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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 62 68
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 863 536 537
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.21% 4.01% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 4.33% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 348 330
10th Percentile £363 £347 £387
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £668 £695 £673
90th Percentile £754 £775 £739
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 9
10th Percentile £24.81 £57.50 £31.14
25th Percentile £30.30 - £32.29
Median hourly rate £41.00 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +85.71% -28.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £82.50 £63.75
90th Percentile - £97.28 £65.60
England median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £36.80
% change year-on-year -13.04% +56.25% -38.67%

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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £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 £668 £663 £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 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -8 121 £568 -5.02% 29
West London +4 30 £450 -25.00% 25
South London -12 8 £450 -10.00% 7
East London +3 5 £463 -48.61% 7
North London -2 3 £575 +4.59% 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 53 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.63%) Confluence
3 16 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.70%) JBoss
6 5 (0.58%) Apache
6 5 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.58%) CMS
7 4 (0.46%) SAS
7 4 (0.46%) WordPress
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.35%) Appian
8 3 (0.35%) Kentico
9 1 (0.12%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) MTS
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 71 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (5.45%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.70%) Trello
7 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.12%) Simulink
8 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 28 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.58%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.58%) SAP Payroll
3 5 (0.58%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 4 (0.46%) Magento
4 4 (0.46%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.46%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.35%) iTrent
5 3 (0.35%) ProductWriter
5 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.23%) Eikon
6 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.23%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 166 (19.24%) Azure
2 65 (7.53%) Power Platform
3 61 (7.07%) SaaS
4 58 (6.72%) AWS
5 55 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (4.40%) Entra ID
8 29 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (3.13%) GCP
10 19 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (1.85%) PowerApps
12 15 (1.74%) GitHub
13 13 (1.51%) Power Automate
13 13 (1.51%) SuccessFactors
14 12 (1.39%) OCI
14 12 (1.39%) PaaS
15 10 (1.16%) IaaS
15 10 (1.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 10 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 9 (1.04%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.26%) Firewall
2 32 (3.71%) Network Security
3 27 (3.13%) DNS
4 21 (2.43%) VPN
4 21 (2.43%) WAN
5 20 (2.32%) BGP
6 19 (2.20%) Wireless
7 18 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (1.62%) DHCP
8 14 (1.62%) Multicast
9 13 (1.51%) LAN
9 13 (1.51%) VLAN
10 11 (1.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 10 (1.16%) OSPF
11 10 (1.16%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.93%) Cisco Wireless
13 7 (0.81%) Internet
13 7 (0.81%) Kerberos
14 6 (0.70%) DMZ
14 6 (0.70%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.33%) Power BI
2 17 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.16%) Big Data
5 7 (0.81%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.70%) Delta Lake
6 6 (0.70%) Hadoop
6 6 (0.70%) Tableau
7 5 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.46%) Metadata
9 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.35%) Power Query
9 3 (0.35%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 96 (11.12%) JIRA
2 13 (1.51%) Git
3 9 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.81%) Selenium
5 5 (0.58%) GitLab
6 4 (0.46%) Subversion
7 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.23%) Appium
8 2 (0.23%) Postman
8 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.23%) TestNG
9 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.12%) Gatling
9 1 (0.12%) MLflow
9 1 (0.12%) PowerBuilder
9 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 368 (42.64%) Social Skills
2 365 (42.29%) Finance
3 139 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (11.70%) Banking
5 83 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 67 (7.76%) Organisational Skills
7 50 (5.79%) Legal
8 45 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
9 43 (4.98%) Retail
10 33 (3.82%) Front Office
10 33 (3.82%) Local Government
10 33 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
11 32 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (2.78%) Telecoms
13 22 (2.55%) Marketing
14 17 (1.97%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.85%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.74%) Law
17 14 (1.62%) Financial Institution
18 12 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 251 (29.08%) Project Manager
2 120 (13.90%) Analyst
3 105 (12.17%) Senior
4 79 (9.15%) Business Analyst
4 79 (9.15%) Lead
5 53 (6.14%) Senior Manager
6 51 (5.91%) Consultant
7 47 (5.45%) Senior Project Manager
8 46 (5.33%) Architect
8 46 (5.33%) Delivery Manager
9 36 (4.17%) Network Engineer
10 33 (3.82%) IT Manager
11 32 (3.71%) Developer
12 26 (3.01%) IT Project Manager
13 24 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (2.55%) Technical Manager
15 21 (2.43%) Programme Manager
16 17 (1.97%) Transformation Manager
17 16 (1.85%) Delivery Project Manager
17 16 (1.85%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.55%) REST
1 22 (2.55%) Terraform
2 10 (1.16%) Middleware
3 7 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
3 7 (0.81%) SOAP
4 6 (0.70%) 802.1X
4 6 (0.70%) LDAP
4 6 (0.70%) PySpark
4 6 (0.70%) React
4 6 (0.70%) SailPoint
5 5 (0.58%) HTML
5 5 (0.58%) Kafka
5 5 (0.58%) OAuth
5 5 (0.58%) Playwright
5 5 (0.58%) SAML
5 5 (0.58%) Web Services
5 5 (0.58%) XML
6 4 (0.46%) JDBC
6 4 (0.46%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.14%) Onboarding
2 43 (4.98%) Product Ownership
3 36 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 29 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.43%) Derivative
7 20 (2.32%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.20%) Cloud Native
8 19 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.85%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.62%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.27%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.16%) Credit Risk
13 10 (1.16%) IoT
13 10 (1.16%) PKI
14 9 (1.04%) FMCG
14 9 (1.04%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.82%) Windows
2 20 (2.32%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.97%) Linux
4 9 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.35%) Android
6 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.35%) macOS
6 3 (0.35%) Unix
6 3 (0.35%) VMS
7 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (50.98%) Stakeholder Management
2 318 (36.85%) Agile
3 265 (30.71%) Project Management
4 175 (20.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 156 (18.08%) Migration
6 151 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
7 147 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 140 (16.22%) Change Management
9 137 (15.87%) PRINCE2
10 124 (14.37%) AI
11 122 (14.14%) Decision-Making
12 113 (13.09%) Waterfall
13 103 (11.94%) Risk Management
14 92 (10.66%) DevOps
15 87 (10.08%) Workshop Facilitation
16 86 (9.97%) Roadmaps
17 85 (9.85%) Business Analysis
17 85 (9.85%) User Acceptance Testing
18 83 (9.62%) Scrum
19 82 (9.50%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 49 (5.68%) Python
2 46 (5.33%) SQL
3 23 (2.67%) PowerShell
4 14 (1.62%) Java
5 11 (1.27%) VBA
6 10 (1.16%) C#
7 6 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.58%) Korn
9 4 (0.46%) Bash
9 4 (0.46%) BeanShell
10 3 (0.35%) C
10 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.23%) ABAP
11 2 (0.23%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.23%) Bicep
11 2 (0.23%) C++
11 2 (0.23%) COBOL
11 2 (0.23%) RPG
11 2 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 128 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 111 (12.86%) PMP
3 104 (12.05%) SC Cleared
4 98 (11.36%) PMI Certification
5 93 (10.78%) Degree
6 22 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.62%) CISSP
8 14 (1.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 13 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 12 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.16%) CCNP
13 9 (1.04%) CISM
14 8 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.81%) PgMP
16 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.70%) IIBA
17 5 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (12.51%) PMO
2 53 (6.14%) QA
3 25 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.67%) GDPR
5 21 (2.43%) NIST
6 15 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 10 (1.16%) SLA
9 8 (0.93%) GRC
10 6 (0.70%) P3O
11 4 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.35%) NCSC
13 2 (0.23%) IFRS
13 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 40 (4.63%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.04%) Docker
4 7 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.70%) vSphere
6 4 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.23%) Firmware
8 2 (0.23%) IAG
8 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) oVirt
9 1 (0.12%) RHEV
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (1.85%) Ansible
1 16 (1.85%) Kubernetes
1 16 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.39%) FortiGate
3 9 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
5 7 (0.81%) Puppet
6 6 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.46%) SCCM
9 3 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.35%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.23%) Nessus
11 1 (0.12%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.12%) Grafana
11 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.12%) WMI
11 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 210 (24.33%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.30%) SAP
3 57 (6.60%) ServiceNow
4 45 (5.21%) Cisco
5 37 (4.29%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.36%) Oracle
7 28 (3.24%) VMware
8 20 (2.32%) Fortinet
9 19 (2.20%) F5
10 18 (2.09%) Murex
10 18 (2.09%) Palo Alto
11 17 (1.97%) Google
11 17 (1.97%) Zscaler
12 16 (1.85%) Bloomberg
13 14 (1.62%) Databricks
13 14 (1.62%) Juniper
14 11 (1.27%) CyberArk
15 10 (1.16%) Workday
16 9 (1.04%) Ariba
16 9 (1.04%) Red Hat