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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 65 54
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 667 455 670
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.90% 3.59% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 3.92% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 285 475
10th Percentile £375 £366 £375
25th Percentile £455 £456 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £559
Median % change year-on-year - -1.61% -6.83%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £783
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile £29.01 £24.33 -
25th Percentile £31.65 £26.83 £20.98
Median hourly rate £36.95 £32.00 £23.33
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% +37.16% -14.36%
75th Percentile £48.80 £40.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.13 £45.60 £65.90
England median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -24.23% +81.82% -49.23%

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 15,277 11,605 15,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.33% 91.50% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,260 7,873 11,316
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 169 332
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.18 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +6 107 £550 -8.33% 86
South London +1 19 £513 -14.58% 2
West London -15 15 £538 +7.50% 8
East London +3 4 £590 - 9
North London - 2 £544 - 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 41 (6.15%) Confluence
2 26 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.60%) CMS
5 3 (0.45%) Camunda
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 63 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (7.35%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (7.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (2.40%) MS Visio
6 7 (1.05%) Trello
7 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.15%) InDesign
8 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 18 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.80%) Loan IQ
3 8 (1.20%) Endur
4 6 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 5 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.60%) Summit
7 3 (0.45%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.45%) ProductWriter
7 3 (0.45%) Shopify
8 2 (0.30%) Algo Collateral
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.30%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.30%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.30%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.30%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (14.84%) Azure
2 36 (5.40%) AWS
3 35 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (5.25%) SaaS
4 33 (4.95%) Power Platform
5 20 (3.00%) Entra ID
6 19 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (2.55%) GitHub
8 16 (2.40%) IaaS
9 15 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (1.95%) GCP
11 9 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.35%) PaaS
12 8 (1.20%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.20%) OCI
13 7 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.05%) Google Workspace
13 7 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.80%) Firewall
2 13 (1.95%) DNS
3 12 (1.80%) Network Security
4 11 (1.65%) NetScaler
5 9 (1.35%) MPLS
6 8 (1.20%) WAN
7 6 (0.90%) Internet
7 6 (0.90%) LAN
8 5 (0.75%) BGP
8 5 (0.75%) OSPF
9 4 (0.60%) Broadband
9 4 (0.60%) DHCP
9 4 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.45%) VPN
10 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.30%) IPsec
11 2 (0.30%) SAN
11 2 (0.30%) SSL
11 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.45%) Power BI
2 17 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.80%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.20%) Tableau
5 7 (1.05%) Metadata
6 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.75%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.60%) Big Data
8 4 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.60%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.45%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.45%) Oracle ODI
9 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 93 (13.94%) JIRA
2 11 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.50%) Git
4 5 (0.75%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.75%) GitLab
5 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.15%) Appium
6 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.15%) Dreamweaver
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%) TestRail
6 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 304 (45.58%) Social Skills
2 265 (39.73%) Finance
3 110 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (13.19%) Banking
5 67 (10.04%) Public Sector
6 55 (8.25%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (7.35%) Presentation Skills
8 39 (5.85%) Retail
9 34 (5.10%) Legal
10 28 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (3.30%) Marketing
12 19 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.85%) Investment Banking
13 17 (2.55%) Front Office
14 15 (2.25%) Financial Institution
15 14 (2.10%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.50%) Manufacturing
17 10 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (1.05%) Law
Job Titles
1 211 (31.63%) Project Manager
2 109 (16.34%) Analyst
3 89 (13.34%) Business Analyst
4 83 (12.44%) Lead
5 65 (9.75%) Senior
6 33 (4.95%) Consultant
7 31 (4.65%) Architect
8 30 (4.50%) Delivery Manager
9 29 (4.35%) Senior Manager
10 22 (3.30%) IT Manager
10 22 (3.30%) Technical Manager
11 21 (3.15%) Programme Manager
11 21 (3.15%) Senior Project Manager
12 20 (3.00%) Infrastructure Manager
13 17 (2.55%) Developer
14 16 (2.40%) IT Project Manager
15 15 (2.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 15 (2.25%) Migration Manager
15 15 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (1.95%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.55%) Middleware
2 8 (1.20%) REST
2 8 (1.20%) XML
3 5 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (0.75%) SailPoint
4 4 (0.60%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.60%) AWS CDK
4 4 (0.60%) HTML
4 4 (0.60%) Node.js
5 3 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.45%) React
5 3 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (0.45%) Web Services
5 3 (0.45%) YAML
5 3 (0.45%) ZK
6 2 (0.30%) CSS
6 2 (0.30%) IDoc
6 2 (0.30%) VML
6 2 (0.30%) XML Messaging
7 1 (0.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.25%) Onboarding
2 31 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.05%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 19 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.80%) Derivative
8 11 (1.65%) PMI
9 9 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.35%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.35%) Life Science
9 9 (1.35%) NHS
10 8 (1.20%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.20%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.05%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.95%) Windows
2 17 (2.55%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.35%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.20%) Linux
4 8 (1.20%) VMS
5 5 (0.75%) Unix
6 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (40.93%) Agile
2 228 (34.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 226 (33.88%) Project Management
4 130 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (17.39%) Migration
6 104 (15.59%) PRINCE2
7 100 (14.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 95 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 89 (13.34%) Decision-Making
10 80 (11.99%) Change Management
11 78 (11.69%) Workshop Facilitation
12 76 (11.39%) DevOps
12 76 (11.39%) Risk Management
13 75 (11.24%) Business Analysis
14 74 (11.09%) Scrum
14 74 (11.09%) Waterfall
15 73 (10.94%) Roadmaps
16 63 (9.45%) Validation
17 62 (9.30%) Project Governance
18 61 (9.15%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 44 (6.60%) SQL
2 30 (4.50%) Python
3 12 (1.80%) Java
3 12 (1.80%) PowerShell
4 7 (1.05%) Bash
5 5 (0.75%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.75%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.60%) Go
6 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.45%) C++
7 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.30%) ABAP
8 2 (0.30%) Bicep
8 2 (0.30%) C#
8 2 (0.30%) Rust
9 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 98 (14.69%) Degree
2 84 (12.59%) PMP
3 78 (11.69%) Security Cleared
4 74 (11.09%) PMI Certification
5 64 (9.60%) SC Cleared
6 20 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.10%) APMP
9 13 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.65%) CBAP
11 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.35%) IIBA
13 7 (1.05%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.90%) APMG
14 6 (0.90%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.75%) CISSP
15 5 (0.75%) RIBA
16 4 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (12.14%) PMO
2 52 (7.80%) QA
3 23 (3.45%) GDPR
4 21 (3.15%) NIST
5 20 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.85%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.20%) GRC
7 8 (1.20%) MiFID
8 7 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (1.05%) SLA
9 6 (0.90%) Basel III
10 5 (0.75%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.75%) GAAP
10 5 (0.75%) HL7
10 5 (0.75%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.75%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.60%) IFRS
11 4 (0.60%) NCSC
12 3 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 22 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.90%) Docker
4 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) RACF
6 1 (0.15%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (3.30%) Terraform
2 14 (2.10%) Ansible
3 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.65%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.30%) Control-M
5 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.15%) Avamar
6 1 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.15%) logstash
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.15%) SCCM
6 1 (0.15%) SCOM
6 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 121 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.90%) SAP
3 31 (4.65%) Oracle
4 30 (4.50%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.15%) Google
7 13 (1.95%) Citrix
7 13 (1.95%) CyberArk
8 9 (1.35%) Cisco
8 9 (1.35%) Software AG
8 9 (1.35%) Workday
9 8 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.05%) Adobe
11 5 (0.75%) Optimizely
11 5 (0.75%) Planview
11 5 (0.75%) Remedy
11 5 (0.75%) VMware
12 4 (0.60%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.60%) NEC
12 4 (0.60%) Sitecore