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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 69 54
Rank change year-on-year +6 -15 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 553 516 838
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.94% 3.28% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.68% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 322 567
10th Percentile £335 £371 £363
25th Percentile £444 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £678 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £738 £757
England median daily rate £525 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 1
10th Percentile £58.75 £32.27 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £33.65 £68.75
Median hourly rate £67.18 £35.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.94% -51.72% +20.83%
75th Percentile £79.22 £50.28 £76.25
90th Percentile £94.82 £65.45 -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £36.80 £54.99
% change year-on-year +23.53% -33.07% -8.36%

All Process and 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 12,961 14,023 18,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.39% 89.17% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,517 9,049 13,046
10th Percentile £331 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 166 250
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +0.76% -
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.38 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 +10 103 £573 -4.58% 152
South London -3 10 £500 +5.26% 15
West London -10 10 £525 +5.00% 15
East London +7 7 £900 +100.00% 13
North London - 2 £550 - 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 27 (4.88%) Confluence
2 25 (4.52%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.54%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.36%) Appian
5 2 (0.36%) CMS
5 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 40 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (5.61%) Microsoft Project
3 28 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
4 27 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (3.80%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.90%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.90%) Trello
7 3 (0.54%) Oracle Smart View
7 3 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.18%) InDesign
9 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.18%) Revit
9 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 29 (5.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.89%) Endur
3 7 (1.27%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (1.27%) SAP GTS
3 7 (1.27%) Workday HCM
4 6 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.90%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.72%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.54%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.54%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.54%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.54%) ProductWriter
7 3 (0.54%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.54%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 83 (15.01%) Azure
2 32 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (4.52%) SaaS
4 23 (4.16%) AWS
5 22 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.44%) Power Platform
7 17 (3.07%) Entra ID
7 17 (3.07%) OCI
8 16 (2.89%) GCP
9 11 (1.99%) GitHub
9 11 (1.99%) PaaS
10 9 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.63%) IaaS
11 7 (1.27%) Asana
12 4 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.72%) Figma
12 4 (0.72%) Google Workspace
12 4 (0.72%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.72%) Smartsheet
13 3 (0.54%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.71%) Firewall
1 15 (2.71%) WAN
2 13 (2.35%) DNS
3 11 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.45%) VPN
5 7 (1.27%) LAN
5 7 (1.27%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.90%) NetScaler
6 5 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
6 5 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.72%) Multicast
7 4 (0.72%) Network Security
7 4 (0.72%) tcpdump
7 4 (0.72%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.54%) DKIM
8 3 (0.54%) DMARC
9 2 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.36%) SNMP
9 2 (0.36%) SSH
9 2 (0.36%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.89%) Power BI
2 8 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.08%) Tableau
4 5 (0.90%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.72%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.54%) Big Data
6 3 (0.54%) Oracle ODI
6 3 (0.54%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.36%) Metadata
7 2 (0.36%) Power Query
8 1 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.18%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.18%) Looker
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (11.57%) JIRA
2 10 (1.81%) Git
3 6 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.72%) GitLab
4 4 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (0.72%) Subversion
4 4 (0.72%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.18%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.18%) Selenium
General
1 242 (43.76%) Social Skills
2 217 (39.24%) Finance
3 69 (12.48%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (9.04%) Banking
5 47 (8.50%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.24%) Front Office
7 27 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
7 27 (4.88%) Retail
8 23 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (3.98%) Legal
9 22 (3.98%) Marketing
10 20 (3.62%) Manufacturing
11 17 (3.07%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.99%) Back Office
16 10 (1.81%) Law
17 8 (1.45%) Billing
17 8 (1.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 151 (27.31%) Project Manager
2 102 (18.44%) Analyst
3 85 (15.37%) Business Analyst
4 66 (11.93%) Lead
5 54 (9.76%) Senior
6 43 (7.78%) Consultant
7 28 (5.06%) Architect
8 26 (4.70%) IT Manager
9 21 (3.80%) Senior Manager
10 17 (3.07%) IT Project Manager
10 17 (3.07%) Programme Manager
10 17 (3.07%) Senior Project Manager
11 16 (2.89%) SAP Manager
12 15 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
13 14 (2.53%) Infrastructure Manager
14 13 (2.35%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 12 (2.17%) Developer
15 12 (2.17%) SAP Project Manager
16 11 (1.99%) Oracle Consultant
16 11 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.35%) REST
2 11 (1.99%) Web Services
3 8 (1.45%) .NET
4 6 (1.08%) Middleware
4 6 (1.08%) Node.js
4 6 (1.08%) RESTful
5 5 (0.90%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.72%) Ultra Messaging
6 4 (0.72%) ZK
7 3 (0.54%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.54%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.54%) React
7 3 (0.54%) YAML
8 2 (0.36%) ADO
8 2 (0.36%) HTML
8 2 (0.36%) Spring
9 1 (0.18%) ATL
9 1 (0.18%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.15%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.16%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.80%) PMI
4 20 (3.62%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.63%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.45%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.27%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.27%) Market Risk
9 7 (1.27%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.08%) Life Science
10 6 (1.08%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.24%) Windows
2 15 (2.71%) Linux
3 10 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.27%) Unix
6 5 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.72%) Solaris
8 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.18%) Android
9 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.18%) VMS
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (41.23%) Agile
2 180 (32.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 175 (31.65%) Project Management
4 101 (18.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 100 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (14.65%) Change Management
7 80 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 77 (13.92%) Risk Management
9 71 (12.84%) Migration
10 69 (12.48%) Business Analysis
11 68 (12.30%) Roadmaps
12 61 (11.03%) Workshop Facilitation
13 60 (10.85%) Waterfall
14 59 (10.67%) Requirements Gathering
14 59 (10.67%) Scrum
15 57 (10.31%) PRINCE2
16 56 (10.13%) User Acceptance Testing
17 51 (9.22%) DevOps
18 49 (8.86%) Decision-Making
18 49 (8.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.78%) SQL
2 42 (7.59%) Python
3 27 (4.88%) PowerShell
4 18 (3.25%) Bash
5 12 (2.17%) Java
6 4 (0.72%) C++
6 4 (0.72%) Perl
6 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.72%) VBA
7 3 (0.54%) ABAP
7 3 (0.54%) C#
7 3 (0.54%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.36%) PHP
8 2 (0.36%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.18%) COBOL
9 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.18%) Go
9 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.18%) RPG
Qualifications
1 96 (17.36%) Degree
2 70 (12.66%) Security Cleared
3 53 (9.58%) PMI Certification
4 52 (9.40%) SC Cleared
5 42 (7.59%) PMP
6 16 (2.89%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.17%) CBAP
7 12 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.90%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 5 (0.90%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 4 (0.72%) CISM
11 4 (0.72%) CISSP
11 4 (0.72%) ISEB
11 4 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.72%) MBA
11 4 (0.72%) PhD
12 3 (0.54%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.51%) PMO
2 32 (5.79%) QA
3 19 (3.44%) GDPR
4 15 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.71%) MiFID
5 13 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.99%) EMIR
7 9 (1.63%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.63%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.27%) NIST
8 7 (1.27%) PSD2
8 7 (1.27%) SLA
9 6 (1.08%) NCSC
9 6 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.90%) Def Stans
10 5 (0.90%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.72%) COBIT
11 4 (0.72%) GMP
11 4 (0.72%) SEPA
12 3 (0.54%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 19 (3.44%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.90%) Docker
3 5 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.72%) NFS
4 4 (0.72%) Veritas File System
4 4 (0.72%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.18%) RACF
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (2.71%) Ansible
2 13 (2.35%) Terraform
3 9 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.90%) Grafana
5 5 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.72%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.72%) QRadar
6 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (0.72%) SCCM
7 3 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.54%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 89 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 55 (9.95%) SAP
3 46 (8.32%) Oracle
4 23 (4.16%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.62%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.35%) Google
7 12 (2.17%) Workday
8 11 (1.99%) Cisco
9 10 (1.81%) VMware
10 9 (1.63%) CyberArk
11 8 (1.45%) Citrix
11 8 (1.45%) IBM
12 7 (1.27%) Planview
13 6 (1.08%) Apple
14 5 (0.90%) ION Trading
14 5 (0.90%) Splunk
14 5 (0.90%) TIBCO
15 4 (0.72%) Aruba
15 4 (0.72%) Qualys
15 4 (0.72%) SaltStack