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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 59 68
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -25
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 62 37 28
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.75% 2.88% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 3.23% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 19 14
10th Percentile £325 £343 £324
25th Percentile £400 £363 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £601 £588 £584
90th Percentile £675 £700 £614
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile £23.47 - -
25th Percentile £34.87 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £35.53 - £47.50
75th Percentile £67.89 - £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.95 £39.68
% change year-on-year -20.57% +58.64% -36.51%

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 1,764 1,145 1,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.19% 89.24% 82.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 499 454
10th Percentile £190 £200 £202
25th Percentile £400 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year - +13.12% -11.60%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 297 407
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.74 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.53 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.54% -30.30% +99.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -7 22 £600 +14.29% 47
Essex -7 13 £400 -23.81% 31
Bedfordshire +9 10 £500 +21.21% 13
Suffolk -4 10 £400 +14.29% 10
Cambridgeshire -6 5 £475 -13.64% 27
Norfolk - 2 £450 - 13
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 (6.45%) Confluence
1 4 (6.45%) OpenEdge
2 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.23%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.61%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Maximo
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.06%) Azure
1 5 (8.06%) SaaS
2 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.23%) OCI
2 2 (3.23%) OneDrive
2 2 (3.23%) OpenShift
2 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (1.61%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (1.61%) Datadog
3 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
3 1 (1.61%) Serverless
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Firewall
1 3 (4.84%) WAN
1 3 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.23%) BGP
2 2 (3.23%) DNS
2 2 (3.23%) LAN
2 2 (3.23%) MPLS
2 2 (3.23%) SNMP
2 2 (3.23%) TACACS
2 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.23%) VLAN
3 1 (1.61%) Intranet
3 1 (1.61%) SSL
3 1 (1.61%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.61%) VPN
3 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.61%) GIS
3 1 (1.61%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) LabVIEW
2 1 (1.61%) MSI
General
1 32 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.74%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Local Government
4 5 (8.06%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Law
5 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.84%) Retail
5 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.23%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.23%) General Ledger
6 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Project Manager
2 13 (20.97%) Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Senior
4 6 (9.68%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.06%) Consultant
5 5 (8.06%) IT Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Architect
6 4 (6.45%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Lead
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Systems Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Business Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Project Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Service Manager
8 2 (3.23%) Administrator
8 2 (3.23%) Project Leader
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) NETCONF
1 2 (3.23%) OpenConfig
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (3.23%) RESTCONF
1 2 (3.23%) YANG
2 1 (1.61%) ADO
2 1 (1.61%) JSON
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.61%) Swagger
2 1 (1.61%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.23%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.23%) NHS
3 2 (3.23%) PMI
3 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) mPOS
4 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.61%) PKI
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Windows
2 3 (4.84%) Linux
3 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 22 (35.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 14 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (20.97%) Agile
4 13 (20.97%) PRINCE2
5 12 (19.35%) Project Management
6 11 (17.74%) ITIL
7 10 (16.13%) Change Management
7 10 (16.13%) Project Governance
8 9 (14.52%) Migration
9 8 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
10 7 (11.29%) Scrum
10 7 (11.29%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (9.68%) Asset Management
11 6 (9.68%) Business Analysis
11 6 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (9.68%) Decision-Making
11 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
12 5 (8.06%) Facilities Management
12 5 (8.06%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.84%) Python
2 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.23%) SQL
3 1 (1.61%) Bash
3 1 (1.61%) Groovy
3 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.06%) PMI Certification
4 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.84%) Degree
5 3 (4.84%) MCSE
5 3 (4.84%) PMP
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.23%) CCIE
6 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.23%) JNCIE
7 1 (1.61%) CCNA
7 1 (1.61%) HND
7 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) PMO
2 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.23%) SLA
3 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.61%) P3O
3 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.61%) Squid
2 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (1.61%) Grafana
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.06%) IBM
2 5 (8.06%) Orchard
2 5 (8.06%) Planon
3 4 (6.45%) Cisco
3 4 (6.45%) Civica
3 4 (6.45%) Oracle
3 4 (6.45%) VMware
4 3 (4.84%) Juniper
4 3 (4.84%) SAP
4 3 (4.84%) Splunk
5 2 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.23%) F5
5 2 (3.23%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.23%) Veeam
6 1 (1.61%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.61%) Cegedim Rx
6 1 (1.61%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.61%) PagerDuty