Project Delivery Contracts in London

Project Delivery
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Project Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Delivery over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 55 61
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 651 1,115 1,609
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.69% 4.25% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 4.67% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 758 1,075
10th Percentile £369 £424 £402
25th Percentile £450 £510 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £688 £745 £666
90th Percentile £775 £813 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 37
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £39.75
Median hourly rate £24.50 £24.90 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% -44.04% +50.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.00 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £64.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -47.49% +45.51% +4.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Project Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,656 23,861 35,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 90.97% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,212 17,181 25,922
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 269 419
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £80.45 £69.45
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in London

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in London.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in London

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in London

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in London

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 -11 88 £555 -7.50% 32
East London +10 34 £600 +60.00% 19
West London +8 16 £513 +7.89% 21
South London +6 8 £550 +8.64% 3
North London - 1 £650 - 3
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 46 (7.07%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.69%) MTS
4 10 (1.54%) Confluence
5 7 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.92%) CMS
6 6 (0.92%) Tornado
7 4 (0.61%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.46%) IBM Domino
8 3 (0.46%) IBM Notes
8 3 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.31%) Apache
9 2 (0.31%) IIS
9 2 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.15%) CICS
10 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 48 (7.37%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (3.99%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (3.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (3.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) InVision
6 1 (0.15%) Sketch
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (3.23%) Loan IQ
2 18 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (2.15%) Endur
3 14 (2.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (1.69%) Aligne
5 11 (1.69%) EuroRunner
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.61%) Shopify
7 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.31%) SystmOne
7 2 (0.31%) Temenos Globus
7 2 (0.31%) WebTrends
8 1 (0.15%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 143 (21.97%) Azure
2 44 (6.76%) Power Platform
3 42 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (3.99%) Entra ID
6 25 (3.84%) AWS
7 14 (2.15%) IaaS
8 13 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (1.84%) SaaS
10 11 (1.69%) WhatsApp
11 9 (1.38%) Mimecast
11 9 (1.38%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.23%) OneDrive
13 7 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (1.08%) GCP
14 6 (0.92%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.92%) GitHub
14 6 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.61%) Firewall
2 15 (2.30%) DNS
3 14 (2.15%) MPLS
4 6 (0.92%) 5G
4 6 (0.92%) WAN
5 5 (0.77%) BGP
5 5 (0.77%) SMTP
5 5 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.77%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.61%) Network Security
6 4 (0.61%) SSL
6 4 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.46%) 4G
7 3 (0.46%) ATM
7 3 (0.46%) EIGRP
7 3 (0.46%) LAN
7 3 (0.46%) Multicast
7 3 (0.46%) OSPF
7 3 (0.46%) SNA
8 2 (0.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.53%) SQL Server
2 33 (5.07%) Power BI
3 28 (4.30%) NoSQL
4 17 (2.61%) Metadata
5 16 (2.46%) Data Vault
6 10 (1.54%) Big Data
6 10 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.38%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.23%) GIS
8 8 (1.23%) Pentaho
8 8 (1.23%) Qlik Sense
8 8 (1.23%) QlikView
9 7 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.92%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.61%) Oracle BI EE
11 4 (0.61%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.61%) Oracle Database 11g
11 4 (0.61%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 26 (3.99%) JIRA
2 7 (1.08%) Git
3 6 (0.92%) Selenium
4 4 (0.61%) Gatling
4 4 (0.61%) SpecFlow
4 4 (0.61%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.31%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.31%) Gerrit
6 2 (0.31%) JUnit
6 2 (0.31%) RStudio
6 2 (0.31%) Serenity BDD
6 2 (0.31%) TestNG
6 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (0.31%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.15%) Protractor
7 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 217 (33.33%) Finance
2 205 (31.49%) Social Skills
3 68 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.61%) Banking
6 30 (4.61%) Financial Institution
6 30 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (4.30%) Marketing
8 27 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (3.38%) Telecoms
11 20 (3.07%) Legal
12 19 (2.92%) Manufacturing
13 18 (2.76%) Retail
14 16 (2.46%) Local Government
15 14 (2.15%) Publishing
16 13 (2.00%) Front Office
17 12 (1.84%) Electronics
18 10 (1.54%) Investment Banking
19 9 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 181 (27.80%) Project Manager
2 82 (12.60%) Senior
3 69 (10.60%) Architect
4 55 (8.45%) Analyst
5 51 (7.83%) Business Analyst
6 50 (7.68%) Lead
7 44 (6.76%) Delivery Manager
8 33 (5.07%) Senior Manager
9 29 (4.45%) Developer
10 26 (3.99%) Programme Manager
11 25 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
12 24 (3.69%) Consultant
13 22 (3.38%) Data Architect
13 22 (3.38%) Security Manager
14 21 (3.23%) Technical Manager
15 19 (2.92%) Security Project Manager
16 18 (2.76%) Senior Developer
16 18 (2.76%) Senior Project Manager
17 16 (2.46%) Infrastructure Manager
17 16 (2.46%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.92%) .NET
2 15 (2.30%) XML
3 12 (1.84%) .NET Framework
3 12 (1.84%) REST
3 12 (1.84%) Web Services
4 11 (1.69%) AngularJS
5 9 (1.38%) SailPoint
6 8 (1.23%) JSON
6 8 (1.23%) JSON Schema
6 8 (1.23%) Node.js
6 8 (1.23%) Pandas
6 8 (1.23%) React
7 7 (1.08%) ADO
7 7 (1.08%) LDAP
8 6 (0.92%) Bokeh
8 6 (0.92%) Django
8 6 (0.92%) Flask
8 6 (0.92%) OAuth
8 6 (0.92%) PySpark
8 6 (0.92%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.37%) Product Ownership
2 34 (5.22%) Management Information System
3 20 (3.07%) Data Centre
4 19 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.46%) Reference Data
6 14 (2.15%) Market Risk
7 13 (2.00%) PMI
7 13 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
7 13 (2.00%) Solar Panel
8 12 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.23%) Derivative
11 7 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.08%) FMCG
11 7 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.92%) Fixed Income
12 6 (0.92%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.22%) Windows
2 15 (2.30%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.08%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.77%) Android
5 4 (0.61%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.31%) Linux
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.31%) Unix
7 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (45.47%) Agile
2 268 (41.17%) Project Management
3 112 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 96 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (13.67%) Scrum
6 87 (13.36%) DevOps
7 85 (13.06%) Migration
8 83 (12.75%) Waterfall
9 70 (10.75%) Risk Management
10 62 (9.52%) PRINCE2
11 60 (9.22%) Business Intelligence
12 58 (8.91%) Change Management
13 53 (8.14%) Decision-Making
13 53 (8.14%) Programme Management
14 50 (7.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (7.07%) CI/CD
16 45 (6.91%) Project Governance
17 44 (6.76%) Change Control
18 42 (6.45%) Budget Management
19 41 (6.30%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 80 (12.29%) SQL
2 40 (6.14%) PowerShell
3 30 (4.61%) Python
4 26 (3.99%) C#
5 19 (2.92%) Java
6 14 (2.15%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.54%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.38%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.08%) Bicep
10 5 (0.77%) R
11 3 (0.46%) C++
12 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.31%) VBA
13 1 (0.15%) Bash
13 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.15%) Perl
13 1 (0.15%) Ruby
13 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 79 (12.14%) Degree
2 71 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 57 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.84%) PMI Certification
5 33 (5.07%) PMP
6 17 (2.61%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.15%) CISA
7 14 (2.15%) CISM
8 13 (2.00%) CISSP
9 12 (1.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 8 (1.23%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.77%) APMP
12 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.61%) PgMP
14 3 (0.46%) APMG
15 2 (0.31%) IIBA
15 2 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (11.06%) PMO
2 37 (5.68%) QA
3 11 (1.69%) GDPR
4 10 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.92%) NIST
7 5 (0.77%) Basel III
7 5 (0.77%) GRC
8 4 (0.61%) SLA
9 3 (0.46%) COREP
9 3 (0.46%) IFRS
9 3 (0.46%) MiFID
10 2 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.31%) FINREP
10 2 (0.31%) NCSC
10 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.15%) ITGC
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.69%) Docker
3 6 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.46%) XenApp
5 1 (0.15%) ACF2
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.15%) RACF
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.38%) Terraform
4 6 (0.92%) SCCM
5 5 (0.77%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.61%) Puppet
7 3 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.31%) Matomo
8 2 (0.31%) WSUS
9 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.15%) OMEGAMON
9 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 137 (21.04%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.37%) SAP
3 29 (4.45%) ServiceNow
4 23 (3.53%) Oracle
5 15 (2.30%) Databricks
6 14 (2.15%) Sparx
7 13 (2.00%) Cisco
8 12 (1.84%) Informatica
9 10 (1.54%) Adobe
9 10 (1.54%) Citrix
9 10 (1.54%) VMware
10 9 (1.38%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.23%) Google
11 8 (1.23%) Splunk
12 6 (0.92%) IBM
13 5 (0.77%) Confluent
13 5 (0.77%) NEC
13 5 (0.77%) Okta
13 5 (0.77%) Proofpoint
13 5 (0.77%) Qualtrics