Technical Project Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Project Manager
England > London

The median Technical Project Manager daily rate in London is £508, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 342 328
Rank change year-on-year -6 -14 +76
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Project Manager 33 39 75
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.27% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 46
10th Percentile £356 £409 £386
25th Percentile £447 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +1.69% -6.14%
75th Percentile £641 £574 £638
90th Percentile £723 £670 £719
England median daily rate £555 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +10.89% -2.15% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +46.67%

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 13,157 14,282 17,864
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 93.50% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 9,248 12,923
10th Percentile £340 £338 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 154 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.65 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £56.63 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%

Technical Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Project Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Technical Project Manager job vacancy trend in London

Technical Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Project Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Project Manager job vacancies in London

Technical Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Project Manager in London

Technical Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Project Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Project Manager job vacancies in London

Technical 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 Technical Project Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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 +7 8 £525 +5.00% 1
Technical Project Manager
England

Technical Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Technical Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Technical Project Manager in the job title.

1 20 (60.61%) Project Management
2 13 (39.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (33.33%) Agile
4 9 (27.27%) Scrum
5 7 (21.21%) PMP
5 7 (21.21%) Project Delivery
6 6 (18.18%) Migration
6 6 (18.18%) PMI Certification
7 5 (15.15%) Azure
7 5 (15.15%) Change Management
7 5 (15.15%) Degree
7 5 (15.15%) DevOps
7 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
8 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (12.12%) JIRA
8 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
8 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.12%) Programme Management
8 4 (12.12%) SAP
8 4 (12.12%) Waterfall
9 3 (9.09%) AWS
9 3 (9.09%) Budget Management
9 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 3 (9.09%) Cisco
9 3 (9.09%) E-Commerce
9 3 (9.09%) PRINCE2
9 3 (9.09%) Project Governance
9 3 (9.09%) QA
9 3 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (9.09%) Runbook

Technical Project Manager Skill Set
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 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.03%) Notion
3 1 (3.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.03%) Asana
4 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.03%) BigCommerce
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.03%) Miro
4 1 (3.03%) Slack
4 1 (3.03%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) Internet
2 1 (3.03%) LAN
2 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.03%) WAN
2 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.03%) Wireless
2 1 (3.03%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 14 (42.42%) Finance
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Back Office
2 3 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (6.06%) Marketing
3 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Retail
4 1 (3.03%) Electronics
4 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.03%) Front Office
4 1 (3.03%) Local Government
4 1 (3.03%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) .NET
1 1 (3.03%) Middleware
1 1 (3.03%) RESTful
1 1 (3.03%) VML
1 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Digital Media
1 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (6.06%) IPTV
1 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (6.06%) New Media
1 2 (6.06%) PMI
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) Project Management
2 13 (39.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (33.33%) Agile
4 9 (27.27%) Scrum
5 7 (21.21%) Project Delivery
6 6 (18.18%) Migration
7 5 (15.15%) Change Management
7 5 (15.15%) DevOps
8 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.12%) Programme Management
8 4 (12.12%) Waterfall
9 3 (9.09%) Budget Management
9 3 (9.09%) E-Commerce
9 3 (9.09%) PRINCE2
9 3 (9.09%) Project Governance
9 3 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (9.09%) Runbook
9 3 (9.09%) SDLC
9 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) PMP
2 6 (18.18%) PMI Certification
3 5 (15.15%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) MBA
4 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) PMO
3 1 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) SAP
3 3 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) Adobe
4 1 (3.03%) Aruba
4 1 (3.03%) Concur
4 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.03%) Meraki
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.03%) Sitecore
4 1 (3.03%) Zscaler