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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 25 20
Rank change year-on-year -17 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing Project Management 810 1,063 1,487
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.43% 7.75% 8.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.97% 8.56% 9.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 603 1,010
10th Percentile £350 £308 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £656 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £774 £756
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 24 42
10th Percentile £17.00 £22.27 £19.43
25th Percentile £24.61 £31.63 £21.71
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.05% -24.60%
75th Percentile £44.75 £39.04 £50.33
90th Percentile £65.00 £50.45 £54.88
England median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +15.71% -8.18% -23.77%

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 13,562 12,418 16,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.85% 90.52% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,022 7,884 11,754
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 154 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.08 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £25.48 £19.10
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.65 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +22.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £55.75 £53.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.25 £79.63 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -4.35% 114
West London -30 13 £428 +33.59% 32
South London -6 8 £550 -21.43% 12
East London -6 5 £495 +16.47% 34
North London +3 1 £550 +10.00% 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 58 (7.16%) Confluence
2 31 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.62%) CMS
4 4 (0.49%) nginx
5 3 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
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
Applications
1 87 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (8.02%) Microsoft Project
3 56 (6.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (6.42%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (2.84%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.48%) Trello
7 6 (0.74%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.37%) InVision
9 3 (0.37%) Sketch
10 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.25%) InDesign
10 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.12%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.12%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.12%) Revit
Business Applications
1 17 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.60%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.49%) Shopify
5 3 (0.37%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 3 (0.37%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.37%) ProductWriter
5 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.37%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 74 (9.14%) Azure
2 49 (6.05%) AWS
3 47 (5.80%) Power Platform
4 26 (3.21%) SaaS
5 24 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (1.85%) Asana
8 11 (1.36%) Smartsheet
9 9 (1.11%) Figma
10 8 (0.99%) GitHub
11 7 (0.86%) ChatGPT
11 7 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (0.86%) GCP
11 7 (0.86%) Google Workspace
11 7 (0.86%) OpenShift
11 7 (0.86%) Serverless
12 6 (0.74%) Slack
13 5 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.62%) Miro
13 5 (0.62%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.72%) Firewall
2 14 (1.73%) WAN
3 9 (1.11%) LAN
4 8 (0.99%) Network Security
5 6 (0.74%) Internet
6 5 (0.62%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.49%) Broadband
7 4 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.49%) VPN
8 3 (0.37%) S/MIME
8 3 (0.37%) SSL
8 3 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.25%) DHCP
9 2 (0.25%) DMZ
9 2 (0.25%) DNS
9 2 (0.25%) Intranet
9 2 (0.25%) IOS XR
9 2 (0.25%) ISDN
9 2 (0.25%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.31%) Power BI
2 21 (2.59%) Tableau
3 13 (1.60%) Metadata
3 13 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.37%) Big Data
6 3 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.37%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.25%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.25%) DataStage
7 2 (0.25%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (0.25%) Power Query
8 1 (0.12%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.12%) DB2
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.12%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.12%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 125 (15.43%) JIRA
2 9 (1.11%) Git
3 4 (0.49%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.25%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.25%) GitLab
4 2 (0.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.12%) Ant
5 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.12%) ERwin
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
1 420 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 357 (44.07%) Finance
3 132 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (13.95%) Banking
5 73 (9.01%) Public Sector
6 68 (8.40%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (7.04%) Retail
8 50 (6.17%) Marketing
9 48 (5.93%) Legal
10 36 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (4.32%) Investment Banking
12 26 (3.21%) Front Office
13 21 (2.59%) Financial Institution
14 20 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 18 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (2.22%) Manufacturing
16 15 (1.85%) Advertising
17 12 (1.48%) Billing
17 12 (1.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 336 (41.48%) Project Manager
2 121 (14.94%) Analyst
3 90 (11.11%) Senior
4 87 (10.74%) Business Analyst
5 78 (9.63%) Lead
6 55 (6.79%) Senior Manager
7 46 (5.68%) IT Manager
8 44 (5.43%) Senior Project Manager
9 41 (5.06%) IT Project Manager
10 30 (3.70%) Consultant
10 30 (3.70%) Infrastructure Manager
11 29 (3.58%) Delivery Manager
12 27 (3.33%) Technical Manager
13 25 (3.09%) Developer
14 23 (2.84%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 23 (2.84%) Senior Business Analyst
15 22 (2.72%) Programme Manager
15 22 (2.72%) Technical Project Manager
16 21 (2.59%) Senior Analyst
17 20 (2.47%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.36%) REST
2 10 (1.23%) SOAP
3 9 (1.11%) .NET
4 8 (0.99%) AngularJS
5 7 (0.86%) Middleware
5 7 (0.86%) RESTful
5 7 (0.86%) XML
6 6 (0.74%) .NET Framework
6 6 (0.74%) HTML
6 6 (0.74%) Web Services
7 5 (0.62%) ADO
7 5 (0.62%) Entity Framework
7 5 (0.62%) LangChain
7 5 (0.62%) React
8 4 (0.49%) CSS
8 4 (0.49%) LlamaIndex
8 4 (0.49%) NHibernate
8 4 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.49%) Playwright
8 4 (0.49%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.17%) Onboarding
2 39 (4.81%) Management Information System
3 30 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 26 (3.21%) Data Centre
4 26 (3.21%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.09%) PMI
6 16 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.85%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.23%) Social Media
11 9 (1.11%) Derivative
11 9 (1.11%) Digital Media
12 7 (0.86%) NHS
12 7 (0.86%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.86%) Reinsurance
12 7 (0.86%) Tandem
12 7 (0.86%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.85%) Windows
2 10 (1.23%) Linux
3 5 (0.62%) Unix
3 5 (0.62%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.12%) AIX
4 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (41.73%) Agile
2 316 (39.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 204 (25.19%) Project Delivery
4 185 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
5 153 (18.89%) PRINCE2
6 132 (16.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 130 (16.05%) Migration
8 107 (13.21%) Waterfall
9 103 (12.72%) Change Management
10 101 (12.47%) Risk Management
11 99 (12.22%) Scrum
12 91 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 88 (10.86%) Decision-Making
14 81 (10.00%) Business Analysis
15 77 (9.51%) Requirements Gathering
16 72 (8.89%) Budget Management
17 64 (7.90%) Project Governance
17 64 (7.90%) Roadmaps
18 58 (7.16%) Analytics
18 58 (7.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (6.67%) SQL
2 27 (3.33%) Python
3 13 (1.60%) C#
4 8 (0.99%) Java
5 7 (0.86%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.37%) C++
6 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.37%) R
6 3 (0.37%) VBA
7 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.25%) Go
7 2 (0.25%) Korn
7 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.12%) Perl
8 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.12%) SOQL
8 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 152 (18.77%) Degree
2 132 (16.30%) PMP
3 130 (16.05%) PMI Certification
4 66 (8.15%) Security Cleared
5 50 (6.17%) SC Cleared
6 21 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 17 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.85%) CBAP
8 15 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.85%) IIBA
9 13 (1.60%) APMP
10 10 (1.23%) CISSP
11 9 (1.11%) CISM
11 9 (1.11%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.86%) CFA
12 7 (0.86%) FFIEC
12 7 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.74%) MBA
14 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.25%) PMO
2 51 (6.30%) QA
3 38 (4.69%) GDPR
4 33 (4.07%) Data Quality
5 27 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.35%) NIST
7 16 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.48%) GRC
9 11 (1.36%) PCI DSS
10 10 (1.23%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.74%) EMIR
12 5 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.62%) WCAG
13 4 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.49%) MiFID
13 4 (0.49%) PSD2
14 3 (0.37%) Basel III
14 3 (0.37%) SEPA
15 2 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.62%) 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 (0.86%) Terraform
2 3 (0.37%) Consul
2 3 (0.37%) FortiGate
2 3 (0.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.37%) Packer
2 3 (0.37%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.12%) Ansible
3 1 (0.12%) Argo
3 1 (0.12%) CASB
3 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (0.12%) Control-M
3 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.12%) logstash
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.12%) SCCM
3 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 114 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.17%) SAP
3 38 (4.69%) Salesforce
4 36 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 34 (4.20%) Oracle
6 19 (2.35%) Adobe
7 14 (1.73%) Google
7 14 (1.73%) Workday
8 11 (1.36%) Cisco
8 11 (1.36%) Planview
9 10 (1.23%) CyberArk
10 9 (1.11%) Databricks
11 8 (0.99%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.86%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.74%) Murex
13 6 (0.74%) NEC
14 5 (0.62%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.62%) Guidewire
14 5 (0.62%) IBM
14 5 (0.62%) Juniper