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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 66 60
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 668 470 628
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.70% 3.80% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 4.12% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 301 428
10th Percentile £365 £375 £372
25th Percentile £453 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £663 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 12
10th Percentile £27.84 £24.33 -
25th Percentile £28.72 £26.83 £20.98
Median hourly rate £30.31 £32.00 £25.59
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +25.05% +2.77%
75th Percentile £31.78 £40.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £32.58 £45.60 £67.70
England median hourly rate £37.00 £57.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -35.65% +69.12% -45.60%

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 15,948 11,394 15,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.35% 92.23% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,673 7,685 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 187 308
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.24 £15.81
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +21.78% -25.23%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.83
England median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%

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 21 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
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 21 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 +2 98 £550 -8.33% 53
South London -2 17 £525 -12.50% 3
West London -14 17 £550 - 10
East London -5 2 £590 - 8
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 40 (5.99%) Confluence
2 32 (4.79%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.75%) CMS
5 3 (0.45%) Camunda
6 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Kentico
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 54 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (6.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (6.59%) Microsoft Project
4 41 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (2.25%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.75%) Trello
7 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Revit
8 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.65%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 6 (0.90%) ProductWriter
4 5 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.75%) Summit
5 3 (0.45%) Endur
5 3 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.45%) SAP Retail
5 3 (0.45%) Shopify
6 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.30%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.30%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.30%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 92 (13.77%) Azure
2 43 (6.44%) AWS
3 41 (6.14%) Power Platform
4 38 (5.69%) SaaS
5 29 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (2.54%) Entra ID
7 17 (2.54%) GitHub
8 15 (2.25%) GCP
8 15 (2.25%) IaaS
9 14 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.35%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.35%) Google Workspace
12 8 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.05%) Asana
14 6 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (0.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.69%) Firewall
2 18 (2.69%) Network Security
3 17 (2.54%) DNS
4 9 (1.35%) MPLS
5 8 (1.20%) WAN
6 7 (1.05%) BGP
7 6 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 6 (0.90%) Multicast
7 6 (0.90%) NetScaler
7 6 (0.90%) OSPF
8 5 (0.75%) Internet
8 5 (0.75%) LAN
8 5 (0.75%) VLAN
8 5 (0.75%) VPN
9 4 (0.60%) BIG-IP
9 4 (0.60%) DHCP
9 4 (0.60%) IPsec
9 4 (0.60%) Wireless
10 3 (0.45%) Broadband
10 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.49%) Power BI
2 18 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.25%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.20%) Metadata
4 8 (1.20%) Tableau
5 6 (0.90%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (0.75%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.60%) Big Data
8 3 (0.45%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.15%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.15%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 88 (13.17%) JIRA
2 11 (1.65%) Git
2 11 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.75%) Bitbucket
3 5 (0.75%) GitLab
4 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.15%) Appium
5 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.15%) LSMW
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.15%) TestRail
5 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 292 (43.71%) Social Skills
2 260 (38.92%) Finance
3 108 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (12.43%) Banking
5 68 (10.18%) Public Sector
6 60 (8.98%) Organisational Skills
7 48 (7.19%) Presentation Skills
8 41 (6.14%) Retail
9 34 (5.09%) Legal
10 24 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.59%) Marketing
11 20 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.84%) Investment Banking
13 18 (2.69%) Financial Institution
14 14 (2.10%) Front Office
14 14 (2.10%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.35%) Manufacturing
17 8 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 208 (31.14%) Project Manager
2 92 (13.77%) Analyst
3 81 (12.13%) Lead
4 73 (10.93%) Business Analyst
5 62 (9.28%) Senior
6 33 (4.94%) Architect
7 31 (4.64%) Delivery Manager
7 31 (4.64%) Developer
8 30 (4.49%) Senior Manager
9 28 (4.19%) Consultant
10 24 (3.59%) IT Manager
11 22 (3.29%) Senior Project Manager
11 22 (3.29%) Technical Manager
12 21 (3.14%) Network Engineer
13 20 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (2.69%) Programme Manager
15 17 (2.54%) Change Manager
15 17 (2.54%) IT Project Manager
16 16 (2.40%) Transformation Manager
17 15 (2.25%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.40%) Middleware
2 12 (1.80%) REST
3 9 (1.35%) XML
4 5 (0.75%) React
5 4 (0.60%) OAuth
5 4 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.60%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.45%) ADO
6 3 (0.45%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.45%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.45%) HTML
6 3 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.45%) React Native
6 3 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.45%) Web Services
6 3 (0.45%) ZK
7 2 (0.30%) .NET
7 2 (0.30%) CSS
7 2 (0.30%) IDoc
7 2 (0.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.79%) Management Information System
2 31 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.44%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.65%) Derivative
8 11 (1.65%) Life Science
9 10 (1.50%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.50%) Credit Risk
10 9 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.20%) IoT
12 7 (1.05%) NHS
12 7 (1.05%) Tandem
12 7 (1.05%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.90%) Market Risk
13 6 (0.90%) PMI
13 6 (0.90%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.74%) Windows
2 12 (1.80%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.20%) VMS
4 7 (1.05%) Linux
5 6 (0.90%) Unix
6 4 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (37.72%) Agile
2 245 (36.68%) Project Management
3 220 (32.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 126 (18.86%) Migration
5 124 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (15.57%) Decision-Making
7 99 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 93 (13.92%) PRINCE2
9 86 (12.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 79 (11.83%) Waterfall
11 77 (11.53%) Change Management
12 70 (10.48%) DevOps
12 70 (10.48%) Roadmaps
13 69 (10.33%) Risk Management
14 60 (8.98%) Validation
15 59 (8.83%) Business Analysis
15 59 (8.83%) Workshop Facilitation
16 58 (8.68%) AI
16 58 (8.68%) Project Governance
17 57 (8.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 43 (6.44%) SQL
2 35 (5.24%) Python
3 11 (1.65%) Java
4 7 (1.05%) C#
5 6 (0.90%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.75%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.75%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.60%) Bicep
7 4 (0.60%) Go
8 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.45%) Bash
8 3 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.45%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.30%) ABAP
9 2 (0.30%) C++
9 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.30%) Rust
10 1 (0.15%) Korn
10 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (13.02%) Degree
2 79 (11.83%) PMP
2 79 (11.83%) Security Cleared
3 67 (10.03%) SC Cleared
4 63 (9.43%) PMI Certification
5 16 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.80%) APMP
8 10 (1.50%) CBAP
9 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.20%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.05%) APMG
11 7 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.05%) CCNP
11 7 (1.05%) IIBA
12 6 (0.90%) CISSP
13 5 (0.75%) RIBA
14 4 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (13.62%) PMO
2 42 (6.29%) QA
3 23 (3.44%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.44%) NIST
4 21 (3.14%) GDPR
5 18 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.20%) GRC
7 7 (1.05%) SLA
8 6 (0.90%) Basel III
8 6 (0.90%) HL7
8 6 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.75%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.75%) GAAP
9 5 (0.75%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.75%) MiFID
10 4 (0.60%) IFRS
10 4 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.45%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.90%) Docker
2 6 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.15%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (3.74%) Terraform
2 16 (2.40%) Ansible
3 11 (1.65%) Kubernetes
4 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.60%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Control-M
7 1 (0.15%) Avamar
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.15%) logstash
7 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 122 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.59%) SAP
3 33 (4.94%) ServiceNow
4 28 (4.19%) Oracle
5 21 (3.14%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.84%) Google
7 14 (2.10%) Cisco
7 14 (2.10%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.80%) CyberArk
9 11 (1.65%) Workday
10 9 (1.35%) Citrix
10 9 (1.35%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.20%) Software AG
12 7 (1.05%) Adobe
12 7 (1.05%) F5
13 6 (0.90%) NEC
13 6 (0.90%) VMware
14 5 (0.75%) Arista
14 5 (0.75%) CheckPoint
14 5 (0.75%) Murex