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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 25 19
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 +13
Contract jobs citing Project Management 804 1,077 1,520
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.49% 7.73% 8.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.02% 8.55% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 604 1,028
10th Percentile £338 £313 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% -1.36% -
75th Percentile £660 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £774 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 25 37
10th Percentile £17.00 £20.75 £18.36
25th Percentile £24.56 £30.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +11.11% -19.23%
75th Percentile £44.25 £39.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £62.75 £46.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £44.50 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +30.88% -15.00% -14.89%

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 13,346 12,596 16,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.12% 90.41% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,853 8,021 11,715
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.67% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 155 306
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.77 £24.71 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +16.36% -15.86%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.06
90th Percentile £70.80 £80.45 £73.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -9.33% +11.41%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -10 135 £550 -4.35% 50
West London -25 15 £455 +33.82% 22
South London -2 7 £500 -28.57% 20
East London -8 6 £495 +16.47% 30
North London +6 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 (7.21%) Confluence
2 31 (3.86%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.50%) CMS
3 4 (0.50%) nginx
4 3 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 89 (11.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (7.84%) Microsoft Project
3 57 (7.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (6.97%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (3.36%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.49%) Trello
7 5 (0.62%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.37%) InVision
9 3 (0.37%) Sketch
10 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.25%) InDesign
10 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.12%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.12%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.12%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.37%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
4 5 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.50%) Shopify
6 3 (0.37%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.37%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.37%) ProductWriter
6 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.25%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 74 (9.20%) Azure
2 49 (6.09%) AWS
2 49 (6.09%) Power Platform
3 24 (2.99%) SaaS
4 23 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (1.87%) Asana
7 12 (1.49%) Smartsheet
8 8 (1.00%) ChatGPT
8 8 (1.00%) Figma
8 8 (1.00%) GitHub
9 7 (0.87%) Google Workspace
9 7 (0.87%) OpenShift
9 7 (0.87%) Serverless
9 7 (0.87%) Slack
10 6 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.75%) GCP
11 5 (0.62%) Entra ID
11 5 (0.62%) IaaS
11 5 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.86%) Firewall
2 14 (1.74%) WAN
3 9 (1.12%) LAN
4 8 (1.00%) Network Security
5 6 (0.75%) Internet
6 5 (0.62%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.50%) VPN
7 4 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.37%) Broadband
8 3 (0.37%) Multicast
8 3 (0.37%) MVNO
8 3 (0.37%) S/MIME
8 3 (0.37%) SSL
8 3 (0.37%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.25%) ATM
9 2 (0.25%) DMZ
9 2 (0.25%) DNS
9 2 (0.25%) ISDN
9 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.60%) Power BI
2 21 (2.61%) Tableau
3 13 (1.62%) SQL Server
4 12 (1.49%) Metadata
5 10 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.37%) Big Data
7 3 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.37%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.25%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.25%) DataStage
8 2 (0.25%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (0.25%) Power Query
9 1 (0.12%) DTS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (0.12%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.12%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.12%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 128 (15.92%) JIRA
2 9 (1.12%) Git
3 4 (0.50%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.25%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.25%) GitLab
4 2 (0.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.12%) Ant
5 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.12%) ERwin
5 1 (0.12%) JUnit
5 1 (0.12%) LSMW
5 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.12%) Toad
General
1 414 (51.49%) Social Skills
2 353 (43.91%) Finance
3 135 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (12.94%) Banking
5 76 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 67 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
7 50 (6.22%) Retail
8 49 (6.09%) Marketing
9 48 (5.97%) Legal
10 34 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (3.98%) Investment Banking
13 26 (3.23%) Front Office
14 21 (2.61%) Financial Institution
14 21 (2.61%) Telecoms
15 20 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 18 (2.24%) Manufacturing
17 16 (1.99%) Advertising
18 13 (1.62%) Billing
19 12 (1.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 324 (40.30%) Project Manager
2 118 (14.68%) Analyst
3 83 (10.32%) Business Analyst
3 83 (10.32%) Senior
4 78 (9.70%) Lead
5 49 (6.09%) Senior Manager
6 48 (5.97%) IT Manager
7 42 (5.22%) IT Project Manager
8 37 (4.60%) Senior Project Manager
9 34 (4.23%) Consultant
10 31 (3.86%) Infrastructure Manager
11 27 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
12 25 (3.11%) Developer
12 25 (3.11%) Technical Manager
13 24 (2.99%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 22 (2.74%) Programme Manager
15 21 (2.61%) Senior Business Analyst
16 19 (2.36%) Security Manager
16 19 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
16 19 (2.36%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.37%) REST
2 10 (1.24%) SOAP
3 9 (1.12%) .NET
4 8 (1.00%) AngularJS
5 7 (0.87%) Middleware
5 7 (0.87%) RESTful
5 7 (0.87%) XML
6 6 (0.75%) .NET Framework
6 6 (0.75%) HTML
6 6 (0.75%) LangChain
7 5 (0.62%) ADO
7 5 (0.62%) Entity Framework
7 5 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.62%) React
7 5 (0.62%) Web Services
8 4 (0.50%) CSS
8 4 (0.50%) NHibernate
8 4 (0.50%) Playwright
8 4 (0.50%) VML
9 3 (0.37%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.97%) Onboarding
2 40 (4.98%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
4 26 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 26 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.11%) PMI
6 17 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.87%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.12%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.00%) Derivative
11 8 (1.00%) Digital Media
11 8 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.00%) Social Media
12 7 (0.87%) NHS
12 7 (0.87%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.87%) Tandem
12 7 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.99%) Windows
2 10 (1.24%) Linux
3 6 (0.75%) Unix
4 5 (0.62%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) AIX
5 1 (0.12%) Android
5 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (40.55%) Agile
2 322 (40.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 202 (25.12%) Project Delivery
4 197 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
5 150 (18.66%) PRINCE2
6 128 (15.92%) Migration
6 128 (15.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 106 (13.18%) Change Management
8 100 (12.44%) Risk Management
8 100 (12.44%) Waterfall
9 97 (12.06%) Scrum
10 89 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 87 (10.82%) Decision-Making
12 76 (9.45%) Business Analysis
13 73 (9.08%) Budget Management
14 72 (8.96%) Requirements Gathering
15 65 (8.08%) Project Governance
16 61 (7.59%) Roadmaps
17 57 (7.09%) SDLC
18 56 (6.97%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 53 (6.59%) SQL
2 25 (3.11%) Python
3 13 (1.62%) C#
4 8 (1.00%) Java
5 7 (0.87%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.50%) VBA
7 3 (0.37%) C++
7 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.37%) R
8 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.25%) Go
8 2 (0.25%) Korn
8 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.12%) Perl
9 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 151 (18.78%) Degree
2 130 (16.17%) PMI Certification
3 129 (16.04%) PMP
4 66 (8.21%) Security Cleared
5 50 (6.22%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 17 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.74%) CBAP
9 14 (1.74%) IIBA
10 12 (1.49%) APMP
11 10 (1.24%) CISSP
12 9 (1.12%) CISM
12 9 (1.12%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.87%) CFA
13 7 (0.87%) FFIEC
13 7 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (0.75%) MBA
15 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (9.70%) PMO
2 48 (5.97%) QA
3 39 (4.85%) GDPR
4 30 (3.73%) Data Quality
5 27 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.24%) NIST
7 17 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.49%) GRC
9 11 (1.37%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.12%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.62%) EMIR
11 5 (0.62%) WCAG
12 4 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.50%) MiFID
12 4 (0.50%) PSD2
13 3 (0.37%) Basel III
13 3 (0.37%) SEPA
14 2 (0.25%) GAAP
System Software
1 12 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.62%) Docker
3 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.12%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (0.87%) Terraform
2 3 (0.37%) Consul
2 3 (0.37%) FortiGate
2 3 (0.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.37%) Packer
2 3 (0.37%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.12%) Ansible
3 1 (0.12%) Argo
3 1 (0.12%) CASB
3 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (0.12%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (0.12%) Control-M
3 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.12%) logstash
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.12%) SCCM
3 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 118 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.72%) SAP
3 39 (4.85%) Salesforce
4 36 (4.48%) Oracle
5 31 (3.86%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.11%) Adobe
7 15 (1.87%) Workday
8 14 (1.74%) Google
9 12 (1.49%) Cisco
10 10 (1.24%) CyberArk
10 10 (1.24%) Planview
11 9 (1.12%) Databricks
12 8 (1.00%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.87%) NEC
13 7 (0.87%) Palo Alto
14 6 (0.75%) IBM
15 5 (0.62%) Guidewire
15 5 (0.62%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.62%) Juniper
15 5 (0.62%) Murex