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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 60 54
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,153 1,298 1,416
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.02% 3.99% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 4.42% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 835 850
10th Percentile £325 £320 £362
25th Percentile £417 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £638
90th Percentile £706 £723 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.88% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 28 36
10th Percentile £22.28 £15.91 £21.87
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.78 £26.08
Median hourly rate £51.50 £61.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% +75.00% -44.00%
75th Percentile £76.00 £71.68 £55.90
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.25 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £57.26 £38.75
% change year-on-year -12.67% +47.75% -35.42%

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 45,377 29,398 32,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,769 18,279 20,543
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% -3.49%
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 2,906 1,760 1,592
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.73 £17.30 £18.69
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.03 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.58 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +88.14% -47.37% +14.67%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +6 1,828 £525 - 2,701
UK excluding London -3 1,148 £500 +2.56% 1,827
London +8 818 £550 -2.91% 1,241
Work from Home +8 624 £500 -2.34% 1,203
South East -2 306 £525 -2.33% 473
North of England +9 288 £485 +2.11% 403
North West +8 193 £498 +4.74% 223
Midlands -26 158 £475 +5.56% 297
South West -3 154 £519 +10.73% 244
Scotland +17 144 £425 -5.56% 158
West Midlands -22 121 £475 -7.77% 200
Yorkshire -19 74 £485 +0.78% 119
East of England +4 62 £500 -4.76% 167
East Midlands -30 33 £450 +5.39% 96
Wales -2 26 £438 +42.28% 40
North East -22 22 £350 - 64
Northern Ireland +2 17 £388 -18.42% 72
Channel Islands - 6 £538 - 2

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 (5.53%) SharePoint
2 111 (5.16%) Confluence
3 36 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) 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 (0.19%) 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 (0.093%) Camunda
9 2 (0.093%) CICS
9 2 (0.093%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.046%) IIS
Applications
1 171 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.53%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
4 98 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.79%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.56%) Trello
8 11 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.37%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.37%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.28%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.093%) Houdini
13 2 (0.093%) NUKE
14 1 (0.046%) CATIA
14 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 50 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.11%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.51%) Maximo
4 11 (0.51%) Primavera
5 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
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 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.23%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 5 (0.23%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 330 (15.33%) Azure
2 143 (6.64%) AWS
3 129 (5.99%) Power Platform
4 125 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
5 99 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
6 84 (3.90%) SaaS
7 73 (3.39%) Entra ID
8 49 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
9 47 (2.18%) GCP
10 27 (1.25%) GitHub
10 27 (1.25%) OCI
11 26 (1.21%) PowerApps
12 25 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
13 24 (1.11%) Google Workspace
13 24 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
14 22 (1.02%) Power Automate
15 20 (0.93%) IaaS
16 16 (0.74%) OneDrive
17 14 (0.65%) PaaS
18 13 (0.60%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 137 (6.36%) Firewall
2 88 (4.09%) DNS
3 86 (3.99%) WAN
4 80 (3.72%) Network Security
5 76 (3.53%) LAN
6 66 (3.07%) VPN
7 48 (2.23%) MPLS
8 46 (2.14%) BGP
9 45 (2.09%) DHCP
10 44 (2.04%) Wireless
11 38 (1.76%) VLAN
11 38 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (1.44%) OSPF
13 29 (1.35%) TCP/IP
14 24 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 23 (1.07%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.84%) SSL
17 14 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (0.65%) IPsec
17 14 (0.65%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.92%) Power BI
2 39 (1.81%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.74%) Metadata
5 14 (0.65%) Tableau
6 11 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.37%) Big Data
8 8 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.37%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 7 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.28%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.28%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.23%) Power Query
12 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 231 (10.73%) JIRA
2 24 (1.11%) Git
3 14 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.46%) GitLab
5 9 (0.42%) Selenium
6 6 (0.28%) MSI
7 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
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 (0.093%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.093%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.093%) TestNG
11 1 (0.046%) MLflow
11 1 (0.046%) Postman
11 1 (0.046%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 895 (41.57%) Social Skills
2 657 (30.52%) Finance
3 293 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (10.50%) Public Sector
5 160 (7.43%) Organisational Skills
6 126 (5.85%) Banking
7 101 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
8 99 (4.60%) Retail
9 92 (4.27%) Telecoms
10 91 (4.23%) Legal
11 68 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
12 67 (3.11%) Manufacturing
13 59 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (2.00%) Local Government
15 41 (1.90%) Military
16 33 (1.53%) Marketing
17 32 (1.49%) Front Office
18 30 (1.39%) Law
19 24 (1.11%) Financial Institution
20 23 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 499 (23.18%) Project Manager
2 244 (11.33%) Analyst
3 227 (10.54%) Senior
4 203 (9.43%) Lead
5 142 (6.60%) Architect
5 142 (6.60%) Business Analyst
6 132 (6.13%) Consultant
7 102 (4.74%) Senior Manager
8 97 (4.51%) Network Engineer
9 86 (3.99%) Senior Project Manager
10 85 (3.95%) Delivery Manager
11 83 (3.86%) IT Manager
12 60 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 56 (2.60%) Developer
13 56 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
14 53 (2.46%) IT Project Manager
15 40 (1.86%) Technical Manager
16 38 (1.76%) Project Officer
17 37 (1.72%) Transformation Manager
18 36 (1.67%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.18%) Terraform
2 38 (1.76%) REST
3 31 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.11%) Middleware
5 17 (0.79%) .NET
6 13 (0.60%) 802.1X
6 13 (0.60%) SAP Fiori
6 13 (0.60%) XML
7 11 (0.51%) ADO
7 11 (0.51%) OAuth
7 11 (0.51%) React
8 10 (0.46%) JSON
8 10 (0.46%) LDAP
8 10 (0.46%) SOAP
8 10 (0.46%) Web Services
9 8 (0.37%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.37%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.33%) Kafka
10 7 (0.33%) OpenID
10 7 (0.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 107 (4.97%) Management Information System
1 107 (4.97%) Onboarding
2 93 (4.32%) Product Ownership
3 86 (3.99%) Data Centre
4 45 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 39 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
7 36 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 36 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 33 (1.53%) Driving Licence
8 33 (1.53%) Operational Technology
9 32 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (1.30%) PKI
11 24 (1.11%) Derivative
11 24 (1.11%) Public Cloud
12 20 (0.93%) Replication
13 19 (0.88%) Clustering
13 19 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 145 (6.73%) Windows
2 76 (3.53%) Linux
3 68 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.25%) Unix
5 13 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.46%) AIX
6 10 (0.46%) Solaris
7 6 (0.28%) Android
7 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.14%) zOS
11 2 (0.093%) Debian
11 2 (0.093%) VMS
11 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.046%) CentOS
12 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 893 (41.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 679 (31.54%) Agile
3 592 (27.50%) Project Management
4 409 (19.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 397 (18.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 349 (16.21%) Migration
7 338 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
8 323 (15.00%) Change Management
9 279 (12.96%) PRINCE2
10 246 (11.43%) Decision-Making
11 235 (10.92%) Waterfall
12 205 (9.52%) Risk Management
13 192 (8.92%) ITIL
14 186 (8.64%) DevOps
15 183 (8.50%) AI
16 182 (8.45%) Roadmaps
17 171 (7.94%) Workshop Facilitation
18 168 (7.80%) Cybersecurity
19 163 (7.57%) User Acceptance Testing
20 157 (7.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 107 (4.97%) SQL
2 103 (4.78%) Python
3 74 (3.44%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.25%) Java
5 26 (1.21%) Bash
6 19 (0.88%) C#
7 17 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.79%) VBA
8 10 (0.46%) ABAP
9 9 (0.42%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.28%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.23%) Korn
13 4 (0.19%) Bicep
13 4 (0.19%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 472 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 343 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 204 (9.48%) Degree
4 160 (7.43%) PMP
5 143 (6.64%) PMI Certification
6 120 (5.57%) DV Cleared
7 74 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (2.23%) CCNP
9 44 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (1.81%) CCNA
10 39 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 33 (1.53%) Azure Certification
13 29 (1.35%) CISSP
14 19 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.84%) MCSE
16 17 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
16 17 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (0.70%) CISM
17 15 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (11.47%) PMO
2 93 (4.32%) QA
3 62 (2.88%) NIST
4 56 (2.60%) GDPR
5 54 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.32%) Data Quality
7 33 (1.53%) SLA
8 23 (1.07%) GRC
9 15 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.60%) ISO 19650
11 10 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.46%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.37%) NCSC
12 8 (0.37%) P3O
13 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.33%) GxP
13 7 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 112 (5.20%) Active Directory
2 74 (3.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 24 (1.11%) Docker
5 21 (0.98%) vSphere
6 18 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.51%) Firmware
9 11 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.093%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.046%) ACF2
13 1 (0.046%) KVM
13 1 (0.046%) oVirt
13 1 (0.046%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 52 (2.42%) Ansible
2 33 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.07%) FortiGate
5 21 (0.98%) SCCM
6 16 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.60%) Cisco Prime
9 9 (0.42%) SCOM
10 8 (0.37%) Nagios
10 8 (0.37%) Puppet
11 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.33%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.28%) WMI
13 5 (0.23%) Netcool
13 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 478 (22.20%) Microsoft
2 156 (7.25%) Cisco
3 144 (6.69%) SAP
4 125 (5.81%) ServiceNow
5 99 (4.60%) Oracle
5 99 (4.60%) VMware
6 54 (2.51%) Palo Alto
7 50 (2.32%) Fortinet
8 47 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 44 (2.04%) F5
10 38 (1.76%) Google
11 30 (1.39%) SolarWinds
12 29 (1.35%) Juniper
13 27 (1.25%) Workday
14 23 (1.07%) Splunk
15 22 (1.02%) Databricks
15 22 (1.02%) IBM
15 22 (1.02%) Siemens
16 21 (0.98%) Zscaler
17 20 (0.93%) Ariba