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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 30 26
Rank change year-on-year -31 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Project Management 851 874 1,147
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.20% 6.47% 7.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 6.99% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 553 678
10th Percentile £340 £333 £314
25th Percentile £435 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £668 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 38 27
10th Percentile £28.00 £17.00 £19.45
25th Percentile £29.73 £23.00 £30.38
Median hourly rate £47.46 £34.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.57% -1.43% -11.21%
75th Percentile £61.63 £50.88 £42.75
90th Percentile £69.00 £64.13 £59.10
England median hourly rate £53.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +53.62% -1.43% -16.27%

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 17,999 12,504 14,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.62% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,775 8,251 9,455
10th Percentile £358 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 245 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.35 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -14 130 £550 - 178
West London -8 36 £680 +30.77% 40
South London -5 10 £650 +36.84% 22
East London +4 6 £495 +18.92% 15
North London - 1 £450 - 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 49 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.23%) Confluence
3 21 (2.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 21 (2.47%) CMS
4 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.71%) WordPress
6 5 (0.59%) Apache
6 5 (0.59%) JBoss
6 5 (0.59%) Moodle
7 4 (0.47%) SAS
7 4 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) Appian
9 1 (0.12%) Camunda
Applications
1 83 (9.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (8.46%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (7.17%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (7.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.23%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.71%) Trello
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.24%) Windchill
9 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (1.53%) Adobe Campaign
2 10 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.06%) Magento
4 6 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.59%) ProductWriter
6 4 (0.47%) Endur
6 4 (0.47%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.35%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
7 3 (0.35%) Shopify
8 2 (0.24%) Changepoint
8 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.24%) Findur
8 2 (0.24%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.24%) Workfront
9 1 (0.12%) Primavera
9 1 (0.12%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 84 (9.87%) Azure
2 54 (6.35%) Power Platform
2 54 (6.35%) SaaS
3 47 (5.52%) AWS
4 34 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (1.53%) Asana
6 13 (1.53%) GCP
7 11 (1.29%) Entra ID
7 11 (1.29%) Smartsheet
8 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
9 9 (1.06%) Amazon S3
10 8 (0.94%) Google Workspace
11 7 (0.82%) Snowflake
12 6 (0.71%) Adobe Analytics
13 5 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.59%) GitHub
13 5 (0.59%) Google Drive
13 5 (0.59%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.35%) Network Security
2 10 (1.18%) WAN
3 8 (0.94%) 3GPP
3 8 (0.94%) 4G
3 8 (0.94%) 5G
3 8 (0.94%) Firewall
3 8 (0.94%) LTE
3 8 (0.94%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (0.94%) Wireshark
4 7 (0.82%) LAN
4 7 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.71%) Wireless
6 5 (0.59%) BGP
6 5 (0.59%) Kerberos
6 5 (0.59%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.47%) DKIM
7 4 (0.47%) DMARC
7 4 (0.47%) DNS
7 4 (0.47%) Multicast
8 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.41%) Power BI
2 12 (1.41%) Tableau
3 9 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.94%) Metadata
5 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.82%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.59%) Big Data
6 5 (0.59%) DynamoDB
6 5 (0.59%) Hadoop
6 5 (0.59%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.47%) Power Query
8 3 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.35%) QlikView
8 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.24%) DataStage
9 2 (0.24%) Looker
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 111 (13.04%) JIRA
2 22 (2.59%) Git
3 14 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.94%) Subversion
5 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.12%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.12%) GitLab
7 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.12%) LSMW
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 391 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 355 (41.72%) Finance
3 135 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (12.46%) Banking
5 94 (11.05%) Marketing
6 77 (9.05%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (7.52%) Public Sector
8 55 (6.46%) Retail
9 50 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (5.05%) Legal
11 28 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (3.17%) Investment Banking
13 26 (3.06%) Telecoms
14 24 (2.82%) Front Office
15 17 (2.00%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.65%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.53%) Law
18 12 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
19 9 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 356 (41.83%) Project Manager
2 96 (11.28%) Senior
3 78 (9.17%) Lead
4 76 (8.93%) Senior Manager
5 64 (7.52%) Analyst
6 56 (6.58%) Senior Project Manager
7 53 (6.23%) Programme Manager
8 48 (5.64%) IT Manager
9 41 (4.82%) Delivery Manager
10 39 (4.58%) Business Analyst
11 38 (4.47%) Technical Manager
12 35 (4.11%) IT Project Manager
13 31 (3.64%) Technical Project Manager
14 29 (3.41%) Consultant
15 21 (2.47%) Developer
16 19 (2.23%) Digital Project Manager
17 17 (2.00%) Infrastructure Manager
18 16 (1.88%) Coordinator
19 15 (1.76%) Administrator
19 15 (1.76%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.53%) ADO
2 10 (1.18%) VML
3 8 (0.94%) pytest
3 8 (0.94%) Web Services
4 7 (0.82%) REST
5 6 (0.71%) HTML
5 6 (0.71%) Middleware
5 6 (0.71%) React
5 6 (0.71%) Terraform
6 5 (0.59%) FastAPI
6 5 (0.59%) OAuth
6 5 (0.59%) SOAP
6 5 (0.59%) XML
7 4 (0.47%) .NET
8 3 (0.35%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.35%) DAO
8 3 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (0.35%) XSLT
9 2 (0.24%) Regular Expression
9 2 (0.24%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 46 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 43 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 24 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.12%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.88%) Fixed Income
8 16 (1.88%) PMI
9 15 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.41%) Derivative
10 12 (1.41%) FMCG
10 12 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.41%) Social Media
11 10 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.18%) Life Science
11 10 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
12 9 (1.06%) Market Risk
13 8 (0.94%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.35%) Linux
2 16 (1.88%) Windows
3 7 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.47%) Unix
4 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (49.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 367 (43.13%) Agile
3 257 (30.20%) Project Delivery
4 195 (22.91%) PRINCE2
5 138 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
6 133 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 126 (14.81%) Migration
8 124 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 122 (14.34%) Change Management
10 120 (14.10%) Decision-Making
11 119 (13.98%) Waterfall
12 118 (13.87%) AI
13 107 (12.57%) Scrum
14 106 (12.46%) Risk Management
15 88 (10.34%) Roadmaps
16 85 (9.99%) Analytics
17 84 (9.87%) Programme Management
18 81 (9.52%) Project Governance
19 77 (9.05%) DevOps
20 67 (7.87%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (4.47%) SQL
2 32 (3.76%) Python
3 8 (0.94%) Java
4 7 (0.82%) Bash
5 6 (0.71%) C#
5 6 (0.71%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.47%) Korn
6 4 (0.47%) VBA
7 3 (0.35%) C++
7 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.12%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.12%) C
8 1 (0.12%) COBOL
8 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.12%) R
8 1 (0.12%) RPG
8 1 (0.12%) VB
8 1 (0.12%) VB6
8 1 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 171 (20.09%) PMP
2 146 (17.16%) PMI Certification
3 126 (14.81%) Degree
4 88 (10.34%) Security Cleared
5 68 (7.99%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 13 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 9 (1.06%) CISSP
9 9 (1.06%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.94%) CISM
11 7 (0.82%) APMP
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.82%) PgMP
12 6 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (14.57%) PMO
2 47 (5.52%) QA
3 34 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.88%) GDPR
5 14 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.94%) P3O
7 8 (0.94%) SLA
8 7 (0.82%) GRC
8 7 (0.82%) NIST
9 6 (0.71%) FINREP
10 5 (0.59%) COREP
11 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.35%) EMIR
12 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 18 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.59%) Ansible
1 5 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
1 5 (0.59%) Puppet
1 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 152 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.82%) SAP
3 39 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 29 (3.41%) Adobe
5 28 (3.29%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.47%) Oracle
7 20 (2.35%) Google
8 14 (1.65%) Sitecore
9 13 (1.53%) VMware
10 12 (1.41%) Cisco
11 11 (1.29%) Atlassian
12 10 (1.18%) NEC
13 9 (1.06%) Alteryx
13 9 (1.06%) Murex
13 9 (1.06%) Planview
14 8 (0.94%) Ericsson
14 8 (0.94%) Nokia
14 8 (0.94%) Workday
15 7 (0.82%) Guidewire
16 6 (0.71%) Wrike