Project Delivery Contracts in Cardiff

Project Delivery
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Project Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 26 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +21
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 4 4 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.35% 1.78% 8.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 2.53% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile £303 £351 £368
25th Percentile £358 £409 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +20.59% -10.53%
75th Percentile £478 £559 £550
90th Percentile £495 £584 £590
South Wales median daily rate £288 £325 £500
% change year-on-year -11.54% -35.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 158 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 90.00% 70.22% 88.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 127 187
10th Percentile £226 £143 £187
25th Percentile £303 £359 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £492 £552 £586
90th Percentile £650 £626 £642
South Wales median daily rate £400 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -17.95% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £12.43 £15.48 £13.81
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £19.47
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -4.63% -8.36%
75th Percentile £21.08 £21.67 £24.69
90th Percentile £23.75 - £25.50
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £20.24 £18.82
% change year-on-year -20.93% +7.55% -11.96%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in Cardiff

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in Cardiff

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in Cardiff over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in Cardiff

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in Cardiff

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Asana
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Services Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Process Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Software AG
1 1 (25.00%) webMethods