SDLC Project Manager Contracts in London

SDLC Project Manager
England > London

The median SDLC Project Manager daily rate in London is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 July 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
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 - 481
Rank change year-on-year - - +134
Contract jobs requiring an SDLC Project Manager 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.015% - 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% - 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £350 - £500

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 12,695 16,421 24,222
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 93.94% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,583 11,721 17,706
10th Percentile £332 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 295 276
10th Percentile £18.47 £16.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.98 £20.50 £23.27
Median hourly rate £31.75 £28.00 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.39% -26.80% +9.29%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £82.38
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -29.55% -9.09% +76.00%

SDLC Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC Project Manager in London

SDLC Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC Project Manager in London

SDLC 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 SDLC Project Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 12 July 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 - -
SDLC Project Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, SDLC 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 SDLC Project Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Trello
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2

SDLC 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (50.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft