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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 68 68
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 810 495 565
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 3.68% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 3.98% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 322 364
10th Percentile £361 £343 £377
25th Percentile £450 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £652 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £760
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 9
10th Percentile £32.84 £41.75 £31.14
25th Percentile £41.00 £55.63 £32.29
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +76.63% -45.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £78.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £57.63 £94.82 £68.30
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £36.80
% change year-on-year -20.00% +69.84% -41.12%

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 17,907 12,452 14,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,698 8,284 9,876
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £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 291 255 193
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -12.33% -8.75%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +1 110 £550 -8.33% 58
West London -5 22 £475 -15.56% 39
South London -11 10 £450 -14.29% 10
East London +3 4 £525 - 21
North London +1 3 £544 -1.14% 1
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 56 (6.91%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.94%) Confluence
3 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.74%) JBoss
5 5 (0.62%) Apache
5 5 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.49%) CMS
6 4 (0.49%) SAS
6 4 (0.49%) WordPress
7 3 (0.37%) Appian
7 3 (0.37%) Kentico
8 2 (0.25%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) MTS
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 71 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (5.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (5.31%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.62%) Trello
7 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.62%) ProductWriter
3 5 (0.62%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 4 (0.49%) Magento
4 4 (0.49%) Summit
4 4 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.37%) Shopify
6 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.25%) Eikon
6 2 (0.25%) iTrent
6 2 (0.25%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.25%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.25%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 136 (16.79%) Azure
2 63 (7.78%) Power Platform
3 62 (7.65%) AWS
4 46 (5.68%) SaaS
5 45 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (4.07%) Entra ID
8 23 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
8 23 (2.84%) GCP
9 18 (2.22%) GitHub
10 15 (1.85%) PowerApps
11 14 (1.73%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (1.73%) Power Automate
12 11 (1.36%) SuccessFactors
13 10 (1.23%) IaaS
13 10 (1.23%) OCI
14 9 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.11%) Google Workspace
15 8 (0.99%) PaaS
16 7 (0.86%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.91%) Firewall
2 29 (3.58%) Network Security
3 26 (3.21%) DNS
4 21 (2.59%) VPN
4 21 (2.59%) WAN
5 20 (2.47%) Wireless
6 16 (1.98%) BGP
6 16 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.73%) DHCP
7 14 (1.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 13 (1.60%) VLAN
9 12 (1.48%) LAN
10 11 (1.36%) Multicast
11 8 (0.99%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.86%) Cisco Wireless
12 7 (0.86%) IPsec
12 7 (0.86%) OSPF
13 6 (0.74%) Internet
13 6 (0.74%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.74%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.17%) Power BI
2 19 (2.35%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.23%) Big Data
5 7 (0.86%) Metadata
6 6 (0.74%) Hadoop
6 6 (0.74%) Tableau
7 5 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.62%) Delta Lake
8 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.49%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.37%) 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 90 (11.11%) JIRA
2 13 (1.60%) Git
3 9 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.62%) Selenium
5 4 (0.49%) GitLab
5 4 (0.49%) Subversion
6 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.25%) Appium
7 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.25%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.25%) TestNG
8 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.12%) Gatling
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 359 (44.32%) Social Skills
2 324 (40.00%) Finance
3 133 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (11.36%) Banking
5 82 (10.12%) Public Sector
6 55 (6.79%) Organisational Skills
7 52 (6.42%) Retail
8 49 (6.05%) Legal
9 38 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (3.70%) Marketing
11 28 (3.46%) Front Office
12 27 (3.33%) Telecoms
13 26 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (2.59%) Local Government
15 19 (2.35%) Financial Institution
16 17 (2.10%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.98%) Manufacturing
18 12 (1.48%) Law
19 11 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 216 (26.67%) Project Manager
2 103 (12.72%) Analyst
3 85 (10.49%) Senior
4 75 (9.26%) Lead
5 73 (9.01%) Business Analyst
6 49 (6.05%) Architect
7 46 (5.68%) Consultant
8 37 (4.57%) Developer
8 37 (4.57%) Network Engineer
9 36 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
9 36 (4.44%) Senior Manager
10 29 (3.58%) IT Manager
11 27 (3.33%) Senior Project Manager
12 25 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (2.47%) Transformation Manager
14 18 (2.22%) IT Project Manager
14 18 (2.22%) Programme Manager
15 17 (2.10%) Change Manager
15 17 (2.10%) Technical Manager
16 16 (1.98%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.09%) Terraform
2 23 (2.84%) REST
3 12 (1.48%) Middleware
4 8 (0.99%) React
5 7 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (0.74%) 802.1X
6 6 (0.74%) PySpark
6 6 (0.74%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (0.74%) SOAP
6 6 (0.74%) Web Services
6 6 (0.74%) XML
7 5 (0.62%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.62%) Kafka
7 5 (0.62%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.62%) VML
8 4 (0.49%) ADO
8 4 (0.49%) OAuth
8 4 (0.49%) Playwright
8 4 (0.49%) React Native
9 3 (0.37%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.93%) Onboarding
2 35 (4.32%) Product Ownership
3 34 (4.20%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.72%) Derivative
6 21 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.47%) Cloud Native
8 19 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.60%) Credit Risk
11 13 (1.60%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.48%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.36%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.36%) Life Science
14 10 (1.23%) IoT
14 10 (1.23%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.11%) FMCG
15 9 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.95%) Windows
2 21 (2.59%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.22%) Linux
4 9 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.74%) Unix
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (46.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 297 (36.67%) Agile
3 251 (30.99%) Project Management
4 154 (19.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 149 (18.40%) Migration
6 135 (16.67%) Change Management
6 135 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 133 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 131 (16.17%) PRINCE2
9 119 (14.69%) Decision-Making
10 105 (12.96%) AI
11 101 (12.47%) Waterfall
12 88 (10.86%) DevOps
12 88 (10.86%) Risk Management
12 88 (10.86%) Roadmaps
13 78 (9.63%) Analytics
13 78 (9.63%) Scrum
14 77 (9.51%) User Acceptance Testing
15 73 (9.01%) Workshop Facilitation
16 72 (8.89%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 51 (6.30%) SQL
2 49 (6.05%) Python
3 19 (2.35%) PowerShell
4 16 (1.98%) Java
5 11 (1.36%) VBA
6 8 (0.99%) C#
7 6 (0.74%) Bash
8 5 (0.62%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.49%) Bicep
9 4 (0.49%) Go
9 4 (0.49%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.49%) Korn
10 3 (0.37%) BeanShell
10 3 (0.37%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.25%) C
11 2 (0.25%) C++
11 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.12%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.12%) COBOL
12 1 (0.12%) RPG
Qualifications
1 120 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 97 (11.98%) PMP
3 94 (11.60%) SC Cleared
4 89 (10.99%) Degree
5 83 (10.25%) PMI Certification
6 24 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 12 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.48%) CISSP
10 11 (1.36%) CCNP
11 10 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 8 (0.99%) APMG
13 7 (0.86%) CISM
13 7 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.62%) IIBA
15 5 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (14.32%) PMO
2 45 (5.56%) QA
3 24 (2.96%) NIST
4 22 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.47%) Data Quality
6 19 (2.35%) GDPR
7 12 (1.48%) SLA
8 10 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.11%) GRC
10 6 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.62%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.62%) P3O
12 4 (0.49%) NCSC
13 3 (0.37%) GxP
13 3 (0.37%) HL7
13 3 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 3 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.25%) DICOM
System Software
1 38 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.11%) Docker
4 5 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.49%) vSphere
6 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.25%) Firmware
7 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) oVirt
8 1 (0.12%) RHEV
8 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (1.85%) Ansible
1 15 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.60%) FortiGate
3 12 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.86%) Cisco Prime
4 7 (0.86%) Puppet
4 7 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (0.49%) SCCM
8 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.25%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.25%) Nessus
10 1 (0.12%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.12%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.12%) WMI
10 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 175 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.42%) ServiceNow
3 51 (6.30%) SAP
4 43 (5.31%) Cisco
5 29 (3.58%) Oracle
5 29 (3.58%) Salesforce
6 24 (2.96%) VMware
7 23 (2.84%) Fortinet
8 19 (2.35%) F5
8 19 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 17 (2.10%) Google
9 17 (2.10%) Murex
9 17 (2.10%) Zscaler
10 14 (1.73%) Juniper
11 11 (1.36%) Bloomberg
11 11 (1.36%) Databricks
12 10 (1.23%) NEC
13 9 (1.11%) Workday
14 8 (0.99%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.99%) Red Hat