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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 41 42
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 186 154 253
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.95% 4.92% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.46% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 103 143
10th Percentile £301 £337 £325
25th Percentile £439 £495 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% -5.21%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £593
90th Percentile £661 £650 £673
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 4
10th Percentile - - £59.36
25th Percentile £15.91 £13.25 £64.16
Median hourly rate £17.50 £37.65 £73.33
Median % change year-on-year -53.51% -48.67% +52.78%
75th Percentile £36.50 £66.60 £78.00
90th Percentile £39.19 £73.66 -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £36.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +26.28% -13.25% -30.83%

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 3,944 2,820 4,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.67% 90.07% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,604 1,727 2,926
10th Percentile £255 £252 £213
25th Percentile £400 £402 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £509
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -1.28% +1.80%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £675 £691
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 102 355
10th Percentile £14.45 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.11 £43.94 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.85% -7.49% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £63.15
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -18 98 £550 - 49
Berkshire -29 62 £550 -4.35% 23
Hampshire +7 48 £525 +5.00% 29
Buckinghamshire +7 31 £510 -2.86% 17
Kent 0 17 £455 -19.11% 11
Surrey -13 14 £475 -19.83% 18
West Sussex -10 6 £525 +16.67% 6
Oxfordshire -13 5 £445 -13.17% 9
East Sussex +3 4 - - 3
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 27 (14.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (11.83%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (9.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (2.15%) 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
4 1 (0.54%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.54%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.54%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (6.99%) Azure
2 11 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (5.38%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.23%) SaaS
5 5 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.61%) OCI
7 2 (1.08%) AWS
7 2 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.08%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.08%) Serverless
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.54%) Collibra
8 1 (0.54%) GCP
8 1 (0.54%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle CX
8 1 (0.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.84%) Firewall
1 9 (4.84%) LAN
1 9 (4.84%) WAN
2 7 (3.76%) BGP
2 7 (3.76%) OSPF
2 7 (3.76%) Structured Cabling
3 6 (3.23%) IPsec
4 2 (1.08%) Intranet
4 2 (1.08%) NAS
4 2 (1.08%) SAN
4 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.08%) VoIP
5 1 (0.54%) Broadband
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.54%) DHCP
5 1 (0.54%) DNS
5 1 (0.54%) ISDN
5 1 (0.54%) PSTN
5 1 (0.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.38%) Power BI
2 5 (2.69%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.61%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.08%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.54%) GIS
6 1 (0.54%) Metadata
6 1 (0.54%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 17 (9.14%) JIRA
2 3 (1.61%) Git
3 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 80 (43.01%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.97%) Finance
3 22 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (8.60%) Public Sector
6 15 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (6.99%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.23%) Retail
10 4 (2.15%) Law
10 4 (2.15%) Legal
10 4 (2.15%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.61%) Electronics
11 3 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.61%) Military
12 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.08%) Automotive
12 2 (1.08%) Banking
12 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.54%) Billing
Job Titles
1 54 (29.03%) Project Manager
2 23 (12.37%) Lead
3 21 (11.29%) Analyst
4 13 (6.99%) Coordinator
4 13 (6.99%) PMO Lead
5 12 (6.45%) Senior
6 9 (4.84%) IT Manager
7 8 (4.30%) Administrator
8 7 (3.76%) Consultant
8 7 (3.76%) IT Project Manager
8 7 (3.76%) Network Engineer
8 7 (3.76%) PMO Analyst
9 6 (3.23%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.23%) Cisco Engineer
9 6 (3.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 6 (3.23%) Oracle Project Manager
9 6 (3.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 6 (3.23%) Support Officer
10 5 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (2.69%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.15%) ADO
1 4 (2.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.61%) CSS
3 2 (1.08%) JSON
3 2 (1.08%) REST
3 2 (1.08%) SOAP
3 2 (1.08%) XML
3 2 (1.08%) YAML
4 1 (0.54%) EDI
4 1 (0.54%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.54%) Middleware
4 1 (0.54%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (4.30%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.76%) PMI
4 6 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.15%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.15%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.08%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.08%) NHS
7 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.08%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (1.08%) Wiki
8 1 (0.54%) iSeries
8 1 (0.54%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.54%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.69%) Windows
2 3 (1.61%) Linux
2 3 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Solaris
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (37.10%) Project Management
2 58 (31.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 55 (29.57%) Agile
4 35 (18.82%) PRINCE2
4 35 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (12.37%) Waterfall
6 20 (10.75%) Migration
7 19 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (9.68%) Change Control
8 18 (9.68%) Change Management
9 17 (9.14%) Project Governance
9 17 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (9.14%) Time Management
10 12 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (6.45%) Resource Management
11 11 (5.91%) Decision-Making
11 11 (5.91%) Portfolio Management
11 11 (5.91%) Risk Management
11 11 (5.91%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.15%) PowerShell
1 4 (2.15%) Python
2 3 (1.61%) SQL
3 2 (1.08%) Bicep
3 2 (1.08%) C#
3 2 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.54%) Bash
4 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 58 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 42 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.44%) PMP
4 23 (12.37%) Degree
5 22 (11.83%) PMI Certification
6 17 (9.14%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.76%) APMP
7 7 (3.76%) CCNA
7 7 (3.76%) CCNP
7 7 (3.76%) 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 Practitioner
10 1 (0.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (22.58%) PMO
2 7 (3.76%) QA
3 5 (2.69%) P3O
4 4 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.61%) GDPR
6 2 (1.08%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.08%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.08%) NCSC
6 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.08%) PSD2
7 1 (0.54%) COBIT
7 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%) Ansible
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 48 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.53%) Oracle
3 10 (5.38%) Cisco
3 10 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.30%) SAP
5 7 (3.76%) CheckPoint
5 7 (3.76%) VMware
6 6 (3.23%) Aruba
6 6 (3.23%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.69%) Remedy
7 5 (2.69%) Workday
8 4 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.61%) Citrix
10 2 (1.08%) Autodesk
10 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.08%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.54%) ESRI
11 1 (0.54%) F5
11 1 (0.54%) NEC
11 1 (0.54%) Splunk