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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing Project Management 797 1,135 1,508
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.56% 7.72% 8.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.09% 8.57% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 645 1,024
10th Percentile £336 £313 £353
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £668 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 28
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.83 £23.95
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.27 £27.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £34.25 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% -12.18% +7.59%
75th Percentile £41.50 £37.70 £53.75
90th Percentile £58.25 £43.28 £60.38
England median hourly rate £43.50 £34.50 £45.53
% change year-on-year +26.09% -24.22% +10.94%

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 13,087 13,251 16,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.34% 90.11% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,629 8,493 11,734
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £676
90th Percentile £757 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +9.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £55.13 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.91 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -12 132 £530 -11.67% 201
West London -21 17 £475 +21.79% 25
South London -5 9 £500 -11.15% 46
East London -3 5 £520 +9.47% 24
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 52 (6.52%) Confluence
2 31 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.88%) CMS
4 4 (0.50%) nginx
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (11.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (8.03%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
4 55 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (3.76%) MS Visio
6 13 (1.63%) 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 23 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.00%) Loan IQ
3 7 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.63%) Workfront
6 4 (0.50%) Eloqua
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.38%) ProductWriter
7 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.38%) SAP PS
7 3 (0.38%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.25%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 65 (8.16%) Azure
2 54 (6.78%) Power Platform
3 44 (5.52%) AWS
4 26 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (3.14%) SaaS
6 17 (2.13%) Asana
7 16 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.51%) Smartsheet
9 10 (1.25%) Google Workspace
10 9 (1.13%) GCP
11 8 (1.00%) ChatGPT
11 8 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.00%) Figma
11 8 (1.00%) GitHub
11 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (1.00%) OCI
12 7 (0.88%) OpenShift
12 7 (0.88%) Serverless
12 7 (0.88%) Slack
12 7 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.01%) Firewall
2 11 (1.38%) WAN
3 10 (1.25%) Network Security
4 8 (1.00%) LAN
5 5 (0.63%) Internet
5 5 (0.63%) VPN
6 4 (0.50%) Multicast
6 4 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
6 4 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.38%) MVNO
7 3 (0.38%) S/MIME
7 3 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.38%) SSL
8 2 (0.25%) ATM
8 2 (0.25%) Broadband
8 2 (0.25%) DHCP
8 2 (0.25%) DMZ
8 2 (0.25%) DNS
8 2 (0.25%) ISDN
8 2 (0.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.02%) Power BI
2 26 (3.26%) Tableau
3 15 (1.88%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.63%) Metadata
5 12 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.50%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.38%) Big Data
7 3 (0.38%) Power Query
7 3 (0.38%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.25%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.25%) DataStage
8 2 (0.25%) DB2
8 2 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.25%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.25%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 129 (16.19%) JIRA
2 6 (0.75%) Git
3 5 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.50%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.25%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.25%) GitLab
5 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.13%) Ant
6 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.13%) ERwin
6 1 (0.13%) JMeter
6 1 (0.13%) JUnit
6 1 (0.13%) LSMW
6 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.13%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.13%) Toad
General
1 391 (49.06%) Social Skills
2 337 (42.28%) Finance
3 145 (18.19%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (12.92%) Banking
5 70 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 63 (7.90%) Marketing
7 52 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (6.40%) Legal
8 51 (6.40%) Retail
9 32 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
9 32 (4.02%) Investment Banking
10 29 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (3.51%) Front Office
12 20 (2.51%) Financial Institution
12 20 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.51%) Telecoms
13 19 (2.38%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.88%) Advertising
15 13 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 303 (38.02%) Project Manager
2 105 (13.17%) Analyst
3 74 (9.28%) Business Analyst
4 70 (8.78%) Lead
4 70 (8.78%) Senior
5 47 (5.90%) IT Manager
6 41 (5.14%) Senior Manager
7 38 (4.77%) IT Project Manager
8 37 (4.64%) Consultant
9 29 (3.64%) Infrastructure Manager
9 29 (3.64%) Senior Project Manager
10 25 (3.14%) Programme Manager
11 23 (2.89%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 22 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
12 22 (2.76%) Technical Manager
13 20 (2.51%) Developer
14 17 (2.13%) Technical Project Manager
15 16 (2.01%) Banking Project Manager
15 16 (2.01%) Security Manager
16 15 (1.88%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.25%) HTML
2 8 (1.00%) .NET
2 8 (1.00%) AngularJS
2 8 (1.00%) RESTful
2 8 (1.00%) XML
3 7 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.75%) CSS
4 6 (0.75%) LangChain
4 6 (0.75%) Web Services
5 5 (0.63%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.63%) Entity Framework
5 5 (0.63%) Middleware
5 5 (0.63%) React
5 5 (0.63%) REST
6 4 (0.50%) NHibernate
6 4 (0.50%) Playwright
6 4 (0.50%) SOAP
7 3 (0.38%) ADO
7 3 (0.38%) Bootstrap
7 3 (0.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.77%) Onboarding
2 40 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.51%) PMI
4 27 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 24 (3.01%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.51%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.38%) Social Media
12 9 (1.13%) Derivative
13 8 (1.00%) Digital Media
13 8 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
14 7 (0.88%) Cloud Native
14 7 (0.88%) Fixed Income
15 6 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.13%) Windows
2 13 (1.63%) Linux
3 5 (0.63%) Unix
4 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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
1 306 (38.39%) Agile
2 288 (36.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 196 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
4 182 (22.84%) Project Delivery
5 149 (18.70%) PRINCE2
6 146 (18.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 119 (14.93%) Migration
8 117 (14.68%) Change Management
9 102 (12.80%) Risk Management
10 93 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 92 (11.54%) Scrum
11 92 (11.54%) Waterfall
12 88 (11.04%) Decision-Making
13 71 (8.91%) Budget Management
14 66 (8.28%) Roadmaps
15 62 (7.78%) Analytics
15 62 (7.78%) Business Analysis
16 59 (7.40%) Programme Management
16 59 (7.40%) Requirements Gathering
17 57 (7.15%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 52 (6.52%) SQL
2 25 (3.14%) Python
3 10 (1.25%) C#
3 10 (1.25%) JavaScript
4 7 (0.88%) Java
5 5 (0.63%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.50%) VBA
7 3 (0.38%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.25%) C++
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%) Perl
9 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 159 (19.95%) Degree
2 131 (16.44%) PMI Certification
3 126 (15.81%) PMP
4 69 (8.66%) Security Cleared
5 54 (6.78%) SC Cleared
6 22 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.13%) APMP
10 9 (1.13%) CISSP
11 8 (1.00%) CBAP
11 8 (1.00%) CISM
11 8 (1.00%) IIBA
11 8 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 7 (0.88%) CFA
12 7 (0.88%) FFIEC
13 6 (0.75%) MBA
14 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (9.16%) PMO
2 42 (5.27%) QA
3 34 (4.27%) GDPR
4 28 (3.51%) Data Quality
5 24 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.88%) NIST
8 12 (1.51%) GRC
8 12 (1.51%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.25%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.63%) EMIR
11 5 (0.63%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.50%) APQC
12 4 (0.50%) Basel III
12 4 (0.50%) MiFID
12 4 (0.50%) PSD2
12 4 (0.50%) WCAG
13 3 (0.38%) IEC 61508
13 3 (0.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.88%) Docker
3 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.13%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (0.88%) Terraform
2 5 (0.63%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
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%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.25%) Kibana
5 2 (0.25%) logstash
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%) Control-M
6 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 115 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.28%) SAP
3 40 (5.02%) Salesforce
4 34 (4.27%) Oracle
5 27 (3.39%) ServiceNow
6 26 (3.26%) Google
7 16 (2.01%) Adobe
8 13 (1.63%) Workday
9 12 (1.51%) Cisco
10 10 (1.25%) Planview
11 9 (1.13%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.13%) Databricks
12 7 (0.88%) NEC
13 6 (0.75%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.75%) IBM
14 5 (0.63%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.63%) Arista
14 5 (0.63%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.63%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.63%) VMware