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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 71 55
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 550 514 826
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.95% 3.28% 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 3.68% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 321 552
10th Percentile £335 £388 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £691 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £738 £766
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 1
10th Percentile £57.50 £30.58 -
25th Percentile - £32.28 £68.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -51.72% +20.83%
75th Percentile £82.50 £43.54 £76.25
90th Percentile £97.28 £65.03 -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.90 £57.49
% change year-on-year +26.63% -37.56% -4.18%

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 12,857 13,965 18,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.44% 89.14% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,458 8,984 13,161
10th Percentile £331 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 163 244
10th Percentile £17.93 £17.30 £18.52
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £46.81 £56.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.60 £77.50
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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +4 98 £595 +3.48% 299
South London -4 10 £500 +5.26% 16
West London -10 8 £563 +12.50% 22
East London +7 7 £900 +89.47% 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 (4.91%) Confluence
2 25 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.55%) 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 37 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (5.27%) Microsoft Project
3 27 (4.91%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (3.64%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.73%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.73%) Trello
7 3 (0.55%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
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 38 (6.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.91%) Endur
3 7 (1.27%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (1.27%) Workday HCM
4 6 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.09%) SAP GTS
5 5 (0.91%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.73%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.73%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 4 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.73%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.55%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.55%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.55%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 80 (14.55%) Azure
2 32 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (4.36%) SaaS
4 23 (4.18%) AWS
5 21 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 17 (3.09%) Entra ID
8 16 (2.91%) GCP
8 16 (2.91%) OCI
9 12 (2.18%) PaaS
10 11 (2.00%) GitHub
11 10 (1.82%) IaaS
12 8 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.27%) Asana
14 4 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.73%) Smartsheet
15 3 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (0.55%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (0.55%) Azure Service Bus
15 3 (0.55%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.73%) Firewall
1 15 (2.73%) WAN
2 13 (2.36%) DNS
3 11 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.45%) VPN
5 7 (1.27%) LAN
5 7 (1.27%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.91%) NetScaler
6 5 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.73%) Multicast
7 4 (0.73%) Network Security
7 4 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.73%) tcpdump
7 4 (0.73%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.55%) DKIM
8 3 (0.55%) DMARC
9 2 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.36%) MPLS
9 2 (0.36%) SSH
9 2 (0.36%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.91%) Power BI
2 12 (2.18%) SAP HANA
3 7 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.09%) Tableau
5 5 (0.91%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.55%) Big Data
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.36%) Metadata
8 2 (0.36%) Power Query
9 1 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.18%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (11.45%) JIRA
2 10 (1.82%) Git
3 6 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.73%) GitLab
4 4 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (0.73%) Subversion
4 4 (0.73%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.55%) 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
1 248 (45.09%) Social Skills
2 212 (38.55%) Finance
3 60 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (10.73%) Banking
5 45 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.27%) Front Office
7 27 (4.91%) Retail
8 25 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (3.82%) Legal
10 21 (3.82%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.82%) Marketing
11 17 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (3.09%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (2.18%) Back Office
13 12 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.82%) Law
15 8 (1.45%) Billing
15 8 (1.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 150 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 94 (17.09%) Analyst
3 77 (14.00%) Business Analyst
4 67 (12.18%) Lead
5 56 (10.18%) Senior
6 44 (8.00%) Consultant
7 36 (6.55%) Architect
8 25 (4.55%) IT Manager
9 21 (3.82%) Senior Manager
10 17 (3.09%) IT Project Manager
10 17 (3.09%) Senior Project Manager
11 16 (2.91%) Programme Manager
12 15 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
12 15 (2.73%) Infrastructure Manager
12 15 (2.73%) SAP Manager
13 14 (2.55%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 13 (2.36%) Developer
15 11 (2.00%) Oracle Consultant
15 11 (2.00%) SAP Architect
15 11 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.64%) Web Services
2 13 (2.36%) REST
3 9 (1.64%) .NET
4 6 (1.09%) Middleware
4 6 (1.09%) Node.js
4 6 (1.09%) RESTful
5 5 (0.91%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.73%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.73%) Ultra Messaging
6 4 (0.73%) ZK
7 3 (0.55%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.55%) React
7 3 (0.55%) YAML
8 2 (0.36%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.36%) ADO
8 2 (0.36%) HTML
8 2 (0.36%) Spring
9 1 (0.18%) ATL
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.00%) Product Ownership
2 20 (3.64%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 19 (3.45%) PMI
4 16 (2.91%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.45%) Market Risk
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%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.27%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.09%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.09%) Life Science
10 6 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.45%) Windows
2 15 (2.73%) Linux
3 10 (1.82%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.27%) Unix
6 5 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.73%) 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
1 221 (40.18%) Agile
2 185 (33.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 176 (32.00%) Project Management
4 95 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
5 94 (17.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 85 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 81 (14.73%) Change Management
8 75 (13.64%) Risk Management
9 69 (12.55%) Migration
10 67 (12.18%) Roadmaps
11 66 (12.00%) Business Analysis
12 61 (11.09%) Waterfall
13 57 (10.36%) Requirements Gathering
13 57 (10.36%) Scrum
14 55 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
15 53 (9.64%) PRINCE2
15 53 (9.64%) User Acceptance Testing
16 48 (8.73%) Decision-Making
17 46 (8.36%) DevOps
17 46 (8.36%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.82%) SQL
2 42 (7.64%) Python
3 28 (5.09%) PowerShell
4 18 (3.27%) Bash
5 12 (2.18%) Java
6 5 (0.91%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.73%) C#
7 4 (0.73%) C++
7 4 (0.73%) Perl
7 4 (0.73%) VBA
8 3 (0.55%) ABAP
8 3 (0.55%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.36%) PHP
9 2 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.18%) COBOL
10 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.18%) Go
10 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.18%) RPG
Qualifications
1 95 (17.27%) Degree
2 71 (12.91%) Security Cleared
3 54 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 51 (9.27%) PMI Certification
5 43 (7.82%) PMP
6 15 (2.73%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.18%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.00%) CBAP
9 10 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.91%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 5 (0.91%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 4 (0.73%) CISM
12 4 (0.73%) CISSP
12 4 (0.73%) ISEB
12 4 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.73%) MBA
12 4 (0.73%) PhD
13 3 (0.55%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.00%) PMO
2 27 (4.91%) QA
3 17 (3.09%) GDPR
4 16 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.73%) MiFID
6 12 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (2.00%) EMIR
8 9 (1.64%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.64%) Data Quality
9 8 (1.45%) NIST
10 6 (1.09%) NCSC
10 6 (1.09%) SLA
11 5 (0.91%) Def Stans
11 5 (0.91%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.91%) PSD2
12 4 (0.73%) COBIT
12 4 (0.73%) GMP
12 4 (0.73%) GRC
12 4 (0.73%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.91%) Docker
3 5 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.73%) NFS
4 4 (0.73%) Veritas File System
4 4 (0.73%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (0.73%) 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 (2.73%) Ansible
2 14 (2.55%) Terraform
3 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.91%) Grafana
5 5 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.73%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.73%) QRadar
6 4 (0.73%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (0.73%) SCCM
7 3 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.55%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 84 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 65 (11.82%) SAP
3 45 (8.18%) Oracle
4 21 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.18%) Workday
7 11 (2.00%) Cisco
7 11 (2.00%) Google
8 10 (1.82%) VMware
9 9 (1.64%) CyberArk
10 8 (1.45%) Citrix
11 6 (1.09%) Apple
11 6 (1.09%) IBM
11 6 (1.09%) Planview
12 5 (0.91%) ION Trading
12 5 (0.91%) Splunk
12 5 (0.91%) TIBCO
13 4 (0.73%) Aruba
13 4 (0.73%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.73%) Solace