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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 68 64
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 695 466 604
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.72% 3.81% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 4.13% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 300 422
10th Percentile £363 £388 £375
25th Percentile £450 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +4.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £665 £695 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 12
10th Percentile £36.27 £34.05 -
25th Percentile - £38.63 £20.98
Median hourly rate £41.00 £47.50 £25.59
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +85.62% +13.81%
75th Percentile £54.50 £65.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £57.05 £75.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £38.02 £65.00 £33.47
% change year-on-year -41.51% +94.23% -44.23%

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 16,594 11,281 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.27% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,070 7,533 11,092
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 198 317
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.70 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% +14.72% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.75 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +5 106 £550 -8.33% 71
South London +4 18 £513 -14.58% 6
West London -2 16 £525 - 8
North London +1 2 £544 -1.14% 2
East London - 2 £590 - 9
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 37 (5.32%) Confluence
2 35 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.01%) CMS
5 4 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.43%) Camunda
6 3 (0.43%) Kentico
6 3 (0.43%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) Apache
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.29%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (6.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (6.33%) Microsoft Project
4 40 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (2.01%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.29%) Trello
8 1 (0.14%) Revit
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.29%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 6 (0.86%) ProductWriter
5 5 (0.72%) Summit
6 3 (0.43%) Endur
6 3 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.43%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.43%) Shopify
7 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.29%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.29%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 102 (14.68%) Azure
2 46 (6.62%) Power Platform
3 44 (6.33%) AWS
4 37 (5.32%) SaaS
5 30 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (3.31%) Entra ID
8 19 (2.73%) GitHub
9 16 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (2.30%) IaaS
10 14 (2.01%) GCP
11 11 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (1.29%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.29%) Google Workspace
13 8 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.01%) OCI
14 7 (1.01%) Serverless
15 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.76%) Firewall
2 20 (2.88%) Network Security
3 18 (2.59%) DNS
4 9 (1.29%) MPLS
4 9 (1.29%) WAN
5 8 (1.15%) VPN
6 6 (0.86%) BGP
6 6 (0.86%) DHCP
6 6 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 6 (0.86%) LAN
6 6 (0.86%) NetScaler
7 5 (0.72%) Internet
7 5 (0.72%) Multicast
7 5 (0.72%) OSPF
7 5 (0.72%) VLAN
7 5 (0.72%) Wireless
8 4 (0.58%) BIG-IP
8 4 (0.58%) Broadband
8 4 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.04%) Power BI
2 18 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.01%) Metadata
4 7 (1.01%) Tableau
5 6 (0.86%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.72%) Big Data
6 5 (0.72%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.29%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.14%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.14%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 82 (11.80%) JIRA
2 12 (1.73%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.58%) Git
4 5 (0.72%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.72%) GitLab
5 3 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.14%) Appium
6 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.14%) LSMW
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.14%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 307 (44.17%) Social Skills
2 266 (38.27%) Finance
3 102 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (12.09%) Banking
5 72 (10.36%) Public Sector
6 61 (8.78%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (7.05%) Presentation Skills
8 45 (6.47%) Retail
9 42 (6.04%) Legal
10 24 (3.45%) Marketing
11 22 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (2.73%) Investment Banking
14 18 (2.59%) Financial Institution
15 16 (2.30%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.87%) Front Office
17 10 (1.44%) Local Government
17 10 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.29%) General Ledger
18 9 (1.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 224 (32.23%) Project Manager
2 91 (13.09%) Analyst
3 83 (11.94%) Lead
4 72 (10.36%) Business Analyst
5 65 (9.35%) Senior
6 37 (5.32%) Architect
7 32 (4.60%) Developer
8 30 (4.32%) Senior Manager
9 29 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
10 28 (4.03%) Consultant
11 26 (3.74%) IT Manager
12 24 (3.45%) Senior Project Manager
13 23 (3.31%) Network Engineer
13 23 (3.31%) Technical Manager
14 20 (2.88%) Change Manager
15 19 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (2.59%) IT Project Manager
17 16 (2.30%) Programme Manager
17 16 (2.30%) Transformation Manager
18 15 (2.16%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.88%) Middleware
2 14 (2.01%) REST
3 9 (1.29%) XML
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.86%) React
5 4 (0.58%) OAuth
5 4 (0.58%) PySpark
5 4 (0.58%) React Native
5 4 (0.58%) SailPoint
5 4 (0.58%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.43%) ADO
6 3 (0.43%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.43%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.43%) HTML
6 3 (0.43%) Kafka
6 3 (0.43%) Web Services
6 3 (0.43%) ZK
7 2 (0.29%) .NET
7 2 (0.29%) CSS
7 2 (0.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.76%) Onboarding
2 34 (4.89%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (2.45%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.87%) Derivative
8 13 (1.87%) IoT
9 12 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.58%) Life Science
10 11 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.44%) Credit Risk
12 8 (1.15%) NHS
12 8 (1.15%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.01%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.01%) Reinsurance
14 6 (0.86%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.60%) Windows
2 12 (1.73%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.15%) Linux
3 8 (1.15%) VMS
4 6 (0.86%) Unix
5 4 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (37.55%) Agile
2 249 (35.83%) Project Management
3 246 (35.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 130 (18.71%) Migration
5 127 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
6 105 (15.11%) Decision-Making
6 105 (15.11%) PRINCE2
7 103 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 98 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 88 (12.66%) Waterfall
10 86 (12.37%) Change Management
11 78 (11.22%) DevOps
12 71 (10.22%) Risk Management
13 66 (9.50%) AI
13 66 (9.50%) Roadmaps
14 60 (8.63%) Analytics
15 59 (8.49%) Validation
16 58 (8.35%) Scrum
17 57 (8.20%) Business Analysis
17 57 (8.20%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 48 (6.91%) SQL
2 38 (5.47%) Python
3 12 (1.73%) Java
4 7 (1.01%) C#
4 7 (1.01%) PowerShell
5 5 (0.72%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.72%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.58%) Bicep
6 4 (0.58%) Go
7 3 (0.43%) Bash
7 3 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.43%) Korn
7 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.29%) ABAP
8 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.29%) C++
8 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.29%) Rust
8 2 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (13.09%) Degree
2 89 (12.81%) PMP
3 83 (11.94%) Security Cleared
4 73 (10.50%) PMI Certification
5 70 (10.07%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.58%) APMP
9 10 (1.44%) CBAP
9 10 (1.44%) CISSP
9 10 (1.44%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.15%) CCNP
12 7 (1.01%) APMG
12 7 (1.01%) IIBA
13 6 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.72%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (14.10%) PMO
2 41 (5.90%) QA
3 24 (3.45%) NIST
4 22 (3.17%) GDPR
5 21 (3.02%) Data Quality
6 20 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.15%) GRC
8 7 (1.01%) SLA
9 6 (0.86%) Basel III
9 6 (0.86%) GAAP
9 6 (0.86%) HL7
9 6 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.72%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.72%) IFRS
10 5 (0.72%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.72%) MiFID
11 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.43%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.43%) NCSC
11 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (3.60%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.01%) Docker
4 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.29%) Firmware
6 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (4.03%) Terraform
2 18 (2.59%) Ansible
3 15 (2.16%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.72%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.29%) Control-M
8 1 (0.14%) Avamar
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.14%) logstash
8 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.14%) SCOM
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 133 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.33%) SAP
3 35 (5.04%) ServiceNow
4 32 (4.60%) Oracle
5 19 (2.73%) Google
5 19 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.16%) Cisco
7 14 (2.01%) Palo Alto
8 11 (1.58%) CyberArk
8 11 (1.58%) Workday
9 10 (1.44%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.29%) Citrix
11 8 (1.15%) VMware
12 7 (1.01%) Adobe
12 7 (1.01%) F5
13 6 (0.86%) Murex
13 6 (0.86%) NEC
13 6 (0.86%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.86%) Software AG
14 5 (0.72%) Zscaler