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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 58 76
Rank change year-on-year +2 +18 -33
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 68 34 26
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.81% 2.56% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 2.85% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 18 11
10th Percentile £325 £335 £310
25th Percentile £444 £356 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £614 £684 £544
90th Percentile £728 £808 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 1
10th Percentile £27.91 - -
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.05 £46.25
Median hourly rate £37.82 £30.11 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.63% -36.62% +111.11%
75th Percentile £67.89 £30.16 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
England median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £35.90
% change year-on-year -10.00% +67.13% -42.56%

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 1,904 1,194 1,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.61% 89.91% 81.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 521 462
10th Percentile £190 £200 £213
25th Percentile £357 £400 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £446
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +14.80% -10.80%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £694 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 328 322
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.05 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.53 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.83% -35.63% +76.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -9 27 £600 -9.43% 74
Essex -5 15 £465 -11.43% 32
Bedfordshire +6 10 £500 +21.21% 18
Cambridgeshire -1 7 £500 +66.67% 45
Suffolk -20 6 £550 +57.14% 14
Norfolk - 2 - - 22
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 8 (11.76%) Confluence
2 3 (4.41%) CMS
3 2 (2.94%) OpenEdge
3 2 (2.94%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.47%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.94%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Maximo
1 5 (7.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.35%) Azure
2 3 (4.41%) SaaS
3 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.94%) OCI
3 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
3 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (1.47%) IaaS
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) Firewall
1 6 (8.82%) LAN
2 5 (7.35%) DNS
2 5 (7.35%) VLAN
2 5 (7.35%) WAN
3 3 (4.41%) H.323
4 2 (2.94%) BGP
4 2 (2.94%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (2.94%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (2.94%) MPLS
4 2 (2.94%) SNMP
4 2 (2.94%) TACACS
4 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.94%) Telepresence
4 2 (2.94%) Unified Communications
4 2 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.94%) Wireless
4 2 (2.94%) WLAN
5 1 (1.47%) Network Security
5 1 (1.47%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (2.94%) Power BI
1 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.47%) GIS
2 1 (1.47%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) LabVIEW
General
1 29 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Finance
3 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Local Government
4 5 (7.35%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.35%) Retail
5 3 (4.41%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.41%) Law
6 2 (2.94%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.47%) Military
7 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (20.59%) Project Manager
2 11 (16.18%) Analyst
3 7 (10.29%) Senior
4 6 (8.82%) Business Analyst
4 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Architect
5 5 (7.35%) Consultant
5 5 (7.35%) Lead
5 5 (7.35%) Project Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.41%) Business Architect
7 3 (4.41%) Digital Project Manager
7 3 (4.41%) IT Project Manager
7 3 (4.41%) NetApp Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Service Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Project Controller
8 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Transformation Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Transformation Project Manager
8 2 (2.94%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) XMPP
2 2 (2.94%) NETCONF
2 2 (2.94%) OpenConfig
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.94%) RESTCONF
2 2 (2.94%) YANG
3 1 (1.47%) ADO
3 1 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.47%) RESTful
3 1 (1.47%) Swagger
3 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.41%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.94%) NHS
3 2 (2.94%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.94%) PMI
3 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.47%) mPOS
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Linux
1 4 (5.88%) Windows
2 3 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (26.47%) Project Management
3 16 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 14 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (19.12%) PRINCE2
6 12 (17.65%) Agile
6 12 (17.65%) Change Management
6 12 (17.65%) ITIL
7 9 (13.24%) ITSM
8 8 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 8 (11.76%) Project Governance
8 8 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
9 7 (10.29%) Asset Management
9 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (10.29%) Service Delivery
10 6 (8.82%) Business Analysis
10 6 (8.82%) Mentoring
10 6 (8.82%) Migration
10 6 (8.82%) Risk Management
10 6 (8.82%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.41%) Python
2 2 (2.94%) SQL
3 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.41%) Degree
5 3 (4.41%) MCSE
5 3 (4.41%) PMP
6 2 (2.94%) CCIE
6 2 (2.94%) JNCIE
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.47%) CCNA
7 1 (1.47%) CCNP
7 1 (1.47%) HND
7 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) PMO
2 2 (2.94%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) SLA
3 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) P3O
System Software
1 10 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.35%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (7.35%) vSphere
3 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (1.47%) Grafana
3 1 (1.47%) SCCM
3 1 (1.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.65%) VMware
3 9 (13.24%) Cisco
4 6 (8.82%) Veeam
5 5 (7.35%) IBM
5 5 (7.35%) NetApp
5 5 (7.35%) Planon
5 5 (7.35%) Remedy
6 4 (5.88%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.88%) Juniper
7 3 (4.41%) Oracle
7 3 (4.41%) Orchard
7 3 (4.41%) SAP
7 3 (4.41%) Splunk
8 2 (2.94%) Aruba
8 2 (2.94%) Civica
8 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.94%) F5
8 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds