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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 69 67
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 734 491 563
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.70% 3.62% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 3.93% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 325 386
10th Percentile £363 £385 £365
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £37.85 £35.58 £20.98
25th Percentile - £42.44 £23.33
Median hourly rate £41.00 £51.25 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +58.72% -49.74%
75th Percentile £56.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £58.00 £75.00 £68.30
England median hourly rate £51.50 £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.17% +71.43% -45.74%

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 17,625 12,495 14,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.13% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 8,354 10,656
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 234 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.90 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -7.89% -21.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -3 108 £550 -10.20% 81
West London +6 21 £494 -5.95% 14
South London -6 16 £450 -14.29% 6
East London +1 2 £590 - 11
North London -2 2 £538 -2.27% 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 47 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 38 (5.18%) Confluence
3 16 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.68%) 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 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.14%) CloudStack
Applications
1 59 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (6.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (5.99%) Microsoft Project
4 41 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.27%) Trello
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.82%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.82%) ProductWriter
3 6 (0.82%) SAP SD
4 5 (0.68%) Summit
5 4 (0.54%) Magento
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.41%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.27%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.27%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 109 (14.85%) Azure
2 54 (7.36%) AWS
3 51 (6.95%) Power Platform
4 37 (5.04%) SaaS
5 33 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (3.68%) Entra ID
8 19 (2.59%) GitHub
9 14 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (1.91%) GCP
10 13 (1.77%) IaaS
11 12 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
12 11 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.36%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.36%) Google Workspace
13 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (1.36%) OCI
14 9 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (1.23%) PowerApps
14 9 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.95%) Firewall
2 27 (3.68%) DNS
3 21 (2.86%) Network Security
4 20 (2.72%) VPN
5 16 (2.18%) Wireless
6 15 (2.04%) WAN
7 14 (1.91%) BGP
7 14 (1.91%) DHCP
7 14 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (1.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 13 (1.77%) VLAN
9 10 (1.36%) LAN
9 10 (1.36%) Multicast
10 9 (1.23%) MPLS
11 7 (0.95%) IPsec
11 7 (0.95%) OSPF
11 7 (0.95%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.82%) Internet
13 5 (0.68%) BIG-IP
13 5 (0.68%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.31%) Power BI
2 17 (2.32%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (0.82%) Data Lake
4 6 (0.82%) Metadata
5 5 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.68%) Tableau
6 4 (0.54%) Big Data
6 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.54%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.54%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.41%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 80 (10.90%) JIRA
2 16 (2.18%) Git
3 10 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.82%) GitLab
5 5 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.54%) Selenium
6 4 (0.54%) Subversion
7 3 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.14%) Appium
8 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.14%) Gatling
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.14%) TestNG
General
1 318 (43.32%) Social Skills
2 270 (36.78%) Finance
3 108 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 72 (9.81%) Banking
6 59 (8.04%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (7.77%) Retail
8 47 (6.40%) Legal
9 39 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
10 32 (4.36%) Marketing
11 23 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (3.13%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.45%) Local Government
13 17 (2.32%) Investment Banking
14 16 (2.18%) Financial Institution
15 15 (2.04%) Front Office
16 14 (1.91%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 212 (28.88%) Project Manager
2 82 (11.17%) Analyst
3 70 (9.54%) Senior
4 69 (9.40%) Lead
5 49 (6.68%) Business Analyst
6 43 (5.86%) Architect
7 39 (5.31%) Consultant
8 35 (4.77%) Network Engineer
9 33 (4.50%) Delivery Manager
9 33 (4.50%) Developer
9 33 (4.50%) Senior Manager
10 29 (3.95%) IT Manager
11 25 (3.41%) Senior Project Manager
12 23 (3.13%) Technical Manager
13 20 (2.72%) Change Manager
13 20 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (2.59%) IT Project Manager
15 18 (2.45%) Infrastructure Manager
15 18 (2.45%) Programme Manager
16 16 (2.18%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.45%) REST
2 13 (1.77%) Middleware
3 7 (0.95%) SAP Fiori
4 6 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.82%) Web Services
4 6 (0.82%) XML
5 5 (0.68%) PySpark
5 5 (0.68%) React
5 5 (0.68%) VML
6 4 (0.54%) 802.1X
6 4 (0.54%) OAuth
6 4 (0.54%) React Native
7 3 (0.41%) ADO
7 3 (0.41%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.41%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.41%) Kafka
7 3 (0.41%) Playwright
7 3 (0.41%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.41%) SOAP
8 2 (0.27%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.13%) Onboarding
2 30 (4.09%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 24 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.04%) IoT
9 14 (1.91%) Derivative
10 12 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.63%) Life Science
11 11 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.50%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.50%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.36%) FMCG
13 9 (1.23%) Credit Risk
13 9 (1.23%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.95%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.41%) Windows
2 15 (2.04%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.09%) Linux
4 5 (0.68%) Unix
5 2 (0.27%) VMS
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.27%) 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
1 298 (40.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 255 (34.74%) Agile
3 227 (30.93%) Project Management
4 135 (18.39%) Migration
5 132 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (17.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 116 (15.80%) Change Management
8 112 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 110 (14.99%) PRINCE2
10 106 (14.44%) Decision-Making
11 91 (12.40%) AI
12 85 (11.58%) Waterfall
13 76 (10.35%) Roadmaps
14 72 (9.81%) Risk Management
15 71 (9.67%) DevOps
16 68 (9.26%) Analytics
17 62 (8.45%) Validation
18 59 (8.04%) Project Governance
19 58 (7.90%) Programme Delivery
20 55 (7.49%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 44 (5.99%) SQL
2 41 (5.59%) Python
3 10 (1.36%) VBA
4 9 (1.23%) Java
4 9 (1.23%) PowerShell
5 7 (0.95%) C#
6 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.54%) Bicep
7 4 (0.54%) 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 (0.27%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.27%) Rust
10 1 (0.14%) COBOL
10 1 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 91 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 87 (11.85%) PMP
3 79 (10.76%) Degree
4 73 (9.95%) PMI Certification
5 69 (9.40%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.63%) CCNP
9 11 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.50%) CISSP
10 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (0.95%) APMG
13 6 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.82%) RIBA
14 5 (0.68%) CCNA
14 5 (0.68%) CISM
14 5 (0.68%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (14.85%) PMO
2 45 (6.13%) QA
3 21 (2.86%) NIST
4 18 (2.45%) GDPR
5 17 (2.32%) Data Quality
5 17 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.77%) SLA
7 11 (1.50%) GRC
8 7 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.68%) HL7
10 4 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.54%) NCSC
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%) MiFID
11 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.41%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 32 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.23%) Docker
3 6 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.27%) Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.27%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (3.68%) Terraform
2 12 (1.63%) Ansible
2 12 (1.63%) FortiGate
3 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.36%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.68%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.41%) SCCM
7 3 (0.41%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.27%) Nessus
9 1 (0.14%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.14%) Grafana
9 1 (0.14%) logstash
9 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.14%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 144 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.40%) ServiceNow
3 44 (5.99%) SAP
4 35 (4.77%) Cisco
5 27 (3.68%) Oracle
6 21 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.72%) Palo Alto
8 19 (2.59%) Fortinet
9 17 (2.32%) F5
9 17 (2.32%) Google
10 16 (2.18%) Zscaler
11 14 (1.91%) VMware
12 13 (1.77%) Juniper
13 8 (1.09%) NEC
13 8 (1.09%) Workday
14 7 (0.95%) Adobe
14 7 (0.95%) Murex
15 6 (0.82%) Bloomberg
15 6 (0.82%) Citrix
15 6 (0.82%) Sitecore