Project Delivery Contracts in the South East

Project Delivery
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 44 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 -21 +14
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 257 264 606
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.69% 4.64% 7.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 5.19% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 194 420
10th Percentile £353 £354 £362
25th Percentile £425 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% +3.17%
75th Percentile £599 £610 £575
90th Percentile £641 £654 £650
England median daily rate £550 £551 £525
% change year-on-year -0.09% +4.86% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £22.20 £39.00
25th Percentile £56.16 £27.92 £62.25
Median hourly rate £57.32 £49.99 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.66% -23.09% +18.27%
75th Percentile £58.48 £63.44 £81.75
90th Percentile - £67.50 £82.35
England median hourly rate £35.00 £64.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -45.74% +44.94% +4.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,626 5,085 6,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.40% 89.37% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,697 3,536 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £402 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 222 283
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.05 £12.26
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.59 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the South East

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the South East

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 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the South East

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 7 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
Thames Valley +6 137 £500 -3.85% 77
Berkshire +14 102 £530 +3.41% 36
Hampshire +2 54 £600 +4.80% 54
Surrey +13 31 £513 +20.59% 19
West Sussex +26 30 £475 -2.56% 8
Buckinghamshire +2 27 £492 -1.63% 20
Oxfordshire 0 8 £475 -17.39% 21
East Sussex +5 2 £475 -9.52% 7
Middlesex +2 1 £425 -30.61%
Sussex - 1 £600 - 1
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (1.95%) Confluence
2 5 (1.95%) SAS
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (6.23%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (4.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Maximo
1 6 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.95%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (1.95%) SAP Hybris
3 4 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.17%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.39%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.00%) Azure
2 10 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.33%) AWS
4 6 (2.33%) IaaS
4 6 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (1.95%) PowerApps
5 5 (1.95%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 4 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (1.56%) Figma
6 4 (1.56%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.56%) Power Automate
6 4 (1.56%) SaaS
7 3 (1.17%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.78%) OCI
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.39%) Miro
9 1 (0.39%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.12%) VPN
2 20 (7.78%) LAN
2 20 (7.78%) WAN
3 19 (7.39%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (4.67%) Firewall
5 11 (4.28%) DNS
6 9 (3.50%) DHCP
7 8 (3.11%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (1.95%) 3G
8 5 (1.95%) 4G
8 5 (1.95%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.56%) 2G
9 4 (1.56%) ATM
9 4 (1.56%) Ethernet
9 4 (1.56%) SDH
10 3 (1.17%) Internet
10 3 (1.17%) Junos
10 3 (1.17%) SAN
10 3 (1.17%) VLAN
11 2 (0.78%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.72%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.33%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.33%) MySQL
2 6 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.95%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.95%) RDBMS
4 4 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.78%) Power BI
6 1 (0.39%) IDMS
6 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (6.23%) JIRA
2 9 (3.50%) GitLab
3 7 (2.72%) Git
General
1 70 (27.24%) Finance
2 52 (20.23%) Social Skills
3 28 (10.89%) Telecoms
4 23 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.23%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.89%) Marketing
8 9 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (3.50%) Retail
9 7 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.72%) Legal
9 7 (2.72%) Local Government
9 7 (2.72%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.95%) Billing
11 4 (1.56%) Law
12 3 (1.17%) Front Office
12 3 (1.17%) Military
12 3 (1.17%) Publishing
13 2 (0.78%) Banking
13 2 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 58 (22.57%) Project Manager
2 30 (11.67%) Architect
3 28 (10.89%) Senior
4 20 (7.78%) Lead
5 19 (7.39%) Network Architect
6 18 (7.00%) Analyst
7 14 (5.45%) Delivery Manager
7 14 (5.45%) IT Manager
8 13 (5.06%) Developer
8 13 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (5.06%) Senior Manager
9 12 (4.67%) Consultant
9 12 (4.67%) Senior Project Manager
10 10 (3.89%) IT Project Manager
11 9 (3.50%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Coordinator
12 8 (3.11%) Functional Consultant
13 7 (2.72%) Network Engineer
13 7 (2.72%) Project Coordinator
13 7 (2.72%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.28%) XML
2 8 (3.11%) JSON
3 7 (2.72%) .NET
4 5 (1.95%) ADO
5 3 (1.17%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.17%) HTML
5 3 (1.17%) REST
5 3 (1.17%) SOAP
5 3 (1.17%) YAML
6 2 (0.78%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.78%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.78%) CSS
6 2 (0.78%) jQuery
7 1 (0.39%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.39%) Django
7 1 (0.39%) Node.js
7 1 (0.39%) React
7 1 (0.39%) RESTful
7 1 (0.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.89%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.95%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.95%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.17%) Smart Meter
7 2 (0.78%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.78%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.39%) CSOC
8 1 (0.39%) EPoS
8 1 (0.39%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.39%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.39%) Replication
8 1 (0.39%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.39%) Linux
1 19 (7.39%) Windows
2 10 (3.89%) Unix
2 10 (3.89%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (2.33%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.33%) VMS
5 2 (0.78%) Solaris
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (45.14%) Project Management
2 67 (26.07%) Agile
3 31 (12.06%) Migration
3 31 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 30 (11.67%) PRINCE2
5 28 (10.89%) Roadmaps
6 27 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (9.73%) Change Management
7 25 (9.73%) ITIL
8 24 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (8.17%) Scrum
10 20 (7.78%) DevOps
11 19 (7.39%) Budget Management
11 19 (7.39%) Decision-Making
11 19 (7.39%) Service Delivery
12 18 (7.00%) Logistics
12 18 (7.00%) Programme Management
13 17 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (6.61%) Workflow
14 15 (5.84%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.00%) SQL
2 12 (4.67%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.89%) Python
4 9 (3.50%) C#
5 7 (2.72%) Bash
6 4 (1.56%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.56%) X++
7 3 (1.17%) Go
7 3 (1.17%) Java
7 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.17%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.78%) C++
8 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.62%) DV Cleared
3 27 (10.51%) Degree
4 18 (7.00%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.06%) PMP
6 11 (4.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 9 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.50%) PMI Certification
8 7 (2.72%) CCNA
9 6 (2.33%) APMP
9 6 (2.33%) CCNP
10 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.17%) ISEB
11 3 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.17%) JNCIA
11 3 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.78%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.78%) MCSE
12 2 (0.78%) RIBA
12 2 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.28%) PMO
2 17 (6.61%) QA
3 10 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 10 (3.89%) SLA
4 6 (2.33%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.45%) vSphere
3 13 (5.06%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.72%) XenApp
5 6 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.95%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.17%) Docker
7 3 (1.17%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.78%) Ceph
8 2 (0.78%) Firmware
8 2 (0.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 14 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.06%) Ansible
3 8 (3.11%) vRealize
4 6 (2.33%) Packer
4 6 (2.33%) Terraform
5 5 (1.95%) Endace
6 3 (1.17%) Rancher
6 3 (1.17%) WSUS
7 2 (0.78%) Pacemaker
7 2 (0.78%) Podman
7 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.89%) Cisco
2 28 (10.89%) Juniper
3 27 (10.51%) VMware
4 17 (6.61%) Oracle
5 8 (3.11%) Citrix
5 8 (3.11%) F5
5 8 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.72%) Ivanti
6 7 (2.72%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.33%) SAP
8 5 (1.95%) Adobe
8 5 (1.95%) Arqiva
8 5 (1.95%) IFS
8 5 (1.95%) Veritas
9 4 (1.56%) Informatica
9 4 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.17%) Siemens
10 3 (1.17%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.78%) Sun