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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 55 25 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.49% 3.28% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% 3.91% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 19 18
10th Percentile £321 £337 £468
25th Percentile £360 £369 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £470 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -21.67% +23.08%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £669
90th Percentile £648 £542 £731
England median daily rate £525 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £21.02
25th Percentile - - £21.06
Median hourly rate - £39.68 £22.01
Median % change year-on-year - +80.30% -
75th Percentile - - £23.32
90th Percentile - - £23.58
England median hourly rate £52.76 £35.90 £60.00
% change year-on-year +46.95% -40.17% +23.22%

All Process and 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 735 640 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.78% 83.99% 84.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 392 531
10th Percentile £220 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £489
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -9.00% +2.95%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £600
90th Percentile £632 £613 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 28 51
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +28.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £52.63
90th Percentile - £51.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -7.78% +28.77%

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 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
Northamptonshire +11 37 £420 +7.28% 9
Nottinghamshire +2 10 £513 +7.89% 14
Derbyshire +2 5 £650 +33.33% 7
Leicestershire - 2 £594 - 13
Lincolnshire -7 1 £700 +21.74% 8
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 3 (5.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.82%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (1.82%) InDesign
5 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.82%) Photoshop
5 1 (1.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (3.64%) Sprinklr
1 2 (3.64%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.82%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.45%) AWS
1 3 (5.45%) Azure
2 2 (3.64%) SaaS
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) DMZ
1 2 (3.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.64%) Tableau
2 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) Gradle
2 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.64%) Maven
3 1 (1.82%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (1.82%) Ranorex
General
1 26 (47.27%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.09%) Finance
3 10 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (16.36%) Banking
4 9 (16.36%) Manufacturing
5 5 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (7.27%) Legal
7 3 (5.45%) Automotive
7 3 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.45%) Retail
8 2 (3.64%) Publishing
9 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.82%) Marketing
9 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) Project Manager
2 9 (16.36%) Analyst
3 7 (12.73%) Business Analyst
4 6 (10.91%) Senior
5 5 (9.09%) Architect
5 5 (9.09%) Change Manager
5 5 (9.09%) Project Change Manager
5 5 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (9.09%) Technical Manager
6 4 (7.27%) Payments Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Payments Business Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Manager
6 4 (7.27%) Technical Project Manager
7 3 (5.45%) Change Project Manager
7 3 (5.45%) Consultant
7 3 (5.45%) Lead
7 3 (5.45%) Product Owner
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.64%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) Flash
2 2 (3.64%) RESTful
2 2 (3.64%) Web Services
3 1 (1.82%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.82%) CSS
3 1 (1.82%) HTML
3 1 (1.82%) Kafka
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.27%) Robotics
3 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.64%) PMI
4 2 (3.64%) SCADA
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.82%) Blog
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.82%) Social Media
5 1 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
1 3 (5.45%) OpenVMS
1 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (49.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (32.73%) Project Management
3 16 (29.09%) Agile
4 12 (21.82%) Change Management
4 12 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 9 (16.36%) Business Strategy
6 9 (16.36%) Project Governance
6 9 (16.36%) Roadmaps
7 7 (12.73%) Budget Management
7 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (10.91%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (10.91%) Resource Allocation
8 6 (10.91%) Risk Management
8 6 (10.91%) Scrum
8 6 (10.91%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (9.09%) Kanban
10 4 (7.27%) Logistics
10 4 (7.27%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.09%) SQL
2 3 (5.45%) Java
3 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (9.09%) Degree
2 5 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 3 (5.45%) PMP
3 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) BC Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) CBAP
4 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.82%) CISM
5 1 (1.82%) CISSP
5 1 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.82%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
2 5 (9.09%) PMO
3 2 (3.64%) ISO 8583
3 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.64%) PSD2
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.64%) Docker
3 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) Oracle
2 3 (5.45%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.64%) Avaya
3 2 (3.64%) Genesys
3 2 (3.64%) SAP
3 2 (3.64%) Workday
4 1 (1.82%) Adobe
4 1 (1.82%) Databricks
4 1 (1.82%) Facebook
4 1 (1.82%) Instagram
4 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) Siemens
4 1 (1.82%) Twitter
4 1 (1.82%) VMware
4 1 (1.82%) YouTube