Project Delivery Contract Job Trends in London

Project Delivery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 70 73
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -19
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 821 501 539
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 3.72% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 4.02% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 320 337
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 9
10th Percentile £29.75 £41.75 £31.14
25th Percentile £41.00 £55.63 £32.29
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +85.71% -47.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £78.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £57.63 £94.82 £65.60
England median hourly rate £54.00 £57.50 £35.90
% change year-on-year -6.09% +60.17% -42.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,096 12,472 14,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.52% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 8,232 9,521
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -15.77% -1.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in London

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Project Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in London over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in London

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Project Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in London over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in London

Project Delivery
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 Project Delivery within the London region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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 -7 109 £538 -11.34% 157
West London -3 23 £425 -24.44% 44
South London -10 9 £450 -10.00% 13
North London +1 3 £575 +4.59%
East London 0 3 £500 - 23
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
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 56 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.51%) Confluence
3 15 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.73%) JBoss
5 5 (0.61%) Apache
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.49%) CMS
6 4 (0.49%) SAS
6 4 (0.49%) WordPress
7 3 (0.37%) Appian
7 3 (0.37%) Kentico
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.12%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) MTS
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 71 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (5.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (5.36%) Microsoft Project
4 43 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.73%) Trello
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.61%) ProductWriter
3 5 (0.61%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 4 (0.49%) Magento
4 4 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.37%) iTrent
5 3 (0.37%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.37%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.24%) Actimize
6 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.24%) Maximo
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.24%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 150 (18.27%) Azure
2 68 (8.28%) Power Platform
3 56 (6.82%) AWS
4 49 (5.97%) SaaS
5 46 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (4.14%) Entra ID
8 27 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (2.80%) GCP
10 19 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (1.95%) GitHub
11 16 (1.95%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.58%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.34%) PaaS
13 11 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (1.22%) IaaS
15 9 (1.10%) Google Workspace
15 9 (1.10%) OCI
16 8 (0.97%) Asana
16 8 (0.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 58 (7.06%) Firewall
2 31 (3.78%) Network Security
3 26 (3.17%) DNS
4 22 (2.68%) VPN
5 21 (2.56%) WAN
6 20 (2.44%) Wireless
7 18 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (2.07%) BGP
9 14 (1.71%) DHCP
9 14 (1.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 14 (1.71%) VLAN
10 13 (1.58%) LAN
11 12 (1.46%) Multicast
12 9 (1.10%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.97%) Cisco Wireless
14 7 (0.85%) IPsec
14 7 (0.85%) OSPF
15 6 (0.73%) Kerberos
15 6 (0.73%) SD-WAN
16 5 (0.61%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.97%) Power BI
2 16 (1.95%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.97%) Big Data
5 6 (0.73%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.73%) Delta Lake
5 6 (0.73%) Hadoop
6 5 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.49%) Metadata
7 4 (0.49%) Tableau
8 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.37%) Power Query
8 3 (0.37%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.24%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.24%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.24%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 88 (10.72%) JIRA
2 12 (1.46%) Git
3 9 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.61%) GitLab
4 5 (0.61%) Selenium
5 4 (0.49%) Subversion
6 2 (0.24%) Appium
6 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.24%) TestNG
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.12%) Gatling
7 1 (0.12%) MLflow
7 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 362 (44.09%) Social Skills
2 337 (41.05%) Finance
3 129 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (12.18%) Banking
5 77 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 57 (6.94%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (5.97%) Legal
8 48 (5.85%) Retail
9 40 (4.87%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (3.90%) Front Office
12 31 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
13 26 (3.17%) Telecoms
14 25 (3.05%) Local Government
14 25 (3.05%) Marketing
15 17 (2.07%) Financial Institution
15 17 (2.07%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.83%) Law
16 15 (1.83%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 220 (26.80%) Project Manager
2 112 (13.64%) Analyst
3 92 (11.21%) Senior
4 79 (9.62%) Business Analyst
5 78 (9.50%) Lead
6 47 (5.72%) Architect
6 47 (5.72%) Consultant
7 43 (5.24%) Senior Manager
8 39 (4.75%) Delivery Manager
8 39 (4.75%) Network Engineer
9 35 (4.26%) Senior Project Manager
10 32 (3.90%) IT Manager
11 31 (3.78%) Developer
12 25 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (2.68%) IT Project Manager
14 19 (2.31%) Technical Manager
15 17 (2.07%) Programme Manager
15 17 (2.07%) Transformation Manager
16 14 (1.71%) Delivery Project Manager
16 14 (1.71%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.80%) Terraform
2 20 (2.44%) REST
3 11 (1.34%) Middleware
4 7 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (0.85%) React
4 7 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (0.85%) SOAP
5 6 (0.73%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.73%) PySpark
5 6 (0.73%) XML
6 5 (0.61%) HTML
6 5 (0.61%) Kafka
6 5 (0.61%) LDAP
6 5 (0.61%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.61%) Web Services
7 4 (0.49%) ADO
7 4 (0.49%) JDBC
7 4 (0.49%) OAuth
7 4 (0.49%) React Native
7 4 (0.49%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.21%) Onboarding
2 43 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 29 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 21 (2.56%) Derivative
5 21 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 18 (2.19%) Cloud Native
7 18 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.71%) Fixed Income
9 14 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.46%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.34%) Credit Risk
12 10 (1.22%) IoT
12 10 (1.22%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.10%) FMCG
13 9 (1.10%) Life Science
14 8 (0.97%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.02%) Windows
2 20 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.19%) Linux
4 9 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.61%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.49%) Unix
7 3 (0.37%) Android
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.37%) VMS
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (48.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 298 (36.30%) Agile
3 253 (30.82%) Project Management
4 156 (19.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 154 (18.76%) Migration
6 141 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 139 (16.93%) Change Management
8 129 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
9 126 (15.35%) PRINCE2
10 114 (13.89%) Decision-Making
11 108 (13.15%) AI
12 105 (12.79%) Waterfall
13 90 (10.96%) Risk Management
14 87 (10.60%) Roadmaps
15 85 (10.35%) DevOps
16 83 (10.11%) Workshop Facilitation
17 81 (9.87%) User Acceptance Testing
18 79 (9.62%) Business Analysis
18 79 (9.62%) Scrum
19 75 (9.14%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 47 (5.72%) SQL
2 44 (5.36%) Python
3 21 (2.56%) PowerShell
4 13 (1.58%) Java
5 11 (1.34%) VBA
6 8 (0.97%) C#
7 6 (0.73%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.61%) Korn
9 4 (0.49%) Bash
9 4 (0.49%) BeanShell
10 3 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.24%) Bicep
11 2 (0.24%) C
11 2 (0.24%) C++
11 2 (0.24%) COBOL
11 2 (0.24%) Go
11 2 (0.24%) RPG
11 2 (0.24%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.12%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 122 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 99 (12.06%) PMP
3 98 (11.94%) SC Cleared
4 89 (10.84%) Degree
5 87 (10.60%) PMI Certification
6 22 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 12 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.46%) CISSP
10 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 11 (1.34%) CCNP
12 8 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.85%) CISM
14 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.61%) IIBA
16 4 (0.49%) CCNA
16 4 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (13.76%) PMO
2 46 (5.60%) QA
3 25 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.80%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.44%) GDPR
5 20 (2.44%) NIST
6 15 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 11 (1.34%) SLA
8 9 (1.10%) GRC
9 5 (0.61%) P3O
10 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.37%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.24%) SEPA
12 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.24%) TARGET2
System Software
1 39 (4.75%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.10%) Docker
4 6 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.73%) vSphere
5 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.24%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) IAG
7 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) oVirt
8 1 (0.12%) RHEV
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.71%) Ansible
2 14 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.58%) FortiGate
4 9 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
6 7 (0.85%) Puppet
7 6 (0.73%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.49%) SCCM
10 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.24%) Nessus
12 1 (0.12%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.12%) WMI
12 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 188 (22.90%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.82%) ServiceNow
3 55 (6.70%) SAP
4 46 (5.60%) Cisco
5 30 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 26 (3.17%) VMware
7 25 (3.05%) Oracle
8 24 (2.92%) Fortinet
9 22 (2.68%) F5
9 22 (2.68%) Palo Alto
10 19 (2.31%) Zscaler
11 18 (2.19%) Murex
12 16 (1.95%) Google
13 15 (1.83%) Databricks
14 14 (1.71%) Juniper
15 13 (1.58%) Bloomberg
16 12 (1.46%) Workday
17 9 (1.10%) Red Hat
18 8 (0.97%) CyberArk
19 7 (0.85%) NEC