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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 69 65
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 703 498 598
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.60% 3.75% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 4.06% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 324 410
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £450 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £659 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 11
10th Percentile £37.06 £35.58 -
25th Percentile - £42.44 £20.98
Median hourly rate £41.00 £51.25 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +92.09% -53.60%
75th Percentile £51.13 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £56.63 £75.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £41.00 £65.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.92% +85.71% -41.67%

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 17,355 12,260 15,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.20% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,526 8,183 11,073
10th Percentile £359 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.80% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 229 295
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.80 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -3 106 £565 -9.60% 106
West London -4 18 £513 -2.38% 24
South London +6 17 £475 -20.83% 4
North London +1 2 £544 -1.14% 2
East London +1 2 £590 - 14
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 43 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 40 (5.69%) Confluence
3 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.85%) CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.43%) Appian
5 3 (0.43%) Camunda
5 3 (0.43%) Kentico
5 3 (0.43%) SAS
5 3 (0.43%) WordPress
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.14%) CloudStack
Applications
1 62 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (6.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 46 (6.54%) Microsoft Project
4 40 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.56%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.28%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.85%) ProductWriter
4 6 (0.85%) Summit
5 5 (0.71%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.43%) Endur
6 3 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.43%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.28%) Magento
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.28%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 94 (13.37%) Azure
2 52 (7.40%) AWS
3 45 (6.40%) Power Platform
4 35 (4.98%) SaaS
5 28 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 14 (1.99%) GitHub
9 12 (1.71%) IaaS
10 10 (1.42%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (1.42%) Google Workspace
10 10 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
11 9 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
11 9 (1.28%) Serverless
11 9 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.41%) Firewall
2 22 (3.13%) DNS
3 18 (2.56%) Network Security
4 15 (2.13%) VPN
5 12 (1.71%) WAN
6 11 (1.56%) DHCP
6 11 (1.56%) Wireless
7 9 (1.28%) BGP
7 9 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (1.14%) LAN
8 8 (1.14%) MPLS
8 8 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (1.00%) VLAN
10 6 (0.85%) Internet
10 6 (0.85%) Multicast
11 5 (0.71%) Broadband
11 5 (0.71%) OSPF
12 4 (0.57%) BIG-IP
12 4 (0.57%) IPsec
12 4 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.98%) Power BI
2 14 (1.99%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.00%) Metadata
5 6 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.71%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.71%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.71%) Tableau
7 4 (0.57%) Big Data
7 4 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.28%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 83 (11.81%) JIRA
2 14 (1.99%) Git
3 8 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.85%) GitLab
5 5 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.43%) Selenium
7 2 (0.28%) Appium
7 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.28%) Subversion
8 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.14%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.14%) TestNG
8 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 309 (43.95%) Social Skills
2 265 (37.70%) Finance
3 102 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 75 (10.67%) Banking
6 59 (8.39%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (6.97%) Retail
8 44 (6.26%) Legal
8 44 (6.26%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (3.98%) Marketing
10 22 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.56%) Investment Banking
12 18 (2.56%) Local Government
13 16 (2.28%) Financial Institution
13 16 (2.28%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.99%) Front Office
14 14 (1.99%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 212 (30.16%) Project Manager
2 86 (12.23%) Analyst
3 69 (9.82%) Lead
4 65 (9.25%) Senior
5 54 (7.68%) Business Analyst
6 41 (5.83%) Architect
7 34 (4.84%) Consultant
8 33 (4.69%) Delivery Manager
9 32 (4.55%) Developer
10 31 (4.41%) Senior Manager
11 29 (4.13%) Network Engineer
12 27 (3.84%) IT Manager
13 24 (3.41%) Senior Project Manager
14 21 (2.99%) Change Manager
15 20 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.84%) Technical Manager
16 18 (2.56%) IT Project Manager
17 17 (2.42%) Infrastructure Manager
18 16 (2.28%) Programme Manager
18 16 (2.28%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.28%) REST
2 15 (2.13%) Middleware
3 5 (0.71%) PySpark
3 5 (0.71%) React
3 5 (0.71%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (0.71%) XML
4 4 (0.57%) 802.1X
4 4 (0.57%) ADO
4 4 (0.57%) OAuth
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.57%) React Native
4 4 (0.57%) SailPoint
4 4 (0.57%) Web Services
5 3 (0.43%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.43%) AWS CDK
5 3 (0.43%) Kafka
5 3 (0.43%) VML
6 2 (0.28%) IDoc
6 2 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.28%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.69%) Onboarding
2 32 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.27%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 16 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.99%) Derivative
9 13 (1.85%) IoT
10 12 (1.71%) Credit Risk
10 12 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.56%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.42%) Life Science
13 8 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.14%) FMCG
13 8 (1.14%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.84%) Windows
2 12 (1.71%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.14%) Linux
4 5 (0.71%) Unix
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (38.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 257 (36.56%) Agile
3 230 (32.72%) Project Management
4 128 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (18.07%) Migration
6 119 (16.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 106 (15.08%) Decision-Making
8 105 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 101 (14.37%) PRINCE2
10 99 (14.08%) Change Management
11 84 (11.95%) Waterfall
12 83 (11.81%) AI
13 75 (10.67%) Risk Management
14 70 (9.96%) DevOps
15 69 (9.82%) Roadmaps
16 64 (9.10%) Analytics
17 62 (8.82%) Validation
18 57 (8.11%) Project Governance
19 55 (7.82%) Business Analysis
20 53 (7.54%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (6.40%) SQL
2 40 (5.69%) Python
3 10 (1.42%) Java
3 10 (1.42%) VBA
4 8 (1.14%) C#
4 8 (1.14%) PowerShell
5 5 (0.71%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.57%) Bicep
6 4 (0.57%) Go
6 4 (0.57%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.43%) Bash
7 3 (0.43%) C++
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 (0.28%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.28%) Rust
9 1 (0.14%) COBOL
9 1 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 88 (12.52%) Security Cleared
2 83 (11.81%) PMP
3 82 (11.66%) Degree
4 68 (9.67%) PMI Certification
5 67 (9.53%) SC Cleared
6 17 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.71%) CCNP
10 9 (1.28%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.28%) CISSP
11 8 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (1.00%) APMG
13 5 (0.71%) CBAP
13 5 (0.71%) CCNA
13 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.71%) IIBA
13 5 (0.71%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (13.94%) PMO
2 43 (6.12%) QA
3 21 (2.99%) GDPR
3 21 (2.99%) NIST
4 19 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 18 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.56%) GRC
7 9 (1.28%) SLA
8 7 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.71%) HL7
10 4 (0.57%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.57%) MiFID
10 4 (0.57%) NCSC
11 3 (0.43%) GAAP
11 3 (0.43%) GxP
11 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (3.84%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.14%) Docker
3 6 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.28%) vSphere
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (3.13%) Terraform
2 10 (1.42%) FortiGate
3 9 (1.28%) Ansible
3 9 (1.28%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.43%) SCCM
6 3 (0.43%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.28%) Nessus
8 1 (0.14%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.14%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) logstash
8 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 133 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.26%) ServiceNow
3 39 (5.55%) SAP
4 29 (4.13%) Oracle
5 27 (3.84%) Cisco
6 20 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.70%) Palo Alto
8 15 (2.13%) Fortinet
9 13 (1.85%) Google
10 11 (1.56%) F5
10 11 (1.56%) VMware
11 10 (1.42%) Juniper
12 9 (1.28%) Murex
13 8 (1.14%) CyberArk
13 8 (1.14%) Workday
13 8 (1.14%) Zscaler
14 7 (1.00%) Bloomberg
15 6 (0.85%) Adobe
15 6 (0.85%) Citrix
15 6 (0.85%) NEC