Project Delivery Contracts in the South West

Project Delivery
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 36 54
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 -9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 135 181 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.26% 5.23% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.14% 5.83% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 139 107
10th Percentile £408 £320 £363
25th Percentile £465 £416 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% +3.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £596
90th Percentile £651 £714 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 3
10th Percentile £32.41 £53.88 £33.08
25th Percentile £40.13 £65.00 £33.96
Median hourly rate £53.00 £80.50 £37.78
Median % change year-on-year -34.16% +113.10% -35.07%
75th Percentile £61.50 £85.52 £46.32
90th Percentile £66.60 £96.53 £50.03
England median hourly rate £34.00 £64.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -47.08% +44.38% +3.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,627 3,105 3,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.98% 89.64% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,677 2,274 2,298
10th Percentile £223 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.60%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £723 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 319 202
10th Percentile £13.88 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.83 £20.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.43% +14.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.76
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the South West

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the South West

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the South West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the South West

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the South West

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in the South West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the South West

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Bristol +4 43 £525 - 46
Gloucestershire +4 37 £525 -4.55% 12
Wiltshire -23 26 £550 +10.00% 18
Somerset +8 11 £580 +13.17% 25
Devon +1 10 £465 -0.53% 8
Dorset +5 1 £600 +65.52% 13
Cornwall - 1 £158 - 3
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (2.22%) Confluence
2 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
Applications
1 31 (22.96%) Microsoft Project
2 30 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (20.74%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (19.26%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.74%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.74%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.07%) Azure
2 8 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.44%) GCP
3 6 (4.44%) SaaS
4 4 (2.96%) IaaS
4 4 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.96%) PaaS
5 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.74%) AWS
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.74%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.44%) VPN
2 2 (1.48%) 5G
3 1 (0.74%) 4G
3 1 (0.74%) DHCP
3 1 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.74%) ISDN
3 1 (0.74%) LTE
3 1 (0.74%) PSTN
3 1 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.48%) Power BI
2 1 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.74%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (22.96%) JIRA
2 5 (3.70%) Spinnaker
3 1 (0.74%) Git
General
1 75 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 44 (32.59%) Finance
3 38 (28.15%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (21.48%) Presentation Skills
5 24 (17.78%) Public Sector
6 13 (9.63%) Telecoms
7 7 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.70%) Electronics
8 5 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.96%) Marketing
10 3 (2.22%) Law
10 3 (2.22%) Legal
10 3 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.48%) Banking
11 2 (1.48%) Local Government
12 1 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (26.67%) Project Manager
2 27 (20.00%) Lead
3 24 (17.78%) Project Leader
4 17 (12.59%) Architect
5 11 (8.15%) Senior
6 10 (7.41%) Analyst
7 9 (6.67%) IT Manager
8 8 (5.93%) Senior Manager
8 8 (5.93%) Service Manager
8 8 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.19%) Senior Project Manager
9 7 (5.19%) SOC Analyst
10 5 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 5 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) IT Project Manager
10 5 (3.70%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
10 5 (3.70%) Security Manager
10 5 (3.70%) Security Project Manager
11 4 (2.96%) Service Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.48%) AngularJS
1 2 (1.48%) Middleware
2 1 (0.74%) .NET
2 1 (0.74%) Django
2 1 (0.74%) Flask
2 1 (0.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.15%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.93%) Private Cloud
3 6 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.96%) CMDB
6 3 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.74%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.74%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) Windows
2 4 (2.96%) Windows 10
2 4 (2.96%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (49.63%) Agile
2 66 (48.89%) Project Management
3 39 (28.89%) PRINCE2
4 37 (27.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (26.67%) Data Management
6 35 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (21.48%) Project Planning
8 28 (20.74%) Workshop Facilitation
9 25 (18.52%) Commercial Awareness
9 25 (18.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 24 (17.78%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 18 (13.33%) ITIL
12 17 (12.59%) Service Delivery
13 15 (11.11%) Change Management
13 15 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (10.37%) Migration
14 14 (10.37%) Service Management
15 13 (9.63%) DevOps
15 13 (9.63%) ITSM
16 12 (8.89%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.74%) C#
2 1 (0.74%) Java
2 1 (0.74%) Python
2 1 (0.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (56.30%) Security Cleared
2 38 (28.15%) DV Cleared
3 35 (25.93%) SC Cleared
4 25 (18.52%) APMP
5 14 (10.37%) Degree
6 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) PMP
7 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.44%) PMO
2 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.74%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.70%) Istio
3 4 (2.96%) SCCM
4 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (34.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.93%) Remedy
3 7 (5.19%) SAP
4 6 (4.44%) BMC
5 5 (3.70%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.74%) BT
6 1 (0.74%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) Openreach
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle
6 1 (0.74%) Progress
6 1 (0.74%) Sparx