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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Management 884 973 1,284
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.96% 7.74% 7.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.62% 8.39% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 577 878
10th Percentile £360 £307 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £662
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 31 50
10th Percentile £27.63 £22.27 £19.86
25th Percentile £28.00 £30.00 £22.69
Median hourly rate £36.54 £38.11 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +20.18% -26.79%
75th Percentile £49.25 £46.63 £49.69
90th Percentile £57.25 £52.00 £55.63
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -21.11% +18.05% -22.20%

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 15,734 11,596 15,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.34% 92.21% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,510 7,857 11,214
10th Percentile £356 £350 £341
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 178 313
10th Percentile £18.61 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £24.65 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +22.32% -28.21%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -18 125 £625 +11.11% 102
West London -34 17 £400 -1.84% 24
South London -6 14 £650 +53.30% 10
East London -16 3 £523 +5.56% 22
North London +2 1 £550 +10.00% 3
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 58 (6.56%) Confluence
2 31 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.47%) CMS
4 6 (0.68%) Apache
4 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.34%) Moodle
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (8.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (7.24%) Microsoft Project
3 57 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.90%) Trello
8 6 (0.68%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.57%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.23%) InDesign
11 2 (0.23%) InVision
11 2 (0.23%) Sketch
12 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 11 (1.24%) Loan IQ
1 11 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.13%) Shopify
3 6 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.57%) ProductWriter
5 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.34%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 3 (0.34%) Endur
6 3 (0.34%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.34%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.23%) Magento
7 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (8.14%) Azure
2 55 (6.22%) SaaS
3 50 (5.66%) AWS
4 37 (4.19%) Power Platform
5 30 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (2.49%) Smartsheet
7 17 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.58%) Asana
9 13 (1.47%) GCP
10 10 (1.13%) BigCommerce
10 10 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.13%) Google Workspace
11 8 (0.90%) Figma
12 7 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (0.79%) OCI
13 6 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (0.68%) GitHub
13 6 (0.68%) Google Ads
13 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.36%) Network Security
2 10 (1.13%) Firewall
2 10 (1.13%) WAN
3 6 (0.68%) LAN
4 5 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.45%) DNS
5 4 (0.45%) Internet
5 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.34%) Broadband
6 3 (0.34%) DKIM
6 3 (0.34%) DMARC
6 3 (0.34%) Intranet
7 2 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.23%) DMZ
7 2 (0.23%) ISDN
7 2 (0.23%) Junos
7 2 (0.23%) VPN
7 2 (0.23%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.96%) Power BI
2 11 (1.24%) Metadata
2 11 (1.24%) Tableau
3 10 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (0.79%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.68%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.45%) Big Data
6 4 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.23%) DataStage
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.23%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.11%) Cognos Query Studio
9 1 (0.11%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (0.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 121 (13.69%) JIRA
2 15 (1.70%) Git
3 4 (0.45%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.34%) GitLab
4 3 (0.34%) Subversion
5 2 (0.23%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.11%) Ant
6 1 (0.11%) Appium
6 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.11%) JUnit
6 1 (0.11%) LSMW
6 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.11%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.11%) Toad
General
1 405 (45.81%) Social Skills
2 360 (40.72%) Finance
3 143 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (10.75%) Banking
5 92 (10.41%) Organisational Skills
6 90 (10.18%) Marketing
7 82 (9.28%) Public Sector
8 60 (6.79%) Retail
9 49 (5.54%) Legal
10 43 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
11 33 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (3.17%) Financial Institution
13 26 (2.94%) Investment Banking
14 22 (2.49%) Front Office
15 14 (1.58%) Advertising
15 14 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.58%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.58%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 366 (41.40%) Project Manager
2 109 (12.33%) Analyst
3 100 (11.31%) Senior
4 88 (9.95%) Lead
5 80 (9.05%) Business Analyst
6 75 (8.48%) Senior Manager
7 61 (6.90%) Senior Project Manager
8 48 (5.43%) IT Manager
9 42 (4.75%) IT Project Manager
9 42 (4.75%) Programme Manager
10 32 (3.62%) Technical Manager
11 31 (3.51%) Developer
12 30 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
13 29 (3.28%) Infrastructure Manager
14 26 (2.94%) Migration Manager
14 26 (2.94%) Technical Project Manager
15 25 (2.83%) Architect
15 25 (2.83%) Migration Project Manager
16 22 (2.49%) Consultant
17 21 (2.38%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.15%) REST
2 13 (1.47%) SOAP
3 11 (1.24%) HTML
3 11 (1.24%) VML
4 9 (1.02%) Middleware
5 7 (0.79%) .NET
5 7 (0.79%) AngularJS
5 7 (0.79%) Web Services
6 6 (0.68%) CSS
6 6 (0.68%) SailPoint
6 6 (0.68%) XML
7 5 (0.57%) ADO
7 5 (0.57%) React
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.45%) RESTful
9 3 (0.34%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (0.34%) OAuth
9 3 (0.34%) pytest
9 3 (0.34%) XSLT
10 2 (0.23%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.54%) Onboarding
2 47 (5.32%) Management Information System
3 34 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.62%) PMI
5 29 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 27 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.04%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.81%) Social Media
10 11 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.24%) Web Conferencing
11 10 (1.13%) FMCG
12 9 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.02%) CMDB
12 9 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.90%) Tandem
14 7 (0.79%) Credit Risk
15 6 (0.68%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.70%) Windows
2 7 (0.79%) Linux
3 5 (0.57%) Unix
3 5 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.11%) AIX
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (40.72%) Agile
2 332 (37.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 241 (27.26%) Project Delivery
4 175 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
5 150 (16.97%) PRINCE2
6 149 (16.86%) Migration
7 128 (14.48%) Waterfall
8 127 (14.37%) Decision-Making
9 117 (13.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 114 (12.90%) Change Management
11 110 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (11.31%) Scrum
13 95 (10.75%) Risk Management
14 75 (8.48%) Roadmaps
15 73 (8.26%) Business Analysis
16 71 (8.03%) AI
16 71 (8.03%) Analytics
17 68 (7.69%) Budget Management
17 68 (7.69%) Programme Management
18 67 (7.58%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (5.32%) SQL
2 25 (2.83%) Python
3 12 (1.36%) Java
4 10 (1.13%) C#
5 6 (0.68%) C++
5 6 (0.68%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.68%) R
5 6 (0.68%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.23%) Korn
7 2 (0.23%) VBA
8 1 (0.11%) C
8 1 (0.11%) Go
8 1 (0.11%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.11%) Perl
8 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.11%) SOQL
8 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 151 (17.08%) PMP
2 132 (14.93%) PMI Certification
3 130 (14.71%) Degree
4 83 (9.39%) Security Cleared
5 60 (6.79%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.70%) CBAP
8 14 (1.58%) APMP
8 14 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.36%) IIBA
10 11 (1.24%) CISSP
11 9 (1.02%) CISM
12 7 (0.79%) APMG
13 6 (0.68%) MBA
14 5 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.45%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.45%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (12.67%) PMO
2 71 (8.03%) QA
3 40 (4.52%) Data Quality
4 33 (3.73%) GDPR
5 22 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.04%) NIST
7 12 (1.36%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.24%) SLA
9 8 (0.90%) EMIR
9 8 (0.90%) MiFID
10 6 (0.68%) GRC
10 6 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.45%) Basel III
11 4 (0.45%) WCAG
12 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.23%) IFRS
13 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.23%) ITGC
13 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (1.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.11%) Docker
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 6 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (0.57%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.11%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) Control-M
5 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 112 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.00%) ServiceNow
3 52 (5.88%) SAP
4 41 (4.64%) Salesforce
5 35 (3.96%) Oracle
6 28 (3.17%) Adobe
7 21 (2.38%) Google
8 19 (2.15%) Workday
9 15 (1.70%) CyberArk
10 14 (1.58%) Sitecore
11 11 (1.24%) Cisco
12 10 (1.13%) NEC
13 8 (0.90%) Databricks
14 7 (0.79%) Murex
15 6 (0.68%) Atlassian
15 6 (0.68%) Avaloq
15 6 (0.68%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.68%) Palo Alto
16 5 (0.57%) IBM
16 5 (0.57%) Juniper