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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 39 40
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 301 176 215
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.49% 4.95% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.57% 5.53% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 117 122
10th Percentile £363 £325 £356
25th Percentile £459 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £575 £608
90th Percentile £706 £650 £649
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 6
10th Percentile £42.25 - £16.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £15.91 £25.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 £30.11 £57.10
Median % change year-on-year +170.67% -47.27% +107.65%
75th Percentile £87.83 £51.00 £63.21
90th Percentile £89.70 £70.16 £67.66
England median hourly rate £51.50 £60.00 £39.65
% change year-on-year -14.17% +51.32% -38.05%

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 5,401 3,183 3,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.50% 89.61% 82.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,321 1,986 2,373
10th Percentile £280 £244 £260
25th Percentile £420 £395 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.57% +0.10%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £638
90th Percentile £710 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 598 308 311
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.50 £26.47
Median hourly rate £53.95 £23.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +129.57% -59.02% +14.70%
75th Percentile £73.25 £51.70 £70.09
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.49 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -5 152 £551 +3.93% 81
Berkshire -5 98 £563 +2.27% 39
Hampshire -16 72 £557 +3.65% 56
Buckinghamshire -9 42 £564 +0.22% 25
Surrey -2 34 £525 -3.00% 35
West Sussex -6 24 £483 -3.40% 6
Kent +1 12 £278 -44.78% 19
Oxfordshire -24 12 £258 -19.53% 17
Middlesex - 2 - - 5
Home Counties 0 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £350 - 9
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 (5.65%) Confluence
2 8 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (8.97%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (8.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (2.66%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.66%) Houdini
6 2 (0.66%) NUKE
7 1 (0.33%) CATIA
7 1 (0.33%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.99%) Primavera
1 6 (1.99%) SAP PSCD
2 5 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.00%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.66%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.33%) BASE24
5 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.33%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.33%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 53 (17.61%) Azure
2 18 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (5.65%) AWS
4 14 (4.65%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.66%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.66%) IaaS
8 4 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.33%) GCP
9 3 (1.00%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.00%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.66%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (0.66%) GitHub
10 2 (0.66%) SaaS
10 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (0.66%) Smartsheet
10 2 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.66%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.31%) LAN
2 16 (5.32%) Firewall
2 16 (5.32%) VPN
3 14 (4.65%) DNS
3 14 (4.65%) WAN
4 9 (2.99%) MPLS
4 9 (2.99%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.66%) DHCP
5 8 (2.66%) SD-WAN
6 7 (2.33%) BGP
7 5 (1.66%) 2G
7 5 (1.66%) 5G
7 5 (1.66%) Network Security
7 5 (1.66%) OSPF
7 5 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.33%) ATM
8 4 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (1.33%) IPsec
8 4 (1.33%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.66%) Power BI
2 5 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.33%) EDMS
4 1 (0.33%) Metadata
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.33%) QualityStage
4 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (12.29%) JIRA
2 4 (1.33%) Git
2 4 (1.33%) MSI
3 3 (1.00%) GitLab
4 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 127 (42.19%) Social Skills
2 75 (24.92%) Finance
3 53 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (13.29%) Documentation Skills
5 29 (9.63%) Public Sector
6 24 (7.97%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (6.64%) Telecoms
8 19 (6.31%) Retail
9 18 (5.98%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.99%) Legal
11 7 (2.33%) Military
12 5 (1.66%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.33%) Local Government
13 4 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Banking
14 2 (0.66%) Billing
15 1 (0.33%) Automotive
15 1 (0.33%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 63 (20.93%) Project Manager
2 39 (12.96%) Lead
3 35 (11.63%) Architect
4 30 (9.97%) Senior
5 28 (9.30%) Analyst
6 16 (5.32%) Consultant
6 16 (5.32%) IT Manager
6 16 (5.32%) Senior Manager
7 14 (4.65%) Business Analyst
7 14 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (4.65%) Senior Project Manager
7 14 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.99%) SC Cleared Project Manager
9 10 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
9 10 (3.32%) ERP Architect
9 10 (3.32%) IT Project Manager
10 9 (2.99%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 9 (2.99%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
10 9 (2.99%) Network Architect
10 9 (2.99%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.33%) Terraform
2 4 (1.33%) .NET
2 4 (1.33%) REST
3 3 (1.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.00%) LDAP
3 3 (1.00%) OAuth
3 3 (1.00%) OpenID
3 3 (1.00%) RESTful
3 3 (1.00%) SAML
3 3 (1.00%) YAML
4 2 (0.66%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.66%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.66%) ADO
4 2 (0.66%) Blazor
4 2 (0.66%) JSON
4 2 (0.66%) Middleware
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.66%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (0.66%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.98%) Data Centre
1 18 (5.98%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.98%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.32%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.99%) Operational Technology
4 9 (2.99%) PKI
5 8 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.66%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.99%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.66%) PMI
9 4 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.66%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.30%) Windows
2 14 (4.65%) Windows Server
3 13 (4.32%) Linux
4 2 (0.66%) Debian
4 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.66%) Unix
4 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (41.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 94 (31.23%) Agile
3 86 (28.57%) Project Management
4 67 (22.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 56 (18.60%) Change Management
6 53 (17.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 44 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (14.29%) ITIL
9 40 (13.29%) PRINCE2
10 35 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (11.63%) Migration
11 32 (10.63%) ERP
11 32 (10.63%) Roadmaps
11 32 (10.63%) User Acceptance Testing
12 31 (10.30%) Service Management
12 31 (10.30%) Waterfall
13 30 (9.97%) Budget Management
14 27 (8.97%) ITSM
14 27 (8.97%) Risk Management
15 24 (7.97%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.98%) PowerShell
2 9 (2.99%) Python
3 7 (2.33%) SQL
4 4 (1.33%) Bash
4 4 (1.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.66%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.66%) C#
5 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.33%) ABAP
6 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 126 (41.86%) Security Cleared
2 88 (29.24%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.95%) DV Cleared
4 39 (12.96%) Degree
5 26 (8.64%) PMP
6 21 (6.98%) PMI Certification
7 14 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.33%) CISSP
10 5 (1.66%) APMP
10 5 (1.66%) CCNP
10 5 (1.66%) CISM
10 5 (1.66%) HNC
10 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.33%) CCIE
11 4 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.33%) MCSA
12 3 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.97%) PMO
2 26 (8.64%) NIST
3 22 (7.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (5.65%) QA
5 14 (4.65%) GDPR
6 7 (2.33%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.33%) ISO 19650
8 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.66%) GRC
8 2 (0.66%) NCSC
8 2 (0.66%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.66%) SLA
9 1 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.33%) GAAP
9 1 (0.33%) GMP
9 1 (0.33%) GxP
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (7.31%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.33%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.00%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Docker
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (2.33%) Kubernetes
1 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.33%) Ansible
2 4 (1.33%) SCOM
2 4 (1.33%) WMI
3 3 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.00%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.66%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.66%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.66%) NSN NetAct
4 2 (0.66%) SCCM
5 1 (0.33%) Argo
5 1 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 68 (22.59%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.98%) ServiceNow
3 20 (6.64%) SAP
4 19 (6.31%) VMware
5 14 (4.65%) Oracle
6 11 (3.65%) Cisco
7 6 (1.99%) F5
7 6 (1.99%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.99%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.66%) Citrix
8 5 (1.66%) Juniper
8 5 (1.66%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.66%) Workday
9 4 (1.33%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.33%) Tagetik
10 3 (1.00%) Google
10 3 (1.00%) Nokia
10 3 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.00%) Splunk
11 2 (0.66%) Foundry