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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 25 28
Rank change year-on-year -25 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Project Management 849 1,005 1,125
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.28% 7.41% 6.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 8.04% 7.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 622 745
10th Percentile £356 £313 £307
25th Percentile £450 £439 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £540 £533
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +1.41% -5.12%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
England median daily rate £520 £513 £523
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.08% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 39
10th Percentile £28.00 £24.65 £20.98
25th Percentile £32.75 £33.25 £30.16
Median hourly rate £40.96 £43.08 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% +18.01% -8.66%
75th Percentile £57.50 £52.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.95 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £44.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -10.11% +16.74% -11.35%

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 17,625 12,495 14,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.13% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 8,354 10,656
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 234 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.90 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -7.89% -21.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -26 119 £613 +6.52% 114
West London -8 27 £625 +28.21% 26
South London -10 12 £575 +15.00% 11
East London -5 3 £550 +5.77% 21
North London - 1 £450 - 2
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 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.48%) Confluence
3 21 (2.47%) CMS
4 12 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.71%) WordPress
7 5 (0.59%) Moodle
8 3 (0.35%) Apache
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 69 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (6.95%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (6.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 58 (6.83%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (2.12%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.47%) Trello
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.12%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 11 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.94%) Adobe Campaign
2 8 (0.94%) Magento
3 6 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.71%) ProductWriter
3 6 (0.71%) Shopify
4 5 (0.59%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.35%) Endur
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.24%) Changepoint
7 2 (0.24%) Findur
7 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (8.95%) Azure
2 57 (6.71%) SaaS
3 51 (6.01%) AWS
4 42 (4.95%) Power Platform
5 30 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (2.00%) Smartsheet
8 13 (1.53%) Asana
9 12 (1.41%) GCP
10 11 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.06%) Entra ID
12 8 (0.94%) Amazon S3
12 8 (0.94%) GitHub
12 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (0.82%) Google Workspace
14 6 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (0.71%) BigCommerce
15 5 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (0.59%) Serverless
15 5 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.77%) Network Security
2 7 (0.82%) WAN
3 6 (0.71%) LAN
4 5 (0.59%) Structured Cabling
4 5 (0.59%) Wireless
5 4 (0.47%) DKIM
5 4 (0.47%) DMARC
5 4 (0.47%) DNS
5 4 (0.47%) Firewall
5 4 (0.47%) Intranet
5 4 (0.47%) Multicast
5 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.35%) VPN
7 2 (0.24%) BGP
7 2 (0.24%) Broadband
7 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.12%) MVNO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.36%) Power BI
2 10 (1.18%) Tableau
3 8 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (0.94%) Metadata
4 7 (0.82%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.59%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.47%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.35%) QlikView
8 3 (0.35%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.24%) DataStage
9 2 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.24%) Power Query
10 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.12%) Big Data
10 1 (0.12%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.12%) Looker
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 95 (11.19%) JIRA
2 18 (2.12%) Git
3 15 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.06%) Subversion
5 6 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.35%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.12%) Appium
8 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.12%) LSMW
8 1 (0.12%) Postman
8 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 367 (43.23%) Social Skills
2 318 (37.46%) Finance
3 128 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (12.49%) Marketing
5 90 (10.60%) Banking
6 84 (9.89%) Organisational Skills
7 66 (7.77%) Public Sector
8 61 (7.18%) Retail
9 47 (5.54%) Legal
10 39 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (3.06%) Front Office
12 25 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (2.83%) Financial Institution
13 24 (2.83%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.30%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.30%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 352 (41.46%) Project Manager
2 94 (11.07%) Senior
3 79 (9.31%) Analyst
4 77 (9.07%) Lead
4 77 (9.07%) Senior Manager
5 63 (7.42%) Senior Project Manager
6 56 (6.60%) Business Analyst
7 51 (6.01%) Programme Manager
8 45 (5.30%) IT Manager
9 38 (4.48%) IT Project Manager
9 38 (4.48%) Technical Manager
10 32 (3.77%) Technical Project Manager
11 28 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
12 26 (3.06%) Developer
12 26 (3.06%) Infrastructure Manager
13 22 (2.59%) Consultant
13 22 (2.59%) Digital Project Manager
13 22 (2.59%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 21 (2.47%) Migration Manager
14 21 (2.47%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.53%) REST
1 13 (1.53%) VML
2 9 (1.06%) ADO
2 9 (1.06%) HTML
3 8 (0.94%) Middleware
3 8 (0.94%) React
4 6 (0.71%) SOAP
4 6 (0.71%) Web Services
4 6 (0.71%) XML
5 5 (0.59%) .NET
5 5 (0.59%) AngularJS
5 5 (0.59%) FastAPI
5 5 (0.59%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.47%) OAuth
7 3 (0.35%) CSS
7 3 (0.35%) HTML5
7 3 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.35%) RESTful
7 3 (0.35%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.18%) Onboarding
2 37 (4.36%) Management Information System
2 37 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.42%) Data Centre
4 26 (3.06%) PMI
5 21 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.12%) Social Media
7 15 (1.77%) FMCG
7 15 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.53%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.30%) Fixed Income
10 11 (1.30%) IoT
11 10 (1.18%) Market Risk
11 10 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
11 10 (1.18%) Web Conferencing
12 8 (0.94%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.41%) Windows
2 8 (0.94%) Linux
3 6 (0.71%) Unix
4 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (41.34%) Agile
2 334 (39.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 227 (26.74%) Project Delivery
4 171 (20.14%) PRINCE2
5 136 (16.02%) Migration
5 136 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
6 125 (14.72%) Change Management
6 125 (14.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 119 (14.02%) Decision-Making
8 115 (13.55%) Waterfall
9 114 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 103 (12.13%) Scrum
11 98 (11.54%) AI
12 95 (11.19%) Risk Management
13 79 (9.31%) Analytics
14 68 (8.01%) DevOps
15 67 (7.89%) Programme Management
16 66 (7.77%) Roadmaps
17 62 (7.30%) Requirements Gathering
18 60 (7.07%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 40 (4.71%) SQL
2 30 (3.53%) Python
3 10 (1.18%) TypeScript
4 7 (0.82%) C#
4 7 (0.82%) Java
5 5 (0.59%) C++
6 4 (0.47%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.47%) R
7 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.24%) PowerShell
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
9 1 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 161 (18.96%) PMP
2 137 (16.14%) PMI Certification
3 116 (13.66%) Degree
4 69 (8.13%) Security Cleared
5 50 (5.89%) SC Cleared
6 16 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (1.18%) CISSP
9 9 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 7 (0.82%) APMG
11 7 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.71%) APMP
12 6 (0.71%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.71%) CISM
12 6 (0.71%) MBA
13 5 (0.59%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.59%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (13.55%) PMO
2 54 (6.36%) QA
3 32 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.88%) GDPR
5 15 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.65%) SLA
7 11 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.18%) NIST
9 9 (1.06%) GRC
10 7 (0.82%) EMIR
10 7 (0.82%) MiFID
11 6 (0.71%) FINREP
12 5 (0.59%) COREP
12 5 (0.59%) P3O
13 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.35%) GxP
14 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.24%) COBIT
15 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.24%) Firmware
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (0.47%) RSA Archer
3 3 (0.35%) Ansible
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.24%) Terraform
5 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.12%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 125 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.77%) ServiceNow
3 40 (4.71%) SAP
4 34 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 29 (3.42%) Adobe
6 26 (3.06%) Oracle
7 23 (2.71%) Google
8 18 (2.12%) Sitecore
9 9 (1.06%) Murex
10 8 (0.94%) NEC
10 8 (0.94%) Workday
11 7 (0.82%) Alteryx
11 7 (0.82%) Cisco
11 7 (0.82%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.71%) Databricks
12 6 (0.71%) VMware
13 5 (0.59%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.59%) Okta
13 5 (0.59%) Wrike
13 5 (0.59%) Zscaler