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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -19 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Project Management 797 1,168 1,537
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.55% 7.71% 8.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.07% 8.57% 9.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 672 1,048
10th Percentile £333 £315 £356
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - -
75th Percentile £671 £646 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £762
England median daily rate £521 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.86% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 22 23
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.83 £25.55
25th Percentile £24.00 £24.27 £27.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £34.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -9.21% +4.83%
75th Percentile £43.00 £38.56 £54.38
90th Percentile £59.75 £43.28 £61.00
England median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £45.53
% change year-on-year +15.71% -23.12% +3.47%

All Process and 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 13,135 13,632 16,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.46% 90.03% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,766 12,134
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +4.71% -10.83%
75th Percentile £48.00 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 -15 134 £520 -13.29% 58
West London -21 17 £475 +21.79% 47
South London -4 8 £500 -0.10% 44
East London +2 6 £491 +3.42% 53
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 53 (6.65%) Confluence
2 32 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.00%) CMS
4 4 (0.50%) nginx
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (11.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (8.91%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (8.03%) Microsoft Office
4 56 (7.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (3.51%) MS Visio
6 16 (2.01%) Trello
7 6 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.63%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.38%) InVision
10 3 (0.38%) Sketch
11 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.25%) InDesign
11 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.13%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.13%) Notion
12 1 (0.13%) ProjectWise
12 1 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 25 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.00%) Loan IQ
2 8 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
4 5 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.63%) Workfront
5 4 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.50%) Eloqua
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.38%) Endur
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.38%) ProductWriter
6 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.38%) SAP PS
6 3 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.25%) Shopify
7 2 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 62 (7.78%) Azure
2 51 (6.40%) Power Platform
3 45 (5.65%) AWS
4 26 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (3.14%) SaaS
6 20 (2.51%) Asana
7 15 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.51%) Smartsheet
9 11 (1.38%) Google Workspace
10 10 (1.25%) GCP
10 10 (1.25%) GitHub
11 8 (1.00%) ChatGPT
11 8 (1.00%) Figma
11 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (1.00%) Serverless
12 7 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (0.88%) OCI
12 7 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (0.75%) Google Analytics
14 5 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.01%) Firewall
2 10 (1.25%) Network Security
2 10 (1.25%) WAN
3 8 (1.00%) LAN
4 6 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.63%) VPN
6 4 (0.50%) DNS
6 4 (0.50%) Internet
6 4 (0.50%) Multicast
6 4 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.38%) MVNO
7 3 (0.38%) S/MIME
7 3 (0.38%) SSL
8 2 (0.25%) ATM
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) DHCP
8 2 (0.25%) DMZ
8 2 (0.25%) ISDN
8 2 (0.25%) SSH
8 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.65%) Power BI
2 24 (3.01%) Tableau
3 16 (2.01%) SQL Server
4 12 (1.51%) Metadata
5 10 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.75%) SAP HANA
7 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.38%) Big Data
8 3 (0.38%) DB2
8 3 (0.38%) Power Query
8 3 (0.38%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.38%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.25%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.25%) DataStage
9 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 134 (16.81%) JIRA
2 8 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.88%) Git
4 6 (0.75%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.25%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.25%) JUnit
5 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.13%) Ant
6 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.13%) ERwin
6 1 (0.13%) GitLab
6 1 (0.13%) JMeter
6 1 (0.13%) LSMW
6 1 (0.13%) Maven
6 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.13%) Subversion
6 1 (0.13%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.13%) Toad
General
1 390 (48.93%) Social Skills
2 332 (41.66%) Finance
3 143 (17.94%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (13.68%) Banking
5 67 (8.41%) Marketing
6 61 (7.65%) Public Sector
7 48 (6.02%) Legal
7 48 (6.02%) Retail
8 44 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
9 35 (4.39%) Investment Banking
10 32 (4.02%) Front Office
11 31 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.51%) Manufacturing
13 19 (2.38%) Financial Institution
13 19 (2.38%) Telecoms
14 16 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (1.88%) Advertising
16 12 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 298 (37.39%) Project Manager
2 97 (12.17%) Analyst
3 74 (9.28%) Senior
4 70 (8.78%) Business Analyst
5 63 (7.90%) Lead
6 47 (5.90%) IT Manager
7 41 (5.14%) Senior Manager
8 38 (4.77%) Consultant
8 38 (4.77%) IT Project Manager
9 29 (3.64%) Senior Project Manager
10 27 (3.39%) Technical Manager
11 26 (3.26%) Infrastructure Manager
12 25 (3.14%) Programme Manager
13 24 (3.01%) Developer
14 23 (2.89%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 20 (2.51%) Technical Project Manager
16 18 (2.26%) Delivery Manager
17 16 (2.01%) Business Manager
17 16 (2.01%) Coordinator
17 16 (2.01%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.51%) .NET
2 11 (1.38%) AngularJS
3 10 (1.25%) HTML
3 10 (1.25%) RESTful
4 7 (0.88%) .NET Framework
4 7 (0.88%) Entity Framework
4 7 (0.88%) XML
5 6 (0.75%) LangChain
5 6 (0.75%) Middleware
5 6 (0.75%) NHibernate
5 6 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (0.75%) Playwright
5 6 (0.75%) React
5 6 (0.75%) REST
5 6 (0.75%) Web Services
6 5 (0.63%) CSS
7 4 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (0.50%) SOAP
8 3 (0.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.52%) Onboarding
2 40 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.51%) PMI
4 27 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (2.89%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.63%) Reinsurance
10 12 (1.51%) Social Media
10 12 (1.51%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.38%) Derivative
11 11 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.25%) Digital Media
12 10 (1.25%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.13%) Cloud Native
14 8 (1.00%) Credit Risk
14 8 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.26%) Windows
2 14 (1.76%) Linux
3 5 (0.63%) Unix
4 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.13%) AIX
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) VMS
6 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (38.27%) Agile
2 269 (33.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 189 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
4 166 (20.83%) Project Delivery
5 146 (18.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 139 (17.44%) PRINCE2
7 116 (14.55%) Change Management
8 109 (13.68%) Migration
9 102 (12.80%) Risk Management
10 94 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 87 (10.92%) Scrum
12 82 (10.29%) Waterfall
13 78 (9.79%) Decision-Making
14 62 (7.78%) Analytics
14 62 (7.78%) Budget Management
14 62 (7.78%) Roadmaps
15 59 (7.40%) Requirements Gathering
16 58 (7.28%) Business Analysis
17 56 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
18 53 (6.65%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 56 (7.03%) SQL
2 31 (3.89%) Python
3 14 (1.76%) C#
4 9 (1.13%) Java
4 9 (1.13%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.63%) PowerShell
5 5 (0.63%) VBA
6 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.38%) C++
7 3 (0.38%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.25%) Go
8 2 (0.25%) Korn
8 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.25%) R
8 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.25%) VB
9 1 (0.13%) ABAP
9 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 169 (21.20%) Degree
2 127 (15.93%) PMI Certification
3 123 (15.43%) PMP
4 58 (7.28%) Security Cleared
5 45 (5.65%) SC Cleared
6 26 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 7 (0.88%) CISSP
11 7 (0.88%) FFIEC
12 6 (0.75%) CFA
12 6 (0.75%) CISM
13 5 (0.63%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.63%) MBA
13 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.50%) APMP
14 4 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.50%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (9.16%) PMO
2 32 (4.02%) QA
3 31 (3.89%) GDPR
4 24 (3.01%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (2.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.51%) GRC
7 12 (1.51%) NIST
7 12 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.25%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.75%) APQC
9 6 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.63%) EMIR
10 5 (0.63%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.50%) Basel III
11 4 (0.50%) MiFID
11 4 (0.50%) PSD2
11 4 (0.50%) WCAG
12 3 (0.38%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 10 (1.25%) Active Directory
1 10 (1.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.13%) PowerHA
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (0.88%) Kubernetes
1 7 (0.88%) Terraform
2 6 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.50%) Kibana
3 4 (0.50%) logstash
4 3 (0.38%) Consul
4 3 (0.38%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.38%) Packer
4 3 (0.38%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.25%) Ansible
5 2 (0.25%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.25%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.13%) CASB
6 1 (0.13%) Cisco UCCE
6 1 (0.13%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.13%) SCCM
6 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 125 (15.68%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.90%) SAP
3 43 (5.40%) Salesforce
4 33 (4.14%) Oracle
5 27 (3.39%) Google
6 26 (3.26%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.26%) Adobe
8 12 (1.51%) Cisco
9 11 (1.38%) Workday
10 9 (1.13%) Databricks
11 8 (1.00%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.00%) Planview
12 6 (0.75%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.75%) NEC
13 5 (0.63%) Arista
13 5 (0.63%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.63%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.63%) IBM
13 5 (0.63%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.63%) VMware