Project Delivery Contracts in the North West

Project Delivery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 52 48 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 70 101 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.56% 3.67% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 4.25% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 77 105
10th Percentile £325 £390 £300
25th Percentile £380 £475 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +27.78% -
75th Percentile £549 £625 £550
90th Percentile £638 £669 £624
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £45.83 - £58.68
25th Percentile £60.56 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £73.75 £27.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +168.18% -57.69% +225.00%
75th Percentile £77.81 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £78.38 - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the North West

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the North West

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the North West

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the North West

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the North West

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +2 41 £475 -17.39% 89
Cheshire -9 10 £525 -9.79% 25
Lancashire +4 9 - - 51
Cumbria -3 7 £519 -22.46% 11
Merseyside +2 3 £523 +30.63% 11
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (12.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.14%) Confluence
2 5 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.43%) IIS
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.43%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (8.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.43%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.71%) Azure
2 13 (18.57%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (12.86%) IaaS
4 7 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.14%) AWS
5 5 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.29%) PowerApps
6 3 (4.29%) SaaS
7 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.86%) PaaS
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.43%) GCP
8 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.14%) Firewall
1 12 (17.14%) Network Security
2 9 (12.86%) VPN
3 7 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (8.57%) LAN
5 4 (5.71%) BGP
5 4 (5.71%) OSPF
6 3 (4.29%) DNS
6 3 (4.29%) EIGRP
6 3 (4.29%) IPsec
7 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.86%) WAN
7 2 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.43%) DHCP
8 1 (1.43%) DMZ
8 1 (1.43%) DWDM
8 1 (1.43%) Internet
8 1 (1.43%) MPLS
8 1 (1.43%) SSL
8 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.86%) Big Data
2 2 (2.86%) Power BI
2 2 (2.86%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.43%) Parquet
3 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Git
General
1 28 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Finance
3 11 (15.71%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 7 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 6 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.71%) Banking
9 3 (4.29%) Automotive
9 3 (4.29%) Military
10 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.86%) Retail
11 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.43%) Legal
11 1 (1.43%) Marketing
11 1 (1.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (25.71%) Project Manager
2 9 (12.86%) Senior
3 8 (11.43%) Network Engineer
3 8 (11.43%) Support Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 5 (7.14%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Desktop Support
5 5 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) IT Manager
5 5 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (5.71%) Architect
6 4 (5.71%) Lead
6 4 (5.71%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.29%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) EntireX
2 1 (1.43%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.43%) ADO
2 1 (1.43%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.43%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.43%) Kafka
2 1 (1.43%) Matplotlib
2 1 (1.43%) Pandas
2 1 (1.43%) PySpark
2 1 (1.43%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.29%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.43%) Clustering
4 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.43%) NHS
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.43%) Windows
2 14 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (8.57%) Windows 10
5 5 (7.14%) Windows 8
5 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (7.14%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.43%) Android
6 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.43%) CentOS
6 1 (1.43%) Linux
6 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
1 26 (37.14%) Project Management
2 22 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (25.71%) Agile
4 17 (24.29%) Change Management
5 10 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 9 (12.86%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (12.86%) ITIL
6 9 (12.86%) Risk Assessment
7 8 (11.43%) PRINCE2
7 8 (11.43%) Risk Management
8 7 (10.00%) BCP
8 7 (10.00%) Business Continuity
8 7 (10.00%) Business Continuity Planning
8 7 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (10.00%) High Availability
8 7 (10.00%) Information Security
8 7 (10.00%) Line Management
8 7 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 7 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.71%) Python
3 3 (4.29%) SQL
4 1 (1.43%) Bash
4 1 (1.43%) Perl
4 1 (1.43%) VB
4 1 (1.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared
2 12 (17.14%) Security Cleared
3 10 (14.29%) Degree
4 8 (11.43%) Azure Certification
5 5 (7.14%) SAP Certification
6 4 (5.71%) CCNP
6 4 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.71%) PMI Certification
6 4 (5.71%) PMP
7 3 (4.29%) CCNA
8 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.43%) CCIE
9 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.43%) MCP
9 1 (1.43%) MCSA
9 1 (1.43%) MCSE
9 1 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.43%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.43%) NCSC
3 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.00%) vSphere
4 2 (2.86%) Docker
4 2 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.43%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (8.57%) SCCM
3 2 (2.86%) Ansible
3 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.86%) Terraform
4 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.43%) Nagios
4 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.29%) VMware
3 7 (10.00%) SAP
4 5 (7.14%) Canon
5 4 (5.71%) Cisco
6 3 (4.29%) IBM
6 3 (4.29%) Meraki
6 3 (4.29%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.86%) Adobe
7 2 (2.86%) McAfee
7 2 (2.86%) Software AG
7 2 (2.86%) webMethods
8 1 (1.43%) Autodesk
8 1 (1.43%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.43%) Citrix
8 1 (1.43%) Dell
8 1 (1.43%) HP
8 1 (1.43%) Siemens
8 1 (1.43%) Symantec