Project Management Contracts in London

Project Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 26 29
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Management 943 1,219 1,715
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 7.75% 6.97% 6.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.40% 7.89% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 828 1,232
10th Percentile £308 £309 £363
25th Percentile £423 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +5.99%
75th Percentile £666 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 54 34
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.09 £22.65
25th Percentile £31.94 £23.75 £30.00
Median hourly rate £37.30 £32.40 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.13% -23.33% -5.06%
75th Percentile £49.19 £48.75 £66.56
90th Percentile £62.58 £55.00 £86.00
England median hourly rate £46.24 £38.12 £49.00
% change year-on-year +21.30% -22.20% +50.77%

All Process and 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 11,225 15,457 23,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.42% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,536 11,093 16,726
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 316 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in London

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in London.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in London

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in London

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in London

Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Management in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 +1 185 £575 +5.75% 89
West London -3 27 £408 -18.50% 221
East London +6 12 £450 -25.00% 20
South London -2 7 £424 -32.16% 20
North London -2 1 £500 +17.65% 5
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 47 (4.98%) Confluence
2 27 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.23%) CMS
4 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.53%) WordPress
6 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.21%) Apache
7 2 (0.21%) CICS
7 2 (0.21%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) Facebook Platform
8 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 60 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (5.51%) Microsoft Project
3 49 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
4 45 (4.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.01%) MS Visio
5 19 (2.01%) Trello
6 7 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.42%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.42%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.11%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 18 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.85%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.42%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.42%) Endur
4 4 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.42%) Shopify
4 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.32%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.32%) SAP GRC
5 3 (0.32%) Workfront
6 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.21%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.21%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 104 (11.03%) Azure
2 63 (6.68%) AWS
3 38 (4.03%) SaaS
4 33 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (3.18%) Power Platform
6 27 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (2.55%) GCP
8 15 (1.59%) Entra ID
9 14 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (1.48%) GitHub
10 11 (1.17%) Lucidchart
11 10 (1.06%) Google Workspace
11 10 (1.06%) OCI
12 8 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (0.85%) Figma
12 8 (0.85%) IaaS
12 8 (0.85%) OneDrive
12 8 (0.85%) PaaS
12 8 (0.85%) Serverless
12 8 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.61%) Firewall
2 19 (2.01%) VPN
3 9 (0.95%) DNS
4 8 (0.85%) Network Security
5 6 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (0.64%) WAN
6 5 (0.53%) Wireless
7 4 (0.42%) LAN
7 4 (0.42%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.42%) SSL
8 3 (0.32%) HTTP
8 3 (0.32%) VSAN
8 3 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.21%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.21%) DHCP
9 2 (0.21%) IGMP
9 2 (0.21%) Multicast
9 2 (0.21%) S/MIME
9 2 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.86%) Power BI
2 14 (1.48%) Tableau
3 11 (1.17%) Data Lake
3 11 (1.17%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (0.85%) Metadata
6 5 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.53%) Power Query
6 5 (0.53%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.42%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.32%) Big Data
8 3 (0.32%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.32%) MS Access
8 3 (0.32%) MySQL
8 3 (0.32%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.32%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 131 (13.89%) JIRA
2 11 (1.17%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.95%) Bitbucket
4 8 (0.85%) Git
5 5 (0.53%) GitLab
5 5 (0.53%) Maven
6 4 (0.42%) JUnit
7 3 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.32%) MSI
7 3 (0.32%) Postman
7 3 (0.32%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.21%) Ant
8 2 (0.21%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.21%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.21%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 466 (49.42%) Social Skills
2 385 (40.83%) Finance
3 187 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (11.77%) Banking
5 103 (10.92%) Marketing
6 67 (7.10%) Legal
7 45 (4.77%) Front Office
8 44 (4.67%) Public Sector
9 42 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (3.50%) Retail
11 32 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (2.86%) Investment Banking
14 24 (2.55%) Back Office
14 24 (2.55%) Financial Institution
15 20 (2.12%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (1.70%) Law
17 16 (1.70%) Local Government
17 16 (1.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 321 (34.04%) Project Manager
2 146 (15.48%) Analyst
3 87 (9.23%) Business Analyst
4 73 (7.74%) Senior
5 69 (7.32%) Lead
6 41 (4.35%) Senior Manager
7 39 (4.14%) Consultant
8 38 (4.03%) Technical Manager
9 36 (3.82%) IT Manager
10 35 (3.71%) Architect
11 33 (3.50%) Senior Project Manager
12 30 (3.18%) Developer
13 29 (3.08%) Programme Manager
14 28 (2.97%) Infrastructure Manager
15 24 (2.55%) Business Manager
15 24 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
15 24 (2.55%) Technical Project Manager
16 23 (2.44%) PMO Analyst
17 22 (2.33%) IT Project Manager
18 21 (2.23%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.70%) .NET
2 15 (1.59%) CSS
2 15 (1.59%) HTML
3 9 (0.95%) OAuth
3 9 (0.95%) SAML
4 8 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (0.85%) REST
5 7 (0.74%) Spring
6 6 (0.64%) ADO
6 6 (0.64%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.64%) OpenID
7 5 (0.53%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.53%) Bootstrap
7 5 (0.53%) JSON
7 5 (0.53%) Middleware
7 5 (0.53%) Web Services
7 5 (0.53%) XHTML
8 4 (0.42%) React
8 4 (0.42%) RESTful
8 4 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.20%) Onboarding
2 43 (4.56%) Management Information System
3 31 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.44%) Data Centre
6 18 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.59%) Market Risk
8 13 (1.38%) PMI
9 12 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.06%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.06%) Social Media
11 9 (0.95%) Credit Risk
11 9 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
11 9 (0.95%) Reinsurance
11 9 (0.95%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.85%) Fixed Income
12 8 (0.85%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.92%) Windows
2 21 (2.23%) Linux
3 9 (0.95%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.32%) Unix
8 2 (0.21%) Android
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (33.51%) Agile
2 258 (27.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 243 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
4 151 (16.01%) Project Delivery
5 129 (13.68%) Risk Management
6 124 (13.15%) Change Management
7 111 (11.77%) PRINCE2
8 110 (11.66%) Scrum
9 105 (11.13%) Migration
10 94 (9.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 87 (9.23%) Decision-Making
12 86 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 79 (8.38%) Analytics
13 79 (8.38%) Waterfall
14 75 (7.95%) Roadmaps
15 72 (7.64%) DevOps
16 71 (7.53%) Data Analysis
17 67 (7.10%) ITIL
18 62 (6.57%) Business Analysis
19 60 (6.36%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (6.36%) SQL
2 40 (4.24%) Python
3 26 (2.76%) Java
4 20 (2.12%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.38%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.17%) PHP
7 9 (0.95%) C#
8 7 (0.74%) R
9 6 (0.64%) VBA
10 5 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.42%) Bash
11 4 (0.42%) Bicep
11 4 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.42%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.32%) C
12 3 (0.32%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.21%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.21%) Groovy
13 2 (0.21%) Haskell
14 1 (0.11%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 170 (18.03%) Degree
2 117 (12.41%) PMP
3 115 (12.20%) PMI Certification
4 62 (6.57%) Security Cleared
5 43 (4.56%) SC Cleared
6 26 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.44%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.06%) CISSP
9 10 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 9 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.95%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.85%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.74%) CISM
13 6 (0.64%) FFIEC
14 5 (0.53%) CISA
14 5 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.53%) OCP
14 5 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.89%) PMO
2 45 (4.77%) QA
3 35 (3.71%) GDPR
4 21 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.12%) Accessibility
6 19 (2.01%) NIST
7 18 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.70%) MiFID
9 15 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 14 (1.48%) EMIR
11 11 (1.17%) SLA
12 9 (0.95%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.85%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.53%) GRC
16 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
17 3 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
17 3 (0.32%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.32%) SEPA
18 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 28 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.48%) Docker
3 9 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.64%) vSphere
6 5 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.21%) IAG
7 2 (0.21%) Lustre
7 2 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.21%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.21%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.21%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.80%) Terraform
3 12 (1.27%) SCCM
4 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.42%) Ansible
7 3 (0.32%) Grafana
7 3 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.21%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.21%) Podman
8 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.21%) Puppet
8 2 (0.21%) QRadar
8 2 (0.21%) WSUS
9 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 150 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 79 (8.38%) SAP
3 42 (4.45%) Salesforce
4 36 (3.82%) Oracle
5 26 (2.76%) Google
6 24 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.91%) Workday
8 17 (1.80%) Adobe
9 15 (1.59%) Cisco
10 14 (1.48%) Databricks
11 9 (0.95%) Planview
11 9 (0.95%) Splunk
12 8 (0.85%) Alteryx
12 8 (0.85%) VMware
13 7 (0.74%) IBM
14 6 (0.64%) Apple
14 6 (0.64%) Ariba
14 6 (0.64%) Citrix
14 6 (0.64%) Palo Alto
14 6 (0.64%) Red Hat