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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 50 59
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 -27
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 60 38 52
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.65% 3.26% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 3.70% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 18 38
10th Percentile £325 £311 £350
25th Percentile £404 £350 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £448 £552
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -18.93% +10.40%
75th Percentile £631 £536 £650
90th Percentile £684 £591 £750
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £16.70 - £33.45
25th Percentile £26.32 - £34.86
Median hourly rate £35.20 - £35.65
75th Percentile £53.13 - £38.93
90th Percentile £67.89 - £44.82
England median hourly rate £41.00 £65.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.92% +85.71% -42.86%

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 1,782 1,028 1,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.64% 88.32% 84.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 507 634
10th Percentile £188 £209 £202
25th Percentile £380 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £426
Median % change year-on-year - +17.30% -14.75%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £563
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 212 599
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.33 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.96 £32.07 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.11% -19.83% +90.48%
75th Percentile £68.50 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.46 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 24 £600 +45.52% 22
Suffolk -3 10 £400 +14.29% 7
Essex -5 9 £450 -14.29% 11
Bedfordshire -1 8 £500 - 6
Cambridgeshire -7 7 £475 -5.00% 20
Norfolk - 2 £538 - 3
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 (6.67%) OpenEdge
1 4 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Maximo
2 1 (1.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.00%) SaaS
2 3 (5.00%) Azure
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.33%) IaaS
3 2 (3.33%) OneDrive
3 2 (3.33%) PaaS
3 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.67%) Datadog
4 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.67%) Serverless
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
1 2 (3.33%) WAN
1 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.67%) BGP
2 1 (1.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.67%) Intranet
2 1 (1.67%) LAN
2 1 (1.67%) MPLS
2 1 (1.67%) SNMP
2 1 (1.67%) SSL
2 1 (1.67%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (1.67%) TACACS
2 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.67%) VLAN
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
2 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) LabVIEW
2 1 (1.67%) MSI
General
1 29 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Finance
3 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Local Government
4 3 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Law
5 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.33%) Retail
5 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Project Manager
2 13 (21.67%) Analyst
3 12 (20.00%) Senior
4 6 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Lead
5 5 (8.33%) Senior Manager
5 5 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
6 4 (6.67%) IT Manager
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Systems Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Administrator
7 3 (5.00%) Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Business Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 3 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Project Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Project Leader
7 3 (5.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) JSON
1 2 (3.33%) XML
2 1 (1.67%) ADO
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.67%) Middleware
2 1 (1.67%) NETCONF
2 1 (1.67%) OpenConfig
2 1 (1.67%) RESTCONF
2 1 (1.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.33%) PMI
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.67%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) mPOS
3 1 (1.67%) NHS
3 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.67%) PKI
3 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Windows
2 3 (5.00%) Linux
2 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 20 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 12 (20.00%) Project Management
3 11 (18.33%) Agile
3 11 (18.33%) ITIL
4 10 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (15.00%) Migration
5 9 (15.00%) Project Governance
5 9 (15.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 8 (13.33%) Scrum
7 7 (11.67%) Business Analysis
7 7 (11.67%) Change Management
8 6 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 5 (8.33%) Business Case
9 5 (8.33%) CAFM
9 5 (8.33%) Facilities Management
9 5 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.67%) Bash
2 1 (1.67%) Groovy
2 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 5 (8.33%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) PMP
2 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.33%) MCSE
4 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) CCIE
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.67%) HND
5 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.67%) JNCIE
5 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) PMO
2 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
2 2 (3.33%) SLA
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) Ansible
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.67%) SCOM
1 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) IBM
2 5 (8.33%) Planon
2 5 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.67%) Civica
3 4 (6.67%) Oracle
3 4 (6.67%) Orchard
3 4 (6.67%) VMware
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco
4 3 (5.00%) SAP
5 2 (3.33%) Juniper
5 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.33%) Splunk
6 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.67%) Cegedim Rx
6 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.67%) F5
6 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.67%) PagerDuty