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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 65 60
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 659 473 637
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.66% 3.81% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 4.13% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 304 432
10th Percentile £375 £377 £370
25th Percentile £456 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £664 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 12
10th Percentile £27.84 £24.33 -
25th Percentile £28.72 £26.83 £20.98
Median hourly rate £30.31 £32.00 £25.59
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +25.05% +2.77%
75th Percentile £31.78 £40.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £32.58 £45.60 £67.70
England median hourly rate £37.00 £60.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -38.33% +76.47% -47.08%

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 15,883 11,458 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.24% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 7,744 11,113
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £809 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 179 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.83 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.11 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +22.13% -25.10%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%

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 19 May 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
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 19 May 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 96 £550 -8.33% 93
South London +4 17 £525 -12.50% 3
West London -13 17 £550 +22.22% 9
East London -5 2 £590 - 7
North London - 2 £544 - 1
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 40 (6.07%) Confluence
2 32 (4.86%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.61%) CMS
5 3 (0.46%) Camunda
6 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 54 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 44 (6.68%) Microsoft Project
4 40 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (2.28%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.76%) Trello
7 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Revit
8 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.82%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 6 (0.91%) ProductWriter
4 5 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.76%) Summit
5 3 (0.46%) Endur
5 3 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.46%) SAP Retail
5 3 (0.46%) Shopify
6 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.30%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.30%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.30%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 91 (13.81%) Azure
2 42 (6.37%) AWS
3 41 (6.22%) Power Platform
4 38 (5.77%) SaaS
5 29 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (2.58%) Entra ID
6 17 (2.58%) GitHub
7 15 (2.28%) GCP
7 15 (2.28%) IaaS
8 14 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.37%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.37%) Google Workspace
11 8 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.06%) Asana
13 6 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (0.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.77%) Firewall
2 18 (2.73%) Network Security
3 17 (2.58%) DNS
4 9 (1.37%) MPLS
5 8 (1.21%) WAN
6 7 (1.06%) BGP
7 6 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 6 (0.91%) Multicast
7 6 (0.91%) NetScaler
7 6 (0.91%) OSPF
8 5 (0.76%) Internet
8 5 (0.76%) LAN
8 5 (0.76%) VLAN
8 5 (0.76%) VPN
9 4 (0.61%) BIG-IP
9 4 (0.61%) DHCP
9 4 (0.61%) IPsec
9 4 (0.61%) Wireless
10 3 (0.46%) SSL
10 3 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.55%) Power BI
2 18 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.28%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.21%) Tableau
5 7 (1.06%) Metadata
6 6 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.61%) Big Data
9 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.15%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.15%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 88 (13.35%) JIRA
2 11 (1.67%) Git
2 11 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.76%) Bitbucket
3 5 (0.76%) GitLab
4 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.15%) Appium
5 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.15%) LSMW
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.15%) TestRail
5 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 286 (43.40%) Social Skills
2 252 (38.24%) Finance
3 106 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (12.59%) Banking
5 66 (10.02%) Public Sector
6 60 (9.10%) Organisational Skills
7 48 (7.28%) Presentation Skills
8 41 (6.22%) Retail
9 33 (5.01%) Legal
10 24 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.64%) Marketing
11 19 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (2.88%) Investment Banking
12 17 (2.58%) Financial Institution
13 14 (2.12%) Front Office
13 14 (2.12%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.37%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (1.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 206 (31.26%) Project Manager
2 92 (13.96%) Analyst
3 80 (12.14%) Lead
4 72 (10.93%) Business Analyst
5 61 (9.26%) Senior
6 32 (4.86%) Architect
7 31 (4.70%) Delivery Manager
7 31 (4.70%) Developer
8 29 (4.40%) Senior Manager
9 28 (4.25%) Consultant
10 23 (3.49%) IT Manager
11 22 (3.34%) Technical Manager
12 21 (3.19%) Network Engineer
12 21 (3.19%) Senior Project Manager
13 19 (2.88%) Programme Manager
13 19 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (2.58%) Change Manager
15 16 (2.43%) IT Project Manager
15 16 (2.43%) Transformation Manager
16 15 (2.28%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.43%) Middleware
2 12 (1.82%) REST
3 9 (1.37%) XML
4 5 (0.76%) React
5 4 (0.61%) OAuth
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.61%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.46%) ADO
6 3 (0.46%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.46%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.46%) HTML
6 3 (0.46%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.46%) React Native
6 3 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.46%) Web Services
6 3 (0.46%) ZK
7 2 (0.30%) .NET
7 2 (0.30%) CSS
7 2 (0.30%) IDoc
7 2 (0.30%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 29 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 19 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.67%) Derivative
8 11 (1.67%) Life Science
9 10 (1.52%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.52%) Credit Risk
10 9 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.21%) IoT
12 7 (1.06%) NHS
12 7 (1.06%) Tandem
13 6 (0.91%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.91%) Market Risk
13 6 (0.91%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.95%) Windows
2 13 (1.97%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.21%) VMS
4 7 (1.06%) Linux
5 6 (0.91%) Unix
6 4 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (38.24%) Agile
2 243 (36.87%) Project Management
3 213 (32.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 125 (18.97%) Migration
5 121 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (15.17%) Decision-Making
7 96 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 93 (14.11%) PRINCE2
9 83 (12.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 79 (11.99%) Waterfall
11 76 (11.53%) Change Management
12 69 (10.47%) DevOps
12 69 (10.47%) Risk Management
12 69 (10.47%) Roadmaps
13 60 (9.10%) Business Analysis
14 59 (8.95%) Validation
14 59 (8.95%) Workshop Facilitation
15 58 (8.80%) Project Governance
16 57 (8.65%) Scrum
17 56 (8.50%) AI
Programming Languages
1 42 (6.37%) SQL
2 34 (5.16%) Python
3 11 (1.67%) Java
4 7 (1.06%) C#
5 6 (0.91%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.76%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.61%) Bicep
7 4 (0.61%) Go
8 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.46%) Bash
8 3 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.46%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.30%) ABAP
9 2 (0.30%) C++
9 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.30%) Rust
10 1 (0.15%) Korn
10 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (13.05%) Degree
2 80 (12.14%) PMP
3 79 (11.99%) Security Cleared
4 67 (10.17%) SC Cleared
5 63 (9.56%) PMI Certification
6 16 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.82%) APMP
9 10 (1.52%) CBAP
10 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.21%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.06%) APMG
12 7 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.06%) CCNP
12 7 (1.06%) IIBA
13 6 (0.91%) CISSP
14 5 (0.76%) RIBA
15 4 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (13.66%) PMO
2 43 (6.53%) QA
3 23 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.49%) NIST
4 21 (3.19%) GDPR
5 18 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.21%) GRC
7 7 (1.06%) SLA
8 6 (0.91%) Basel III
8 6 (0.91%) HL7
8 6 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.76%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.76%) GAAP
9 5 (0.76%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.76%) MiFID
10 4 (0.61%) IFRS
10 4 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.46%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.91%) Docker
2 6 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.15%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (3.79%) Terraform
2 16 (2.43%) Ansible
3 11 (1.67%) Kubernetes
4 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.61%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Control-M
7 1 (0.15%) Avamar
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.15%) logstash
7 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 120 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.68%) SAP
3 32 (4.86%) ServiceNow
4 28 (4.25%) Oracle
5 20 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.88%) Google
7 14 (2.12%) Cisco
7 14 (2.12%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.82%) CyberArk
9 11 (1.67%) Workday
10 9 (1.37%) Citrix
10 9 (1.37%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.21%) Software AG
12 7 (1.06%) Adobe
12 7 (1.06%) F5
13 6 (0.91%) NEC
13 6 (0.91%) VMware
14 5 (0.76%) Arista
14 5 (0.76%) CheckPoint
14 5 (0.76%) Murex