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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 72 70
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -13
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 766 493 542
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.83% 3.62% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 3.92% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 328 366
10th Percentile £363 £387 £374
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% +7.95% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £38.64 £35.30 £29.49
25th Percentile £41.00 £41.75 £40.47
Median hourly rate £47.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -15.38% +0.78%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £67.25
90th Percentile £57.88 £77.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -4.35% +48.39% -38.00%

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 17,809 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,743 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.86 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 0 109 £550 -8.33% 106
West London -4 22 £494 -5.95% 31
South London -7 15 £450 -14.29% 11
North London -2 2 £538 -2.27% 3
East London +1 1 £550 - 16
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 54 (7.05%) SharePoint
2 45 (5.87%) Confluence
3 19 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.65%) Apache
4 5 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.52%) CMS
5 4 (0.52%) WordPress
6 3 (0.39%) Appian
6 3 (0.39%) JBoss
6 3 (0.39%) Kentico
6 3 (0.39%) SAS
7 2 (0.26%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 63 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (6.14%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (6.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (5.87%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.65%) Trello
7 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 21 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.78%) ProductWriter
3 6 (0.78%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.52%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.52%) Magento
4 4 (0.52%) Summit
5 3 (0.39%) Shopify
5 3 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.26%) Endur
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.26%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.26%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.26%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.26%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 124 (16.19%) Azure
2 61 (7.96%) AWS
2 61 (7.96%) Power Platform
3 42 (5.48%) SaaS
4 37 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (3.66%) Entra ID
7 20 (2.61%) GitHub
8 19 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (2.22%) GCP
10 13 (1.70%) IaaS
10 13 (1.70%) Power Automate
10 13 (1.70%) PowerApps
11 12 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
11 12 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
12 10 (1.31%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.31%) Google Workspace
12 10 (1.31%) OCI
13 9 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.66%) Firewall
2 30 (3.92%) DNS
3 23 (3.00%) Network Security
4 19 (2.48%) VPN
5 16 (2.09%) DHCP
5 16 (2.09%) WAN
5 16 (2.09%) Wireless
6 14 (1.83%) BGP
6 14 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (1.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 13 (1.70%) VLAN
8 11 (1.44%) LAN
9 10 (1.31%) Multicast
10 8 (1.04%) MPLS
10 8 (1.04%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.91%) IPsec
11 7 (0.91%) OSPF
12 5 (0.65%) BIG-IP
12 5 (0.65%) Cisco Wireless
12 5 (0.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.87%) Power BI
2 20 (2.61%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (0.91%) Big Data
5 6 (0.78%) Metadata
5 6 (0.78%) Tableau
6 5 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.65%) Delta Lake
7 4 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.39%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.39%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.26%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.26%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 91 (11.88%) JIRA
2 16 (2.09%) Git
3 11 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.78%) GitLab
5 5 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.65%) Selenium
6 4 (0.52%) Subversion
7 2 (0.26%) Appium
7 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.26%) TestNG
8 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.13%) Gatling
8 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 334 (43.60%) Social Skills
2 295 (38.51%) Finance
3 117 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (10.31%) Banking
4 79 (10.31%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.31%) Organisational Skills
6 54 (7.05%) Retail
7 50 (6.53%) Legal
8 39 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (4.18%) Marketing
10 26 (3.39%) Telecoms
11 23 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (2.61%) Front Office
14 19 (2.48%) Financial Institution
14 19 (2.48%) Investment Banking
15 18 (2.35%) Local Government
16 14 (1.83%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 212 (27.68%) Project Manager
2 87 (11.36%) Analyst
3 75 (9.79%) Senior
4 73 (9.53%) Lead
5 57 (7.44%) Business Analyst
6 45 (5.87%) Architect
7 44 (5.74%) Consultant
8 38 (4.96%) Developer
9 36 (4.70%) Delivery Manager
10 35 (4.57%) Network Engineer
11 32 (4.18%) Senior Manager
12 29 (3.79%) IT Manager
13 25 (3.26%) Technical Manager
14 24 (3.13%) Senior Project Manager
15 21 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
16 19 (2.48%) Infrastructure Manager
16 19 (2.48%) IT Project Manager
17 18 (2.35%) Programme Manager
18 17 (2.22%) Change Manager
18 17 (2.22%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.22%) REST
2 12 (1.57%) Middleware
3 8 (1.04%) React
4 7 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (0.78%) PySpark
5 6 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
5 6 (0.78%) Web Services
6 5 (0.65%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.65%) Kafka
6 5 (0.65%) VML
6 5 (0.65%) XML
7 4 (0.52%) 802.1X
7 4 (0.52%) OAuth
7 4 (0.52%) Playwright
7 4 (0.52%) React Native
8 3 (0.39%) ADO
8 3 (0.39%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.39%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.39%) SOAP
9 2 (0.26%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.14%) Onboarding
2 34 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 32 (4.18%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 24 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (2.48%) Cloud Native
7 16 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (1.96%) Derivative
9 14 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.83%) IoT
10 13 (1.70%) Credit Risk
11 12 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.57%) Life Science
12 10 (1.31%) FMCG
12 10 (1.31%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.17%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.04%) Fixed Income
14 8 (1.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.26%) Windows
2 17 (2.22%) Windows Server
3 11 (1.44%) Linux
4 4 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.52%) Unix
5 3 (0.39%) Android
5 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) VMS
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (43.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 271 (35.38%) Agile
3 238 (31.07%) Project Management
4 144 (18.80%) Migration
5 136 (17.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 127 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
7 122 (15.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 121 (15.80%) PRINCE2
9 120 (15.67%) Change Management
10 111 (14.49%) Decision-Making
11 101 (13.19%) AI
12 92 (12.01%) Waterfall
13 84 (10.97%) Roadmaps
14 81 (10.57%) Risk Management
15 80 (10.44%) DevOps
16 73 (9.53%) Analytics
17 67 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
18 66 (8.62%) Scrum
19 64 (8.36%) Business Analysis
20 63 (8.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 47 (6.14%) SQL
2 42 (5.48%) Python
3 13 (1.70%) Java
4 11 (1.44%) PowerShell
5 10 (1.31%) VBA
6 7 (0.91%) C#
6 7 (0.91%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (0.65%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.52%) Bicep
8 4 (0.52%) Go
8 4 (0.52%) Korn
9 3 (0.39%) Bash
9 3 (0.39%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.26%) C++
10 2 (0.26%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.13%) ABAP
11 1 (0.13%) COBOL
11 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 106 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 95 (12.40%) PMP
3 87 (11.36%) Degree
4 84 (10.97%) PMI Certification
5 83 (10.84%) SC Cleared
6 21 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.57%) CCNP
9 12 (1.57%) CISSP
10 10 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 7 (0.91%) APMG
11 7 (0.91%) RIBA
12 6 (0.78%) CISM
12 6 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (0.65%) CCNA
13 5 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.52%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (14.10%) PMO
2 46 (6.01%) QA
3 22 (2.87%) NIST
4 19 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.22%) GDPR
6 14 (1.83%) SLA
7 11 (1.44%) GRC
8 7 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.65%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.52%) HL7
10 4 (0.52%) NCSC
11 3 (0.39%) GxP
11 3 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.39%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.39%) MiFID
11 3 (0.39%) P3O
11 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (4.57%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.57%) Docker
3 9 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.26%) Firmware
6 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.26%) vSphere
7 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (3.39%) Terraform
2 13 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.57%) FortiGate
3 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.44%) Ansible
5 6 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.65%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.39%) Puppet
7 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (0.39%) SCCM
7 3 (0.39%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.26%) Nessus
9 1 (0.13%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.13%) Grafana
9 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 159 (20.76%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.66%) ServiceNow
3 46 (6.01%) SAP
4 38 (4.96%) Cisco
5 24 (3.13%) Oracle
6 22 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.48%) Fortinet
7 19 (2.48%) Palo Alto
8 18 (2.35%) Google
8 18 (2.35%) VMware
9 17 (2.22%) F5
9 17 (2.22%) Zscaler
10 13 (1.70%) Juniper
11 12 (1.57%) Murex
12 9 (1.17%) Databricks
12 9 (1.17%) NEC
13 7 (0.91%) Adobe
13 7 (0.91%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.91%) Workday
14 6 (0.78%) Citrix