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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 44 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +10
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 837 1,093 1,747
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.10% 4.77% 5.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 5.34% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 783 1,243
10th Percentile £321 £326 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £667 £694 £649
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 35 27
10th Percentile £24.63 £34.75 £18.20
25th Percentile £28.57 £48.97 £26.50
Median hourly rate £40.94 £65.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +40.54% +9.47%
75th Percentile - £83.31 £53.25
90th Percentile £54.00 £88.50 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £62.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -42.96% +40.45% +4.09%

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 17,124 20,462 27,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.83% 89.37% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,216 14,060 18,912
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £658
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,098 1,246 1,350
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.73 £62.28
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 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
South East +10 249 £500 -1.48% 300
North of England -7 144 £525 +5.00% 238
South West -2 139 £530 +2.17% 118
Scotland +1 121 £500 - 84
Midlands +15 111 £518 -4.17% 165
North West +4 89 £575 +27.78% 126
West Midlands +6 82 £525 -2.78% 87
East of England -23 49 £550 +17.02% 91
Yorkshire -17 41 £473 -14.09% 76
Wales +9 28 £275 -45.00% 26
East Midlands +16 27 £463 -24.49% 77
North East +10 14 £500 -30.99% 42
Northern Ireland 0 4 - - 12
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 25 (2.99%) Confluence
2 15 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (0.60%) SAS
5 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.12%) Apache
6 1 (0.12%) CICS
6 1 (0.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.12%) Drupal
6 1 (0.12%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 66 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (5.97%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (3.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (3.11%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (1.43%) MS Visio
7 9 (1.08%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.72%) Maximo
3 6 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (0.60%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.36%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 89 (10.63%) Azure
2 37 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (2.51%) Power Platform
4 19 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (2.03%) AWS
5 17 (2.03%) IaaS
5 17 (2.03%) SaaS
6 14 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (1.55%) PaaS
8 12 (1.43%) PowerApps
9 10 (1.19%) Power Automate
10 9 (1.08%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.08%) GCP
11 8 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (0.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 4 (0.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (0.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.73%) VPN
2 45 (5.38%) Firewall
3 44 (5.26%) WAN
4 39 (4.66%) LAN
5 25 (2.99%) DNS
6 23 (2.75%) DHCP
7 22 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (2.51%) Network Security
9 15 (1.79%) Cisco Firepower
10 11 (1.31%) SAN
11 10 (1.19%) Internet
11 10 (1.19%) SD-WAN
12 9 (1.08%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.96%) ATM
13 8 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
14 7 (0.84%) Fibre Channel
14 7 (0.84%) VoIP
15 6 (0.72%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.79%) Power BI
3 11 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.08%) Data Lake
5 8 (0.96%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.84%) RDBMS
7 6 (0.72%) MongoDB
7 6 (0.72%) MySQL
8 5 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.60%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.36%) Metadata
11 2 (0.24%) Big Data
11 2 (0.24%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.24%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.12%) EDRMS
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 101 (12.07%) JIRA
2 10 (1.19%) GitLab
3 7 (0.84%) Git
4 5 (0.60%) Spinnaker
5 3 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.24%) ERwin
7 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 273 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 222 (26.52%) Finance
3 114 (13.62%) Public Sector
4 90 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 52 (6.21%) Presentation Skills
7 29 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
7 29 (3.46%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (3.23%) Banking
10 25 (2.99%) Mandarin Language
11 19 (2.27%) Retail
12 17 (2.03%) Marketing
13 15 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (1.67%) Legal
14 14 (1.67%) Local Government
15 12 (1.43%) Law
16 6 (0.72%) Billing
17 5 (0.60%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 220 (26.28%) Project Manager
2 103 (12.31%) Architect
3 80 (9.56%) Senior
4 77 (9.20%) Lead
5 72 (8.60%) Analyst
6 40 (4.78%) IT Manager
6 40 (4.78%) Senior Manager
7 37 (4.42%) Project Leader
7 37 (4.42%) Senior Project Manager
8 36 (4.30%) Delivery Manager
9 34 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
10 29 (3.46%) IT Project Manager
11 25 (2.99%) Consultant
12 24 (2.87%) Business Analyst
13 23 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (2.51%) Network Architect
15 20 (2.39%) Developer
16 15 (1.79%) Coordinator
16 15 (1.79%) Network Engineer
16 15 (1.79%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.55%) .NET
2 11 (1.31%) Middleware
3 9 (1.08%) Web Services
4 8 (0.96%) XML
5 6 (0.72%) JSON
5 6 (0.72%) RESTful
6 5 (0.60%) ADO
6 5 (0.60%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.60%) HTML
6 5 (0.60%) LDAP
6 5 (0.60%) OpenAPI
6 5 (0.60%) RAML
6 5 (0.60%) Swagger
7 4 (0.48%) CSS
8 3 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.36%) J2EE
8 3 (0.36%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.24%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.24%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.24%) React
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.09%) Data Centre
2 27 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 19 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.03%) Onboarding
5 16 (1.91%) NHS
6 15 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.19%) PKI
8 9 (1.08%) Private Cloud
9 8 (0.96%) Driving Licence
10 7 (0.84%) FMCG
10 7 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.84%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.72%) Clustering
11 6 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.72%) PMI
11 6 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (0.60%) Cloud Native
12 5 (0.60%) HP Storage
12 5 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.21%) Windows
2 31 (3.70%) Linux
3 22 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.43%) Unix
6 10 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.96%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.84%) AIX
9 7 (0.84%) Solaris
9 7 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.72%) VMS
11 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.48%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.12%) Android
15 1 (0.12%) Windows 8
15 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (41.94%) Project Management
2 262 (31.30%) Agile
3 151 (18.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 124 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (13.14%) PRINCE2
6 88 (10.51%) Change Management
7 85 (10.16%) Migration
8 81 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 71 (8.48%) Risk Management
10 69 (8.24%) ITIL
11 64 (7.65%) DevOps
12 62 (7.41%) Service Delivery
13 61 (7.29%) Business Case
13 61 (7.29%) Waterfall
14 57 (6.81%) Roadmaps
15 54 (6.45%) Data Management
15 54 (6.45%) Project Planning
16 53 (6.33%) Scrum
17 51 (6.09%) Programme Management
18 45 (5.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 37 (4.42%) SQL
2 25 (2.99%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.91%) C#
3 16 (1.91%) Python
4 13 (1.55%) Java
5 9 (1.08%) Bash
6 6 (0.72%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.48%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.48%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.48%) X++
8 3 (0.36%) Go
8 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.24%) C++
9 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.24%) Swift
10 1 (0.12%) Bicep
10 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.12%) Perl
10 1 (0.12%) PHP
10 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 189 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 100 (11.95%) Degree
3 91 (10.87%) DV Cleared
4 82 (9.80%) SC Cleared
5 41 (4.90%) PMP
6 33 (3.94%) APMP
7 29 (3.46%) PMI Certification
8 23 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 12 (1.43%) CCNA
10 12 (1.43%) CCNP
11 8 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 7 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.60%) CCIE
14 5 (0.60%) CCIE Data Center
14 5 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (0.60%) ISEB
14 5 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (13.26%) PMO
2 39 (4.66%) SLA
3 30 (3.58%) QA
4 16 (1.91%) Disclosure Scotland
5 13 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.43%) NIST
7 10 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 6 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.72%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.72%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.48%) P3O
10 2 (0.24%) COBIT
10 2 (0.24%) GAMP
10 2 (0.24%) GDPR
10 2 (0.24%) GMP
10 2 (0.24%) GxP
10 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.12%) PMBOK
System Software
1 35 (4.18%) Active Directory
2 29 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.67%) vSphere
5 11 (1.31%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.96%) XenApp
7 5 (0.60%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.60%) Docker
7 5 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.60%) Terminal Services
7 5 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.60%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.48%) Firmware
9 2 (0.24%) Ceph
9 2 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.12%) ACF2
10 1 (0.12%) RACF
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.03%) Ansible
3 14 (1.67%) Terraform
4 9 (1.08%) SCCM
5 8 (0.96%) vRealize
6 7 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.72%) Endace
7 6 (0.72%) Packer
8 5 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (0.60%) HP Data Protector
8 5 (0.60%) Istio
8 5 (0.60%) NetBackup
8 5 (0.60%) vMotion
9 3 (0.36%) Rancher
9 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.36%) WSUS
10 2 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.24%) Pacemaker
10 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 139 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.93%) Cisco
3 44 (5.26%) VMware
4 41 (4.90%) SAP
5 32 (3.82%) Juniper
6 24 (2.87%) Oracle
7 18 (2.15%) Citrix
8 17 (2.03%) F5
9 12 (1.43%) Atlassian
9 12 (1.43%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.31%) CheckPoint
10 11 (1.31%) Symantec
11 10 (1.19%) Infoblox
12 9 (1.08%) Autodesk
12 9 (1.08%) Remedy
13 8 (0.96%) Ivanti
14 7 (0.84%) Brocade
15 6 (0.72%) BMC