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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 869 945 1,205
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.61% 7.70% 6.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 8.34% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 567 816
10th Percentile £357 £310 £306
25th Percentile £425 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -4.00%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 53
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.27 £20.03
25th Percentile £30.38 £33.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £39.50 £39.04 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +20.12% -23.08%
75th Percentile £55.75 £50.84 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.25 £63.75 £54.70
England median hourly rate £36.00 £46.30 £38.12
% change year-on-year -22.25% +21.46% -19.32%

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 16,739 11,333 15,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.30% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,153 7,596 11,160
10th Percentile £359 £344 £341
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 201 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -24.68%
75th Percentile £58.96 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -18 132 £569 -1.09% 97
West London -26 21 £550 +22.22% 31
South London -2 12 £700 +65.09% 8
East London -10 5 £523 +4.50% 18
North London +1 1 £550 +10.00% 4
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 (5.41%) Confluence
2 44 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.73%) CMS
4 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.69%) Apache
6 5 (0.58%) WordPress
7 4 (0.46%) Moodle
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 SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 69 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 54 (6.21%) Microsoft Project
4 47 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.73%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.58%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.35%) Trello
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.12%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 10 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
1 10 (1.15%) Shopify
2 8 (0.92%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.69%) ProductWriter
4 4 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.46%) Magento
5 3 (0.35%) Endur
5 3 (0.35%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.23%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 71 (8.17%) Azure
2 54 (6.21%) AWS
3 53 (6.10%) SaaS
4 38 (4.37%) Power Platform
5 33 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.07%) Smartsheet
8 11 (1.27%) GCP
9 10 (1.15%) BigCommerce
9 10 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.04%) Asana
11 8 (0.92%) Google Workspace
12 7 (0.81%) Google Ads
13 6 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (0.69%) Entra ID
13 6 (0.69%) GitHub
13 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.58%) Google Drive
14 5 (0.58%) OCI
14 5 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.38%) Network Security
2 10 (1.15%) WAN
3 9 (1.04%) Firewall
4 7 (0.81%) LAN
5 4 (0.46%) DKIM
5 4 (0.46%) DMARC
5 4 (0.46%) DNS
5 4 (0.46%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) Broadband
6 3 (0.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.35%) Intranet
7 2 (0.23%) BGP
7 2 (0.23%) Multicast
7 2 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.23%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.23%) Wireless
8 1 (0.12%) MVNO
8 1 (0.12%) VPN
8 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.14%) Power BI
2 10 (1.15%) Tableau
3 8 (0.92%) Data Lake
3 8 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (0.92%) Metadata
4 4 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.35%) QlikView
5 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.35%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.23%) Power Query
7 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) Big Data
7 1 (0.12%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.12%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (11.62%) JIRA
2 17 (1.96%) Git
3 9 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.58%) Subversion
5 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.46%) GitLab
6 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.12%) Appium
7 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 386 (44.42%) Social Skills
2 345 (39.70%) Finance
3 121 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (10.93%) Organisational Skills
5 90 (10.36%) Marketing
6 89 (10.24%) Banking
7 75 (8.63%) Public Sector
8 61 (7.02%) Retail
9 51 (5.87%) Legal
10 35 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (3.22%) Financial Institution
13 25 (2.88%) Front Office
14 24 (2.76%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.50%) Telecoms
17 12 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (1.27%) Advertising
18 11 (1.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 374 (43.04%) Project Manager
2 105 (12.08%) Senior
3 97 (11.16%) Analyst
4 88 (10.13%) Lead
5 78 (8.98%) Senior Manager
6 73 (8.40%) Business Analyst
7 65 (7.48%) Senior Project Manager
8 44 (5.06%) IT Manager
9 41 (4.72%) Programme Manager
10 39 (4.49%) IT Project Manager
11 35 (4.03%) Technical Manager
12 30 (3.45%) Technical Project Manager
13 29 (3.34%) Developer
14 28 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
14 28 (3.22%) Infrastructure Manager
15 26 (2.99%) Architect
16 25 (2.88%) Migration Manager
17 24 (2.76%) Consultant
17 24 (2.76%) Migration Project Manager
18 21 (2.42%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.07%) REST
2 13 (1.50%) VML
3 11 (1.27%) SOAP
4 9 (1.04%) HTML
4 9 (1.04%) Middleware
5 6 (0.69%) .NET
5 6 (0.69%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.58%) ADO
6 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.58%) Web Services
7 4 (0.46%) CSS
7 4 (0.46%) OAuth
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.46%) React
8 3 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (0.35%) RESTful
8 3 (0.35%) XML
9 2 (0.23%) HTML5
9 2 (0.23%) pytest
10 1 (0.12%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.18%) Onboarding
2 43 (4.95%) Management Information System
3 32 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.11%) Data Centre
4 27 (3.11%) PMI
5 24 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.07%) Social Media
7 16 (1.84%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.38%) FMCG
10 10 (1.15%) Web Conferencing
11 9 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.04%) CMDB
11 9 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (0.92%) Market Risk
13 7 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.81%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.81%) Life Science
13 7 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.61%) Windows
2 7 (0.81%) Linux
3 4 (0.46%) Unix
3 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
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 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (40.28%) Agile
2 334 (38.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 246 (28.31%) Project Delivery
4 157 (18.07%) PRINCE2
5 156 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 143 (16.46%) Migration
7 125 (14.38%) Decision-Making
8 122 (14.04%) Waterfall
9 118 (13.58%) Change Management
10 113 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 112 (12.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 92 (10.59%) Scrum
13 89 (10.24%) Risk Management
14 80 (9.21%) AI
15 68 (7.83%) Programme Management
16 67 (7.71%) Business Analysis
17 66 (7.59%) Analytics
18 65 (7.48%) SDLC
19 64 (7.36%) DevOps
20 63 (7.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 45 (5.18%) SQL
2 24 (2.76%) Python
3 11 (1.27%) Java
4 8 (0.92%) C#
5 6 (0.69%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.58%) C++
6 5 (0.58%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.46%) R
8 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.12%) C
9 1 (0.12%) Korn
9 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.12%) SOQL
9 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 152 (17.49%) PMP
2 128 (14.73%) PMI Certification
3 116 (13.35%) Degree
4 77 (8.86%) Security Cleared
5 57 (6.56%) SC Cleared
6 15 (1.73%) APMP
6 15 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.61%) CBAP
8 12 (1.38%) CISSP
8 12 (1.38%) IIBA
9 11 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.04%) CISM
12 8 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.81%) APMG
14 5 (0.58%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.58%) MBA
15 4 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (12.89%) PMO
2 67 (7.71%) QA
3 36 (4.14%) Data Quality
4 29 (3.34%) GDPR
5 20 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.96%) NIST
7 14 (1.61%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.38%) SLA
9 7 (0.81%) GRC
9 7 (0.81%) MiFID
10 5 (0.58%) EMIR
10 5 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.35%) Basel III
11 3 (0.35%) COREP
11 3 (0.35%) FINREP
11 3 (0.35%) GxP
11 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.23%) COBIT
System Software
1 12 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.23%) Firmware
3 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.46%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.35%) Ansible
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.23%) Terraform
5 1 (0.12%) Control-M
5 1 (0.12%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.98%) ServiceNow
3 46 (5.29%) SAP
4 41 (4.72%) Salesforce
5 30 (3.45%) Oracle
6 26 (2.99%) Adobe
7 20 (2.30%) Google
8 19 (2.19%) Sitecore
9 13 (1.50%) Workday
10 12 (1.38%) CyberArk
11 9 (1.04%) Cisco
11 9 (1.04%) Murex
12 8 (0.92%) Guidewire
13 7 (0.81%) NEC
14 6 (0.69%) Avaloq
14 6 (0.69%) Databricks
15 5 (0.58%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.58%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.58%) Okta
16 4 (0.46%) Wrike