Project Delivery Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Project Delivery
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 28 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 53 38 30
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 4.80% 5.64% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 6.39% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 27 21
10th Percentile £199 £305 £263
25th Percentile £263 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £443 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -26.53%
75th Percentile £469 £502 £511
90th Percentile £519 £538 £588
England median daily rate £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.91% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £39.04 - -
England median hourly rate £39.04 £62.50 £33.47
% change year-on-year -37.54% +86.76% -44.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 856 595 687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.54% 88.28% 77.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 397 448
10th Percentile £207 £216 £205
25th Percentile £395 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £410 £430
Median % change year-on-year +13.41% -4.65% -9.47%
75th Percentile £570 £500 £563
90th Percentile £650 £588 £624
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 48 64
10th Percentile £13.33 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.90 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.94 £18.87 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +9.39% -32.77%
75th Percentile £25.50 £25.12 £26.24
90th Percentile £33.75 £32.11 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Project Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the East Midlands

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Project Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire -10 18 £275 -32.93% 15
Northamptonshire +8 16 £455 +3.03% 6
Derbyshire +4 14 £488 +11.43% 10
Lincolnshire -12 3 £490 -4.39% 2
Leicestershire -6 2 - - 6
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (20.75%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (16.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) BASE24
1 2 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.89%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.98%) Azure
2 6 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.77%) AWS
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Batch
4 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.77%) IaaS
4 2 (3.77%) PaaS
5 1 (1.89%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
1 3 (5.66%) WAN
2 2 (3.77%) BGP
2 2 (3.77%) OSPF
2 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.77%) VLAN
2 2 (3.77%) VPN
3 1 (1.89%) DHCP
3 1 (1.89%) DNS
3 1 (1.89%) LAN
3 1 (1.89%) Network Security
3 1 (1.89%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) Tableau
2 4 (7.55%) Power BI
3 2 (3.77%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (3.77%) Power Query
3 2 (3.77%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 13 (24.53%) JIRA
General
1 13 (24.53%) Finance
1 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Banking
4 5 (9.43%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.77%) Retail
6 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (15.09%) Analyst
1 8 (15.09%) Architect
2 7 (13.21%) Payments Architect
2 7 (13.21%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 7 (13.21%) Project Manager
2 7 (13.21%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (11.32%) Deskside Support
3 6 (11.32%) Desktop Support
3 6 (11.32%) IT Support
4 4 (7.55%) Fraud Manager
4 4 (7.55%) Operations Manager
4 4 (7.55%) Senior
5 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) PMO Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Portfolio Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Project Coordinator
6 2 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Senior Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Senior Technical Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) CSS
1 1 (1.89%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Onboarding
2 7 (13.21%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.77%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.77%) EMV
4 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Windows
2 3 (5.66%) Windows 10
2 3 (5.66%) Windows 7
2 3 (5.66%) Windows 8
3 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (30.19%) DevOps
2 16 (30.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 14 (26.42%) Agile
3 14 (26.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (24.53%) Project Management
5 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (16.98%) Architectural Design
6 9 (16.98%) Decision-Making
7 7 (13.21%) Records Management
7 7 (13.21%) Regulatory Compliance
7 7 (13.21%) Technical Architecture
8 6 (11.32%) Coaching
8 6 (11.32%) ITIL
8 6 (11.32%) Logistics
9 5 (9.43%) PRINCE2
9 5 (9.43%) Project Governance
9 5 (9.43%) Waterfall
10 4 (7.55%) Change Control
10 4 (7.55%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
1 2 (3.77%) SQL
1 2 (3.77%) VBA
2 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) CCNA
4 2 (3.77%) CCNP
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) MCSA
5 1 (1.89%) MCSE
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.89%) PMP
5 1 (1.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) PMO
2 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.55%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.66%) QA
4 2 (3.77%) PSD2
5 1 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.89%) Firmware
3 1 (1.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) SCCM
2 2 (3.77%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.66%) Cisco
3 3 (5.66%) HP
4 2 (3.77%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.77%) VMware
5 1 (1.89%) Citrix
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) SAP
5 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.89%) TSYS