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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 25 26
Rank change year-on-year -18 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 879 973 1,255
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.90% 7.78% 7.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.55% 8.43% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 581 853
10th Percentile £360 £307 £313
25th Percentile £426 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £767
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 32 51
10th Percentile £27.55 £22.27 £19.92
25th Percentile £28.00 £31.00 £23.05
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.56 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% +18.43% -21.70%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.81 £50.00
90th Percentile £57.30 £52.00 £61.25
England median hourly rate £37.58 £44.75 £38.12
% change year-on-year -16.02% +17.39% -17.13%

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 15,848 11,538 15,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.22% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 7,808 11,112
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 178 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +22.13% -27.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -15 126 £625 +8.70% 96
West London -32 19 £438 +7.36% 26
South London -2 13 £675 +59.20% 11
East London -15 4 £495 +10.00% 15
North London +1 1 £550 +10.00% 2
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 55 (6.26%) Confluence
2 30 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.48%) CMS
4 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.68%) Apache
6 5 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.34%) Moodle
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 72 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (6.60%) Microsoft Project
3 57 (6.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.68%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.68%) Trello
8 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.11%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) InVision
10 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (1.25%) Loan IQ
1 11 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.14%) Shopify
3 6 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.68%) ProductWriter
4 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.34%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 3 (0.34%) Endur
5 3 (0.34%) Magento
5 3 (0.34%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.34%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.34%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 66 (7.51%) Azure
2 56 (6.37%) SaaS
3 48 (5.46%) AWS
4 36 (4.10%) Power Platform
5 30 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.28%) Smartsheet
7 15 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.37%) Asana
8 12 (1.37%) GCP
9 11 (1.25%) Google Workspace
10 10 (1.14%) BigCommerce
11 9 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (0.68%) GitHub
13 6 (0.68%) Google Ads
14 5 (0.57%) Figma
14 5 (0.57%) Google Drive
14 5 (0.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.14%) Network Security
1 10 (1.14%) WAN
2 7 (0.80%) Firewall
3 6 (0.68%) LAN
4 5 (0.57%) DNS
4 5 (0.57%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.46%) DKIM
5 4 (0.46%) DMARC
6 3 (0.34%) Broadband
6 3 (0.34%) Intranet
7 2 (0.23%) BGP
7 2 (0.23%) Internet
7 2 (0.23%) ISDN
7 2 (0.23%) OpenScape
7 2 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.23%) VPN
7 2 (0.23%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.23%) Wireless
8 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.87%) Power BI
2 11 (1.25%) Metadata
3 10 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (1.14%) Tableau
4 7 (0.80%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.57%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.46%) Big Data
6 4 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.23%) DataStage
8 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.23%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.11%) Cognos Query Studio
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.11%) QlikView
9 1 (0.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 118 (13.42%) JIRA
2 15 (1.71%) Git
3 6 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.46%) GitLab
4 4 (0.46%) Subversion
5 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.11%) Appium
7 1 (0.11%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.11%) LSMW
General
1 396 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 356 (40.50%) Finance
3 135 (15.36%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (10.69%) Organisational Skills
5 90 (10.24%) Banking
5 90 (10.24%) Marketing
6 79 (8.99%) Public Sector
7 62 (7.05%) Retail
8 47 (5.35%) Legal
9 43 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (3.07%) Financial Institution
12 25 (2.84%) Investment Banking
13 24 (2.73%) Front Office
14 14 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.48%) Advertising
15 13 (1.48%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.37%) Local Government
16 12 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 360 (40.96%) Project Manager
2 109 (12.40%) Analyst
3 102 (11.60%) Senior
4 90 (10.24%) Lead
5 80 (9.10%) Business Analyst
6 76 (8.65%) Senior Manager
7 62 (7.05%) Senior Project Manager
8 45 (5.12%) IT Manager
9 41 (4.66%) Programme Manager
10 40 (4.55%) IT Project Manager
11 34 (3.87%) Developer
11 34 (3.87%) Technical Manager
12 30 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
13 29 (3.30%) Infrastructure Manager
14 28 (3.19%) Technical Project Manager
15 27 (3.07%) Migration Manager
16 26 (2.96%) Migration Project Manager
17 25 (2.84%) Architect
18 22 (2.50%) Consultant
19 21 (2.39%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.05%) REST
2 12 (1.37%) SOAP
2 12 (1.37%) VML
3 10 (1.14%) HTML
4 9 (1.02%) Middleware
5 6 (0.68%) .NET
5 6 (0.68%) AngularJS
5 6 (0.68%) SailPoint
5 6 (0.68%) Web Services
6 5 (0.57%) ADO
6 5 (0.57%) CSS
6 5 (0.57%) XML
7 4 (0.46%) OAuth
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.46%) React
8 3 (0.34%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (0.34%) pytest
8 3 (0.34%) RESTful
8 3 (0.34%) XSLT
9 1 (0.11%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.57%) Onboarding
2 45 (5.12%) Management Information System
3 33 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.53%) PMI
5 27 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 26 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.05%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.82%) Social Media
10 14 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.14%) Web Conferencing
12 9 (1.02%) FMCG
12 9 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.91%) CMDB
13 8 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.91%) Tandem
14 7 (0.80%) Credit Risk
14 7 (0.80%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.48%) Windows
2 6 (0.68%) Linux
3 5 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.46%) Unix
5 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (40.96%) Agile
2 327 (37.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 246 (27.99%) Project Delivery
4 167 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
5 152 (17.29%) Migration
6 147 (16.72%) PRINCE2
7 128 (14.56%) Waterfall
8 125 (14.22%) Decision-Making
9 114 (12.97%) Change Management
10 112 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 112 (12.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 103 (11.72%) Scrum
12 92 (10.47%) Risk Management
13 72 (8.19%) Analytics
13 72 (8.19%) Business Analysis
13 72 (8.19%) Roadmaps
14 71 (8.08%) AI
15 68 (7.74%) Budget Management
15 68 (7.74%) Programme Management
16 65 (7.39%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (5.23%) SQL
2 26 (2.96%) Python
3 10 (1.14%) Java
4 9 (1.02%) C#
5 6 (0.68%) R
6 5 (0.57%) C++
6 5 (0.57%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.57%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.23%) VBA
8 1 (0.11%) C
8 1 (0.11%) Korn
8 1 (0.11%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.11%) SOQL
8 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 149 (16.95%) PMP
2 128 (14.56%) Degree
2 128 (14.56%) PMI Certification
3 81 (9.22%) Security Cleared
4 59 (6.71%) SC Cleared
5 17 (1.93%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.71%) CBAP
7 14 (1.59%) APMP
8 13 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.37%) IIBA
10 11 (1.25%) CISSP
10 11 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.02%) CISM
12 7 (0.80%) APMG
13 6 (0.68%) MBA
13 6 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.57%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.46%) CRISC
15 4 (0.46%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (12.63%) PMO
2 68 (7.74%) QA
3 41 (4.66%) Data Quality
4 33 (3.75%) GDPR
5 22 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.05%) NIST
7 11 (1.25%) SLA
8 10 (1.14%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.80%) EMIR
9 7 (0.80%) MiFID
10 6 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.57%) GRC
12 4 (0.46%) Basel III
13 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.34%) WCAG
14 2 (0.23%) COBIT
14 2 (0.23%) GAAP
14 2 (0.23%) GxP
14 2 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 11 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
3 1 (0.11%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.46%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) Ansible
4 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.11%) Control-M
5 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.11%) logstash
5 1 (0.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 107 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.92%) ServiceNow
3 50 (5.69%) SAP
4 41 (4.66%) Salesforce
5 33 (3.75%) Oracle
6 26 (2.96%) Adobe
7 22 (2.50%) Google
8 18 (2.05%) Workday
9 15 (1.71%) CyberArk
10 14 (1.59%) Sitecore
11 10 (1.14%) Cisco
11 10 (1.14%) NEC
12 8 (0.91%) Databricks
12 8 (0.91%) Murex
13 6 (0.68%) Avaloq
13 6 (0.68%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.68%) Guidewire
14 5 (0.57%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.46%) Alteryx
15 4 (0.46%) VMware