Project Delivery Contracts in the South East

Project Delivery
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 42 26
Rank change year-on-year +4 -16 +13
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 257 288 589
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.58% 4.86% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.37% 5.43% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 211 414
10th Percentile £351 £349 £364
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +4.43%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £575
90th Percentile £644 £653 £663
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £22.20 £39.00
25th Percentile £56.16 £27.92 £62.25
Median hourly rate £57.32 £49.99 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.66% -23.09% +18.27%
75th Percentile £58.48 £63.44 £81.75
90th Percentile - £67.50 £82.35
England median hourly rate £33.00 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -49.23% +46.07% +3.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,789 5,300 7,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.41% 89.48% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 3,670 4,753
10th Percentile £231 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +2.02% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £617 £588
90th Percentile £699 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 217 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.23 £16.08
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +113.69% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.47 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £73.10 £62.15
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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 19 April 2024.

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
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 19 April 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
Thames Valley 0 143 £500 -4.76% 65
Berkshire +16 110 £515 -2.37% 36
Hampshire 0 50 £600 +5.37% 62
Surrey +5 29 £513 +20.59% 24
West Sussex +19 28 £475 -5.00% 9
Buckinghamshire -3 25 £450 -10.89% 12
Oxfordshire -2 8 £475 -13.64% 17
East Sussex +5 3 £475 -9.52% 4
Kent -1 1 £563 +12.50% 6
Middlesex - 1 £425 -
Sussex - 1 £600 - 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 6 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (1.95%) Confluence
2 5 (1.95%) SAS
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.78%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.95%) Maximo
2 5 (1.95%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (1.95%) SAP Hybris
3 4 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.17%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.39%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.23%) Azure
2 9 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (2.72%) AWS
3 7 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.33%) IaaS
4 6 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.95%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 4 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (1.56%) Figma
6 4 (1.56%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.56%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.56%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.17%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.17%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.17%) SaaS
8 2 (0.78%) OCI
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.39%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.39%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.51%) VPN
2 23 (8.95%) WAN
3 21 (8.17%) LAN
4 19 (7.39%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (4.67%) Firewall
6 11 (4.28%) DNS
7 9 (3.50%) DHCP
8 6 (2.33%) 4G
9 5 (1.95%) 3G
9 5 (1.95%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.56%) 2G
10 4 (1.56%) ATM
10 4 (1.56%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.56%) SDH
11 3 (1.17%) Internet
11 3 (1.17%) Junos
11 3 (1.17%) Network Security
11 3 (1.17%) SAN
11 3 (1.17%) VLAN
11 3 (1.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.33%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.33%) MySQL
2 6 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.95%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.95%) RDBMS
4 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.17%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.39%) IDMS
6 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (6.61%) JIRA
2 8 (3.11%) GitLab
3 7 (2.72%) Git
4 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 69 (26.85%) Finance
2 56 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.84%) Telecoms
4 25 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (3.50%) Retail
9 8 (3.11%) Legal
9 8 (3.11%) Local Government
9 8 (3.11%) Marketing
10 7 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.72%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.95%) Billing
12 4 (1.56%) Law
12 4 (1.56%) Publishing
13 3 (1.17%) Front Office
13 3 (1.17%) Military
13 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.78%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 59 (22.96%) Project Manager
2 31 (12.06%) Architect
3 27 (10.51%) Senior
4 19 (7.39%) Lead
4 19 (7.39%) Network Architect
5 18 (7.00%) Analyst
6 17 (6.61%) Delivery Manager
7 15 (5.84%) IT Manager
8 14 (5.45%) Senior Manager
9 13 (5.06%) Consultant
9 13 (5.06%) Senior Project Manager
10 12 (4.67%) Developer
10 12 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.89%) IT Project Manager
12 8 (3.11%) Coordinator
12 8 (3.11%) Functional Consultant
12 8 (3.11%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Service Architect
13 7 (2.72%) Project Coordinator
14 6 (2.33%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.89%) XML
2 7 (2.72%) .NET
2 7 (2.72%) JSON
3 4 (1.56%) ADO
4 3 (1.17%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.17%) HTML
4 3 (1.17%) REST
4 3 (1.17%) SOAP
5 2 (0.78%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.78%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.78%) CSS
5 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.78%) jQuery
5 2 (0.78%) YAML
6 1 (0.39%) Django
6 1 (0.39%) Node.js
6 1 (0.39%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.39%) React
6 1 (0.39%) RESTful
6 1 (0.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.89%) Product Ownership
2 7 (2.72%) Data Centre
2 7 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (1.17%) Smart Meter
5 3 (1.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.78%) CSOC
6 2 (0.78%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.78%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.39%) EPoS
7 1 (0.39%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.39%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.39%) Replication
7 1 (0.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.00%) Windows
2 17 (6.61%) Linux
3 10 (3.89%) Unix
4 9 (3.50%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (2.33%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.33%) VMS
8 2 (0.78%) Solaris
9 1 (0.39%) Android
9 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (45.91%) Project Management
2 69 (26.85%) Agile
3 32 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (10.89%) Roadmaps
5 27 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (10.12%) Migration
6 26 (10.12%) PRINCE2
7 25 (9.73%) ITIL
8 22 (8.56%) Change Management
8 22 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (8.56%) Decision-Making
8 22 (8.56%) Scrum
9 21 (8.17%) Budget Management
10 19 (7.39%) Workflow
11 18 (7.00%) DevOps
12 17 (6.61%) Programme Management
13 16 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (6.23%) Service Delivery
14 15 (5.84%) Business Case
14 15 (5.84%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.61%) SQL
2 11 (4.28%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.89%) Python
4 8 (3.11%) C#
5 7 (2.72%) Bash
6 3 (1.17%) Java
6 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.17%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.17%) VB.NET
6 3 (1.17%) X++
7 2 (0.78%) C++
7 2 (0.78%) Go
7 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (26.46%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.40%) DV Cleared
3 29 (11.28%) Degree
4 20 (7.78%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.06%) PMP
6 9 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.50%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.72%) CCNA
7 7 (2.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (2.33%) CCNP
9 5 (1.95%) APMP
9 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.17%) JNCIA
10 3 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.78%) JNCIS
11 2 (0.78%) MCSE
11 2 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.39%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.39%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.89%) PMO
2 19 (7.39%) QA
3 11 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 11 (4.28%) SLA
4 6 (2.33%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (5.06%) vSphere
3 12 (4.67%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.33%) XenApp
5 5 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.56%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.17%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.78%) Docker
8 2 (0.78%) Firmware
9 1 (0.39%) Ceph
9 1 (0.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 13 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.28%) Ansible
3 8 (3.11%) vRealize
4 6 (2.33%) Packer
5 4 (1.56%) Terraform
6 3 (1.17%) WSUS
7 2 (0.78%) Kibana
7 2 (0.78%) Rancher
7 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.39%) Pacemaker
8 1 (0.39%) Podman
8 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.34%) Cisco
2 24 (9.34%) Juniper
2 24 (9.34%) VMware
3 18 (7.00%) Oracle
4 8 (3.11%) Citrix
4 8 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.33%) Ivanti
5 6 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.33%) SAP
6 5 (1.95%) Adobe
6 5 (1.95%) Arqiva
6 5 (1.95%) IFS
6 5 (1.95%) Veritas
7 4 (1.56%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.17%) F5
8 3 (1.17%) Informatica
8 3 (1.17%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.17%) Siemens
8 3 (1.17%) SolarWinds