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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 71 69
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -15
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 827 499 561
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.07% 3.70% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 4.00% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 319 352
10th Percentile £363 £350 £382
25th Percentile £450 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
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 £65.60
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £39.68
% change year-on-year -20.00% +57.51% -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 18,084 12,490 14,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.58% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,262 9,757
10th Percentile £359 £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 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 257 180
10th Percentile £16.71 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.38 £48.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -1 109 £538 -13.13% 143
West London -7 23 £475 -15.56% 31
South London -7 10 £450 -10.00% 15
East London +2 4 £525 - 22
North London 0 4 £550 - 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 (6.77%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.84%) Confluence
3 15 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.73%) JBoss
5 5 (0.60%) Apache
5 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.48%) CMS
6 4 (0.48%) SAS
6 4 (0.48%) WordPress
7 3 (0.36%) Appian
7 3 (0.36%) Kentico
8 1 (0.12%) Camunda
8 1 (0.12%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) MTS
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 71 (8.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (5.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 45 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (5.08%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.60%) Trello
7 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 24 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.60%) ProductWriter
3 5 (0.60%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 4 (0.48%) Magento
4 4 (0.48%) Summit
4 4 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.36%) Endur
5 3 (0.36%) iTrent
5 3 (0.36%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.24%) Maximo
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.24%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 142 (17.17%) Azure
2 66 (7.98%) Power Platform
3 60 (7.26%) AWS
4 50 (6.05%) SaaS
5 43 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (3.75%) Entra ID
7 24 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
8 23 (2.78%) GCP
9 18 (2.18%) Microsoft Copilot
10 16 (1.93%) GitHub
11 14 (1.69%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.57%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (1.21%) OCI
15 9 (1.09%) Google Workspace
16 8 (0.97%) IaaS
16 8 (0.97%) PaaS
16 8 (0.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 7 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.65%) Firewall
2 28 (3.39%) Network Security
3 24 (2.90%) DNS
4 21 (2.54%) VPN
5 20 (2.42%) WAN
5 20 (2.42%) Wireless
6 17 (2.06%) BGP
6 17 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.69%) DHCP
7 14 (1.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 14 (1.69%) VLAN
8 12 (1.45%) Multicast
9 11 (1.33%) LAN
10 8 (0.97%) Cisco Wireless
10 8 (0.97%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.85%) IPsec
11 7 (0.85%) OSPF
12 6 (0.73%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.60%) DMZ
13 5 (0.60%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.93%) Power BI
2 17 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.97%) Big Data
5 7 (0.85%) Metadata
6 6 (0.73%) Delta Lake
6 6 (0.73%) Hadoop
7 5 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.60%) Tableau
8 4 (0.48%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.36%) Power Query
9 3 (0.36%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.36%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.24%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.24%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 89 (10.76%) JIRA
2 13 (1.57%) Git
3 9 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.60%) Selenium
5 4 (0.48%) GitLab
5 4 (0.48%) Subversion
6 2 (0.24%) Appium
6 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.24%) TestNG
7 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.12%) Gatling
7 1 (0.12%) MLflow
7 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 370 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 326 (39.42%) Finance
3 131 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (11.61%) Banking
5 81 (9.79%) Public Sector
6 55 (6.65%) Organisational Skills
7 50 (6.05%) Retail
8 47 (5.68%) Legal
9 39 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
10 35 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
11 29 (3.51%) Front Office
12 28 (3.39%) Telecoms
13 27 (3.26%) Marketing
14 21 (2.54%) Local Government
15 18 (2.18%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.93%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.93%) Manufacturing
17 12 (1.45%) Law
18 11 (1.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 219 (26.48%) Project Manager
2 110 (13.30%) Analyst
3 87 (10.52%) Senior
4 78 (9.43%) Business Analyst
5 74 (8.95%) Lead
6 50 (6.05%) Architect
7 47 (5.68%) Consultant
8 40 (4.84%) Senior Manager
9 38 (4.59%) Delivery Manager
9 38 (4.59%) Network Engineer
10 34 (4.11%) Developer
11 32 (3.87%) IT Manager
12 31 (3.75%) Senior Project Manager
13 26 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (2.54%) IT Project Manager
15 20 (2.42%) Technical Manager
16 19 (2.30%) Transformation Manager
17 18 (2.18%) Programme Manager
18 17 (2.06%) Change Manager
19 16 (1.93%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.66%) REST
1 22 (2.66%) Terraform
2 11 (1.33%) Middleware
3 8 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (0.97%) React
4 7 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (0.85%) SOAP
4 7 (0.85%) XML
5 6 (0.73%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.73%) PySpark
5 6 (0.73%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.60%) Kafka
6 5 (0.60%) Web Services
7 4 (0.48%) ADO
7 4 (0.48%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.48%) JDBC
7 4 (0.48%) LDAP
7 4 (0.48%) OAuth
7 4 (0.48%) React Native
7 4 (0.48%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.93%) Onboarding
2 40 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.23%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.14%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.42%) Derivative
8 19 (2.30%) Cloud Native
8 19 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 18 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.57%) Credit Risk
11 13 (1.57%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.45%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.45%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.33%) Life Science
14 10 (1.21%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.09%) FMCG
15 9 (1.09%) IoT
16 8 (0.97%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.63%) Windows
2 19 (2.30%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.18%) Linux
4 9 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.73%) Unix
6 3 (0.36%) Android
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (46.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 305 (36.88%) Agile
3 258 (31.20%) Project Management
4 161 (19.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 150 (18.14%) Migration
6 140 (16.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 137 (16.57%) Change Management
8 134 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (15.11%) PRINCE2
10 122 (14.75%) Decision-Making
11 107 (12.94%) AI
12 106 (12.82%) Waterfall
13 92 (11.12%) Risk Management
14 88 (10.64%) Roadmaps
15 85 (10.28%) DevOps
16 84 (10.16%) Workshop Facilitation
17 81 (9.79%) User Acceptance Testing
18 79 (9.55%) Scrum
19 76 (9.19%) Business Analysis
20 74 (8.95%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 49 (5.93%) SQL
2 45 (5.44%) Python
3 18 (2.18%) PowerShell
4 13 (1.57%) Java
5 11 (1.33%) VBA
6 8 (0.97%) C#
7 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.60%) Korn
9 4 (0.48%) Bash
9 4 (0.48%) BeanShell
9 4 (0.48%) Go
9 4 (0.48%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.24%) Bicep
11 2 (0.24%) C
11 2 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.12%) ABAP
12 1 (0.12%) COBOL
12 1 (0.12%) RPG
Qualifications
1 119 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 98 (11.85%) PMP
3 94 (11.37%) SC Cleared
4 86 (10.40%) PMI Certification
5 85 (10.28%) Degree
6 22 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 12 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.45%) CISSP
10 11 (1.33%) CCNP
11 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 8 (0.97%) APMG
12 8 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.85%) CISM
14 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.60%) IIBA
16 4 (0.48%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (14.51%) PMO
2 48 (5.80%) QA
3 25 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.78%) NIST
5 21 (2.54%) Data Quality
6 20 (2.42%) GDPR
7 13 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.21%) SLA
9 9 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (1.09%) GRC
10 5 (0.60%) P3O
11 4 (0.48%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.48%) NCSC
11 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.36%) GxP
12 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (4.47%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.21%) Docker
4 5 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.60%) vSphere
5 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.24%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) IAG
7 1 (0.12%) oVirt
7 1 (0.12%) RHEV
7 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.69%) Ansible
3 13 (1.57%) FortiGate
4 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
5 8 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.85%) Puppet
7 6 (0.73%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.48%) SCCM
10 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.36%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.24%) Nessus
12 1 (0.12%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.12%) WMI
12 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 179 (21.64%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.89%) ServiceNow
3 55 (6.65%) SAP
4 44 (5.32%) Cisco
5 32 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 30 (3.63%) Oracle
7 24 (2.90%) VMware
8 23 (2.78%) Fortinet
9 20 (2.42%) F5
10 19 (2.30%) Palo Alto
11 18 (2.18%) Murex
12 17 (2.06%) Zscaler
13 16 (1.93%) Google
14 14 (1.69%) Databricks
14 14 (1.69%) Juniper
15 12 (1.45%) Bloomberg
16 11 (1.33%) Workday
17 8 (0.97%) CyberArk
17 8 (0.97%) Red Hat
18 7 (0.85%) NEC