Project Delivery Contracts in London

Project Delivery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Project Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 53 57
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 450 679 1,139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.59% 3.81% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 4.30% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 475 774
10th Percentile £372 £374 £425
25th Percentile £451 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £745
90th Percentile £775 £775 £817
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 18
10th Percentile £24.33 - -
25th Percentile £26.83 £20.98 £21.24
Median hourly rate £32.00 £23.33 £27.24
Median % change year-on-year +37.16% -14.36% -38.78%
75th Percentile £40.88 £55.00 £66.06
90th Percentile £45.60 £65.90 £73.00
England median hourly rate £51.25 £34.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +50.74% -47.69% +46.07%

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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in London

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in London.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in London

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in London

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in London

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in London over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +8 84 £588 +1.08% 51
West London +1 6 £450 -11.11% 16
South London +3 4 £600 +9.09% 4
East London -13 1 - - 5
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (6.89%) Confluence
2 16 (3.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.00%) CMS
5 2 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.44%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.22%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (4.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (3.33%) MS Visio
6 6 (1.33%) Trello
7 3 (0.67%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.22%) Revit
9 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.78%) Endur
3 6 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.89%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.67%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.44%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.44%) SAP PLM
6 2 (0.44%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.44%) SAP SCM
6 2 (0.44%) SAP SRM
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.22%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.22%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 70 (15.56%) Azure
2 31 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (6.22%) AWS
4 25 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 22 (4.89%) IaaS
6 21 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (4.00%) SaaS
8 15 (3.33%) GCP
9 14 (3.11%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (2.00%) OCI
10 9 (2.00%) PaaS
10 9 (2.00%) Serverless
11 5 (1.11%) Miro
11 5 (1.11%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.11%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.89%) Figma
13 3 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.22%) Firewall
2 26 (5.78%) MPLS
3 23 (5.11%) VPN
4 21 (4.67%) DNS
5 14 (3.11%) BGP
5 14 (3.11%) OSPF
6 11 (2.44%) Multicast
7 9 (2.00%) Network Security
8 8 (1.78%) Broadband
8 8 (1.78%) IPv6
9 7 (1.56%) WAN
10 5 (1.11%) GPON
10 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.89%) HTTP
11 4 (0.89%) LAN
11 4 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.89%) Wireless
12 3 (0.67%) Internet
12 3 (0.67%) IPsec
12 3 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.22%) Power BI
2 12 (2.67%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.11%) Big Data
4 5 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.11%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.11%) Tableau
5 4 (0.89%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.67%) Metadata
6 3 (0.67%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.44%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.22%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 48 (10.67%) JIRA
2 10 (2.22%) Git
3 3 (0.67%) GitLab
3 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.67%) Subversion
4 2 (0.44%) JMeter
4 2 (0.44%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.44%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.22%) ERwin
5 1 (0.22%) Gatling
5 1 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.22%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.22%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.22%) JProfiler
5 1 (0.22%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.22%) RStudio
5 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 184 (40.89%) Social Skills
2 172 (38.22%) Finance
3 50 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (9.56%) Banking
5 32 (7.11%) Public Sector
6 30 (6.67%) Marketing
7 19 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.89%) Front Office
11 12 (2.67%) Investment Banking
11 12 (2.67%) Legal
11 12 (2.67%) Retail
12 11 (2.44%) Back Office
12 11 (2.44%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.22%) Local Government
13 10 (2.22%) Telecoms
14 9 (2.00%) Billing
15 8 (1.78%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 143 (31.78%) Project Manager
2 46 (10.22%) Senior
3 43 (9.56%) Analyst
4 34 (7.56%) Delivery Manager
5 33 (7.33%) Lead
6 32 (7.11%) Business Analyst
7 24 (5.33%) Senior Manager
8 23 (5.11%) Senior Project Manager
9 21 (4.67%) Architect
10 20 (4.44%) Consultant
10 20 (4.44%) Developer
11 19 (4.22%) Technical Manager
12 14 (3.11%) IT Manager
13 13 (2.89%) Programme Manager
13 13 (2.89%) Technical Project Manager
14 12 (2.67%) IT Project Manager
14 12 (2.67%) Network Engineer
15 10 (2.22%) Business Manager
15 10 (2.22%) Change Manager
15 10 (2.22%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.11%) .NET
2 10 (2.22%) HTML
3 9 (2.00%) CSS
4 7 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (1.56%) REST
5 6 (1.33%) XML
6 5 (1.11%) .NET Core
6 5 (1.11%) JSON
6 5 (1.11%) Web Services
7 4 (0.89%) jQuery
7 4 (0.89%) React
7 4 (0.89%) SOAP
8 3 (0.67%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.67%) Dask
8 3 (0.67%) LangChain
8 3 (0.67%) Middleware
8 3 (0.67%) NumPy
8 3 (0.67%) Pandas
8 3 (0.67%) RESTful
8 3 (0.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.78%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.56%) Data Centre
2 16 (3.56%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.56%) PMI
6 7 (1.56%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.33%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.11%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.89%) LIMS
9 4 (0.89%) Market Risk
9 4 (0.89%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.56%) Windows
2 17 (3.78%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.56%) Linux
4 5 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.67%) Unix
6 2 (0.44%) Solaris
7 1 (0.22%) Android
7 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (38.44%) Agile
2 152 (33.78%) Project Management
3 123 (27.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 90 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 63 (14.00%) Migration
7 55 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (10.89%) Scrum
9 48 (10.67%) Change Management
10 45 (10.00%) Waterfall
11 44 (9.78%) Risk Management
12 43 (9.56%) DevOps
13 40 (8.89%) PRINCE2
14 36 (8.00%) Budget Management
14 36 (8.00%) Decision-Making
15 35 (7.78%) Analytics
16 29 (6.44%) Business Case
16 29 (6.44%) ITIL
17 27 (6.00%) ERP
18 26 (5.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 41 (9.11%) SQL
2 30 (6.67%) Python
3 15 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 14 (3.11%) C#
5 10 (2.22%) Java
5 10 (2.22%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.33%) Bicep
7 5 (1.11%) Bash
7 5 (1.11%) Perl
8 4 (0.89%) VBA
9 3 (0.67%) R
10 2 (0.44%) C
10 2 (0.44%) PHP
11 1 (0.22%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.22%) C++
11 1 (0.22%) COBOL
11 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.22%) REXX
11 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 62 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 57 (12.67%) SC Cleared
3 52 (11.56%) Degree
4 32 (7.11%) PMI Certification
5 25 (5.56%) PMP
6 15 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.67%) CCIE
8 11 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.22%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.00%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.33%) CCNP
12 5 (1.11%) CCIE Service Provider
12 5 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.89%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 2 (0.44%) RIBA
16 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.00%) PMO
2 21 (4.67%) QA
3 10 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.56%) SLA
5 6 (1.33%) GDPR
6 5 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.89%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.44%) GxP
8 2 (0.44%) SEPA
9 1 (0.22%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) TARGET2
System Software
1 20 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.00%) Docker
3 7 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) NFS
4 2 (0.44%) Veritas File System
4 2 (0.44%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.22%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.22%) KVM
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.22%) XenApp
5 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (2.89%) Terraform
4 11 (2.44%) Ansible
5 5 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.11%) ZABBIX
6 3 (0.67%) SCCM
6 3 (0.67%) WSUS
7 2 (0.44%) QRadar
7 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.22%) Nagios
8 1 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 82 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.89%) SAP
3 27 (6.00%) Oracle
4 22 (4.89%) Cisco
5 10 (2.22%) Google
6 8 (1.78%) Databricks
6 8 (1.78%) Planview
6 8 (1.78%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.78%) Splunk
7 7 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.56%) SolarWinds
7 7 (1.56%) VMware
8 6 (1.33%) CheckPoint
8 6 (1.33%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.33%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.11%) Arista
9 5 (1.11%) IBM
9 5 (1.11%) Nokia
9 5 (1.11%) OutSystems
9 5 (1.11%) Workday