Project Delivery Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Project Delivery
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 13 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 5 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 5.49% 4.55% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.94% 5.17% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £508 £93 -
25th Percentile £511 £171 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £307 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.90% - -
75th Percentile £561 £449 -
90th Percentile £569 £531 -
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.38% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.10 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £17.69 - £26.92

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72 58 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 79.12% 87.88% 84.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 30 63
10th Percentile £183 £140 £209
25th Percentile £300 £150 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £388 £375
Median % change year-on-year - +3.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £450 £488 £469
90th Percentile £575 £553 £535
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 8
10th Percentile - £12.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £13.10 £15.02 £15.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £18.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% -55.00% +60.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £20.24 £51.25
90th Percentile - £24.22 £56.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.98 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +87.42% -19.42% +21.62%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Project Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Project Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 2 - - 1
Stafford -1 1 £550 +1241.46% 4
Uttoxeter - 1 £513 -
Project Delivery
West Midlands

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Change Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Change Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (40.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) SAP