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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 66 64
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 680 471 613
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.71% 3.90% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 4.23% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 303 420
10th Percentile £363 £386 £373
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £668 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 13
10th Percentile £29.01 £34.05 -
25th Percentile £31.65 £38.63 £20.98
Median hourly rate £37.06 £47.50 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year -21.98% +78.04% +18.66%
75th Percentile £41.00 £65.63 £65.00
90th Percentile - £75.75 £67.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £65.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year -43.85% +91.57% -44.60%

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 16,241 11,146 15,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 92.25% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,846 7,494 11,093
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 187 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.60 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +21.73% +10.33% -29.54%
75th Percentile £58.84 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.73 £63.10 £66.98
England median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +4 101 £550 -8.33% 90
South London 0 17 £525 -12.50% 6
West London -11 16 £538 - 8
East London -5 2 £590 - 11
North London - 2 £544 - 3
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 37 (5.44%) Confluence
1 37 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.88%) CMS
4 3 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.44%) Camunda
5 2 (0.29%) Apache
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.29%) Kentico
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.29%) WordPress
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 56 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (7.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (6.32%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (2.21%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.44%) Trello
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.32%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 6 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 6 (0.88%) ProductWriter
4 5 (0.74%) Summit
5 3 (0.44%) Endur
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.44%) SAP Retail
5 3 (0.44%) Shopify
6 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.29%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 94 (13.82%) Azure
2 43 (6.32%) AWS
2 43 (6.32%) Power Platform
3 38 (5.59%) SaaS
4 29 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (2.79%) Entra ID
7 18 (2.65%) GitHub
8 15 (2.21%) GCP
8 15 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (2.06%) IaaS
10 10 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.32%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.32%) Google Workspace
12 8 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.03%) Asana
13 7 (1.03%) Serverless
14 6 (0.88%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.59%) Firewall
2 19 (2.79%) Network Security
3 16 (2.35%) DNS
4 9 (1.32%) WAN
5 8 (1.18%) MPLS
6 6 (0.88%) BGP
6 6 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 6 (0.88%) LAN
6 6 (0.88%) NetScaler
6 6 (0.88%) VPN
7 5 (0.74%) Internet
7 5 (0.74%) Multicast
7 5 (0.74%) OSPF
7 5 (0.74%) VLAN
8 4 (0.59%) BIG-IP
8 4 (0.59%) DHCP
8 4 (0.59%) IPsec
8 4 (0.59%) Wireless
9 3 (0.44%) DKIM
9 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.71%) Power BI
2 17 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (2.35%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.18%) Metadata
4 8 (1.18%) Tableau
5 6 (0.88%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.74%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.59%) Big Data
8 3 (0.44%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.29%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.29%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.15%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 84 (12.35%) JIRA
2 11 (1.62%) Git
2 11 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.74%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.59%) GitLab
5 3 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.15%) Appium
6 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.15%) LSMW
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 303 (44.56%) Social Skills
2 259 (38.09%) Finance
3 104 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (12.06%) Banking
5 73 (10.74%) Public Sector
6 62 (9.12%) Organisational Skills
7 47 (6.91%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (6.32%) Retail
9 38 (5.59%) Legal
10 24 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (3.38%) Marketing
12 20 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (2.79%) Investment Banking
14 18 (2.65%) Financial Institution
15 14 (2.06%) Front Office
15 14 (2.06%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.18%) General Ledger
17 8 (1.18%) Local Government
17 8 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 219 (32.21%) Project Manager
2 87 (12.79%) Analyst
3 80 (11.76%) Lead
4 71 (10.44%) Business Analyst
5 66 (9.71%) Senior
6 32 (4.71%) Architect
6 32 (4.71%) Developer
6 32 (4.71%) Senior Manager
7 29 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
8 28 (4.12%) Consultant
9 25 (3.68%) IT Manager
10 24 (3.53%) Senior Project Manager
11 23 (3.38%) Technical Manager
12 22 (3.24%) Network Engineer
13 20 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (2.79%) Change Manager
15 18 (2.65%) IT Project Manager
16 17 (2.50%) Programme Manager
17 16 (2.35%) Infrastructure Manager
17 16 (2.35%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.35%) Middleware
2 12 (1.76%) REST
3 9 (1.32%) XML
4 6 (0.88%) React
5 5 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.59%) OAuth
6 4 (0.59%) React Native
6 4 (0.59%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.44%) ADO
7 3 (0.44%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.44%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.44%) HTML
7 3 (0.44%) Kafka
7 3 (0.44%) PySpark
7 3 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (0.44%) Web Services
7 3 (0.44%) ZK
8 2 (0.29%) .NET
8 2 (0.29%) CSS
8 2 (0.29%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.15%) Onboarding
2 34 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 19 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.91%) Cloud Native
8 12 (1.76%) Derivative
9 11 (1.62%) Life Science
10 10 (1.47%) Credit Risk
10 10 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.32%) IoT
11 9 (1.32%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.18%) NHS
12 8 (1.18%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.03%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.88%) PropTech
14 6 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.53%) Windows
2 11 (1.62%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.18%) Linux
3 8 (1.18%) VMS
4 6 (0.88%) Unix
5 4 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (37.21%) Agile
2 252 (37.06%) Project Management
3 235 (34.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 125 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (18.09%) Migration
6 103 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 101 (14.85%) Decision-Making
8 100 (14.71%) PRINCE2
9 96 (14.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 81 (11.91%) Waterfall
11 80 (11.76%) Change Management
12 74 (10.88%) DevOps
13 68 (10.00%) Risk Management
14 66 (9.71%) Roadmaps
15 65 (9.56%) AI
16 59 (8.68%) Validation
17 56 (8.24%) Project Governance
17 56 (8.24%) Requirements Gathering
17 56 (8.24%) Scrum
18 55 (8.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 46 (6.76%) SQL
2 35 (5.15%) Python
3 12 (1.76%) Java
4 7 (1.03%) C#
5 6 (0.88%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.74%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.74%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.59%) Bicep
7 4 (0.59%) Go
8 3 (0.44%) Bash
8 3 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.29%) ABAP
9 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.29%) C++
9 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.29%) Rust
10 1 (0.15%) Korn
10 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 89 (13.09%) Degree
2 83 (12.21%) PMP
3 81 (11.91%) Security Cleared
4 67 (9.85%) SC Cleared
5 66 (9.71%) PMI Certification
6 15 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.76%) APMP
9 10 (1.47%) CBAP
9 10 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.18%) CISSP
12 7 (1.03%) APMG
12 7 (1.03%) CCNP
12 7 (1.03%) IIBA
13 6 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (14.41%) PMO
2 41 (6.03%) QA
3 23 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.38%) NIST
4 21 (3.09%) GDPR
5 18 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.18%) GRC
7 7 (1.03%) SLA
8 6 (0.88%) Basel III
8 6 (0.88%) GAAP
8 6 (0.88%) HL7
8 6 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.74%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.74%) IFRS
9 5 (0.74%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.74%) MiFID
10 4 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.44%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 22 (3.24%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.88%) Docker
4 3 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.29%) Firmware
5 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (3.82%) Terraform
2 16 (2.35%) Ansible
3 13 (1.91%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.29%) Control-M
8 1 (0.15%) Avamar
8 1 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.15%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.15%) logstash
8 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 128 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.62%) SAP
3 34 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 31 (4.56%) Oracle
5 20 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.79%) Google
7 14 (2.06%) Cisco
7 14 (2.06%) Palo Alto
8 11 (1.62%) CyberArk
8 11 (1.62%) Workday
9 9 (1.32%) Citrix
9 9 (1.32%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.03%) Adobe
10 7 (1.03%) F5
10 7 (1.03%) Software AG
11 6 (0.88%) NEC
11 6 (0.88%) Sitecore
11 6 (0.88%) VMware
12 5 (0.74%) CheckPoint
12 5 (0.74%) Murex