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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 60 55
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,171 1,288 1,388
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.01% 3.94% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 4.35% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,447 825 810
10th Percentile £325 £320 £363
25th Percentile £425 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £707 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 31 39
10th Percentile £23.50 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £35.53 £30.08 £25.46
Median hourly rate £52.75 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +71.43% -45.31%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.16 £56.02
90th Percentile £87.83 £85.00 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £54.51 £39.68
% change year-on-year -8.27% +37.37% -36.51%

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 45,698 29,594 32,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 90.53% 85.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,784 18,388 20,318
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £726 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,048 1,782 1,485
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £66.95 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +82.22% -47.67% +7.50%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +7 1,833 £525 - 3,059
UK excluding London +1 1,151 £500 +1.63% 1,970
London +2 820 £550 -4.35% 1,400
Work from Home +6 624 £500 -2.50% 1,390
South East -4 305 £525 -2.33% 538
North of England +7 288 £485 +2.11% 434
North West +7 189 £500 +5.26% 234
Midlands -24 159 £475 -2.76% 328
Scotland +26 149 £450 - 179
South West -6 149 £525 +13.64% 239
West Midlands -18 121 £475 -9.07% 217
Yorkshire -12 76 £485 +0.78% 142
East of England -1 65 £500 -4.76% 156
East Midlands -29 34 £425 -0.47% 109
Wales -1 24 £400 +11.11% 48
North East -17 24 £350 - 60
Northern Ireland +1 16 £394 -17.11% 68
Channel Islands - 9 £525 - 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
1 119 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 112 (5.16%) Confluence
3 36 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.32%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
7 4 (0.18%) NetWeaver
7 4 (0.18%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.18%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
9 2 (0.092%) CICS
9 2 (0.092%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.046%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.046%) MTS
Applications
1 168 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.48%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
4 98 (4.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.57%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.78%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.55%) Trello
8 11 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
9 9 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.41%) Navisworks
9 9 (0.41%) Revit
10 7 (0.32%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.092%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.092%) Houdini
12 2 (0.092%) NUKE
13 1 (0.046%) CATIA
13 1 (0.046%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 50 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.11%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.60%) Primavera
5 12 (0.55%) Maximo
6 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.37%) SAP SD
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.32%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.23%) ProductWriter
10 5 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 334 (15.38%) Azure
2 141 (6.49%) AWS
3 134 (6.17%) Power Platform
4 127 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (4.24%) SaaS
7 69 (3.18%) Entra ID
8 51 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
9 48 (2.21%) GCP
10 30 (1.38%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.24%) OCI
12 24 (1.11%) Google Workspace
12 24 (1.11%) PowerApps
12 24 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
13 23 (1.06%) GitHub
14 22 (1.01%) Power Automate
15 19 (0.88%) IaaS
16 15 (0.69%) OneDrive
17 14 (0.64%) PaaS
18 13 (0.60%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 133 (6.13%) Firewall
2 86 (3.96%) DNS
3 81 (3.73%) WAN
4 79 (3.64%) Network Security
5 71 (3.27%) LAN
6 64 (2.95%) VPN
7 47 (2.16%) MPLS
8 45 (2.07%) BGP
8 45 (2.07%) DHCP
9 40 (1.84%) Wireless
10 38 (1.75%) VLAN
11 36 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
12 30 (1.38%) OSPF
13 28 (1.29%) TCP/IP
14 24 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 20 (0.92%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.83%) SSL
17 14 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (0.64%) IPsec
17 14 (0.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.88%) Power BI
2 39 (1.80%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.74%) Metadata
5 12 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 12 (0.55%) Tableau
6 9 (0.41%) Big Data
6 9 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 8 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.37%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.28%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.23%) Power Query
10 5 (0.23%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 232 (10.69%) JIRA
2 23 (1.06%) Git
3 13 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.46%) GitLab
5 7 (0.32%) MSI
6 6 (0.28%) Selenium
7 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
10 2 (0.092%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.092%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.092%) TestNG
11 1 (0.046%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.046%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.046%) MLflow
11 1 (0.046%) Postman
11 1 (0.046%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.046%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 903 (41.59%) Social Skills
2 655 (30.17%) Finance
3 292 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 163 (7.51%) Organisational Skills
6 133 (6.13%) Banking
7 102 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
8 93 (4.28%) Retail
8 93 (4.28%) Telecoms
9 89 (4.10%) Legal
10 74 (3.41%) Manufacturing
11 73 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
12 61 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (1.98%) Military
14 41 (1.89%) Local Government
15 33 (1.52%) Front Office
16 32 (1.47%) Law
17 29 (1.34%) Marketing
18 23 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 23 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 495 (22.80%) Project Manager
2 253 (11.65%) Analyst
3 226 (10.41%) Senior
4 201 (9.26%) Lead
5 148 (6.82%) Architect
5 148 (6.82%) Business Analyst
6 130 (5.99%) Consultant
7 102 (4.70%) Senior Manager
8 95 (4.38%) Network Engineer
9 89 (4.10%) Delivery Manager
10 85 (3.92%) Senior Project Manager
11 82 (3.78%) IT Manager
12 64 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 60 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
14 55 (2.53%) IT Project Manager
15 53 (2.44%) Developer
16 42 (1.93%) Technical Manager
17 37 (1.70%) Transformation Manager
18 36 (1.66%) Coordinator
19 35 (1.61%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.03%) Terraform
2 40 (1.84%) REST
3 35 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.06%) Middleware
5 16 (0.74%) .NET
6 14 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
7 13 (0.60%) SOAP
7 13 (0.60%) XML
8 11 (0.51%) 802.1X
8 11 (0.51%) OAuth
8 11 (0.51%) React
9 10 (0.46%) ADO
9 10 (0.46%) JSON
9 10 (0.46%) LDAP
9 10 (0.46%) Web Services
10 8 (0.37%) SailPoint
11 7 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.32%) Kafka
11 7 (0.32%) OpenID
11 7 (0.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 108 (4.97%) Onboarding
2 107 (4.93%) Management Information System
3 100 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 88 (4.05%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 45 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.70%) Virtual Team
9 35 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.57%) Cloud Native
10 34 (1.57%) Driving Licence
11 33 (1.52%) Operational Technology
12 31 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (1.34%) PKI
14 25 (1.15%) Public Cloud
15 22 (1.01%) Derivative
16 20 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 19 (0.88%) Clustering
17 19 (0.88%) Replication
18 17 (0.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 145 (6.68%) Windows
2 75 (3.45%) Linux
3 69 (3.18%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.34%) Unix
5 14 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.51%) Solaris
7 9 (0.41%) AIX
8 6 (0.28%) Android
8 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.092%) CentOS
12 2 (0.092%) Debian
12 2 (0.092%) VMS
12 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 914 (42.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 686 (31.60%) Agile
3 588 (27.08%) Project Management
4 404 (18.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 404 (18.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 352 (16.21%) Migration
6 347 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
7 319 (14.69%) Change Management
8 276 (12.71%) PRINCE2
9 245 (11.29%) Decision-Making
10 237 (10.92%) Waterfall
11 209 (9.63%) Risk Management
12 193 (8.89%) ITIL
13 182 (8.38%) Roadmaps
13 182 (8.38%) Workshop Facilitation
14 180 (8.29%) AI
15 176 (8.11%) DevOps
16 174 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
17 167 (7.69%) Project Governance
18 164 (7.55%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 105 (4.84%) SQL
2 96 (4.42%) Python
3 73 (3.36%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.11%) Bash
4 24 (1.11%) Java
5 17 (0.78%) VBA
6 16 (0.74%) C#
7 14 (0.64%) JavaScript
8 11 (0.51%) ABAP
9 7 (0.32%) Korn
9 7 (0.32%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.32%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.28%) BeanShell
11 5 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.18%) Go
13 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.14%) Bicep
13 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 480 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 349 (16.08%) SC Cleared
3 202 (9.30%) Degree
4 160 (7.37%) PMP
5 142 (6.54%) PMI Certification
6 121 (5.57%) DV Cleared
7 74 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (2.16%) CCNP
10 39 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.75%) CCNA
12 36 (1.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 34 (1.57%) Azure Certification
14 30 (1.38%) CISSP
15 18 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.83%) MCSE
15 18 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (0.69%) CISM
18 14 (0.64%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (11.47%) PMO
2 98 (4.51%) QA
3 58 (2.67%) NIST
4 53 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 53 (2.44%) GDPR
5 51 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.38%) SLA
7 23 (1.06%) GRC
8 18 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.64%) ISO 19650
10 10 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.46%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.41%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.37%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.37%) NCSC
13 7 (0.32%) GxP
13 7 (0.32%) P3O
14 6 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 111 (5.11%) Active Directory
2 78 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 24 (1.11%) vSphere
5 21 (0.97%) Docker
6 19 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.60%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.51%) Firmware
9 11 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.18%) Squid
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.092%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.046%) ACF2
13 1 (0.046%) IAG
13 1 (0.046%) KVM
13 1 (0.046%) RACF
Systems Management
1 53 (2.44%) Ansible
2 35 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.01%) FortiGate
4 22 (1.01%) SCCM
5 16 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.69%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.60%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.41%) SCOM
9 8 (0.37%) Puppet
10 7 (0.32%) Nagios
10 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.32%) WMI
11 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.28%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.18%) Netcool
Vendors
1 490 (22.57%) Microsoft
2 154 (7.09%) Cisco
3 150 (6.91%) SAP
4 129 (5.94%) ServiceNow
5 103 (4.74%) Oracle
6 102 (4.70%) VMware
7 53 (2.44%) Palo Alto
8 50 (2.30%) Fortinet
9 48 (2.21%) Salesforce
10 44 (2.03%) F5
11 38 (1.75%) Google
12 31 (1.43%) Workday
13 29 (1.34%) Juniper
13 29 (1.34%) SolarWinds
14 25 (1.15%) IBM
15 23 (1.06%) Databricks
16 22 (1.01%) Ariba
16 22 (1.01%) Siemens
16 22 (1.01%) Splunk
17 21 (0.97%) Zscaler