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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Management 808 1,119 1,475
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.61% 7.85% 8.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.14% 8.70% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 635 1,000
10th Percentile £350 £313 £355
25th Percentile £425 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £655 £648 £675
90th Percentile £743 £750 £751
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 27
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.15 £24.70
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.27 £26.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -13.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £41.63 £37.40 £53.63
90th Percentile £59.38 £42.81 £58.50
England median hourly rate £44.98 £34.50 £46.06
% change year-on-year +30.38% -25.09% +14.32%

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 13,159 12,860 16,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.43% 90.25% 89.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 8,233 11,465
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 159 244
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.44 £54.50 £54.34
90th Percentile £69.24 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -12 132 £525 -12.50% 90
West London -23 16 £465 +19.23% 19
South London -6 8 £500 -11.15% 10
East London 0 7 £508 +6.84% 27
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 54 (6.68%) Confluence
2 32 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.74%) CMS
4 4 (0.50%) nginx
5 3 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (10.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (8.29%) Microsoft Project
3 59 (7.30%) Microsoft Office
4 57 (7.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (3.59%) MS Visio
6 13 (1.61%) Trello
7 4 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.37%) InVision
8 3 (0.37%) Sketch
9 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.25%) InDesign
9 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.12%) Notion
10 1 (0.12%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.12%) Revit
Business Applications
1 23 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.99%) Loan IQ
3 7 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.62%) Workfront
6 4 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.50%) Eloqua
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.37%) ProductWriter
7 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.37%) Shopify
7 3 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.25%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 68 (8.42%) Azure
2 52 (6.44%) Power Platform
3 44 (5.45%) AWS
4 26 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (3.09%) SaaS
6 18 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (2.10%) Asana
8 13 (1.61%) Smartsheet
9 9 (1.11%) GCP
9 9 (1.11%) Google Workspace
10 8 (0.99%) ChatGPT
10 8 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (0.99%) GitHub
10 8 (0.99%) OCI
10 8 (0.99%) Slack
11 7 (0.87%) Figma
11 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (0.87%) OpenShift
11 7 (0.87%) Serverless
11 7 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.85%) Firewall
2 11 (1.36%) WAN
3 10 (1.24%) Network Security
4 8 (0.99%) LAN
5 5 (0.62%) Internet
5 5 (0.62%) VPN
6 4 (0.50%) Multicast
6 4 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
6 4 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.37%) MVNO
7 3 (0.37%) S/MIME
7 3 (0.37%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.37%) SSL
8 2 (0.25%) ATM
8 2 (0.25%) Broadband
8 2 (0.25%) DHCP
8 2 (0.25%) DMZ
8 2 (0.25%) DNS
8 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.69%) Power BI
2 24 (2.97%) Tableau
3 15 (1.86%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.61%) Metadata
5 11 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.37%) Big Data
7 3 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.37%) Power Query
7 3 (0.37%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.37%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.25%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.25%) DataStage
8 2 (0.25%) DB2
8 2 (0.25%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (0.12%) DTS
9 1 (0.12%) MySQL
9 1 (0.12%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.12%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 135 (16.71%) JIRA
2 9 (1.11%) Git
3 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.50%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.25%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.25%) GitLab
4 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.12%) Ant
5 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.12%) ERwin
5 1 (0.12%) JMeter
5 1 (0.12%) JUnit
5 1 (0.12%) LSMW
5 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.12%) Toad
General
1 405 (50.12%) Social Skills
2 341 (42.20%) Finance
3 144 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (12.75%) Banking
5 74 (9.16%) Public Sector
6 59 (7.30%) Organisational Skills
7 58 (7.18%) Marketing
8 53 (6.56%) Retail
9 49 (6.06%) Legal
10 31 (3.84%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (3.71%) Investment Banking
12 29 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (3.22%) Front Office
14 22 (2.72%) Financial Institution
15 20 (2.48%) Telecoms
16 19 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (2.35%) Manufacturing
17 15 (1.86%) Advertising
18 13 (1.61%) Billing
19 12 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 316 (39.11%) Project Manager
2 111 (13.74%) Analyst
3 76 (9.41%) Business Analyst
3 76 (9.41%) Lead
4 75 (9.28%) Senior
5 48 (5.94%) IT Manager
6 43 (5.32%) Senior Manager
7 39 (4.83%) IT Project Manager
8 37 (4.58%) Consultant
9 31 (3.84%) Senior Project Manager
10 29 (3.59%) Infrastructure Manager
11 24 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
12 23 (2.85%) Developer
12 23 (2.85%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 23 (2.85%) Programme Manager
12 23 (2.85%) Technical Manager
13 18 (2.23%) Security Manager
13 18 (2.23%) Senior Business Analyst
14 17 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
14 17 (2.10%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.24%) HTML
2 9 (1.11%) REST
3 8 (0.99%) .NET
3 8 (0.99%) AngularJS
3 8 (0.99%) RESTful
3 8 (0.99%) SOAP
3 8 (0.99%) XML
4 7 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (0.74%) CSS
5 6 (0.74%) LangChain
5 6 (0.74%) Web Services
6 5 (0.62%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.62%) ADO
6 5 (0.62%) Entity Framework
6 5 (0.62%) Middleware
6 5 (0.62%) React
7 4 (0.50%) NHibernate
7 4 (0.50%) Playwright
8 3 (0.37%) JSON
8 3 (0.37%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.69%) Onboarding
2 42 (5.20%) Management Information System
3 29 (3.59%) PMI
4 28 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
5 27 (3.34%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.22%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.86%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.36%) Reinsurance
11 10 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.24%) Social Media
12 8 (0.99%) Derivative
12 8 (0.99%) Digital Media
12 8 (0.99%) Web Conferencing
13 7 (0.87%) NHS
13 7 (0.87%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.74%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.10%) Windows
2 12 (1.49%) Linux
3 5 (0.62%) Unix
4 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) AIX
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (38.61%) Agile
2 307 (38.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 205 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
4 190 (23.51%) Project Delivery
5 155 (19.18%) PRINCE2
6 141 (17.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 124 (15.35%) Migration
8 116 (14.36%) Change Management
9 103 (12.75%) Risk Management
10 97 (12.00%) Waterfall
11 93 (11.51%) Scrum
12 90 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 89 (11.01%) Decision-Making
14 73 (9.03%) Budget Management
15 64 (7.92%) Business Analysis
15 64 (7.92%) Roadmaps
16 63 (7.80%) Programme Management
17 61 (7.55%) Project Governance
18 60 (7.43%) Requirements Gathering
19 58 (7.18%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 54 (6.68%) SQL
2 25 (3.09%) Python
3 10 (1.24%) C#
3 10 (1.24%) Java
3 10 (1.24%) JavaScript
4 5 (0.62%) PL/SQL
5 4 (0.50%) VBA
6 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.25%) C++
6 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.25%) Go
6 2 (0.25%) Korn
6 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.25%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.25%) R
6 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.25%) VB
7 1 (0.12%) Perl
7 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 156 (19.31%) Degree
2 136 (16.83%) PMI Certification
3 131 (16.21%) PMP
4 70 (8.66%) Security Cleared
5 56 (6.93%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.36%) APMP
8 11 (1.36%) CBAP
9 10 (1.24%) CISSP
9 10 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.24%) IIBA
10 9 (1.11%) CISM
11 8 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 7 (0.87%) CFA
12 7 (0.87%) FFIEC
13 6 (0.74%) MBA
14 5 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (9.65%) PMO
2 42 (5.20%) QA
3 35 (4.33%) GDPR
4 28 (3.47%) Data Quality
5 27 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.23%) NIST
7 17 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.49%) GRC
8 12 (1.49%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.24%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.62%) EMIR
10 5 (0.62%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.62%) WCAG
11 4 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.50%) PSD2
12 3 (0.37%) APQC
12 3 (0.37%) Basel III
12 3 (0.37%) MiFID
12 3 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.74%) Docker
3 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (0.87%) Terraform
2 4 (0.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.37%) Consul
3 3 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (0.37%) Packer
3 3 (0.37%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.25%) Ansible
4 2 (0.25%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.25%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.25%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.12%) Argo
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%) Kibana
5 1 (0.12%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.12%) SCCM
5 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 116 (14.36%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.93%) SAP
3 42 (5.20%) Salesforce
4 35 (4.33%) Oracle
5 30 (3.71%) ServiceNow
6 20 (2.48%) Google
7 18 (2.23%) Adobe
8 15 (1.86%) Workday
9 11 (1.36%) Cisco
9 11 (1.36%) Planview
10 9 (1.11%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.99%) CyberArk
11 8 (0.99%) Databricks
12 7 (0.87%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.87%) NEC
13 6 (0.74%) IBM
14 5 (0.62%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.62%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.62%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.62%) VMware