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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 25 27
Rank change year-on-year -26 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Management 855 1,017 1,156
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.32% 7.50% 6.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 8.14% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 626 775
10th Percentile £356 £313 £305
25th Percentile £450 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +0.47% -4.44%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £513 £520
% change year-on-year +2.44% -1.44% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 30 41
10th Percentile £28.00 £25.20 £20.98
25th Percentile £31.56 £33.25 £26.68
Median hourly rate £40.23 £41.06 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +24.15% -20.31%
75th Percentile £57.13 £51.80 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.25 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £39.04 £44.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -12.27% +16.74% -15.29%

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 17,610 12,492 15,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.11% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,678 8,360 10,852
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
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 272 240 266
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.12
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.25 £31.75 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -1.99% -21.94%
75th Percentile £57.81 £50.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £70.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -20 124 £600 +4.35% 42
West London -14 24 £600 +26.32% 21
South London -9 12 £575 +15.00% 12
East London -5 3 £550 +7.84% 25
North London -1 1 £450 -10.00% 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 43 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.44%) Confluence
3 19 (2.22%) CMS
4 10 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.70%) WordPress
7 5 (0.58%) Moodle
8 3 (0.35%) Apache
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 76 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (7.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 62 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
4 60 (7.02%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.99%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.58%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.35%) Trello
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.12%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 10 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.94%) Magento
3 7 (0.82%) Adobe Campaign
3 7 (0.82%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.70%) ProductWriter
4 6 (0.70%) Shopify
5 4 (0.47%) Endur
5 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
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 General Ledger
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (8.65%) Azure
2 57 (6.67%) SaaS
3 51 (5.96%) AWS
4 42 (4.91%) Power Platform
5 29 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (1.99%) Smartsheet
8 12 (1.40%) Asana
9 11 (1.29%) GCP
10 10 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (0.94%) Entra ID
11 8 (0.94%) GitHub
12 7 (0.82%) Amazon S3
12 7 (0.82%) Google Workspace
12 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (0.70%) BigCommerce
14 5 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 5 (0.58%) Google Drive
14 5 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.64%) Network Security
2 7 (0.82%) WAN
3 6 (0.70%) LAN
4 4 (0.47%) DKIM
4 4 (0.47%) DMARC
4 4 (0.47%) DNS
4 4 (0.47%) Firewall
4 4 (0.47%) Intranet
4 4 (0.47%) Multicast
4 4 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
4 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.47%) Wireless
5 3 (0.35%) Internet
5 3 (0.35%) VPN
5 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.23%) BGP
6 2 (0.23%) Broadband
6 2 (0.23%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.12%) MVNO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.44%) Power BI
2 9 (1.05%) Tableau
3 8 (0.94%) Metadata
4 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (0.82%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.47%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.47%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.35%) QlikView
7 3 (0.35%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.23%) DataStage
8 2 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.23%) Power Query
9 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.12%) Big Data
9 1 (0.12%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 96 (11.23%) JIRA
2 18 (2.11%) Git
3 15 (1.75%) 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%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
General
1 372 (43.51%) Social Skills
2 328 (38.36%) Finance
3 125 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (12.05%) Marketing
5 92 (10.76%) Banking
6 87 (10.18%) Organisational Skills
7 66 (7.72%) Public Sector
8 60 (7.02%) Retail
9 47 (5.50%) Legal
10 40 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (3.16%) Front Office
13 25 (2.92%) Financial Institution
13 25 (2.92%) Investment Banking
14 15 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.40%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (1.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 358 (41.87%) Project Manager
2 97 (11.35%) Senior
3 88 (10.29%) Analyst
4 77 (9.01%) Senior Manager
5 76 (8.89%) Lead
6 63 (7.37%) Business Analyst
6 63 (7.37%) Senior Project Manager
7 50 (5.85%) Programme Manager
8 44 (5.15%) IT Manager
9 37 (4.33%) IT Project Manager
9 37 (4.33%) Technical Manager
10 31 (3.63%) Technical Project Manager
11 28 (3.27%) Delivery Manager
12 26 (3.04%) Infrastructure Manager
13 25 (2.92%) Developer
14 22 (2.57%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 22 (2.57%) Migration Manager
15 21 (2.46%) Consultant
15 21 (2.46%) Digital Project Manager
15 21 (2.46%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.52%) VML
2 12 (1.40%) REST
3 10 (1.17%) Middleware
4 9 (1.05%) HTML
5 8 (0.94%) ADO
6 7 (0.82%) React
7 6 (0.70%) SOAP
7 6 (0.70%) XML
8 5 (0.58%) .NET
8 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.58%) SailPoint
8 5 (0.58%) Web Services
9 4 (0.47%) FastAPI
9 4 (0.47%) OAuth
10 3 (0.35%) CSS
10 3 (0.35%) HTML5
10 3 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.35%) RESTful
10 3 (0.35%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.38%) Onboarding
2 37 (4.33%) Management Information System
3 33 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.27%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.04%) PMI
6 22 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.11%) Social Media
8 15 (1.75%) FMCG
8 15 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.29%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.17%) Market Risk
12 10 (1.17%) Web Conferencing
13 9 (1.05%) IoT
13 9 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
14 8 (0.94%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.40%) Windows
2 8 (0.94%) Linux
3 6 (0.70%) Unix
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
1 355 (41.52%) Agile
2 337 (39.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 236 (27.60%) Project Delivery
4 167 (19.53%) PRINCE2
5 143 (16.73%) Migration
6 135 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 125 (14.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 123 (14.39%) Change Management
9 122 (14.27%) Decision-Making
9 122 (14.27%) Waterfall
10 116 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (11.93%) Scrum
12 96 (11.23%) Risk Management
13 95 (11.11%) AI
14 78 (9.12%) Analytics
15 70 (8.19%) DevOps
16 69 (8.07%) Requirements Gathering
17 67 (7.84%) Business Analysis
17 67 (7.84%) Programme Management
18 61 (7.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (4.44%) SQL
2 28 (3.27%) Python
3 9 (1.05%) TypeScript
4 7 (0.82%) Java
5 6 (0.70%) C#
6 5 (0.58%) C++
7 4 (0.47%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.47%) R
8 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.23%) VBA
10 1 (0.12%) C
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%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 159 (18.60%) PMP
2 136 (15.91%) PMI Certification
3 120 (14.04%) Degree
4 68 (7.95%) Security Cleared
5 47 (5.50%) SC Cleared
6 16 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 9 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.05%) CISSP
9 8 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 7 (0.82%) APMG
10 7 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.82%) IIBA
11 6 (0.70%) APMP
11 6 (0.70%) CBAP
11 6 (0.70%) MBA
12 5 (0.58%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.58%) CISM
12 5 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (13.57%) PMO
2 54 (6.32%) QA
3 32 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.22%) GDPR
5 15 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.64%) SLA
7 11 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.17%) NIST
9 8 (0.94%) GRC
10 7 (0.82%) EMIR
10 7 (0.82%) MiFID
11 6 (0.70%) FINREP
12 5 (0.58%) COREP
12 5 (0.58%) P3O
13 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.35%) GxP
14 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.23%) COBIT
15 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.23%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (0.82%) 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%) Terraform
5 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.12%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 129 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.50%) ServiceNow
3 40 (4.68%) SAP
4 35 (4.09%) Salesforce
5 29 (3.39%) Oracle
6 28 (3.27%) Adobe
7 22 (2.57%) Google
8 17 (1.99%) Sitecore
9 10 (1.17%) Murex
10 8 (0.94%) CyberArk
11 7 (0.82%) Alteryx
11 7 (0.82%) Cisco
11 7 (0.82%) NEC
11 7 (0.82%) Workday
12 6 (0.70%) Databricks
12 6 (0.70%) VMware
13 5 (0.58%) Avaloq
13 5 (0.58%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.58%) GoldenSource
13 5 (0.58%) Planview