Project Delivery Contracts in Central London

Project Delivery
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Project Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 54 45
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 84 91 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.20% 3.73% 4.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 4.12% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 56 111
10th Percentile £446 £376 £450
25th Percentile £489 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -3.13% +9.09%
75th Percentile £695 £705 £775
90th Percentile £726 £846 £829
London median daily rate £550 £550 £603
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.33 £27.24
% change year-on-year +37.16% -14.36% -38.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Project Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,211 3,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.89% 90.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,574 2,386
10th Percentile £361 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in Central London

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in Central London

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in Central London

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in Central London

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Delivery within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
City of London +1 73 £600 - 43
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 - -
West End of London -5 1 - - 7
City of Westminster - 1 £550 - 4
Project Delivery
London

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 6 (7.14%) Confluence
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (5.95%) Trello
5 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (1.19%) Revit
6 1 (1.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.19%) Endur
2 1 (1.19%) SAP Retail
2 1 (1.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.48%) Azure
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.76%) AWS
3 4 (4.76%) SaaS
4 3 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.57%) IaaS
4 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.38%) Asana
5 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.38%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.19%) Figma
6 1 (1.19%) Miro
6 1 (1.19%) Veeva
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) Firewall
1 5 (5.95%) MPLS
2 3 (3.57%) DNS
2 3 (3.57%) VPN
3 2 (2.38%) BGP
3 2 (2.38%) Broadband
3 2 (2.38%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (2.38%) IPv6
3 2 (2.38%) OSPF
4 1 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.19%) HTTP
4 1 (1.19%) IGMP
4 1 (1.19%) Multicast
4 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.19%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) Data Lake
1 3 (3.57%) Power BI
2 2 (2.38%) Big Data
2 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.19%) Data Hub
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.19%) Pentaho
3 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (10.71%) JIRA
2 2 (2.38%) Git
3 1 (1.19%) GitLab
3 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (41.67%) Finance
2 31 (36.90%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.33%) Banking
6 6 (7.14%) Retail
7 5 (5.95%) Back Office
7 5 (5.95%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.95%) Local Government
8 3 (3.57%) Legal
8 3 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.38%) Front Office
9 2 (2.38%) Law
9 2 (2.38%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.19%) Automotive
10 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Marketing
10 1 (1.19%) Military
10 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (46.43%) Project Manager
2 10 (11.90%) Delivery Manager
3 6 (7.14%) Analyst
3 6 (7.14%) Senior
4 5 (5.95%) Business Analyst
4 5 (5.95%) Lead
4 5 (5.95%) Senior Manager
4 5 (5.95%) Senior Project Manager
5 3 (3.57%) Consultant
5 3 (3.57%) Developer
5 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (3.57%) IT Manager
5 3 (3.57%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (3.57%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 3 (3.57%) Technical Manager
5 3 (3.57%) Technical Services Manager
6 2 (2.38%) Business IT Analyst
6 2 (2.38%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (2.38%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.38%) Hibernate
1 2 (2.38%) REST
1 2 (2.38%) Spring
1 2 (2.38%) Web Services
1 2 (2.38%) ZK
2 1 (1.19%) .NET
2 1 (1.19%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.19%) ADO
2 1 (1.19%) JSON
2 1 (1.19%) MDX
2 1 (1.19%) MIDP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Reference Data
2 4 (4.76%) PMI
3 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.38%) Equities
4 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.19%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.14%) Windows
2 4 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.19%) Android
4 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.43%) Project Management
2 32 (38.10%) Agile
3 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (16.67%) PRINCE2
7 11 (13.10%) Decision-Making
7 11 (13.10%) Project Governance
7 11 (13.10%) Scrum
8 10 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (10.71%) Business Case
10 8 (9.52%) Change Control
10 8 (9.52%) Waterfall
11 7 (8.33%) Budget Management
11 7 (8.33%) ERP
11 7 (8.33%) Migration
11 7 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 7 (8.33%) Time Management
12 6 (7.14%) Business Strategy
12 6 (7.14%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.52%) SQL
2 4 (4.76%) Python
3 2 (2.38%) Java
3 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) PMI Certification
2 12 (14.29%) Degree
3 11 (13.10%) PMP
4 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (2.38%) CCIE
6 2 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.19%) CBAP
7 1 (1.19%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) PMO
2 5 (5.95%) SLA
3 4 (4.76%) QA
4 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.19%) GDPR
5 1 (1.19%) GxP
5 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.19%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.19%) XenApp
3 1 (1.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.38%) Ansible
2 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.38%) SCCM
2 2 (2.38%) Terraform
2 2 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.95%) Planview
3 3 (3.57%) Cisco
3 3 (3.57%) Oracle
3 3 (3.57%) SAP
4 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.38%) Splunk
4 2 (2.38%) VMware
5 1 (1.19%) Aruba
5 1 (1.19%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.19%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.19%) Citrix
5 1 (1.19%) Databricks
5 1 (1.19%) F5
5 1 (1.19%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.19%) Reuters
5 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow