Project Delivery Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Project Delivery
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 39 22
Rank change year-on-year +18 -17 -
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 3 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 2.94% 1.03% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 1.27% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £347
25th Percentile £334 £638 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £650 £368
Median % change year-on-year -43.62% +76.87% -
75th Percentile £399 £663 £381
90th Percentile - - £461
Gloucestershire median daily rate £421 £569 £368
% change year-on-year -26.02% +54.76% -8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £36.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - £23.99 £36.00
% change year-on-year - -33.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82 158 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 80.39% 81.03% 79.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 93 100
10th Percentile £417 £470 £356
25th Percentile £463 £550 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -2.65%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £752 £969 £704
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £41.28 £51.88 £23.85
25th Percentile £49.19 £65.63 £27.38
Median hourly rate £64.25 £72.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.38% +101.39% -47.06%
75th Percentile £81.19 £73.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £90.23 - £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.76 £33.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year +2.29% -32.27% -17.66%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Control Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Contract Management
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) APMP
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft