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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 26 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +26 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 65 31 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.81% 5.49% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.03% 6.34% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 23 9
10th Percentile £199 £284 £425
25th Percentile £359 £394 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +4.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £484 £509 £525
90th Percentile £550 £551 £583
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £21.60 £32.09 -
25th Percentile £25.13 £33.36 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £36.09 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% +60.40% -
75th Percentile £50.50 £38.20 £23.75
90th Percentile £62.20 £39.09 -
England median hourly rate £40.78 £35.00 £45.75
% change year-on-year +16.51% -23.50% -23.75%

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 809 489 651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.80% 86.55% 83.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 294 450
10th Percentile £190 £250 £197
25th Percentile £353 £350 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £439 £448
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -1.84% -0.56%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £613 £624 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 20 60
10th Percentile £14.85 £16.81 £11.18
25th Percentile £16.33 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +27.03% +5.24%
75th Percentile £23.90 £30.44 £33.69
90th Percentile £25.15 £41.21 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

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 1 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the East Midlands

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 1 February 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
Northamptonshire +5 32 £455 +7.69% 6
Nottinghamshire -2 17 £300 -43.40% 10
Derbyshire -5 7 £600 +37.14% 10
Lincolnshire -6 7 £590 +15.12% 4
Leicestershire -11 2 £459 +104.00% 5
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 13 (20.00%) Confluence
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (16.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.08%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (3.08%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.54%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.54%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.08%) Azure
4 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.54%) AWS
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.54%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.54%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) Tableau
2 6 (9.23%) Power BI
3 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.54%) Metadata
3 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (24.62%) JIRA
General
1 22 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Finance
3 11 (16.92%) Banking
4 9 (13.85%) Manufacturing
5 6 (9.23%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.15%) Marketing
7 3 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.08%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.08%) Automotive
9 1 (1.54%) Local Government
9 1 (1.54%) Publishing
9 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Project Manager
2 12 (18.46%) Architect
3 10 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (10.77%) Deskside Support
4 7 (10.77%) Desktop Support
4 7 (10.77%) IT Support
4 7 (10.77%) Payments Architect
4 7 (10.77%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 6 (9.23%) Lead
6 5 (7.69%) Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Consultant
8 3 (4.62%) IT Manager
8 3 (4.62%) IT Project Manager
8 3 (4.62%) Project Leader
9 2 (3.08%) Payments Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Payments Business Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Salesforce Architect
9 2 (3.08%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) CSS
1 2 (3.08%) HTML
2 1 (1.54%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (1.54%) Flash
2 1 (1.54%) Kafka
2 1 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.15%) Robotics
4 2 (3.08%) EMV
4 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.08%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.08%) PMI
4 2 (3.08%) SCADA
5 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.54%) NHS
5 1 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.46%) Windows
2 4 (6.15%) Linux
2 4 (6.15%) OpenVMS
2 4 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Windows 10
2 4 (6.15%) Windows 7
2 4 (6.15%) Windows 8
2 4 (6.15%) Windows Server
2 4 (6.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (44.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (24.62%) Project Management
3 15 (23.08%) Agile
3 15 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (21.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (16.92%) DevOps
6 10 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (13.85%) Records Management
7 9 (13.85%) Regulatory Compliance
7 9 (13.85%) Technical Architecture
8 8 (12.31%) Architectural Design
8 8 (12.31%) Logistics
9 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (10.77%) PRINCE2
9 7 (10.77%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (10.77%) Workshop Facilitation
10 6 (9.23%) Decision-Making
10 6 (9.23%) Project Governance
11 5 (7.69%) Change Management
11 5 (7.69%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.15%) SQL
2 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.08%) Python
4 1 (1.54%) Google Apps Script
4 1 (1.54%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) PMI Certification
2 7 (10.77%) PMP
3 6 (9.23%) Degree
3 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) CBAP
5 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.54%) MBA
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) QA
2 4 (6.15%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.15%) PSD2
3 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.62%) PMO
4 2 (3.08%) ISO 8583
5 1 (1.54%) GRC
5 1 (1.54%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 9 (13.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.15%) Hyper-V
2 4 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Cisco
2 4 (6.15%) HP
2 4 (6.15%) Red Hat
2 4 (6.15%) VMware
3 2 (3.08%) MuleSoft
3 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) SAP
3 2 (3.08%) Workday
4 1 (1.54%) Autodesk
4 1 (1.54%) Databricks
4 1 (1.54%) Google
4 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.54%) Siemens
4 1 (1.54%) TSYS