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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 42 40
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +15
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 44 53 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.87% 3.67% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.48% 4.25% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 40 59
10th Percentile £361 £375 £325
25th Percentile £366 £472 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +21.05% +2.70%
75th Percentile £500 £606 £566
90th Percentile £572 £653 £655
North West median daily rate £450 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £72.50 £27.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +163.64% -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 803 1,248 1,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.93% 86.49% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 848 1,195
10th Percentile £312 £321 £319
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 51
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -6.14% +51.30%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £43.13
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.39 £35.02
% change year-on-year +15.20% -24.63% +53.91%

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 31 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 31 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 - 2
Bolton - 2 - - 9
Salford -6 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 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.55%) Confluence
3 2 (4.55%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (2.27%) Apache
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.27%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.27%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (11.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) IaaS
2 9 (20.45%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (15.91%) Entra ID
4 4 (9.09%) SaaS
5 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.55%) AWS
6 2 (4.55%) PaaS
6 2 (4.55%) ShareGate
6 2 (4.55%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.27%) GCP
7 1 (2.27%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) Network Security
2 10 (22.73%) Firewall
3 7 (15.91%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (6.82%) VPN
5 2 (4.55%) BGP
5 2 (4.55%) EIGRP
5 2 (4.55%) Intranet
5 2 (4.55%) OSPF
5 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.27%) DHCP
6 1 (2.27%) DNS
6 1 (2.27%) IPsec
6 1 (2.27%) LAN
6 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.27%) WAN
6 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Big Data
2 2 (4.55%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.27%) Parquet
3 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Git
General
1 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
3 7 (15.91%) Telecoms
4 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.55%) Military
6 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Retail
7 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Analyst
2 7 (15.91%) Project Manager
2 7 (15.91%) Senior
3 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (9.09%) SAP Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Architect
5 3 (6.82%) IT Manager
5 3 (6.82%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Senior Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Test Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) SAP Test Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (4.55%) SharePoint Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.27%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) CSS
1 2 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (2.27%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.27%) EntireX
2 1 (2.27%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.27%) Kafka
2 1 (2.27%) Matplotlib
2 1 (2.27%) Pandas
2 1 (2.27%) PySpark
2 1 (2.27%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.27%) Clustering
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.27%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.27%) NHS
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Windows
1 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.27%) CentOS
2 1 (2.27%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (31.82%) Change Management
2 14 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (29.55%) Project Management
4 12 (27.27%) Agile
5 9 (20.45%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (15.91%) BCP
6 7 (15.91%) Business Continuity
6 7 (15.91%) Business Continuity Planning
6 7 (15.91%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (15.91%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (15.91%) High Availability
6 7 (15.91%) Information Security
6 7 (15.91%) Line Management
6 7 (15.91%) Risk Assessment
6 7 (15.91%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 7 (15.91%) Web Operations
7 6 (13.64%) Migration
7 6 (13.64%) Waterfall
8 5 (11.36%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.09%) SQL
3 2 (4.55%) C#
3 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (11.36%) Degree
4 3 (6.82%) CCNA
4 3 (6.82%) CCNP
4 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.55%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.55%) SAP Certification
5 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.27%) PMP
6 1 (2.27%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (15.91%) vSphere
3 1 (2.27%) Docker
3 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.55%) HP ALM
3 1 (2.27%) Ansible
3 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.27%) Nagios
3 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.27%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) VMware
3 7 (15.91%) SAP
4 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.82%) HP
5 3 (6.82%) Meraki
6 2 (4.55%) Cisco
6 2 (4.55%) IBM
6 2 (4.55%) Nintex
6 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.27%) Adobe
7 1 (2.27%) Autodesk
7 1 (2.27%) Databricks
7 1 (2.27%) Dell
7 1 (2.27%) Software AG
7 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.27%) webMethods