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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 31 37
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 47 38 31
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 4.22% 5.56% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.46% 6.26% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 22
10th Percentile £199 £305 £272
25th Percentile £301 £381 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £443 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% -1.67% -26.53%
75th Percentile £478 £502 £508
90th Percentile £550 £538 £588
England median daily rate £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £39.04 - -
England median hourly rate £41.00 £65.00 £33.47
% change year-on-year -36.92% +94.23% -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 861 607 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.22% 88.87% 77.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 405 441
10th Percentile £213 £224 £205
25th Percentile £400 £331 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £565
90th Percentile £650 £588 £625
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 50 61
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.17 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +11.00% -35.80%
75th Percentile £25.50 £25.14 £26.15
90th Percentile £33.75 £26.34 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 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 26 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 -13 17 £308 -25.00% 19
Derbyshire +3 14 £488 +11.43% 9
Northamptonshire -4 11 £450 +1.90% 7
Lincolnshire -12 3 £490 -4.39% 3
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 7 (14.89%) Confluence
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) BASE24
2 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) Azure
2 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.26%) AWS
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Batch
4 2 (4.26%) IaaS
4 2 (4.26%) PaaS
5 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.13%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
1 3 (6.38%) WAN
2 2 (4.26%) BGP
2 2 (4.26%) OSPF
2 2 (4.26%) SD-WAN
2 2 (4.26%) VLAN
2 2 (4.26%) VPN
3 1 (2.13%) DHCP
3 1 (2.13%) DNS
3 1 (2.13%) LAN
3 1 (2.13%) Network Security
3 1 (2.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Power BI
2 3 (6.38%) Tableau
3 2 (4.26%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (4.26%) Power Query
3 2 (4.26%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) JIRA
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Finance
3 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.26%) Retail
7 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (17.02%) Analyst
2 7 (14.89%) Project Manager
3 5 (10.64%) Deskside Support
3 5 (10.64%) Desktop Support
3 5 (10.64%) IT Support
4 4 (8.51%) Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Fraud Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Operations Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Senior
5 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Payments Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.38%) PMO Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Portfolio Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Technical Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) CSS
1 1 (2.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.26%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.26%) EMV
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
2 3 (6.38%) Windows 10
2 3 (6.38%) Windows 7
2 3 (6.38%) Windows 8
3 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (31.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 14 (29.79%) Agile
3 14 (29.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (27.66%) Project Management
5 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (23.40%) DevOps
7 9 (19.15%) Decision-Making
8 6 (12.77%) Coaching
8 6 (12.77%) ITIL
8 6 (12.77%) Logistics
9 5 (10.64%) Architectural Design
9 5 (10.64%) PRINCE2
9 5 (10.64%) Waterfall
10 4 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (8.51%) Business Strategy
10 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
10 4 (8.51%) Project Governance
10 4 (8.51%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
1 2 (4.26%) SQL
1 2 (4.26%) VBA
2 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) CCNA
4 2 (4.26%) CCNP
4 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) MCSA
5 1 (2.13%) MCSE
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.13%) PMP
5 1 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) PMO
2 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.51%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.26%) PSD2
3 2 (4.26%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.13%) Firmware
3 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) SCCM
2 2 (4.26%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.38%) Cisco
3 3 (6.38%) HP
4 2 (4.26%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.13%) Citrix
5 1 (2.13%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) SAP
5 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.13%) TSYS