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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 69 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 724 507 589
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.67% 3.75% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 4.07% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 331 402
10th Percentile £363 £385 £373
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +3.27% -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 11
10th Percentile £37.06 £35.58 -
25th Percentile - £42.44 £20.98
Median hourly rate £41.00 £51.25 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +92.09% -58.47%
75th Percentile £51.13 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £56.63 £75.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.83% +71.43% -45.31%

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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 0 106 £558 -10.80% 37
West London +2 19 £494 -5.95% 13
South London -3 16 £450 -18.18% 3
East London +3 2 £590 - 11
North London -2 2 £538 -2.27% 1
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 43 (5.94%) SharePoint
2 38 (5.25%) Confluence
3 13 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.83%) CMS
5 3 (0.41%) Apache
5 3 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.41%) Appian
5 3 (0.41%) Camunda
5 3 (0.41%) Kentico
5 3 (0.41%) SAS
5 3 (0.41%) WordPress
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.14%) CloudStack
Applications
1 64 (8.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (7.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 48 (6.63%) Microsoft Project
4 41 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (1.38%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.24%) Loan IQ
3 7 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.83%) ProductWriter
4 6 (0.83%) SAP SD
4 6 (0.83%) Summit
5 3 (0.41%) Magento
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
5 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.41%) SAP Retail
5 3 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.28%) Endur
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.28%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 101 (13.95%) Azure
2 53 (7.32%) AWS
3 46 (6.35%) Power Platform
4 36 (4.97%) SaaS
5 30 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (3.18%) Entra ID
8 17 (2.35%) GitHub
9 12 (1.66%) IaaS
9 12 (1.66%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.38%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.38%) GCP
11 10 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (1.38%) Google Workspace
12 9 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (1.24%) OCI
12 9 (1.24%) Serverless
12 9 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (6.08%) Firewall
2 23 (3.18%) DNS
3 19 (2.62%) VPN
4 17 (2.35%) Network Security
5 13 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 13 (1.80%) Wireless
6 11 (1.52%) BGP
6 11 (1.52%) DHCP
6 11 (1.52%) WAN
7 10 (1.38%) VLAN
8 8 (1.10%) MPLS
8 8 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.97%) IPsec
9 7 (0.97%) LAN
9 7 (0.97%) Multicast
9 7 (0.97%) OSPF
10 6 (0.83%) Internet
11 5 (0.69%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.69%) Broadband
12 4 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (5.11%) Power BI
2 14 (1.93%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (0.97%) Metadata
5 6 (0.83%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.69%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.69%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.69%) Tableau
7 4 (0.55%) Big Data
7 4 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.41%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.28%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 83 (11.46%) JIRA
2 15 (2.07%) Git
3 9 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.83%) GitLab
5 5 (0.69%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.55%) Selenium
7 3 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.41%) Subversion
8 2 (0.28%) Appium
8 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.14%) Gatling
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.14%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.14%) TestNG
9 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 319 (44.06%) Social Skills
2 270 (37.29%) Finance
3 104 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 78 (10.77%) Banking
6 60 (8.29%) Organisational Skills
7 56 (7.73%) Retail
8 46 (6.35%) Legal
9 44 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (4.14%) Marketing
11 22 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.90%) Investment Banking
13 18 (2.49%) Local Government
14 17 (2.35%) Telecoms
15 16 (2.21%) Financial Institution
15 16 (2.21%) Front Office
16 15 (2.07%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.24%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 215 (29.70%) Project Manager
2 89 (12.29%) Analyst
3 69 (9.53%) Senior
4 68 (9.39%) Lead
5 55 (7.60%) Business Analyst
6 41 (5.66%) Architect
7 36 (4.97%) Consultant
8 33 (4.56%) Delivery Manager
8 33 (4.56%) Developer
9 31 (4.28%) Senior Manager
10 30 (4.14%) Network Engineer
11 27 (3.73%) IT Manager
12 24 (3.31%) Senior Project Manager
13 21 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (2.90%) Technical Manager
14 20 (2.76%) Change Manager
15 17 (2.35%) Infrastructure Manager
15 17 (2.35%) IT Project Manager
15 17 (2.35%) Transformation Manager
16 16 (2.21%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.21%) REST
2 14 (1.93%) Middleware
3 7 (0.97%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.69%) PySpark
4 5 (0.69%) React
4 5 (0.69%) XML
5 4 (0.55%) 802.1X
5 4 (0.55%) ADO
5 4 (0.55%) OAuth
5 4 (0.55%) React Native
5 4 (0.55%) VML
5 4 (0.55%) Web Services
6 3 (0.41%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.41%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.41%) Kafka
6 3 (0.41%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.28%) OpenID
7 2 (0.28%) RESTful
7 2 (0.28%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 42 (5.80%) Onboarding
2 33 (4.56%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.90%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.35%) Cloud Native
6 17 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (2.07%) Derivative
8 14 (1.93%) IoT
9 12 (1.66%) Life Science
9 12 (1.66%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.52%) Credit Risk
10 11 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.52%) Reinsurance
11 10 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.24%) FMCG
12 9 (1.24%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.10%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.90%) Windows
2 12 (1.66%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.24%) Linux
4 6 (0.83%) Unix
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (40.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 261 (36.05%) Agile
3 230 (31.77%) Project Management
4 131 (18.09%) Migration
4 131 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (17.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 109 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 106 (14.64%) PRINCE2
8 105 (14.50%) Change Management
8 105 (14.50%) Decision-Making
9 89 (12.29%) Waterfall
10 88 (12.15%) AI
11 73 (10.08%) Risk Management
12 72 (9.94%) DevOps
12 72 (9.94%) Roadmaps
13 67 (9.25%) Analytics
14 64 (8.84%) Validation
15 60 (8.29%) Project Governance
16 56 (7.73%) Business Analysis
17 55 (7.60%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (6.22%) SQL
2 42 (5.80%) Python
3 10 (1.38%) Java
3 10 (1.38%) VBA
4 9 (1.24%) PowerShell
5 8 (1.10%) C#
6 5 (0.69%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.55%) Bicep
7 4 (0.55%) Go
8 3 (0.41%) Bash
8 3 (0.41%) C++
8 3 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.41%) Korn
8 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.41%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.28%) Rust
10 1 (0.14%) ABAP
10 1 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 89 (12.29%) Security Cleared
2 85 (11.74%) PMP
3 82 (11.33%) Degree
4 68 (9.39%) PMI Certification
4 68 (9.39%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.66%) CCNP
9 10 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.38%) CISSP
10 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 7 (0.97%) APMG
11 7 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.83%) RIBA
13 5 (0.69%) CBAP
13 5 (0.69%) CCNA
13 5 (0.69%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.69%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (13.95%) PMO
2 43 (5.94%) QA
3 21 (2.90%) NIST
4 19 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.62%) GDPR
5 17 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.52%) GRC
7 10 (1.38%) SLA
8 7 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.69%) HL7
10 4 (0.55%) MiFID
10 4 (0.55%) NCSC
11 3 (0.41%) GAAP
11 3 (0.41%) GxP
11 3 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.24%) Docker
3 6 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.28%) vSphere
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (3.59%) Terraform
2 12 (1.66%) Ansible
2 12 (1.66%) FortiGate
3 9 (1.24%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.41%) SCCM
6 3 (0.41%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.28%) Nessus
8 1 (0.14%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.14%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) logstash
8 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 140 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.35%) ServiceNow
3 42 (5.80%) SAP
4 29 (4.01%) Cisco
4 29 (4.01%) Oracle
5 21 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.76%) Palo Alto
7 19 (2.62%) Fortinet
8 15 (2.07%) F5
9 14 (1.93%) Google
10 13 (1.80%) Juniper
11 12 (1.66%) Zscaler
12 11 (1.52%) VMware
13 9 (1.24%) Murex
14 8 (1.10%) Workday
15 7 (0.97%) Adobe
15 7 (0.97%) Bloomberg
15 7 (0.97%) CyberArk
15 7 (0.97%) NEC
16 6 (0.83%) Sitecore