Software Project Manager Contracts in London

Software Project Manager
England > London

The median Software Project Manager daily rate in London is £500, 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 347 383 484
Rank change year-on-year +36 +101 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Software Project Manager 6 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.045% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.048% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 9
10th Percentile £446 £468 £483
25th Percentile £478 £531 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £561 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -6.46% +4.35%
75th Percentile £533 £688 £700
90th Percentile £559 - £770
England median daily rate £505 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +6.32% -13.64% +8.64%

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%

Software Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Project Manager in London

Software Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Project Manager in London

Software Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Project Manager in London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Software 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 Software Project Manager in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Supplier Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) CMS
4 1 (16.67%) Local Government
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Management
4 1 (16.67%) Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Business Development
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Content Management

Software 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 1 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Asana
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Business Case
3 1 (16.67%) Campaign Management
3 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Culture Change
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Management
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft