Project Delivery Contracts

Project Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 50 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,617 2,413 4,162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.77% 4.30% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.79% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,687 2,858
10th Percentile £357 £369 £363
25th Percentile £440 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £489
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.16% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 53 73
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £22.19
25th Percentile £26.57 £31.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £35.65 £62.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.96% +40.45% +3.49%
75th Percentile £43.88 £75.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.30 £83.38 £64.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £65.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -37.02% +40.54% +8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England -1 1,363 £538 -2.27% 1,190
UK excluding London +3 842 £525 +5.00% 891
London -6 611 £550 -8.33% 357
Work from Home +1 540 £525 -0.94% 498
South East +8 250 £500 -0.50% 196
North of England -5 150 £525 +5.00% 237
South West -5 138 £530 +2.66% 119
Scotland +1 118 £500 - 88
Midlands +13 113 £518 -4.17% 167
North West 0 92 £575 +27.78% 126
West Midlands +6 84 £525 -2.78% 89
East of England -30 48 £550 +15.79% 75
Yorkshire -15 42 £488 -11.36% 76
Wales +10 28 £275 -45.00% 22
East Midlands +5 27 £463 -24.49% 78
North East +10 16 £525 -27.54% 41
Northern Ireland +2 5 £160 -70.91% 13

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 62 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.60%) Confluence
3 31 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.68%) MTS
5 8 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.37%) CMS
7 5 (0.31%) SAS
8 4 (0.25%) Apache
8 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.12%) IIS
10 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.062%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.062%) LiveLink
Applications
1 115 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
2 88 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (4.89%) Microsoft Project
4 55 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.04%) MS Visio
6 27 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.56%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.25%) Trello
9 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.062%) InVision
9 1 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.05%) Loan IQ
4 16 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.87%) Endur
5 14 (0.87%) Maximo
6 13 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
6 13 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 11 (0.68%) Aligne
7 11 (0.68%) EuroRunner
8 9 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
10 4 (0.25%) SAP SD
10 4 (0.25%) Shopify
11 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.19%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
12 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 230 (14.22%) Azure
2 82 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
3 68 (4.21%) Power Platform
4 53 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (3.15%) AWS
6 34 (2.10%) IaaS
7 33 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 33 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 30 (1.86%) SaaS
9 22 (1.36%) PowerApps
10 21 (1.30%) PaaS
11 16 (0.99%) GCP
12 15 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
13 13 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (0.74%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.68%) WhatsApp
16 10 (0.62%) OneDrive
17 9 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 9 (0.56%) OCI
17 9 (0.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.83%) Firewall
2 59 (3.65%) WAN
3 49 (3.03%) LAN
4 48 (2.97%) VPN
5 34 (2.10%) DNS
5 34 (2.10%) Network Security
6 26 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (1.48%) DHCP
8 17 (1.05%) MPLS
8 17 (1.05%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
10 14 (0.87%) SAN
10 14 (0.87%) TCP/IP
11 11 (0.68%) ATM
12 10 (0.62%) Internet
13 9 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (0.56%) VoIP
14 8 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
15 7 (0.43%) 5G
15 7 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.15%) Power BI
2 46 (2.84%) SQL Server
3 34 (2.10%) NoSQL
4 22 (1.36%) Metadata
5 19 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (1.11%) Data Lake
7 15 (0.93%) Data Vault
7 15 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.74%) Big Data
9 11 (0.68%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.56%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.56%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.49%) GIS
11 8 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (0.49%) Pentaho
11 8 (0.49%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (0.49%) QlikView
12 7 (0.43%) Delta Lake
12 7 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 138 (8.53%) JIRA
2 12 (0.74%) Git
3 9 (0.56%) GitLab
4 7 (0.43%) Selenium
5 5 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.31%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.25%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.19%) Gatling
7 3 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.12%) Gerrit
8 2 (0.12%) JUnit
8 2 (0.12%) RStudio
8 2 (0.12%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (0.12%) TestNG
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 539 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 457 (28.26%) Finance
3 194 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 175 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 86 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
7 65 (4.02%) Banking
8 62 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
9 57 (3.53%) Manufacturing
10 50 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (3.03%) Marketing
12 40 (2.47%) Retail
13 35 (2.16%) Legal
14 34 (2.10%) Local Government
15 27 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.55%) Mandarin Language
17 23 (1.42%) Electronics
18 22 (1.36%) Financial Institution
19 21 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
20 20 (1.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 454 (28.08%) Project Manager
2 192 (11.87%) Architect
3 180 (11.13%) Senior
4 141 (8.72%) Lead
5 134 (8.29%) Analyst
6 89 (5.50%) Senior Manager
7 88 (5.44%) Delivery Manager
8 81 (5.01%) Business Analyst
9 71 (4.39%) Consultant
10 68 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
11 67 (4.14%) IT Manager
12 66 (4.08%) Senior Project Manager
13 49 (3.03%) IT Project Manager
14 46 (2.84%) Developer
15 43 (2.66%) Project Leader
16 39 (2.41%) Programme Manager
16 39 (2.41%) Technical Manager
17 35 (2.16%) Security Manager
18 33 (2.04%) Infrastructure Manager
19 31 (1.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.04%) .NET
2 25 (1.55%) XML
3 19 (1.18%) Web Services
4 16 (0.99%) AngularJS
4 16 (0.99%) JSON
4 16 (0.99%) Middleware
5 14 (0.87%) .NET Framework
5 14 (0.87%) ADO
6 12 (0.74%) REST
7 9 (0.56%) LDAP
8 8 (0.49%) HTML
8 8 (0.49%) JSON Schema
8 8 (0.49%) RESTful
9 7 (0.43%) .NET Core
9 7 (0.43%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.37%) CSS
10 6 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (0.37%) PySpark
10 6 (0.37%) SAML
11 5 (0.31%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.33%) Data Centre
2 69 (4.27%) Management Information System
2 69 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 37 (2.29%) Onboarding
4 32 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (1.48%) NHS
6 20 (1.24%) PMI
7 19 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
8 15 (0.93%) Reference Data
9 14 (0.87%) FMCG
9 14 (0.87%) Market Risk
10 13 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 12 (0.74%) Data Structures
11 12 (0.74%) PKI
12 11 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (0.68%) Mobile App
12 11 (0.68%) Solar Panel
12 11 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 10 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 85 (5.26%) Windows
2 36 (2.23%) Linux
3 34 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (0.87%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.80%) Unix
6 12 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.49%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.43%) AIX
10 7 (0.43%) Solaris
11 6 (0.37%) Android
11 6 (0.37%) VMS
12 5 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.31%) zOS
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 669 (41.37%) Project Management
2 586 (36.24%) Agile
3 306 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 248 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
5 192 (11.87%) PRINCE2
6 185 (11.44%) Migration
7 160 (9.89%) Change Management
8 157 (9.71%) Risk Management
9 153 (9.46%) DevOps
10 148 (9.15%) Waterfall
11 147 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 146 (9.03%) Scrum
13 123 (7.61%) Programme Management
14 106 (6.56%) Business Case
15 104 (6.43%) ITIL
16 101 (6.25%) Decision-Making
17 99 (6.12%) Roadmaps
18 96 (5.94%) Project Planning
19 91 (5.63%) Business Intelligence
20 90 (5.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 123 (7.61%) SQL
2 64 (3.96%) PowerShell
3 44 (2.72%) Python
4 42 (2.60%) C#
5 32 (1.98%) Java
6 19 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.80%) Bash
7 13 (0.80%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.43%) C++
9 6 (0.37%) Bicep
9 6 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.31%) R
10 5 (0.31%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.25%) Perl
11 4 (0.25%) X++
12 3 (0.19%) Go
12 3 (0.19%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.12%) Swift
13 2 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 285 (17.63%) Security Cleared
2 208 (12.86%) Degree
3 161 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 111 (6.86%) DV Cleared
5 96 (5.94%) PMP
6 88 (5.44%) PMI Certification
7 37 (2.29%) APMP
8 36 (2.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 29 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 17 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (0.99%) CCNP
14 14 (0.87%) CISM
14 14 (0.87%) CISSP
14 14 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 13 (0.80%) CCNA
15 13 (0.80%) CISA
16 10 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (11.44%) PMO
2 79 (4.89%) QA
3 44 (2.72%) SLA
4 25 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.55%) NIST
5 16 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
7 14 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 14 (0.87%) GDPR
8 10 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (0.37%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.31%) Basel III
10 5 (0.31%) GRC
10 5 (0.31%) P3O
11 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.19%) COBIT
12 3 (0.19%) COREP
12 3 (0.19%) GxP
12 3 (0.19%) IFRS
12 3 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 71 (4.39%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.11%) Docker
4 16 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.93%) vSphere
6 11 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.68%) XenApp
7 7 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.25%) ACF2
8 4 (0.25%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.25%) Firmware
8 4 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.25%) RACF
8 4 (0.25%) Terminal Services
8 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.12%) Ceph
10 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.062%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (2.35%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.55%) Terraform
3 21 (1.30%) Ansible
3 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.87%) SCCM
5 8 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.49%) vRealize
6 6 (0.37%) Endace
6 6 (0.37%) Packer
6 6 (0.37%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (0.31%) HP Data Protector
7 5 (0.31%) Istio
7 5 (0.31%) NetBackup
7 5 (0.31%) PingFederate
7 5 (0.31%) WSUS
8 4 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.25%) vMotion
9 3 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 269 (16.64%) Microsoft
2 107 (6.62%) SAP
3 71 (4.39%) Cisco
4 59 (3.65%) Oracle
5 53 (3.28%) VMware
6 41 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 32 (1.98%) Juniper
8 25 (1.55%) Citrix
9 24 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 22 (1.36%) F5
11 18 (1.11%) CheckPoint
12 16 (0.99%) Adobe
13 15 (0.93%) Informatica
13 15 (0.93%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.87%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.80%) Sparx
16 11 (0.68%) Symantec
17 10 (0.62%) Databricks
17 10 (0.62%) Google
18 9 (0.56%) Palo Alto