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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -30 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 870 918 1,156
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.30% 6.82% 7.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 7.37% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 572 713
10th Percentile £350 £333 £316
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £669 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £520 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -0.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 40 30
10th Percentile £28.00 £17.00 £20.43
25th Percentile £30.60 £24.58 £27.64
Median hourly rate £41.44 £34.50 £34.04
Median % change year-on-year +20.12% +1.37% -13.66%
75th Percentile £58.31 £48.63 £42.75
90th Percentile £69.85 £63.88 £63.88
England median hourly rate £47.50 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +31.94% -4.00% -6.25%

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 17,987 12,459 14,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.61% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,238 9,752
10th Percentile £359 £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 £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 256 181
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £48.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -15 133 £560 -0.44% 159
West London -8 37 £680 +30.77% 47
South London -8 12 £650 +36.84% 22
East London 0 6 £550 +7.84% 23
North London - 1 £450 - 3
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 49 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.71%) Confluence
3 21 (2.41%) CMS
4 18 (2.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.69%) WordPress
7 5 (0.57%) Apache
7 5 (0.57%) JBoss
7 5 (0.57%) Moodle
8 4 (0.46%) SAS
8 4 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 78 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (7.82%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (7.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (6.78%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.95%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.69%) Trello
7 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.34%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 13 (1.49%) Adobe Campaign
2 10 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.03%) Magento
4 6 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.57%) ProductWriter
5 5 (0.57%) Shopify
6 4 (0.46%) Endur
6 4 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.34%) Orchestrade
7 3 (0.34%) Workfront
8 2 (0.23%) Changepoint
8 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.23%) Findur
8 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (9.31%) Azure
2 61 (7.01%) SaaS
3 53 (6.09%) AWS
3 53 (6.09%) Power Platform
4 32 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (1.84%) Smartsheet
7 14 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (1.49%) Asana
9 11 (1.26%) Entra ID
10 10 (1.15%) GCP
10 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (0.80%) Adobe Analytics
11 7 (0.80%) Amazon S3
11 7 (0.80%) Google Workspace
11 7 (0.80%) Snowflake
12 6 (0.69%) GitHub
13 5 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.57%) Google Drive
13 5 (0.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.18%) Network Security
2 9 (1.03%) WAN
3 8 (0.92%) 3GPP
3 8 (0.92%) 4G
3 8 (0.92%) 5G
3 8 (0.92%) Firewall
3 8 (0.92%) LTE
3 8 (0.92%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (0.92%) Wireshark
4 7 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.69%) LAN
5 6 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (0.69%) Wireless
6 5 (0.57%) BGP
6 5 (0.57%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.46%) DKIM
7 4 (0.46%) DMARC
7 4 (0.46%) DNS
7 4 (0.46%) Multicast
7 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.17%) Power BI
2 13 (1.49%) Tableau
3 10 (1.15%) Metadata
4 9 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.80%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.69%) Big Data
6 6 (0.69%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.57%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.57%) Hadoop
7 5 (0.57%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.46%) Power Query
9 3 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.34%) QlikView
10 2 (0.23%) DataStage
10 2 (0.23%) Looker
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.11%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.11%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 113 (12.99%) JIRA
2 22 (2.53%) Git
3 15 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.03%) Subversion
5 5 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.23%) GitLab
7 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.11%) LSMW
7 1 (0.11%) Postman
7 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.11%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 395 (45.40%) Social Skills
2 355 (40.80%) Finance
3 138 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (12.30%) Banking
5 97 (11.15%) Marketing
6 75 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (8.39%) Public Sector
8 57 (6.55%) Retail
9 44 (5.06%) Legal
10 41 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (3.22%) Front Office
11 28 (3.22%) Investment Banking
11 28 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (3.22%) Telecoms
12 19 (2.18%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.26%) Law
14 11 (1.26%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.15%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 343 (39.43%) Project Manager
2 95 (10.92%) Senior
3 85 (9.77%) Lead
4 76 (8.74%) Senior Manager
5 69 (7.93%) Analyst
6 54 (6.21%) Senior Project Manager
7 48 (5.52%) IT Manager
8 46 (5.29%) Business Analyst
9 45 (5.17%) Programme Manager
10 38 (4.37%) Delivery Manager
11 37 (4.25%) Technical Manager
12 33 (3.79%) IT Project Manager
13 30 (3.45%) Technical Project Manager
14 29 (3.33%) Consultant
15 24 (2.76%) Developer
16 20 (2.30%) Infrastructure Manager
17 19 (2.18%) Change Manager
17 19 (2.18%) Digital Project Manager
18 17 (1.95%) Infrastructure Project Manager
19 16 (1.84%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.72%) REST
2 13 (1.49%) ADO
3 12 (1.38%) VML
4 11 (1.26%) Web Services
5 9 (1.03%) HTML
6 8 (0.92%) Middleware
6 8 (0.92%) React
7 7 (0.80%) SOAP
8 6 (0.69%) .NET
8 6 (0.69%) pytest
9 5 (0.57%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.57%) FastAPI
9 5 (0.57%) OAuth
9 5 (0.57%) XML
10 4 (0.46%) Terraform
11 3 (0.34%) CSS
11 3 (0.34%) HTML5
11 3 (0.34%) HTML5 Canvas
11 3 (0.34%) RESTful
11 3 (0.34%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.63%) Management Information System
2 46 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 43 (4.94%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.99%) Data Centre
4 26 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (2.64%) PMI
6 19 (2.18%) Virtual Team
7 18 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.72%) FMCG
9 14 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.49%) Fixed Income
10 13 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.49%) Social Media
11 12 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.15%) Derivative
13 10 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
14 9 (1.03%) Credit Risk
14 9 (1.03%) Life Science
14 9 (1.03%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.30%) Linux
2 19 (2.18%) Windows
3 7 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.57%) Unix
4 5 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (48.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 382 (43.91%) Agile
3 255 (29.31%) Project Delivery
4 191 (21.95%) PRINCE2
5 139 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (15.63%) Migration
7 133 (15.29%) Change Management
8 128 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 126 (14.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 123 (14.14%) Decision-Making
11 121 (13.91%) Waterfall
12 115 (13.22%) AI
13 109 (12.53%) Scrum
14 96 (11.03%) Risk Management
15 90 (10.34%) Analytics
16 88 (10.11%) Programme Management
17 85 (9.77%) Roadmaps
18 78 (8.97%) DevOps
19 77 (8.85%) Project Governance
20 63 (7.24%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (4.25%) SQL
2 33 (3.79%) Python
3 11 (1.26%) Java
4 8 (0.92%) TypeScript
5 7 (0.80%) C#
6 5 (0.57%) Bash
6 5 (0.57%) C++
7 4 (0.46%) Korn
8 3 (0.34%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.34%) VBA
9 2 (0.23%) C
9 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.23%) R
10 1 (0.11%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.11%) COBOL
10 1 (0.11%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.11%) RPG
10 1 (0.11%) X++
Qualifications
1 172 (19.77%) PMP
2 148 (17.01%) PMI Certification
3 124 (14.25%) Degree
4 92 (10.57%) Security Cleared
5 69 (7.93%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 8 (0.92%) APMG
10 8 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (0.80%) APMP
11 7 (0.80%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.80%) MBA
12 6 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.69%) CISSP
12 6 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.57%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (14.94%) PMO
2 53 (6.09%) QA
3 35 (4.02%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.72%) GDPR
6 8 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.92%) P3O
6 8 (0.92%) SLA
7 7 (0.80%) FINREP
8 6 (0.69%) COREP
8 6 (0.69%) GRC
9 5 (0.57%) NIST
10 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.46%) EMIR
10 4 (0.46%) MiFID
11 3 (0.34%) GxP
11 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 5 (0.57%) Ansible
1 5 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
1 5 (0.57%) Puppet
1 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.34%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 144 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.52%) ServiceNow
3 39 (4.48%) SAP
4 31 (3.56%) Adobe
5 30 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 27 (3.10%) Oracle
7 20 (2.30%) Google
8 19 (2.18%) Sitecore
9 13 (1.49%) VMware
10 12 (1.38%) Cisco
11 11 (1.26%) Atlassian
12 10 (1.15%) NEC
13 9 (1.03%) Alteryx
13 9 (1.03%) Murex
13 9 (1.03%) Workday
14 8 (0.92%) Ericsson
14 8 (0.92%) Nokia
14 8 (0.92%) Planview
15 7 (0.80%) Guidewire
16 5 (0.57%) Optimizely