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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 70 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 -18 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 659 456 678
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.79% 3.59% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 3.91% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 286 483
10th Percentile £363 £379 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £668 £672 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
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% -27.09%
75th Percentile £48.80 £40.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.13 £45.60 £65.90
England median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -20.94% +74.24% -49.23%

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 15,459 11,674 15,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 91.93% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,346 7,928 11,348
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 166 336
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.97
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.98
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.83%
75th Percentile £56.99 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.65 £63.50 £66.88
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
% change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -2 100 £550 -8.33% 83
South London -2 18 £525 -12.50% 2
West London -18 15 £538 +19.44% 7
East London -2 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 38 (5.77%) Confluence
2 32 (4.86%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.61%) CMS
5 3 (0.46%) Camunda
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 60 (9.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (7.59%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (2.43%) 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 16 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.82%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.06%) Endur
4 6 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 5 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.76%) Summit
6 3 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.46%) ProductWriter
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 SRM
7 2 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 90 (13.66%) Azure
2 38 (5.77%) AWS
3 36 (5.46%) SaaS
4 35 (5.31%) Power Platform
5 33 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (2.58%) GitHub
8 16 (2.43%) Entra ID
8 16 (2.43%) GCP
9 15 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (2.28%) IaaS
10 10 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.52%) Google Workspace
11 8 (1.21%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.21%) OCI
11 8 (1.21%) PaaS
12 7 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (0.91%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.01%) Firewall
2 14 (2.12%) DNS
2 14 (2.12%) Network Security
3 11 (1.67%) NetScaler
4 9 (1.37%) MPLS
4 9 (1.37%) WAN
5 6 (0.91%) Internet
5 6 (0.91%) LAN
6 5 (0.76%) BGP
6 5 (0.76%) OSPF
7 4 (0.61%) Broadband
7 4 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.61%) VPN
8 3 (0.46%) DHCP
8 3 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (0.46%) IPsec
8 3 (0.46%) Multicast
8 3 (0.46%) SSL
8 3 (0.46%) VLAN
8 3 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.95%) Power BI
2 17 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.82%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.21%) Metadata
4 8 (1.21%) Tableau
5 6 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.61%) Big Data
7 4 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 90 (13.66%) JIRA
2 11 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.52%) Git
4 5 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.76%) GitLab
5 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.15%) Appium
6 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.15%) LSMW
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
1 300 (45.52%) Social Skills
2 258 (39.15%) Finance
3 110 (16.69%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (13.05%) Banking
5 67 (10.17%) Public Sector
6 55 (8.35%) Organisational Skills
7 52 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
8 39 (5.92%) Retail
9 31 (4.70%) Legal
10 27 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (3.95%) Marketing
12 21 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (2.73%) Investment Banking
14 16 (2.43%) Financial Institution
14 16 (2.43%) Telecoms
15 14 (2.12%) Front Office
16 11 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 8 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 206 (31.26%) Project Manager
2 101 (15.33%) Analyst
3 84 (12.75%) Business Analyst
4 77 (11.68%) Lead
5 61 (9.26%) Senior
6 35 (5.31%) Consultant
7 31 (4.70%) Architect
8 30 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
9 28 (4.25%) Senior Manager
10 26 (3.95%) IT Manager
11 21 (3.19%) Programme Manager
11 21 (3.19%) Technical Manager
12 20 (3.03%) Senior Project Manager
13 18 (2.73%) Developer
13 18 (2.73%) Infrastructure Manager
13 18 (2.73%) IT Project Manager
14 17 (2.58%) Change Manager
15 16 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (2.28%) Migration Manager
16 15 (2.28%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.58%) Middleware
2 9 (1.37%) XML
3 8 (1.21%) REST
4 5 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.61%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.61%) AWS CDK
5 4 (0.61%) Node.js
5 4 (0.61%) React
5 4 (0.61%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.46%) HTML
6 3 (0.46%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.46%) Web Services
6 3 (0.46%) YAML
6 3 (0.46%) ZK
7 2 (0.30%) ADO
7 2 (0.30%) CSS
7 2 (0.30%) OAuth
7 2 (0.30%) VML
7 2 (0.30%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.01%) Onboarding
2 29 (4.40%) Management Information System
2 29 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 22 (3.34%) Data Centre
4 19 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.97%) Derivative
8 10 (1.52%) PMI
9 9 (1.37%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.37%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.21%) Life Science
10 8 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.21%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.06%) IoT
11 7 (1.06%) NHS
11 7 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.06%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.55%) Windows
2 15 (2.28%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.21%) Linux
3 8 (1.21%) VMS
4 7 (1.06%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.91%) Unix
6 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (39.91%) Agile
2 228 (34.60%) Project Management
3 220 (33.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 128 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (17.75%) Migration
6 94 (14.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 94 (14.26%) PRINCE2
7 93 (14.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 89 (13.51%) Decision-Making
9 79 (11.99%) Change Management
10 77 (11.68%) Risk Management
11 76 (11.53%) DevOps
12 74 (11.23%) Waterfall
13 73 (11.08%) Roadmaps
14 72 (10.93%) Workshop Facilitation
15 70 (10.62%) Business Analysis
16 67 (10.17%) Scrum
17 64 (9.71%) Validation
18 56 (8.50%) Project Governance
18 56 (8.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 47 (7.13%) SQL
2 30 (4.55%) Python
3 12 (1.82%) Java
4 6 (0.91%) PowerShell
5 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.76%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.61%) Bash
6 4 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.61%) Go
6 4 (0.61%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.30%) ABAP
8 2 (0.30%) Bicep
8 2 (0.30%) C#
8 2 (0.30%) C++
8 2 (0.30%) Rust
9 1 (0.15%) Korn
9 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 93 (14.11%) Degree
2 78 (11.84%) PMP
3 75 (11.38%) Security Cleared
4 69 (10.47%) PMI Certification
5 64 (9.71%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.73%) Master's Degree
8 16 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (2.12%) APMP
10 11 (1.67%) CBAP
11 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.06%) APMG
12 7 (1.06%) DV Cleared
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%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
14 5 (0.76%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (12.90%) PMO
2 52 (7.89%) QA
3 22 (3.34%) GDPR
4 20 (3.03%) NIST
5 18 (2.73%) Data Quality
5 18 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.21%) GRC
6 8 (1.21%) SLA
7 7 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.91%) Basel III
8 6 (0.91%) HL7
8 6 (0.91%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.76%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.76%) GAAP
9 5 (0.76%) MiFID
9 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.61%) IFRS
11 3 (0.46%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.46%) PSD2
12 2 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (2.88%) 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 15 (2.28%) Ansible
3 11 (1.67%) Kubernetes
4 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Control-M
6 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
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
1 122 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.68%) SAP
3 32 (4.86%) Oracle
4 30 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 23 (3.49%) Google
6 22 (3.34%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.97%) Citrix
7 13 (1.97%) CyberArk
8 12 (1.82%) Workday
9 11 (1.67%) Cisco
10 10 (1.52%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.37%) Software AG
12 7 (1.06%) Adobe
12 7 (1.06%) NEC
13 5 (0.76%) CheckPoint
13 5 (0.76%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.76%) Optimizely
13 5 (0.76%) Planview
13 5 (0.76%) Remedy
13 5 (0.76%) VMware