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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Management 858 987 1,389
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.22% 7.70% 7.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.82% 8.45% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 590 944
10th Percentile £350 £307 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £767
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 49
10th Percentile £26.65 £25.85 £19.81
25th Percentile £32.94 £31.56 £23.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.56 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% +18.43% -20.73%
75th Percentile £44.00 £45.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £51.35 £51.26 £58.00
England median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -4.71% +11.49% -23.76%

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 14,745 11,676 16,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.09% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,820 11,502
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 162 343
10th Percentile £18.14 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £71.50 £77.25 £69.35
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -10 137 £550 - 105
West London -31 11 £375 +10.29% 27
South London -10 10 £650 +4.00% 8
East London -12 4 £495 +16.47% 27
North London +1 1 £550 +10.00% 4
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 62 (7.23%) Confluence
2 27 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.05%) CMS
4 4 (0.47%) Apache
4 4 (0.47%) nginx
5 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 86 (10.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (7.93%) Microsoft Project
3 56 (6.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (2.21%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.40%) Trello
7 8 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.35%) InVision
10 3 (0.35%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.35%) Sketch
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.23%) InDesign
12 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Loan IQ
2 11 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.58%) Shopify
4 4 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.35%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 3 (0.35%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.35%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.23%) Endur
6 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.23%) ProductWriter
6 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 73 (8.51%) Azure
2 50 (5.83%) AWS
3 42 (4.90%) Power Platform
4 38 (4.43%) SaaS
5 20 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (1.75%) Smartsheet
8 13 (1.52%) Asana
9 9 (1.05%) Figma
9 9 (1.05%) GCP
10 8 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (0.93%) GitHub
10 8 (0.93%) Google Workspace
10 8 (0.93%) OpenShift
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (0.82%) OCI
12 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (0.70%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.58%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.86%) WAN
2 15 (1.75%) Firewall
3 11 (1.28%) LAN
3 11 (1.28%) Network Security
4 6 (0.70%) Internet
4 6 (0.70%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
6 4 (0.47%) Broadband
6 4 (0.47%) VPN
7 3 (0.35%) Intranet
7 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) DMZ
8 2 (0.23%) DNS
8 2 (0.23%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.23%) ISDN
8 2 (0.23%) Multicast
8 2 (0.23%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.23%) OpenScape
8 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.43%) Power BI
2 19 (2.21%) Tableau
3 12 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.40%) Metadata
4 7 (0.82%) Data Lake
4 7 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.47%) Big Data
5 4 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.35%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.23%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.23%) DataStage
7 2 (0.23%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (0.23%) Power Query
7 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.12%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.12%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 124 (14.45%) JIRA
2 12 (1.40%) Git
3 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.47%) GitLab
3 4 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.47%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.23%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.12%) Ant
5 1 (0.12%) Appium
5 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.12%) ERwin
5 1 (0.12%) JUnit
5 1 (0.12%) LSMW
5 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.12%) Toad
5 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 425 (49.53%) Social Skills
2 370 (43.12%) Finance
3 149 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (12.82%) Banking
5 87 (10.14%) Organisational Skills
6 83 (9.67%) Public Sector
7 66 (7.69%) Marketing
8 57 (6.64%) Retail
9 50 (5.83%) Legal
10 40 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (4.20%) Investment Banking
13 30 (3.50%) Financial Institution
14 24 (2.80%) Front Office
15 18 (2.10%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.98%) Manufacturing
17 16 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (1.63%) Advertising
19 11 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 11 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 373 (43.47%) Project Manager
2 118 (13.75%) Analyst
3 93 (10.84%) Senior
4 87 (10.14%) Business Analyst
5 68 (7.93%) Lead
6 64 (7.46%) Senior Manager
7 52 (6.06%) Senior Project Manager
8 45 (5.24%) IT Manager
9 42 (4.90%) IT Project Manager
10 38 (4.43%) Programme Manager
11 35 (4.08%) Infrastructure Manager
12 34 (3.96%) Technical Manager
13 31 (3.61%) Consultant
14 29 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
15 28 (3.26%) Technical Project Manager
16 27 (3.15%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 25 (2.91%) Developer
18 24 (2.80%) Migration Manager
19 23 (2.68%) Migration Project Manager
20 22 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.28%) REST
1 11 (1.28%) SOAP
2 8 (0.93%) Middleware
2 8 (0.93%) XML
3 6 (0.70%) .NET
3 6 (0.70%) AngularJS
3 6 (0.70%) HTML
3 6 (0.70%) SailPoint
3 6 (0.70%) Web Services
4 5 (0.58%) CSS
4 5 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.58%) VML
5 4 (0.47%) ADO
5 4 (0.47%) React
5 4 (0.47%) RESTful
6 3 (0.35%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.35%) Bootstrap
6 3 (0.35%) pytest
7 2 (0.23%) JSON
7 2 (0.23%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.29%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.20%) Management Information System
3 33 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 26 (3.03%) PMI
4 26 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.40%) Web Conferencing
10 11 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.17%) Social Media
12 9 (1.05%) CMDB
12 9 (1.05%) Derivative
12 9 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.93%) Digital Media
13 8 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.93%) NHS
13 8 (0.93%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.75%) Windows
2 10 (1.17%) Linux
3 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.47%) Unix
5 1 (0.12%) AIX
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
5 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (41.14%) Agile
2 329 (38.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 221 (25.76%) Project Delivery
4 186 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (19.23%) PRINCE2
6 140 (16.32%) Migration
7 125 (14.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 123 (14.34%) Waterfall
9 110 (12.82%) Scrum
10 106 (12.35%) Change Management
11 102 (11.89%) Decision-Making
12 100 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 94 (10.96%) Risk Management
14 82 (9.56%) Business Analysis
15 74 (8.62%) Roadmaps
16 71 (8.28%) Requirements Gathering
17 67 (7.81%) Analytics
18 66 (7.69%) AI
18 66 (7.69%) Budget Management
19 65 (7.58%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 53 (6.18%) SQL
2 25 (2.91%) Python
3 9 (1.05%) C#
4 7 (0.82%) Java
5 6 (0.70%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.47%) R
7 3 (0.35%) C++
7 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.23%) Korn
8 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.23%) VBA
9 1 (0.12%) Go
9 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.12%) Perl
9 1 (0.12%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 145 (16.90%) PMP
2 136 (15.85%) PMI Certification
3 129 (15.03%) Degree
4 78 (9.09%) Security Cleared
5 60 (6.99%) SC Cleared
6 16 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.75%) CBAP
7 15 (1.75%) IIBA
8 14 (1.63%) APMP
9 12 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.40%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.28%) CISSP
11 9 (1.05%) CISM
12 7 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (0.58%) CFA
13 5 (0.58%) MBA
14 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.47%) CRISC
14 4 (0.47%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (10.96%) PMO
2 58 (6.76%) QA
3 39 (4.55%) GDPR
4 33 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 22 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.21%) NIST
7 10 (1.17%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (1.17%) SLA
8 9 (1.05%) GRC
9 8 (0.93%) EMIR
10 7 (0.82%) MiFID
11 5 (0.58%) WCAG
12 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.35%) Basel III
13 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.23%) IFRS
14 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 11 (1.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.47%) Docker
3 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (0.58%) Terraform
2 4 (0.47%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.35%) Consul
3 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.35%) Packer
3 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.12%) Ansible
4 1 (0.12%) CASB
4 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCE
4 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (0.12%) Control-M
4 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.12%) logstash
4 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 110 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.18%) SAP
3 47 (5.48%) ServiceNow
4 43 (5.01%) Salesforce
5 31 (3.61%) Oracle
6 22 (2.56%) Adobe
7 17 (1.98%) Workday
8 16 (1.86%) Google
9 15 (1.75%) CyberArk
10 14 (1.63%) Cisco
11 10 (1.17%) Databricks
12 9 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.82%) Avaloq
13 7 (0.82%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.82%) Murex
13 7 (0.82%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.82%) Planview
14 6 (0.70%) NEC
15 5 (0.58%) IBM
15 5 (0.58%) VMware