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 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 30 32
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 649 1,082 1,665
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.24% 6.19% 6.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.61% 6.63% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 784 1,241
10th Percentile £402 £374 £413
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 £675 £675
90th Percentile £772 £735 £760
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 25 11
10th Percentile £45.93 £23.70 £61.25
25th Percentile £48.44 £30.00 £61.63
Median hourly rate £54.25 £34.53 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.11% -46.88% +10.64%
75th Percentile £59.44 £40.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.58 £61.00 £87.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £35.73 £62.50
% change year-on-year +10.55% -42.83% +29.49%

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 11,563 16,328 24,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 93.45% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,900 11,807 18,005
10th Percentile £349 £325 £363
25th Percentile £428 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £679 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 319 281
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £20.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £45.62 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.23 £82.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.97% +95.42%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -10 115 £575 - 34
West London -8 12 £475 -5.00% 12
South London +4 11 £475 -7.32% 7
East London +1 10 £400 -33.33% 4
North London 0 3 £500 +17.65% 1
Project Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 330 (50.85%) Project Management
2 258 (39.75%) Finance
3 232 (35.75%) Social Skills
4 211 (32.51%) Agile
5 201 (30.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 142 (21.88%) Project Delivery
7 108 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (15.10%) Migration
8 98 (15.10%) Banking
9 84 (12.94%) PRINCE2
10 77 (11.86%) PMI Certification
11 76 (11.71%) PMP
12 73 (11.25%) Change Management
13 72 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 70 (10.79%) JIRA
15 69 (10.63%) Risk Management
16 65 (10.02%) Scrum
17 64 (9.86%) Waterfall
18 63 (9.71%) Microsoft
19 58 (8.94%) Azure
19 58 (8.94%) Degree
20 57 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
21 55 (8.47%) Budget Management
22 52 (8.01%) Marketing
23 47 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
23 47 (7.24%) Legal
24 40 (6.16%) SAP
25 37 (5.70%) Microsoft Project
26 36 (5.55%) Retail
26 36 (5.55%) Decision-Making

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 (4.16%) Confluence
2 13 (2.00%) CMS
3 9 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.15%) Kentico
6 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (5.70%) Microsoft Project
2 23 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.23%) Trello
6 7 (1.08%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.77%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.62%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.46%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.31%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.31%) OPENHousing
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.31%) Relativity
6 2 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.31%) SAP PLM
6 2 (0.31%) SAP SRM
7 1 (0.15%) Demantra
7 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.15%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 58 (8.94%) Azure
2 34 (5.24%) AWS
3 25 (3.85%) SaaS
4 16 (2.47%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (1.85%) GCP
8 8 (1.23%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.92%) Asana
11 5 (0.77%) IaaS
11 5 (0.77%) PaaS
11 5 (0.77%) Serverless
11 5 (0.77%) Smartsheet
12 4 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.62%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.46%) Contentful
13 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.31%) Firewall
2 11 (1.69%) VPN
3 5 (0.77%) Network Security
3 5 (0.77%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.62%) WAN
5 3 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.46%) WLAN
6 2 (0.31%) LAN
6 2 (0.31%) VSAN
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%) Packet Switching
7 1 (0.15%) SAN
7 1 (0.15%) VLAN
7 1 (0.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.47%) Data Lake
2 11 (1.69%) Power BI
3 9 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.62%) Metadata
5 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.46%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.31%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.31%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.31%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.31%) Looker
6 2 (0.31%) Tableau
7 1 (0.15%) Big Data
7 1 (0.15%) GIS
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.15%) Power Query
7 1 (0.15%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.15%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.15%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.15%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 70 (10.79%) JIRA
2 3 (0.46%) Git
3 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.15%) LSMW
4 1 (0.15%) MLflow
4 1 (0.15%) MSI
4 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 258 (39.75%) Finance
2 232 (35.75%) Social Skills
3 98 (15.10%) Banking
4 57 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (8.01%) Marketing
6 47 (7.24%) Legal
7 36 (5.55%) Retail
8 33 (5.08%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.08%) Local Government
10 18 (2.77%) Front Office
11 16 (2.47%) Investment Banking
11 16 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (2.00%) Back Office
13 13 (2.00%) Financial Institution
13 13 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (2.00%) Law
14 11 (1.69%) Billing
15 10 (1.54%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.62%) .NET
2 3 (0.46%) .NET Framework
2 3 (0.46%) ADO
2 3 (0.46%) HTML
2 3 (0.46%) Middleware
2 3 (0.46%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle Fusion
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 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 18 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (2.47%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.39%) PMI
6 8 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (0.92%) Management Information System
7 6 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (0.92%) Reference Data
7 6 (0.92%) Reinsurance
7 6 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (0.92%) Virtual Team
8 5 (0.77%) Credit Risk
8 5 (0.77%) Fixed Income
8 5 (0.77%) Housing Association
8 5 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (0.77%) IoT
8 5 (0.77%) Market Risk
8 5 (0.77%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.62%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.54%) Windows
2 7 (1.08%) Linux
3 4 (0.62%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.46%) Unix
5 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (50.85%) Project Management
2 211 (32.51%) Agile
3 201 (30.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 142 (21.88%) Project Delivery
5 108 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (15.10%) Migration
7 84 (12.94%) PRINCE2
8 73 (11.25%) Change Management
9 72 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 69 (10.63%) Risk Management
11 65 (10.02%) Scrum
12 64 (9.86%) Waterfall
13 55 (8.47%) Budget Management
14 47 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (5.55%) Decision-Making
16 34 (5.24%) Resource Allocation
17 33 (5.08%) Analytics
17 33 (5.08%) Programme Management
18 32 (4.93%) Business Case
19 31 (4.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (2.16%) SQL
2 5 (0.77%) Bicep
3 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
4 3 (0.46%) C#
5 2 (0.31%) Python
5 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.15%) Java
6 1 (0.15%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 77 (11.86%) PMI Certification
2 76 (11.71%) PMP
3 58 (8.94%) Degree
4 34 (5.24%) Security Cleared
5 27 (4.16%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 9 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.92%) MRICS
9 5 (0.77%) RIBA
10 4 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.62%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.31%) CISA
11 2 (0.31%) CISM
11 2 (0.31%) CISSP
11 2 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.31%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.15%) MAPM
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.15%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.08%) PMO
2 14 (2.16%) QA
3 10 (1.54%) GDPR
4 9 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.92%) NIST
5 6 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.62%) MiFID
7 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.46%) SEPA
8 2 (0.31%) COBIT
8 2 (0.31%) COSO
8 2 (0.31%) EMIR
8 2 (0.31%) GxP
8 2 (0.31%) IFRS
8 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.31%) PSD2
8 2 (0.31%) SLA
9 1 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 8 (1.23%) Active Directory
1 8 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.62%) Docker
3 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.31%) vSphere
5 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.15%) KVM
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 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.31%) Ansible
6 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 63 (9.71%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.16%) SAP
3 26 (4.01%) Salesforce
4 19 (2.93%) Oracle
5 18 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.31%) Workday
7 10 (1.54%) Google
8 8 (1.23%) VMware
9 7 (1.08%) Ariba
9 7 (1.08%) Databricks
10 6 (0.92%) Adobe
10 6 (0.92%) Citrix
10 6 (0.92%) Planview
11 5 (0.77%) Cisco
11 5 (0.77%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.77%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.62%) Civica
12 4 (0.62%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.62%) Northgate
12 4 (0.62%) Siemens