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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -22 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 862 928 1,205
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.69% 7.68% 6.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 8.32% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 556 815
10th Percentile £360 £308 £308
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.51%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 32 54
10th Percentile - £22.27 £20.09
25th Percentile £28.00 £31.94 £23.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +15.13% -23.33%
75th Percentile £46.25 £49.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £57.40 £62.58 £55.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £46.18 £38.12
% change year-on-year -22.04% +21.14% -21.81%

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 16,309 11,148 15,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 92.30% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,878 7,454 11,015
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £430 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 194 318
10th Percentile £18.14 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.98 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.73 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -18 126 £561 -2.39% 96
West London -27 20 £513 +25.77% 23
South London -7 12 £700 +65.09% 10
East London -11 5 £523 +16.11% 13
North London -1 1 £550 +10.00% 7
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 51 (5.92%) Confluence
2 41 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.62%) CMS
4 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.70%) Apache
6 5 (0.58%) WordPress
7 4 (0.46%) Moodle
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (6.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 53 (6.15%) Microsoft Project
4 48 (5.57%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.97%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.46%) Trello
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.12%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 11 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.16%) Shopify
3 8 (0.93%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.70%) ProductWriter
5 4 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.46%) Magento
6 3 (0.35%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 3 (0.35%) Endur
6 3 (0.35%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.12%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 71 (8.24%) Azure
2 52 (6.03%) SaaS
3 50 (5.80%) AWS
4 38 (4.41%) Power Platform
5 32 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (2.20%) Smartsheet
8 11 (1.28%) GCP
9 10 (1.16%) Asana
9 10 (1.16%) BigCommerce
9 10 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (0.93%) Google Workspace
11 7 (0.81%) Google Ads
12 6 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (0.70%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.70%) GitHub
12 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (0.58%) Google Drive
13 5 (0.58%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.46%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.16%) Network Security
1 10 (1.16%) WAN
2 8 (0.93%) Firewall
3 7 (0.81%) LAN
4 4 (0.46%) DKIM
4 4 (0.46%) DMARC
4 4 (0.46%) DNS
4 4 (0.46%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.35%) Broadband
5 3 (0.35%) Intranet
6 2 (0.23%) BGP
6 2 (0.23%) Internet
6 2 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.23%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.23%) Wireless
7 1 (0.12%) Multicast
7 1 (0.12%) MVNO
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.06%) Power BI
2 8 (0.93%) Metadata
2 8 (0.93%) Tableau
3 7 (0.81%) Data Lake
3 7 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.35%) QlikView
5 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.35%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.23%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.23%) Power Query
7 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) Big Data
7 1 (0.12%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 107 (12.41%) JIRA
2 17 (1.97%) Git
3 7 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.58%) Subversion
5 4 (0.46%) GitLab
6 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.12%) Appium
8 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 382 (44.32%) Social Skills
2 343 (39.79%) Finance
3 125 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (10.67%) Organisational Skills
5 90 (10.44%) Banking
6 89 (10.32%) Marketing
7 79 (9.16%) Public Sector
8 63 (7.31%) Retail
9 51 (5.92%) Legal
10 36 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (3.02%) Financial Institution
13 25 (2.90%) Front Office
13 25 (2.90%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.51%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.39%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.28%) Advertising
17 11 (1.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 365 (42.34%) Project Manager
2 104 (12.06%) Senior
3 103 (11.95%) Analyst
4 88 (10.21%) Lead
5 79 (9.16%) Business Analyst
6 77 (8.93%) Senior Manager
7 64 (7.42%) Senior Project Manager
8 42 (4.87%) IT Manager
8 42 (4.87%) Programme Manager
9 37 (4.29%) IT Project Manager
10 36 (4.18%) Technical Manager
11 31 (3.60%) Technical Project Manager
12 30 (3.48%) Developer
13 29 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
14 27 (3.13%) Infrastructure Manager
15 25 (2.90%) Architect
15 25 (2.90%) Migration Manager
16 24 (2.78%) Consultant
16 24 (2.78%) Migration Project Manager
17 21 (2.44%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.09%) REST
2 13 (1.51%) VML
3 11 (1.28%) SOAP
4 9 (1.04%) Middleware
5 8 (0.93%) HTML
6 6 (0.70%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.58%) .NET
7 5 (0.58%) ADO
7 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.58%) Web Services
8 4 (0.46%) CSS
8 4 (0.46%) OAuth
9 3 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.35%) React
9 3 (0.35%) RESTful
9 3 (0.35%) XML
10 2 (0.23%) pytest
11 1 (0.12%) HTML5
11 1 (0.12%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.34%) Management Information System
2 44 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 34 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.60%) PMI
5 28 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.97%) Social Media
9 16 (1.86%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.39%) FMCG
12 10 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
13 9 (1.04%) CMDB
14 8 (0.93%) Market Risk
15 7 (0.81%) Derivative
15 7 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.81%) Fixed Income
15 7 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.51%) Windows
2 6 (0.70%) Linux
3 4 (0.46%) Unix
3 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (40.84%) Agile
2 330 (38.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 249 (28.89%) Project Delivery
4 161 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
5 154 (17.87%) PRINCE2
6 140 (16.24%) Migration
7 127 (14.73%) Waterfall
8 120 (13.92%) Decision-Making
9 116 (13.46%) Change Management
10 112 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 109 (12.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 96 (11.14%) Scrum
13 88 (10.21%) Risk Management
14 81 (9.40%) AI
15 69 (8.00%) Business Analysis
16 68 (7.89%) Analytics
17 66 (7.66%) Requirements Gathering
17 66 (7.66%) SDLC
18 64 (7.42%) Budget Management
18 64 (7.42%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 47 (5.45%) SQL
2 23 (2.67%) Python
3 10 (1.16%) Java
4 8 (0.93%) C#
5 5 (0.58%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.58%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.46%) C++
6 4 (0.46%) R
7 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.12%) C
8 1 (0.12%) Korn
8 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.12%) SOQL
8 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 148 (17.17%) PMP
2 126 (14.62%) PMI Certification
3 114 (13.23%) Degree
4 78 (9.05%) Security Cleared
5 57 (6.61%) SC Cleared
6 15 (1.74%) APMP
6 15 (1.74%) CBAP
6 15 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.39%) CISSP
7 12 (1.39%) IIBA
8 11 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.04%) CISM
10 8 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (0.81%) APMG
12 6 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.58%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.58%) MBA
14 4 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.46%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (12.88%) PMO
2 66 (7.66%) QA
3 35 (4.06%) Data Quality
4 28 (3.25%) GDPR
5 20 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.97%) NIST
7 14 (1.62%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.39%) SLA
9 7 (0.81%) EMIR
9 7 (0.81%) GRC
9 7 (0.81%) MiFID
10 5 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.35%) Basel III
11 3 (0.35%) COREP
11 3 (0.35%) FINREP
11 3 (0.35%) GxP
11 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.23%) IFRS
12 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.23%) Firmware
3 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.46%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) Ansible
4 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.23%) Terraform
5 1 (0.12%) Control-M
5 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.12%) logstash
Vendors
1 112 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.03%) ServiceNow
3 47 (5.45%) SAP
4 38 (4.41%) Salesforce
5 29 (3.36%) Oracle
6 25 (2.90%) Adobe
7 19 (2.20%) Google
7 19 (2.20%) Sitecore
8 14 (1.62%) Workday
9 12 (1.39%) CyberArk
10 9 (1.04%) Cisco
10 9 (1.04%) Murex
10 9 (1.04%) NEC
11 7 (0.81%) Databricks
12 6 (0.70%) Avaloq
12 6 (0.70%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.70%) Guidewire
13 5 (0.58%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.58%) Okta
14 4 (0.46%) VMware