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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 66 65
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 696 479 599
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.64% 3.81% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 4.12% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 314 415
10th Percentile £363 £386 £375
25th Percentile £450 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £663 £695 £675
90th Percentile £753 £775 £775
England median daily rate £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 12
10th Percentile £37.06 £35.58 -
25th Percentile - £42.44 £20.98
Median hourly rate £41.00 £51.25 £25.59
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +100.27% +2.77%
75th Percentile £51.13 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £56.63 £75.00 £67.70
England median hourly rate £40.02 £65.00 £33.47
% change year-on-year -38.43% +94.23% -44.23%

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 17,007 11,628 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.40% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,350 7,788 11,072
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 214 309
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 0 107 £558 -7.08% 44
South London +4 18 £500 -16.67% 7
West London -14 16 £519 -1.19% 16
North London 0 2 £544 -1.14% 4
East London - 2 £590 - 12
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 41 (5.89%) SharePoint
2 37 (5.32%) Confluence
3 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.86%) CMS
5 4 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.43%) Camunda
6 3 (0.43%) Kentico
6 3 (0.43%) SAS
6 3 (0.43%) WordPress
7 2 (0.29%) Apache
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 58 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (6.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (6.32%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (5.46%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (1.44%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.29%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 6 (0.86%) ProductWriter
4 6 (0.86%) Summit
5 4 (0.57%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.43%) Endur
6 3 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.43%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.29%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.29%) Shopify
7 2 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 97 (13.94%) Azure
2 49 (7.04%) AWS
3 43 (6.18%) Power Platform
4 39 (5.60%) SaaS
5 31 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.02%) Entra ID
8 19 (2.73%) GitHub
9 15 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (1.87%) IaaS
11 12 (1.72%) GCP
12 10 (1.44%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.29%) Google Workspace
13 9 (1.29%) Serverless
13 9 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
13 9 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (1.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.03%) Firewall
2 23 (3.30%) Network Security
3 19 (2.73%) DNS
4 12 (1.72%) VPN
5 10 (1.44%) DHCP
5 10 (1.44%) WAN
6 8 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 8 (1.15%) Wireless
7 7 (1.01%) BGP
7 7 (1.01%) MPLS
7 7 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.86%) LAN
8 6 (0.86%) VLAN
9 5 (0.72%) Broadband
9 5 (0.72%) Internet
9 5 (0.72%) Multicast
9 5 (0.72%) NetScaler
9 5 (0.72%) OSPF
10 4 (0.57%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.57%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.89%) Power BI
2 17 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.01%) Metadata
4 7 (1.01%) Tableau
5 6 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.72%) Big Data
6 5 (0.72%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 84 (12.07%) JIRA
2 12 (1.72%) Git
3 10 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.86%) GitLab
5 5 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.29%) Appium
6 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.29%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.14%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.14%) TestNG
7 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 310 (44.54%) Social Skills
2 263 (37.79%) Finance
3 99 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (11.93%) Banking
5 81 (11.64%) Public Sector
6 61 (8.76%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (7.04%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (6.75%) Retail
9 44 (6.32%) Legal
10 25 (3.59%) Marketing
11 21 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (2.73%) Financial Institution
13 18 (2.59%) Local Government
14 17 (2.44%) Investment Banking
15 15 (2.16%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.72%) Front Office
16 12 (1.72%) General Ledger
17 10 (1.44%) Manufacturing
17 10 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 214 (30.75%) Project Manager
2 84 (12.07%) Analyst
3 82 (11.78%) Lead
4 67 (9.63%) Senior
5 60 (8.62%) Business Analyst
6 39 (5.60%) Architect
7 32 (4.60%) Delivery Manager
7 32 (4.60%) Developer
8 31 (4.45%) Senior Manager
9 29 (4.17%) Consultant
10 28 (4.02%) Network Engineer
11 25 (3.59%) IT Manager
12 24 (3.45%) Senior Project Manager
13 22 (3.16%) Change Manager
14 20 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (2.87%) Technical Manager
15 17 (2.44%) IT Project Manager
16 16 (2.30%) Transformation Manager
17 15 (2.16%) Infrastructure Manager
18 14 (2.01%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.59%) Middleware
2 14 (2.01%) REST
3 7 (1.01%) XML
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.86%) React
5 5 (0.72%) PySpark
6 4 (0.57%) OAuth
6 4 (0.57%) React Native
6 4 (0.57%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (0.43%) ADO
7 3 (0.43%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.43%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.43%) Kafka
8 2 (0.29%) .NET
8 2 (0.29%) IDoc
8 2 (0.29%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.29%) SAML
8 2 (0.29%) Web Services
8 2 (0.29%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.75%) Onboarding
2 34 (4.89%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.16%) Product Ownership
3 22 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (3.02%) Cloud Native
5 19 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.87%) Derivative
7 13 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 13 (1.87%) IoT
8 12 (1.72%) Credit Risk
9 10 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.44%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.29%) Life Science
11 8 (1.15%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.15%) FMCG
11 8 (1.15%) Reinsurance
12 7 (1.01%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.30%) Windows
2 10 (1.44%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.15%) Linux
4 6 (0.86%) VMS
5 5 (0.72%) Unix
6 4 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (37.36%) Agile
2 258 (37.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 240 (34.48%) Project Management
4 128 (18.39%) Migration
5 126 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (15.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 106 (15.23%) PRINCE2
8 105 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 104 (14.94%) Decision-Making
10 91 (13.07%) Change Management
11 84 (12.07%) Waterfall
12 77 (11.06%) DevOps
13 73 (10.49%) AI
14 69 (9.91%) Risk Management
15 66 (9.48%) Roadmaps
16 63 (9.05%) Analytics
17 59 (8.48%) Validation
18 55 (7.90%) Business Analysis
19 53 (7.61%) Project Governance
19 53 (7.61%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 48 (6.90%) SQL
2 39 (5.60%) Python
3 11 (1.58%) Java
4 7 (1.01%) C#
4 7 (1.01%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.86%) VBA
6 5 (0.72%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.57%) Bicep
7 4 (0.57%) Go
7 4 (0.57%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.43%) Bash
8 3 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.43%) Korn
8 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.29%) C++
9 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.29%) Rust
10 1 (0.14%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 89 (12.79%) Degree
2 88 (12.64%) PMP
3 81 (11.64%) Security Cleared
4 72 (10.34%) PMI Certification
5 64 (9.20%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.58%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.44%) CCNP
10 10 (1.44%) CISSP
11 9 (1.29%) APMP
11 9 (1.29%) CBAP
12 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (1.01%) APMG
13 7 (1.01%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.86%) IIBA
15 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (13.79%) PMO
2 42 (6.03%) QA
3 23 (3.30%) NIST
4 22 (3.16%) GDPR
5 20 (2.87%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.44%) GRC
7 8 (1.15%) SLA
8 6 (0.86%) Basel III
8 6 (0.86%) GAAP
8 6 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.72%) HL7
9 5 (0.72%) IFRS
10 4 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.57%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.57%) MiFID
11 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.43%) NCSC
11 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.15%) Docker
3 7 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) Firmware
5 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (4.02%) Terraform
2 15 (2.16%) Ansible
2 15 (2.16%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.15%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.29%) Control-M
5 2 (0.29%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.14%) Avamar
6 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.14%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.14%) logstash
6 1 (0.14%) Nessus
6 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.14%) SCCM
6 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 129 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.18%) SAP
3 41 (5.89%) ServiceNow
4 31 (4.45%) Oracle
5 21 (3.02%) Cisco
6 20 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.59%) Palo Alto
8 16 (2.30%) Google
9 12 (1.72%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.72%) Workday
10 10 (1.44%) CyberArk
11 9 (1.29%) Citrix
11 9 (1.29%) F5
11 9 (1.29%) VMware
12 8 (1.15%) Juniper
13 7 (1.01%) Murex
13 7 (1.01%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.86%) Adobe
14 6 (0.86%) NEC
14 6 (0.86%) Sitecore