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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 68 34
Rank change year-on-year +11 -34 +13
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 34 28 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.61% 1.84% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.26% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 57
10th Percentile £335 £315 £263
25th Percentile £350 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £600
90th Percentile £810 £586 £747
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.28
25th Percentile £30.05 £46.25 £26.31
Median hourly rate £30.11 £47.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.62% +45.04% -19.59%
75th Percentile £30.16 £48.75 £39.31
90th Percentile - - £42.43
England median hourly rate £62.50 £38.24 £64.00
% change year-on-year +63.44% -40.25% +57.13%

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 1,164 1,239 1,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.40% 81.46% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 453 882
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £375 £306 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
75th Percentile £586 £550 £631
90th Percentile £686 £638 £734
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 384 357
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.64 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.42 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -2.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +11 16 £663 +23.26% 26
Cambridgeshire +6 11 £388 -23.46% 21
Suffolk +7 3 £350 -33.33% 8
Bedfordshire -11 3 £413 -23.26% 6
Essex -6 1 £525 +41.41% 18
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Sage X3
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.88%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) OCI
4 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) DNS
1 1 (2.94%) Internet
1 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.94%) Metadata
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Billing
3 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Project Manager
2 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Manager
2 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 4 (11.76%) Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Lead
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) PMO Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) PMO Manager
5 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared Project Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (2.94%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Governance Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Support Manager
6 1 (2.94%) IT Support
6 1 (2.94%) Project Support Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.88%) PMI
3 1 (2.94%) IoT
3 1 (2.94%) Life Science
3 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.94%) NHS
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) PKI
3 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Agile
2 15 (44.12%) Project Management
3 12 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (32.35%) Waterfall
5 7 (20.59%) Change Management
5 7 (20.59%) PRINCE2
6 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (17.65%) Decision-Making
6 6 (17.65%) Project Governance
6 6 (17.65%) Time Management
7 5 (14.71%) ITIL
7 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
8 4 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (11.76%) Migration
9 3 (8.82%) IT Strategy
9 3 (8.82%) Mentoring
9 3 (8.82%) SDLC
9 3 (8.82%) User Experience
9 3 (8.82%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 2 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.94%) SQL
2 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (5.88%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.88%) PMP
5 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) PMO
2 2 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) P3O
3 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 2 (5.88%) Workday
5 1 (2.94%) Planview
5 1 (2.94%) Sage
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow