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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 76 68
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 -14
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 807 480 564
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.02% 3.59% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 3.88% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 312 373
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £567 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £754
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile £32.84 £39.60 £30.58
25th Percentile £41.00 £52.50 £32.28
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £50.90
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +27.70% -24.31%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £65.75
90th Percentile £57.63 £75.50 £68.45
England median hourly rate £51.50 £60.00 £39.65
% change year-on-year -14.17% +51.32% -37.31%

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 17,874 12,372 14,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.51% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,706 8,225 9,980
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 190
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.78% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 0 109 £550 -8.33% 111
West London -5 22 £475 -15.56% 43
South London -11 10 £450 -14.29% 10
East London +4 3 £525 - 16
North London -1 3 £544 -1.14% 5
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 57 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 43 (5.33%) Confluence
3 17 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.74%) JBoss
5 5 (0.62%) Apache
5 5 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.50%) CMS
6 4 (0.50%) SAS
6 4 (0.50%) WordPress
7 3 (0.37%) Appian
7 3 (0.37%) Kentico
8 2 (0.25%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) MTS
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 69 (8.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (5.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (5.45%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.62%) Trello
6 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.74%) ProductWriter
4 5 (0.62%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 4 (0.50%) Magento
5 4 (0.50%) Summit
5 4 (0.50%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.37%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.37%) Shopify
7 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.25%) iTrent
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.25%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 135 (16.73%) Azure
2 64 (7.93%) Power Platform
3 62 (7.68%) AWS
4 45 (5.58%) SaaS
5 43 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (4.09%) Entra ID
8 23 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (2.73%) GCP
10 17 (2.11%) GitHub
11 15 (1.86%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.86%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.73%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (1.36%) IaaS
13 11 (1.36%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (1.24%) OCI
15 9 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (1.12%) Google Workspace
16 7 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (0.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.94%) Firewall
2 27 (3.35%) DNS
2 27 (3.35%) Network Security
3 21 (2.60%) VPN
4 20 (2.48%) WAN
4 20 (2.48%) Wireless
5 16 (1.98%) BGP
5 16 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (1.73%) DHCP
6 14 (1.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 13 (1.61%) VLAN
8 12 (1.49%) LAN
9 11 (1.36%) Multicast
10 8 (0.99%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.87%) Cisco Wireless
11 7 (0.87%) IPsec
11 7 (0.87%) OSPF
12 6 (0.74%) Internet
12 6 (0.74%) MPLS
12 6 (0.74%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.32%) Power BI
2 18 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.24%) Big Data
5 7 (0.87%) Metadata
6 6 (0.74%) Hadoop
6 6 (0.74%) Tableau
7 5 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.62%) Delta Lake
8 4 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.37%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.25%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.25%) Power Query
10 2 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 93 (11.52%) JIRA
2 13 (1.61%) Git
3 9 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.62%) Selenium
5 4 (0.50%) GitLab
5 4 (0.50%) Subversion
6 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.25%) Appium
7 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.25%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.25%) TestNG
8 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.12%) Gatling
8 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 354 (43.87%) Social Skills
2 321 (39.78%) Finance
3 133 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (11.28%) Banking
5 82 (10.16%) Public Sector
6 56 (6.94%) Retail
7 55 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (6.20%) Legal
9 40 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (3.59%) Marketing
11 28 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (3.47%) Telecoms
12 26 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
13 25 (3.10%) Front Office
14 20 (2.48%) Financial Institution
15 19 (2.35%) Local Government
16 17 (2.11%) Investment Banking
16 17 (2.11%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.36%) Law
17 11 (1.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 217 (26.89%) Project Manager
2 100 (12.39%) Analyst
3 83 (10.29%) Senior
4 77 (9.54%) Lead
5 72 (8.92%) Business Analyst
6 49 (6.07%) Architect
7 46 (5.70%) Consultant
8 39 (4.83%) Developer
9 37 (4.58%) Network Engineer
10 35 (4.34%) Senior Manager
11 33 (4.09%) Delivery Manager
12 27 (3.35%) IT Manager
13 26 (3.22%) Senior Project Manager
14 24 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.48%) Technical Manager
16 19 (2.35%) Transformation Manager
17 18 (2.23%) Programme Manager
18 17 (2.11%) Change Manager
18 17 (2.11%) Infrastructure Manager
18 17 (2.11%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.10%) Terraform
2 23 (2.85%) REST
3 12 (1.49%) Middleware
4 8 (0.99%) React
5 7 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (0.74%) 802.1X
6 6 (0.74%) PySpark
6 6 (0.74%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (0.74%) SOAP
6 6 (0.74%) Web Services
7 5 (0.62%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.62%) Kafka
7 5 (0.62%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.62%) VML
7 5 (0.62%) XML
8 4 (0.50%) ADO
8 4 (0.50%) OAuth
8 4 (0.50%) Playwright
8 4 (0.50%) React Native
9 3 (0.37%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.44%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.46%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.34%) Management Information System
4 28 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.73%) Derivative
6 20 (2.48%) Cloud Native
6 20 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.61%) Credit Risk
11 12 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.36%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.36%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.36%) IoT
12 11 (1.36%) Life Science
13 10 (1.24%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.12%) FMCG
14 9 (1.12%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.84%) Windows
2 19 (2.35%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.23%) Linux
4 9 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.62%) Unix
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.25%) VMS
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (45.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 292 (36.18%) Agile
3 252 (31.23%) Project Management
4 154 (19.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 151 (18.71%) Migration
6 136 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
7 133 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 132 (16.36%) PRINCE2
9 131 (16.23%) Change Management
10 115 (14.25%) Decision-Making
11 107 (13.26%) AI
12 99 (12.27%) Waterfall
13 89 (11.03%) DevOps
14 88 (10.90%) Roadmaps
15 86 (10.66%) Risk Management
16 77 (9.54%) Analytics
16 77 (9.54%) User Acceptance Testing
17 74 (9.17%) Scrum
17 74 (9.17%) Workshop Facilitation
18 72 (8.92%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 49 (6.07%) SQL
2 47 (5.82%) Python
3 18 (2.23%) PowerShell
4 16 (1.98%) Java
5 11 (1.36%) VBA
6 7 (0.87%) C#
7 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.62%) Bash
9 4 (0.50%) Bicep
9 4 (0.50%) Go
9 4 (0.50%) Korn
10 3 (0.37%) BeanShell
10 3 (0.37%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.25%) C
11 2 (0.25%) C++
11 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.12%) ABAP
12 1 (0.12%) COBOL
12 1 (0.12%) RPG
Qualifications
1 119 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 99 (12.27%) PMP
3 93 (11.52%) SC Cleared
4 85 (10.53%) Degree
4 85 (10.53%) PMI Certification
5 24 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.73%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 11 (1.36%) CCNP
9 11 (1.36%) CISSP
10 8 (0.99%) APMG
11 7 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 6 (0.74%) CISM
12 6 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.62%) IIBA
13 5 (0.62%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (14.25%) PMO
2 45 (5.58%) QA
3 24 (2.97%) NIST
4 22 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.48%) Data Quality
6 19 (2.35%) GDPR
7 13 (1.61%) SLA
8 9 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.12%) GRC
9 5 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.62%) P3O
10 4 (0.50%) NCSC
10 4 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.37%) GxP
11 3 (0.37%) HL7
11 3 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.12%) Docker
4 5 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.50%) vSphere
6 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.25%) Firmware
7 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) oVirt
8 1 (0.12%) RHEV
8 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 15 (1.86%) Ansible
1 15 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.61%) FortiGate
2 13 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.87%) Cisco Prime
3 7 (0.87%) Puppet
3 7 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (0.50%) SCCM
7 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.25%) Nessus
8 2 (0.25%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.12%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.12%) WMI
9 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 173 (21.44%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.69%) ServiceNow
3 52 (6.44%) SAP
4 43 (5.33%) Cisco
5 28 (3.47%) Oracle
5 28 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 24 (2.97%) VMware
7 22 (2.73%) Fortinet
8 19 (2.35%) F5
8 19 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 18 (2.23%) Google
10 17 (2.11%) Zscaler
11 16 (1.98%) Murex
12 14 (1.73%) Juniper
13 11 (1.36%) Bloomberg
13 11 (1.36%) Databricks
14 10 (1.24%) Workday
15 9 (1.12%) CyberArk
15 9 (1.12%) NEC
16 8 (0.99%) Red Hat