Project Delivery Contracts in Dorset

Project Delivery
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 21 32
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 6 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 5.26% 0.68% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 0.77% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile - - £280
25th Percentile £185 £550 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £600 £369
Median % change year-on-year -68.33% +62.71% -26.25%
75th Percentile £195 £650 £472
90th Percentile £341 - £509
South West median daily rate £480 £563 £516
% change year-on-year -14.67% +8.96% -3.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 102 130 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 89.47% 87.84% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 90 131
10th Percentile £188 £175 £193
25th Percentile £322 £311 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £630 £638
90th Percentile £575 £730 £666
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 40
10th Percentile £15.02 - £17.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £13.69 £22.70
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.30
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -72.25% +12.61%
75th Percentile £16.97 £47.83 £59.95
90th Percentile £67.50 £56.89 £70.78
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% - +21.96%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in Dorset

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in Dorset

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in Dorset over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in Dorset

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in Dorset

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. 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
Bournemouth +5 1 £475 -20.83% 7
Project Delivery
South West

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Project Officer
1 5 (83.33%) Project Support Officer
1 5 (83.33%) Support Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Risk Register
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java