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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 65 53
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 658 449 670
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.73% 3.57% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 3.88% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 277 470
10th Percentile £363 £363 £373
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £668 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £776
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile £29.01 £24.33 -
25th Percentile £31.65 £26.83 £20.98
Median hourly rate £36.95 £32.00 £23.33
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% +37.16% -14.36%
75th Percentile £48.80 £40.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.13 £45.60 £65.90
England median hourly rate £45.46 £51.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.30% +46.43% -46.15%

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 15,645 11,571 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 92.12% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,478 7,850 11,229
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 172 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.70 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +3 101 £550 -6.38% 43
South London -3 18 £525 -12.50%
West London -11 17 £538 +19.44% 8
East London 0 3 £550 - 8
North London - 2 £544 -
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 39 (5.93%) Confluence
2 28 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.46%) Camunda
4 3 (0.46%) CMS
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (8.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (7.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 47 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
4 41 (6.23%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (2.28%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.91%) Trello
7 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 15 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.82%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.91%) Endur
3 6 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 5 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.76%) Summit
5 4 (0.61%) ProductWriter
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.46%) Shopify
7 2 (0.30%) Algo Collateral
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.30%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.30%) SAP SRM
7 2 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 89 (13.53%) Azure
2 38 (5.78%) SaaS
3 37 (5.62%) AWS
4 36 (5.47%) Power Platform
5 32 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (2.58%) GitHub
7 16 (2.43%) Entra ID
7 16 (2.43%) GCP
8 14 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (2.13%) IaaS
9 11 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.52%) Google Workspace
11 8 (1.22%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (0.91%) Asana
13 6 (0.91%) PaaS
13 6 (0.91%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.47%) Firewall
2 15 (2.28%) Network Security
3 14 (2.13%) DNS
4 11 (1.67%) NetScaler
5 9 (1.37%) MPLS
6 8 (1.22%) WAN
7 6 (0.91%) BGP
7 6 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 6 (0.91%) Internet
7 6 (0.91%) OSPF
8 5 (0.76%) LAN
8 5 (0.76%) Multicast
8 5 (0.76%) VPN
9 4 (0.61%) BIG-IP
9 4 (0.61%) Broadband
9 4 (0.61%) IPsec
9 4 (0.61%) VLAN
10 3 (0.46%) DHCP
10 3 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.10%) Power BI
2 17 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.82%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.22%) Tableau
5 7 (1.06%) Metadata
6 6 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.61%) Big Data
9 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.15%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 91 (13.83%) JIRA
2 11 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.37%) Git
4 5 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.76%) GitLab
5 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.15%) Appium
6 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.15%) LSMW
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.15%) TestRail
6 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 295 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 252 (38.30%) Finance
3 113 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (13.22%) Banking
5 67 (10.18%) Public Sector
6 55 (8.36%) Organisational Skills
7 52 (7.90%) Presentation Skills
8 41 (6.23%) Retail
9 30 (4.56%) Legal
10 26 (3.95%) Marketing
11 23 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (2.74%) Investment Banking
13 16 (2.43%) Financial Institution
13 16 (2.43%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.98%) Front Office
15 10 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (1.22%) Manufacturing
17 8 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 206 (31.31%) Project Manager
2 97 (14.74%) Analyst
3 80 (12.16%) Business Analyst
4 76 (11.55%) Lead
5 62 (9.42%) Senior
6 32 (4.86%) Architect
7 31 (4.71%) Consultant
8 30 (4.56%) Delivery Manager
9 28 (4.26%) Senior Manager
10 25 (3.80%) IT Manager
11 21 (3.19%) Programme Manager
11 21 (3.19%) Technical Manager
12 20 (3.04%) Developer
12 20 (3.04%) Senior Project Manager
13 18 (2.74%) Change Manager
13 18 (2.74%) Network Engineer
13 18 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.43%) IT Project Manager
14 16 (2.43%) Transformation Manager
15 15 (2.28%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.58%) Middleware
2 9 (1.37%) REST
2 9 (1.37%) XML
3 5 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.61%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.46%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.46%) AWS CDK
5 3 (0.46%) HTML
5 3 (0.46%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.46%) React
5 3 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (0.46%) Web Services
5 3 (0.46%) ZK
6 2 (0.30%) ADO
6 2 (0.30%) CSS
6 2 (0.30%) IDoc
6 2 (0.30%) OAuth
6 2 (0.30%) VML
6 2 (0.30%) XML Messaging
7 1 (0.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.02%) Onboarding
2 28 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.34%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.98%) Derivative
8 10 (1.52%) Credit Risk
8 10 (1.52%) Life Science
9 9 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.37%) PMI
10 8 (1.22%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.22%) IoT
10 8 (1.22%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.06%) NHS
11 7 (1.06%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.06%) Tandem
12 6 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.86%) Windows
2 15 (2.28%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.22%) Linux
3 8 (1.22%) VMS
4 7 (1.06%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.91%) Unix
6 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (39.82%) Agile
2 234 (35.56%) Project Management
3 222 (33.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 127 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (18.54%) Migration
6 97 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 97 (14.74%) Decision-Making
7 92 (13.98%) PRINCE2
8 91 (13.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 79 (12.01%) Change Management
10 77 (11.70%) Waterfall
11 74 (11.25%) Risk Management
12 73 (11.09%) DevOps
13 70 (10.64%) Roadmaps
14 69 (10.49%) Workshop Facilitation
15 67 (10.18%) Business Analysis
16 63 (9.57%) Scrum
16 63 (9.57%) Validation
17 58 (8.81%) Project Governance
18 54 (8.21%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 42 (6.38%) SQL
2 30 (4.56%) Python
3 11 (1.67%) Java
4 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
4 5 (0.76%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.61%) Go
5 4 (0.61%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
6 3 (0.46%) Bash
6 3 (0.46%) C#
6 3 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.46%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
6 3 (0.46%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.30%) ABAP
7 2 (0.30%) Bicep
7 2 (0.30%) C++
7 2 (0.30%) Rust
8 1 (0.15%) Korn
8 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (13.68%) Degree
2 79 (12.01%) PMP
3 70 (10.64%) Security Cleared
4 68 (10.33%) PMI Certification
5 59 (8.97%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.58%) Master's Degree
8 16 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.98%) APMP
10 11 (1.67%) CBAP
11 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.06%) APMG
12 7 (1.06%) IIBA
13 6 (0.91%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.91%) CCNP
13 6 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.91%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (0.76%) RIBA
15 4 (0.61%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (13.37%) PMO
2 57 (8.66%) QA
3 23 (3.50%) GDPR
4 20 (3.04%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.89%) NIST
6 18 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.22%) SLA
8 7 (1.06%) GRC
8 7 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.91%) Basel III
9 6 (0.91%) HL7
9 6 (0.91%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.76%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.76%) GAAP
10 5 (0.76%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.76%) MiFID
11 4 (0.61%) IFRS
12 3 (0.46%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.46%) PSD2
13 2 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.91%) Docker
4 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) RACF
6 1 (0.15%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (3.19%) Terraform
2 16 (2.43%) Ansible
3 11 (1.67%) Kubernetes
4 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Control-M
7 1 (0.15%) Avamar
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.15%) logstash
7 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
7 1 (0.15%) SCOM
7 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 120 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.84%) SAP
3 31 (4.71%) ServiceNow
4 30 (4.56%) Oracle
5 23 (3.50%) Google
6 22 (3.34%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.98%) Citrix
7 13 (1.98%) Palo Alto
7 13 (1.98%) Workday
8 11 (1.67%) Cisco
8 11 (1.67%) CyberArk
9 9 (1.37%) Software AG
10 8 (1.22%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.06%) Adobe
11 7 (1.06%) NEC
12 6 (0.91%) F5
13 5 (0.76%) Arista
13 5 (0.76%) CheckPoint
13 5 (0.76%) Optimizely
13 5 (0.76%) VMware