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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 24 19
Rank change year-on-year -17 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing Project Management 798 1,092 1,462
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.57% 7.82% 8.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.10% 8.67% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 614 990
10th Percentile £350 £313 £356
25th Percentile £425 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £656 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £764 £756
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 22 32
10th Percentile £17.00 £20.75 £16.57
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.27 £24.81
Median hourly rate £34.00 £34.50 £36.92
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -6.55% -1.55%
75th Percentile £41.63 £37.70 £52.75
90th Percentile £59.38 £43.28 £57.25
England median hourly rate £44.50 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +28.99% -18.82% +6.25%

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 13,078 12,600 15,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.33% 90.28% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,638 8,043 11,412
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.60 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.60 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

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 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 14 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 14 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 -14 129 £523 -9.13% 56
West London -23 16 £465 +19.23% 26
South London -5 8 £500 -11.15% 20
East London -7 6 £495 +10.00% 29
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 55 (6.89%) Confluence
2 30 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.50%) CMS
3 4 (0.50%) nginx
4 3 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 88 (11.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (7.77%) Microsoft Project
3 59 (7.39%) Microsoft Office
4 57 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (3.76%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.50%) Trello
7 5 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.38%) InVision
9 3 (0.38%) Sketch
10 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.25%) InDesign
10 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.13%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.13%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.13%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 23 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.00%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
4 5 (0.63%) Workfront
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.50%) Shopify
6 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.38%) ProductWriter
6 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.25%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 70 (8.77%) Azure
2 50 (6.27%) Power Platform
3 48 (6.02%) AWS
4 23 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (2.88%) SaaS
5 16 (2.01%) Asana
5 16 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (1.75%) Smartsheet
7 8 (1.00%) ChatGPT
7 8 (1.00%) GCP
7 8 (1.00%) GitHub
8 7 (0.88%) Figma
8 7 (0.88%) Google Workspace
8 7 (0.88%) OpenShift
8 7 (0.88%) Serverless
8 7 (0.88%) Slack
9 6 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (0.75%) OCI
9 6 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (0.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.01%) Firewall
2 13 (1.63%) WAN
3 9 (1.13%) LAN
3 9 (1.13%) Network Security
4 5 (0.63%) Internet
5 4 (0.50%) Multicast
5 4 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
5 4 (0.50%) VPN
5 4 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.38%) MVNO
6 3 (0.38%) S/MIME
6 3 (0.38%) SSL
6 3 (0.38%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.25%) ATM
7 2 (0.25%) Broadband
7 2 (0.25%) DHCP
7 2 (0.25%) DMZ
7 2 (0.25%) DNS
7 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.64%) Power BI
2 22 (2.76%) Tableau
3 14 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.63%) Metadata
5 11 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.38%) Big Data
7 3 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.38%) Power Query
7 3 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) DTS
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (0.13%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.13%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.13%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 132 (16.54%) JIRA
2 9 (1.13%) Git
3 4 (0.50%) SpecFlow
4 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.25%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.25%) GitLab
5 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.13%) Ant
6 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.13%) ERwin
6 1 (0.13%) JUnit
6 1 (0.13%) LSMW
6 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.13%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.13%) Toad
General
1 406 (50.88%) Social Skills
2 343 (42.98%) Finance
3 141 (17.67%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (12.66%) Banking
5 77 (9.65%) Public Sector
6 61 (7.64%) Organisational Skills
7 55 (6.89%) Marketing
8 54 (6.77%) Retail
9 48 (6.02%) Legal
10 32 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (3.88%) Investment Banking
12 28 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (3.26%) Front Office
14 22 (2.76%) Financial Institution
15 20 (2.51%) Manufacturing
15 20 (2.51%) Telecoms
16 19 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (1.88%) Advertising
18 12 (1.50%) Billing
19 11 (1.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 313 (39.22%) Project Manager
2 112 (14.04%) Analyst
3 78 (9.77%) Senior
4 77 (9.65%) Business Analyst
4 77 (9.65%) Lead
5 49 (6.14%) IT Manager
6 46 (5.76%) Senior Manager
7 41 (5.14%) IT Project Manager
8 37 (4.64%) Consultant
9 34 (4.26%) Senior Project Manager
10 31 (3.88%) Infrastructure Manager
11 25 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
12 24 (3.01%) Infrastructure Project Manager
13 23 (2.88%) Programme Manager
14 22 (2.76%) Developer
14 22 (2.76%) Technical Manager
15 18 (2.26%) Senior Business Analyst
16 17 (2.13%) Security Manager
16 17 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
17 16 (2.01%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.38%) REST
2 10 (1.25%) SOAP
3 8 (1.00%) .NET
3 8 (1.00%) AngularJS
3 8 (1.00%) HTML
4 7 (0.88%) RESTful
4 7 (0.88%) XML
5 6 (0.75%) LangChain
5 6 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (0.63%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.63%) ADO
6 5 (0.63%) Entity Framework
6 5 (0.63%) Middleware
6 5 (0.63%) React
6 5 (0.63%) Web Services
7 4 (0.50%) CSS
7 4 (0.50%) NHibernate
7 4 (0.50%) Playwright
7 4 (0.50%) VML
8 3 (0.38%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 49 (6.14%) Onboarding
2 41 (5.14%) Management Information System
3 29 (3.63%) PMI
4 27 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.26%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.38%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.13%) Social Media
11 8 (1.00%) Derivative
11 8 (1.00%) Digital Media
11 8 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
12 7 (0.88%) NHS
12 7 (0.88%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.75%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.26%) Windows
2 10 (1.25%) Linux
3 5 (0.63%) Unix
3 5 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) AIX
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) VMS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (39.35%) Agile
2 311 (38.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 203 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
4 192 (24.06%) Project Delivery
5 153 (19.17%) PRINCE2
6 134 (16.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 120 (15.04%) Migration
8 106 (13.28%) Change Management
9 100 (12.53%) Risk Management
10 97 (12.16%) Waterfall
11 96 (12.03%) Scrum
12 85 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 85 (10.65%) Decision-Making
13 73 (9.15%) Budget Management
14 66 (8.27%) Business Analysis
15 63 (7.89%) Project Governance
15 63 (7.89%) Roadmaps
16 62 (7.77%) Requirements Gathering
17 58 (7.27%) Programme Management
18 57 (7.14%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 55 (6.89%) SQL
2 26 (3.26%) Python
3 10 (1.25%) C#
3 10 (1.25%) Java
4 8 (1.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
5 4 (0.50%) VBA
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%) R
6 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.25%) VB
7 1 (0.13%) Perl
7 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 148 (18.55%) Degree
2 137 (17.17%) PMI Certification
3 132 (16.54%) PMP
4 70 (8.77%) Security Cleared
5 54 (6.77%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 17 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.38%) APMP
9 11 (1.38%) CBAP
10 10 (1.25%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.25%) IIBA
11 9 (1.13%) CISM
11 9 (1.13%) CISSP
12 7 (0.88%) CFA
12 7 (0.88%) FFIEC
12 7 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.75%) MBA
14 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (9.90%) PMO
2 45 (5.64%) QA
3 37 (4.64%) GDPR
4 28 (3.51%) Data Quality
4 28 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.13%) NIST
5 17 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 12 (1.50%) GRC
7 11 (1.38%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.13%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.63%) EMIR
9 5 (0.63%) WCAG
10 4 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.50%) PSD2
11 3 (0.38%) Basel III
11 3 (0.38%) MiFID
11 3 (0.38%) SEPA
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 11 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.63%) Docker
3 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.13%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (0.88%) Terraform
2 3 (0.38%) Consul
2 3 (0.38%) FortiGate
2 3 (0.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.38%) Packer
2 3 (0.38%) RSA Archer
3 2 (0.25%) Ansible
3 2 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.25%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.13%) Argo
4 1 (0.13%) CASB
4 1 (0.13%) Cisco UCCE
4 1 (0.13%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (0.13%) Control-M
4 1 (0.13%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.13%) SCCM
4 1 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 110 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.14%) SAP
3 39 (4.89%) Salesforce
4 34 (4.26%) Oracle
5 31 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.26%) Adobe
7 16 (2.01%) Google
8 15 (1.88%) Workday
9 12 (1.50%) Cisco
10 11 (1.38%) Planview
11 9 (1.13%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.13%) CyberArk
12 8 (1.00%) Databricks
13 7 (0.88%) Guidewire
13 7 (0.88%) NEC
14 6 (0.75%) IBM
14 6 (0.75%) Palo Alto
14 6 (0.75%) VMware
15 5 (0.63%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.63%) Juniper