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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 71 70
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -12
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 787 500 540
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.90% 3.70% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 4.00% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 323 366
10th Percentile £363 £363 £365
25th Percentile £450 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £684
90th Percentile £750 £775 £767
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 7
10th Percentile £39.42 £39.60 £30.05
25th Percentile £41.00 £52.50 £34.55
Median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% - +0.78%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £66.50
90th Percentile £57.75 £75.50 £68.60
England median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.33% +41.18% -32.81%

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 18,004 12,485 14,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.37% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,831 8,318 10,069
10th Percentile £363 £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 £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 253 197
10th Percentile £17.10 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -13.04%
75th Percentile £57.13 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 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 15 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 15 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 -2 110 £550 -8.33% 114
West London -3 22 £475 -9.52% 33
South London -6 8 £450 -14.29% 13
East London 0 3 £525 - 18
North London -2 2 £538 -2.27% 4
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 55 (6.99%) SharePoint
2 42 (5.34%) Confluence
3 19 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.64%) Apache
4 5 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.64%) JBoss
5 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.51%) CMS
5 4 (0.51%) SAS
5 4 (0.51%) WordPress
6 3 (0.38%) Appian
6 3 (0.38%) Kentico
7 2 (0.25%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) MTS
Applications
1 69 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (6.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 47 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (5.97%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.64%) Trello
6 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.76%) ProductWriter
4 5 (0.64%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.51%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.51%) Magento
5 4 (0.51%) Summit
5 4 (0.51%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 3 (0.38%) Shopify
7 2 (0.25%) Endur
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 132 (16.77%) Azure
2 61 (7.75%) Power Platform
3 59 (7.50%) AWS
4 46 (5.84%) SaaS
5 41 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (4.07%) Entra ID
8 21 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
9 19 (2.41%) GCP
10 18 (2.29%) GitHub
11 14 (1.78%) IaaS
11 14 (1.78%) Power Automate
11 14 (1.78%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (1.40%) Google Workspace
13 11 (1.40%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.27%) OCI
15 7 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 7 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.99%) Firewall
2 29 (3.68%) DNS
3 26 (3.30%) Network Security
4 21 (2.67%) VPN
5 19 (2.41%) WAN
5 19 (2.41%) Wireless
6 16 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (1.91%) BGP
7 15 (1.91%) DHCP
8 14 (1.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 12 (1.52%) LAN
9 12 (1.52%) VLAN
10 10 (1.27%) Multicast
11 9 (1.14%) MPLS
12 8 (1.02%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.89%) IPsec
13 7 (0.89%) OSPF
13 7 (0.89%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.76%) Cisco Wireless
14 6 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.10%) Power BI
2 18 (2.29%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.14%) Big Data
5 7 (0.89%) Metadata
6 6 (0.76%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.76%) Tableau
7 5 (0.64%) Delta Lake
7 5 (0.64%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.38%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.25%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 90 (11.44%) JIRA
2 12 (1.52%) Git
3 9 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.64%) GitLab
4 5 (0.64%) Selenium
5 4 (0.51%) Subversion
6 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.25%) Appium
7 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.25%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.25%) TestNG
8 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.13%) Gatling
8 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 350 (44.47%) Social Skills
2 309 (39.26%) Finance
3 126 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (10.93%) Banking
5 77 (9.78%) Public Sector
6 62 (7.88%) Organisational Skills
7 58 (7.37%) Retail
8 53 (6.73%) Legal
9 35 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (3.94%) Marketing
11 28 (3.56%) Telecoms
12 26 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
13 24 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (2.92%) Front Office
15 20 (2.54%) Financial Institution
16 19 (2.41%) Investment Banking
17 18 (2.29%) Local Government
18 17 (2.16%) Manufacturing
19 13 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
20 10 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 217 (27.57%) Project Manager
2 96 (12.20%) Analyst
3 81 (10.29%) Senior
4 72 (9.15%) Lead
5 66 (8.39%) Business Analyst
6 47 (5.97%) Architect
7 46 (5.84%) Consultant
8 39 (4.96%) Developer
9 36 (4.57%) Network Engineer
10 34 (4.32%) Senior Manager
11 32 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
12 28 (3.56%) IT Manager
13 25 (3.18%) Senior Project Manager
14 23 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.80%) Technical Manager
16 19 (2.41%) IT Project Manager
16 19 (2.41%) Programme Manager
16 19 (2.41%) Transformation Manager
17 18 (2.29%) Infrastructure Manager
18 17 (2.16%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.54%) REST
2 11 (1.40%) Middleware
3 8 (1.02%) React
4 7 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (0.76%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.76%) PySpark
5 6 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
5 6 (0.76%) Web Services
6 5 (0.64%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.64%) Kafka
6 5 (0.64%) VML
6 5 (0.64%) XML
7 4 (0.51%) OAuth
7 4 (0.51%) Playwright
7 4 (0.51%) React Native
7 4 (0.51%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.51%) SOAP
8 3 (0.38%) ADO
9 2 (0.25%) .NET
9 2 (0.25%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 49 (6.23%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.19%) Management Information System
4 28 (3.56%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 18 (2.29%) Derivative
7 18 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 17 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.78%) Credit Risk
12 13 (1.65%) IoT
12 13 (1.65%) Life Science
13 12 (1.52%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.14%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.14%) Fixed Income
14 9 (1.14%) FMCG
14 9 (1.14%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.14%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.68%) Windows
2 18 (2.29%) Windows Server
3 15 (1.91%) Linux
4 7 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.51%) Unix
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) VMS
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (44.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 276 (35.07%) Agile
3 246 (31.26%) Project Management
4 149 (18.93%) Migration
5 145 (18.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 131 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
7 128 (16.26%) PRINCE2
8 125 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 121 (15.37%) Change Management
10 112 (14.23%) Decision-Making
11 103 (13.09%) AI
12 96 (12.20%) Waterfall
13 86 (10.93%) Roadmaps
14 85 (10.80%) DevOps
15 81 (10.29%) Risk Management
16 75 (9.53%) Analytics
17 73 (9.28%) User Acceptance Testing
18 71 (9.02%) Business Analysis
19 70 (8.89%) Scrum
20 68 (8.64%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 49 (6.23%) SQL
2 45 (5.72%) Python
3 14 (1.78%) Java
3 14 (1.78%) PowerShell
4 11 (1.40%) VBA
5 7 (0.89%) C#
6 6 (0.76%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.64%) Bash
8 4 (0.51%) Bicep
8 4 (0.51%) Go
8 4 (0.51%) Korn
9 3 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.38%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.25%) C++
10 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.13%) ABAP
11 1 (0.13%) C
11 1 (0.13%) COBOL
11 1 (0.13%) RPG
11 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 112 (14.23%) Security Cleared
2 100 (12.71%) PMP
3 88 (11.18%) Degree
4 87 (11.05%) SC Cleared
5 86 (10.93%) PMI Certification
6 23 (2.92%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.78%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.52%) CISSP
10 11 (1.40%) CCNP
11 10 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (0.89%) APMG
12 7 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.76%) CISM
14 5 (0.64%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.64%) IIBA
14 5 (0.64%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (14.36%) PMO
2 44 (5.59%) QA
3 23 (2.92%) NIST
4 21 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 18 (2.29%) GDPR
7 13 (1.65%) SLA
8 10 (1.27%) GRC
9 7 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.64%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.51%) NCSC
11 4 (0.51%) P3O
12 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.38%) GxP
12 3 (0.38%) HL7
12 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.38%) MiFID
12 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (4.70%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.27%) Docker
4 5 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.38%) vSphere
6 2 (0.25%) Firmware
6 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) oVirt
7 1 (0.13%) RHEV
7 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (3.30%) Terraform
2 15 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.65%) Ansible
3 13 (1.65%) FortiGate
4 8 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.76%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (0.64%) Puppet
6 5 (0.64%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.38%) SCCM
8 3 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.25%) Nessus
10 1 (0.13%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.13%) SCOM
10 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 170 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.48%) ServiceNow
3 46 (5.84%) SAP
4 41 (5.21%) Cisco
5 24 (3.05%) Oracle
6 23 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.67%) VMware
8 20 (2.54%) Fortinet
9 19 (2.41%) Google
9 19 (2.41%) Palo Alto
10 18 (2.29%) F5
11 17 (2.16%) Zscaler
12 16 (2.03%) Murex
13 14 (1.78%) Juniper
14 11 (1.40%) Databricks
15 10 (1.27%) Bloomberg
16 9 (1.14%) NEC
17 8 (1.02%) Workday
18 7 (0.89%) Adobe
18 7 (0.89%) Red Hat