Project Delivery Contracts in the East of England

Project Delivery
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Project Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 63 35
Rank change year-on-year +9 -28 +31
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 36 51 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.31% 2.65% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 3.14% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 38 62
10th Percentile £311 £350 £383
25th Percentile £350 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £552 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% +10.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £536 £650 £700
90th Percentile £591 £750 £823
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £33.45 £27.33
25th Percentile - £34.86 £36.44
Median hourly rate - £35.65 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year - -30.78% -48.50%
75th Percentile - £38.93 £60.00
90th Percentile - £44.82 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £33.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year +91.57% -43.45% +34.83%

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 971 1,625 1,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.16% 84.46% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 651 1,015
10th Percentile £211 £200 £229
25th Percentile £363 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% -12.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 609 348
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £66.13 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.65 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the East of England

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 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the East of England

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 July 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
Cambridgeshire +17 16 £500 +25.00% 119
Hertfordshire +14 11 £413 -34.00% 137
Suffolk - 6 £350 - 23
Bedfordshire -11 2 - - 53
Essex +7 1 £525 +41.41% 105
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 (5.56%) MS Project Server
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Sage X3
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) GitHub
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.78%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.78%) OCI
3 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.78%) SaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Firewall
1 4 (11.11%) Network Security
1 4 (11.11%) VSAN
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) Internet
3 1 (2.78%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.78%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.78%) Metadata
2 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Billing
3 3 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.56%) Marketing
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 6 (16.67%) Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Digital Project Manager
6 2 (5.56%) PMO Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) PMO Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Project Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Senior
7 1 (2.78%) Digital Marketing Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing Project Manager
7 1 (2.78%) SEO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) .NET
1 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
1 1 (2.78%) Node.js
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.78%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.56%) IoT
3 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.56%) PMI
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Life Science
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) PKI
4 1 (2.78%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.78%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Agile
1 17 (47.22%) Project Management
2 13 (36.11%) Waterfall
3 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.22%) PRINCE2
4 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (13.89%) Zero Trust
6 4 (11.11%) Business Analysis
6 4 (11.11%) Change Management
6 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (11.11%) Project Governance
6 4 (11.11%) Time Management
7 3 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
8 2 (5.56%) Impact Assessments
8 2 (5.56%) Risk Register
8 2 (5.56%) Strategic Roadmap
8 2 (5.56%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) PMI Certification
4 3 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (8.33%) VCAP
4 3 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (5.56%) PMP
6 1 (2.78%) CISM
6 1 (2.78%) CISSP
6 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) PMO
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) P3O
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) VMware NSX
2 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.11%) vSphere
3 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) VxRail
2 4 (11.11%) Ansible
2 4 (11.11%) PowerCLI
2 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.78%) Avamar
3 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.78%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Dell
2 5 (13.89%) VMware
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.78%) LogRhythm
4 1 (2.78%) Sage
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds