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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 50 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,697 2,651 4,049
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.92% 4.43% 4.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 4.93% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 1,851 2,793
10th Percentile £363 £369 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £613
90th Percentile £738 £775 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 61 74
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £20.65
25th Percentile £26.25 £31.25 £36.50
Median hourly rate £38.30 £65.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.08% +46.07% +5.33%
75th Percentile £41.27 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £58.13 £83.31 £64.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £65.00 £45.63
% change year-on-year -37.02% +42.47% +8.63%

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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +5 1,439 £550 - 1,154
UK excluding London -2 855 £525 +5.00% 861
London +3 669 £550 -8.33% 344
Work from Home +1 574 £525 -4.55% 481
South East +4 252 £500 -4.76% 206
North of England -9 152 £530 +6.00% 209
South West -5 134 £530 +1.44% 128
Scotland +2 121 £500 +5.26% 76
Midlands +9 113 £525 - 153
North West -7 100 £575 +25.34% 124
West Midlands +16 87 £525 - 87
East of England -21 56 £552 +10.40% 82
Yorkshire -23 38 £460 -16.36% 62
Wales -2 30 £513 +7.89% 26
East Midlands +12 25 £475 -9.52% 66
North East +17 14 £500 -20.00% 27
Northern Ireland +6 5 £210 -61.82% 10

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 65 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.30%) Confluence
2 39 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.65%) MTS
4 8 (0.47%) CMS
5 7 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.35%) Tornado
7 5 (0.29%) Apache
7 5 (0.29%) SAS
8 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.24%) CICS
9 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.18%) IBM Domino
9 3 (0.18%) IBM Notes
9 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (0.18%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 107 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 80 (4.71%) Microsoft Project
4 56 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.059%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.059%) InVision
8 1 (0.059%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 41 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (1.24%) Loan IQ
4 19 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 14 (0.82%) Endur
6 14 (0.82%) Maximo
7 13 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
8 11 (0.65%) Aligne
8 11 (0.65%) EuroRunner
9 8 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
10 6 (0.35%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
11 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.18%) SAP SD
11 3 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 264 (15.56%) Azure
2 87 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
3 76 (4.48%) AWS
4 65 (3.83%) Power Platform
5 62 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (2.30%) Entra ID
7 36 (2.12%) IaaS
8 32 (1.89%) SaaS
9 30 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (1.18%) GCP
10 20 (1.18%) PowerApps
11 19 (1.12%) PaaS
12 12 (0.71%) OneDrive
13 11 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (0.65%) Power Automate
14 10 (0.59%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (0.59%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.83%) Firewall
2 54 (3.18%) WAN
3 51 (3.01%) VPN
4 47 (2.77%) LAN
5 42 (2.47%) DNS
6 37 (2.18%) Network Security
7 25 (1.47%) DHCP
7 25 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (1.24%) MPLS
9 16 (0.94%) TCP/IP
10 15 (0.88%) SAN
10 15 (0.88%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.71%) SMTP
12 11 (0.65%) ATM
13 9 (0.53%) 4G
13 9 (0.53%) Cisco Firepower
13 9 (0.53%) Internet
13 9 (0.53%) VoIP
14 8 (0.47%) 5G
14 8 (0.47%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.36%) SQL Server
2 47 (2.77%) Power BI
3 35 (2.06%) NoSQL
4 24 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (1.30%) Metadata
6 16 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 16 (0.94%) Data Vault
7 15 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.71%) Big Data
9 11 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.53%) GIS
10 9 (0.53%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.53%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.47%) Pentaho
11 8 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (0.47%) QlikView
11 8 (0.47%) SAP HANA
12 7 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 143 (8.43%) JIRA
2 15 (0.88%) Git
3 13 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.59%) GitLab
5 7 (0.41%) Selenium
6 5 (0.29%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.24%) Gatling
8 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.18%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.18%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.12%) ERwin
9 2 (0.12%) Gerrit
9 2 (0.12%) JUnit
9 2 (0.12%) RStudio
9 2 (0.12%) Subversion
9 2 (0.12%) TestNG
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 541 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 472 (27.81%) Finance
3 216 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 183 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 85 (5.01%) Presentation Skills
7 69 (4.07%) Banking
8 62 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
9 61 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
10 54 (3.18%) Manufacturing
11 53 (3.12%) Marketing
12 42 (2.47%) Retail
13 39 (2.30%) Legal
14 33 (1.94%) Local Government
15 30 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
16 29 (1.71%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (1.36%) Electronics
17 23 (1.36%) Law
17 23 (1.36%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 465 (27.40%) Project Manager
2 214 (12.61%) Architect
3 166 (9.78%) Senior
4 148 (8.72%) Lead
5 140 (8.25%) Analyst
6 89 (5.24%) Delivery Manager
7 85 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
8 83 (4.89%) Business Analyst
9 79 (4.66%) Senior Manager
10 71 (4.18%) Consultant
11 66 (3.89%) IT Manager
12 65 (3.83%) Senior Project Manager
13 49 (2.89%) Developer
14 45 (2.65%) Programme Manager
15 44 (2.59%) IT Project Manager
16 41 (2.42%) Project Leader
16 41 (2.42%) Technical Manager
17 36 (2.12%) Infrastructure Manager
17 36 (2.12%) Security Manager
18 34 (2.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.94%) .NET
2 26 (1.53%) XML
3 19 (1.12%) JSON
3 19 (1.12%) Web Services
4 17 (1.00%) Middleware
4 17 (1.00%) REST
5 14 (0.82%) ADO
5 14 (0.82%) AngularJS
6 13 (0.77%) .NET Framework
7 12 (0.71%) LDAP
8 11 (0.65%) OAuth
9 9 (0.53%) Node.js
9 9 (0.53%) Pandas
9 9 (0.53%) React
10 8 (0.47%) HTML
10 8 (0.47%) JSON Schema
10 8 (0.47%) RESTful
10 8 (0.47%) SailPoint
10 8 (0.47%) SOAP
11 7 (0.41%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.71%) Management Information System
2 70 (4.12%) Data Centre
2 70 (4.12%) Product Ownership
3 30 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (1.71%) Onboarding
5 21 (1.24%) PMI
6 20 (1.18%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.12%) NHS
7 19 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
8 18 (1.06%) Virtual Team
9 16 (0.94%) PKI
9 16 (0.94%) Reference Data
10 15 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (0.88%) Market Risk
11 14 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (0.77%) FMCG
12 13 (0.77%) Solar Panel
13 12 (0.71%) Clustering
13 12 (0.71%) Mobile App
13 12 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 100 (5.89%) Windows
2 43 (2.53%) Linux
3 41 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.24%) Unix
5 17 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.59%) Android
10 9 (0.53%) Windows 7
11 7 (0.41%) Solaris
12 6 (0.35%) AIX
12 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.35%) VMS
12 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.35%) zOS
13 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (40.60%) Project Management
2 648 (38.19%) Agile
3 296 (17.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 254 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
5 190 (11.20%) PRINCE2
6 183 (10.78%) Migration
7 175 (10.31%) DevOps
8 169 (9.96%) Waterfall
9 162 (9.55%) Scrum
10 155 (9.13%) Change Management
10 155 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 151 (8.90%) Risk Management
12 131 (7.72%) Programme Management
13 123 (7.25%) Business Case
14 118 (6.95%) Decision-Making
15 113 (6.66%) ITIL
15 113 (6.66%) Roadmaps
16 93 (5.48%) Budget Management
16 93 (5.48%) Project Planning
17 92 (5.42%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 138 (8.13%) SQL
2 67 (3.95%) PowerShell
3 52 (3.06%) Python
4 41 (2.42%) C#
5 35 (2.06%) Java
6 25 (1.47%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.77%) Bash
8 12 (0.71%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.65%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.47%) Ruby
11 7 (0.41%) Bicep
11 7 (0.41%) C++
11 7 (0.41%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.29%) Perl
13 4 (0.24%) R
13 4 (0.24%) X++
14 3 (0.18%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.12%) Scala
15 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 290 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 232 (13.67%) Degree
3 168 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 114 (6.72%) DV Cleared
5 99 (5.83%) PMP
6 90 (5.30%) PMI Certification
7 36 (2.12%) APMP
8 29 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 19 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (0.94%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.94%) CISM
11 16 (0.94%) CISSP
11 16 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.88%) CISA
13 14 (0.82%) CCNP
14 13 (0.77%) CCNA
15 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (10.90%) PMO
2 86 (5.07%) QA
3 42 (2.47%) SLA
4 27 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.30%) NIST
6 20 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
7 17 (1.00%) Data Quality
8 16 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.82%) GDPR
10 11 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 6 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (0.35%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.29%) GRC
13 4 (0.24%) COREP
13 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.18%) Basel III
14 3 (0.18%) FINREP
14 3 (0.18%) MiFID
15 2 (0.12%) IFRS
15 2 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 77 (4.54%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.12%) Docker
4 17 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.00%) vSphere
5 15 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.53%) XenApp
7 8 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.35%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.35%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.24%) ACF2
11 4 (0.24%) RACF
12 2 (0.12%) Ceph
12 2 (0.12%) Firmware
12 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.059%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.83%) Terraform
3 27 (1.59%) Ansible
3 27 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.94%) SCCM
5 11 (0.65%) Progress Chef
5 11 (0.65%) Puppet
6 10 (0.59%) vCenter Server
7 8 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.47%) vRealize
8 7 (0.41%) CFEngine
8 7 (0.41%) PowerBroker
9 6 (0.35%) Packer
9 6 (0.35%) vMotion
10 5 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (0.29%) HP Data Protector
10 5 (0.29%) Istio
10 5 (0.29%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.29%) PingFederate
10 5 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 289 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.36%) SAP
3 72 (4.24%) Oracle
4 67 (3.95%) Cisco
5 56 (3.30%) VMware
6 47 (2.77%) ServiceNow
7 31 (1.83%) Citrix
8 29 (1.71%) Juniper
9 24 (1.41%) Salesforce
10 23 (1.36%) Atlassian
11 19 (1.12%) Informatica
12 17 (1.00%) Adobe
12 17 (1.00%) CheckPoint
13 16 (0.94%) Databricks
13 16 (0.94%) Sparx
14 15 (0.88%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.77%) Symantec
16 12 (0.71%) Ariba
16 12 (0.71%) Google
16 12 (0.71%) Progress