Project Delivery Contracts in Merseyside

Project Delivery
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 26 28 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 3 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.79% 2.19% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.79% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 9
10th Percentile - £310 £325
25th Percentile £511 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +30.63% -21.95% +2.50%
75th Percentile £534 - £545
90th Percentile - £412 £565
North West median daily rate £475 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -17.39% +27.78% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 179 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.17% 78.51% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 229
10th Percentile £143 £145 £313
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £550
90th Percentile £649 £603 £689
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 8
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.63
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in Merseyside

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in Merseyside

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in Merseyside

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool +6 2 - - 27
Southport - 1 £523 -
Project Delivery
North West

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Change and Release Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Change Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Release Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Test Management
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Software AG
1 1 (33.33%) webMethods