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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing Project Management 860 1,032 1,421
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.29% 7.70% 7.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.87% 8.46% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 600 964
10th Percentile £350 £300 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £745 £751 £774
England median daily rate £525 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +4.23% -4.06% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 46
10th Percentile £21.95 £26.50 £19.65
25th Percentile £26.75 £31.25 £22.69
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +20.01% -27.03%
75th Percentile £44.00 £46.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £51.35 £51.84 £58.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £41.25 £38.12
% change year-on-year -3.03% +8.21% -27.39%

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 14,655 12,200 16,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.11% 90.98% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,838 8,002 11,621
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% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £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 220 162 351
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £24.66 £19.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.13 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.42 £77.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -13 136 £550 - 100
West London -30 13 £388 +6.16% 31
South London -11 8 £625 - 8
East London -8 4 £495 +16.47% 36
North London 0 1 £550 +10.00% 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 60 (6.98%) Confluence
2 29 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.05%) 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%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 88 (10.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (8.02%) Microsoft Project
3 58 (6.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (2.56%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.40%) Trello
7 7 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.70%) 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%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.35%) Sketch
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.23%) InDesign
12 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 14 (1.63%) Loan IQ
2 12 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.70%) 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%) ProductWriter
5 3 (0.35%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.23%) Endur
6 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.23%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.23%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 77 (8.95%) Azure
2 51 (5.93%) AWS
3 46 (5.35%) Power Platform
4 33 (3.84%) SaaS
5 21 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (1.74%) Asana
8 14 (1.63%) Smartsheet
9 9 (1.05%) Figma
10 8 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (0.93%) GCP
10 8 (0.93%) Google Workspace
10 8 (0.93%) OpenShift
11 7 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.70%) GitHub
12 6 (0.70%) OCI
12 6 (0.70%) Serverless
12 6 (0.70%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.58%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.44%) Firewall
2 15 (1.74%) WAN
3 11 (1.28%) Network Security
4 10 (1.16%) LAN
5 6 (0.70%) Internet
6 5 (0.58%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.47%) Broadband
7 4 (0.47%) VPN
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.23%) DMZ
9 2 (0.23%) DNS
9 2 (0.23%) Intranet
9 2 (0.23%) Junos
9 2 (0.23%) Multicast
9 2 (0.23%) S/MIME
9 2 (0.23%) SSL
9 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.88%) Power BI
2 18 (2.09%) Tableau
3 13 (1.51%) Metadata
4 12 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.05%) SQL Server
6 7 (0.81%) 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 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.23%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.23%) DataStage
9 2 (0.23%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.23%) Power Query
9 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.12%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.12%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.12%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 121 (14.07%) JIRA
2 12 (1.40%) Git
3 4 (0.47%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.23%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.23%) GitLab
4 2 (0.23%) 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
1 419 (48.72%) Social Skills
2 374 (43.49%) Finance
3 140 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (12.91%) Banking
5 85 (9.88%) Organisational Skills
6 79 (9.19%) Public Sector
7 61 (7.09%) Marketing
8 59 (6.86%) Retail
9 50 (5.81%) Legal
10 44 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (3.95%) Investment Banking
13 28 (3.26%) Financial Institution
14 24 (2.79%) Front Office
15 20 (2.33%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.98%) Telecoms
17 16 (1.86%) Advertising
18 14 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 12 (1.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 377 (43.84%) Project Manager
2 121 (14.07%) Analyst
3 94 (10.93%) Senior
4 87 (10.12%) Business Analyst
5 74 (8.60%) Lead
6 67 (7.79%) Senior Manager
7 55 (6.40%) Senior Project Manager
8 48 (5.58%) IT Manager
9 45 (5.23%) IT Project Manager
10 36 (4.19%) Infrastructure Manager
11 34 (3.95%) Technical Manager
12 33 (3.84%) Programme Manager
13 32 (3.72%) Delivery Manager
14 29 (3.37%) Consultant
14 29 (3.37%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 26 (3.02%) Technical Project Manager
16 24 (2.79%) Developer
17 23 (2.67%) Migration Manager
18 22 (2.56%) Migration Project Manager
19 21 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.28%) REST
1 11 (1.28%) SOAP
2 7 (0.81%) HTML
2 7 (0.81%) XML
3 6 (0.70%) .NET
3 6 (0.70%) Middleware
3 6 (0.70%) SailPoint
3 6 (0.70%) Web Services
4 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.58%) CSS
5 4 (0.47%) ADO
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.47%) React
5 4 (0.47%) RESTful
5 4 (0.47%) VML
6 3 (0.35%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.35%) Bootstrap
6 3 (0.35%) pytest
7 2 (0.23%) JSON
7 2 (0.23%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.05%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.19%) Management Information System
3 35 (4.07%) Data Centre
4 27 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (3.02%) PMI
6 18 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.28%) Social Media
10 11 (1.28%) Web Conferencing
11 10 (1.16%) Digital Media
12 9 (1.05%) CMDB
12 9 (1.05%) Derivative
12 9 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.93%) NHS
13 8 (0.93%) Tandem
14 7 (0.81%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.74%) Windows
2 10 (1.16%) Linux
3 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.47%) Unix
5 1 (0.12%) AIX
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (40.35%) Agile
2 330 (38.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 215 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 182 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
5 167 (19.42%) PRINCE2
6 141 (16.40%) Migration
7 130 (15.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 116 (13.49%) Waterfall
9 107 (12.44%) Scrum
10 106 (12.33%) Change Management
11 101 (11.74%) Risk Management
12 100 (11.63%) Decision-Making
13 98 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 81 (9.42%) Business Analysis
15 73 (8.49%) Roadmaps
16 71 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
17 69 (8.02%) Budget Management
18 65 (7.56%) Project Governance
19 64 (7.44%) Analytics
20 62 (7.21%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 52 (6.05%) SQL
2 25 (2.91%) Python
3 10 (1.16%) C#
4 8 (0.93%) Java
5 7 (0.81%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.47%) R
7 3 (0.35%) C++
7 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.35%) VBA
8 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.23%) Go
8 2 (0.23%) Korn
8 2 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.23%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.12%) Perl
9 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.12%) SOQL
9 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 147 (17.09%) PMP
2 137 (15.93%) PMI Certification
3 133 (15.47%) Degree
4 74 (8.60%) Security Cleared
5 57 (6.63%) SC Cleared
6 17 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.74%) CBAP
7 15 (1.74%) IIBA
8 14 (1.63%) APMP
9 12 (1.40%) CISSP
10 11 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.16%) CISM
11 10 (1.16%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.81%) FFIEC
12 7 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (0.58%) CRISC
14 4 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.47%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (10.47%) PMO
2 51 (5.93%) QA
3 38 (4.42%) GDPR
4 33 (3.84%) Data Quality
5 28 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.67%) NIST
7 16 (1.86%) GRC
7 16 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.28%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.16%) Accessibility
10 9 (1.05%) SLA
11 7 (0.81%) EMIR
12 6 (0.70%) MiFID
13 5 (0.58%) WCAG
14 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.35%) Basel III
15 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 2 (0.23%) COBIT
16 2 (0.23%) GAAP
16 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 11 (1.28%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.58%) Docker
3 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (0.70%) 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
1 113 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.16%) SAP
3 45 (5.23%) ServiceNow
4 39 (4.53%) Salesforce
5 34 (3.95%) Oracle
6 21 (2.44%) Adobe
7 17 (1.98%) Google
7 17 (1.98%) Workday
8 13 (1.51%) Cisco
8 13 (1.51%) CyberArk
9 11 (1.28%) Databricks
10 10 (1.16%) Planview
11 8 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.81%) Murex
12 7 (0.81%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.70%) Avaloq
13 6 (0.70%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.70%) NEC
14 5 (0.58%) GoldenSource
14 5 (0.58%) VMware