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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 66 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 696 463 610
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.74% 3.78% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 4.10% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 299 427
10th Percentile £363 £388 £374
25th Percentile £450 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +5.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £663 £695 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
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% -44.23%

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 16,527 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £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 248 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.38 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +1 107 £550 -10.20% 70
South London +3 18 £513 -14.58% 8
West London -10 16 £525 - 8
North London +1 2 £544 -1.14% 1
East London - 2 £590 - 11
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 37 (5.32%) Confluence
2 35 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.01%) 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 57 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (6.32%) Microsoft Project
4 40 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (2.01%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.29%) Trello
8 1 (0.14%) Revit
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.29%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.01%) 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 (14.37%) Azure
2 45 (6.47%) Power Platform
3 44 (6.32%) AWS
4 36 (5.17%) SaaS
5 29 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (3.16%) Entra ID
8 19 (2.73%) GitHub
9 16 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (2.16%) IaaS
11 14 (2.01%) GCP
12 11 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (1.29%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.29%) Google Workspace
14 8 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.01%) OCI
15 7 (1.01%) Serverless
16 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.75%) Firewall
2 21 (3.02%) Network Security
3 17 (2.44%) DNS
4 10 (1.44%) WAN
5 9 (1.29%) MPLS
6 8 (1.15%) VPN
7 7 (1.01%) BGP
7 7 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (0.86%) DHCP
8 6 (0.86%) LAN
8 6 (0.86%) NetScaler
8 6 (0.86%) Wireless
9 5 (0.72%) Internet
9 5 (0.72%) Multicast
9 5 (0.72%) OSPF
9 5 (0.72%) VLAN
10 4 (0.57%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.57%) Broadband
10 4 (0.57%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.89%) Power BI
2 18 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.01%) Metadata
4 7 (1.01%) Tableau
5 6 (0.86%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.72%) Big Data
6 5 (0.72%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.29%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.14%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.14%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 82 (11.78%) JIRA
2 12 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.58%) Git
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
1 306 (43.97%) Social Skills
2 265 (38.07%) Finance
3 101 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (11.93%) Banking
5 72 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 62 (8.91%) Organisational Skills
7 48 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (6.75%) Retail
9 43 (6.18%) Legal
10 24 (3.45%) Marketing
11 22 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (2.73%) Investment Banking
14 18 (2.59%) Financial Institution
15 16 (2.30%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.87%) Front Office
17 11 (1.58%) Local Government
18 10 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
19 9 (1.29%) General Ledger
19 9 (1.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 223 (32.04%) Project Manager
2 91 (13.07%) Analyst
3 85 (12.21%) Lead
4 72 (10.34%) Business Analyst
5 65 (9.34%) Senior
6 37 (5.32%) Architect
7 32 (4.60%) Developer
8 30 (4.31%) Senior Manager
9 29 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
10 28 (4.02%) Consultant
11 26 (3.74%) IT Manager
12 24 (3.45%) Network Engineer
12 24 (3.45%) Senior Project Manager
13 22 (3.16%) Technical Manager
14 20 (2.87%) Change Manager
15 19 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (2.59%) IT Project Manager
17 16 (2.30%) Programme Manager
17 16 (2.30%) Transformation Manager
18 15 (2.16%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.73%) 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
5 4 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
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%) Web Services
6 3 (0.43%) ZK
7 2 (0.29%) .NET
7 2 (0.29%) CSS
7 2 (0.29%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.75%) Onboarding
2 34 (4.89%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (2.44%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.87%) Derivative
8 13 (1.87%) IoT
9 12 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.58%) Life Science
10 11 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.44%) Credit Risk
12 8 (1.15%) NHS
12 8 (1.15%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.01%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.01%) Reinsurance
14 6 (0.86%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.45%) Windows
2 11 (1.58%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.15%) Linux
3 8 (1.15%) VMS
4 6 (0.86%) Unix
5 4 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (37.50%) Agile
2 248 (35.63%) Project Management
2 248 (35.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 130 (18.68%) Migration
4 125 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (15.23%) PRINCE2
6 104 (14.94%) Decision-Making
7 103 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 99 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 88 (12.64%) Waterfall
10 86 (12.36%) Change Management
11 76 (10.92%) DevOps
12 71 (10.20%) Risk Management
13 65 (9.34%) AI
13 65 (9.34%) Roadmaps
14 60 (8.62%) Analytics
15 58 (8.33%) Business Analysis
15 58 (8.33%) Validation
16 57 (8.19%) Scrum
17 56 (8.05%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 48 (6.90%) SQL
2 38 (5.46%) Python
3 12 (1.72%) Java
4 7 (1.01%) C#
4 7 (1.01%) 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 (12.93%) Degree
2 89 (12.79%) PMP
3 83 (11.93%) Security Cleared
4 73 (10.49%) PMI Certification
5 70 (10.06%) 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
10 10 (1.44%) CBAP
10 10 (1.44%) CISSP
10 10 (1.44%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.15%) CCNP
13 7 (1.01%) APMG
13 7 (1.01%) IIBA
14 6 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (14.22%) PMO
2 41 (5.89%) QA
3 24 (3.45%) NIST
4 22 (3.16%) GDPR
5 21 (3.02%) Data Quality
6 20 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.15%) GRC
8 7 (1.01%) 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
10 5 (0.72%) MiFID
11 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.43%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.01%) 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 28 (4.02%) Terraform
2 18 (2.59%) Ansible
3 15 (2.16%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.86%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.29%) Control-M
7 1 (0.14%) Avamar
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.14%) logstash
7 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.14%) SCOM
7 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 130 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.18%) SAP
3 36 (5.17%) ServiceNow
4 32 (4.60%) Oracle
5 19 (2.73%) Google
5 19 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.30%) Cisco
7 15 (2.16%) Palo Alto
8 11 (1.58%) CyberArk
8 11 (1.58%) Fortinet
8 11 (1.58%) Workday
9 9 (1.29%) Citrix
10 8 (1.15%) F5
10 8 (1.15%) VMware
11 7 (1.01%) Adobe
12 6 (0.86%) Murex
12 6 (0.86%) NEC
12 6 (0.86%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.72%) Software AG
13 5 (0.72%) Zscaler