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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 59 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,064 1,326 1,437
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.87% 4.00% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 4.42% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,383 855 889
10th Percentile £325 £324 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £618 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 22 44
10th Percentile £22.52 £15.91 £22.50
25th Percentile £35.53 £27.63 £27.17
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year - +34.34% -35.27%
75th Percentile £78.75 £74.73 £55.79
90th Percentile £90.63 £82.13 £67.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +11.82% +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 45,268 29,990 33,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.46% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,764 21,291
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £729 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,826 1,696 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.89 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +13.33%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 1,782 £520 -0.95% 1,762
UK excluding London -7 1,124 £500 - 1,176
London 0 780 £550 -6.38% 746
Work from Home +4 614 £500 -3.85% 782
South East -5 292 £525 -2.33% 361
North of England +10 279 £486 +2.37% 291
North West +11 188 £497 +4.59% 162
South West +1 173 £485 +2.11% 153
Midlands -24 164 £475 +0.26% 186
West Midlands -22 129 £475 -8.61% 125
Scotland +10 128 £450 -4.26% 65
Yorkshire -27 71 £500 - 87
East of England +7 60 £500 -4.76% 99
East Midlands -18 33 £407 -5.07% 61
Wales -4 23 £525 +89.59% 31
North East -23 21 £350 - 48
Northern Ireland +5 15 £361 -24.05% 23
Channel Islands - 1 £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
1 120 (5.81%) SharePoint
2 116 (5.62%) Confluence
3 40 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.34%) Apache
5 6 (0.29%) CMS
5 6 (0.29%) SAS
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.24%) JBoss
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.19%) WordPress
8 3 (0.15%) Appian
8 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
8 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.097%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.097%) Camunda
9 2 (0.097%) CICS
9 2 (0.097%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 158 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (5.86%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
4 92 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.70%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.78%) Siemens NX
7 15 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.48%) Trello
9 8 (0.39%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 7 (0.34%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) ProjectWise
12 2 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.097%) Houdini
12 2 (0.097%) NUKE
13 1 (0.048%) CATIA
13 1 (0.048%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 48 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.02%) Teamcenter
3 16 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.73%) Primavera
5 10 (0.48%) Maximo
6 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.34%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.34%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.29%) ProductWriter
9 6 (0.29%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.24%) Shopify
11 4 (0.19%) Loan IQ
11 4 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 309 (14.97%) Azure
2 138 (6.69%) AWS
3 117 (5.67%) Power Platform
4 113 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
5 92 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
6 76 (3.68%) SaaS
7 66 (3.20%) Entra ID
8 44 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
9 40 (1.94%) GCP
10 30 (1.45%) GitHub
11 28 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.31%) Google Workspace
13 26 (1.26%) IaaS
13 26 (1.26%) PowerApps
14 23 (1.11%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
15 22 (1.07%) OCI
16 18 (0.87%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 128 (6.20%) Firewall
2 87 (4.22%) DNS
3 73 (3.54%) WAN
4 66 (3.20%) LAN
5 64 (3.10%) VPN
6 62 (3.00%) Network Security
7 47 (2.28%) MPLS
8 44 (2.13%) BGP
9 40 (1.94%) DHCP
10 35 (1.70%) VLAN
10 35 (1.70%) Wireless
11 33 (1.60%) OSPF
11 33 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (1.50%) TCP/IP
13 25 (1.21%) SD-WAN
14 23 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 16 (0.78%) SSL
16 14 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
16 14 (0.68%) IPsec
17 13 (0.63%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.31%) Power BI
2 46 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.68%) Metadata
4 14 (0.68%) Tableau
5 12 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (0.48%) Big Data
6 10 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.44%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.34%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.29%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.24%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.24%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 224 (10.85%) JIRA
2 28 (1.36%) Git
3 16 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.73%) GitLab
5 9 (0.44%) Selenium
6 8 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.24%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.15%) Appium
9 3 (0.15%) JMeter
9 3 (0.15%) MSI
9 3 (0.15%) MSTest
9 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.097%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.097%) Hudson
10 2 (0.097%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.097%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.097%) TestNG
11 1 (0.048%) Postman
11 1 (0.048%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 854 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 642 (31.10%) Finance
3 279 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
4 228 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 153 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 114 (5.52%) Banking
7 103 (4.99%) Retail
8 97 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
9 95 (4.60%) Legal
10 84 (4.07%) Telecoms
11 63 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
12 59 (2.86%) Manufacturing
13 57 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.94%) Local Government
15 34 (1.65%) Marketing
15 34 (1.65%) Military
16 24 (1.16%) Financial Institution
16 24 (1.16%) Front Office
16 24 (1.16%) Investment Banking
16 24 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 487 (23.59%) Project Manager
2 232 (11.24%) Analyst
3 229 (11.09%) Senior
4 196 (9.50%) Lead
5 125 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 121 (5.86%) Consultant
7 120 (5.81%) Architect
8 103 (4.99%) Senior Manager
9 87 (4.22%) Network Engineer
10 86 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
11 85 (4.12%) Delivery Manager
12 82 (3.97%) IT Manager
13 61 (2.96%) Developer
14 60 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 55 (2.66%) IT Project Manager
16 48 (2.33%) Technical Manager
17 47 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
18 43 (2.08%) Project Officer
19 39 (1.89%) Infrastructure Manager
20 38 (1.84%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.60%) REST
2 27 (1.31%) Middleware
3 25 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.82%) .NET
5 13 (0.63%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.58%) React
7 11 (0.53%) OAuth
7 11 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
7 11 (0.53%) XML
8 10 (0.48%) ADO
8 10 (0.48%) JSON
8 10 (0.48%) Web Services
9 9 (0.44%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.39%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.34%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.34%) Kafka
11 7 (0.34%) Playwright
11 7 (0.34%) PySpark
11 7 (0.34%) RESTful
11 7 (0.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.14%) Management Information System
2 102 (4.94%) Onboarding
3 86 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 83 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 41 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (1.94%) Virtual Team
7 33 (1.60%) Operational Technology
8 32 (1.55%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 29 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.36%) Driving Licence
11 25 (1.21%) PKI
12 23 (1.11%) Clustering
12 23 (1.11%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.07%) Replication
14 21 (1.02%) PMI
15 18 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.87%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.40%) Windows
2 65 (3.15%) Linux
3 61 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.26%) Unix
5 11 (0.53%) 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%) zOS
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.097%) Debian
11 2 (0.097%) VMS
11 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) CentOS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 779 (37.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 634 (30.72%) Agile
3 560 (27.13%) Project Management
4 370 (17.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 361 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 337 (16.33%) Migration
7 314 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (14.58%) Change Management
9 266 (12.89%) PRINCE2
10 228 (11.05%) Decision-Making
11 219 (10.61%) Waterfall
12 187 (9.06%) Risk Management
13 184 (8.91%) ITIL
14 180 (8.72%) DevOps
14 180 (8.72%) Roadmaps
15 171 (8.28%) AI
16 149 (7.22%) User Acceptance Testing
17 147 (7.12%) Workshop Facilitation
18 142 (6.88%) Cybersecurity
19 138 (6.69%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 116 (5.62%) SQL
2 99 (4.80%) Python
3 68 (3.29%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.21%) Bash
4 25 (1.21%) Java
5 18 (0.87%) C#
6 17 (0.82%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.63%) VBA
8 9 (0.44%) ABAP
8 9 (0.44%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
11 5 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.24%) Korn
12 4 (0.19%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.19%) Bicep
12 4 (0.19%) Go
12 4 (0.19%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.15%) C++
Qualifications
1 470 (22.77%) Security Cleared
2 338 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 206 (9.98%) Degree
4 158 (7.66%) PMP
5 138 (6.69%) PMI Certification
6 119 (5.77%) DV Cleared
7 70 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (2.18%) CCNP
9 44 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 44 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (1.94%) CCNA
11 32 (1.55%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 26 (1.26%) CISSP
13 19 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.87%) MCSE
15 17 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 14 (0.68%) CISM
16 14 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
17 13 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (11.39%) PMO
2 89 (4.31%) QA
3 59 (2.86%) NIST
4 56 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (2.66%) GDPR
6 42 (2.03%) Data Quality
7 36 (1.74%) SLA
8 22 (1.07%) GRC
9 12 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.53%) ISO 19650
11 10 (0.48%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.39%) NCSC
12 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.29%) HL7
13 6 (0.29%) IFRS
13 6 (0.29%) P3O
14 5 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 106 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.21%) Docker
4 24 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.87%) vSphere
6 17 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.58%) 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 (0.15%) Ceph
11 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.097%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.048%) ACF2
13 1 (0.048%) KVM
13 1 (0.048%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (2.47%) Terraform
2 50 (2.42%) Ansible
3 32 (1.55%) Kubernetes
4 29 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.07%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.97%) SCCM
7 16 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.73%) vCenter Server
9 10 (0.48%) SCOM
10 8 (0.39%) Cisco Prime
10 8 (0.39%) Nagios
10 8 (0.39%) Puppet
11 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.24%) Netcool
12 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.24%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 433 (20.98%) Microsoft
2 140 (6.78%) SAP
3 131 (6.35%) Cisco
4 119 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 90 (4.36%) Oracle
6 88 (4.26%) VMware
7 50 (2.42%) Palo Alto
8 44 (2.13%) Fortinet
9 42 (2.03%) Google
10 39 (1.89%) F5
11 38 (1.84%) Salesforce
12 30 (1.45%) SolarWinds
13 28 (1.36%) Juniper
14 25 (1.21%) Workday
15 22 (1.07%) IBM
15 22 (1.07%) Splunk
16 21 (1.02%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.92%) Citrix
17 19 (0.92%) NEC
18 18 (0.87%) Siemens