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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 69 65
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 735 494 586
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.71% 3.64% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 3.95% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 328 401
10th Percentile £363 £382 £373
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% +3.91% -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 10
10th Percentile £37.06 £35.58 £20.98
25th Percentile - £42.44 £21.57
Median hourly rate £41.00 £51.25 £29.49
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +73.82% -54.11%
75th Percentile £51.13 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £56.63 £75.00 £68.15
England median hourly rate £48.75 £65.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +85.94% -45.31%

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 17,610 12,492 15,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.11% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,678 8,360 10,852
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 240 266
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.12
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.25 £31.75 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -1.99% -21.94%
75th Percentile £57.81 £50.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £70.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -10.20% 41
West London +4 21 £494 -5.95% 14
South London -5 16 £450 -14.29% 5
East London +2 2 £590 - 9
North London -1 2 £538 -2.27% 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 42 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 37 (5.03%) Confluence
3 13 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.82%) CMS
5 3 (0.41%) Apache
5 3 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.41%) Appian
5 3 (0.41%) Camunda
5 3 (0.41%) Kentico
5 3 (0.41%) SAS
5 3 (0.41%) WordPress
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.14%) CloudStack
Applications
1 65 (8.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (6.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 47 (6.39%) Microsoft Project
4 41 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (1.36%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.09%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.82%) ProductWriter
3 6 (0.82%) SAP SD
3 6 (0.82%) Summit
4 4 (0.54%) Magento
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
5 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.41%) SAP Retail
5 3 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.27%) Endur
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.27%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 107 (14.56%) Azure
2 55 (7.48%) AWS
3 48 (6.53%) Power Platform
4 38 (5.17%) SaaS
5 30 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (3.27%) Entra ID
7 18 (2.45%) GitHub
8 13 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (1.77%) IaaS
9 12 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.50%) GCP
10 11 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (1.36%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.36%) Google Workspace
11 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.36%) OCI
12 9 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.22%) Serverless
12 9 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (6.39%) Firewall
2 23 (3.13%) DNS
3 19 (2.59%) VPN
4 17 (2.31%) Network Security
5 16 (2.18%) Wireless
6 14 (1.90%) BGP
7 13 (1.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 13 (1.77%) VLAN
8 11 (1.50%) DHCP
8 11 (1.50%) WAN
8 11 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (1.36%) Multicast
10 8 (1.09%) MPLS
11 7 (0.95%) IPsec
11 7 (0.95%) LAN
11 7 (0.95%) OSPF
12 6 (0.82%) Internet
13 5 (0.68%) BIG-IP
13 5 (0.68%) Broadband
13 5 (0.68%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (5.03%) Power BI
2 14 (1.90%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (0.95%) Metadata
5 6 (0.82%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.68%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.68%) Tableau
7 4 (0.54%) Big Data
7 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.41%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 82 (11.16%) JIRA
2 16 (2.18%) Git
3 9 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.68%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.68%) GitLab
5 4 (0.54%) Selenium
5 4 (0.54%) Subversion
6 3 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.14%) Appium
7 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) Gatling
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.14%) TestNG
General
1 323 (43.95%) Social Skills
2 278 (37.82%) Finance
3 107 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 78 (10.61%) Banking
6 60 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (7.76%) Retail
8 46 (6.26%) Legal
9 43 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (4.22%) Marketing
11 24 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (2.59%) Investment Banking
13 19 (2.59%) Telecoms
14 18 (2.45%) Local Government
15 17 (2.31%) Financial Institution
16 15 (2.04%) Front Office
16 15 (2.04%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.22%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 217 (29.52%) Project Manager
2 90 (12.24%) Analyst
3 69 (9.39%) Senior
4 68 (9.25%) Lead
5 55 (7.48%) Business Analyst
6 42 (5.71%) Architect
7 37 (5.03%) Consultant
8 33 (4.49%) Delivery Manager
8 33 (4.49%) Developer
8 33 (4.49%) Network Engineer
9 32 (4.35%) Senior Manager
10 29 (3.95%) IT Manager
11 25 (3.40%) Senior Project Manager
12 21 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
12 21 (2.86%) Technical Manager
13 20 (2.72%) Change Manager
14 19 (2.59%) IT Project Manager
15 18 (2.45%) Programme Manager
16 17 (2.31%) Infrastructure Manager
16 17 (2.31%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.45%) REST
2 14 (1.90%) Middleware
3 7 (0.95%) SAP Fiori
3 7 (0.95%) XML
4 6 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.82%) Web Services
5 5 (0.68%) PySpark
5 5 (0.68%) React
5 5 (0.68%) VML
6 4 (0.54%) 802.1X
6 4 (0.54%) ADO
6 4 (0.54%) OAuth
6 4 (0.54%) React Native
7 3 (0.41%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.41%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.41%) Kafka
7 3 (0.41%) Playwright
7 3 (0.41%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.41%) SOAP
8 2 (0.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.99%) Onboarding
2 32 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.27%) Data Centre
5 23 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (2.31%) Cloud Native
6 17 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (2.04%) Derivative
7 15 (2.04%) IoT
8 12 (1.63%) Life Science
8 12 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.50%) Credit Risk
9 11 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.50%) Reinsurance
10 10 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.36%) FMCG
10 10 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.22%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.09%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.99%) Windows
2 12 (1.63%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.22%) Linux
4 6 (0.82%) Unix
5 2 (0.27%) VMS
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (41.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 264 (35.92%) Agile
3 236 (32.11%) Project Management
4 135 (18.37%) Migration
5 133 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
6 128 (17.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 111 (15.10%) Change Management
8 110 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 110 (14.97%) PRINCE2
9 107 (14.56%) Decision-Making
10 90 (12.24%) Waterfall
11 89 (12.11%) AI
12 75 (10.20%) DevOps
13 74 (10.07%) Risk Management
13 74 (10.07%) Roadmaps
14 68 (9.25%) Analytics
15 64 (8.71%) Validation
16 60 (8.16%) Project Governance
17 57 (7.76%) Business Analysis
17 57 (7.76%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 44 (5.99%) SQL
2 41 (5.58%) Python
3 10 (1.36%) VBA
4 9 (1.22%) Java
5 8 (1.09%) PowerShell
6 7 (0.95%) C#
7 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.54%) Bicep
8 4 (0.54%) Go
9 3 (0.41%) C++
9 3 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.41%) Korn
9 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.27%) Bash
10 2 (0.27%) Rust
11 1 (0.14%) ABAP
11 1 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 90 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 87 (11.84%) PMP
3 84 (11.43%) Degree
4 72 (9.80%) PMI Certification
5 67 (9.12%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.63%) CCNP
10 10 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.36%) CISSP
11 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (0.95%) APMG
12 7 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.82%) RIBA
14 5 (0.68%) CBAP
14 5 (0.68%) CCNA
14 5 (0.68%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.68%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (14.42%) PMO
2 44 (5.99%) QA
3 21 (2.86%) NIST
4 19 (2.59%) GDPR
5 18 (2.45%) Data Quality
6 17 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.50%) GRC
8 10 (1.36%) SLA
9 7 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.68%) HL7
11 4 (0.54%) NCSC
12 3 (0.41%) GAAP
12 3 (0.41%) GxP
12 3 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.41%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.41%) MiFID
12 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (3.95%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.22%) Docker
3 6 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.27%) Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.27%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (3.54%) Terraform
2 12 (1.63%) Ansible
2 12 (1.63%) FortiGate
3 9 (1.22%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.68%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.41%) SCCM
7 3 (0.41%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.27%) Nessus
9 1 (0.14%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.14%) Grafana
9 1 (0.14%) logstash
9 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 145 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.53%) ServiceNow
3 43 (5.85%) SAP
4 32 (4.35%) Cisco
5 30 (4.08%) Oracle
6 21 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.72%) Palo Alto
8 19 (2.59%) Fortinet
9 17 (2.31%) F5
10 14 (1.90%) Google
11 13 (1.77%) Juniper
11 13 (1.77%) Zscaler
12 11 (1.50%) VMware
13 8 (1.09%) Murex
13 8 (1.09%) Workday
14 7 (0.95%) Adobe
14 7 (0.95%) CyberArk
14 7 (0.95%) NEC
15 6 (0.82%) Citrix
15 6 (0.82%) Sitecore