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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 25 26
Rank change year-on-year -24 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Management 850 965 1,189
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.44% 7.58% 6.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 8.20% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 584 813
10th Percentile £356 £313 £305
25th Percentile £425 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £753 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 31 48
10th Percentile £28.00 £26.25 £20.33
25th Percentile £31.56 £33.25 £23.40
Median hourly rate £40.23 £43.08 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +32.97% -23.33%
75th Percentile £57.13 £51.59 £47.06
90th Percentile £66.25 £63.75 £58.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £46.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.80% +23.15% -16.67%

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 17,053 11,769 15,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.41% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,875 11,093
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 221 300
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.36 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -20 126 £569 -1.09% 27
West London -22 21 £550 +18.92% 19
South London -1 11 £688 +208.30% 8
East London -7 5 £523 +16.11% 16
North London +2 2 £500 - 6
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 45 (5.29%) Confluence
2 44 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.88%) CMS
4 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.71%) Apache
6 6 (0.71%) WordPress
7 4 (0.47%) Moodle
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 71 (8.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (6.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 57 (6.71%) Microsoft Project
4 51 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.88%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.35%) Trello
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.12%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 10 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.06%) Shopify
3 8 (0.94%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.71%) ProductWriter
5 5 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
5 5 (0.59%) Endur
5 5 (0.59%) Magento
6 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.24%) Findur
8 2 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 70 (8.24%) Azure
2 53 (6.24%) SaaS
3 52 (6.12%) AWS
4 39 (4.59%) Power Platform
5 30 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.12%) Smartsheet
8 10 (1.18%) Asana
8 10 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.18%) GCP
9 9 (1.06%) BigCommerce
10 7 (0.82%) GitHub
11 6 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (0.71%) Entra ID
11 6 (0.71%) Google Ads
11 6 (0.71%) Google Workspace
11 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.59%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.59%) Google Drive
13 4 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.53%) Network Security
2 8 (0.94%) WAN
3 7 (0.82%) Firewall
4 6 (0.71%) LAN
5 4 (0.47%) DKIM
5 4 (0.47%) DMARC
5 4 (0.47%) DNS
5 4 (0.47%) Intranet
5 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.35%) Multicast
6 3 (0.35%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.24%) BGP
7 2 (0.24%) Broadband
7 2 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.24%) VPN
7 2 (0.24%) Wireless
8 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.12%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.35%) Power BI
2 9 (1.06%) Tableau
3 7 (0.82%) Data Lake
3 7 (0.82%) Metadata
4 6 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.47%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.35%) QlikView
7 3 (0.35%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.24%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.24%) Power Query
9 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.12%) Big Data
9 1 (0.12%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.12%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 98 (11.53%) JIRA
2 18 (2.12%) Git
3 12 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.71%) Subversion
5 3 (0.35%) GitLab
6 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.12%) Appium
7 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.12%) LSMW
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
General
1 376 (44.24%) Social Skills
2 339 (39.88%) Finance
3 118 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (10.94%) Marketing
5 92 (10.82%) Organisational Skills
6 90 (10.59%) Banking
7 69 (8.12%) Public Sector
8 59 (6.94%) Retail
9 47 (5.53%) Legal
10 35 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (3.29%) Financial Institution
12 28 (3.29%) Front Office
13 26 (3.06%) Investment Banking
14 15 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.65%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.29%) Billing
17 11 (1.29%) Law
17 11 (1.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 360 (42.35%) Project Manager
2 102 (12.00%) Senior
3 94 (11.06%) Analyst
4 83 (9.76%) Lead
5 75 (8.82%) Senior Manager
6 69 (8.12%) Business Analyst
7 63 (7.41%) Senior Project Manager
8 43 (5.06%) IT Manager
9 39 (4.59%) Programme Manager
10 38 (4.47%) IT Project Manager
11 37 (4.35%) Technical Manager
12 30 (3.53%) Technical Project Manager
13 29 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
14 28 (3.29%) Developer
14 28 (3.29%) Infrastructure Manager
15 24 (2.82%) Architect
16 23 (2.71%) Consultant
16 23 (2.71%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 23 (2.71%) Migration Manager
16 23 (2.71%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.12%) REST
2 13 (1.53%) VML
3 12 (1.41%) SOAP
4 9 (1.06%) Middleware
5 8 (0.94%) HTML
6 6 (0.71%) .NET
6 6 (0.71%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.59%) ADO
7 5 (0.59%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.59%) React
7 5 (0.59%) Web Services
8 4 (0.47%) OAuth
8 4 (0.47%) XML
9 3 (0.35%) CSS
9 3 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.35%) RESTful
10 2 (0.24%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.24%) JSON
10 2 (0.24%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.29%) Onboarding
2 42 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 33 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 25 (2.94%) PMI
5 22 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.12%) Social Media
7 15 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.53%) FMCG
9 12 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.18%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.18%) Web Conferencing
12 9 (1.06%) Market Risk
13 7 (0.82%) CMDB
13 7 (0.82%) IoT
13 7 (0.82%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.41%) Windows
2 7 (0.82%) Linux
3 5 (0.59%) Unix
4 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (40.94%) Agile
2 327 (38.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 234 (27.53%) Project Delivery
4 148 (17.41%) PRINCE2
5 138 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (16.00%) Migration
7 118 (13.88%) Change Management
8 117 (13.76%) Decision-Making
9 115 (13.53%) Waterfall
10 112 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 108 (12.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 92 (10.82%) Scrum
13 88 (10.35%) Risk Management
14 85 (10.00%) AI
15 68 (8.00%) Analytics
15 68 (8.00%) Business Analysis
16 66 (7.76%) Requirements Gathering
17 65 (7.65%) DevOps
18 59 (6.94%) Roadmaps
19 58 (6.82%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (5.06%) SQL
2 28 (3.29%) Python
3 11 (1.29%) Java
4 8 (0.94%) C#
5 7 (0.82%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.59%) C++
7 4 (0.47%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.47%) R
8 2 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.24%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.24%) VBA
9 1 (0.12%) C
9 1 (0.12%) COBOL
9 1 (0.12%) Korn
9 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.12%) RPG
9 1 (0.12%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 147 (17.29%) PMP
2 123 (14.47%) PMI Certification
3 112 (13.18%) Degree
4 69 (8.12%) Security Cleared
5 48 (5.65%) SC Cleared
6 14 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.18%) APMP
8 10 (1.18%) CBAP
8 10 (1.18%) CISSP
8 10 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 8 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.94%) IIBA
10 7 (0.82%) APMG
10 7 (0.82%) CISM
10 7 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.59%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 4 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (12.82%) PMO
2 61 (7.18%) QA
3 32 (3.76%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.94%) GDPR
5 16 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.65%) NIST
7 14 (1.65%) SLA
8 8 (0.94%) MiFID
9 7 (0.82%) EMIR
9 7 (0.82%) GRC
10 4 (0.47%) COREP
10 4 (0.47%) FINREP
10 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.35%) GxP
11 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.35%) P3O
11 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.24%) ITGC
System Software
1 12 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.24%) Firmware
3 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.47%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.35%) Ansible
3 3 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.24%) Terraform
5 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.12%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 120 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.00%) ServiceNow
3 45 (5.29%) SAP
4 42 (4.94%) Salesforce
5 29 (3.41%) Oracle
6 26 (3.06%) Adobe
7 19 (2.24%) Sitecore
8 18 (2.12%) Google
9 11 (1.29%) CyberArk
10 10 (1.18%) Murex
10 10 (1.18%) Workday
11 8 (0.94%) Cisco
11 8 (0.94%) Guidewire
12 6 (0.71%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.71%) Avaloq
12 6 (0.71%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.71%) Databricks
12 6 (0.71%) NEC
13 5 (0.59%) VMware
13 5 (0.59%) Wrike