Project Manager Contracts in London

Project Manager
England > London

The median Project Manager daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 28 32
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 651 1,113 1,708
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.19% 6.24% 6.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.55% 6.69% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 821 1,267
10th Percentile £409 £375 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £755 £738 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% +4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 27 15
10th Percentile £45.93 £23.88 £31.68
25th Percentile £48.44 £30.00 £55.25
Median hourly rate £54.25 £35.96 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.86% -44.25% +18.89%
75th Percentile £59.44 £39.63 £70.63
90th Percentile £61.58 £49.89 £87.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £35.96 £64.25
% change year-on-year +30.70% -44.03% +32.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in London

Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Project Manager in London

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in London

Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Manager in London

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Manager in London

Project Manager
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 Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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 -8 126 £600 +4.35% 36
West London -9 12 £475 -5.00% 11
South London +3 9 £475 -7.32% 5
East London -7 8 £400 -38.46% 2
North London -3 3 £500 -6.98% 4
Project Manager
England

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 328 (50.38%) Project Management
2 254 (39.02%) Finance
3 225 (34.56%) Social Skills
4 198 (30.41%) Agile
5 190 (29.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 143 (21.97%) Project Delivery
7 107 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (14.90%) Banking
9 92 (14.13%) Migration
10 78 (11.98%) PRINCE2
11 72 (11.06%) PMI Certification
12 69 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 68 (10.45%) PMP
14 67 (10.29%) JIRA
15 66 (10.14%) Change Management
16 64 (9.83%) Risk Management
17 63 (9.68%) Waterfall
18 62 (9.52%) Scrum
18 62 (9.52%) Microsoft
19 55 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
20 54 (8.29%) Budget Management
21 52 (7.99%) Degree
22 49 (7.53%) Azure
22 49 (7.53%) Legal
23 48 (7.37%) Marketing
24 43 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
25 42 (6.45%) SAP
26 39 (5.99%) Public Sector
27 37 (5.68%) Microsoft Project
28 35 (5.38%) Business Case

Project Manager Skill Set
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 27 (4.15%) Confluence
2 13 (2.00%) CMS
3 11 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Kentico
6 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (5.68%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.23%) Trello
6 6 (0.92%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.77%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.61%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.46%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.46%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.31%) OPENHousing
5 2 (0.31%) Relativity
5 2 (0.31%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.31%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.31%) SAP SRM
5 2 (0.31%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.15%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (7.53%) Azure
2 33 (5.07%) AWS
3 25 (3.84%) SaaS
4 14 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (2.15%) Power Platform
5 12 (1.84%) GCP
6 11 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (0.77%) Entra ID
8 5 (0.77%) IaaS
8 5 (0.77%) PaaS
8 5 (0.77%) Serverless
9 4 (0.61%) Asana
9 4 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (0.61%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.61%) Smartsheet
10 3 (0.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (0.46%) Contentful
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.30%) Firewall
2 11 (1.69%) VPN
3 5 (0.77%) Network Security
3 5 (0.77%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.61%) WAN
5 3 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.46%) WLAN
6 2 (0.31%) LAN
6 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.31%) Wireless
7 1 (0.15%) 2G
7 1 (0.15%) DHCP
7 1 (0.15%) DNS
7 1 (0.15%) GSM
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) NAS
7 1 (0.15%) Packet Switching
7 1 (0.15%) SAN
7 1 (0.15%) VLAN
7 1 (0.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.46%) Data Lake
2 9 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (1.38%) Power BI
3 4 (0.61%) Metadata
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.46%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.31%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.31%) EDRMS
5 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.31%) Looker
5 2 (0.31%) Tableau
6 1 (0.15%) Big Data
6 1 (0.15%) GIS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.15%) Power Query
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.15%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.15%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 67 (10.29%) JIRA
2 3 (0.46%) Git
3 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.15%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.15%) LSMW
4 1 (0.15%) MSI
4 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 254 (39.02%) Finance
2 225 (34.56%) Social Skills
3 97 (14.90%) Banking
4 55 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (7.53%) Legal
6 48 (7.37%) Marketing
7 39 (5.99%) Public Sector
8 34 (5.22%) Retail
9 24 (3.69%) Local Government
10 16 (2.46%) Front Office
10 16 (2.46%) Investment Banking
11 14 (2.15%) Law
11 14 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (1.84%) Back Office
14 11 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.38%) Billing
15 9 (1.38%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.61%) .NET
1 4 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (0.61%) SailPoint
2 3 (0.46%) .NET Framework
2 3 (0.46%) HTML
2 3 (0.46%) Middleware
3 2 (0.31%) ADO
4 1 (0.15%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.15%) CSS
4 1 (0.15%) Flash
4 1 (0.15%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.15%) REST
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.15%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.15%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.84%) Data Centre
2 16 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (2.30%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.54%) PMI
6 7 (1.08%) Management Information System
7 6 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (0.92%) Housing Association
7 6 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (0.92%) NHS
7 6 (0.92%) Reference Data
7 6 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (0.92%) Virtual Team
8 5 (0.77%) Fixed Income
8 5 (0.77%) IoT
8 5 (0.77%) PACS
8 5 (0.77%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.61%) Derivative
9 4 (0.61%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.07%) Windows
2 6 (0.92%) Linux
3 5 (0.77%) Unix
4 4 (0.61%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (50.38%) Project Management
2 198 (30.41%) Agile
3 190 (29.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 143 (21.97%) Project Delivery
5 107 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (14.13%) Migration
7 78 (11.98%) PRINCE2
8 69 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 66 (10.14%) Change Management
10 64 (9.83%) Risk Management
11 63 (9.68%) Waterfall
12 62 (9.52%) Scrum
13 54 (8.29%) Budget Management
14 43 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (5.38%) Business Case
16 34 (5.22%) Decision-Making
16 34 (5.22%) Resource Allocation
17 32 (4.92%) Analytics
18 30 (4.61%) Roadmaps
19 29 (4.45%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 13 (2.00%) SQL
2 5 (0.77%) Bicep
3 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
4 3 (0.46%) C#
5 2 (0.31%) Python
5 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.15%) Java
6 1 (0.15%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 72 (11.06%) PMI Certification
2 68 (10.45%) PMP
3 52 (7.99%) Degree
4 34 (5.22%) Security Cleared
5 28 (4.30%) SC Cleared
6 11 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 8 (1.23%) MRICS
8 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.77%) RIBA
11 4 (0.61%) CISM
11 4 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.61%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.46%) CISSP
12 3 (0.46%) MAPM
13 2 (0.31%) CISA
13 2 (0.31%) SAP Certification
14 1 (0.15%) CAPM
14 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.22%) PMO
2 14 (2.15%) QA
3 9 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.38%) GDPR
4 6 (0.92%) NIST
5 5 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.61%) MiFID
7 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.46%) SEPA
8 2 (0.31%) COBIT
8 2 (0.31%) COSO
8 2 (0.31%) GxP
8 2 (0.31%) IFRS
8 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.31%) PSD2
8 2 (0.31%) SLA
9 1 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 8 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.61%) Docker
3 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.15%) KVM
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (1.08%) Terraform
2 6 (0.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.92%) SCCM
3 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.31%) Ansible
6 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 62 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.45%) SAP
3 24 (3.69%) Oracle
3 24 (3.69%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.46%) ServiceNow
5 11 (1.69%) Workday
6 10 (1.54%) Google
7 9 (1.38%) Planview
8 7 (1.08%) Adobe
8 7 (1.08%) Ariba
9 6 (0.92%) CyberArk
10 5 (0.77%) Cisco
10 5 (0.77%) Citrix
10 5 (0.77%) Databricks
11 4 (0.61%) Civica
11 4 (0.61%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.61%) NEC
11 4 (0.61%) Northgate
11 4 (0.61%) Siemens
12 3 (0.46%) Guidewire