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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 73 69
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -14
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 818 490 556
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.08% 3.70% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 4.00% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 318 360
10th Percentile £363 £350 £381
25th Percentile £450 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £567 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £753
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 8
10th Percentile £32.84 £41.75 £30.58
25th Percentile £41.00 £55.63 £32.28
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £35.90
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +81.06% -46.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £78.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £57.63 £94.82 £65.90
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £35.90
% change year-on-year -20.00% +74.09% -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 17,877 12,261 14,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.47% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,147 9,784
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 287 256 190
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.19% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.63 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +4 113 £538 -12.24% 113
West London -1 24 £475 -15.56% 35
South London -10 11 £450 -10.00% 12
East London +2 4 £525 - 20
North London +2 3 £544 -1.14% 2
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 (6.85%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.89%) 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 2 (0.24%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) MTS
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 69 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (5.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.61%) Trello
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (2.93%) 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%) Summit
4 4 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.37%) iTrent
5 3 (0.37%) Shopify
6 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.24%) Eikon
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.24%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 139 (16.99%) Azure
2 63 (7.70%) AWS
2 63 (7.70%) Power Platform
3 47 (5.75%) SaaS
4 44 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (4.16%) Entra ID
7 24 (2.93%) GCP
8 22 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (2.08%) GitHub
10 15 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (1.71%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.59%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (1.22%) OCI
15 9 (1.10%) Google Workspace
15 9 (1.10%) IaaS
16 8 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (0.98%) PaaS
17 7 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.85%) Firewall
2 29 (3.55%) Network Security
3 25 (3.06%) DNS
4 21 (2.57%) VPN
4 21 (2.57%) WAN
4 21 (2.57%) Wireless
5 17 (2.08%) BGP
5 17 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (1.71%) DHCP
6 14 (1.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 14 (1.71%) VLAN
7 12 (1.47%) LAN
7 12 (1.47%) Multicast
8 8 (0.98%) Cisco Wireless
8 8 (0.98%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.86%) IPsec
9 7 (0.86%) OSPF
10 6 (0.73%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.73%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.61%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.11%) Power BI
2 18 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.98%) Big Data
5 7 (0.86%) Metadata
6 6 (0.73%) Delta Lake
6 6 (0.73%) Hadoop
6 6 (0.73%) Tableau
7 5 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.61%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.49%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.37%) Power Query
9 3 (0.37%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.37%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.24%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.24%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 89 (10.88%) JIRA
2 13 (1.59%) Git
3 9 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.61%) Selenium
5 4 (0.49%) GitLab
5 4 (0.49%) Subversion
6 2 (0.24%) Appium
6 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.24%) TestNG
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%) SpecFlow
General
1 360 (44.01%) Social Skills
2 326 (39.85%) Finance
3 132 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (11.37%) Banking
5 82 (10.02%) Public Sector
6 53 (6.48%) Retail
7 52 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (5.87%) Legal
9 37 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (3.55%) Marketing
12 28 (3.42%) Front Office
13 27 (3.30%) Telecoms
14 26 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
15 21 (2.57%) Local Government
16 19 (2.32%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.96%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.96%) Manufacturing
18 12 (1.47%) Law
19 11 (1.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 215 (26.28%) Project Manager
2 104 (12.71%) Analyst
3 87 (10.64%) Senior
4 75 (9.17%) Business Analyst
4 75 (9.17%) Lead
5 49 (5.99%) Architect
6 47 (5.75%) Consultant
7 39 (4.77%) Senior Manager
8 38 (4.65%) Network Engineer
9 37 (4.52%) Delivery Manager
10 36 (4.40%) Developer
11 30 (3.67%) Senior Project Manager
12 29 (3.55%) IT Manager
13 24 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (2.32%) Transformation Manager
15 18 (2.20%) Change Manager
15 18 (2.20%) IT Project Manager
15 18 (2.20%) Programme Manager
15 18 (2.20%) Technical Manager
16 15 (1.83%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.93%) Terraform
2 23 (2.81%) REST
3 11 (1.34%) Middleware
4 8 (0.98%) React
5 7 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (0.86%) SAP Fiori
5 7 (0.86%) SOAP
5 7 (0.86%) XML
6 6 (0.73%) 802.1X
6 6 (0.73%) PySpark
6 6 (0.73%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.61%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.61%) Kafka
7 5 (0.61%) VML
7 5 (0.61%) Web Services
8 4 (0.49%) ADO
8 4 (0.49%) JDBC
8 4 (0.49%) LDAP
8 4 (0.49%) OAuth
8 4 (0.49%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.11%) Onboarding
2 38 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 36 (4.40%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.18%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (2.69%) Derivative
7 20 (2.44%) Cloud Native
7 20 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.59%) Credit Risk
11 13 (1.59%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.47%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.34%) Life Science
13 11 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.22%) IoT
14 10 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.10%) FMCG
15 9 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.67%) Windows
2 19 (2.32%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.20%) Linux
4 9 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.73%) Unix
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (46.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 299 (36.55%) Agile
3 257 (31.42%) Project Management
4 159 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 149 (18.22%) Migration
6 140 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 137 (16.75%) Change Management
8 135 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
9 126 (15.40%) PRINCE2
10 121 (14.79%) Decision-Making
11 107 (13.08%) AI
12 103 (12.59%) Waterfall
13 90 (11.00%) Risk Management
14 88 (10.76%) DevOps
14 88 (10.76%) Roadmaps
15 80 (9.78%) Scrum
16 79 (9.66%) User Acceptance Testing
17 77 (9.41%) Workshop Facilitation
18 75 (9.17%) Analytics
19 73 (8.92%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 50 (6.11%) SQL
2 49 (5.99%) Python
3 20 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 16 (1.96%) Java
5 11 (1.34%) VBA
6 8 (0.98%) C#
7 6 (0.73%) Bash
7 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.49%) BeanShell
8 4 (0.49%) Go
8 4 (0.49%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.49%) Korn
9 3 (0.37%) Bicep
9 3 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.24%) C
10 2 (0.24%) C++
11 1 (0.12%) ABAP
11 1 (0.12%) COBOL
11 1 (0.12%) RPG
Qualifications
1 118 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 95 (11.61%) PMP
3 93 (11.37%) SC Cleared
4 88 (10.76%) Degree
5 83 (10.15%) PMI Certification
6 24 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 12 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.47%) CISSP
10 11 (1.34%) CCNP
10 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 8 (0.98%) APMG
13 7 (0.86%) CISM
13 7 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.61%) IIBA
15 5 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (14.30%) PMO
2 47 (5.75%) QA
3 25 (3.06%) NIST
4 23 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.44%) GDPR
6 12 (1.47%) SLA
7 10 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (1.22%) GRC
8 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.61%) P3O
10 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.49%) NCSC
10 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.37%) GxP
11 3 (0.37%) HL7
11 3 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.22%) Docker
4 5 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.49%) vSphere
6 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.24%) Firmware
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%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.71%) Ansible
3 13 (1.59%) FortiGate
4 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.98%) Cisco Prime
5 8 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.86%) 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%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.24%) Nessus
12 1 (0.12%) Check_MK
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
1 174 (21.27%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.48%) SAP
2 53 (6.48%) ServiceNow
3 44 (5.38%) Cisco
4 30 (3.67%) Salesforce
5 29 (3.55%) Oracle
6 24 (2.93%) VMware
7 23 (2.81%) Fortinet
8 20 (2.44%) F5
9 19 (2.32%) Palo Alto
10 17 (2.08%) Google
10 17 (2.08%) Murex
10 17 (2.08%) Zscaler
11 14 (1.71%) Juniper
12 13 (1.59%) Databricks
13 11 (1.34%) Bloomberg
14 10 (1.22%) NEC
14 10 (1.22%) Workday
15 9 (1.10%) CyberArk
16 8 (0.98%) Red Hat