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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 72 71
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -16
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 796 490 544
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.97% 3.65% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 3.95% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 317 367
10th Percentile £363 £350 £374
25th Percentile £450 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £757
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 7
10th Percentile £32.84 £39.60 £30.05
25th Percentile £41.00 £52.50 £34.55
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% - +0.78%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £66.50
90th Percentile £57.63 £75.50 £68.60
England median hourly rate £51.50 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +41.18% -33.59%

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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +2 109 £550 -8.33% 118
West London -5 23 £438 -16.67% 32
South London -4 9 £450 -14.29% 10
East London +3 3 £525 - 18
North London -2 3 £544 -1.14% 6
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 (7.04%) SharePoint
2 42 (5.28%) Confluence
3 18 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.75%) JBoss
5 5 (0.63%) Apache
5 5 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.50%) CMS
6 4 (0.50%) SAS
6 4 (0.50%) WordPress
7 3 (0.38%) Appian
7 3 (0.38%) Kentico
8 2 (0.25%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) MTS
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 70 (8.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (6.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 47 (5.90%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (5.53%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.63%) Trello
7 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.75%) ProductWriter
4 5 (0.63%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.50%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.50%) Magento
5 4 (0.50%) Summit
5 4 (0.50%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 3 (0.38%) Shopify
7 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.25%) Endur
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 134 (16.83%) Azure
2 64 (8.04%) Power Platform
3 60 (7.54%) AWS
4 47 (5.90%) SaaS
5 42 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (3.89%) Entra ID
8 22 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (2.64%) GCP
10 17 (2.14%) GitHub
11 14 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (1.76%) Power Automate
11 14 (1.76%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.63%) IaaS
13 11 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (1.26%) Google Workspace
14 10 (1.26%) OCI
15 9 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (1.01%) PaaS
17 7 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.78%) Firewall
2 28 (3.52%) DNS
3 26 (3.27%) Network Security
4 21 (2.64%) VPN
5 19 (2.39%) Wireless
6 18 (2.26%) WAN
7 15 (1.88%) BGP
7 15 (1.88%) DHCP
7 15 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (1.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 12 (1.51%) LAN
9 12 (1.51%) VLAN
10 10 (1.26%) Multicast
11 8 (1.01%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.88%) IPsec
12 7 (0.88%) MPLS
12 7 (0.88%) OSPF
13 6 (0.75%) Internet
13 6 (0.75%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.75%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.53%) Power BI
2 18 (2.26%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.26%) Big Data
5 7 (0.88%) Metadata
6 6 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.75%) Hadoop
6 6 (0.75%) Tableau
7 5 (0.63%) Delta Lake
8 4 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.38%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.25%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.25%) Power Query
10 2 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 95 (11.93%) JIRA
2 13 (1.63%) Git
3 9 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.63%) Selenium
5 4 (0.50%) GitLab
5 4 (0.50%) Subversion
6 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.25%) Appium
7 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.25%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.25%) TestNG
8 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.13%) Gatling
8 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 353 (44.35%) Social Skills
2 313 (39.32%) Finance
3 128 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (10.93%) Banking
5 78 (9.80%) Public Sector
6 57 (7.16%) Organisational Skills
7 55 (6.91%) Retail
8 51 (6.41%) Legal
9 38 (4.77%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (3.64%) Marketing
11 28 (3.52%) Telecoms
12 26 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (2.64%) Front Office
15 20 (2.51%) Financial Institution
16 19 (2.39%) Local Government
17 17 (2.14%) Investment Banking
17 17 (2.14%) Manufacturing
18 12 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (1.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 223 (28.02%) Project Manager
2 99 (12.44%) Analyst
3 82 (10.30%) Senior
4 73 (9.17%) Lead
5 69 (8.67%) Business Analyst
6 48 (6.03%) Architect
7 43 (5.40%) Consultant
8 39 (4.90%) Developer
9 36 (4.52%) Network Engineer
10 33 (4.15%) Senior Manager
11 32 (4.02%) Delivery Manager
12 28 (3.52%) IT Manager
13 24 (3.02%) Senior Project Manager
13 24 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (2.51%) Technical Manager
15 19 (2.39%) IT Project Manager
15 19 (2.39%) Transformation Manager
16 18 (2.26%) Infrastructure Manager
17 17 (2.14%) Change Manager
17 17 (2.14%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.14%) Terraform
2 22 (2.76%) REST
3 12 (1.51%) Middleware
4 8 (1.01%) React
5 7 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (0.75%) 802.1X
6 6 (0.75%) PySpark
6 6 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (0.75%) Web Services
7 5 (0.63%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.63%) Kafka
7 5 (0.63%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.63%) SOAP
7 5 (0.63%) VML
7 5 (0.63%) XML
8 4 (0.50%) OAuth
8 4 (0.50%) Playwright
8 4 (0.50%) React Native
9 3 (0.38%) ADO
10 2 (0.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.41%) Onboarding
2 35 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 34 (4.27%) Management Information System
4 28 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 20 (2.51%) Cloud Native
5 20 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (2.39%) Derivative
7 18 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.63%) Credit Risk
10 12 (1.51%) Life Science
10 12 (1.51%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.38%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.38%) IoT
12 10 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.13%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.13%) FMCG
13 9 (1.13%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.77%) Windows
2 18 (2.26%) Linux
2 18 (2.26%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.63%) Unix
5 3 (0.38%) Android
5 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.25%) VMS
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) CentOS
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (45.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 284 (35.68%) Agile
3 252 (31.66%) Project Management
4 152 (19.10%) Migration
5 149 (18.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 132 (16.58%) PRINCE2
6 132 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
7 130 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 127 (15.95%) Change Management
9 114 (14.32%) Decision-Making
10 106 (13.32%) AI
11 97 (12.19%) Waterfall
12 87 (10.93%) DevOps
13 86 (10.80%) Roadmaps
14 81 (10.18%) Risk Management
15 77 (9.67%) Analytics
16 74 (9.30%) User Acceptance Testing
17 73 (9.17%) Scrum
18 72 (9.05%) Business Analysis
19 71 (8.92%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 50 (6.28%) SQL
2 47 (5.90%) Python
3 17 (2.14%) PowerShell
4 15 (1.88%) Java
5 11 (1.38%) VBA
6 7 (0.88%) C#
7 6 (0.75%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.63%) Bash
9 4 (0.50%) Bicep
9 4 (0.50%) Go
9 4 (0.50%) Korn
10 3 (0.38%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.25%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.25%) C
11 2 (0.25%) C++
11 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.13%) COBOL
12 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 115 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 101 (12.69%) PMP
3 90 (11.31%) SC Cleared
4 87 (10.93%) PMI Certification
5 86 (10.80%) Degree
6 23 (2.89%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.76%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.51%) CISSP
10 11 (1.38%) CCNP
10 11 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 8 (1.01%) APMG
12 7 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.75%) CISM
13 6 (0.75%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.63%) IIBA
15 4 (0.50%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (14.20%) PMO
2 44 (5.53%) QA
3 24 (3.02%) NIST
4 22 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (2.64%) Data Quality
6 19 (2.39%) GDPR
7 13 (1.63%) SLA
8 9 (1.13%) GRC
9 7 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.63%) P3O
11 4 (0.50%) NCSC
12 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.38%) GxP
12 3 (0.38%) HL7
12 3 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (4.52%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.13%) Docker
4 5 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.50%) vSphere
6 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.25%) Firmware
7 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) oVirt
8 1 (0.13%) RHEV
8 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (1.88%) Ansible
1 15 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.63%) FortiGate
4 8 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.88%) Puppet
6 6 (0.75%) Cisco Prime
6 6 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.38%) SCCM
8 3 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.25%) Nessus
9 2 (0.25%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.13%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.13%) SCOM
10 1 (0.13%) WMI
10 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 171 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.66%) ServiceNow
3 49 (6.16%) SAP
4 42 (5.28%) Cisco
5 27 (3.39%) Oracle
5 27 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 24 (3.02%) VMware
7 20 (2.51%) Fortinet
8 19 (2.39%) Google
8 19 (2.39%) Palo Alto
9 18 (2.26%) F5
10 17 (2.14%) Zscaler
11 16 (2.01%) Murex
12 14 (1.76%) Juniper
13 11 (1.38%) Databricks
14 10 (1.26%) Bloomberg
15 9 (1.13%) CyberArk
15 9 (1.13%) NEC
15 9 (1.13%) Workday
16 8 (1.01%) Red Hat