Software Project Manager Contracts in London

Software Project Manager
England > London

The median Software Project Manager daily rate in London is £561 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 477 568
Rank change year-on-year +94 +91 -120
Contract jobs requiring a Software Project Manager 10 10 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.057% 0.039% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.041% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 38
10th Percentile £473 £413 £442
25th Percentile £513 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -5.58% +16.50%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £688
90th Percentile - £620 £775
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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
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 Software Project Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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 +38 2 £530 -
Software Project Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) Workflow
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Target Operating Model
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Project Governance
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Change Management
5 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Marketing
5 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
5 1 (10.00%) JIRA
5 1 (10.00%) Release Management
5 1 (10.00%) Time Management
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Confluence
5 1 (10.00%) Waterfall

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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) Workflow
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Target Operating Model
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) Project Governance
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Change Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Fintech
5 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (10.00%) Release Management
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Time Management
5 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft