Project Delivery Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Project Delivery
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 20 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 13 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 7.34% 3.11% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.02% 3.47% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £289 £386 -
25th Percentile £444 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +6.58% +8.57%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £534
90th Percentile £568 £622 £550
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £600 £458
% change year-on-year -8.33% +31.15% +1.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 144 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.53% 89.44% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 65 124
10th Percentile £357 £277 £216
25th Percentile £438 £340 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.98% -6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £575 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 19
10th Percentile £17.95 £20.70 £16.72
25th Percentile £44.91 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £62.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in Cambridge

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Project Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in Cambridge over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in Cambridge

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Project Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) OCI
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
1 2 (15.38%) VSAN
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) SAP HANA
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Project Manager
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Manager
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Manager
5 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Project Support Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Service Assurance Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Service Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Waterfall
3 7 (53.85%) Project Management
4 5 (38.46%) Change Management
4 5 (38.46%) Time Management
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) ITIL
6 3 (23.08%) ITSM
6 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
7 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (15.38%) Service Management
7 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (7.69%) Conflict Management
8 1 (7.69%) Converged Infrastructure
8 1 (7.69%) SDLC
8 1 (7.69%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) VCAP
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware NSX
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) vSphere
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) VxRail
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) PowerCLI
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) vCenter Server
3 1 (7.69%) Avamar
3 1 (7.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Dell
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.69%) LogRhythm
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds