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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 68 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 697 469 606
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.69% 3.79% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 4.11% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 306 420
10th Percentile £376 £394 £375
25th Percentile £450 £468 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £579 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +5.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £663 £695 £675
90th Percentile £762 £775 £774
England median daily rate £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -3.64%
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 £39.04 £65.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -39.94% +96.97% -42.61%

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 16,795 11,414 15,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.28% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,181 7,654 11,105
10th Percentile £360 £343 £343
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 205 313
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +13.33% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.80
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
% change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -1 108 £558 -7.08% 37
South London +6 19 £500 -16.67% 5
West London -7 15 £525 - 16
North London +1 2 £544 -1.14% 3
East London - 2 £590 - 13
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 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 37 (5.31%) Confluence
3 13 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.00%) CMS
5 4 (0.57%) 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 58 (8.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (6.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (6.17%) Microsoft Project
4 39 (5.60%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.72%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Revit
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.29%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 6 (0.86%) ProductWriter
4 6 (0.86%) Summit
5 3 (0.43%) Endur
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.43%) SAP Retail
5 3 (0.43%) Shopify
6 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.29%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.29%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 99 (14.20%) Azure
2 47 (6.74%) AWS
3 42 (6.03%) Power Platform
4 37 (5.31%) SaaS
5 31 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (3.16%) Entra ID
8 17 (2.44%) GitHub
9 15 (2.15%) IaaS
10 13 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (1.72%) GCP
12 10 (1.43%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.29%) Google Workspace
14 8 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.15%) Serverless
14 8 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (1.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.31%) Firewall
2 21 (3.01%) Network Security
3 19 (2.73%) DNS
4 10 (1.43%) WAN
5 9 (1.29%) MPLS
5 9 (1.29%) VPN
6 8 (1.15%) DHCP
6 8 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 8 (1.15%) Wireless
7 7 (1.00%) BGP
8 6 (0.86%) LAN
8 6 (0.86%) NetScaler
8 6 (0.86%) VLAN
9 5 (0.72%) Multicast
9 5 (0.72%) OSPF
9 5 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.57%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.57%) Broadband
10 4 (0.57%) Internet
10 4 (0.57%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.73%) Power BI
2 18 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.00%) Metadata
4 7 (1.00%) 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 (0.57%) 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%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 81 (11.62%) JIRA
2 13 (1.87%) Git
3 9 (1.29%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.86%) GitLab
5 5 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.14%) Appium
7 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.14%) LSMW
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 311 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 263 (37.73%) Finance
3 99 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (12.20%) Banking
5 76 (10.90%) Public Sector
6 62 (8.90%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (7.03%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (6.74%) Retail
9 43 (6.17%) Legal
10 24 (3.44%) Marketing
11 23 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (2.73%) Financial Institution
14 17 (2.44%) Investment Banking
15 16 (2.30%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.87%) Front Office
16 13 (1.87%) Local Government
17 10 (1.43%) General Ledger
17 10 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 219 (31.42%) Project Manager
2 86 (12.34%) Lead
3 83 (11.91%) Analyst
4 67 (9.61%) Senior
5 64 (9.18%) Business Analyst
6 38 (5.45%) Architect
7 34 (4.88%) Developer
8 32 (4.59%) Delivery Manager
9 31 (4.45%) Senior Manager
10 28 (4.02%) Consultant
11 27 (3.87%) Network Engineer
12 26 (3.73%) IT Manager
13 24 (3.44%) Senior Project Manager
14 20 (2.87%) Change Manager
14 20 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (2.87%) Technical Manager
15 18 (2.58%) IT Project Manager
16 17 (2.44%) Transformation Manager
17 15 (2.15%) Infrastructure Manager
18 14 (2.01%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.87%) Middleware
2 14 (2.01%) REST
3 8 (1.15%) XML
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.86%) React
5 5 (0.72%) PySpark
6 4 (0.57%) OAuth
6 4 (0.57%) React Native
6 4 (0.57%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.43%) ADO
7 3 (0.43%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.43%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.43%) Kafka
7 3 (0.43%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (0.43%) Web Services
7 3 (0.43%) ZK
8 2 (0.29%) .NET
8 2 (0.29%) HTML
8 2 (0.29%) IDoc
8 2 (0.29%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.60%) Onboarding
2 34 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.30%) Product Ownership
3 23 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (2.73%) Cloud Native
5 18 (2.58%) Data Centre
5 18 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (1.87%) Derivative
6 13 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (1.87%) IoT
7 12 (1.72%) Credit Risk
8 11 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.43%) Life Science
10 8 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.15%) NHS
10 8 (1.15%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.00%) Reinsurance
12 6 (0.86%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.86%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.44%) Windows
2 11 (1.58%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.15%) Linux
4 6 (0.86%) Unix
5 5 (0.72%) VMS
6 4 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (37.30%) Agile
2 253 (36.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 244 (35.01%) Project Management
4 127 (18.22%) Migration
5 124 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (15.35%) PRINCE2
7 103 (14.78%) Decision-Making
8 102 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 102 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 87 (12.48%) Change Management
10 84 (12.05%) Waterfall
11 75 (10.76%) DevOps
12 73 (10.47%) Risk Management
13 66 (9.47%) AI
13 66 (9.47%) Roadmaps
14 61 (8.75%) Analytics
15 59 (8.46%) Validation
16 56 (8.03%) Business Analysis
17 55 (7.89%) Scrum
18 54 (7.75%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 49 (7.03%) SQL
2 40 (5.74%) Python
3 12 (1.72%) Java
4 7 (1.00%) C#
4 7 (1.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (0.72%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.57%) Bicep
6 4 (0.57%) Go
6 4 (0.57%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.57%) VBA
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
Qualifications
1 91 (13.06%) Degree
2 90 (12.91%) PMP
3 80 (11.48%) Security Cleared
4 74 (10.62%) PMI Certification
5 65 (9.33%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.58%) APMP
9 10 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.43%) CISSP
10 9 (1.29%) CBAP
10 9 (1.29%) CCNP
11 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.00%) APMG
13 6 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.86%) IIBA
13 6 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.72%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (13.34%) PMO
2 42 (6.03%) QA
3 24 (3.44%) NIST
4 22 (3.16%) GDPR
5 21 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (2.87%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.43%) GRC
8 7 (1.00%) 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
11 4 (0.57%) MiFID
12 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.43%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (3.44%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.00%) Docker
4 4 (0.57%) 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 27 (3.87%) Terraform
2 16 (2.30%) Ansible
3 13 (1.87%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.00%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
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%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) SCOM
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 129 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.03%) SAP
3 40 (5.74%) ServiceNow
4 32 (4.59%) Oracle
5 19 (2.73%) Cisco
5 19 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.44%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.30%) Google
8 12 (1.72%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.58%) CyberArk
9 11 (1.58%) Workday
10 9 (1.29%) Citrix
10 9 (1.29%) F5
11 8 (1.15%) VMware
12 7 (1.00%) Adobe
12 7 (1.00%) Juniper
12 7 (1.00%) Murex
13 6 (0.86%) NEC
13 6 (0.86%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.86%) Zscaler