Project Delivery Contracts in Manchester

Project Delivery
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 41 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 41 57 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.43% 3.76% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 4.31% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 42 62
10th Percentile £325 £380 £305
25th Percentile £363 £481 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £550
90th Percentile £623 £649 £636
North West median daily rate £475 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -17.39% +27.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £72.88 - -
25th Percentile £73.44 - -
Median hourly rate £76.25 - £65.00
75th Percentile £78.44 - -
90th Percentile £78.63 - -
North West median hourly rate £73.75 £27.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +168.18% -57.69% +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in Manchester

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in Manchester

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in Manchester

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in Manchester

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wigan - 3 £375 - 3
Bolton - 2 - - 6
Salford -2 1 £600 - 1
Project Delivery
North West

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (19.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.32%) Confluence
2 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.44%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.44%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (21.95%) IaaS
4 7 (17.07%) Entra ID
5 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
6 3 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (7.32%) PowerApps
6 3 (7.32%) SaaS
7 2 (4.88%) AWS
7 2 (4.88%) PaaS
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.44%) GCP
8 1 (2.44%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.83%) Network Security
2 10 (24.39%) Firewall
3 7 (17.07%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (7.32%) VPN
5 2 (4.88%) BGP
5 2 (4.88%) EIGRP
5 2 (4.88%) OSPF
5 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.44%) DHCP
6 1 (2.44%) DNS
6 1 (2.44%) IPsec
6 1 (2.44%) LAN
6 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.44%) WAN
6 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) Big Data
2 2 (4.88%) Power BI
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.44%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.44%) Parquet
3 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Git
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Finance
2 7 (17.07%) Telecoms
3 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Military
6 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Legal
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Marketing
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Project Manager
2 7 (17.07%) Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Senior
4 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Applications Support
5 3 (7.32%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
5 3 (7.32%) IT Manager
5 3 (7.32%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Power Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (4.88%) Programme Manager
6 2 (4.88%) SAP Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (2.44%) EntireX
1 1 (2.44%) FastAPI
1 1 (2.44%) Kafka
1 1 (2.44%) Matplotlib
1 1 (2.44%) Pandas
1 1 (2.44%) PySpark
1 1 (2.44%) scikit-learn
1 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
1 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
1 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.44%) Clustering
2 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.44%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (2.44%) NHS
2 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.95%) Windows
2 8 (19.51%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.44%) CentOS
3 1 (2.44%) Linux
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (31.71%) Change Management
2 13 (31.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (29.27%) Project Management
4 10 (24.39%) Agile
5 9 (21.95%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (19.51%) Risk Assessment
7 7 (17.07%) BCP
7 7 (17.07%) Business Continuity
7 7 (17.07%) Business Continuity Planning
7 7 (17.07%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (17.07%) High Availability
7 7 (17.07%) Information Security
7 7 (17.07%) Line Management
7 7 (17.07%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 7 (17.07%) Web Operations
8 5 (12.20%) Analytics
8 5 (12.20%) Risk Management
8 5 (12.20%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.32%) SQL
3 2 (4.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Azure Certification
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (9.76%) Degree
3 3 (7.32%) CCNA
3 3 (7.32%) CCNP
3 3 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.88%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.88%) PMP
4 2 (4.88%) SAP Certification
4 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) APMP
5 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.44%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.88%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (19.51%) Active Directory
1 8 (19.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (17.07%) vSphere
3 1 (2.44%) Docker
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Nagios
2 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
2 1 (2.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 9 (21.95%) VMware
3 4 (9.76%) SAP
4 3 (7.32%) Meraki
4 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco
5 2 (4.88%) IBM
5 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.44%) Adobe
6 1 (2.44%) Autodesk
6 1 (2.44%) Citrix
6 1 (2.44%) Databricks
6 1 (2.44%) Dell
6 1 (2.44%) HP
6 1 (2.44%) Software AG
6 1 (2.44%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.44%) webMethods