Project Delivery Contracts in the North of England

Project Delivery
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 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 67 57 48
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 105 153 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.19% 3.21% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 3.74% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 110 175
10th Percentile £358 £325 £302
25th Percentile £375 £450 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £578
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £30.15 - £43.91
25th Percentile £36.00 £26.25 £58.68
Median hourly rate £72.50 £27.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +163.64% -57.69% +225.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £78.25 - -
England median hourly rate £51.25 £34.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +50.74% -47.69% +46.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the North of England

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the North of England

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the North of England

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the North of England

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the North of England

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England 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
North West -4 70 £475 -17.39% 156
Yorkshire -1 29 £506 +10.05% 73
North East -8 6 £413 -17.50% 29
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 10 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.71%) Confluence
3 5 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (6.67%) MS Visio
3 6 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.95%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.90%) Azure
2 15 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (8.57%) IaaS
4 8 (7.62%) Entra ID
5 7 (6.67%) AWS
6 5 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.81%) SaaS
8 3 (2.86%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.90%) PaaS
10 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.95%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.95%) GCP
10 1 (0.95%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.43%) Firewall
1 12 (11.43%) Network Security
2 9 (8.57%) VPN
3 7 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (5.71%) LAN
5 4 (3.81%) BGP
5 4 (3.81%) OSPF
6 3 (2.86%) DNS
6 3 (2.86%) EIGRP
6 3 (2.86%) IPsec
6 3 (2.86%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.90%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.90%) SSL
7 2 (1.90%) WAN
7 2 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.95%) HSRP
8 1 (0.95%) Multicast
8 1 (0.95%) NAS
8 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.90%) Big Data
2 2 (1.90%) Power BI
2 2 (1.90%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.95%) GIS
3 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.95%) Parquet
3 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (1.90%) Git
General
1 38 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 32 (30.48%) Finance
3 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.43%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (8.57%) Banking
4 9 (8.57%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.62%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 6 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.76%) Retail
9 4 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.86%) Automotive
10 3 (2.86%) Military
11 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.90%) Marketing
12 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.95%) Legal
12 1 (0.95%) Publishing
12 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (25.71%) Project Manager
2 13 (12.38%) Senior
3 10 (9.52%) IT Manager
3 10 (9.52%) IT Project Manager
3 10 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 9 (8.57%) Analyst
4 9 (8.57%) Network Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) Consultant
6 6 (5.71%) Lead
6 6 (5.71%) Senior Consultant
7 5 (4.76%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 5 (4.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Architect
7 5 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Desktop Support
7 5 (4.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 5 (4.76%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.81%) EntireX
2 1 (0.95%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.95%) ADO
2 1 (0.95%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.95%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.95%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.95%) FastAPI
2 1 (0.95%) Kafka
2 1 (0.95%) Matplotlib
2 1 (0.95%) Middleware
2 1 (0.95%) Pandas
2 1 (0.95%) PySpark
2 1 (0.95%) React
2 1 (0.95%) scikit-learn
2 1 (0.95%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.81%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.81%) PMI
2 4 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.81%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.90%) Clustering
4 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.90%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.90%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.95%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.95%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.10%) Windows
2 15 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 8 (7.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 5 (4.76%) Windows 8
5 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (4.76%) Windows XP
6 4 (3.81%) Linux
7 3 (2.86%) Unix
8 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.90%) zOS
9 1 (0.95%) AIX
9 1 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.95%) Android
9 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (38.10%) Project Management
2 36 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (27.62%) Agile
5 28 (26.67%) Change Management
6 14 (13.33%) Business Case
7 13 (12.38%) PRINCE2
7 13 (12.38%) Risk Management
8 12 (11.43%) Roadmaps
9 11 (10.48%) Budget Management
9 11 (10.48%) ITIL
9 11 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (9.52%) Decision-Making
10 10 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
10 10 (9.52%) Migration
10 10 (9.52%) Waterfall
11 9 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (8.57%) Project Planning
11 9 (8.57%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.48%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.76%) Python
3 3 (2.86%) SQL
4 1 (0.95%) ActionScript
4 1 (0.95%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (0.95%) Bash
4 1 (0.95%) C
4 1 (0.95%) Java
4 1 (0.95%) JCL
4 1 (0.95%) Perl
4 1 (0.95%) REXX
4 1 (0.95%) VB
4 1 (0.95%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (15.24%) SC Cleared
1 16 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.29%) Degree
3 14 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (8.57%) PMI Certification
5 8 (7.62%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.67%) PMP
7 5 (4.76%) SAP Certification
8 4 (3.81%) CCNP
8 4 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.86%) CCNA
10 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.95%) APMP
11 1 (0.95%) CCIE
11 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.95%) MCSA
11 1 (0.95%) MCSE
11 1 (0.95%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) PMO
2 4 (3.81%) QA
3 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.95%) NCSC
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.67%) vSphere
4 3 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.90%) Docker
5 2 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.90%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.95%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.71%) SCCM
3 3 (2.86%) Ansible
4 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.90%) Terraform
5 1 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.95%) Nagios
5 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.95%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (0.95%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.95%) vRealize
5 1 (0.95%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.33%) VMware
3 10 (9.52%) SAP
4 8 (7.62%) IBM
5 5 (4.76%) Canon
5 5 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.81%) Cisco
6 4 (3.81%) Software AG
6 4 (3.81%) webMethods
7 3 (2.86%) Meraki
7 3 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.90%) Adobe
8 2 (1.90%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.90%) Databricks
8 2 (1.90%) McAfee
8 2 (1.90%) Veeam
9 1 (0.95%) Dell
9 1 (0.95%) HP
9 1 (0.95%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.95%) Siemens