Project Management Contracts in London

Project Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 29 29
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 999 1,170 1,718
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 7.52% 6.65% 6.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.16% 7.51% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 791 1,222
10th Percentile £313 £300 £363
25th Percentile £433 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £565
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -4.87% +2.73%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £528
% change year-on-year -1.44% -1.52% +1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 47 32
10th Percentile £25.75 £20.27 £22.55
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.05 £30.00
Median hourly rate £43.08 £32.50 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year +32.54% -23.08% +15.75%
75th Percentile £51.59 £44.63 £68.13
90th Percentile £63.75 £59.00 £87.00
England median hourly rate £45.59 £38.12 £43.00
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.35% +43.62%

All Process and 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 12,246 15,579 23,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.54% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,177 11,085 16,913
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 294 268
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.96 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.77
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -26.42% +13.25%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in London

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in London.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in London

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in London

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in London

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in London over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 +4 193 £575 +4.55% 435
West London -5 24 £475 +15.15% 82
East London +1 11 £450 -21.74% 54
South London -5 6 £362 -34.27% 44
North London -4 1 £500 - 19
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 48 (4.80%) Confluence
2 30 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.80%) CMS
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.30%) WordPress
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) CICS
7 2 (0.20%) Drupal
8 1 (0.10%) Camunda
8 1 (0.10%) Facebook Platform
8 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.10%) SAS
8 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 67 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (6.21%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
4 46 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.00%) Trello
6 17 (1.70%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.40%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.30%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.10%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.10%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 22 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.00%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.70%) Endur
5 5 (0.50%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.40%) Shopify
6 4 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.30%) SAP GRC
7 3 (0.30%) Workfront
8 2 (0.20%) ION Anvil
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.20%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.20%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.20%) SAP PLM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 105 (10.51%) Azure
2 72 (7.21%) AWS
3 48 (4.80%) SaaS
4 36 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (3.10%) Power Platform
6 25 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (2.50%) GCP
7 17 (1.70%) GitHub
8 16 (1.60%) Entra ID
9 15 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.20%) Lucidchart
11 10 (1.00%) Asana
11 10 (1.00%) Google Workspace
11 10 (1.00%) OCI
12 9 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (0.90%) OneDrive
12 9 (0.90%) Smartsheet
13 8 (0.80%) PaaS
13 8 (0.80%) Serverless
13 8 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.50%) Firewall
2 20 (2.00%) VPN
3 10 (1.00%) DNS
4 7 (0.70%) Network Security
4 7 (0.70%) WAN
5 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.50%) SSL
5 5 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.50%) Wireless
6 4 (0.40%) LAN
6 4 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.30%) HTTP
7 3 (0.30%) S/MIME
7 3 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.30%) VSAN
8 2 (0.20%) BGP
8 2 (0.20%) DHCP
8 2 (0.20%) FTP
8 2 (0.20%) MPLS
8 2 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (2.80%) Power BI
2 18 (1.80%) Tableau
3 14 (1.40%) SQL Server
4 12 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 11 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.90%) Metadata
7 7 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.70%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.60%) SAP HANA
9 5 (0.50%) Big Data
10 4 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.40%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.40%) MySQL
10 4 (0.40%) Power Query
10 4 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.30%) DB2
11 3 (0.30%) MS Access
11 3 (0.30%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 141 (14.11%) JIRA
2 14 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.70%) Git
4 5 (0.50%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.50%) JUnit
4 5 (0.50%) Maven
4 5 (0.50%) SpecFlow
5 4 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.30%) GitLab
6 3 (0.30%) MSI
6 3 (0.30%) Postman
7 2 (0.20%) Ant
7 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.20%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.20%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.20%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 491 (49.15%) Social Skills
2 427 (42.74%) Finance
3 191 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (11.91%) Banking
5 107 (10.71%) Marketing
6 69 (6.91%) Legal
7 51 (5.11%) Front Office
8 48 (4.80%) Public Sector
9 46 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (3.50%) Retail
11 34 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (3.20%) Investment Banking
13 29 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (2.50%) Financial Institution
15 22 (2.20%) Back Office
15 22 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 18 (1.80%) Manufacturing
17 16 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (1.50%) Law
18 15 (1.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 333 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 144 (14.41%) Analyst
3 102 (10.21%) Business Analyst
4 84 (8.41%) Lead
5 82 (8.21%) Senior
6 49 (4.90%) Consultant
7 44 (4.40%) Senior Manager
8 38 (3.80%) Architect
8 38 (3.80%) IT Manager
8 38 (3.80%) Technical Manager
9 35 (3.50%) Senior Project Manager
10 31 (3.10%) Programme Manager
11 30 (3.00%) Developer
12 26 (2.60%) Business Manager
12 26 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
13 25 (2.50%) Technical Project Manager
14 24 (2.40%) IT Project Manager
15 22 (2.20%) Infrastructure Manager
16 19 (1.90%) Project Analyst
17 18 (1.80%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.40%) .NET
2 15 (1.50%) HTML
3 14 (1.40%) AngularJS
4 12 (1.20%) CSS
4 12 (1.20%) REST
5 9 (0.90%) React
6 8 (0.80%) Middleware
6 8 (0.80%) OAuth
6 8 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (0.70%) .NET Framework
7 7 (0.70%) SAML
7 7 (0.70%) Spring
8 6 (0.60%) ADO
9 5 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (0.50%) Entity Framework
9 5 (0.50%) JSON
9 5 (0.50%) NHibernate
9 5 (0.50%) OpenID
9 5 (0.50%) Playwright
9 5 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.70%) Onboarding
2 41 (4.10%) Management Information System
3 30 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (1.80%) Market Risk
8 16 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.60%) PMI
9 14 (1.40%) Fixed Income
10 13 (1.30%) Reinsurance
11 12 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.10%) Credit Risk
12 11 (1.10%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.00%) Social Media
14 9 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
15 8 (0.80%) Cloud Native
15 8 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (0.80%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.00%) Windows
2 21 (2.10%) Linux
3 10 (1.00%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.50%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.30%) Unix
7 1 (0.10%) Android
7 1 (0.10%) VMS
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (35.04%) Agile
2 270 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 255 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
4 159 (15.92%) Project Delivery
5 136 (13.61%) Change Management
6 131 (13.11%) Risk Management
7 120 (12.01%) PRINCE2
8 119 (11.91%) Migration
9 115 (11.51%) Scrum
10 110 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 94 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 92 (9.21%) Decision-Making
13 83 (8.31%) Waterfall
14 77 (7.71%) Roadmaps
15 75 (7.51%) Analytics
16 74 (7.41%) Data Analysis
16 74 (7.41%) Requirements Gathering
17 73 (7.31%) DevOps
18 71 (7.11%) Business Analysis
19 67 (6.71%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 71 (7.11%) SQL
2 48 (4.80%) Python
3 32 (3.20%) Java
4 16 (1.60%) JavaScript
4 16 (1.60%) PowerShell
5 12 (1.20%) C#
6 10 (1.00%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.80%) PHP
8 7 (0.70%) VBA
9 6 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.40%) Bash
10 4 (0.40%) Bicep
10 4 (0.40%) R
11 3 (0.30%) C
11 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.20%) ABAP
12 2 (0.20%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.20%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.20%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.20%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 190 (19.02%) Degree
2 129 (12.91%) PMP
3 124 (12.41%) PMI Certification
4 66 (6.61%) Security Cleared
5 47 (4.70%) SC Cleared
6 32 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.90%) CISSP
10 9 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 8 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.80%) CISM
12 7 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.50%) CRISC
13 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.50%) OCP
13 5 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (7.41%) PMO
2 45 (4.50%) QA
3 34 (3.40%) GDPR
4 20 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.00%) NIST
5 19 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.80%) MiFID
7 15 (1.50%) EMIR
7 15 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.20%) SLA
9 10 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.90%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.50%) GRC
13 4 (0.40%) APQC
13 4 (0.40%) Basel III
13 4 (0.40%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.30%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 29 (2.90%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.80%) Docker
3 7 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.60%) vSphere
5 5 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) IAG
6 2 (0.20%) Lustre
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.10%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.40%) Terraform
3 11 (1.10%) SCCM
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.40%) Kibana
6 4 (0.40%) logstash
7 3 (0.30%) Grafana
7 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.20%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
8 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.20%) Puppet
8 2 (0.20%) WSUS
9 1 (0.10%) Ansible
9 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 168 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 95 (9.51%) SAP
3 47 (4.70%) Salesforce
4 34 (3.40%) Oracle
5 32 (3.20%) Google
6 27 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 19 (1.90%) Workday
8 16 (1.60%) Adobe
8 16 (1.60%) Databricks
9 14 (1.40%) Cisco
10 8 (0.80%) Alteryx
11 7 (0.70%) Planview
11 7 (0.70%) Splunk
11 7 (0.70%) VMware
12 6 (0.60%) Apple
12 6 (0.60%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.60%) Citrix
13 5 (0.50%) Murex
13 5 (0.50%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.50%) Sitecore