Project Delivery Contract Job Trends

Project Delivery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 59 54
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,093 1,322 1,414
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.91% 4.02% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 4.45% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,391 850 870
10th Percentile £325 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £612 £634
90th Percentile £709 £725 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 24 42
10th Percentile £22.52 £15.91 £22.55
25th Percentile £35.53 £29.88 £28.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +40.45% -35.27%
75th Percentile £78.50 £71.68 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £81.38 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.25 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +9.55% +34.34% -34.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,374 29,740 33,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.47% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,514 21,188
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,725 1,782
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £18.17
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +19.72%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in the UK

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 18 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 August 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
England +5 1,803 £525 - 1,280
UK excluding London -3 1,137 £500 - 1,036
London +3 788 £550 -6.38% 422
Work from Home +9 619 £500 -3.66% 566
South East -4 297 £525 -2.33% 332
North of England +4 284 £491 +3.42% 245
North West +7 191 £500 +5.26% 127
South West -4 174 £500 +3.09% 139
Midlands -30 159 £475 +0.26% 171
Scotland +16 130 £450 - 59
West Midlands -20 122 £475 -8.61% 110
Yorkshire -30 72 £485 -3.00% 81
East of England +2 62 £500 -4.76% 87
East Midlands -24 35 £407 -4.63% 59
Wales -5 25 £525 +82.61% 27
North East -19 22 £350 - 42
Northern Ireland +6 16 £388 -18.42% 10
Channel Islands - 2 £550 - 1

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 121 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 113 (5.40%) Confluence
3 43 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
4 7 (0.33%) SAS
5 6 (0.29%) CMS
5 6 (0.29%) JBoss
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.19%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
8 3 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.096%) Camunda
9 2 (0.096%) CICS
9 2 (0.096%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.048%) MTS
Applications
1 160 (7.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (5.78%) Microsoft Project
3 100 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
4 93 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.76%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.53%) Trello
9 8 (0.38%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) ProjectWise
12 2 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.096%) Houdini
12 2 (0.096%) NUKE
13 1 (0.048%) CATIA
13 1 (0.048%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.05%) Teamcenter
3 17 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.72%) Primavera
5 10 (0.48%) Maximo
5 10 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.38%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.29%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 322 (15.38%) Azure
2 139 (6.64%) AWS
3 126 (6.02%) Power Platform
4 121 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
5 93 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (3.82%) SaaS
7 73 (3.49%) Entra ID
8 45 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (2.10%) GCP
10 29 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
10 29 (1.39%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.29%) GitHub
12 26 (1.24%) Google Workspace
12 26 (1.24%) IaaS
12 26 (1.24%) Power Automate
13 25 (1.19%) OCI
14 23 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
15 20 (0.96%) OneDrive
16 15 (0.72%) PaaS
17 13 (0.62%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 135 (6.45%) Firewall
2 90 (4.30%) DNS
3 77 (3.68%) WAN
4 70 (3.34%) LAN
5 69 (3.30%) Network Security
6 67 (3.20%) VPN
7 50 (2.39%) MPLS
8 45 (2.15%) BGP
9 43 (2.05%) DHCP
10 41 (1.96%) Wireless
11 36 (1.72%) VLAN
12 34 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (1.58%) OSPF
14 31 (1.48%) TCP/IP
15 25 (1.19%) SD-WAN
16 24 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 17 (0.81%) SSL
18 15 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
19 14 (0.67%) IPsec
20 13 (0.62%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (4.83%) Power BI
2 41 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.76%) Metadata
5 14 (0.67%) Tableau
6 11 (0.53%) Big Data
6 11 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.43%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.38%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 7 (0.33%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.29%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.29%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.24%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 228 (10.89%) JIRA
2 24 (1.15%) Git
3 14 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.57%) GitLab
5 9 (0.43%) Selenium
6 6 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.24%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) MSI
8 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.096%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.096%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.096%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.096%) TestNG
11 1 (0.048%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.048%) Oracle APEX
General
1 866 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 658 (31.44%) Finance
3 282 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 150 (7.17%) Organisational Skills
6 120 (5.73%) Banking
7 106 (5.06%) Retail
8 99 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
9 93 (4.44%) Legal
10 89 (4.25%) Telecoms
11 65 (3.11%) Manufacturing
12 63 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
13 60 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (1.86%) Local Government
15 36 (1.72%) Military
16 34 (1.62%) Marketing
17 24 (1.15%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.15%) Front Office
17 24 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 495 (23.65%) Project Manager
2 237 (11.32%) Analyst
3 225 (10.75%) Senior
4 195 (9.32%) Lead
5 132 (6.31%) Business Analyst
6 131 (6.26%) Architect
7 129 (6.16%) Consultant
8 98 (4.68%) Senior Manager
9 92 (4.40%) Network Engineer
10 85 (4.06%) IT Manager
11 81 (3.87%) Senior Project Manager
12 78 (3.73%) Delivery Manager
13 61 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 60 (2.87%) Developer
15 58 (2.77%) IT Project Manager
16 49 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
17 42 (2.01%) Technical Manager
18 38 (1.82%) Infrastructure Manager
18 38 (1.82%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 38 (1.82%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (1.77%) REST
2 26 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
3 24 (1.15%) Middleware
4 17 (0.81%) .NET
5 15 (0.72%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.57%) React
6 12 (0.57%) XML
7 11 (0.53%) OAuth
7 11 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
7 11 (0.53%) Web Services
8 10 (0.48%) ADO
8 10 (0.48%) JSON
9 9 (0.43%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.38%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.38%) LDAP
10 8 (0.38%) SOAP
11 7 (0.33%) Kafka
11 7 (0.33%) PySpark
11 7 (0.33%) RESTful
11 7 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 107 (5.11%) Onboarding
2 104 (4.97%) Management Information System
3 91 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 88 (4.20%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (1.86%) Virtual Team
7 35 (1.67%) Cloud Native
8 34 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.62%) Operational Technology
9 33 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.39%) Driving Licence
13 27 (1.29%) PKI
14 24 (1.15%) Public Cloud
15 21 (1.00%) Clustering
16 20 (0.96%) Replication
17 19 (0.91%) Derivative
17 19 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 19 (0.91%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 142 (6.78%) Windows
2 72 (3.44%) Linux
3 66 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 28 (1.34%) Unix
5 14 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.48%) AIX
6 10 (0.48%) Solaris
7 6 (0.29%) Android
7 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.19%) zOS
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.096%) CentOS
11 2 (0.096%) Debian
11 2 (0.096%) VMS
11 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (39.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 642 (30.67%) Agile
3 566 (27.04%) Project Management
4 388 (18.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 369 (17.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 348 (16.63%) Migration
7 321 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
8 302 (14.43%) Change Management
9 274 (13.09%) PRINCE2
10 232 (11.08%) Decision-Making
11 226 (10.80%) Waterfall
12 195 (9.32%) Risk Management
13 192 (9.17%) ITIL
14 181 (8.65%) DevOps
14 181 (8.65%) Roadmaps
15 178 (8.50%) AI
16 159 (7.60%) Workshop Facilitation
17 157 (7.50%) User Acceptance Testing
18 156 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
19 147 (7.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 113 (5.40%) SQL
2 101 (4.83%) Python
3 71 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.24%) Java
5 25 (1.19%) Bash
6 18 (0.86%) C#
7 17 (0.81%) VBA
8 16 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.43%) ABAP
10 8 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.24%) Korn
14 4 (0.19%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.19%) Bicep
14 4 (0.19%) Go
15 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.14%) C++
16 2 (0.096%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 470 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 338 (16.15%) SC Cleared
3 206 (9.84%) Degree
4 162 (7.74%) PMP
5 142 (6.78%) PMI Certification
6 115 (5.49%) DV Cleared
7 73 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
8 46 (2.20%) CCNP
8 46 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 44 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 40 (1.91%) CCNA
11 34 (1.62%) Azure Certification
12 33 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 29 (1.39%) CISSP
14 19 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.86%) MCSE
16 17 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 16 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
18 15 (0.72%) CISM
19 14 (0.67%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (11.18%) PMO
2 89 (4.25%) QA
3 62 (2.96%) NIST
4 58 (2.77%) GDPR
4 58 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.05%) Data Quality
6 35 (1.67%) SLA
7 21 (1.00%) GRC
8 13 (0.62%) ISO 19650
9 12 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.53%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.48%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.43%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.38%) NCSC
14 7 (0.33%) P3O
15 6 (0.29%) GxP
15 6 (0.29%) IFRS
16 5 (0.24%) HL7
16 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 114 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 71 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (1.29%) Hyper-V
4 22 (1.05%) Docker
5 20 (0.96%) vSphere
6 17 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.67%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.53%) Firmware
9 11 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
10 4 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.096%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.048%) oVirt
13 1 (0.048%) RACF
13 1 (0.048%) RHEV
13 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (2.58%) Ansible
2 49 (2.34%) Terraform
3 33 (1.58%) Kubernetes
4 32 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.10%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.96%) SCCM
7 16 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.72%) vCenter Server
9 10 (0.48%) Puppet
9 10 (0.48%) SCOM
10 9 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
11 8 (0.38%) Nagios
11 8 (0.38%) NetBackup
12 7 (0.33%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.24%) Netcool
14 5 (0.24%) Tivoli
15 4 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 458 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 143 (6.83%) SAP
3 141 (6.74%) Cisco
4 120 (5.73%) ServiceNow
5 96 (4.59%) VMware
6 95 (4.54%) Oracle
7 52 (2.48%) Palo Alto
8 47 (2.25%) Fortinet
9 42 (2.01%) Google
10 40 (1.91%) F5
10 40 (1.91%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.39%) Juniper
12 28 (1.34%) SolarWinds
13 26 (1.24%) Workday
14 23 (1.10%) IBM
15 22 (1.05%) Splunk
16 21 (1.00%) Zscaler
17 20 (0.96%) CyberArk
18 19 (0.91%) Citrix
18 19 (0.91%) Siemens
1,443 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide