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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 47 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 -14
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 70 95 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.50% 3.39% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 4.04% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 69 87
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £410 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £538 £470
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +14.36% -1.05%
75th Percentile £517 £630 £550
90th Percentile £611 £669 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £38.80 £29.25 £44.34
25th Percentile £48.07 £33.75 £50.85
Median hourly rate £65.08 £42.50 £61.70
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% -31.12% +207.50%
75th Percentile £76.56 £49.77 £72.55
90th Percentile £77.88 £53.38 £79.06
England median hourly rate £65.00 £33.47 £60.00
% change year-on-year +94.23% -44.23% +34.83%

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 1,791 2,352 2,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.46% 83.82% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,435 1,884
10th Percentile £303 £306 £313
25th Percentile £384 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 264 140
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.75 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +15.32% -8.33% +28.56%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.17 £66.61 £57.68
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +3 37 £450 -16.67% 158
Cheshire -6 14 £475 -9.52% 25
Lancashire +2 9 - - 57
Merseyside +6 5 £474 +18.44% 9
Cumbria -1 5 £625 -6.58% 10
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 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.14%) Confluence
3 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.29%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.43%) Apache
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.43%) IIS
4 1 (1.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (8.57%) MS Visio
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.43%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 17 (24.29%) Azure
2 10 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (11.43%) IaaS
4 7 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 6 (8.57%) SaaS
6 5 (7.14%) AWS
7 3 (4.29%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (2.86%) GCP
8 2 (2.86%) ShareGate
9 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.43%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.43%) Figma
9 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.43%) Serverless
9 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.57%) Network Security
2 12 (17.14%) Firewall
3 9 (12.86%) VPN
4 7 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (10.00%) 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
6 3 (4.29%) WAN
7 2 (2.86%) Intranet
7 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.43%) DMZ
8 1 (1.43%) DWDM
8 1 (1.43%) Internet
8 1 (1.43%) L2TP
8 1 (1.43%) MPLS
8 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.86%) Big Data
3 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.43%) GIS
3 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.43%) Looker
3 1 (1.43%) Parquet
3 1 (1.43%) Power BI
3 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.43%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Git
General
1 31 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 21 (30.00%) Finance
3 15 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (17.14%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (11.43%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (11.43%) Manufacturing
6 7 (10.00%) Telecoms
7 6 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (7.14%) Publishing
9 4 (5.71%) Retail
10 3 (4.29%) Automotive
10 3 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.86%) Banking
11 2 (2.86%) Military
12 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 1 (1.43%) Legal
12 1 (1.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (18.57%) Project Manager
2 9 (12.86%) Senior
3 8 (11.43%) Analyst
3 8 (11.43%) Network Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 5 (7.14%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Desktop Support
4 5 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) IT Manager
5 4 (5.71%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Lead
6 3 (4.29%) Developer
6 3 (4.29%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) CSS
1 2 (2.86%) EntireX
1 2 (2.86%) HTML
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%) Middleware
2 1 (1.43%) Pandas
2 1 (1.43%) PySpark
2 1 (1.43%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.71%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Clustering
5 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.43%) EPoS
5 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.43%) NHS
5 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.43%) Windows
1 15 (21.43%) Windows Server
2 7 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (8.57%) Windows 10
4 5 (7.14%) Windows 8
4 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (7.14%) Windows XP
5 2 (2.86%) Linux
6 1 (1.43%) Android
6 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.43%) CentOS
6 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.43%) Unix
6 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (32.86%) Project Management
4 22 (31.43%) Agile
5 20 (28.57%) Change Management
6 12 (17.14%) ITIL
7 11 (15.71%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (15.71%) Migration
8 8 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (11.43%) Risk Assessment
9 7 (10.00%) Analytics
9 7 (10.00%) BCP
9 7 (10.00%) Business Continuity
9 7 (10.00%) Business Continuity Planning
9 7 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (10.00%) High Availability
9 7 (10.00%) Information Security
9 7 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (10.00%) Test Management
9 7 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.57%) SQL
3 4 (5.71%) Python
4 2 (2.86%) C#
4 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.43%) Bash
5 1 (1.43%) Perl
5 1 (1.43%) VB
5 1 (1.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (14.29%) Degree
2 10 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 10 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.86%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.71%) CCNP
4 4 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.71%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.29%) CCNA
6 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.86%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.43%) CCIE
7 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.43%) MCP
7 1 (1.43%) MCSA
7 1 (1.43%) MCSE
7 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.43%) PMP
7 1 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
2 1 (1.43%) NCSC
2 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.00%) vSphere
4 2 (2.86%) Docker
5 1 (1.43%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
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%) HP ALM
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 23 (32.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.29%) VMware
3 8 (11.43%) ServiceNow
4 7 (10.00%) SAP
5 5 (7.14%) Canon
6 4 (5.71%) Cisco
6 4 (5.71%) HP
6 4 (5.71%) IBM
7 3 (4.29%) Meraki
7 3 (4.29%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.86%) Adobe
8 2 (2.86%) Databricks
8 2 (2.86%) McAfee
8 2 (2.86%) Nintex
8 2 (2.86%) Oracle
8 2 (2.86%) Software AG
8 2 (2.86%) webMethods
9 1 (1.43%) Citrix
9 1 (1.43%) Dell
9 1 (1.43%) Symantec