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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 64 56
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 663 466 665
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.08% 3.61% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 3.96% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 290 470
10th Percentile £377 £350 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £666 £675
90th Percentile £800 £750 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile £29.72 £25.02 -
25th Percentile £33.44 £28.56 £20.98
Median hourly rate £40.78 £35.08 £23.33
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% +50.40% +3.74%
75th Percentile £55.65 £42.23 £33.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £46.14 £59.35
England median hourly rate £45.46 £55.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -17.35% +61.76% -47.69%

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 14,581 11,761 16,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.81% 91.05% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,791 7,833 11,491
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% - -7.06%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 158 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.98% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £69.87 £77.77 £69.05
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -9.72%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -9.09% 108
South London +1 18 £513 -14.58% 3
West London -13 14 £525 +5.00% 12
East London +2 4 £765 +80.00% 13
North London - 2 £544 - 2
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 43 (6.49%) Confluence
2 26 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.60%) CMS
5 3 (0.45%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.30%) Camunda
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 59 (8.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (7.54%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (6.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (2.41%) MS Visio
6 7 (1.06%) Trello
7 4 (0.60%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.15%) InDesign
9 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.81%) Loan IQ
3 9 (1.36%) Endur
4 6 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 5 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.60%) Shopify
7 3 (0.45%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.30%) Algo Collateral
8 2 (0.30%) ION MarketView
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.30%) ProductWriter
8 2 (0.30%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.30%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.30%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.30%) SAP Retail
8 2 (0.30%) SAP SRM
8 2 (0.30%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 106 (15.99%) Azure
2 37 (5.58%) AWS
3 35 (5.28%) SaaS
4 34 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (5.13%) Power Platform
5 27 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (3.32%) Entra ID
7 21 (3.17%) GitHub
8 17 (2.56%) GCP
9 16 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (2.41%) IaaS
10 9 (1.36%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.36%) PaaS
11 8 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (1.06%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.06%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.13%) Firewall
2 16 (2.41%) WAN
3 15 (2.26%) DNS
4 13 (1.96%) Network Security
5 11 (1.66%) NetScaler
6 9 (1.36%) LAN
6 9 (1.36%) MPLS
7 8 (1.21%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.06%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.90%) Internet
9 6 (0.90%) VPN
10 5 (0.75%) Multicast
10 5 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (0.60%) BGP
11 4 (0.60%) Broadband
11 4 (0.60%) DHCP
11 4 (0.60%) OSPF
11 4 (0.60%) tcpdump
11 4 (0.60%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.62%) Power BI
2 18 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (0.90%) Tableau
5 5 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.75%) Metadata
5 5 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.45%) Big Data
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (0.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 97 (14.63%) JIRA
2 16 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.51%) Git
4 9 (1.36%) GitLab
5 5 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.15%) Appium
9 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.15%) Dreamweaver
9 1 (0.15%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.15%) LSMW
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.15%) Selenium
9 1 (0.15%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.15%) TestRail
9 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 301 (45.40%) Social Skills
2 266 (40.12%) Finance
3 99 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (12.52%) Banking
5 63 (9.50%) Public Sector
6 54 (8.14%) Organisational Skills
7 46 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
8 39 (5.88%) Retail
9 34 (5.13%) Legal
10 30 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (3.47%) Front Office
12 18 (2.71%) Investment Banking
12 18 (2.71%) Marketing
13 17 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.96%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.81%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (1.36%) Law
17 9 (1.36%) Manufacturing
17 9 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 210 (31.67%) Project Manager
2 114 (17.19%) Analyst
3 90 (13.57%) Business Analyst
4 81 (12.22%) Lead
5 69 (10.41%) Senior
6 34 (5.13%) Consultant
7 30 (4.52%) Delivery Manager
8 28 (4.22%) Architect
9 26 (3.92%) Senior Manager
10 24 (3.62%) Infrastructure Manager
10 24 (3.62%) Programme Manager
11 22 (3.32%) Technical Manager
12 21 (3.17%) IT Manager
12 21 (3.17%) Senior Project Manager
13 19 (2.87%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 16 (2.41%) IT Project Manager
15 15 (2.26%) SAP Manager
16 14 (2.11%) Developer
16 14 (2.11%) SAP Project Manager
16 14 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.02%) Middleware
2 7 (1.06%) REST
3 6 (0.90%) XML
4 5 (0.75%) Node.js
4 5 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.75%) SailPoint
4 5 (0.75%) Web Services
5 4 (0.60%) AWS CDK
5 4 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (0.60%) HTML
5 4 (0.60%) Ultra Messaging
5 4 (0.60%) ZK
6 3 (0.45%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.45%) React
6 3 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.45%) YAML
7 2 (0.30%) .NET
7 2 (0.30%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.58%) Onboarding
2 34 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 26 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.11%) PMI
5 13 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.81%) Public Cloud
7 11 (1.66%) NHS
8 10 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.51%) Derivative
8 10 (1.51%) Reinsurance
8 10 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
9 9 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.21%) IoT
10 8 (1.21%) Life Science
11 7 (1.06%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.06%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.03%) Windows
2 18 (2.71%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.11%) Linux
4 11 (1.66%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.36%) VMS
6 6 (0.90%) Unix
7 5 (0.75%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.15%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (41.48%) Agile
2 222 (33.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 212 (31.98%) Project Management
4 123 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
5 113 (17.04%) Migration
6 103 (15.54%) PRINCE2
7 98 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (14.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 85 (12.82%) Decision-Making
10 81 (12.22%) DevOps
11 78 (11.76%) Roadmaps
12 76 (11.46%) Business Analysis
12 76 (11.46%) Scrum
13 74 (11.16%) Change Management
13 74 (11.16%) Risk Management
14 72 (10.86%) Waterfall
15 70 (10.56%) Workshop Facilitation
16 61 (9.20%) Project Governance
17 59 (8.90%) Requirements Gathering
18 57 (8.60%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 45 (6.79%) Python
2 44 (6.64%) SQL
3 21 (3.17%) PowerShell
4 17 (2.56%) Bash
5 15 (2.26%) Java
6 5 (0.75%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.75%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.60%) C++
7 4 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.45%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.30%) Bicep
9 2 (0.30%) C#
9 2 (0.30%) PHP
9 2 (0.30%) Rust
10 1 (0.15%) ABAP
10 1 (0.15%) Go
10 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 101 (15.23%) Degree
2 85 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 78 (11.76%) PMP
4 72 (10.86%) PMI Certification
5 70 (10.56%) SC Cleared
6 23 (3.47%) Master's Degree
7 21 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.11%) APMP
8 14 (2.11%) CBAP
9 12 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.51%) IIBA
12 8 (1.21%) DV Cleared
13 7 (1.06%) CISSP
13 7 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.90%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.90%) CISM
15 5 (0.75%) ISEB
15 5 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.75%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.26%) PMO
2 49 (7.39%) QA
3 22 (3.32%) GDPR
4 21 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (3.02%) Data Quality
6 18 (2.71%) NIST
7 9 (1.36%) MiFID
7 9 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.21%) SLA
9 7 (1.06%) GRC
10 5 (0.75%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.75%) Basel III
10 5 (0.75%) GAAP
10 5 (0.75%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.75%) NCSC
10 5 (0.75%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.60%) HL7
11 4 (0.60%) IFRS
12 3 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (1.21%) Docker
4 4 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.15%) RACF
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (4.22%) Terraform
2 21 (3.17%) Ansible
3 14 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.66%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.75%) Grafana
5 5 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.45%) SCCM
8 2 (0.30%) Control-M
9 1 (0.15%) Avamar
9 1 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.15%) logstash
9 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.15%) SCOM
9 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 128 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.54%) SAP
3 31 (4.68%) Oracle
4 30 (4.52%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.32%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.17%) Google
7 13 (1.96%) Citrix
8 12 (1.81%) Cisco
9 11 (1.66%) CyberArk
10 10 (1.51%) Workday
11 9 (1.36%) Software AG
12 8 (1.21%) VMware
13 7 (1.06%) Adobe
13 7 (1.06%) Aruba
14 6 (0.90%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.75%) Apple
15 5 (0.75%) Okta
15 5 (0.75%) TIBCO
16 4 (0.60%) Arista
16 4 (0.60%) CheckPoint