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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 67 72
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -19
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 827 516 536
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.08% 3.88% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 4.19% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 331 330
10th Percentile £363 £340 £375
25th Percentile £450 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £661 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 9
10th Percentile £25.36 £57.50 £31.14
25th Percentile £38.33 - £32.29
Median hourly rate £45.50 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +85.71% -51.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £82.50 £63.75
90th Percentile - £97.28 £65.60
England median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £35.90
% change year-on-year -10.00% +67.13% -42.56%

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 17,988 12,322 14,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,124 9,349
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 241 182
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.14% -5.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -3 110 £550 -8.33% 154
West London -4 24 £425 -29.17% 34
South London -11 8 £450 -10.00% 18
North London +1 3 £575 +4.59% 1
East London +1 3 £500 - 16
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 56 (6.77%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.47%) Confluence
3 15 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.73%) JBoss
5 5 (0.60%) Apache
5 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.48%) CMS
6 4 (0.48%) SAS
6 4 (0.48%) WordPress
7 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.36%) Appian
7 3 (0.36%) Kentico
8 1 (0.12%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) MTS
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 68 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (5.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.73%) Trello
6 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.12%) Simulink
7 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.60%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.60%) SAP SD
4 4 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 4 (0.48%) Magento
4 4 (0.48%) ProductWriter
4 4 (0.48%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
4 4 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.36%) iTrent
5 3 (0.36%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.24%) Actimize
6 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 2 (0.24%) Maximo
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 156 (18.86%) Azure
2 67 (8.10%) Power Platform
3 55 (6.65%) AWS
4 53 (6.41%) SaaS
5 52 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (4.23%) Entra ID
8 27 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (2.78%) GCP
10 19 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (1.93%) PowerApps
12 15 (1.81%) GitHub
13 13 (1.57%) Power Automate
14 12 (1.45%) PaaS
14 12 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
15 10 (1.21%) IaaS
15 10 (1.21%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 10 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 9 (1.09%) Google Workspace
16 9 (1.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.77%) Firewall
2 31 (3.75%) Network Security
3 26 (3.14%) DNS
4 21 (2.54%) VPN
4 21 (2.54%) WAN
5 19 (2.30%) Wireless
6 18 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
7 16 (1.93%) BGP
8 14 (1.69%) DHCP
9 13 (1.57%) LAN
9 13 (1.57%) VLAN
10 12 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 11 (1.33%) Multicast
12 9 (1.09%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.97%) Cisco Wireless
14 6 (0.73%) IPsec
14 6 (0.73%) Kerberos
14 6 (0.73%) OSPF
14 6 (0.73%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.60%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.80%) Power BI
2 16 (1.93%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.97%) Big Data
5 6 (0.73%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.73%) Delta Lake
5 6 (0.73%) Hadoop
6 5 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.48%) Metadata
8 3 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.36%) Power Query
8 3 (0.36%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.36%) Tableau
9 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.24%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.24%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.24%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 90 (10.88%) JIRA
2 13 (1.57%) Git
3 9 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.60%) GitLab
4 5 (0.60%) Selenium
5 4 (0.48%) Subversion
6 2 (0.24%) Appium
6 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.24%) TestNG
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.12%) Gatling
7 1 (0.12%) MLflow
7 1 (0.12%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 361 (43.65%) Social Skills
2 341 (41.23%) Finance
3 127 (15.36%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (11.73%) Banking
5 78 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 62 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (5.93%) Legal
8 45 (5.44%) Retail
9 38 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
12 30 (3.63%) Front Office
13 26 (3.14%) Local Government
13 26 (3.14%) Marketing
14 24 (2.90%) Telecoms
15 17 (2.06%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.93%) Manufacturing
17 15 (1.81%) Financial Institution
17 15 (1.81%) Law
18 11 (1.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 232 (28.05%) Project Manager
2 115 (13.91%) Analyst
3 94 (11.37%) Senior
4 81 (9.79%) Business Analyst
5 73 (8.83%) Lead
6 49 (5.93%) Consultant
7 47 (5.68%) Architect
8 45 (5.44%) Senior Manager
9 39 (4.72%) Delivery Manager
10 38 (4.59%) Senior Project Manager
11 37 (4.47%) Network Engineer
12 36 (4.35%) IT Manager
13 31 (3.75%) Developer
14 27 (3.26%) IT Project Manager
15 25 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.66%) Technical Manager
17 19 (2.30%) Programme Manager
18 16 (1.93%) Technical Project Manager
18 16 (1.93%) Transformation Manager
19 14 (1.69%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.66%) Terraform
2 20 (2.42%) REST
3 10 (1.21%) Middleware
4 7 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (0.85%) React
4 7 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (0.85%) SOAP
5 6 (0.73%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.73%) PySpark
5 6 (0.73%) XML
6 5 (0.60%) HTML
6 5 (0.60%) Kafka
6 5 (0.60%) LDAP
6 5 (0.60%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.60%) Web Services
7 4 (0.48%) ADO
7 4 (0.48%) JDBC
7 4 (0.48%) OAuth
7 4 (0.48%) Playwright
7 4 (0.48%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.29%) Onboarding
2 41 (4.96%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.23%) Management Information System
4 28 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 21 (2.54%) Derivative
5 21 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.30%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 17 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.69%) Fixed Income
10 14 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.57%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.21%) Credit Risk
12 10 (1.21%) IoT
12 10 (1.21%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.09%) FMCG
13 9 (1.09%) Life Science
13 9 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.87%) Windows
2 20 (2.42%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.18%) Linux
4 9 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.60%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.48%) Unix
7 3 (0.36%) Android
7 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.36%) VMS
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (49.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 305 (36.88%) Agile
3 258 (31.20%) Project Management
4 164 (19.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 148 (17.90%) Migration
6 142 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 136 (16.44%) Change Management
7 136 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
8 127 (15.36%) PRINCE2
9 112 (13.54%) AI
10 111 (13.42%) Decision-Making
11 110 (13.30%) Waterfall
12 101 (12.21%) Risk Management
13 91 (11.00%) DevOps
14 86 (10.40%) Workshop Facilitation
15 82 (9.92%) Roadmaps
15 82 (9.92%) User Acceptance Testing
16 80 (9.67%) Business Analysis
16 80 (9.67%) Requirements Gathering
17 79 (9.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 45 (5.44%) SQL
2 44 (5.32%) Python
3 21 (2.54%) PowerShell
4 13 (1.57%) Java
5 11 (1.33%) VBA
6 8 (0.97%) C#
7 6 (0.73%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.60%) Korn
9 4 (0.48%) Bash
9 4 (0.48%) BeanShell
10 3 (0.36%) C
10 3 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.24%) Bicep
11 2 (0.24%) C++
11 2 (0.24%) COBOL
11 2 (0.24%) RPG
11 2 (0.24%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.12%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 126 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 105 (12.70%) PMP
3 101 (12.21%) SC Cleared
4 92 (11.12%) PMI Certification
5 91 (11.00%) Degree
6 22 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 13 (1.57%) CISSP
10 12 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 11 (1.33%) CCNP
12 8 (0.97%) CISM
12 8 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.73%) IIBA
13 6 (0.73%) PgMP
14 4 (0.48%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (13.18%) PMO
2 48 (5.80%) QA
3 25 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.66%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.42%) GDPR
5 20 (2.42%) NIST
6 15 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 11 (1.33%) SLA
8 8 (0.97%) GRC
9 5 (0.60%) P3O
10 4 (0.48%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.36%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.24%) SEPA
12 2 (0.24%) TARGET2
System Software
1 39 (4.72%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.09%) Docker
4 6 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.73%) vSphere
5 4 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.24%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) IAG
7 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) oVirt
8 1 (0.12%) RHEV
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (1.93%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.57%) Ansible
4 12 (1.45%) FortiGate
5 9 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
7 7 (0.85%) Puppet
8 6 (0.73%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (0.48%) SCCM
11 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.36%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.24%) Nessus
13 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.12%) PingFederate
13 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
13 1 (0.12%) WMI
13 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 196 (23.70%) Microsoft
2 60 (7.26%) SAP
3 56 (6.77%) ServiceNow
4 46 (5.56%) Cisco
5 34 (4.11%) Salesforce
6 27 (3.26%) VMware
7 25 (3.02%) Oracle
8 22 (2.66%) Fortinet
9 20 (2.42%) F5
9 20 (2.42%) Palo Alto
10 18 (2.18%) Murex
10 18 (2.18%) Zscaler
11 16 (1.93%) Google
12 15 (1.81%) Databricks
13 14 (1.69%) Juniper
14 13 (1.57%) Bloomberg
15 12 (1.45%) Workday
16 9 (1.09%) Red Hat
17 8 (0.97%) Ariba
18 7 (0.85%) NEC