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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 67 65
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 697 464 611
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.70% 3.78% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 4.09% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 302 424
10th Percentile £376 £389 £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 £662 £695 £675
90th Percentile £763 £775 £775
England median daily rate £515 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -1.91% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 12
10th Percentile £36.27 £34.05 -
25th Percentile - £38.63 £20.98
Median hourly rate £41.00 £47.50 £25.59
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +85.62% +13.81%
75th Percentile £54.50 £65.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £57.05 £75.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £37.00 £65.00 £33.47
% change year-on-year -43.08% +94.23% -41.80%

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 16,739 11,333 15,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.30% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,153 7,596 11,160
10th Percentile £359 £344 £341
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 201 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -24.68%
75th Percentile £58.96 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +2 108 £550 -8.33% 73
South London +9 20 £500 -16.67% 6
West London -12 15 £525 - 14
North London +1 2 £544 -1.14% 1
East London - 2 £590 - 13
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 36 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 34 (4.88%) Confluence
3 13 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.00%) CMS
5 4 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.43%) Camunda
6 3 (0.43%) Kentico
6 3 (0.43%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) Apache
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.29%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 56 (8.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (6.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (6.17%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (1.87%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Revit
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.29%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 6 (0.86%) ProductWriter
5 5 (0.72%) Summit
6 3 (0.43%) Endur
6 3 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.43%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.43%) Shopify
7 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.29%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.29%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 100 (14.35%) Azure
2 45 (6.46%) AWS
2 45 (6.46%) Power Platform
3 36 (5.16%) SaaS
4 30 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (3.16%) Entra ID
7 17 (2.44%) GitHub
8 15 (2.15%) IaaS
9 13 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (1.72%) GCP
11 11 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (1.29%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.29%) Google Workspace
13 8 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.00%) OCI
14 7 (1.00%) Serverless
14 7 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.60%) Firewall
2 22 (3.16%) Network Security
3 19 (2.73%) DNS
4 11 (1.58%) WAN
5 9 (1.29%) MPLS
5 9 (1.29%) VPN
6 8 (1.15%) BGP
6 8 (1.15%) DHCP
6 8 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 8 (1.15%) Wireless
7 7 (1.00%) LAN
8 6 (0.86%) NetScaler
8 6 (0.86%) OSPF
8 6 (0.86%) VLAN
9 5 (0.72%) Broadband
9 5 (0.72%) Internet
9 5 (0.72%) Multicast
9 5 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.57%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.57%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.88%) Power BI
2 17 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.00%) Metadata
3 7 (1.00%) Tableau
4 6 (0.86%) Data Lake
4 6 (0.86%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.72%) Big Data
5 5 (0.72%) RDBMS
5 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.29%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.14%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 78 (11.19%) JIRA
2 11 (1.58%) Git
3 9 (1.29%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.72%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.72%) GitLab
5 3 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.14%) Appium
6 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.14%) LSMW
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.14%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 311 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 266 (38.16%) Finance
3 100 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (12.05%) Banking
5 76 (10.90%) Public Sector
6 61 (8.75%) Organisational Skills
7 48 (6.89%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (6.74%) Retail
9 42 (6.03%) Legal
10 24 (3.44%) Marketing
11 21 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (2.58%) Financial Institution
12 18 (2.58%) Investment Banking
13 16 (2.30%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.87%) Local Government
15 12 (1.72%) Front Office
16 10 (1.43%) General Ledger
16 10 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 219 (31.42%) Project Manager
2 91 (13.06%) Analyst
3 86 (12.34%) Lead
4 71 (10.19%) Business Analyst
5 67 (9.61%) Senior
6 38 (5.45%) Architect
7 32 (4.59%) Developer
8 31 (4.45%) Delivery Manager
8 31 (4.45%) Senior Manager
9 28 (4.02%) Consultant
9 28 (4.02%) Network Engineer
10 26 (3.73%) IT Manager
11 24 (3.44%) Senior Project Manager
12 21 (3.01%) Technical Manager
13 20 (2.87%) Change Manager
13 20 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (2.58%) IT Project Manager
15 16 (2.30%) Transformation Manager
16 15 (2.15%) Infrastructure Manager
17 14 (2.01%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.87%) Middleware
2 14 (2.01%) REST
3 9 (1.29%) XML
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.86%) React
5 4 (0.57%) OAuth
5 4 (0.57%) PySpark
5 4 (0.57%) React Native
5 4 (0.57%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.43%) ADO
6 3 (0.43%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.43%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.43%) HTML
6 3 (0.43%) Kafka
6 3 (0.43%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.43%) Web Services
6 3 (0.43%) ZK
7 2 (0.29%) .NET
7 2 (0.29%) CSS
7 2 (0.29%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.60%) Onboarding
2 34 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (2.87%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.58%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.87%) Derivative
7 13 (1.87%) IoT
8 12 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.58%) Life Science
9 11 (1.58%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.43%) Credit Risk
10 10 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.15%) NHS
13 6 (0.86%) Fixed Income
13 6 (0.86%) PKI
13 6 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.44%) Windows
2 11 (1.58%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.15%) Linux
4 6 (0.86%) Unix
5 5 (0.72%) VMS
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
1 261 (37.45%) Agile
2 252 (36.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 246 (35.29%) Project Management
4 131 (18.79%) Migration
5 125 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
6 108 (15.49%) PRINCE2
7 103 (14.78%) Decision-Making
8 102 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 101 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 86 (12.34%) Waterfall
11 85 (12.20%) Change Management
12 73 (10.47%) DevOps
13 72 (10.33%) Risk Management
14 66 (9.47%) Roadmaps
15 64 (9.18%) AI
16 59 (8.46%) Analytics
17 58 (8.32%) Business Analysis
17 58 (8.32%) Validation
18 57 (8.18%) Workshop Facilitation
19 56 (8.03%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 47 (6.74%) SQL
2 39 (5.60%) Python
3 12 (1.72%) Java
4 7 (1.00%) C#
4 7 (1.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (0.72%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.72%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.57%) Bicep
6 4 (0.57%) Go
7 3 (0.43%) Bash
7 3 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.43%) Korn
7 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.29%) ABAP
8 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.29%) C++
8 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.29%) Rust
8 2 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (12.91%) Degree
2 89 (12.77%) PMP
3 80 (11.48%) Security Cleared
4 73 (10.47%) PMI Certification
5 66 (9.47%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.87%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.58%) APMP
9 11 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.43%) CBAP
10 10 (1.43%) CCNP
10 10 (1.43%) CISSP
10 10 (1.43%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.00%) APMG
12 7 (1.00%) IIBA
13 6 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.72%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (13.63%) PMO
2 42 (6.03%) QA
3 24 (3.44%) NIST
4 22 (3.16%) GDPR
5 21 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.73%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.15%) GRC
8 7 (1.00%) SLA
9 6 (0.86%) Basel III
9 6 (0.86%) GAAP
9 6 (0.86%) HL7
9 6 (0.86%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.72%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.72%) IFRS
11 4 (0.57%) MiFID
12 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.43%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.43%) NCSC
12 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (3.44%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.86%) Docker
4 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.29%) Firmware
6 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (3.73%) Terraform
2 16 (2.30%) Ansible
3 12 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.00%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.29%) Control-M
8 1 (0.14%) Avamar
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.14%) logstash
8 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.14%) SCOM
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 130 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.03%) SAP
3 37 (5.31%) ServiceNow
4 32 (4.59%) Oracle
5 20 (2.87%) Cisco
6 19 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.58%) Palo Alto
8 16 (2.30%) Google
9 12 (1.72%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.58%) CyberArk
10 11 (1.58%) Workday
11 9 (1.29%) Citrix
11 9 (1.29%) F5
12 8 (1.15%) VMware
13 7 (1.00%) Adobe
13 7 (1.00%) Juniper
14 6 (0.86%) Murex
14 6 (0.86%) NEC
14 6 (0.86%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.86%) Zscaler