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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 65 65
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -10
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 693 480 611
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.65% 3.85% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 4.17% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 314 422
10th Percentile £365 £388 £375
25th Percentile £450 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £663 £695 £675
90th Percentile £755 £775 £775
England median daily rate £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 12
10th Percentile £37.06 £35.58 -
25th Percentile - £42.44 £20.98
Median hourly rate £41.00 £51.25 £25.59
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +100.27% +13.81%
75th Percentile £51.13 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £56.63 £75.00 £67.70
England median hourly rate £40.02 £62.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -35.97% +89.39% -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 16,854 11,524 15,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.35% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,217 7,730 11,175
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £437 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 209 315
10th Percentile £18.04 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.89 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +15.40% -28.60%
75th Percentile £59.18 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -3 108 £550 -8.33% 33
South London +8 19 £500 -16.67% 4
West London -12 15 £513 -2.38% 17
North London +2 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 39 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 36 (5.19%) Confluence
3 13 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.01%) CMS
5 4 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.43%) Camunda
6 3 (0.43%) Kentico
6 3 (0.43%) SAS
6 3 (0.43%) WordPress
7 2 (0.29%) Apache
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 57 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (6.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (6.20%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.30%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 6 (0.87%) ProductWriter
4 6 (0.87%) Summit
5 3 (0.43%) Endur
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.43%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
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
6 2 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (14.14%) Azure
2 49 (7.07%) AWS
3 41 (5.92%) Power Platform
4 38 (5.48%) SaaS
5 31 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (3.17%) Entra ID
8 18 (2.60%) GitHub
9 14 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (2.02%) IaaS
10 12 (1.73%) GCP
11 10 (1.44%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.30%) Google Workspace
12 9 (1.30%) Serverless
12 9 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.15%) OCI
14 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.19%) Firewall
2 22 (3.17%) Network Security
3 20 (2.89%) DNS
4 12 (1.73%) VPN
5 10 (1.44%) DHCP
5 10 (1.44%) WAN
6 8 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 8 (1.15%) MPLS
6 8 (1.15%) Wireless
7 7 (1.01%) BGP
7 7 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.87%) LAN
8 6 (0.87%) NetScaler
8 6 (0.87%) VLAN
9 5 (0.72%) Broadband
9 5 (0.72%) Multicast
9 5 (0.72%) OSPF
10 4 (0.58%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.58%) Internet
10 4 (0.58%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.62%) Power BI
2 17 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (2.31%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.01%) Metadata
4 7 (1.01%) Tableau
5 6 (0.87%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.72%) Big Data
6 5 (0.72%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.58%) 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 Database
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 81 (11.69%) JIRA
2 13 (1.88%) Git
3 9 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.87%) 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
1 308 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 258 (37.23%) Finance
3 97 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (11.69%) Banking
5 79 (11.40%) Public Sector
6 60 (8.66%) Organisational Skills
7 48 (6.93%) Presentation Skills
8 45 (6.49%) Legal
8 45 (6.49%) Retail
9 24 (3.46%) Marketing
10 22 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.74%) Financial Institution
13 17 (2.45%) Investment Banking
14 16 (2.31%) Local Government
14 16 (2.31%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.88%) Front Office
16 11 (1.59%) General Ledger
17 10 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 214 (30.88%) Project Manager
2 85 (12.27%) Lead
3 83 (11.98%) Analyst
4 66 (9.52%) Senior
5 62 (8.95%) Business Analyst
6 39 (5.63%) Architect
7 33 (4.76%) Developer
8 31 (4.47%) Delivery Manager
8 31 (4.47%) Senior Manager
9 28 (4.04%) Network Engineer
10 26 (3.75%) Consultant
10 26 (3.75%) IT Manager
11 24 (3.46%) Senior Project Manager
12 20 (2.89%) Change Manager
12 20 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (2.74%) Technical Manager
14 18 (2.60%) IT Project Manager
15 17 (2.45%) Transformation Manager
16 15 (2.16%) Infrastructure Manager
17 14 (2.02%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.60%) Middleware
2 15 (2.16%) REST
3 7 (1.01%) XML
4 6 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.87%) React
5 5 (0.72%) PySpark
6 4 (0.58%) OAuth
6 4 (0.58%) React Native
6 4 (0.58%) 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%) IDoc
8 2 (0.29%) SAML
8 2 (0.29%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.63%) Onboarding
2 35 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.32%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (2.89%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.88%) Derivative
7 13 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 13 (1.88%) IoT
8 12 (1.73%) Credit Risk
9 11 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.44%) Life Science
11 9 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.15%) NHS
12 8 (1.15%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.01%) Reinsurance
14 6 (0.87%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.87%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.46%) Windows
2 11 (1.59%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.15%) Linux
4 5 (0.72%) Unix
4 5 (0.72%) VMS
5 4 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (37.37%) Agile
2 251 (36.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 240 (34.63%) Project Management
4 127 (18.33%) Migration
5 120 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
6 106 (15.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 105 (15.15%) PRINCE2
8 103 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 102 (14.72%) Decision-Making
10 87 (12.55%) Change Management
11 84 (12.12%) Waterfall
12 75 (10.82%) DevOps
13 70 (10.10%) Risk Management
14 68 (9.81%) AI
15 66 (9.52%) Roadmaps
16 62 (8.95%) Analytics
17 58 (8.37%) Validation
18 55 (7.94%) Business Analysis
19 54 (7.79%) Scrum
20 53 (7.65%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 49 (7.07%) SQL
2 40 (5.77%) Python
3 12 (1.73%) Java
4 7 (1.01%) C#
4 7 (1.01%) PowerShell
5 5 (0.72%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.58%) Bicep
6 4 (0.58%) Go
6 4 (0.58%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.58%) 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 89 (12.84%) Degree
2 88 (12.70%) PMP
3 79 (11.40%) Security Cleared
4 72 (10.39%) PMI Certification
5 64 (9.24%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.44%) APMP
9 10 (1.44%) CCNP
9 10 (1.44%) CISSP
10 9 (1.30%) CBAP
11 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.01%) APMG
12 7 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.87%) IIBA
13 6 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.72%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (13.28%) PMO
2 40 (5.77%) QA
3 25 (3.61%) NIST
4 23 (3.32%) GDPR
5 22 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (2.89%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.44%) GRC
8 7 (1.01%) SLA
9 6 (0.87%) Basel III
9 6 (0.87%) GAAP
9 6 (0.87%) HL7
9 6 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.72%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.72%) IFRS
11 4 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.58%) MiFID
12 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.43%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.01%) Docker
4 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) Firmware
5 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (4.04%) Terraform
2 16 (2.31%) Ansible
3 14 (2.02%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.15%) FortiGate
5 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.29%) Control-M
7 2 (0.29%) vCenter Server
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%) Nessus
8 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) SCCM
8 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 128 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.92%) SAP
3 40 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 32 (4.62%) Oracle
5 21 (3.03%) Cisco
6 19 (2.74%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.60%) Palo Alto
8 16 (2.31%) Google
9 12 (1.73%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.59%) CyberArk
10 11 (1.59%) Workday
11 10 (1.44%) Citrix
12 9 (1.30%) F5
12 9 (1.30%) VMware
13 8 (1.15%) Juniper
14 7 (1.01%) Murex
14 7 (1.01%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.87%) Adobe
15 6 (0.87%) NEC
15 6 (0.87%) Sitecore