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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 22 44
Rank change year-on-year -9 +22 +21
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 60 29 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 5.87% 5.75% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 6.68% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 14
10th Percentile £199 £225 £425
25th Percentile £295 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £443 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -4.32% -11.06%
75th Percentile £469 £488 £578
90th Percentile £494 £519 £588
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £21.60 - -
25th Percentile £25.13 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% - -
75th Percentile £50.50 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £62.20 - -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -24.23% +81.82% -49.23%

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 840 434 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 82.11% 86.11% 78.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 296 417
10th Percentile £199 £200 £188
25th Percentile £362 £317 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £550
90th Percentile £625 £588 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 21 63
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.97 £21.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +23.37% +3.34%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £33.75 £51.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -4 20 £446 +0.20% 5
Nottinghamshire -8 16 £250 -17.10% 8
Derbyshire -4 15 £488 +14.71% 13
Lincolnshire -12 6 £480 -6.34% 7
Leicestershire -6 3 £459 +104.00% 4
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 (18.33%) Confluence
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (21.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (18.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.33%) Azure
1 8 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 6 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.33%) AWS
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Batch
4 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.33%) IaaS
4 2 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) BGP
1 2 (3.33%) OSPF
1 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.33%) VLAN
1 2 (3.33%) VPN
1 2 (3.33%) WAN
2 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Power BI
1 8 (13.33%) Tableau
2 2 (3.33%) Power Query
2 2 (3.33%) PowerPivot
3 1 (1.67%) Metadata
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) JIRA
General
1 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Finance
3 14 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (16.67%) Banking
5 8 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 4 (6.67%) Marketing
8 2 (3.33%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Retail
9 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Local Government
9 1 (1.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Architect
1 10 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 8 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (11.67%) Deskside Support
3 7 (11.67%) Desktop Support
3 7 (11.67%) IT Support
3 7 (11.67%) Payments Architect
3 7 (11.67%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 6 (10.00%) Analyst
4 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Lead
5 3 (5.00%) Consultant
5 3 (5.00%) PMO Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Project Leader
5 3 (5.00%) Senior
6 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (3.33%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (3.33%) Project Coordinator
6 2 (3.33%) Team Leader
6 2 (3.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) CSS
1 2 (3.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 9 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.33%) EMV
4 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.33%) PMI
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 4 (6.67%) Windows 7
2 4 (6.67%) Windows 8
2 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (3.33%) Linux
3 2 (3.33%) OpenVMS
3 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 15 (25.00%) DevOps
4 14 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (21.67%) Project Management
6 12 (20.00%) Agile
7 9 (15.00%) Architectural Design
7 9 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (13.33%) Records Management
8 8 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
8 8 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
9 7 (11.67%) Decision-Making
10 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
11 5 (8.33%) CRM
11 5 (8.33%) Logistics
11 5 (8.33%) PRINCE2
11 5 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
12 4 (6.67%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.33%) SQL
2 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.33%) Python
3 2 (3.33%) VBA
4 1 (1.67%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) PMI Certification
4 4 (6.67%) Degree
4 4 (6.67%) PMP
5 2 (3.33%) CBAP
5 2 (3.33%) CCNA
5 2 (3.33%) CCNP
5 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) QA
2 5 (8.33%) PMO
3 4 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 4 (6.67%) PSD2
4 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.33%) ISO 8583
6 1 (1.67%) GRC
6 1 (1.67%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) SCCM
2 2 (3.33%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) Cisco
3 4 (6.67%) HP
3 4 (6.67%) VMware
4 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.33%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.67%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.67%) Citrix
5 1 (1.67%) Databricks
5 1 (1.67%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) TSYS