Project Delivery Contracts in the North of England

Project Delivery
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Project Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Delivery over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 48 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 149 239 351
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.17% 4.12% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 4.55% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 173 242
10th Percentile £341 £305 £320
25th Percentile £450 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +6.67% -0.27%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £669 £699 £631
England median daily rate £550 £553 £525
% change year-on-year -0.45% +5.24% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 3
10th Percentile - £37.38 £19.60
25th Percentile £26.25 £49.26 £19.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.69% +225.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £20.32
90th Percentile - £70.52 £20.43
England median hourly rate £34.00 £64.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -47.49% +45.51% +3.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Project Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,027 5,253 6,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.66% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,466 3,653 4,642
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 209 259
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.25 £12.86
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +56.81% +2.51%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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 4 May 2024.

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
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 4 May 2024. 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 -5 96 £575 +27.78% 124
Yorkshire -20 39 £460 -16.36% 59
North East +16 14 £500 -20.00% 32
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 3 (2.01%) Confluence
1 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) CICS
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Drupal
3 1 (0.67%) LiveLink
Applications
1 10 (6.71%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.67%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.67%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.67%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.15%) Azure
2 18 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.03%) SaaS
4 5 (3.36%) AWS
4 5 (3.36%) PaaS
5 4 (2.68%) IaaS
6 3 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.01%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.01%) GCP
7 2 (1.34%) Akamai
7 2 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.34%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.34%) Cloudflare
7 2 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.34%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.67%) Miro
8 1 (0.67%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.72%) Network Security
2 5 (3.36%) Firewall
3 3 (2.01%) DSL
4 2 (1.34%) WAN
5 1 (0.67%) DHCP
5 1 (0.67%) DNS
5 1 (0.67%) LAN
5 1 (0.67%) SMTP
5 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.34%) Big Data
2 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.34%) Metadata
2 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.34%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.34%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.67%) EDRMS
3 1 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (10.74%) JIRA
2 3 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.34%) GitLab
3 2 (1.34%) Subversion
General
1 33 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.12%) Finance
3 24 (16.11%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.37%) Retail
5 7 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.68%) Banking
7 4 (2.68%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.01%) Local Government
8 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.34%) Aviation
9 2 (1.34%) German Language
9 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.67%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (24.16%) Project Manager
2 34 (22.82%) Architect
3 17 (11.41%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (8.72%) Analyst
4 13 (8.72%) Lead
5 11 (7.38%) Security Architect
6 10 (6.71%) Business Analyst
7 9 (6.04%) Delivery Manager
8 8 (5.37%) IT Manager
8 8 (5.37%) Senior
9 6 (4.03%) IT Project Manager
10 5 (3.36%) Cutover Manager
10 5 (3.36%) Windows Engineer
11 4 (2.68%) Developer
11 4 (2.68%) SAP Manager
11 4 (2.68%) SAP Project Manager
12 3 (2.01%) Applications Architect
12 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Architect
12 3 (2.01%) Finance Manager
12 3 (2.01%) Finance Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.34%) Middleware
2 1 (0.67%) .NET
2 1 (0.67%) CSS
2 1 (0.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (0.67%) HTML
2 1 (0.67%) jQuery
2 1 (0.67%) JSON
2 1 (0.67%) LDAP
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.67%) REST
2 1 (0.67%) SOAP
2 1 (0.67%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.70%) Data Centre
1 7 (4.70%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.36%) NHS
3 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.68%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.01%) FMCG
4 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.34%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.04%) Windows
2 5 (3.36%) Unix
3 3 (2.01%) Linux
3 3 (2.01%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.67%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.67%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (37.58%) Agile
2 49 (32.89%) Project Management
3 27 (18.12%) Migration
4 26 (17.45%) DevOps
5 25 (16.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (13.42%) Risk Management
9 17 (11.41%) Computer Science
10 16 (10.74%) Architectural Patterns
10 16 (10.74%) Change Management
10 16 (10.74%) Service Design
11 14 (9.40%) Architectural Design
11 14 (9.40%) Data Management
12 13 (8.72%) Architecture Governance
12 13 (8.72%) IT Strategy
12 13 (8.72%) Waterfall
13 12 (8.05%) Business Case
13 12 (8.05%) Business Strategy
13 12 (8.05%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.68%) SQL
2 3 (2.01%) Java
2 3 (2.01%) Ruby
3 2 (1.34%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.34%) Swift
4 1 (0.67%) C#
4 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.67%) PHP
4 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.67%) Python
4 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (22.82%) Degree
2 13 (8.72%) PMI Certification
2 13 (8.72%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.38%) PMP
3 11 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.68%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.01%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.34%) CCSA
6 2 (1.34%) CCSE
6 2 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.67%) CAPM
7 1 (0.67%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.08%) PMO
2 10 (6.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (6.71%) NIST
3 6 (4.03%) QA
4 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.01%) SLA
5 2 (1.34%) P3O
6 1 (0.67%) COREP
6 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.67%) FINREP
6 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.67%) ACF2
3 1 (0.67%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.67%) RACF
3 1 (0.67%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (2.01%) Ansible
1 3 (2.01%) CFEngine
1 3 (2.01%) PowerBroker
1 3 (2.01%) Progress Chef
1 3 (2.01%) Puppet
1 3 (2.01%) SCCM
1 3 (2.01%) Terraform
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.67%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 16 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.05%) SAP
3 5 (3.36%) Pega
4 4 (2.68%) Ariba
4 4 (2.68%) Oracle
5 3 (2.01%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.01%) VMware
6 2 (1.34%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.34%) Cisco
6 2 (1.34%) F5
7 1 (0.67%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.67%) Citrix
7 1 (0.67%) HP
7 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.67%) Sage
7 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.67%) Symantec
7 1 (0.67%) Xamarin