IT Project Manager Contracts in London

IT Project Manager
England > London

The median IT Project Manager daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 323 308
Rank change year-on-year +22 -15 +72
Contract jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 99 161 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.64% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.67% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 131 256
10th Percentile £425 £363 £413
25th Percentile £500 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +5.06%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £625
90th Percentile £751 £725 £663
England median daily rate £525 £535 £520
% change year-on-year -1.87% +2.88% +12.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
England median hourly rate £34.14 £65.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year -47.48% +12.07% +2.65%

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 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
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 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Project Manager in London

IT Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Project Manager in London

IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Project Manager in London

IT Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Project Manager in London

IT 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 IT Project Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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 18 £625 +4.17% 2
West London +16 6 £500 -6.19% 2
South London +6 2 £475 -13.64% 2
East London -3 2 £508 -19.44%
IT Project Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, IT 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 IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 49 (49.49%) Project Management
2 40 (40.40%) Finance
3 33 (33.33%) Agile
4 25 (25.25%) Social Skills
5 20 (20.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (14.14%) Azure
7 13 (13.13%) PRINCE2
7 13 (13.13%) Banking
7 13 (13.13%) JIRA
8 12 (12.12%) Project Delivery
9 11 (11.11%) Migration
10 9 (9.09%) PMP
10 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
11 8 (8.08%) Waterfall
11 8 (8.08%) Degree
11 8 (8.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (8.08%) Budget Management
12 7 (7.07%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (7.07%) PMI Certification
12 7 (7.07%) Scrum
12 7 (7.07%) Risk Management
12 7 (7.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (7.07%) Resource Allocation
13 6 (6.06%) Vulnerability Management
13 6 (6.06%) Analytics
13 6 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (6.06%) Static Application Security Testing
13 6 (6.06%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
14 5 (5.05%) Onboarding
14 5 (5.05%) Asset Management

IT 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 4 (4.04%) Confluence
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.02%) CMS
3 1 (1.01%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.01%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 1 (1.01%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.01%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.14%) Azure
2 5 (5.05%) WhatsApp
3 4 (4.04%) AWS
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.03%) SaaS
5 2 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.01%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.01%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.01%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.07%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.02%) Tableau
3 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.01%) Mixpanel
3 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (13.13%) JIRA
General
1 40 (40.40%) Finance
2 25 (25.25%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.13%) Banking
4 6 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.04%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.02%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.02%) Law
7 2 (2.02%) Legal
7 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.01%) French Language
8 1 (1.01%) Front Office
8 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.01%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.01%) Retail
8 1 (1.01%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.01%) ADO
1 1 (1.01%) Express.js
1 1 (1.01%) MERN Stack
1 1 (1.01%) Node.js
1 1 (1.01%) React
1 1 (1.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.05%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.03%) CMDB
2 3 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.03%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.02%) Life Science
3 2 (2.02%) PMI
3 2 (2.02%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.01%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.01%) EPoS
4 1 (1.01%) FMCG
4 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.01%) LIMS
4 1 (1.01%) mPOS
4 1 (1.01%) NHS
4 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (2.02%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.01%) Linux
3 1 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (49.49%) Project Management
2 33 (33.33%) Agile
3 20 (20.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (13.13%) PRINCE2
5 12 (12.12%) Project Delivery
6 11 (11.11%) Migration
7 8 (8.08%) Budget Management
7 8 (8.08%) Waterfall
8 7 (7.07%) Resource Allocation
8 7 (7.07%) Risk Management
8 7 (7.07%) Scrum
8 7 (7.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (6.06%) Analytics
9 6 (6.06%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 6 (6.06%) Static Application Security Testing
9 6 (6.06%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (5.05%) Asset Management
10 5 (5.05%) Change Management
10 5 (5.05%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (5.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.01%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (9.09%) PMP
2 8 (8.08%) Degree
3 7 (7.07%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.04%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.01%) CCNA
5 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.05%) NIST
3 2 (2.02%) Basel III
3 2 (2.02%) PMO
4 1 (1.01%) COBIT
4 1 (1.01%) EMIR
4 1 (1.01%) GDPR
4 1 (1.01%) GxP
4 1 (1.01%) IFRS
4 1 (1.01%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.01%) Matomo
1 1 (1.01%) SCCM
1 1 (1.01%) Terraform
1 1 (1.01%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.04%) Cisco
3 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.03%) SAP
4 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.02%) Workday
5 1 (1.01%) Arista
5 1 (1.01%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.01%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.01%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.01%) BT
5 1 (1.01%) Concur
5 1 (1.01%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.01%) Meraki
5 1 (1.01%) Pega
5 1 (1.01%) Radianz
5 1 (1.01%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.01%) Reuters
5 1 (1.01%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.01%) VMware