Project Delivery Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Project Delivery
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 54 56
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 -17
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 50 26 64
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.40% 2.75% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 3.13% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 14 51
10th Percentile £325 £308 £350
25th Percentile £406 £384 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £497 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% -5.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £536 £650
90th Percentile £638 £550 £750
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £16.05 £27.38 £33.45
25th Percentile £16.61 £27.95 £34.86
Median hourly rate £18.00 £28.89 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -37.69% -18.96% -43.19%
75th Percentile £35.13 £29.84 £37.30
90th Percentile £52.85 £30.40 £40.27
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,628 830 1,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.01% 87.92% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 436 761
10th Percentile £200 £237 £235
25th Percentile £363 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 167 554
10th Percentile £14.30 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.92 £20.26 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £55.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.85% +44.28% +50.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in the East of England

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Project Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the East of England

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Project Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the East of England

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Hertfordshire +2 27 £575 +80.39% 21
Bedfordshire -3 7 £438 - 3
Suffolk +1 5 £375 -27.75% 7
Essex -6 4 £363 -30.95% 17
Cambridgeshire -11 4 £463 -7.96% 11
Norfolk - 3 £538 - 4
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) OpenEdge
3 1 (2.00%) Anypoint
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.00%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.00%) Azure
1 6 (12.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (10.00%) PowerApps
3 4 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (8.00%) SaaS
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.00%) AWS
5 2 (4.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.00%) Datadog
6 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.00%) IaaS
6 1 (2.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (4.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.00%) Wireless
3 1 (2.00%) DNS
3 1 (2.00%) Intranet
3 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.00%) SSL
3 1 (2.00%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (2.00%) VLAN
3 1 (2.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) LabVIEW
2 1 (2.00%) MSI
General
1 25 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Banking
3 5 (10.00%) Local Government
4 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Retail
5 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Law
6 1 (2.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Project Manager
2 8 (16.00%) Analyst
3 6 (12.00%) Lead
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) Administrator
5 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) IT Manager
5 3 (6.00%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Help Desk Administrator
6 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Project Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Systems Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) JSON
1 2 (4.00%) XML
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Life Science
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) NHS
3 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.00%) PDA
3 1 (2.00%) PKI
3 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.00%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (22.00%) Agile
3 8 (16.00%) Scrum
4 7 (14.00%) Business Analysis
4 7 (14.00%) Migration
4 7 (14.00%) Project Management
5 6 (12.00%) ITIL
5 6 (12.00%) Project Governance
5 6 (12.00%) Roadmaps
6 5 (10.00%) Analytics
6 5 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (10.00%) CRM
6 5 (10.00%) Data Governance
6 5 (10.00%) PRINCE2
7 4 (8.00%) Business Transformation
7 4 (8.00%) Change Management
7 4 (8.00%) IT Governance
7 4 (8.00%) ITSM
7 4 (8.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.00%) Bash
2 1 (2.00%) Groovy
2 1 (2.00%) Java
2 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Degree
2 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) PMP
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) SAP
3 6 (12.00%) Salesforce
4 4 (8.00%) Oracle
4 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.00%) VMware
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco
6 2 (4.00%) Civica
6 2 (4.00%) Orchard
7 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.00%) Juniper
7 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.00%) PagerDuty
7 1 (2.00%) PTC
7 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.00%) Trend Micro
7 1 (2.00%) Workday