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 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 37 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 308 171 214
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.71% 4.95% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.85% 5.55% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 113 117
10th Percentile £363 £313 £358
25th Percentile £463 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +5.39% -7.27%
75th Percentile £629 £575 £611
90th Percentile £704 £650 £660
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 6
10th Percentile £40.25 - £16.25
25th Percentile £48.13 £15.91 £25.00
Median hourly rate £77.00 £30.11 £57.10
Median % change year-on-year +155.73% -47.27% -16.84%
75th Percentile £87.83 £51.00 £63.21
90th Percentile £90.63 £70.16 £67.66
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.95 £39.68
% change year-on-year -20.57% +58.64% -36.51%

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 5,269 3,081 3,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.57% 89.20% 82.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,202 1,922 2,304
10th Percentile £276 £226 £258
25th Percentile £420 £388 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.66%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £712 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 600 305 280
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.50 £15.92
25th Percentile £18.09 £15.50 £30.00
Median hourly rate £52.46 £21.90 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +139.55% -61.81% +9.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £71.37
90th Percentile £87.16 £69.65 £77.17
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -8 153 £550 +3.77% 141
Berkshire 0 95 £550 - 66
Hampshire -17 73 £575 +6.98% 94
Buckinghamshire -2 46 £564 -6.04% 51
Surrey +3 35 £525 +6.33% 48
West Sussex -5 25 £483 +28.80% 24
Kent +2 14 £400 -21.95% 29
Oxfordshire -21 12 £258 -19.53% 25
Middlesex - 2 - - 6
Home Counties -1 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £350 - 10
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 17 (5.52%) Confluence
2 9 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (4.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (2.60%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.65%) Houdini
6 2 (0.65%) NUKE
7 1 (0.32%) CATIA
7 1 (0.32%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.95%) SAP PSCD
1 6 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.62%) Primavera
3 3 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.97%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.65%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.32%) BASE24
5 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.32%) Maximo
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.32%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.32%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 52 (16.88%) Azure
2 18 (5.84%) AWS
2 18 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 11 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (3.25%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.62%) IaaS
7 4 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.30%) GCP
8 3 (0.97%) Azure AKS
8 3 (0.97%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.97%) SaaS
9 2 (0.65%) Azure App Service
9 2 (0.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.65%) GitHub
9 2 (0.65%) OCI
9 2 (0.65%) Rubrik
9 2 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.17%) LAN
2 14 (4.55%) DNS
2 14 (4.55%) WAN
3 13 (4.22%) Firewall
4 12 (3.90%) VPN
5 8 (2.60%) DHCP
5 8 (2.60%) MPLS
5 8 (2.60%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.27%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.95%) BGP
8 5 (1.62%) 2G
8 5 (1.62%) 5G
8 5 (1.62%) Network Security
8 5 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.30%) ATM
9 4 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (1.30%) IPsec
9 4 (1.30%) OSPF
9 4 (1.30%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.25%) Power BI
2 6 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (0.97%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.32%) EDMS
4 1 (0.32%) Metadata
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.32%) QualityStage
4 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (12.01%) JIRA
2 5 (1.62%) MSI
3 4 (1.30%) Git
4 3 (0.97%) GitLab
5 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 134 (43.51%) Social Skills
2 73 (23.70%) Finance
3 51 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.34%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (8.44%) Organisational Skills
5 26 (8.44%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.49%) Manufacturing
6 20 (6.49%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.52%) Retail
8 10 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.92%) Legal
10 7 (2.27%) Military
11 5 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.62%) Local Government
12 4 (1.30%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Back Office
13 2 (0.65%) Banking
13 2 (0.65%) Billing
14 1 (0.32%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 65 (21.10%) Project Manager
2 38 (12.34%) Architect
3 36 (11.69%) Lead
4 34 (11.04%) Senior
5 30 (9.74%) Analyst
6 18 (5.84%) Senior Manager
7 17 (5.52%) IT Manager
8 16 (5.19%) Consultant
8 16 (5.19%) Senior Project Manager
8 16 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.87%) Business Analyst
9 15 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.57%) IT Project Manager
10 11 (3.57%) SC Cleared Project Manager
11 10 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
11 10 (3.25%) ERP Architect
12 9 (2.92%) Network Architect
12 9 (2.92%) SAP Consultant
12 9 (2.92%) Service Manager
12 9 (2.92%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.60%) Terraform
2 4 (1.30%) .NET
2 4 (1.30%) REST
3 3 (0.97%) AngularJS
3 3 (0.97%) LDAP
3 3 (0.97%) OAuth
3 3 (0.97%) OpenID
3 3 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (0.97%) RESTful
3 3 (0.97%) SAML
3 3 (0.97%) YAML
4 2 (0.65%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.65%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.65%) ADO
4 2 (0.65%) JSON
4 2 (0.65%) Middleware
4 2 (0.65%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.65%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (0.65%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.52%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.87%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.92%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.92%) Operational Technology
4 9 (2.92%) PKI
5 8 (2.60%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.95%) PMI
7 6 (1.95%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.62%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.30%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.65%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.71%) Windows
2 13 (4.22%) Linux
3 12 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.65%) Debian
4 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.65%) Unix
4 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (44.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 96 (31.17%) Agile
3 87 (28.25%) Project Management
4 70 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 57 (18.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 53 (17.21%) Change Management
7 46 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (14.29%) ITIL
9 40 (12.99%) PRINCE2
10 36 (11.69%) Migration
11 34 (11.04%) Service Management
12 33 (10.71%) ERP
12 33 (10.71%) Waterfall
13 32 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
13 32 (10.39%) User Acceptance Testing
14 30 (9.74%) Roadmaps
15 29 (9.42%) ITSM
15 29 (9.42%) Risk Management
16 25 (8.12%) Service Delivery
17 24 (7.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.19%) PowerShell
2 9 (2.92%) Python
3 7 (2.27%) SQL
4 4 (1.30%) Bash
4 4 (1.30%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.65%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.65%) C#
5 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.32%) ABAP
6 1 (0.32%) Bicep
6 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 125 (40.58%) Security Cleared
2 85 (27.60%) SC Cleared
3 49 (15.91%) DV Cleared
4 39 (12.66%) Degree
5 24 (7.79%) PMP
6 22 (7.14%) PMI Certification
7 14 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (2.27%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.95%) CISSP
11 5 (1.62%) APMP
11 5 (1.62%) CCNP
11 5 (1.62%) HNC
11 5 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.30%) CCIE
12 4 (1.30%) CISM
12 4 (1.30%) MCSA
13 3 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.06%) PMO
2 23 (7.47%) NIST
3 18 (5.84%) QA
4 17 (5.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.57%) GDPR
6 7 (2.27%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.30%) ISO 19650
8 2 (0.65%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.65%) GMP
8 2 (0.65%) GRC
8 2 (0.65%) GxP
8 2 (0.65%) NCSC
8 2 (0.65%) SLA
9 1 (0.32%) GAAP
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (6.17%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.27%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.97%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.65%) vSphere
6 1 (0.32%) Docker
6 1 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.62%) WMI
3 4 (1.30%) Ansible
3 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.30%) SCOM
4 3 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.97%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.65%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.65%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.65%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.65%) NSN NetAct
5 2 (0.65%) SCCM
6 1 (0.32%) Argo
6 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 74 (24.03%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.47%) ServiceNow
3 22 (7.14%) SAP
4 19 (6.17%) VMware
5 14 (4.55%) Oracle
6 11 (3.57%) Cisco
7 6 (1.95%) F5
7 6 (1.95%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.95%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.62%) Citrix
8 5 (1.62%) Juniper
8 5 (1.62%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.62%) Workday
9 4 (1.30%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.30%) Tagetik
10 3 (0.97%) Databricks
10 3 (0.97%) Google
10 3 (0.97%) Nokia
10 3 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.97%) Splunk