Project Delivery Contracts in the City of London

Project Delivery
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Project Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Delivery over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 44 49
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 77 178 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.56% 4.98% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 5.45% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 103 135
10th Percentile £381 £450 £435
25th Percentile £459 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% +5.77%
75th Percentile £705 £775 £631
90th Percentile £908 £826 £723
Central London median daily rate £561 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -6.46% +9.09% +5.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Project Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,955 3,266 3,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.46% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 2,203 2,972
10th Percentile £356 £356 £385
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £688
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 44
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the City of London

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the City of London

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the City of London

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the City of London

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 8 (10.39%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.90%) MTS
4 2 (2.60%) Confluence
4 2 (2.60%) IBM Domino
4 2 (2.60%) IBM Notes
5 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.30%) Tornado
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (5.19%) Endur
3 3 (3.90%) Aligne
3 3 (3.90%) EuroRunner
3 3 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.30%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.58%) Azure
2 9 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 7 (9.09%) Mimecast
4 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.19%) IaaS
6 2 (2.60%) AWS
6 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.60%) SaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Asana
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub
7 1 (1.30%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.30%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) DNS
1 6 (7.79%) Firewall
2 4 (5.19%) MPLS
3 2 (2.60%) SMTP
3 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.60%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.30%) Intranet
4 1 (1.30%) Network Security
4 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.30%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.30%) WAN
4 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) Data Vault
1 5 (6.49%) Metadata
1 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.19%) Power BI
3 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.30%) Big Data
3 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.30%) Gatling
2 1 (1.30%) RStudio
General
1 22 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.08%) Finance
3 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Back Office
3 5 (6.49%) Banking
3 5 (6.49%) French Language
3 5 (6.49%) Front Office
3 5 (6.49%) Publishing
4 4 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.90%) Law
6 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Legal
6 2 (2.60%) Marketing
6 2 (2.60%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Local Government
7 1 (1.30%) Police
7 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 12 (15.58%) Analyst
3 10 (12.99%) Business Analyst
4 8 (10.39%) Senior
5 7 (9.09%) Architect
6 5 (6.49%) Consultant
6 5 (6.49%) Data Architect
6 5 (6.49%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (6.49%) Lead
7 4 (5.19%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.90%) Project Leader
9 2 (2.60%) Applications Manager
9 2 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Integration Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) IT Project Manager
9 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
9 2 (2.60%) PMO Analyst
9 2 (2.60%) Python Developer
9 2 (2.60%) Security Consultant
9 2 (2.60%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.30%) ADO
1 1 (1.30%) Bokeh
1 1 (1.30%) Django
1 1 (1.30%) EDI
1 1 (1.30%) FastAPI
1 1 (1.30%) Flask
1 1 (1.30%) Kafka
1 1 (1.30%) Node.js
1 1 (1.30%) OAuth
1 1 (1.30%) OAuth2
1 1 (1.30%) Pandas
1 1 (1.30%) pytest
1 1 (1.30%) React
1 1 (1.30%) REST
1 1 (1.30%) SailPoint
1 1 (1.30%) SAP ALE
1 1 (1.30%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (1.30%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Reference Data
2 4 (5.19%) Market Risk
2 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.30%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.30%) Blog
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.30%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) PKI
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Windows
2 4 (5.19%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.96%) Agile
2 23 (29.87%) Project Management
3 16 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (16.88%) Waterfall
5 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.39%) Business Analysis
6 8 (10.39%) Change Management
6 8 (10.39%) Time Management
7 7 (9.09%) Coaching
8 6 (7.79%) Data Analysis
8 6 (7.79%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (7.79%) DevOps
9 5 (6.49%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (6.49%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (6.49%) Data Architecture
9 5 (6.49%) Data Lineage
9 5 (6.49%) IT Strategy
9 5 (6.49%) UML
9 5 (6.49%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.49%) SQL
2 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.60%) Java
3 2 (2.60%) Python
4 1 (1.30%) C#
4 1 (1.30%) C++
4 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.30%) R
4 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Degree
2 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
2 8 (10.39%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.30%) PMP
3 1 (1.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) PMO
1 8 (10.39%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.30%) Basel III
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) GxP
3 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.30%) NCSC
3 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.19%) SCCM
3 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.49%) Sparx
3 4 (5.19%) Citrix
3 4 (5.19%) Okta
3 4 (5.19%) Proofpoint
3 4 (5.19%) SAP
3 4 (5.19%) VMware
4 3 (3.90%) Cisco
5 2 (2.60%) Adobe
5 2 (2.60%) Databricks
5 2 (2.60%) IBM
5 2 (2.60%) Lotus
5 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.30%) Concur
6 1 (1.30%) Confluent
6 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.30%) Meraki
6 1 (1.30%) Qualtrics
6 1 (1.30%) Splunk