Project Delivery Contracts in the South East

Project Delivery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 38 47
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 -25
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 120 250 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.78% 4.39% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 5.31% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 147 187
10th Percentile £311 £360 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £591 £598 £600
90th Percentile £653 £638 £676
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £52.92 - £13.37
25th Percentile £55.79 £16.25 £15.74
Median hourly rate £60.58 £17.50 £34.73
Median % change year-on-year +246.17% -49.61% -46.81%
75th Percentile £65.37 £18.75 £55.32
90th Percentile £68.24 - £61.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £33.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year +91.57% -43.45% +34.83%

All Process and 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 2,891 4,704 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.00% 82.67% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,801 2,730 3,517
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £619
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 458 234
10th Percentile £13.38 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.23 £21.73
Median hourly rate £24.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.47% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £54.06 £66.77 £64.59
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

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 2 July 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in the South East over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 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
Thames Valley -6 66 £525 +5.00% 400
Berkshire -11 49 £525 +5.00% 252
Hampshire -2 25 £550 -8.33% 202
Surrey +8 13 £575 +27.78% 123
West Sussex -7 10 £513 +7.89% 54
Oxfordshire +2 9 £363 -19.44% 66
Buckinghamshire -5 8 £546 +15.30% 86
Kent +5 3 £480 -14.67% 67
Home Counties - 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 8 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) ThingWorx
3 1 (0.83%) WinCC
Applications
1 11 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.83%) Maximo
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.83%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.67%) Azure
2 9 (7.50%) AWS
3 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.33%) Oracle CX
5 3 (2.50%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.50%) SaaS
6 2 (1.67%) Asana
6 2 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.67%) IaaS
6 2 (1.67%) PaaS
6 2 (1.67%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.83%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.83%) GCP
7 1 (0.83%) OCI
7 1 (0.83%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.83%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) ShareGate
7 1 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.83%) Firewall
2 6 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (4.17%) Network Security
4 3 (2.50%) Internet
4 3 (2.50%) LAN
5 2 (1.67%) 5G
5 2 (1.67%) BGP
5 2 (1.67%) DHCP
5 2 (1.67%) DNS
5 2 (1.67%) WAN
5 2 (1.67%) Wireless
6 1 (0.83%) Broadband
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.83%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.83%) Modbus
6 1 (0.83%) Profibus
6 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.83%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.50%) Power BI
2 2 (1.67%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.83%) GIS
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (5.83%) JIRA
2 2 (1.67%) Git
2 2 (1.67%) Selenium
2 2 (1.67%) Subversion
3 1 (0.83%) GitLab
3 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 35 (29.17%) Finance
3 21 (17.50%) Telecoms
4 14 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.17%) Billing
7 5 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.33%) Retail
9 3 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Legal
10 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Banking
11 1 (0.83%) Electronics
11 1 (0.83%) Local Government
11 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 15 (12.50%) Lead
3 9 (7.50%) Senior
4 7 (5.83%) Analyst
4 7 (5.83%) Consultant
5 5 (4.17%) Architect
5 5 (4.17%) Business Analyst
6 4 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (2.50%) CyberArk Consultant
7 3 (2.50%) Designer
7 3 (2.50%) Head of Digital
7 3 (2.50%) IT Support
7 3 (2.50%) Product Designer
7 3 (2.50%) Programme Manager
7 3 (2.50%) Security Consultant
8 2 (1.67%) Head of Delivery
8 2 (1.67%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
8 2 (1.67%) IT Engineer
8 2 (1.67%) Security Presales Consultant
8 2 (1.67%) Service Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.50%) REST
1 3 (2.50%) SOAP
2 2 (1.67%) Web Services
3 1 (0.83%) ADO
3 1 (0.83%) Ajax
3 1 (0.83%) CSS
3 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.83%) EntireX
3 1 (0.83%) HTML
3 1 (0.83%) Node.js
3 1 (0.83%) Parceljs
3 1 (0.83%) RESTful
3 1 (0.83%) SAML
3 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (3.33%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.50%) IoT
3 3 (2.50%) Life Science
3 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.67%) CMDB
4 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.67%) NHS
4 2 (1.67%) SCADA
4 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.83%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Unix
3 3 (2.50%) Windows
4 2 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.67%) Solaris
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 43 (35.83%) Project Management
3 30 (25.00%) Agile
4 22 (18.33%) PRINCE2
5 17 (14.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 16 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (13.33%) Project Governance
7 15 (12.50%) Migration
8 13 (10.83%) Change Management
8 13 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (10.00%) ITIL
10 11 (9.17%) Risk Management
11 9 (7.50%) Decision-Making
11 9 (7.50%) Roadmaps
11 9 (7.50%) Scrum
12 7 (5.83%) Process Improvement
13 6 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
13 6 (5.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 6 (5.00%) Portfolio Management
13 6 (5.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.50%) Python
1 3 (2.50%) SQL
2 2 (1.67%) Bash
2 2 (1.67%) Java
2 2 (1.67%) Perl
3 1 (0.83%) Go
3 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (11.67%) PMI Certification
1 14 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.83%) PMP
3 12 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.50%) Degree
5 6 (5.00%) APMP
5 6 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.67%) CCNP
6 2 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.83%) CCDA
7 1 (0.83%) CCDP
7 1 (0.83%) CCIE
7 1 (0.83%) CCNA
7 1 (0.83%) CISSP
7 1 (0.83%) ISEB
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.83%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) PMO
2 6 (5.00%) QA
3 5 (4.17%) P3O
4 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.33%) GDPR
5 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.83%) IEC 61131
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.67%) vSphere
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (3.33%) Ansible
2 2 (1.67%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (1.67%) SELinux
3 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.83%) Rancher
3 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.00%) SAP
3 10 (8.33%) Oracle
4 8 (6.67%) Cisco
4 8 (6.67%) VMware
5 6 (5.00%) IFS
6 5 (4.17%) Remedy
6 5 (4.17%) Symantec
7 4 (3.33%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.50%) Broadcom
8 3 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.50%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.50%) IBM
8 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.50%) Splunk
9 2 (1.67%) Databricks
9 2 (1.67%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.67%) Meraki
9 2 (1.67%) Virgin Media
9 2 (1.67%) Workday