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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Management 893 995 1,363
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.16% 7.87% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.79% 8.58% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 591 934
10th Percentile £350 £310 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £668 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 52
10th Percentile £27.55 £26.25 £19.98
25th Percentile £32.94 £32.00 £23.40
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.11 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +20.18% -20.73%
75th Percentile £44.00 £44.61 £50.00
90th Percentile £51.35 £51.18 £55.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £46.30 £38.12
% change year-on-year -14.15% +21.46% -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 15,419 11,590 15,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 91.69% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,329 7,865 11,333
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £66.90
England median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
% change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -13 132 £575 +5.50% 118
West London -28 18 £465 +36.76% 27
South London -5 14 £650 +53.30% 9
East London -13 4 £495 -0.50% 21
North London +2 1 £550 +10.00% 4
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 67 (7.50%) Confluence
2 29 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.23%) CMS
4 4 (0.45%) Apache
4 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.45%) nginx
5 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.11%) Moodle
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 82 (9.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (7.61%) Microsoft Project
3 56 (6.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.90%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.12%) Trello
7 7 (0.78%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.56%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.34%) InDesign
10 3 (0.34%) InVision
10 3 (0.34%) Sketch
11 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 12 (1.34%) Loan IQ
2 9 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.90%) Shopify
4 4 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.34%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 3 (0.34%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.34%) ProductWriter
5 3 (0.34%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.22%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.22%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 72 (8.06%) Azure
2 56 (6.27%) AWS
3 45 (5.04%) SaaS
4 41 (4.59%) Power Platform
5 25 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (2.13%) Smartsheet
7 16 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (1.46%) Asana
9 10 (1.12%) GCP
10 9 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.01%) Figma
11 8 (0.90%) BigCommerce
11 8 (0.90%) Google Workspace
11 8 (0.90%) OpenShift
12 7 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (0.78%) OCI
13 6 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (0.67%) GitHub
13 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (0.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.57%) Firewall
2 13 (1.46%) WAN
3 12 (1.34%) Network Security
4 8 (0.90%) LAN
5 6 (0.67%) Internet
5 6 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.45%) Broadband
7 3 (0.34%) Intranet
7 3 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.34%) VPN
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) DMZ
8 2 (0.22%) DNS
8 2 (0.22%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.22%) Junos
8 2 (0.22%) Multicast
8 2 (0.22%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.22%) OpenScape
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.26%) Power BI
2 16 (1.79%) Tableau
3 11 (1.23%) Metadata
4 10 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.67%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.45%) Big Data
8 3 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.22%) DataStage
9 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.22%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.11%) Cognos Query Studio
10 1 (0.11%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (0.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 131 (14.67%) JIRA
2 14 (1.57%) Git
3 4 (0.45%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.34%) GitLab
4 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.22%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.11%) Ant
6 1 (0.11%) Appium
6 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.11%) JUnit
6 1 (0.11%) LSMW
6 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.11%) Subversion
6 1 (0.11%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.11%) Toad
6 1 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 436 (48.82%) Social Skills
2 374 (41.88%) Finance
3 153 (17.13%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (12.21%) Banking
5 90 (10.08%) Organisational Skills
6 82 (9.18%) Public Sector
7 80 (8.96%) Marketing
8 60 (6.72%) Retail
9 52 (5.82%) Legal
10 41 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (3.92%) Investment Banking
13 27 (3.02%) Financial Institution
13 27 (3.02%) Front Office
14 18 (2.02%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.90%) Manufacturing
16 15 (1.68%) Advertising
17 14 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
18 13 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 10 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 373 (41.77%) Project Manager
2 116 (12.99%) Analyst
3 99 (11.09%) Senior
4 91 (10.19%) Business Analyst
5 77 (8.62%) Lead
6 71 (7.95%) Senior Manager
7 55 (6.16%) Senior Project Manager
8 49 (5.49%) IT Manager
9 45 (5.04%) IT Project Manager
10 39 (4.37%) Programme Manager
11 36 (4.03%) Technical Manager
12 34 (3.81%) Infrastructure Manager
13 33 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
14 29 (3.25%) Technical Project Manager
15 27 (3.02%) Consultant
15 27 (3.02%) Migration Manager
16 26 (2.91%) Developer
16 26 (2.91%) Migration Project Manager
17 25 (2.80%) Infrastructure Project Manager
18 24 (2.69%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.02%) REST
2 12 (1.34%) SOAP
3 10 (1.12%) HTML
4 9 (1.01%) Middleware
5 8 (0.90%) .NET
5 8 (0.90%) AngularJS
5 8 (0.90%) VML
5 8 (0.90%) Web Services
6 7 (0.78%) CSS
6 7 (0.78%) React
6 7 (0.78%) XML
7 6 (0.67%) SailPoint
8 5 (0.56%) RESTful
9 4 (0.45%) ADO
9 4 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.34%) Bootstrap
10 3 (0.34%) pytest
11 2 (0.22%) ASP.NET Web API
11 2 (0.22%) Express.js
11 2 (0.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.49%) Onboarding
2 41 (4.59%) Management Information System
3 34 (3.81%) PMI
4 32 (3.58%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.36%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.90%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.46%) Web Conferencing
11 11 (1.23%) Social Media
12 9 (1.01%) CMDB
12 9 (1.01%) Derivative
12 9 (1.01%) FMCG
12 9 (1.01%) NHS
13 8 (0.90%) Digital Media
13 8 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.90%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.46%) Windows
2 10 (1.12%) Linux
3 6 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.34%) Unix
5 1 (0.11%) AIX
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (41.10%) Agile
2 344 (38.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 230 (25.76%) Project Delivery
4 186 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 160 (17.92%) PRINCE2
6 138 (15.45%) Migration
7 123 (13.77%) Waterfall
8 117 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 114 (12.77%) Decision-Making
10 113 (12.65%) Scrum
11 108 (12.09%) Change Management
12 100 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 96 (10.75%) Risk Management
14 83 (9.29%) Business Analysis
15 77 (8.62%) Roadmaps
16 73 (8.17%) Analytics
17 71 (7.95%) AI
18 69 (7.73%) Requirements Gathering
19 68 (7.61%) Budget Management
19 68 (7.61%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (5.49%) SQL
2 24 (2.69%) Python
3 11 (1.23%) Java
4 9 (1.01%) C#
4 9 (1.01%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.67%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.56%) C++
6 5 (0.56%) R
7 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.22%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.22%) Korn
8 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.22%) VBA
9 1 (0.11%) C
9 1 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.11%) Go
9 1 (0.11%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.11%) Perl
9 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 159 (17.81%) PMP
2 145 (16.24%) PMI Certification
3 132 (14.78%) Degree
4 83 (9.29%) Security Cleared
5 66 (7.39%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.02%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.68%) CBAP
8 15 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.57%) APMP
9 14 (1.57%) IIBA
10 13 (1.46%) CISSP
11 11 (1.23%) CISM
11 11 (1.23%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 7 (0.78%) MBA
14 6 (0.67%) APMG
15 5 (0.56%) CFA
16 4 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (11.20%) PMO
2 64 (7.17%) QA
3 36 (4.03%) GDPR
4 34 (3.81%) Data Quality
5 24 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.13%) NIST
7 13 (1.46%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.23%) SLA
9 9 (1.01%) EMIR
9 9 (1.01%) MiFID
10 8 (0.90%) GRC
11 7 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.56%) WCAG
13 4 (0.45%) Basel III
14 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.22%) IFRS
15 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.45%) Docker
3 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.11%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (0.67%) RSA Archer
2 5 (0.56%) Terraform
3 3 (0.34%) Consul
3 3 (0.34%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.34%) Packer
3 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.11%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) CASB
5 1 (0.11%) Control-M
5 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.11%) logstash
5 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 116 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.05%) SAP
2 54 (6.05%) ServiceNow
3 45 (5.04%) Salesforce
4 35 (3.92%) Oracle
5 26 (2.91%) Adobe
6 20 (2.24%) Google
7 17 (1.90%) Workday
8 15 (1.68%) CyberArk
9 12 (1.34%) Cisco
10 11 (1.23%) Sitecore
11 10 (1.12%) NEC
12 8 (0.90%) Databricks
13 7 (0.78%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.78%) Avaloq
13 7 (0.78%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.78%) Planview
14 6 (0.67%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.56%) Guidewire
15 5 (0.56%) VMware