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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 65 51
Rank change year-on-year -2 -14 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 552 524 780
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.87% 3.46% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 3.84% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 314 533
10th Percentile £334 £352 £364
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.78%
75th Percentile £675 £673 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £800
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
10th Percentile £34.67 £27.46 £56.38
25th Percentile £46.06 £32.94 £58.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -45.10% +6.25%
75th Percentile £67.18 £36.35 £70.94
90th Percentile £84.47 £50.28 £74.13
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +29.89% -36.36% -15.38%

All Process and 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 13,036 13,640 17,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.47% 89.99% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,595 8,770 12,218
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 234
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.52
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.65 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.51% +6.23% -12.66%
75th Percentile £47.94 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 +6 98 £550 -12.00% 38
West London -11 12 £575 +15.00% 6
South London -2 10 £500 +5.26% 10
East London +6 7 £900 +100.00% 6
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 33 (5.98%) Confluence
2 23 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.54%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.36%) Appian
5 2 (0.36%) CMS
5 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 47 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (6.34%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (6.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (3.80%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.63%) Trello
7 5 (0.91%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.54%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.18%) InDesign
9 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 30 (5.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (3.08%) Endur
3 7 (1.27%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (1.27%) Workday HCM
4 6 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.91%) SAP GTS
5 5 (0.91%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.72%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.72%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.72%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.54%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.54%) ProductWriter
7 3 (0.54%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 82 (14.86%) Azure
2 29 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (4.53%) Power Platform
3 25 (4.53%) SaaS
4 22 (3.99%) AWS
5 20 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (3.62%) GCP
6 18 (3.26%) Entra ID
7 14 (2.54%) GitHub
8 10 (1.81%) OCI
9 9 (1.63%) IaaS
9 9 (1.63%) PaaS
10 8 (1.45%) Asana
11 7 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
13 4 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.72%) Figma
13 4 (0.72%) Smartsheet
14 3 (0.54%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.26%) Firewall
2 12 (2.17%) WAN
3 11 (1.99%) DNS
4 10 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.27%) LAN
5 7 (1.27%) SD-WAN
6 6 (1.09%) VPN
7 5 (0.91%) Multicast
7 5 (0.91%) NetScaler
8 4 (0.72%) MPLS
8 4 (0.72%) Structured Cabling
8 4 (0.72%) tcpdump
8 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.72%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.54%) DKIM
9 3 (0.54%) DMARC
9 3 (0.54%) Network Security
10 2 (0.36%) OSPF
10 2 (0.36%) SSH
10 2 (0.36%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.99%) Power BI
2 9 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.27%) Tableau
4 6 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.72%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.72%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.54%) Big Data
6 3 (0.54%) Metadata
6 3 (0.54%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.18%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.18%) Power Query
8 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 75 (13.59%) JIRA
2 11 (1.99%) Git
3 9 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.91%) GitLab
5 4 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (0.72%) Subversion
5 4 (0.72%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.18%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 236 (42.75%) Social Skills
2 203 (36.78%) Finance
3 81 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.51%) Banking
5 46 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.25%) Presentation Skills
7 27 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (4.71%) Retail
9 24 (4.35%) Front Office
10 22 (3.99%) Marketing
10 22 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (3.44%) Legal
12 17 (3.08%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.90%) Telecoms
14 12 (2.17%) Back Office
14 12 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.99%) Law
15 11 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 153 (27.72%) Project Manager
2 98 (17.75%) Analyst
3 78 (14.13%) Business Analyst
4 59 (10.69%) Lead
5 52 (9.42%) Senior
6 33 (5.98%) Consultant
7 30 (5.43%) Architect
8 25 (4.53%) Senior Manager
9 23 (4.17%) IT Manager
10 22 (3.99%) Programme Manager
10 22 (3.99%) SAP Manager
11 19 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
11 19 (3.44%) Senior Project Manager
12 18 (3.26%) SAP Project Manager
13 15 (2.72%) IT Project Manager
13 15 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.54%) Infrastructure Manager
15 12 (2.17%) Developer
15 12 (2.17%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 11 (1.99%) OpenLink Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.54%) REST
2 9 (1.63%) Middleware
2 9 (1.63%) Web Services
3 6 (1.09%) .NET
3 6 (1.09%) Node.js
3 6 (1.09%) RESTful
4 4 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (0.72%) SailPoint
4 4 (0.72%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (0.72%) ZK
5 3 (0.54%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.54%) React
5 3 (0.54%) YAML
6 2 (0.36%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.36%) HTML
6 2 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.36%) Spring
7 1 (0.18%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.16%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.99%) Data Centre
4 20 (3.62%) PMI
5 13 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
8 9 (1.63%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.45%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.45%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.09%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.09%) Life Science
11 6 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.62%) Windows
2 15 (2.72%) Linux
3 14 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.27%) Unix
4 7 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.72%) Solaris
6 4 (0.72%) VMS
7 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.18%) Android
8 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (41.67%) Agile
2 177 (32.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 166 (30.07%) Project Management
4 100 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (16.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 87 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (13.41%) Migration
8 72 (13.04%) Change Management
9 70 (12.68%) Risk Management
10 65 (11.78%) Business Analysis
10 65 (11.78%) Roadmaps
11 60 (10.87%) PRINCE2
11 60 (10.87%) Waterfall
12 58 (10.51%) Decision-Making
13 57 (10.33%) Scrum
13 57 (10.33%) User Acceptance Testing
14 56 (10.14%) Workshop Facilitation
15 52 (9.42%) DevOps
15 52 (9.42%) Project Governance
16 50 (9.06%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 42 (7.61%) Python
2 36 (6.52%) SQL
3 22 (3.99%) PowerShell
4 18 (3.26%) Bash
5 12 (2.17%) Java
6 4 (0.72%) Perl
6 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.54%) C++
7 3 (0.54%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.54%) VBA
8 2 (0.36%) ABAP
8 2 (0.36%) PHP
8 2 (0.36%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.18%) C#
9 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.18%) Go
9 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 87 (15.76%) Degree
2 69 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 54 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 49 (8.88%) PMI Certification
5 41 (7.43%) PMP
6 19 (3.44%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.99%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.81%) CBAP
10 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.72%) CISM
11 4 (0.72%) CISSP
11 4 (0.72%) ISEB
11 4 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.72%) MBA
11 4 (0.72%) PhD
12 3 (0.54%) APMP
12 3 (0.54%) IIBA
12 3 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.51%) PMO
2 35 (6.34%) QA
3 20 (3.62%) GDPR
4 17 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (1.81%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.63%) NIST
8 8 (1.45%) MiFID
8 8 (1.45%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.27%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.27%) PSD2
9 7 (1.27%) SLA
10 6 (1.09%) EMIR
10 6 (1.09%) NCSC
11 5 (0.91%) Def Stans
11 5 (0.91%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.72%) COBIT
12 4 (0.72%) GMP
12 4 (0.72%) SEPA
13 3 (0.54%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 20 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.09%) Docker
4 5 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.72%) NFS
5 4 (0.72%) Veritas File System
5 4 (0.72%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.18%) RACF
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (3.44%) Ansible
2 15 (2.72%) Terraform
3 9 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.27%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.91%) Grafana
6 5 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.72%) QRadar
7 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (0.72%) SCCM
8 3 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.54%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 82 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 54 (9.78%) SAP
3 39 (7.07%) Oracle
4 24 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 23 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.72%) Google
7 11 (1.99%) Workday
8 10 (1.81%) VMware
9 9 (1.63%) Cisco
9 9 (1.63%) CyberArk
10 8 (1.45%) Citrix
11 7 (1.27%) IBM
12 6 (1.09%) Planview
13 5 (0.91%) Apple
13 5 (0.91%) Aruba
13 5 (0.91%) ION Trading
13 5 (0.91%) Splunk
13 5 (0.91%) TIBCO
14 4 (0.72%) Arista
14 4 (0.72%) SaltStack