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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 25 27
Rank change year-on-year -27 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 855 1,003 1,102
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.27% 7.36% 6.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.80% 7.98% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 626 723
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £441 £439 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -4.02%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £756 £775 £750
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 34 34
10th Percentile £28.00 £20.24 £21.13
25th Percentile £32.75 £26.56 £31.37
Median hourly rate £40.96 £35.25 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -4.73% -6.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £49.69
90th Percentile £65.95 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £42.30 £42.07 £38.12
% change year-on-year +0.55% +10.36% -4.70%

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 17,809 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,743 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.86 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -26 113 £625 +14.68% 117
West London -16 29 £625 +23.46% 38
South London -11 11 £575 +15.00% 12
East London -4 3 £550 +5.77% 33
North London - 1 £450 - 5
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 46 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.80%) Confluence
3 23 (2.69%) CMS
4 14 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.70%) WordPress
7 5 (0.58%) Apache
7 5 (0.58%) Moodle
8 4 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.12%) Appian
11 1 (0.12%) Camunda
11 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 68 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (7.37%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (7.13%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (2.11%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.82%) Trello
7 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Adobe Campaign
1 9 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.94%) Magento
3 6 (0.70%) ProductWriter
3 6 (0.70%) Shopify
4 5 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.47%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.35%) Endur
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.23%) Changepoint
7 2 (0.23%) Findur
7 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 80 (9.36%) Azure
2 64 (7.49%) SaaS
3 54 (6.32%) AWS
4 46 (5.38%) Power Platform
5 28 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (1.99%) Smartsheet
8 14 (1.64%) Asana
9 13 (1.52%) GCP
10 12 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (0.94%) Amazon S3
11 8 (0.94%) Entra ID
11 8 (0.94%) GitHub
11 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (0.82%) Adobe Analytics
12 7 (0.82%) Google Workspace
13 6 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (0.70%) BigCommerce
13 6 (0.70%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.58%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.87%) Network Security
2 7 (0.82%) LAN
2 7 (0.82%) WAN
3 6 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
4 5 (0.58%) Wireless
5 4 (0.47%) DKIM
5 4 (0.47%) DMARC
5 4 (0.47%) DNS
5 4 (0.47%) Firewall
5 4 (0.47%) Multicast
5 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) 3GPP
6 3 (0.35%) 4G
6 3 (0.35%) 5G
6 3 (0.35%) Intranet
6 3 (0.35%) LTE
6 3 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (0.35%) VPN
6 3 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.56%) Power BI
2 12 (1.40%) Tableau
3 9 (1.05%) Metadata
4 8 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (0.94%) Data Lake
4 8 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.58%) DynamoDB
5 5 (0.58%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.47%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.35%) Big Data
7 3 (0.35%) QlikView
8 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.23%) DataStage
8 2 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.23%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.23%) Looker
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.23%) Power Query
9 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.12%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 103 (12.05%) JIRA
2 20 (2.34%) Git
3 16 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.05%) Subversion
5 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.35%) GitLab
7 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.12%) Appium
8 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.12%) LSMW
8 1 (0.12%) Postman
8 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 370 (43.27%) Social Skills
2 328 (38.36%) Finance
3 138 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (12.87%) Marketing
5 92 (10.76%) Banking
6 82 (9.59%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (7.49%) Public Sector
8 60 (7.02%) Retail
9 47 (5.50%) Legal
10 34 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (3.04%) Investment Banking
12 25 (2.92%) Financial Institution
12 25 (2.92%) Front Office
13 23 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.99%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.40%) Manufacturing
18 10 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
19 9 (1.05%) Law
Job Titles
1 343 (40.12%) Project Manager
2 94 (10.99%) Senior
3 81 (9.47%) Lead
4 78 (9.12%) Senior Manager
5 71 (8.30%) Analyst
6 63 (7.37%) Senior Project Manager
7 54 (6.32%) Programme Manager
8 49 (5.73%) Business Analyst
9 47 (5.50%) IT Manager
10 38 (4.44%) IT Project Manager
10 38 (4.44%) Technical Manager
11 31 (3.63%) Technical Project Manager
12 27 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
12 27 (3.16%) Infrastructure Manager
13 26 (3.04%) Developer
14 25 (2.92%) Consultant
15 23 (2.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 21 (2.46%) Digital Project Manager
16 21 (2.46%) Migration Manager
17 20 (2.34%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.75%) REST
2 13 (1.52%) VML
3 11 (1.29%) ADO
4 9 (1.05%) HTML
5 8 (0.94%) Middleware
5 8 (0.94%) React
5 8 (0.94%) SOAP
6 6 (0.70%) .NET
6 6 (0.70%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.70%) XML
7 5 (0.58%) FastAPI
7 5 (0.58%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.58%) Web Services
8 4 (0.47%) OAuth
9 3 (0.35%) CSS
9 3 (0.35%) HTML5
9 3 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.35%) pytest
9 3 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.03%) Onboarding
2 41 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 40 (4.68%) Management Information System
4 29 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 27 (3.16%) PMI
6 20 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (1.87%) Social Media
8 14 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.64%) FMCG
8 14 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.40%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.29%) CMDB
11 11 (1.29%) IoT
11 11 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
12 9 (1.05%) Credit Risk
12 9 (1.05%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.40%) Linux
1 12 (1.40%) Windows
2 5 (0.58%) Unix
3 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (43.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 359 (41.99%) Agile
3 238 (27.84%) Project Delivery
4 187 (21.87%) PRINCE2
5 136 (15.91%) Migration
5 136 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 127 (14.85%) Change Management
7 122 (14.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 119 (13.92%) Waterfall
9 118 (13.80%) Decision-Making
10 113 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 108 (12.63%) Scrum
12 101 (11.81%) AI
13 97 (11.35%) Risk Management
14 85 (9.94%) Analytics
15 77 (9.01%) Programme Management
16 74 (8.65%) DevOps
17 72 (8.42%) Roadmaps
18 58 (6.78%) Business Analysis
19 57 (6.67%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (5.03%) SQL
2 31 (3.63%) Python
3 11 (1.29%) Java
4 10 (1.17%) TypeScript
5 7 (0.82%) C#
6 5 (0.58%) C++
7 4 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.35%) R
8 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.23%) C
9 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.23%) VBA
10 1 (0.12%) Bash
10 1 (0.12%) COBOL
10 1 (0.12%) Korn
10 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.12%) RPG
10 1 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 174 (20.35%) PMP
2 148 (17.31%) PMI Certification
3 121 (14.15%) Degree
4 80 (9.36%) Security Cleared
5 57 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 12 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.17%) CISSP
9 10 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 7 (0.82%) APMG
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.82%) CISM
11 7 (0.82%) MBA
12 6 (0.70%) APMP
12 6 (0.70%) RIBA
13 5 (0.58%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (13.45%) PMO
2 55 (6.43%) QA
3 33 (3.86%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.99%) GDPR
5 14 (1.64%) SLA
6 11 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.17%) GRC
7 10 (1.17%) NIST
8 7 (0.82%) FINREP
8 7 (0.82%) MiFID
8 7 (0.82%) P3O
9 6 (0.70%) COREP
9 6 (0.70%) EMIR
10 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.47%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.35%) GxP
11 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.35%) WCAG
12 2 (0.23%) ITGC
System Software
1 15 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (0.47%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.35%) Ansible
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.23%) Puppet
4 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (0.23%) Terraform
5 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 128 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.61%) ServiceNow
3 41 (4.80%) SAP
4 34 (3.98%) Salesforce
5 30 (3.51%) Adobe
6 27 (3.16%) Oracle
7 25 (2.92%) Google
8 20 (2.34%) Sitecore
9 9 (1.05%) Cisco
9 9 (1.05%) Murex
9 9 (1.05%) NEC
10 8 (0.94%) Guidewire
10 8 (0.94%) VMware
10 8 (0.94%) Workday
11 7 (0.82%) Alteryx
11 7 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.82%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.70%) Databricks
12 6 (0.70%) GoldenSource
12 6 (0.70%) Optimizely