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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 66 58
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 659 465 652
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.71% 3.73% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 4.04% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 296 448
10th Percentile £375 £369 £369
25th Percentile £459 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £653 £689 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 11
10th Percentile £28.42 £24.33 -
25th Percentile £30.19 £26.83 £20.98
Median hourly rate £33.12 £32.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +30.61% -1.61%
75th Percentile £37.53 £40.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £40.18 £45.60 £65.00
England median hourly rate £37.00 £60.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -38.33% +76.47% -47.49%

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 15,677 11,512 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.23% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,479 7,802 11,216
10th Percentile £356 £350 £341
25th Percentile £431 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 175 313
10th Percentile £18.52 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £23.66 £23.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +23.21% -26.80%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 12 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in London over the 6 months to 12 May 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 12 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 -1 97 £550 -8.33% 91
South London +1 17 £525 -12.50% 3
West London -15 17 £550 +22.22% 11
East London -4 2 £590 - 8
North London - 2 £544 -
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 31 (4.70%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.61%) CMS
5 3 (0.46%) Camunda
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
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 57 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (7.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 47 (7.13%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (6.22%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (2.12%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.76%) Trello
6 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Revit
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.82%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 5 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.76%) ProductWriter
4 5 (0.76%) Summit
5 4 (0.61%) Endur
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.46%) Shopify
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.30%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.30%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.30%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.30%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 91 (13.81%) Azure
2 42 (6.37%) AWS
3 40 (6.07%) Power Platform
4 38 (5.77%) SaaS
5 29 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.58%) GitHub
7 16 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (2.43%) Entra ID
8 15 (2.28%) IaaS
9 14 (2.12%) GCP
9 14 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.21%) Google Workspace
12 8 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.06%) OCI
14 6 (0.91%) Serverless
14 6 (0.91%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.46%) Firewall
2 16 (2.43%) DNS
2 16 (2.43%) Network Security
3 9 (1.37%) MPLS
4 8 (1.21%) WAN
5 6 (0.91%) BGP
5 6 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 6 (0.91%) NetScaler
5 6 (0.91%) OSPF
6 5 (0.76%) Internet
6 5 (0.76%) LAN
6 5 (0.76%) Multicast
6 5 (0.76%) VPN
7 4 (0.61%) BIG-IP
7 4 (0.61%) DHCP
7 4 (0.61%) IPsec
7 4 (0.61%) VLAN
8 3 (0.46%) Broadband
8 3 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.40%) Power BI
2 17 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (1.97%) 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
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.15%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 87 (13.20%) JIRA
2 11 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.52%) Git
4 5 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.76%) GitLab
5 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.15%) Appium
6 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.15%) LSMW
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.15%) TestRail
6 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 291 (44.16%) Social Skills
2 257 (39.00%) Finance
3 108 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (12.44%) Banking
5 67 (10.17%) Public Sector
6 58 (8.80%) Organisational Skills
7 51 (7.74%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (6.07%) Retail
9 33 (5.01%) Legal
10 25 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (3.79%) Marketing
11 21 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.88%) Investment Banking
13 16 (2.43%) Financial Institution
14 15 (2.28%) Front Office
15 14 (2.12%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 8 (1.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 208 (31.56%) Project Manager
2 96 (14.57%) Analyst
3 77 (11.68%) Lead
4 75 (11.38%) Business Analyst
5 59 (8.95%) Senior
6 32 (4.86%) Architect
7 30 (4.55%) Consultant
7 30 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
8 29 (4.40%) Senior Manager
9 27 (4.10%) Developer
10 24 (3.64%) IT Manager
11 22 (3.34%) Programme Manager
12 21 (3.19%) Senior Project Manager
12 21 (3.19%) Technical Manager
13 19 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (2.73%) Change Manager
14 18 (2.73%) Network Engineer
15 16 (2.43%) IT Project Manager
15 16 (2.43%) Transformation Manager
16 15 (2.28%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.58%) Middleware
2 12 (1.82%) REST
3 9 (1.37%) XML
4 5 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.76%) React
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%) OAuth
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%) VML
7 2 (0.30%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.70%) Onboarding
2 30 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 24 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.19%) Data Centre
5 19 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.67%) Derivative
8 10 (1.52%) Credit Risk
8 10 (1.52%) Life Science
9 9 (1.37%) IoT
9 9 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.21%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.06%) NHS
11 7 (1.06%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.06%) Tandem
12 6 (0.91%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.10%) Windows
2 15 (2.28%) 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
1 258 (39.15%) Agile
2 243 (36.87%) Project Management
3 221 (33.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 125 (18.97%) Migration
5 124 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (15.33%) Decision-Making
7 96 (14.57%) PRINCE2
8 95 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 82 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 78 (11.84%) Waterfall
11 76 (11.53%) Change Management
12 73 (11.08%) Roadmaps
13 72 (10.93%) Risk Management
14 71 (10.77%) DevOps
15 63 (9.56%) Business Analysis
16 62 (9.41%) Validation
16 62 (9.41%) Workshop Facilitation
17 57 (8.65%) Scrum
18 56 (8.50%) Requirements Gathering
19 55 (8.35%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 41 (6.22%) SQL
2 32 (4.86%) Python
3 11 (1.67%) Java
4 7 (1.06%) C#
5 6 (0.91%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.61%) Bicep
7 4 (0.61%) Go
7 4 (0.61%) T-SQL
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 91 (13.81%) Degree
2 82 (12.44%) PMP
3 74 (11.23%) Security Cleared
4 66 (10.02%) PMI Certification
5 62 (9.41%) SC Cleared
6 17 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.97%) APMP
9 10 (1.52%) CBAP
10 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.06%) APMG
11 7 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.06%) IIBA
12 6 (0.91%) CCNP
12 6 (0.91%) CISSP
13 5 (0.76%) RIBA
14 4 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (13.81%) PMO
2 47 (7.13%) QA
3 21 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.19%) NIST
4 20 (3.03%) GDPR
5 18 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.06%) GRC
6 7 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.06%) SLA
7 6 (0.91%) Basel III
7 6 (0.91%) HL7
8 5 (0.76%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.76%) GAAP
8 5 (0.76%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.76%) MiFID
8 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.61%) IFRS
10 3 (0.46%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 18 (2.73%) 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%) 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 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Control-M
7 1 (0.15%) Avamar
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
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
1 122 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.13%) SAP
3 32 (4.86%) ServiceNow
4 30 (4.55%) Oracle
5 20 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.73%) Google
7 13 (1.97%) Palo Alto
7 13 (1.97%) Workday
8 12 (1.82%) Cisco
8 12 (1.82%) CyberArk
9 9 (1.37%) Citrix
9 9 (1.37%) Software AG
10 8 (1.21%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.06%) Adobe
11 7 (1.06%) NEC
12 6 (0.91%) F5
12 6 (0.91%) VMware
13 5 (0.76%) Arista
13 5 (0.76%) CheckPoint
13 5 (0.76%) Murex