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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 70 70
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -15
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 825 501 555
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.06% 3.71% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 4.01% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 320 351
10th Percentile £363 £349 £381
25th Percentile £450 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £567 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 9
10th Percentile £32.84 £41.75 £31.14
25th Percentile £41.00 £55.63 £32.29
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +76.63% -45.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £78.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £57.63 £94.82 £65.60
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.95 £39.68
% change year-on-year -20.57% +58.64% -38.00%

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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -6 108 £544 -12.12% 120
West London -1 23 £475 -15.56% 26
South London -9 10 £450 -10.00% 13
East London +2 4 £525 - 20
North London 0 4 £550 - 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 56 (6.79%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.73%) Confluence
3 15 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.73%) JBoss
5 5 (0.61%) Apache
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.48%) CMS
6 4 (0.48%) SAS
6 4 (0.48%) WordPress
7 3 (0.36%) Appian
7 3 (0.36%) Kentico
8 1 (0.12%) Camunda
8 1 (0.12%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) MTS
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 71 (8.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (5.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 46 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (5.09%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.61%) Trello
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.61%) ProductWriter
3 5 (0.61%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 4 (0.48%) Magento
4 4 (0.48%) Summit
4 4 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.36%) Endur
5 3 (0.36%) iTrent
5 3 (0.36%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.36%) Shopify
6 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.24%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 142 (17.21%) Azure
2 65 (7.88%) Power Platform
3 61 (7.39%) AWS
4 49 (5.94%) SaaS
5 43 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (3.88%) Entra ID
8 24 (2.91%) GCP
9 23 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (2.06%) GitHub
10 17 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (1.70%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.58%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (1.21%) OCI
15 9 (1.09%) Google Workspace
15 9 (1.09%) IaaS
15 9 (1.09%) PaaS
16 8 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (0.85%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.79%) Firewall
2 29 (3.52%) Network Security
3 25 (3.03%) DNS
4 21 (2.55%) VPN
4 21 (2.55%) WAN
4 21 (2.55%) Wireless
5 17 (2.06%) BGP
5 17 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (1.70%) DHCP
6 14 (1.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 14 (1.70%) VLAN
7 12 (1.45%) LAN
7 12 (1.45%) Multicast
8 8 (0.97%) Cisco Wireless
8 8 (0.97%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.85%) IPsec
9 7 (0.85%) OSPF
10 6 (0.73%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.73%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.61%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.94%) Power BI
2 17 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.97%) Big Data
5 7 (0.85%) Metadata
6 6 (0.73%) Delta Lake
6 6 (0.73%) Hadoop
7 5 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.61%) Tableau
8 4 (0.48%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.36%) Power Query
9 3 (0.36%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.36%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.24%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.24%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 89 (10.79%) JIRA
2 13 (1.58%) Git
3 9 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.61%) Selenium
5 4 (0.48%) GitLab
5 4 (0.48%) Subversion
6 2 (0.24%) Appium
6 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.24%) TestNG
7 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.12%) Gatling
7 1 (0.12%) MLflow
7 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 367 (44.48%) Social Skills
2 326 (39.52%) Finance
3 132 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (11.64%) Banking
5 81 (9.82%) Public Sector
6 56 (6.79%) Organisational Skills
7 52 (6.30%) Retail
8 48 (5.82%) Legal
9 38 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (3.39%) Front Office
11 28 (3.39%) Marketing
11 28 (3.39%) Telecoms
12 27 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
13 21 (2.55%) Local Government
14 18 (2.18%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.94%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.94%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.45%) Law
17 11 (1.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 215 (26.06%) Project Manager
2 109 (13.21%) Analyst
3 87 (10.55%) Senior
4 78 (9.45%) Business Analyst
5 75 (9.09%) Lead
6 49 (5.94%) Architect
7 47 (5.70%) Consultant
8 39 (4.73%) Senior Manager
9 38 (4.61%) Delivery Manager
9 38 (4.61%) Network Engineer
10 34 (4.12%) Developer
11 32 (3.88%) IT Manager
12 30 (3.64%) Senior Project Manager
13 25 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (2.55%) IT Project Manager
15 19 (2.30%) Programme Manager
15 19 (2.30%) Transformation Manager
16 18 (2.18%) Technical Manager
17 17 (2.06%) Change Manager
18 14 (1.70%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.79%) Terraform
2 22 (2.67%) REST
3 12 (1.45%) Middleware
4 8 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (0.97%) React
5 7 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
5 7 (0.85%) SOAP
5 7 (0.85%) XML
6 6 (0.73%) 802.1X
6 6 (0.73%) PySpark
6 6 (0.73%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.61%) Kafka
7 5 (0.61%) VML
7 5 (0.61%) Web Services
8 4 (0.48%) ADO
8 4 (0.48%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.48%) JDBC
8 4 (0.48%) LDAP
8 4 (0.48%) Playwright
8 4 (0.48%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.18%) Onboarding
2 40 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.24%) Management Information System
4 28 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.42%) Derivative
6 20 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (2.30%) Cloud Native
7 19 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 19 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.58%) Credit Risk
9 13 (1.58%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.33%) Life Science
12 10 (1.21%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.09%) FMCG
13 9 (1.09%) IoT
14 8 (0.97%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.64%) Windows
2 19 (2.30%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.18%) Linux
4 9 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.73%) Unix
6 3 (0.36%) Android
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 303 (36.73%) Agile
3 259 (31.39%) Project Management
4 159 (19.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 150 (18.18%) Migration
6 140 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 137 (16.61%) Change Management
8 136 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
9 126 (15.27%) PRINCE2
10 122 (14.79%) Decision-Making
11 107 (12.97%) Waterfall
12 106 (12.85%) AI
13 91 (11.03%) Risk Management
14 89 (10.79%) Roadmaps
15 85 (10.30%) DevOps
16 83 (10.06%) Workshop Facilitation
17 81 (9.82%) User Acceptance Testing
18 80 (9.70%) Scrum
19 75 (9.09%) Business Analysis
20 74 (8.97%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 49 (5.94%) SQL
2 45 (5.45%) Python
3 18 (2.18%) PowerShell
4 13 (1.58%) Java
5 11 (1.33%) VBA
6 8 (0.97%) C#
7 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.61%) Korn
9 4 (0.48%) Bash
9 4 (0.48%) BeanShell
9 4 (0.48%) Go
9 4 (0.48%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.36%) Bicep
10 3 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.24%) C
11 2 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.12%) ABAP
12 1 (0.12%) COBOL
12 1 (0.12%) RPG
Qualifications
1 120 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 98 (11.88%) PMP
3 95 (11.52%) SC Cleared
4 85 (10.30%) Degree
4 85 (10.30%) PMI Certification
5 22 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.58%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 12 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.45%) CISSP
9 11 (1.33%) CCNP
10 10 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.97%) APMG
13 7 (0.85%) CISM
13 7 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.61%) IIBA
16 4 (0.48%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (14.42%) PMO
2 48 (5.82%) QA
3 24 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (2.91%) NIST
4 20 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.42%) GDPR
5 12 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.21%) SLA
7 9 (1.09%) GRC
8 8 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.61%) P3O
10 4 (0.48%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.48%) NCSC
10 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.36%) GxP
11 3 (0.36%) HL7
11 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.21%) Docker
4 5 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.61%) vSphere
5 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) IAG
7 1 (0.12%) oVirt
7 1 (0.12%) RHEV
7 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.70%) Ansible
3 13 (1.58%) FortiGate
4 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
5 8 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.85%) Puppet
7 6 (0.73%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.48%) SCCM
10 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.36%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.24%) Nessus
12 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.12%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.12%) WMI
12 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 179 (21.70%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.67%) SAP
2 55 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 44 (5.33%) Cisco
4 32 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 30 (3.64%) Oracle
6 25 (3.03%) VMware
7 23 (2.79%) Fortinet
8 20 (2.42%) F5
9 19 (2.30%) Palo Alto
10 18 (2.18%) Murex
11 17 (2.06%) Google
11 17 (2.06%) Zscaler
12 14 (1.70%) Databricks
12 14 (1.70%) Juniper
13 12 (1.45%) Bloomberg
14 10 (1.21%) Workday
15 8 (0.97%) CyberArk
15 8 (0.97%) Red Hat
16 7 (0.85%) Adobe