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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Management 869 982 1,385
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.14% 7.78% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.75% 8.51% 8.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 592 949
10th Percentile £350 £308 £325
25th Percentile £434 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £668 £638 £673
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 53
10th Percentile £28.90 £26.25 £20.03
25th Percentile £33.28 £32.00 £23.75
Median hourly rate £37.54 £37.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +16.68% -23.59%
75th Percentile £45.13 £43.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £51.95 £50.50 £59.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £46.18 £38.12
% change year-on-year -13.38% +21.14% -22.20%

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 15,126 11,538 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.53% 91.39% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,169 7,836 11,414
10th Percentile £356 £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 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 169 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.83 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.23 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -12 133 £550 - 118
West London -30 16 £455 +33.82% 27
South London -7 13 £650 +53.30% 9
East London -8 5 £510 +3.03% 21
North London +2 1 £550 +10.00% 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 64 (7.36%) Confluence
2 27 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.15%) CMS
4 4 (0.46%) Apache
4 4 (0.46%) nginx
5 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 82 (9.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (7.83%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (6.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.96%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.27%) Trello
7 7 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.69%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.58%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.35%) InDesign
11 3 (0.35%) InVision
11 3 (0.35%) Sketch
12 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 12 (1.38%) Loan IQ
2 9 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.81%) Shopify
4 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.35%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.35%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.23%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 73 (8.40%) Azure
2 56 (6.44%) AWS
3 42 (4.83%) Power Platform
4 39 (4.49%) SaaS
5 21 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.07%) Smartsheet
7 16 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (1.50%) Asana
9 9 (1.04%) Figma
9 9 (1.04%) GCP
10 8 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (0.92%) Google Workspace
10 8 (0.92%) OpenShift
11 7 (0.81%) BigCommerce
11 7 (0.81%) GitHub
11 7 (0.81%) OCI
12 6 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.61%) WAN
2 13 (1.50%) Firewall
3 11 (1.27%) Network Security
4 9 (1.04%) LAN
5 6 (0.69%) Internet
5 6 (0.69%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.46%) Broadband
6 4 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.35%) Intranet
7 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.35%) VPN
8 2 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) DMZ
8 2 (0.23%) DNS
8 2 (0.23%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.23%) ISDN
8 2 (0.23%) Junos
8 2 (0.23%) Multicast
8 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.37%) Power BI
2 18 (2.07%) Tableau
3 11 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.15%) Metadata
5 7 (0.81%) Data Lake
5 7 (0.81%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.46%) Big Data
6 4 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.35%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.23%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.23%) DataStage
8 2 (0.23%) Power Query
8 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.12%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.12%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.12%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 128 (14.73%) JIRA
2 13 (1.50%) Git
3 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.46%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.35%) GitLab
4 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.23%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.12%) Ant
6 1 (0.12%) Appium
6 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.12%) JUnit
6 1 (0.12%) LSMW
6 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.12%) Subversion
6 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.12%) Toad
6 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 434 (49.94%) Social Skills
2 371 (42.69%) Finance
3 151 (17.38%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (12.89%) Banking
5 89 (10.24%) Organisational Skills
6 83 (9.55%) Public Sector
7 72 (8.29%) Marketing
8 57 (6.56%) Retail
9 50 (5.75%) Legal
10 40 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (3.91%) Investment Banking
13 29 (3.34%) Financial Institution
14 27 (3.11%) Front Office
15 19 (2.19%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.96%) Manufacturing
17 15 (1.73%) Advertising
17 15 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 10 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 373 (42.92%) Project Manager
2 114 (13.12%) Analyst
3 100 (11.51%) Senior
4 87 (10.01%) Business Analyst
5 73 (8.40%) Lead
6 71 (8.17%) Senior Manager
7 56 (6.44%) Senior Project Manager
8 49 (5.64%) IT Manager
9 45 (5.18%) IT Project Manager
10 36 (4.14%) Programme Manager
11 35 (4.03%) Technical Manager
12 33 (3.80%) Infrastructure Manager
13 32 (3.68%) Delivery Manager
14 28 (3.22%) Technical Project Manager
15 27 (3.11%) Migration Manager
16 26 (2.99%) Developer
16 26 (2.99%) Migration Project Manager
17 25 (2.88%) Architect
17 25 (2.88%) Consultant
17 25 (2.88%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.07%) REST
2 12 (1.38%) SOAP
3 9 (1.04%) .NET
3 9 (1.04%) AngularJS
3 9 (1.04%) HTML
3 9 (1.04%) Middleware
3 9 (1.04%) Web Services
4 8 (0.92%) XML
5 7 (0.81%) CSS
5 7 (0.81%) React
5 7 (0.81%) RESTful
5 7 (0.81%) VML
6 6 (0.69%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.46%) ADO
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.35%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.35%) Bootstrap
8 3 (0.35%) pytest
9 2 (0.23%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (0.23%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.75%) Onboarding
2 40 (4.60%) Management Information System
3 31 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 29 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 28 (3.22%) PMI
6 24 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.84%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.38%) Web Conferencing
11 11 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.27%) Social Media
12 9 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.04%) Derivative
12 9 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.92%) CMDB
13 8 (0.92%) Digital Media
13 8 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.92%) NHS
13 8 (0.92%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.50%) Windows
2 9 (1.04%) Linux
3 6 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.12%) AIX
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
5 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (41.77%) Agile
2 336 (38.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 227 (26.12%) Project Delivery
4 190 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
5 160 (18.41%) PRINCE2
6 138 (15.88%) Migration
7 123 (14.15%) Waterfall
8 120 (13.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 114 (13.12%) Scrum
10 109 (12.54%) Change Management
11 106 (12.20%) Decision-Making
12 98 (11.28%) Risk Management
13 95 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 80 (9.21%) Business Analysis
15 73 (8.40%) Roadmaps
16 70 (8.06%) Analytics
17 69 (7.94%) AI
18 67 (7.71%) Budget Management
18 67 (7.71%) Requirements Gathering
18 67 (7.71%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (5.98%) SQL
2 25 (2.88%) Python
3 11 (1.27%) Java
4 10 (1.15%) C#
5 9 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.69%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.58%) C++
7 5 (0.58%) R
8 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.23%) Korn
9 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.23%) VBA
10 1 (0.12%) C
10 1 (0.12%) Go
10 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.12%) Perl
10 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.12%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 153 (17.61%) PMP
2 140 (16.11%) PMI Certification
3 134 (15.42%) Degree
4 82 (9.44%) Security Cleared
5 64 (7.36%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.19%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.73%) CBAP
8 15 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.61%) APMP
9 14 (1.61%) IIBA
10 12 (1.38%) CISSP
10 12 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.15%) CISM
12 8 (0.92%) MBA
13 7 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (0.69%) APMG
15 5 (0.58%) CFA
16 4 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.46%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (11.39%) PMO
2 58 (6.67%) QA
3 37 (4.26%) GDPR
4 32 (3.68%) Data Quality
5 24 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.19%) NIST
7 12 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (1.15%) SLA
9 9 (1.04%) EMIR
9 9 (1.04%) GRC
10 7 (0.81%) MiFID
11 5 (0.58%) WCAG
12 4 (0.46%) Basel III
13 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.23%) IFRS
14 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.46%) Docker
3 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (0.81%) RSA Archer
2 5 (0.58%) Terraform
3 3 (0.35%) Consul
3 3 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.35%) Packer
3 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.12%) Ansible
5 1 (0.12%) CASB
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.12%) Control-M
5 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.12%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 110 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.33%) ServiceNow
3 53 (6.10%) SAP
4 45 (5.18%) Salesforce
5 34 (3.91%) Oracle
6 25 (2.88%) Adobe
7 19 (2.19%) Google
8 17 (1.96%) Workday
9 15 (1.73%) CyberArk
10 13 (1.50%) Cisco
11 9 (1.04%) Databricks
11 9 (1.04%) Sitecore
12 7 (0.81%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.81%) Avaloq
12 7 (0.81%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.81%) Palo Alto
12 7 (0.81%) Planview
13 6 (0.69%) NEC
14 5 (0.58%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.58%) VMware