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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 71 72
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -17
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 798 491 552
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.97% 3.66% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 3.96% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 318 369
10th Percentile £363 £350 £371
25th Percentile £450 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £756
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 7
10th Percentile £32.84 £39.60 £30.05
25th Percentile £41.00 £52.50 £34.55
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% - +0.78%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £66.50
90th Percentile £57.63 £75.50 £68.60
England median hourly rate £51.50 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +41.18% -33.59%

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 17,903 12,394 14,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.46% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,741 8,241 10,033
10th Percentile £361 £325 £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 £688
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 287 256 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +3 109 £550 -8.33% 119
West London -6 23 £438 -22.22% 32
South London -6 9 £450 -14.29% 11
East London +1 3 £525 - 14
North London -2 3 £544 -1.14% 6
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 57 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 43 (5.39%) Confluence
3 18 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.75%) JBoss
5 5 (0.63%) Apache
5 5 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.50%) CMS
6 4 (0.50%) SAS
6 4 (0.50%) WordPress
7 3 (0.38%) Appian
7 3 (0.38%) Kentico
8 2 (0.25%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) MTS
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 69 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (5.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 46 (5.76%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.63%) Trello
7 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.75%) ProductWriter
4 5 (0.63%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.50%) Magento
5 4 (0.50%) Summit
5 4 (0.50%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 3 (0.38%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.38%) Shopify
7 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.25%) Endur
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 133 (16.67%) Azure
2 65 (8.15%) Power Platform
3 59 (7.39%) AWS
4 47 (5.89%) SaaS
5 42 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (3.88%) Entra ID
7 23 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (2.63%) GCP
9 17 (2.13%) GitHub
10 15 (1.88%) Power Automate
10 15 (1.88%) PowerApps
11 14 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (1.50%) IaaS
13 11 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (1.25%) Google Workspace
14 10 (1.25%) OCI
15 9 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 7 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.89%) Firewall
2 27 (3.38%) DNS
3 26 (3.26%) Network Security
4 21 (2.63%) VPN
5 20 (2.51%) Wireless
6 18 (2.26%) WAN
7 16 (2.01%) BGP
7 16 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (1.75%) DHCP
8 14 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 13 (1.63%) VLAN
10 12 (1.50%) LAN
11 11 (1.38%) Multicast
12 8 (1.00%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.88%) Cisco Wireless
13 7 (0.88%) IPsec
13 7 (0.88%) MPLS
13 7 (0.88%) OSPF
14 6 (0.75%) Kerberos
14 6 (0.75%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.52%) Power BI
2 18 (2.26%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.25%) Big Data
5 7 (0.88%) Metadata
6 6 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.75%) Hadoop
6 6 (0.75%) Tableau
7 5 (0.63%) Delta Lake
8 4 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.38%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.25%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.25%) Power Query
10 2 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 95 (11.90%) JIRA
2 13 (1.63%) Git
3 9 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.63%) Selenium
5 4 (0.50%) GitLab
5 4 (0.50%) Subversion
6 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.25%) Appium
7 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.25%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.25%) TestNG
8 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.13%) Gatling
8 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 351 (43.98%) Social Skills
2 316 (39.60%) Finance
3 130 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (11.03%) Banking
5 78 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 56 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
7 55 (6.89%) Retail
8 51 (6.39%) Legal
9 37 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (3.63%) Marketing
11 28 (3.51%) Telecoms
12 27 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
14 22 (2.76%) Front Office
15 19 (2.38%) Financial Institution
15 19 (2.38%) Local Government
16 17 (2.13%) Investment Banking
16 17 (2.13%) Manufacturing
17 12 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (1.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 221 (27.69%) Project Manager
2 98 (12.28%) Analyst
3 82 (10.28%) Senior
4 73 (9.15%) Lead
5 70 (8.77%) Business Analyst
6 48 (6.02%) Architect
7 44 (5.51%) Consultant
8 40 (5.01%) Developer
9 37 (4.64%) Network Engineer
10 34 (4.26%) Senior Manager
11 31 (3.88%) Delivery Manager
12 25 (3.13%) IT Manager
12 25 (3.13%) Senior Project Manager
13 24 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (2.51%) Technical Manager
15 19 (2.38%) Transformation Manager
16 18 (2.26%) Infrastructure Manager
17 17 (2.13%) Change Manager
17 17 (2.13%) IT Project Manager
17 17 (2.13%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.13%) Terraform
2 22 (2.76%) REST
3 12 (1.50%) Middleware
4 8 (1.00%) React
5 7 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (0.75%) 802.1X
6 6 (0.75%) PySpark
6 6 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (0.75%) Web Services
7 5 (0.63%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.63%) Kafka
7 5 (0.63%) SOAP
7 5 (0.63%) VML
7 5 (0.63%) XML
8 4 (0.50%) OAuth
8 4 (0.50%) Playwright
8 4 (0.50%) React Native
8 4 (0.50%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.38%) ADO
10 2 (0.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.39%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.14%) Management Information System
4 29 (3.63%) Data Centre
5 20 (2.51%) Cloud Native
5 20 (2.51%) Derivative
5 20 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.63%) Credit Risk
9 12 (1.50%) Life Science
9 12 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.38%) IoT
11 10 (1.25%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.13%) FMCG
12 9 (1.13%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.63%) Windows
2 18 (2.26%) Linux
3 17 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.63%) Unix
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.25%) VMS
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (45.24%) Stakeholder Management
2 286 (35.84%) Agile
3 251 (31.45%) Project Management
4 152 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 151 (18.92%) Migration
6 133 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 131 (16.42%) PRINCE2
8 130 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 129 (16.17%) Change Management
10 114 (14.29%) Decision-Making
11 107 (13.41%) AI
12 97 (12.16%) Waterfall
13 87 (10.90%) DevOps
13 87 (10.90%) Roadmaps
14 80 (10.03%) Risk Management
15 77 (9.65%) Analytics
16 74 (9.27%) User Acceptance Testing
17 73 (9.15%) Scrum
18 72 (9.02%) Workshop Facilitation
19 71 (8.90%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 50 (6.27%) SQL
2 47 (5.89%) Python
3 17 (2.13%) PowerShell
4 15 (1.88%) Java
5 11 (1.38%) VBA
6 7 (0.88%) C#
7 6 (0.75%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.63%) Bash
9 4 (0.50%) Bicep
9 4 (0.50%) Go
9 4 (0.50%) Korn
10 3 (0.38%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.25%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.25%) C
11 2 (0.25%) C++
11 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.13%) COBOL
12 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 114 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 101 (12.66%) PMP
3 89 (11.15%) SC Cleared
4 87 (10.90%) PMI Certification
5 86 (10.78%) Degree
6 23 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.38%) CCNP
10 11 (1.38%) CISSP
11 10 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 8 (1.00%) APMG
13 7 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (0.75%) CISM
14 6 (0.75%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.63%) IIBA
16 4 (0.50%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (14.29%) PMO
2 44 (5.51%) QA
3 23 (2.88%) NIST
4 21 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.51%) Data Quality
6 18 (2.26%) GDPR
7 13 (1.63%) SLA
8 9 (1.13%) GRC
9 7 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.63%) P3O
11 4 (0.50%) NCSC
12 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.38%) GxP
12 3 (0.38%) HL7
12 3 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (4.39%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.13%) Docker
4 5 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.50%) vSphere
6 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.25%) Firmware
7 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) oVirt
8 1 (0.13%) RHEV
8 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (1.88%) Ansible
1 15 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.63%) FortiGate
4 7 (0.88%) Cisco Prime
4 7 (0.88%) Puppet
4 7 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.38%) SCCM
7 3 (0.38%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.25%) Nessus
8 2 (0.25%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.13%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.13%) WMI
9 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 171 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.64%) ServiceNow
3 49 (6.14%) SAP
4 43 (5.39%) Cisco
5 27 (3.38%) Oracle
5 27 (3.38%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.88%) VMware
7 20 (2.51%) Fortinet
8 19 (2.38%) F5
8 19 (2.38%) Google
8 19 (2.38%) Palo Alto
9 17 (2.13%) Zscaler
10 16 (2.01%) Murex
11 14 (1.75%) Juniper
12 11 (1.38%) Databricks
13 10 (1.25%) Bloomberg
14 9 (1.13%) NEC
14 9 (1.13%) Workday
15 8 (1.00%) CyberArk
15 8 (1.00%) Red Hat