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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 67 70
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -17
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 815 498 542
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 3.70% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 4.00% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 322 339
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £459 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +3.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £671
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 10
10th Percentile £38.86 £41.75 £31.69
25th Percentile £41.00 £55.63 £32.97
Median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £35.90
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +81.06% -48.71%
75th Percentile £57.50 £78.13 £64.69
90th Percentile £57.75 £94.82 £65.30
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £38.24
% change year-on-year -12.00% +63.44% -39.54%

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 17,959 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -2 109 £538 -12.24% 169
West London -3 24 £450 -20.00% 33
South London -8 9 £450 -10.00% 16
North London +1 3 £575 +4.59% 1
East London +1 3 £500 - 21
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 (6.87%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.66%) Confluence
3 15 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.74%) JBoss
5 5 (0.61%) Apache
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.49%) CMS
6 4 (0.49%) SAS
6 4 (0.49%) WordPress
7 3 (0.37%) Appian
7 3 (0.37%) Kentico
8 1 (0.12%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) MTS
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 71 (8.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (5.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (5.40%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (5.28%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.61%) Trello
7 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 24 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.61%) ProductWriter
3 5 (0.61%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 4 (0.49%) Magento
4 4 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.37%) Endur
5 3 (0.37%) iTrent
5 3 (0.37%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.37%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.25%) Actimize
6 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.25%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.25%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 144 (17.67%) Azure
2 66 (8.10%) Power Platform
3 59 (7.24%) AWS
4 48 (5.89%) SaaS
5 45 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 24 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (2.82%) GCP
10 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (1.96%) GitHub
12 14 (1.72%) PowerApps
13 13 (1.60%) Power Automate
14 11 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
15 10 (1.23%) IaaS
15 10 (1.23%) PaaS
16 9 (1.10%) Google Workspace
16 9 (1.10%) OCI
17 7 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 7 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.87%) Firewall
2 29 (3.56%) Network Security
3 26 (3.19%) DNS
4 22 (2.70%) VPN
5 20 (2.45%) Wireless
6 19 (2.33%) WAN
7 17 (2.09%) BGP
7 17 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (1.72%) DHCP
8 14 (1.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (1.72%) VLAN
9 12 (1.47%) Multicast
10 11 (1.35%) LAN
11 9 (1.10%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.98%) Cisco Wireless
13 7 (0.86%) IPsec
13 7 (0.86%) OSPF
14 6 (0.74%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.61%) DMZ
15 5 (0.61%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.01%) Power BI
2 16 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (0.86%) Big Data
5 6 (0.74%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.74%) Delta Lake
5 6 (0.74%) Hadoop
6 5 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.49%) Metadata
7 4 (0.49%) Tableau
8 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.37%) Power Query
8 3 (0.37%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.25%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 88 (10.80%) JIRA
2 12 (1.47%) Git
3 9 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.61%) GitLab
4 5 (0.61%) Selenium
5 4 (0.49%) Subversion
6 2 (0.25%) Appium
6 2 (0.25%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.25%) TestNG
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
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%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 357 (43.80%) Social Skills
2 331 (40.61%) Finance
3 128 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (11.78%) Banking
5 78 (9.57%) Public Sector
6 56 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (6.01%) Retail
8 47 (5.77%) Legal
9 38 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (3.80%) Front Office
12 28 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (3.31%) Telecoms
14 25 (3.07%) Marketing
15 24 (2.94%) Local Government
16 17 (2.09%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.96%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.96%) Manufacturing
18 13 (1.60%) Law
19 11 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 217 (26.63%) Project Manager
2 109 (13.37%) Analyst
3 90 (11.04%) Senior
4 76 (9.33%) Business Analyst
4 76 (9.33%) Lead
5 49 (6.01%) Architect
6 47 (5.77%) Consultant
7 43 (5.28%) Senior Manager
8 39 (4.79%) Delivery Manager
9 38 (4.66%) Network Engineer
10 33 (4.05%) Senior Project Manager
11 31 (3.80%) Developer
11 31 (3.80%) IT Manager
12 25 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (2.58%) IT Project Manager
14 19 (2.33%) Technical Manager
15 18 (2.21%) Programme Manager
16 17 (2.09%) Transformation Manager
17 14 (1.72%) Project Leader
17 14 (1.72%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.82%) Terraform
2 20 (2.45%) REST
3 11 (1.35%) Middleware
4 7 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (0.86%) React
4 7 (0.86%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (0.86%) SOAP
5 6 (0.74%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.74%) PySpark
5 6 (0.74%) SailPoint
5 6 (0.74%) XML
6 5 (0.61%) Kafka
6 5 (0.61%) LDAP
6 5 (0.61%) Web Services
7 4 (0.49%) ADO
7 4 (0.49%) JDBC
7 4 (0.49%) OAuth
7 4 (0.49%) React Native
7 4 (0.49%) SAML
7 4 (0.49%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.13%) Onboarding
2 39 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 34 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.19%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.45%) Derivative
7 20 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (2.33%) Cloud Native
9 17 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.60%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.60%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.47%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.35%) Credit Risk
13 11 (1.35%) Life Science
14 10 (1.23%) IoT
14 10 (1.23%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.10%) FMCG
16 8 (0.98%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.05%) Windows
2 20 (2.45%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.21%) Linux
4 9 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.61%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.49%) Unix
7 3 (0.37%) Android
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.37%) VMS
8 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (48.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 297 (36.44%) Agile
3 251 (30.80%) Project Management
4 160 (19.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 152 (18.65%) Migration
6 137 (16.81%) Change Management
7 136 (16.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 127 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
9 126 (15.46%) PRINCE2
10 117 (14.36%) Decision-Making
11 106 (13.01%) AI
12 103 (12.64%) Waterfall
13 90 (11.04%) Roadmaps
14 84 (10.31%) DevOps
15 83 (10.18%) Risk Management
16 82 (10.06%) User Acceptance Testing
17 81 (9.94%) Workshop Facilitation
18 77 (9.45%) Business Analysis
18 77 (9.45%) Scrum
19 73 (8.96%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 47 (5.77%) SQL
2 44 (5.40%) Python
3 21 (2.58%) PowerShell
4 13 (1.60%) Java
5 11 (1.35%) VBA
6 8 (0.98%) C#
7 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.61%) Korn
9 4 (0.49%) Bash
9 4 (0.49%) BeanShell
9 4 (0.49%) Go
9 4 (0.49%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.25%) Bicep
11 2 (0.25%) C
11 2 (0.25%) C++
11 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.12%) COBOL
12 1 (0.12%) RPG
12 1 (0.12%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 120 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 98 (12.02%) PMP
3 96 (11.78%) SC Cleared
4 86 (10.55%) Degree
5 85 (10.43%) PMI Certification
6 22 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 12 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.47%) CISSP
10 12 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 11 (1.35%) CCNP
11 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.86%) CISM
14 6 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.61%) IIBA
16 4 (0.49%) APMG
16 4 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (13.99%) PMO
2 45 (5.52%) QA
3 25 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.45%) GDPR
5 20 (2.45%) NIST
6 15 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 10 (1.23%) SLA
9 9 (1.10%) GRC
10 5 (0.61%) P3O
11 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.37%) GxP
12 3 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.37%) NCSC
13 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.25%) SEPA
13 2 (0.25%) TARGET2
System Software
1 39 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.23%) Docker
4 6 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.61%) vSphere
6 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.25%) Firmware
9 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) IAG
9 1 (0.12%) oVirt
9 1 (0.12%) RHEV
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.72%) Ansible
2 14 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.60%) FortiGate
4 9 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.98%) Cisco Prime
6 7 (0.86%) Puppet
7 6 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.49%) SCCM
10 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.25%) Nessus
12 1 (0.12%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.12%) WMI
12 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 180 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.87%) SAP
2 56 (6.87%) ServiceNow
3 43 (5.28%) Cisco
4 31 (3.80%) Salesforce
5 27 (3.31%) Oracle
6 24 (2.94%) VMware
7 23 (2.82%) Fortinet
8 22 (2.70%) F5
9 21 (2.58%) Palo Alto
10 19 (2.33%) Zscaler
11 18 (2.21%) Murex
12 16 (1.96%) Google
13 15 (1.84%) Databricks
14 14 (1.72%) Juniper
15 13 (1.60%) Bloomberg
16 12 (1.47%) Workday
17 8 (0.98%) Red Hat
18 7 (0.86%) CyberArk
18 7 (0.86%) NEC