Project Delivery Contract Job Trends in the South East

Project Delivery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 186 155 252
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.02% 4.90% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 5.47% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 101 141
10th Percentile £337 £330 £350
25th Percentile £445 £490 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -3.30%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £595
90th Percentile £663 £650 £673
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 5
10th Percentile - - £38.21
25th Percentile £15.91 £13.25 £56.16
Median hourly rate £17.50 £37.65 £68.67
Median % change year-on-year -53.51% -45.18% +24.10%
75th Percentile £36.25 £66.60 £78.00
90th Percentile £38.83 £73.66 -
England median hourly rate £43.12 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +23.20% -30.00% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,863 2,836 4,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.56% 89.69% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,554 1,739 2,960
10th Percentile £255 £250 £213
25th Percentile £399 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 105 354
10th Percentile £13.93 £18.58 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £63.29
90th Percentile £79.90 £74.95 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -0.71% +0.71%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in the South East

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Project Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the South East over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the South East

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Project Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in the South East over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the South East

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. 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
Thames Valley -11 101 £550 - 46
Berkshire -24 66 £575 - 20
Hampshire +6 48 £525 +2.44% 27
Buckinghamshire +9 30 £510 -2.86% 16
Kent +5 18 £500 -11.11% 10
Surrey -9 12 £475 -18.80% 21
West Sussex - 6 £525 - 6
Oxfordshire -11 5 £445 -13.17% 10
East Sussex +3 4 - - 4
Home Counties - 1 £700 -
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 13 (6.99%) Confluence
3 3 (1.61%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.54%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.54%) Camunda
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (15.05%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (13.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (11.83%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (9.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.54%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.54%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (5.91%) Azure
1 11 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (4.30%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.69%) SaaS
5 4 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.61%) OCI
7 2 (1.08%) AWS
7 2 (1.08%) Oracle CX
8 1 (0.54%) Alation
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.54%) Collibra
8 1 (0.54%) GCP
8 1 (0.54%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.54%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.54%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.30%) LAN
1 8 (4.30%) WAN
2 7 (3.76%) Firewall
3 6 (3.23%) BGP
3 6 (3.23%) OSPF
3 6 (3.23%) Structured Cabling
4 5 (2.69%) IPsec
5 2 (1.08%) Intranet
5 2 (1.08%) NAS
5 2 (1.08%) SAN
5 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.08%) VoIP
6 1 (0.54%) Broadband
6 1 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.54%) DHCP
6 1 (0.54%) DNS
6 1 (0.54%) ISDN
6 1 (0.54%) PSTN
6 1 (0.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.30%) Power BI
2 4 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.61%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.08%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.54%) GIS
5 1 (0.54%) Metadata
5 1 (0.54%) QGIS
5 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.60%) JIRA
2 1 (0.54%) Git
2 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 75 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 40 (21.51%) Finance
3 21 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.14%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 14 (7.53%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (7.53%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.84%) Retail
8 7 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.15%) Law
9 4 (2.15%) Legal
9 4 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.61%) Electronics
10 3 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.61%) Military
11 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.08%) Automotive
11 2 (1.08%) Banking
11 2 (1.08%) Marketing
11 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (30.65%) Project Manager
2 25 (13.44%) Lead
3 22 (11.83%) Analyst
4 13 (6.99%) PMO Lead
4 13 (6.99%) Senior
5 12 (6.45%) Coordinator
6 9 (4.84%) IT Manager
7 8 (4.30%) Administrator
7 8 (4.30%) Oracle Project Manager
8 7 (3.76%) Consultant
8 7 (3.76%) IT Project Manager
8 7 (3.76%) PMO Analyst
9 6 (3.23%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.23%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.23%) Network Engineer
9 6 (3.23%) Senior Manager
9 6 (3.23%) Senior Project Manager
9 6 (3.23%) Support Officer
10 5 (2.69%) HR Analyst
10 5 (2.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.15%) ADO
3 2 (1.08%) CSS
3 2 (1.08%) REST
3 2 (1.08%) SOAP
4 1 (0.54%) EDI
4 1 (0.54%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.54%) Middleware
4 1 (0.54%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (3.76%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.76%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.76%) PMI
3 5 (2.69%) e-Learning
4 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.15%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.61%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.08%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.08%) NHS
6 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.54%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.54%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.23%) Windows
2 3 (1.61%) Linux
2 3 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.08%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.54%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.54%) Solaris
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (37.10%) Project Management
2 59 (31.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 55 (29.57%) Agile
4 36 (19.35%) PRINCE2
5 33 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (13.98%) Waterfall
7 21 (11.29%) Migration
8 19 (10.22%) Project Governance
9 18 (9.68%) Change Management
9 18 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (9.14%) Change Control
11 16 (8.60%) Time Management
12 12 (6.45%) Programme Management
12 12 (6.45%) Resource Management
12 12 (6.45%) Risk Management
13 11 (5.91%) Portfolio Management
13 11 (5.91%) Process Improvement
14 10 (5.38%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (5.38%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.61%) Python
2 2 (1.08%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.08%) SQL
3 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
3 1 (0.54%) Bash
3 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 55 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 40 (21.51%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.44%) PMP
4 22 (11.83%) Degree
4 22 (11.83%) PMI Certification
5 17 (9.14%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.76%) APMP
7 6 (3.23%) CCNA
7 6 (3.23%) CCNP
7 6 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.69%) MAPM
9 2 (1.08%) CBAP
9 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.54%) MCSE
10 1 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (22.58%) PMO
2 5 (2.69%) P3O
3 4 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.15%) QA
4 3 (1.61%) GDPR
4 3 (1.61%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.08%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.08%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.08%) NCSC
5 2 (1.08%) PSD2
6 1 (0.54%) COBIT
6 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.61%) vSphere
3 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.08%) CEMLI
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.08%) PaperCut
1 2 (1.08%) SCCM
2 1 (0.54%) AirWatch
2 1 (0.54%) Ansible
2 1 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.54%) Nagios
2 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (0.54%) SELinux
2 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.54%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (23.12%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.14%) Oracle
3 9 (4.84%) Cisco
4 8 (4.30%) SAP
4 8 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.76%) VMware
6 6 (3.23%) CheckPoint
6 6 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.69%) Aruba
7 5 (2.69%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.69%) Remedy
7 5 (2.69%) Workday
8 3 (1.61%) Citrix
9 2 (1.08%) Autodesk
9 2 (1.08%) Meraki
9 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.08%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.54%) F5
10 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.54%) Splunk