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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 65 45
Rank change year-on-year +4 -20 +11
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 37 28 80
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.66% 2.00% 4.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 2.48% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 58
10th Percentile £345 £313 £263
25th Percentile £369 £352 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £694 £556 £573
90th Percentile £803 £643 £703
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.05 £46.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.11 £47.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.62% +111.11% -44.76%
75th Percentile £30.16 £48.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.76 £35.90 £57.49
% change year-on-year +46.95% -37.56% +19.78%

All Process and 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 1,249 1,129 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.73% 80.64% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 447 882
10th Percentile £198 £220 £225
25th Percentile £364 £314 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £565 £613
90th Percentile £682 £650 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 255 368
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £13.76
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.14 £27.67 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +39.68% -5.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +27.14%

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 22 October 2025.

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
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 22 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
Hertfordshire +1 18 £650 +46.48% 35
Cambridgeshire 0 12 £300 -40.74% 9
Suffolk +6 3 £350 -39.39% 8
Bedfordshire -6 3 £413 -17.50% 9
Essex -6 1 £525 +41.41% 8
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 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.41%) AWS
4 2 (5.41%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) OCI
5 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Internet
1 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Power BI
2 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.70%) Big Data
3 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Billing
4 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Project Manager
2 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Manager
2 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 5 (13.51%) Lead
3 4 (10.81%) Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Technical Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Technical Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.41%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) PMO Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) PMO Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Project Support Manager
5 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Senior
6 1 (2.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (2.70%) Senior PMO
6 1 (2.70%) WAN Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.41%) PMI
3 1 (2.70%) IoT
3 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.70%) NHS
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Agile
2 15 (40.54%) Project Management
3 11 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (29.73%) Waterfall
4 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (21.62%) PRINCE2
6 7 (18.92%) Change Management
7 6 (16.22%) Decision-Making
7 6 (16.22%) Project Governance
7 6 (16.22%) Time Management
8 5 (13.51%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (13.51%) ITIL
8 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (10.81%) Migration
9 4 (10.81%) Roadmaps
9 4 (10.81%) SDLC
10 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
10 3 (8.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.70%) Python
2 1 (2.70%) SQL
2 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
2 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.41%) PMP
5 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) PMO
2 2 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) P3O
3 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle
3 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.41%) Workday
5 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.70%) Planview
5 1 (2.70%) Sage
5 1 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow