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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 28 32
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 34 38 34
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.94% 5.12% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 5.97% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 24
10th Percentile £225 £311 £291
25th Percentile £340 £381 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £447 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% -3.35% -24.49%
75th Percentile £494 £505 £503
90th Percentile £563 £538 £588
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £39.04 - -
England median hourly rate £48.75 £65.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +85.94% -45.31%

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 884 637 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 76.54% 85.85% 78.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 433 445
10th Percentile £213 £223 £213
25th Percentile £400 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £443
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -6.88% -6.74%
75th Percentile £573 £500 £563
90th Percentile £650 £600 £621
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 55 55
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.14 £11.90
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.11 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.31 £20.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +20.59% -55.84%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £47.50 £25.96 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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
Derbyshire +2 12 £488 -15.22% 12
Nottinghamshire -15 12 £340 -17.07% 10
Northamptonshire -3 6 £450 +1.90% 7
Leicestershire -5 2 - - 10
Lincolnshire -14 2 £500 -2.44% 7
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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
1 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) BASE24
2 1 (2.94%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.88%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Batch
3 2 (5.88%) IaaS
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.88%) PaaS
3 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.94%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
1 3 (8.82%) WAN
2 2 (5.88%) BGP
2 2 (5.88%) OSPF
2 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.88%) VLAN
2 2 (5.88%) VPN
3 1 (2.94%) DHCP
3 1 (2.94%) DNS
3 1 (2.94%) LAN
3 1 (2.94%) Network Security
3 1 (2.94%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) NonStop SQL
1 2 (5.88%) Power BI
1 2 (5.88%) Power Query
1 2 (5.88%) PowerPivot
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Project Manager
3 4 (11.76%) Fraud Manager
3 4 (11.76%) Operations Manager
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Deskside Support
4 2 (5.88%) Desktop Support
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) IT Support
4 2 (5.88%) Lead
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Technical Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Deployment Project Manager
5 1 (2.94%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Portfolio Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Onboarding
2 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.94%) Windows 7
2 1 (2.94%) Windows 8
2 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 11 (32.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (29.41%) Agile
3 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (26.47%) Project Management
4 7 (20.59%) DevOps
5 6 (17.65%) Decision-Making
6 5 (14.71%) Coaching
6 5 (14.71%) ITIL
6 5 (14.71%) Waterfall
7 4 (11.76%) Change Control
7 4 (11.76%) Demand Management
7 4 (11.76%) Logistics
7 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 4 (11.76%) Migration
7 4 (11.76%) Process Improvement
7 4 (11.76%) Strategic Planning
7 4 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
8 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 2 (5.88%) VBA
2 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) CCNA
3 2 (5.88%) CCNP
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) MCSA
4 1 (2.94%) MCSE
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) PMO
2 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.94%) GDPR
4 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Firmware
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) FortiGate
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco
3 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Citrix
4 1 (2.94%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) HP
4 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.94%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Workday