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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 67 64
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 692 478 609
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.64% 3.82% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 4.14% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 315 422
10th Percentile £377 £386 £375
25th Percentile £450 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £664 £695 £675
90th Percentile £754 £775 £773
England median daily rate £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.91% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 12
10th Percentile £37.06 £35.58 -
25th Percentile - £42.44 £20.98
Median hourly rate £41.00 £51.25 £25.59
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +100.27% +2.77%
75th Percentile £51.13 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £56.63 £75.00 £67.70
England median hourly rate £39.04 £62.50 £33.47
% change year-on-year -37.54% +86.76% -44.23%

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 16,916 11,555 15,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.87% 92.40% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,270 7,751 11,170
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 210 314
10th Percentile £18.06 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +18.39% -29.38%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -4 107 £550 -8.33% 33
South London +9 19 £500 -16.67% 4
West London -15 15 £513 -2.38% 17
North London +2 2 £544 -1.14% 4
East London - 2 £590 - 10
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 39 (5.64%) SharePoint
2 36 (5.20%) Confluence
3 12 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.87%) CMS
5 4 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.43%) Camunda
6 3 (0.43%) Kentico
6 3 (0.43%) SAS
6 3 (0.43%) WordPress
7 2 (0.29%) Apache
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 56 (8.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (6.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (6.21%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (5.49%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (1.45%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.30%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 6 (0.87%) ProductWriter
4 6 (0.87%) Summit
5 3 (0.43%) Endur
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.43%) SAP Retail
5 3 (0.43%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.29%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 97 (14.02%) Azure
2 49 (7.08%) AWS
3 41 (5.92%) Power Platform
4 39 (5.64%) SaaS
5 30 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 18 (2.60%) GitHub
9 14 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (1.88%) IaaS
11 12 (1.73%) GCP
12 10 (1.45%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.30%) Google Workspace
13 9 (1.30%) Serverless
13 9 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.16%) OCI
14 8 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.06%) Firewall
2 23 (3.32%) Network Security
3 19 (2.75%) DNS
4 12 (1.73%) VPN
5 10 (1.45%) DHCP
5 10 (1.45%) WAN
6 8 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 8 (1.16%) Wireless
7 7 (1.01%) BGP
7 7 (1.01%) MPLS
7 7 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.87%) LAN
8 6 (0.87%) NetScaler
8 6 (0.87%) VLAN
9 5 (0.72%) Broadband
9 5 (0.72%) Internet
9 5 (0.72%) Multicast
9 5 (0.72%) OSPF
10 4 (0.58%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.58%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.62%) Power BI
2 17 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (2.31%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.01%) Metadata
4 7 (1.01%) Tableau
5 6 (0.87%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.72%) Big Data
6 5 (0.72%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 83 (11.99%) JIRA
2 13 (1.88%) Git
3 9 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.87%) GitLab
5 5 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.14%) Appium
7 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 308 (44.51%) Social Skills
2 259 (37.43%) Finance
3 99 (14.31%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (11.85%) Banking
5 80 (11.56%) Public Sector
6 60 (8.67%) Organisational Skills
7 48 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
8 46 (6.65%) Retail
9 45 (6.50%) Legal
10 24 (3.47%) Marketing
11 22 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (2.75%) Financial Institution
14 17 (2.46%) Investment Banking
14 17 (2.46%) Local Government
15 16 (2.31%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.88%) Front Office
17 11 (1.59%) General Ledger
18 10 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
19 8 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 215 (31.07%) Project Manager
2 85 (12.28%) Lead
3 83 (11.99%) Analyst
4 66 (9.54%) Senior
5 61 (8.82%) Business Analyst
6 39 (5.64%) Architect
7 33 (4.77%) Developer
8 31 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
8 31 (4.48%) Senior Manager
9 28 (4.05%) Network Engineer
10 27 (3.90%) Consultant
11 25 (3.61%) IT Manager
12 24 (3.47%) Senior Project Manager
13 21 (3.03%) Change Manager
14 20 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.75%) Technical Manager
16 17 (2.46%) IT Project Manager
16 17 (2.46%) Transformation Manager
17 15 (2.17%) Infrastructure Manager
18 14 (2.02%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.60%) Middleware
2 15 (2.17%) REST
3 7 (1.01%) XML
4 6 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.87%) React
5 5 (0.72%) PySpark
6 4 (0.58%) OAuth
6 4 (0.58%) React Native
6 4 (0.58%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.43%) ADO
7 3 (0.43%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.43%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.43%) Kafka
7 3 (0.43%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (0.43%) Web Services
7 3 (0.43%) ZK
8 2 (0.29%) .NET
8 2 (0.29%) IDoc
8 2 (0.29%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.64%) Onboarding
2 34 (4.91%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.32%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (2.89%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.60%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.88%) Derivative
8 13 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (1.88%) IoT
9 12 (1.73%) Credit Risk
10 11 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.30%) Life Science
12 9 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.01%) NHS
13 7 (1.01%) Reinsurance
14 6 (0.87%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.87%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.32%) Windows
2 10 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.16%) Linux
4 5 (0.72%) Unix
4 5 (0.72%) VMS
5 4 (0.58%) Windows 10
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%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (37.43%) Agile
2 250 (36.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 241 (34.83%) Project Management
4 125 (18.06%) Migration
4 125 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 106 (15.32%) PRINCE2
7 104 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 103 (14.88%) Decision-Making
9 90 (13.01%) Change Management
10 84 (12.14%) Waterfall
11 75 (10.84%) DevOps
12 70 (10.12%) AI
12 70 (10.12%) Risk Management
13 66 (9.54%) Roadmaps
14 62 (8.96%) Analytics
15 57 (8.24%) Validation
16 54 (7.80%) Business Analysis
16 54 (7.80%) Scrum
17 53 (7.66%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 49 (7.08%) SQL
2 40 (5.78%) Python
3 12 (1.73%) Java
4 7 (1.01%) C#
4 7 (1.01%) PowerShell
5 5 (0.72%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.58%) Bicep
6 4 (0.58%) Go
6 4 (0.58%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.58%) VBA
7 3 (0.43%) Bash
7 3 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.43%) Korn
7 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.29%) C++
8 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.29%) Rust
9 1 (0.14%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 89 (12.86%) Degree
1 89 (12.86%) PMP
2 79 (11.42%) Security Cleared
3 73 (10.55%) PMI Certification
4 64 (9.25%) SC Cleared
5 13 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.45%) APMP
8 10 (1.45%) CCNP
8 10 (1.45%) CISSP
9 9 (1.30%) CBAP
10 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.01%) APMG
11 7 (1.01%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (0.87%) IIBA
13 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (13.58%) PMO
2 40 (5.78%) QA
3 25 (3.61%) NIST
4 23 (3.32%) GDPR
5 22 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.75%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.45%) GRC
8 8 (1.16%) SLA
9 6 (0.87%) Basel III
9 6 (0.87%) GAAP
9 6 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.72%) HL7
10 5 (0.72%) IFRS
11 4 (0.58%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.58%) MiFID
12 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.43%) NCSC
12 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.01%) Docker
4 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.29%) Firmware
5 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (4.05%) Terraform
2 16 (2.31%) Ansible
3 14 (2.02%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.16%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.29%) Control-M
6 2 (0.29%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.14%) Avamar
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.14%) logstash
7 1 (0.14%) Nessus
7 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 126 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.92%) SAP
2 41 (5.92%) ServiceNow
3 32 (4.62%) Oracle
4 21 (3.03%) Cisco
5 20 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.60%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.31%) Google
8 12 (1.73%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.59%) CyberArk
9 11 (1.59%) Workday
10 10 (1.45%) Citrix
11 9 (1.30%) F5
11 9 (1.30%) VMware
12 8 (1.16%) Juniper
13 7 (1.01%) Murex
13 7 (1.01%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.87%) Adobe
14 6 (0.87%) NEC
14 6 (0.87%) Sitecore