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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -29 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 856 948 1,140
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.27% 7.09% 7.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.79% 7.66% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 597 722
10th Percentile £350 £314 £315
25th Percentile £434 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 34 33
10th Percentile £28.00 £20.24 £20.75
25th Percentile £29.15 £26.31 £31.25
Median hourly rate £40.96 £36.24 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +13.02% -1.52% -5.64%
75th Percentile £57.88 £51.63 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.55 £63.75 £63.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £42.07 £38.12
% change year-on-year +6.97% +10.36% -3.62%

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 17,874 12,372 14,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.51% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,706 8,225 9,980
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 190
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.78% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -26 118 £600 +10.09% 117
West London -10 32 £680 +30.77% 70
South London -12 11 £575 +21.05% 13
East London -1 3 £550 +5.77% 26
North London - 1 £450 - 5
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 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.32%) Confluence
3 23 (2.69%) CMS
4 17 (1.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.70%) WordPress
7 5 (0.58%) JBoss
7 5 (0.58%) Moodle
8 4 (0.47%) Apache
8 4 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.23%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.12%) Appian
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 71 (8.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (7.71%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (6.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 58 (6.78%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.82%) Trello
6 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Adobe Campaign
2 10 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.93%) Magento
4 6 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.70%) ProductWriter
4 6 (0.70%) Shopify
5 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.35%) Endur
6 3 (0.35%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
6 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.35%) Workfront
7 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.23%) Changepoint
7 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.23%) Findur
7 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (8.76%) Azure
2 63 (7.36%) SaaS
3 52 (6.07%) Power Platform
4 50 (5.84%) AWS
5 29 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.10%) Smartsheet
8 13 (1.52%) Asana
9 12 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.29%) GCP
11 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (1.05%) Entra ID
13 7 (0.82%) Adobe Analytics
13 7 (0.82%) Amazon S3
13 7 (0.82%) Google Workspace
14 6 (0.70%) BigCommerce
14 6 (0.70%) GitHub
14 6 (0.70%) Google Analytics
14 6 (0.70%) Snowflake
15 5 (0.58%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.99%) Network Security
2 8 (0.93%) WAN
3 6 (0.70%) LAN
3 6 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (0.58%) 3GPP
4 5 (0.58%) 4G
4 5 (0.58%) 5G
4 5 (0.58%) Kerberos
4 5 (0.58%) LTE
4 5 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
4 5 (0.58%) Wireless
4 5 (0.58%) Wireshark
5 4 (0.47%) DKIM
5 4 (0.47%) DMARC
5 4 (0.47%) DNS
5 4 (0.47%) Firewall
5 4 (0.47%) Multicast
5 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.14%) Power BI
2 13 (1.52%) Tableau
3 10 (1.17%) Metadata
4 8 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.70%) Big Data
5 6 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.58%) DynamoDB
6 5 (0.58%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.47%) Power Query
7 4 (0.47%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.35%) QlikView
9 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.23%) DataStage
9 2 (0.23%) Looker
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.12%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.12%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 103 (12.03%) JIRA
2 20 (2.34%) Git
3 16 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.05%) Subversion
5 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.35%) GitLab
7 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.12%) LSMW
8 1 (0.12%) Postman
8 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 380 (44.39%) Social Skills
2 336 (39.25%) Finance
3 140 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (12.27%) Marketing
5 104 (12.15%) Banking
6 77 (9.00%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (8.41%) Public Sector
8 58 (6.78%) Retail
9 44 (5.14%) Legal
10 34 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (3.15%) Investment Banking
12 26 (3.04%) Front Office
13 24 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (2.80%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.69%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.40%) Manufacturing
17 10 (1.17%) Law
17 10 (1.17%) Local Government
17 10 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 341 (39.84%) Project Manager
2 93 (10.86%) Senior
3 82 (9.58%) Lead
4 76 (8.88%) Senior Manager
5 71 (8.29%) Analyst
6 55 (6.43%) Senior Project Manager
7 50 (5.84%) Programme Manager
8 47 (5.49%) IT Manager
9 46 (5.37%) Business Analyst
10 36 (4.21%) Technical Manager
11 35 (4.09%) Delivery Manager
11 35 (4.09%) IT Project Manager
12 29 (3.39%) Technical Project Manager
13 28 (3.27%) Consultant
14 26 (3.04%) Developer
15 24 (2.80%) Infrastructure Manager
16 21 (2.45%) Digital Project Manager
17 20 (2.34%) Infrastructure Project Manager
18 19 (2.22%) Transformation Manager
19 16 (1.87%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.75%) REST
2 13 (1.52%) VML
3 12 (1.40%) ADO
4 11 (1.29%) Web Services
5 10 (1.17%) HTML
6 9 (1.05%) Middleware
7 8 (0.93%) React
8 7 (0.82%) SOAP
9 6 (0.70%) .NET
9 6 (0.70%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.70%) XML
10 5 (0.58%) FastAPI
10 5 (0.58%) OAuth
11 4 (0.47%) CSS
11 4 (0.47%) Terraform
12 3 (0.35%) HTML5
12 3 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
12 3 (0.35%) pytest
12 3 (0.35%) RESTful
12 3 (0.35%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.37%) Onboarding
2 43 (5.02%) Management Information System
2 43 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.04%) Data Centre
3 26 (3.04%) PMI
4 23 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 14 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (1.64%) FMCG
6 14 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.64%) Social Media
7 12 (1.40%) Fixed Income
8 11 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
9 10 (1.17%) Credit Risk
10 9 (1.05%) CMDB
10 9 (1.05%) Derivative
10 9 (1.05%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.99%) Linux
2 16 (1.87%) Windows
3 7 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.58%) Unix
5 4 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (46.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 374 (43.69%) Agile
3 252 (29.44%) Project Delivery
4 193 (22.55%) PRINCE2
5 136 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (15.30%) Change Management
7 130 (15.19%) Migration
8 124 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 116 (13.55%) Decision-Making
9 116 (13.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 115 (13.43%) Waterfall
11 108 (12.62%) AI
12 106 (12.38%) Scrum
13 98 (11.45%) Risk Management
14 89 (10.40%) Analytics
15 84 (9.81%) Programme Management
16 82 (9.58%) Roadmaps
17 74 (8.64%) DevOps
18 62 (7.24%) Programme Delivery
18 62 (7.24%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 38 (4.44%) SQL
2 33 (3.86%) Python
3 11 (1.29%) Java
4 9 (1.05%) TypeScript
5 7 (0.82%) C#
6 5 (0.58%) C++
7 4 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.35%) Bash
8 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.35%) VBA
9 2 (0.23%) C
9 2 (0.23%) Korn
9 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.23%) R
10 1 (0.12%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.12%) COBOL
10 1 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.12%) RPG
10 1 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 172 (20.09%) PMP
2 146 (17.06%) PMI Certification
3 121 (14.14%) Degree
4 90 (10.51%) Security Cleared
5 66 (7.71%) SC Cleared
6 20 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 8 (0.93%) APMG
10 8 (0.93%) APMP
10 8 (0.93%) MBA
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.70%) CISSP
13 5 (0.58%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.58%) CISM
13 5 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (13.79%) PMO
2 54 (6.31%) QA
3 34 (3.97%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.87%) GDPR
5 12 (1.40%) SLA
6 10 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.93%) GRC
7 8 (0.93%) P3O
8 7 (0.82%) FINREP
8 7 (0.82%) NIST
9 6 (0.70%) COREP
9 6 (0.70%) EMIR
10 5 (0.58%) MiFID
11 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.35%) GxP
12 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (0.58%) Ansible
1 5 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
1 5 (0.58%) Puppet
1 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.47%) RSA Archer
2 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 131 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.84%) ServiceNow
3 38 (4.44%) SAP
4 33 (3.86%) Adobe
4 33 (3.86%) Salesforce
5 28 (3.27%) Oracle
6 26 (3.04%) Google
7 20 (2.34%) Sitecore
8 12 (1.40%) VMware
9 10 (1.17%) Cisco
9 10 (1.17%) Murex
10 9 (1.05%) Alteryx
10 9 (1.05%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.05%) NEC
11 8 (0.93%) Workday
12 7 (0.82%) Guidewire
13 6 (0.70%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.70%) GoldenSource
13 6 (0.70%) Optimizely
13 6 (0.70%) Planview