Project Planning Contract Job Trends in London

Project Planning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Project Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 263 255
Rank change year-on-year -39 -8 +140
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 80 122 149
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 0.81% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.90% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 71 113
10th Percentile £305 £220 £329
25th Percentile £453 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -10.26% -2.50%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £713
90th Percentile £775 £650 £750
England median daily rate £507 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +1.40% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £43.11 - -
25th Percentile £48.34 - -
Median hourly rate £60.93 £21.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +190.14% -2.33% -6.85%
75th Percentile £78.81 - -
90th Percentile £95.81 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £27.13 £49.00
% change year-on-year +139.63% -44.64% +2.08%

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 13,143 13,541 16,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.10% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,710 12,087
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 235
10th Percentile £18.17 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Project Planning job vacancy trend in London

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Project Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Project Planning

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Planning in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in London

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Project Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Project Planning

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Planning in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 20 December 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 9 £500 -1.96% 6
West London -22 3 - - 3
East London +4 1 - -
Project Planning
England

Project Planning
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 4 (5.00%) Confluence
1 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.25%) Luigi
Applications
1 17 (21.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (17.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (8.75%) MS Visio
6 2 (2.50%) Trello
7 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (8.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (5.00%) SAP PS
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.50%) SAP MDG
4 1 (1.25%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.25%) AWS
1 5 (6.25%) Azure
2 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (5.00%) Smartsheet
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.50%) SaaS
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.25%) Asana
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.25%) CloudBees
4 1 (1.25%) GCP
4 1 (1.25%) GitHub
4 1 (1.25%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.25%) Serverless
4 1 (1.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) Power BI
2 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.25%) Neo4j
2 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.25%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) LSMW
General
1 31 (38.75%) Finance
2 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.75%) Banking
5 7 (8.75%) Retail
6 5 (6.25%) Local Government
6 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.25%) Marketing
7 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Electronics
9 2 (2.50%) Law
9 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) French Language
10 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 28 (35.00%) Project Manager
2 10 (12.50%) Senior
3 8 (10.00%) Lead
3 8 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 8 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 7 (8.75%) Consultant
4 7 (8.75%) IT Manager
5 6 (7.50%) Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) Business Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Business Relationship Manager
7 4 (5.00%) IT Relationships Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Project Officer
7 4 (5.00%) Relationships Manager
7 4 (5.00%) SAP Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Implementation Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Project Leader
8 3 (3.75%) Project Support Officer
8 3 (3.75%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.50%) Kafka
2 2 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) .NET
3 1 (1.25%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.25%) CSS
3 1 (1.25%) HTML
3 1 (1.25%) IDoc
3 1 (1.25%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (1.25%) Playwright
3 1 (1.25%) React
3 1 (1.25%) RESTful
3 1 (1.25%) SAP ALE
3 1 (1.25%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (1.25%) Vitest
3 1 (1.25%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (1.25%) Web Services
3 1 (1.25%) XML
3 1 (1.25%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.75%) FMCG
2 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.50%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.25%) CMDB
4 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) EMC VNX
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.25%) Equities
4 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.25%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (47.50%) Project Management
2 29 (36.25%) Agile
3 27 (33.75%) Project Delivery
4 25 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 18 (22.50%) PRINCE2
7 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (17.50%) Migration
9 10 (12.50%) Budget Management
9 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (12.50%) Waterfall
10 9 (11.25%) Change Control
10 9 (11.25%) Change Management
10 9 (11.25%) ERP
10 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (10.00%) Programme Management
11 8 (10.00%) Project Governance
11 8 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
12 7 (8.75%) Budgeting
12 7 (8.75%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.25%) Python
2 3 (3.75%) SQL
3 1 (1.25%) ABAP
3 1 (1.25%) Bash
3 1 (1.25%) C#
3 1 (1.25%) Go
3 1 (1.25%) Java
3 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Degree
2 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 14 (17.50%) PMP
4 13 (16.25%) PMI Certification
4 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.00%) SAP Certification
6 3 (3.75%) APMP
6 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.75%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 3 (3.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.25%) ACCA
8 1 (1.25%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (1.25%) CISM
8 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.25%) MAPM
8 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.25%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) PMO
2 5 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.75%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.50%) NCSC
5 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.25%) P3O
5 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.50%) Terraform
2 1 (1.25%) Ansible
2 1 (1.25%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (1.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) SAP
2 10 (12.50%) Oracle
3 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.00%) Planview
5 2 (2.50%) IBM
6 1 (1.25%) Adobe
6 1 (1.25%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco
6 1 (1.25%) Cognos
6 1 (1.25%) EMC
6 1 (1.25%) Foundry
6 1 (1.25%) Google
6 1 (1.25%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.25%) IFS
6 1 (1.25%) Isilon
6 1 (1.25%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Trayport