Project Planning Contracts in London

Project Planning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 263 317
Rank change year-on-year +6 +54 -11
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 96 129 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.77% 0.72% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.82% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 91 122
10th Percentile £220 £300 £376
25th Percentile £418 £419 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £638 £628 £684
90th Percentile £754 £700 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £23.08
Median % change year-on-year - +138.30% -48.13%
England median hourly rate £46.30 £56.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -17.69% +14.80% +10.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Project Planning 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £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 £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in London

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in London

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in London

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in London

Project Planning
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 Planning 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 +5 19 £488 -15.22% 4
West London +10 7 £220 -37.14% 5
Project Planning
England

Project Planning
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 6 (6.25%) Confluence
1 6 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.08%) CMS
3 1 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.38%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (7.29%) MS Visio
4 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (3.13%) Trello
6 1 (1.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.08%) NEC Housing
2 2 (2.08%) OPENHousing
3 1 (1.04%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.29%) AWS
2 6 (6.25%) Azure
2 6 (6.25%) Lucidchart
3 3 (3.13%) Smartsheet
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.08%) Serverless
5 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.04%) CloudBees
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (2.08%) VPN
3 1 (1.04%) 4G
3 1 (1.04%) 5G
3 1 (1.04%) Firewall
3 1 (1.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.21%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.08%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.04%) Big Data
4 1 (1.04%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.04%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) JUnit
3 1 (1.04%) Selenium
3 1 (1.04%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 51 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 37 (38.54%) Finance
3 20 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (10.42%) Legal
6 5 (5.21%) Banking
6 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.13%) Marketing
8 2 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.08%) Front Office
8 2 (2.08%) Law
8 2 (2.08%) Local Government
8 2 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.08%) Retail
9 1 (1.04%) Advertising
9 1 (1.04%) Games
9 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (29.17%) Project Manager
2 14 (14.58%) Senior
3 13 (13.54%) Lead
4 12 (12.50%) Analyst
5 9 (9.38%) Business Analyst
6 8 (8.33%) Senior Manager
7 7 (7.29%) Architect
7 7 (7.29%) Change Manager
8 6 (6.25%) Business Change Manager
8 6 (6.25%) Business Manager
8 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
8 6 (6.25%) Programme Manager
8 6 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Consultant
9 5 (5.21%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Manager
10 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 3 (3.13%) Change Consultant
11 3 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) PySpark
2 2 (2.08%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (2.08%) Kafka
2 2 (2.08%) RESTful
3 1 (1.04%) .NET
3 1 (1.04%) CSS
3 1 (1.04%) HTML
3 1 (1.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
1 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.13%) Driving Licence
2 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.08%) Data Fabric
3 2 (2.08%) Housing Association
3 2 (2.08%) NHS
3 2 (2.08%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.04%) Blog
4 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.04%) FMCG
4 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.04%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.04%) PMI
4 1 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Linux
1 1 (1.04%) Windows
1 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (51.04%) Project Management
2 39 (40.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (35.42%) Agile
3 34 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (31.25%) Risk Management
5 24 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 24 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 18 (18.75%) Waterfall
7 17 (17.71%) Change Management
8 13 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (12.50%) Data Protection
9 12 (12.50%) PRINCE2
10 11 (11.46%) Migration
11 10 (10.42%) Budget Management
11 10 (10.42%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (10.42%) Time Management
12 9 (9.38%) ITIL
13 8 (8.33%) Change Control
13 8 (8.33%) Process Improvement
13 8 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.42%) Python
2 5 (5.21%) SQL
3 4 (4.17%) Java
4 2 (2.08%) C#
5 1 (1.04%) Bash
5 1 (1.04%) Go
5 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.04%) R
5 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (18.75%) Degree
2 14 (14.58%) PMI Certification
3 13 (13.54%) PMP
4 5 (5.21%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.08%) CBAP
7 1 (1.04%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.04%) OSCP
7 1 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.46%) QA
2 7 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.21%) PMO
4 2 (2.08%) EMIR
4 2 (2.08%) MiFID
5 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.04%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) IFRS
5 1 (1.04%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.04%) SLA
5 1 (1.04%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.13%) Docker
3 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Ansible
1 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (7.29%) SAP
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.13%) Oracle
3 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.13%) Workday
4 2 (2.08%) Adobe
4 2 (2.08%) Capita
4 2 (2.08%) Civica
4 2 (2.08%) NEC
4 2 (2.08%) Northgate
4 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.04%) Citrix
5 1 (1.04%) Kronos
5 1 (1.04%) Planview
5 1 (1.04%) Progress