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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing Project Management 846 1,036 1,417
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.33% 7.71% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.90% 8.50% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 599 963
10th Percentile £350 £306 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £639 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £759 £775
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 43
10th Percentile £23.28 £26.38 £19.48
25th Percentile £28.63 £30.88 £21.66
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +19.36% -25.99%
75th Percentile £45.13 £42.57 £50.79
90th Percentile £54.88 £51.92 £57.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £39.04 £38.12
% change year-on-year +1.82% +2.41% -23.76%

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 14,339 12,191 16,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.30% 90.76% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,629 7,896 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
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 218 158 346
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +22.50% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -15 136 £550 -4.35% 47
West London -30 13 £388 +13.97% 22
South London -12 8 £625 - 5
East London -7 5 £495 +16.47% 35
North London +1 1 £550 +10.00% 2
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 61 (7.21%) Confluence
2 30 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.83%) CMS
4 4 (0.47%) Apache
4 4 (0.47%) nginx
5 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 86 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (7.92%) Microsoft Project
3 56 (6.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (2.60%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.30%) Trello
7 7 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.71%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.35%) InVision
10 3 (0.35%) Sketch
11 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.24%) InDesign
11 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 15 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.54%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.47%) Shopify
5 3 (0.35%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 3 (0.35%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.35%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 2 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.24%) ProductWriter
6 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.24%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.24%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 75 (8.87%) Azure
2 52 (6.15%) AWS
3 46 (5.44%) Power Platform
4 32 (3.78%) SaaS
5 21 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (1.65%) Asana
8 13 (1.54%) Smartsheet
9 9 (1.06%) Figma
10 8 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (0.95%) GCP
10 8 (0.95%) Google Workspace
10 8 (0.95%) OpenShift
11 7 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (0.83%) Serverless
12 6 (0.71%) GitHub
12 6 (0.71%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.59%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.48%) Firewall
2 15 (1.77%) WAN
3 11 (1.30%) Network Security
4 10 (1.18%) LAN
5 6 (0.71%) Internet
6 5 (0.59%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.59%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.47%) Broadband
7 4 (0.47%) VPN
8 3 (0.35%) S/MIME
8 3 (0.35%) SSL
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.24%) DHCP
9 2 (0.24%) DMZ
9 2 (0.24%) DNS
9 2 (0.24%) Intranet
9 2 (0.24%) ISDN
9 2 (0.24%) Multicast
9 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.96%) Power BI
2 18 (2.13%) Tableau
3 13 (1.54%) Metadata
4 12 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.06%) SQL Server
6 7 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.35%) Big Data
8 3 (0.35%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.24%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.24%) DataStage
9 2 (0.24%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.24%) Power Query
9 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.12%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.12%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 121 (14.30%) JIRA
2 12 (1.42%) Git
3 4 (0.47%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.24%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.24%) GitLab
4 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.12%) Ant
5 1 (0.12%) Appium
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%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.12%) Toad
General
1 420 (49.65%) Social Skills
2 365 (43.14%) Finance
3 136 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (13.12%) Banking
5 80 (9.46%) Organisational Skills
6 78 (9.22%) Public Sector
7 64 (7.57%) Retail
8 60 (7.09%) Marketing
9 51 (6.03%) Legal
10 43 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
11 40 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (4.02%) Investment Banking
13 27 (3.19%) Financial Institution
14 24 (2.84%) Front Office
15 20 (2.36%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.89%) Telecoms
17 14 (1.65%) Advertising
17 14 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 13 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
19 11 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 366 (43.26%) Project Manager
2 118 (13.95%) Analyst
3 93 (10.99%) Senior
4 84 (9.93%) Business Analyst
5 75 (8.87%) Lead
6 65 (7.68%) Senior Manager
7 53 (6.26%) Senior Project Manager
8 48 (5.67%) IT Manager
9 44 (5.20%) IT Project Manager
10 34 (4.02%) Infrastructure Manager
10 34 (4.02%) Programme Manager
10 34 (4.02%) Technical Manager
11 32 (3.78%) Delivery Manager
12 28 (3.31%) Consultant
13 27 (3.19%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 26 (3.07%) Technical Project Manager
15 23 (2.72%) Developer
16 22 (2.60%) Migration Manager
17 21 (2.48%) Security Manager
17 21 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.42%) REST
2 11 (1.30%) SOAP
3 7 (0.83%) XML
4 6 (0.71%) .NET
4 6 (0.71%) HTML
4 6 (0.71%) Middleware
4 6 (0.71%) SailPoint
4 6 (0.71%) Web Services
5 5 (0.59%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.47%) ADO
6 4 (0.47%) CSS
6 4 (0.47%) React
6 4 (0.47%) RESTful
6 4 (0.47%) VML
7 3 (0.35%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.35%) Bootstrap
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.35%) pytest
8 2 (0.24%) Express.js
8 2 (0.24%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.03%) Onboarding
2 35 (4.14%) Management Information System
3 32 (3.78%) Data Centre
4 26 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
4 26 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.84%) PMI
6 18 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.77%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.30%) Social Media
10 11 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
11 10 (1.18%) Digital Media
12 9 (1.06%) Derivative
12 9 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.95%) CMDB
13 8 (0.95%) NHS
13 8 (0.95%) Tandem
14 7 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.89%) Windows
2 10 (1.18%) Linux
3 5 (0.59%) Unix
3 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.12%) AIX
4 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (40.78%) Agile
2 330 (39.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 211 (24.94%) Project Delivery
4 178 (21.04%) Problem-Solving
5 161 (19.03%) PRINCE2
6 139 (16.43%) Migration
7 131 (15.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 116 (13.71%) Waterfall
9 107 (12.65%) Scrum
10 104 (12.29%) Change Management
11 99 (11.70%) Decision-Making
12 95 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 94 (11.11%) Risk Management
14 80 (9.46%) Business Analysis
15 70 (8.27%) Roadmaps
16 69 (8.16%) Budget Management
16 69 (8.16%) Requirements Gathering
17 64 (7.57%) Project Governance
18 62 (7.33%) Analytics
19 61 (7.21%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (6.03%) SQL
2 26 (3.07%) Python
3 10 (1.18%) C#
4 8 (0.95%) Java
5 6 (0.71%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.47%) R
7 3 (0.35%) C++
7 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.35%) VBA
8 2 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.24%) Go
8 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.24%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.12%) Korn
9 1 (0.12%) Perl
9 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.12%) SOQL
9 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 141 (16.67%) PMP
2 131 (15.48%) PMI Certification
3 129 (15.25%) Degree
4 72 (8.51%) Security Cleared
5 56 (6.62%) SC Cleared
6 17 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.77%) CBAP
7 15 (1.77%) IIBA
8 14 (1.65%) APMP
9 12 (1.42%) CISSP
9 12 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.18%) CISM
10 10 (1.18%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.83%) FFIEC
11 7 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 5 (0.59%) CRISC
13 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (10.52%) PMO
2 52 (6.15%) QA
3 39 (4.61%) GDPR
4 31 (3.66%) Data Quality
5 27 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.60%) NIST
7 15 (1.77%) GRC
7 15 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.30%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.18%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.95%) SLA
11 6 (0.71%) EMIR
11 6 (0.71%) MiFID
12 5 (0.59%) WCAG
13 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.35%) Basel III
14 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.24%) COBIT
15 2 (0.24%) GAAP
15 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.59%) Docker
3 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (0.71%) Terraform
2 4 (0.47%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.35%) Consul
3 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.35%) Packer
3 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.12%) Ansible
4 1 (0.12%) Argo
4 1 (0.12%) CASB
4 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCE
4 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (0.12%) Control-M
4 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.12%) logstash
4 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 117 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.50%) SAP
3 43 (5.08%) ServiceNow
4 38 (4.49%) Salesforce
5 32 (3.78%) Oracle
6 19 (2.25%) Adobe
7 16 (1.89%) Google
8 15 (1.77%) Workday
9 13 (1.54%) Cisco
10 12 (1.42%) CyberArk
11 11 (1.30%) Databricks
12 10 (1.18%) Planview
13 8 (0.95%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.83%) Palo Alto
15 6 (0.71%) Avaloq
15 6 (0.71%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.71%) IBM
15 6 (0.71%) Murex
15 6 (0.71%) NEC
16 5 (0.59%) VMware