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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -30 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 855 942 1,142
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.25% 7.04% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 7.61% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 591 723
10th Percentile £350 £314 £315
25th Percentile £438 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £694 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
England median daily rate £519 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +0.34% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 34
10th Percentile £28.00 £18.30 £20.75
25th Percentile £29.15 £25.13 £31.50
Median hourly rate £40.96 £36.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +13.78% -1.77% -6.03%
75th Percentile £57.88 £51.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.55 £63.75 £62.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.78 £38.12
% change year-on-year +10.35% +6.98% -3.62%

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 17,897 12,384 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,242 9,970
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 255 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -23 121 £600 +9.09% 106
West London -10 33 £680 +30.77% 60
South London -10 11 £575 +15.00% 8
East London -1 4 £550 +5.77% 18
North London - 1 £450 - 1
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 47 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.33%) Confluence
3 23 (2.69%) CMS
4 17 (1.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.70%) WordPress
7 5 (0.58%) JBoss
7 5 (0.58%) Moodle
8 4 (0.47%) Apache
8 4 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.23%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.12%) Appian
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 72 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (7.72%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 59 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.99%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.82%) Trello
6 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Adobe Campaign
2 10 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.94%) Magento
4 6 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.70%) ProductWriter
4 6 (0.70%) Shopify
5 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.35%) Endur
6 3 (0.35%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
6 3 (0.35%) Workfront
7 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.23%) Changepoint
7 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.23%) Findur
7 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 77 (9.01%) Azure
2 60 (7.02%) SaaS
3 51 (5.96%) Power Platform
4 50 (5.85%) AWS
5 30 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (1.99%) Smartsheet
8 14 (1.64%) Asana
9 12 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.29%) GCP
11 10 (1.17%) Entra ID
11 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (0.82%) Adobe Analytics
12 7 (0.82%) Amazon S3
12 7 (0.82%) Google Workspace
13 6 (0.70%) BigCommerce
13 6 (0.70%) GitHub
13 6 (0.70%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.70%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.58%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.34%) Network Security
2 9 (1.05%) WAN
3 7 (0.82%) Firewall
3 7 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (0.70%) 3GPP
4 6 (0.70%) 4G
4 6 (0.70%) 5G
4 6 (0.70%) LAN
4 6 (0.70%) LTE
4 6 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
4 6 (0.70%) Wireless
4 6 (0.70%) Wireshark
5 5 (0.58%) BGP
5 5 (0.58%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.47%) DKIM
6 4 (0.47%) DMARC
6 4 (0.47%) DNS
6 4 (0.47%) Multicast
6 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.03%) Power BI
2 13 (1.52%) Tableau
3 10 (1.17%) Metadata
4 8 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.70%) Big Data
5 6 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.58%) DynamoDB
6 5 (0.58%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.47%) Power Query
7 4 (0.47%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.35%) QlikView
9 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.23%) DataStage
9 2 (0.23%) Looker
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.12%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.12%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 104 (12.16%) 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%) Zephyr
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
1 386 (45.15%) Social Skills
2 340 (39.77%) Finance
3 139 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (12.05%) Marketing
5 102 (11.93%) Banking
6 77 (9.01%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (8.30%) Public Sector
8 58 (6.78%) Retail
9 42 (4.91%) Legal
10 32 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (3.16%) Investment Banking
12 26 (3.04%) Front Office
13 25 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (2.92%) Telecoms
14 21 (2.46%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (1.17%) Law
17 10 (1.17%) Local Government
17 10 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 339 (39.65%) Project Manager
2 94 (10.99%) Senior
3 83 (9.71%) Lead
4 77 (9.01%) Senior Manager
5 70 (8.19%) Analyst
6 56 (6.55%) Senior Project Manager
7 47 (5.50%) Business Analyst
7 47 (5.50%) Programme Manager
8 46 (5.38%) IT Manager
9 35 (4.09%) Delivery Manager
9 35 (4.09%) Technical Manager
10 33 (3.86%) IT Project Manager
11 29 (3.39%) Technical Project Manager
12 28 (3.27%) Consultant
13 26 (3.04%) Developer
14 24 (2.81%) Infrastructure Manager
15 21 (2.46%) Digital Project Manager
16 20 (2.34%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 18 (2.11%) Transformation Manager
18 16 (1.87%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.75%) REST
2 13 (1.52%) VML
3 12 (1.40%) ADO
4 11 (1.29%) Web Services
5 10 (1.17%) HTML
6 9 (1.05%) Middleware
7 8 (0.94%) React
8 7 (0.82%) SOAP
9 6 (0.70%) .NET
9 6 (0.70%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.70%) XML
10 5 (0.58%) FastAPI
10 5 (0.58%) OAuth
11 4 (0.47%) CSS
11 4 (0.47%) Terraform
12 3 (0.35%) HTML5
12 3 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
12 3 (0.35%) pytest
12 3 (0.35%) RESTful
12 3 (0.35%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.50%) Onboarding
2 43 (5.03%) Management Information System
2 43 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.16%) Data Centre
4 25 (2.92%) PMI
5 24 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (1.87%) Virtual Team
7 15 (1.75%) FMCG
8 14 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (1.64%) Social Media
9 13 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.40%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
12 10 (1.17%) Credit Risk
13 9 (1.05%) CMDB
13 9 (1.05%) Derivative
13 9 (1.05%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.34%) Windows
2 18 (2.11%) Linux
3 7 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.58%) Unix
4 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (46.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 375 (43.86%) Agile
3 253 (29.59%) Project Delivery
4 193 (22.57%) PRINCE2
5 137 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (15.91%) Migration
7 133 (15.56%) Change Management
8 124 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 116 (13.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 116 (13.57%) Waterfall
10 115 (13.45%) Decision-Making
11 111 (12.98%) AI
12 105 (12.28%) Scrum
13 101 (11.81%) Risk Management
14 90 (10.53%) Analytics
15 84 (9.82%) Programme Management
16 82 (9.59%) Roadmaps
17 74 (8.65%) DevOps
18 64 (7.49%) Project Governance
19 62 (7.25%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (4.44%) SQL
2 33 (3.86%) Python
3 11 (1.29%) Java
4 9 (1.05%) TypeScript
5 7 (0.82%) C#
6 5 (0.58%) C++
7 4 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.35%) Bash
8 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.35%) VBA
9 2 (0.23%) C
9 2 (0.23%) Korn
9 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.23%) R
10 1 (0.12%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.12%) COBOL
10 1 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.12%) RPG
10 1 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 169 (19.77%) PMP
2 147 (17.19%) PMI Certification
3 123 (14.39%) Degree
4 89 (10.41%) Security Cleared
5 65 (7.60%) SC Cleared
6 20 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 8 (0.94%) APMG
10 8 (0.94%) MBA
11 7 (0.82%) APMP
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.70%) CISSP
13 5 (0.58%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.58%) CISM
13 5 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (13.80%) PMO
2 53 (6.20%) QA
3 34 (3.98%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.99%) GDPR
5 16 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.05%) SLA
8 8 (0.94%) P3O
9 7 (0.82%) FINREP
9 7 (0.82%) GRC
9 7 (0.82%) NIST
10 6 (0.70%) COREP
10 6 (0.70%) EMIR
11 5 (0.58%) MiFID
12 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.47%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.35%) GxP
13 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 19 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (0.58%) Ansible
1 5 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
1 5 (0.58%) Puppet
1 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 134 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.61%) ServiceNow
3 37 (4.33%) SAP
4 34 (3.98%) Salesforce
5 33 (3.86%) Adobe
6 26 (3.04%) Oracle
7 24 (2.81%) Google
8 20 (2.34%) Sitecore
9 14 (1.64%) VMware
10 12 (1.40%) Cisco
11 10 (1.17%) Murex
12 9 (1.05%) Alteryx
12 9 (1.05%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.05%) NEC
12 9 (1.05%) Workday
13 7 (0.82%) Guidewire
14 6 (0.70%) CyberArk
14 6 (0.70%) Ericsson
14 6 (0.70%) Optimizely
14 6 (0.70%) Planview