14 6 (0.69%) BigCommerce
15 5 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.57%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.95%) Network Security
2 6 (0.69%) LAN
2 6 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (0.69%) WAN
2 6 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (0.57%) Wireless
4 4 (0.46%) 3GPP
4 4 (0.46%) 4G
4 4 (0.46%) 5G
4 4 (0.46%) DKIM
4 4 (0.46%) DMARC
4 4 (0.46%) DNS
4 4 (0.46%) Firewall
4 4 (0.46%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.46%) LTE
4 4 (0.46%) Multicast
4 4 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.46%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.60%) Power BI
2 12 (1.38%) Tableau
3 9 (1.03%) Data Lake
3 9 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.03%) Metadata
4 6 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.69%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.57%) Big Data
5 5 (0.57%) DynamoDB
5 5 (0.57%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.46%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.34%) Power Query
7 3 (0.34%) QlikView
8 2 (0.23%) DataStage
8 2 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.23%) Looker
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 105 (12.07%) JIRA
2 20 (2.30%) Git
3 16 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.03%) Subversion
5 6 (0.69%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.34%) GitLab
7 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.11%) LSMW
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
8 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.11%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 383 (44.02%) Social Skills
2 335 (38.51%) Finance
3 144 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (12.53%) Marketing
5 102 (11.72%) Banking
6 85 (9.77%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (8.28%) Public Sector
8 61 (7.01%) Retail
9 46 (5.29%) Legal
10 33 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (3.10%) Front Office
11 27 (3.10%) Investment Banking
12 26 (2.99%) Financial Institution
13 21 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.41%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.38%) Manufacturing
17 10 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.03%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 350 (40.23%) Project Manager
2 99 (11.38%) Senior
3 81 (9.31%) Senior Manager
4 78 (8.97%) Lead
5 70 (8.05%) Analyst
6 59 (6.78%) Senior Project Manager
7 54 (6.21%) Programme Manager
8 47 (5.40%) Business Analyst
8 47 (5.40%) IT Manager
9 40 (4.60%) Technical Manager
10 38 (4.37%) IT Project Manager
11 34 (3.91%) Delivery Manager
12 33 (3.79%) Technical Project Manager
13 27 (3.10%) Developer
14 26 (2.99%) Consultant
15 25 (2.87%) Infrastructure Manager
16 21 (2.41%) Digital Project Manager
16 21 (2.41%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 21 (2.41%) Migration Manager
17 20 (2.30%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.72%) REST
2 13 (1.49%) VML
3 12 (1.38%) ADO
4 11 (1.26%) Web Services
5 9 (1.03%) HTML
6 8 (0.92%) Middleware
6 8 (0.92%) React
6 8 (0.92%) SOAP
7 6 (0.69%) .NET
7 6 (0.69%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.69%) XML
8 5 (0.57%) FastAPI
8 5 (0.57%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.46%) OAuth
9 4 (0.46%) pytest
10 3 (0.34%) HTML5
10 3 (0.34%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.34%) RESTful
10 3 (0.34%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.17%) Onboarding
2 42 (4.83%) Product Ownership
3 38 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 29 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 26 (2.99%) PMI
6 23 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.72%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.61%) Social Media
10 13 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.49%) FMCG
10 13 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.38%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.26%) CMDB
12 11 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
13 10 (1.15%) Credit Risk
13 10 (1.15%) IoT
14 9 (1.03%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.72%) Linux
1 15 (1.72%) Windows
2 6 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.57%) Unix
4 4 (0.46%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (44.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 375 (43.10%) Agile
3 245 (28.16%) Project Delivery
4 197 (22.64%) PRINCE2
5 141 (16.21%) Migration
6 137 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
7 130 (14.94%) Change Management
8 125 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 124 (14.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 121 (13.91%) Waterfall
11 116 (13.33%) Decision-Making
12 110 (12.64%) Scrum
13 101 (11.61%) AI
14 100 (11.49%) Risk Management
15 86 (9.89%) Analytics
16 83 (9.54%) Roadmaps
17 82 (9.43%) Programme Management
18 77 (8.85%) DevOps
19 60 (6.90%) Programme Delivery
20 59 (6.78%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 42 (4.83%) SQL
2 30 (3.45%) Python
3 11 (1.26%) Java
4 9 (1.03%) TypeScript
5 7 (0.80%) C#
6 5 (0.57%) C++
7 4 (0.46%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.34%) R
8 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.34%) VBA
9 2 (0.23%) Bash
9 2 (0.23%) C
9 2 (0.23%) Korn
9 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.11%) COBOL
10 1 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.11%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.11%) RPG
10 1 (0.11%) X++
Qualifications
1 181 (20.80%) PMP
2 152 (17.47%) PMI Certification
3 121 (13.91%) Degree
4 84 (9.66%) Security Cleared
5 60 (6.90%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.03%) CISSP
9 9 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 8 (0.92%) APMG
10 8 (0.92%) APMP
10 8 (0.92%) MBA
11 7 (0.80%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.69%) CISM
13 5 (0.57%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (13.68%) PMO
2 54 (6.21%) QA
3 33 (3.79%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.95%) GDPR
5 16 (1.84%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.49%) SLA
7 11 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.15%) NIST
9 9 (1.03%) GRC
10 8 (0.92%) P3O
11 7 (0.80%) FINREP
11 7 (0.80%) MiFID
12 6 (0.69%) COREP
12 6 (0.69%) EMIR
13 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.46%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.34%) GxP
15 3 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.34%) WCAG
16 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 15 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (0.57%) Ansible
3 4 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.46%) Puppet
3 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (0.46%) RSA Archer
3 4 (0.46%) Terraform
4 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 130 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.75%) ServiceNow
3 39 (4.48%) SAP
4 32 (3.68%) Adobe
4 32 (3.68%) Salesforce
5 27 (3.10%) Oracle
6 25 (2.87%) Google
7 20 (2.30%) Sitecore
8 11 (1.26%) Cisco
9 10 (1.15%) Murex
9 10 (1.15%) VMware
10 9 (1.03%) NEC
11 8 (0.92%) Alteryx
11 8 (0.92%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.92%) CyberArk
11 8 (0.92%) Guidewire
11 8 (0.92%) Workday
12 6 (0.69%) Databricks
12 6 (0.69%) Optimizely
12 6 (0.69%) Planview