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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 70 68
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -12
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 788 500 538
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.92% 3.71% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.02% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 323 365
10th Percentile £363 £363 £374
25th Percentile £450 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £765
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 7
10th Percentile £39.42 £39.60 £30.05
25th Percentile £41.00 £52.50 £34.55
Median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% - +0.78%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £66.50
90th Percentile £57.75 £75.50 £68.60
England median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.33% +41.18% -32.81%

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £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 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 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 18 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 18 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 0 110 £550 -8.33% 113
West London -5 22 £475 -9.52% 30
South London -9 8 £450 -14.29% 13
East London -1 3 £525 - 17
North London -2 2 £538 -2.27% 4
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 (6.85%) SharePoint
2 42 (5.33%) Confluence
3 19 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.76%) JBoss
5 5 (0.63%) Apache
5 5 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.51%) CMS
6 4 (0.51%) SAS
6 4 (0.51%) 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 68 (8.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (6.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 47 (5.96%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (1.27%) 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 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.76%) ProductWriter
4 5 (0.63%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.51%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.51%) Magento
5 4 (0.51%) Summit
5 4 (0.51%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 3 (0.38%) Shopify
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%) Orchestrade
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
1 132 (16.75%) Azure
2 61 (7.74%) Power Platform
3 60 (7.61%) AWS
4 45 (5.71%) SaaS
5 41 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (4.06%) Entra ID
8 21 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (2.66%) GCP
9 17 (2.16%) GitHub
10 14 (1.78%) IaaS
10 14 (1.78%) Power Automate
10 14 (1.78%) PowerApps
11 13 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.40%) SuccessFactors
13 10 (1.27%) Google Workspace
13 10 (1.27%) OCI
14 9 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 7 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.98%) Firewall
2 29 (3.68%) DNS
3 26 (3.30%) Network Security
4 21 (2.66%) VPN
5 19 (2.41%) WAN
5 19 (2.41%) Wireless
6 16 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (1.90%) BGP
7 15 (1.90%) DHCP
8 14 (1.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 12 (1.52%) LAN
9 12 (1.52%) VLAN
10 10 (1.27%) Multicast
11 9 (1.14%) MPLS
12 8 (1.02%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.89%) IPsec
13 7 (0.89%) OSPF
13 7 (0.89%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.76%) Internet
14 6 (0.76%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.22%) Power BI
2 18 (2.28%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.27%) Big Data
5 7 (0.89%) Metadata
6 6 (0.76%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.76%) Hadoop
6 6 (0.76%) Tableau
7 5 (0.63%) Delta Lake
8 4 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.38%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
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 (11.42%) JIRA
2 13 (1.65%) Git
3 9 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.63%) Selenium
5 4 (0.51%) GitLab
5 4 (0.51%) 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
1 347 (44.04%) Social Skills
2 313 (39.72%) Finance
3 126 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.04%) Banking
5 76 (9.64%) Public Sector
6 59 (7.49%) Organisational Skills
6 59 (7.49%) Retail
7 52 (6.60%) Legal
8 36 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (3.93%) Marketing
10 28 (3.55%) Telecoms
11 24 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.66%) Front Office
13 20 (2.54%) Financial Institution
14 18 (2.28%) Local Government
15 17 (2.16%) Investment Banking
15 17 (2.16%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 216 (27.41%) Project Manager
2 96 (12.18%) Analyst
3 81 (10.28%) Senior
4 73 (9.26%) Lead
5 67 (8.50%) Business Analyst
6 49 (6.22%) Architect
7 44 (5.58%) Consultant
8 39 (4.95%) Developer
9 36 (4.57%) Network Engineer
10 34 (4.31%) Senior Manager
11 31 (3.93%) Delivery Manager
12 28 (3.55%) IT Manager
13 25 (3.17%) Senior Project Manager
14 24 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.66%) Technical Manager
16 19 (2.41%) IT Project Manager
16 19 (2.41%) Transformation Manager
17 18 (2.28%) Infrastructure Manager
17 18 (2.28%) Programme Manager
18 17 (2.16%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.79%) REST
2 11 (1.40%) Middleware
3 8 (1.02%) React
4 7 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (0.76%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.76%) PySpark
5 6 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
5 6 (0.76%) Web Services
6 5 (0.63%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.63%) Kafka
6 5 (0.63%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.63%) SOAP
6 5 (0.63%) VML
6 5 (0.63%) XML
7 4 (0.51%) OAuth
7 4 (0.51%) Playwright
7 4 (0.51%) React Native
8 3 (0.38%) ADO
9 2 (0.25%) .NET
9 2 (0.25%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.35%) Onboarding
2 37 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.19%) Management Information System
4 28 (3.55%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 18 (2.28%) Derivative
7 18 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 17 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.65%) Credit Risk
10 13 (1.65%) IoT
11 12 (1.52%) Life Science
11 12 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.27%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.14%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.14%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.14%) FMCG
13 9 (1.14%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.93%) Windows
2 19 (2.41%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.28%) Linux
4 9 (1.14%) 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
1 349 (44.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 275 (34.90%) Agile
3 248 (31.47%) Project Management
4 152 (19.29%) Migration
5 147 (18.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 130 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
7 127 (16.12%) PRINCE2
8 125 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 123 (15.61%) Change Management
10 113 (14.34%) Decision-Making
11 103 (13.07%) AI
12 97 (12.31%) Waterfall
13 87 (11.04%) Roadmaps
14 84 (10.66%) DevOps
15 82 (10.41%) Risk Management
16 75 (9.52%) Analytics
17 74 (9.39%) User Acceptance Testing
18 71 (9.01%) Business Analysis
18 71 (9.01%) Scrum
19 70 (8.88%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 49 (6.22%) SQL
2 46 (5.84%) Python
3 17 (2.16%) PowerShell
4 15 (1.90%) Java
5 11 (1.40%) VBA
6 7 (0.89%) C#
7 5 (0.63%) Bash
7 5 (0.63%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.51%) Bicep
8 4 (0.51%) Go
8 4 (0.51%) Korn
9 3 (0.38%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.25%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.25%) C++
10 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.13%) ABAP
11 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.13%) COBOL
11 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 112 (14.21%) Security Cleared
2 99 (12.56%) PMP
3 87 (11.04%) Degree
3 87 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 86 (10.91%) PMI Certification
5 23 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.78%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.52%) CISSP
9 11 (1.40%) CCNP
10 10 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 8 (1.02%) APMG
12 7 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.76%) CISM
14 5 (0.63%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.63%) IIBA
14 5 (0.63%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (13.96%) PMO
2 44 (5.58%) QA
3 24 (3.05%) NIST
4 22 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.41%) GDPR
6 13 (1.65%) SLA
7 10 (1.27%) GRC
8 7 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.51%) NCSC
10 4 (0.51%) P3O
11 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.38%) GxP
11 3 (0.38%) HL7
11 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (4.70%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.14%) Docker
4 5 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.51%) 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 25 (3.17%) Terraform
2 15 (1.90%) Ansible
2 15 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.65%) FortiGate
4 8 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.89%) Puppet
6 6 (0.76%) Cisco Prime
6 6 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.38%) SCCM
8 3 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.25%) Nessus
9 2 (0.25%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.13%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) SCOM
10 1 (0.13%) WMI
10 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 168 (21.32%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.73%) ServiceNow
3 49 (6.22%) SAP
4 42 (5.33%) Cisco
5 26 (3.30%) Oracle
6 24 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 24 (3.05%) VMware
7 20 (2.54%) Fortinet
8 19 (2.41%) Google
8 19 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 18 (2.28%) F5
10 17 (2.16%) Zscaler
11 16 (2.03%) Murex
12 14 (1.78%) Juniper
13 11 (1.40%) Databricks
14 10 (1.27%) Bloomberg
15 9 (1.14%) CyberArk
15 9 (1.14%) NEC
15 9 (1.14%) Workday
16 8 (1.02%) Red Hat