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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 873 951 1,215
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.75% 7.76% 6.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 8.41% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 572 826
10th Percentile £360 £309 £308
25th Percentile £426 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.51%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £521 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.71% -2.38% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 32 54
10th Percentile - £22.27 £20.09
25th Percentile £28.00 £31.94 £23.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +15.13% -23.33%
75th Percentile £46.25 £49.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £57.40 £62.58 £55.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £46.24 £38.12
% change year-on-year -22.15% +21.30% -22.20%

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 16,293 11,314 15,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 92.27% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,880 7,585 11,084
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £433 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 194 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.57 £63.60 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% -

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -17 124 £561 -2.39% 95
West London -24 20 £513 +25.77% 23
South London -1 12 £700 +65.09% 10
East London -12 5 £523 +16.11% 13
North London -1 1 £550 +10.00% 7
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 51 (5.84%) Confluence
2 41 (4.70%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.49%) CMS
4 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.69%) Apache
6 5 (0.57%) WordPress
7 4 (0.46%) Moodle
8 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.11%) SAS
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (6.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 55 (6.30%) Microsoft Project
4 49 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.95%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.69%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.57%) Trello
8 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.11%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) InVision
10 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.15%) Shopify
3 8 (0.92%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.69%) ProductWriter
6 4 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.46%) Magento
7 3 (0.34%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 3 (0.34%) Endur
7 3 (0.34%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.34%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 71 (8.13%) Azure
2 52 (5.96%) SaaS
3 49 (5.61%) AWS
4 39 (4.47%) Power Platform
5 32 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.29%) Smartsheet
7 11 (1.26%) Asana
7 11 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (1.26%) GCP
8 10 (1.15%) BigCommerce
9 8 (0.92%) Google Workspace
10 7 (0.80%) Google Ads
11 6 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (0.69%) GitHub
11 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.57%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.57%) Figma
12 5 (0.57%) Google Drive
12 5 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.15%) Network Security
1 10 (1.15%) WAN
2 8 (0.92%) Firewall
3 7 (0.80%) LAN
4 4 (0.46%) DKIM
4 4 (0.46%) DMARC
4 4 (0.46%) DNS
4 4 (0.46%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.34%) Broadband
5 3 (0.34%) Intranet
6 2 (0.23%) BGP
6 2 (0.23%) Internet
6 2 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.23%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.23%) Wireless
7 1 (0.11%) Multicast
7 1 (0.11%) MVNO
7 1 (0.11%) OpenScape
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.12%) Power BI
2 9 (1.03%) Tableau
3 8 (0.92%) Metadata
4 7 (0.80%) Data Lake
4 7 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.34%) QlikView
6 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.34%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.23%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.23%) Power Query
8 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.11%) Big Data
8 1 (0.11%) Cognos Query Studio
8 1 (0.11%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 110 (12.60%) JIRA
2 17 (1.95%) Git
3 7 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.57%) Subversion
5 4 (0.46%) GitLab
6 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.11%) Appium
8 1 (0.11%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.11%) LSMW
8 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 387 (44.33%) Social Skills
2 348 (39.86%) Finance
3 128 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (10.54%) Organisational Skills
5 91 (10.42%) Banking
6 89 (10.19%) Marketing
7 80 (9.16%) Public Sector
8 63 (7.22%) Retail
9 54 (6.19%) Legal
10 37 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (2.98%) Financial Institution
13 25 (2.86%) Front Office
13 25 (2.86%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.60%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.26%) Advertising
17 11 (1.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 368 (42.15%) Project Manager
2 105 (12.03%) Analyst
2 105 (12.03%) Senior
3 89 (10.19%) Lead
4 79 (9.05%) Business Analyst
5 78 (8.93%) Senior Manager
6 64 (7.33%) Senior Project Manager
7 46 (5.27%) IT Manager
8 41 (4.70%) IT Project Manager
8 41 (4.70%) Programme Manager
9 33 (3.78%) Technical Manager
10 30 (3.44%) Developer
11 29 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
11 29 (3.32%) Infrastructure Manager
12 28 (3.21%) Technical Project Manager
13 25 (2.86%) Architect
13 25 (2.86%) Migration Manager
14 24 (2.75%) Consultant
14 24 (2.75%) Migration Project Manager
15 22 (2.52%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.06%) REST
2 13 (1.49%) VML
3 11 (1.26%) SOAP
4 9 (1.03%) HTML
4 9 (1.03%) Middleware
5 6 (0.69%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.57%) .NET
6 5 (0.57%) ADO
6 5 (0.57%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.57%) CSS
6 5 (0.57%) Web Services
7 4 (0.46%) OAuth
8 3 (0.34%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.34%) React
8 3 (0.34%) RESTful
8 3 (0.34%) XML
9 2 (0.23%) pytest
10 1 (0.11%) Kafka
10 1 (0.11%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.27%) Management Information System
1 46 (5.27%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.12%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.55%) PMI
4 27 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 24 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.95%) Social Media
8 16 (1.83%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.26%) FMCG
11 10 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.15%) Web Conferencing
12 9 (1.03%) CMDB
13 8 (0.92%) Market Risk
14 7 (0.80%) Derivative
14 7 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.80%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.80%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.49%) Windows
2 6 (0.69%) Linux
3 4 (0.46%) Unix
3 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (41.35%) Agile
2 332 (38.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 249 (28.52%) Project Delivery
4 163 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
5 156 (17.87%) PRINCE2
6 142 (16.27%) Migration
7 130 (14.89%) Waterfall
8 122 (13.97%) Decision-Making
9 118 (13.52%) Change Management
10 111 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 111 (12.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 99 (11.34%) Scrum
12 91 (10.42%) Risk Management
13 82 (9.39%) AI
14 69 (7.90%) Analytics
14 69 (7.90%) Business Analysis
15 66 (7.56%) Budget Management
15 66 (7.56%) Requirements Gathering
15 66 (7.56%) SDLC
16 65 (7.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 48 (5.50%) SQL
2 25 (2.86%) Python
3 10 (1.15%) Java
4 8 (0.92%) C#
5 5 (0.57%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.57%) R
5 5 (0.57%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.46%) C++
7 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.23%) VBA
8 1 (0.11%) C
8 1 (0.11%) Korn
8 1 (0.11%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 150 (17.18%) PMP
2 127 (14.55%) PMI Certification
3 121 (13.86%) Degree
4 78 (8.93%) Security Cleared
5 57 (6.53%) SC Cleared
6 15 (1.72%) APMP
6 15 (1.72%) CBAP
6 15 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.37%) CISSP
7 12 (1.37%) IIBA
8 11 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.03%) CISM
10 8 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (0.80%) APMG
12 6 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.57%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.57%) MBA
14 4 (0.46%) CRISC
14 4 (0.46%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (12.94%) PMO
2 66 (7.56%) QA
3 37 (4.24%) Data Quality
4 28 (3.21%) GDPR
5 20 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.95%) NIST
7 15 (1.72%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.37%) SLA
9 7 (0.80%) EMIR
9 7 (0.80%) GRC
9 7 (0.80%) MiFID
10 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.34%) Basel III
11 3 (0.34%) COREP
11 3 (0.34%) FINREP
11 3 (0.34%) GxP
11 3 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.34%) WCAG
12 2 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 11 (1.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.23%) Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.46%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) Ansible
4 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.23%) Terraform
5 1 (0.11%) Control-M
5 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 115 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.96%) ServiceNow
3 49 (5.61%) SAP
4 39 (4.47%) Salesforce
5 28 (3.21%) Oracle
6 26 (2.98%) Adobe
7 19 (2.18%) Google
7 19 (2.18%) Sitecore
8 15 (1.72%) Workday
9 12 (1.37%) CyberArk
10 9 (1.03%) Cisco
10 9 (1.03%) NEC
11 8 (0.92%) Murex
12 7 (0.80%) Databricks
13 6 (0.69%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.69%) Avaloq
13 6 (0.69%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.69%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.46%) GoldenSource
14 4 (0.46%) VMware