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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 66 52
Rank change year-on-year +4 -14 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 635 476 718
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.13% 3.56% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 3.92% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 280 491
10th Percentile £363 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £666 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £813
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile £30.96 £27.46 -
25th Percentile £36.53 £32.94 £20.98
Median hourly rate £55.07 £35.00 £23.33
Median % change year-on-year +57.34% +50.05% +3.74%
75th Percentile £78.81 £45.31 £33.00
90th Percentile £95.81 £56.25 £61.38
England median hourly rate £45.46 £36.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year +26.28% +0.98% -40.58%

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 13,941 12,133 16,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.57% 90.64% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,301 7,761 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 151 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.88 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 97 £550 -12.00% 45
South London +1 19 £500 +5.26% 7
West London -16 11 £575 +15.00% 9
East London +1 5 £765 +80.00% 18
North London - 1 £550 -
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 42 (6.61%) Confluence
2 23 (3.62%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.63%) CMS
5 3 (0.47%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.31%) Appian
6 2 (0.31%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.16%) Camunda
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (7.09%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (6.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (3.15%) MS Visio
6 7 (1.10%) Trello
7 6 (0.94%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.47%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.16%) InDesign
9 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.16%) Revit
9 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 25 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.57%) Endur
3 9 (1.42%) Loan IQ
3 9 (1.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 7 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.79%) Oracle FAH
7 4 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.63%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.47%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.47%) ProductWriter
8 3 (0.47%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.47%) SAP GTS
8 3 (0.47%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.31%) SAP SCM
9 2 (0.31%) SAP SRM
9 2 (0.31%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 99 (15.59%) Azure
2 35 (5.51%) AWS
2 35 (5.51%) SaaS
3 30 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (4.57%) Power Platform
5 22 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (3.31%) GitHub
7 18 (2.83%) GCP
8 17 (2.68%) Entra ID
9 14 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (1.89%) IaaS
11 10 (1.57%) OCI
12 9 (1.42%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.10%) PaaS
15 6 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.88%) Firewall
2 14 (2.20%) WAN
3 11 (1.73%) DNS
3 11 (1.73%) NetScaler
3 11 (1.73%) Network Security
4 9 (1.42%) LAN
5 8 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.10%) MPLS
6 7 (1.10%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.10%) VPN
7 5 (0.79%) Multicast
8 4 (0.63%) BGP
8 4 (0.63%) Broadband
8 4 (0.63%) Internet
8 4 (0.63%) OSPF
8 4 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
8 4 (0.63%) tcpdump
8 4 (0.63%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.31%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.31%) Power BI
2 15 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.42%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.79%) Metadata
4 5 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.79%) Tableau
5 4 (0.63%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle ODI
6 3 (0.47%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.31%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 90 (14.17%) JIRA
2 17 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.05%) Git
4 9 (1.42%) GitLab
5 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.31%) Selenium
7 2 (0.31%) Subversion
7 2 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.16%) Appium
8 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.16%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.16%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.16%) LSMW
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.16%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.16%) TestRail
8 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 291 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 246 (38.74%) Finance
3 93 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (12.60%) Banking
5 58 (9.13%) Public Sector
6 42 (6.61%) Presentation Skills
7 41 (6.46%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (5.20%) Retail
9 31 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (3.46%) Front Office
11 20 (3.15%) Legal
12 16 (2.52%) Marketing
13 15 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (2.36%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.89%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.57%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.42%) Law
17 9 (1.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 180 (28.35%) Project Manager
2 119 (18.74%) Analyst
3 97 (15.28%) Business Analyst
4 86 (13.54%) Lead
5 64 (10.08%) Senior
6 35 (5.51%) Consultant
7 31 (4.88%) Architect
8 28 (4.41%) Delivery Manager
9 24 (3.78%) Programme Manager
10 23 (3.62%) Senior Manager
11 21 (3.31%) SAP Manager
12 20 (3.15%) IT Manager
13 19 (2.99%) Senior Project Manager
14 18 (2.83%) Infrastructure Manager
15 17 (2.68%) SAP Project Manager
15 17 (2.68%) Technical Manager
16 16 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
16 16 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
17 15 (2.36%) Senior Business Analyst
18 14 (2.20%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.83%) Middleware
2 10 (1.57%) REST
3 6 (0.94%) XML
4 5 (0.79%) Node.js
4 5 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.79%) Web Services
5 4 (0.63%) AWS CDK
5 4 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (0.63%) HTML
5 4 (0.63%) React
5 4 (0.63%) SailPoint
5 4 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (0.63%) Ultra Messaging
5 4 (0.63%) ZK
6 3 (0.47%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.47%) RESTful
6 3 (0.47%) YAML
7 2 (0.31%) .NET
7 2 (0.31%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.31%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.51%) Product Ownership
2 34 (5.35%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.62%) Data Centre
4 21 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.05%) PMI
7 12 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
10 9 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.42%) NHS
10 9 (1.42%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.26%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.26%) Life Science
11 8 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.10%) Derivative
12 7 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.98%) Windows
2 15 (2.36%) Linux
2 15 (2.36%) Windows Server
3 11 (1.73%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.42%) VMS
5 8 (1.26%) Unix
6 5 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.31%) Solaris
7 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (42.36%) Agile
2 203 (31.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 201 (31.65%) Project Management
4 117 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (16.06%) Migration
6 98 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 86 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 80 (12.60%) PRINCE2
9 78 (12.28%) Business Analysis
10 77 (12.13%) Decision-Making
10 77 (12.13%) DevOps
11 76 (11.97%) Change Management
12 75 (11.81%) Waterfall
13 74 (11.65%) Scrum
14 67 (10.55%) Risk Management
14 67 (10.55%) Roadmaps
15 64 (10.08%) Requirements Gathering
16 62 (9.76%) Workshop Facilitation
17 60 (9.45%) Project Governance
18 58 (9.13%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (7.56%) Python
2 44 (6.93%) SQL
3 22 (3.46%) PowerShell
4 17 (2.68%) Bash
5 14 (2.20%) Java
6 6 (0.94%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.79%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.63%) C++
9 3 (0.47%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.31%) ABAP
10 2 (0.31%) C#
10 2 (0.31%) Perl
10 2 (0.31%) PHP
10 2 (0.31%) Rust
10 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.16%) Go
11 1 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 95 (14.96%) Degree
2 77 (12.13%) Security Cleared
3 64 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 62 (9.76%) PMP
5 61 (9.61%) PMI Certification
6 25 (3.94%) Master's Degree
7 18 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.20%) CBAP
9 13 (2.05%) APMP
10 11 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.57%) IIBA
12 8 (1.26%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.94%) CISM
13 6 (0.94%) CISSP
13 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.79%) CCNP
14 5 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.79%) ISEB
14 5 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (9.45%) PMO
2 47 (7.40%) QA
3 22 (3.46%) GDPR
4 19 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.83%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.20%) NIST
7 11 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.26%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.26%) MiFID
9 7 (1.10%) SLA
10 6 (0.94%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.79%) Basel III
11 5 (0.79%) NCSC
11 5 (0.79%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.63%) EMIR
12 4 (0.63%) GAAP
12 4 (0.63%) GRC
12 4 (0.63%) PSD2
13 3 (0.47%) GMP
13 3 (0.47%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (1.57%) Docker
4 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.31%) NFS
5 2 (0.31%) Veritas File System
5 2 (0.31%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) RACF
Systems Management
1 25 (3.94%) Terraform
2 23 (3.62%) Ansible
3 13 (2.05%) Kubernetes
4 12 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.79%) Grafana
5 5 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.63%) SCCM
7 3 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.31%) Control-M
8 2 (0.31%) QRadar
8 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 115 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.50%) SAP
3 40 (6.30%) Oracle
4 28 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.99%) Google
6 18 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.89%) Citrix
8 11 (1.73%) Cisco
8 11 (1.73%) CyberArk
9 9 (1.42%) Software AG
9 9 (1.42%) Workday
10 7 (1.10%) Aruba
10 7 (1.10%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.94%) Planview
11 6 (0.94%) VMware
12 5 (0.79%) Adobe
12 5 (0.79%) Apple
12 5 (0.79%) IBM
12 5 (0.79%) TIBCO
13 4 (0.63%) CheckPoint