Project Delivery Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Delivery
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 40 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +10
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 872 1,249 1,779
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.18% 5.06% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 5.65% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 903 1,277
10th Percentile £350 £314 £323
25th Percentile £425 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £680 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 44 29
10th Percentile £23.78 £31.08 £16.24
25th Percentile £29.88 £54.34 £29.50
Median hourly rate £40.94 £65.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +40.54% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £50.85 £83.31 £81.95
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -45.15% +46.07% +3.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,717 22,101 27,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.01% 89.61% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,726 15,312 19,492
10th Percentile £235 £250 £230
25th Percentile £381 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,997 1,355 1,383
10th Percentile £12.28 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.23 £13.87
Median hourly rate £33.07 £35.80 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% +79.81% -8.42%
75th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £44.36
90th Percentile £71.88 £70.30 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £33.07 £36.00 £24.87
% change year-on-year -8.15% +44.78% -0.54%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the UK excluding London

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK excluding London

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK excluding London

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK excluding London

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK excluding London

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +6 260 £500 -1.96% 198
North of England -4 158 £530 +8.72% 207
Scotland +7 134 £500 +5.26% 61
South West -9 120 £530 +2.42% 121
Midlands +14 115 £510 -2.86% 162
North West -2 104 £575 +27.78% 123
West Midlands +13 90 £525 -0.71% 96
East of England -20 58 £550 +10.00% 72
Yorkshire -20 40 £470 -14.55% 58
Wales -3 30 £503 +5.79% 25
East Midlands +17 24 £475 -9.52% 66
North East +16 14 £500 -16.67% 28
Northern Ireland +4 5 £210 -61.82% 13
Project Delivery
UK

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (2.64%) Confluence
2 15 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (0.57%) SAS
5 2 (0.23%) nginx
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.11%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) CICS
6 1 (0.11%) CMS
6 1 (0.11%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.11%) Drupal
6 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 41 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (3.56%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.38%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.23%) Trello
8 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.57%) Maximo
5 5 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (0.57%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.23%) Primavera
8 2 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.23%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.23%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.11%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 104 (11.93%) Azure
2 39 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (4.13%) AWS
4 20 (2.29%) SaaS
5 18 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (1.83%) IaaS
7 15 (1.72%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (1.38%) PaaS
10 11 (1.26%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.03%) GCP
12 6 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (0.69%) Power Automate
12 6 (0.69%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 5 (0.57%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (0.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (0.46%) Figma
14 4 (0.46%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.46%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.39%) VPN
2 45 (5.16%) Firewall
3 41 (4.70%) WAN
4 38 (4.36%) LAN
5 25 (2.87%) DNS
5 25 (2.87%) Network Security
6 22 (2.52%) DHCP
7 20 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (1.26%) SAN
9 10 (1.15%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.03%) Cisco Firepower
10 9 (1.03%) DSL
10 9 (1.03%) Internet
11 8 (0.92%) ATM
11 8 (0.92%) VoIP
12 7 (0.80%) 4G
12 7 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
12 7 (0.80%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.15%) Power BI
3 9 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.92%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.80%) RDBMS
6 6 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.69%) MongoDB
6 6 (0.69%) MySQL
7 5 (0.57%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.57%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.23%) Big Data
9 2 (0.23%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.23%) Metadata
9 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 91 (10.44%) JIRA
2 11 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.15%) GitLab
4 8 (0.92%) Git
5 5 (0.57%) Spinnaker
6 3 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.23%) ERwin
7 2 (0.23%) Subversion
8 1 (0.11%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 269 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 215 (24.66%) Finance
3 134 (15.37%) Public Sector
4 87 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (9.63%) Telecoms
6 36 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
7 35 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
7 35 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (2.87%) Banking
9 22 (2.52%) Mandarin Language
10 21 (2.41%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
11 19 (2.18%) Retail
12 17 (1.95%) Legal
13 16 (1.83%) Marketing
14 15 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.72%) Local Government
15 12 (1.38%) Law
16 6 (0.69%) Billing
17 5 (0.57%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 225 (25.80%) Project Manager
2 111 (12.73%) Architect
3 80 (9.17%) Senior
4 79 (9.06%) Analyst
5 70 (8.03%) Lead
6 45 (5.16%) IT Manager
7 42 (4.82%) Delivery Manager
8 41 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (4.59%) Senior Manager
10 37 (4.24%) Senior Project Manager
11 29 (3.33%) IT Project Manager
12 25 (2.87%) Business Analyst
13 23 (2.64%) Consultant
14 22 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (2.29%) Network Architect
16 19 (2.18%) Developer
16 19 (2.18%) Project Leader
17 18 (2.06%) Coordinator
17 18 (2.06%) Programme Manager
18 17 (1.95%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.83%) .NET
2 11 (1.26%) Middleware
3 9 (1.03%) Web Services
3 9 (1.03%) XML
4 7 (0.80%) JSON
5 6 (0.69%) HTML
5 6 (0.69%) LDAP
5 6 (0.69%) OpenAPI
5 6 (0.69%) RESTful
5 6 (0.69%) Swagger
6 5 (0.57%) RAML
6 5 (0.57%) REST
6 5 (0.57%) SOAP
7 4 (0.46%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.46%) CSS
7 4 (0.46%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.34%) ADO
8 3 (0.34%) J2EE
8 3 (0.34%) jQuery
9 2 (0.23%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.50%) Data Centre
2 41 (4.70%) Management Information System
3 19 (2.18%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (2.06%) Virtual Team
5 16 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 14 (1.61%) NHS
6 14 (1.61%) PKI
7 9 (1.03%) Clustering
8 8 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 8 (0.92%) Private Cloud
9 7 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.69%) Cloud Native
10 6 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.69%) FMCG
10 6 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.69%) Operational Technology
10 6 (0.69%) PMI
10 6 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.57%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.00%) Windows
2 39 (4.47%) Linux
3 24 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.41%) Unix
5 14 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.15%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.92%) AIX
9 7 (0.80%) Solaris
10 6 (0.69%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.69%) VMS
10 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.46%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.34%) Android
12 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (42.09%) Project Management
2 283 (32.45%) Agile
3 144 (16.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 114 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (10.89%) PRINCE2
6 86 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 84 (9.63%) Change Management
7 84 (9.63%) Migration
8 82 (9.40%) ITIL
9 78 (8.94%) Waterfall
10 77 (8.83%) DevOps
11 72 (8.26%) Risk Management
12 68 (7.80%) Business Case
13 66 (7.57%) Roadmaps
14 60 (6.88%) Programme Management
15 57 (6.54%) Scrum
15 57 (6.54%) Service Delivery
16 51 (5.85%) Decision-Making
17 49 (5.62%) Service Management
18 44 (5.05%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 39 (4.47%) SQL
2 26 (2.98%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.83%) C#
4 15 (1.72%) Python
5 14 (1.61%) Java
6 9 (1.03%) Bash
7 8 (0.92%) Ruby
8 6 (0.69%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.23%) C++
11 2 (0.23%) Go
11 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.23%) Swift
11 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.23%) X++
12 1 (0.11%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.11%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.11%) Perl
12 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 178 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 117 (13.42%) Degree
3 89 (10.21%) SC Cleared
4 82 (9.40%) DV Cleared
5 45 (5.16%) PMP
6 33 (3.78%) PMI Certification
7 24 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (1.72%) APMP
8 15 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 13 (1.49%) CCNP
10 11 (1.26%) CCNA
11 10 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.80%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.69%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.57%) CCIE
14 5 (0.57%) CCIE Data Center
14 5 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (10.32%) PMO
2 38 (4.36%) SLA
3 36 (4.13%) QA
4 24 (2.75%) Disclosure Scotland
5 15 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.38%) NIST
7 11 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 9 (1.03%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.69%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.57%) GDPR
10 5 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.23%) GAMP
12 2 (0.23%) GMP
12 2 (0.23%) GxP
12 2 (0.23%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.23%) P3O
12 2 (0.23%) RMADS
12 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (4.01%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.72%) vSphere
4 14 (1.61%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.69%) BitLocker
6 6 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (0.69%) Terminal Services
7 5 (0.57%) XenApp
8 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.34%) Docker
10 2 (0.23%) Firmware
10 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.11%) ACF2
11 1 (0.11%) Ceph
11 1 (0.11%) RACF
11 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 24 (2.75%) Ansible
2 19 (2.18%) Kubernetes
3 15 (1.72%) Terraform
4 10 (1.15%) vCenter Server
5 9 (1.03%) PowerBroker
5 9 (1.03%) Progress Chef
5 9 (1.03%) SCCM
6 8 (0.92%) CFEngine
6 8 (0.92%) Puppet
6 8 (0.92%) vRealize
7 6 (0.69%) Packer
7 6 (0.69%) vMotion
8 5 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (0.57%) HP Data Protector
8 5 (0.57%) Istio
8 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.57%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 125 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.96%) Cisco
3 45 (5.16%) SAP
4 42 (4.82%) VMware
5 34 (3.90%) Oracle
6 28 (3.21%) Juniper
7 24 (2.75%) Atlassian
8 20 (2.29%) Citrix
9 16 (1.83%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.49%) CheckPoint
11 13 (1.49%) Symantec
12 11 (1.26%) Infoblox
12 11 (1.26%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.15%) Remedy
14 9 (1.03%) F5
15 8 (0.92%) HP
16 7 (0.80%) Ariba
16 7 (0.80%) Veritas
17 6 (0.69%) BMC