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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 59 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,880 1,182 1,606
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 3.98% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.38% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,290 737 1,018
10th Percentile £337 £342 £356
25th Percentile £418 £425 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £510
% change year-on-year - -4.90% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 19 40
10th Percentile £16.81 £35.00 £20.98
25th Percentile £24.20 £50.88 £25.75
Median hourly rate £41.00 £65.00 £35.33
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +84.01% -39.87%
75th Percentile £74.54 £77.50 £41.27
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.00 £65.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.02 £65.00 £38.30
% change year-on-year -41.51% +69.73% -38.73%

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 42,679 27,009 37,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,607 17,137 23,609
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,567 1,242 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.03
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 1,662 £515 -1.90% 1,143
UK excluding London +4 1,055 £485 - 1,065
London 0 697 £550 -4.93% 318
Work from Home +4 539 £525 +1.35% 781
North of England +22 289 £476 +5.83% 220
South East +7 253 £525 - 312
North West +28 198 £475 +5.56% 112
Midlands -10 194 £475 -7.23% 146
South West +14 145 £500 -6.98% 109
West Midlands -12 137 £475 -9.52% 77
Scotland -5 105 £500 +8.23% 82
Yorkshire -24 74 £500 +5.26% 74
East of England -3 56 £500 +11.73% 124
East Midlands -7 55 £413 -6.59% 69
North East -18 19 £350 -3.45% 38
Wales -4 16 £463 +60.87% 51
Northern Ireland 0 9 £280 -46.76% 50
Channel Islands +1 1 £550 +22.22%

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
1 110 (5.85%) Confluence
2 103 (5.48%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.43%) CMS
5 6 (0.32%) SAS
6 4 (0.21%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.21%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.16%) Camunda
7 3 (0.16%) CICS
7 3 (0.16%) Kentico
7 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 161 (8.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (5.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 102 (5.43%) Microsoft Project
4 89 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (1.70%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.33%) Siemens NX
7 9 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.21%) Revit
10 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.16%) Trello
11 1 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 36 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.54%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.48%) Primavera
5 7 (0.37%) Maximo
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
6 6 (0.32%) Summit
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.27%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.27%) Shopify
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.21%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.16%) BASE24
9 3 (0.16%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.16%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 221 (11.76%) Azure
2 104 (5.53%) AWS
3 97 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
3 97 (5.16%) Power Platform
4 67 (3.56%) SaaS
5 54 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 30 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
8 29 (1.54%) GCP
9 23 (1.22%) Google Workspace
9 23 (1.22%) IaaS
10 22 (1.17%) GitHub
11 19 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
12 17 (0.90%) PowerApps
13 15 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (0.80%) Serverless
14 14 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (0.74%) Amazon S3
15 13 (0.69%) Power Automate
16 12 (0.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (5.69%) Firewall
2 70 (3.72%) DNS
3 58 (3.09%) Network Security
4 54 (2.87%) WAN
5 47 (2.50%) LAN
6 37 (1.97%) VPN
7 31 (1.65%) MPLS
8 29 (1.54%) BGP
9 28 (1.49%) VLAN
10 27 (1.44%) OSPF
11 26 (1.38%) DHCP
12 23 (1.22%) Wireless
13 22 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 21 (1.12%) SD-WAN
15 19 (1.01%) TCP/IP
16 18 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
17 15 (0.80%) SSL
18 13 (0.69%) BIG-IP
18 13 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
19 12 (0.64%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.15%) Power BI
2 42 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.54%) Tableau
4 24 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.64%) Metadata
7 10 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.43%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.43%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.37%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.32%) Big Data
11 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.16%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 205 (10.90%) JIRA
2 22 (1.17%) Git
3 14 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.64%) GitLab
5 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.32%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) Appium
7 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.16%) JMeter
7 3 (0.16%) MSTest
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.053%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.053%) LSMW
9 1 (0.053%) NUnit
9 1 (0.053%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 718 (38.19%) Social Skills
2 592 (31.49%) Finance
3 246 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (11.33%) Public Sector
5 141 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
6 121 (6.44%) Banking
7 87 (4.63%) Retail
8 82 (4.36%) Legal
9 75 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
10 66 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (2.71%) Telecoms
12 49 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
12 49 (2.61%) Manufacturing
13 34 (1.81%) Local Government
14 28 (1.49%) Military
15 27 (1.44%) Marketing
16 22 (1.17%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 19 (1.01%) Publishing
19 16 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 467 (24.84%) Project Manager
2 219 (11.65%) Analyst
3 202 (10.74%) Lead
4 198 (10.53%) Senior
5 123 (6.54%) Business Analyst
6 99 (5.27%) Architect
7 93 (4.95%) Senior Manager
8 82 (4.36%) Delivery Manager
9 80 (4.26%) Consultant
10 76 (4.04%) Network Engineer
11 75 (3.99%) IT Manager
12 74 (3.94%) Senior Project Manager
13 54 (2.87%) Developer
14 53 (2.82%) IT Project Manager
15 49 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
16 46 (2.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 39 (2.07%) Technical Manager
18 38 (2.02%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 35 (1.86%) Project Officer
20 32 (1.70%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.18%) Middleware
2 29 (1.54%) REST
3 19 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.85%) XML
5 13 (0.69%) .NET
6 11 (0.59%) JSON
7 10 (0.53%) ADO
7 10 (0.53%) OAuth
8 9 (0.48%) 802.1X
8 9 (0.48%) React
8 9 (0.48%) Spring Boot
8 9 (0.48%) Web Services
9 8 (0.43%) Spring
10 7 (0.37%) CSS
10 7 (0.37%) RESTful
11 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.32%) HTML
11 6 (0.32%) PySpark
11 6 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.21%) Management Information System
2 84 (4.47%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.88%) Data Centre
4 71 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 37 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.70%) Virtual Team
7 31 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.44%) Cloud Native
10 25 (1.33%) Clustering
10 25 (1.33%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.33%) Replication
11 21 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 20 (1.06%) Operational Technology
12 20 (1.06%) PKI
13 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
13 17 (0.90%) NHS
14 16 (0.85%) PMI
15 14 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 105 (5.59%) Windows
2 50 (2.66%) Windows Server
3 41 (2.18%) Linux
4 31 (1.65%) Unix
5 14 (0.74%) Solaris
6 9 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.43%) AIX
8 7 (0.37%) zOS
9 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.27%) VMS
11 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.21%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.11%) Android
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
14 1 (0.053%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.053%) CentOS
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (31.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 567 (30.16%) Agile
3 533 (28.35%) Project Management
4 297 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
5 290 (15.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 288 (15.32%) Migration
7 284 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 232 (12.34%) Change Management
9 224 (11.91%) PRINCE2
10 195 (10.37%) Decision-Making
11 190 (10.11%) Waterfall
12 157 (8.35%) DevOps
13 154 (8.19%) Risk Management
14 134 (7.13%) ITIL
15 132 (7.02%) AI
16 131 (6.97%) Roadmaps
17 121 (6.44%) Scrum
18 114 (6.06%) Change Control
18 114 (6.06%) ERP
18 114 (6.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 112 (5.96%) SQL
2 86 (4.57%) Python
3 51 (2.71%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.17%) Java
5 21 (1.12%) C#
6 18 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.59%) Bash
8 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.43%) Go
9 8 (0.43%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.43%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.43%) VBA
10 7 (0.37%) Bicep
11 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.27%) ABAP
12 5 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.16%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.16%) C++
13 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 404 (21.49%) Security Cleared
2 294 (15.64%) SC Cleared
3 187 (9.95%) Degree
4 157 (8.35%) PMP
5 123 (6.54%) PMI Certification
6 98 (5.21%) DV Cleared
7 56 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (2.23%) CCNP
9 38 (2.02%) CCNA
10 32 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 32 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.33%) CISSP
12 23 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 20 (1.06%) APMP
13 20 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (0.96%) CISM
15 17 (0.90%) Azure Certification
15 17 (0.90%) Master's Degree
15 17 (0.90%) MCSE
15 17 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (11.01%) PMO
2 101 (5.37%) QA
3 52 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (2.77%) NIST
4 47 (2.50%) GDPR
5 40 (2.13%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.06%) SLA
7 14 (0.74%) GRC
8 12 (0.64%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.43%) HL7
10 8 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.43%) IFRS
11 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.32%) Basel III
12 6 (0.32%) GAAP
12 6 (0.32%) NCSC
13 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 79 (4.20%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.06%) vSphere
4 19 (1.01%) Docker
5 16 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.48%) Firmware
8 8 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.16%) Squid
11 2 (0.11%) Ceph
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.053%) ACF2
12 1 (0.053%) KVM
12 1 (0.053%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.053%) RACF
12 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 42 (2.23%) Ansible
2 39 (2.07%) Terraform
3 29 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 24 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.74%) FortiGate
6 13 (0.69%) vCenter Server
7 12 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.59%) SCCM
9 7 (0.37%) Nagios
9 7 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.27%) Netcool
10 5 (0.27%) Tivoli
11 4 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.16%) Cisco Prime
12 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.16%) Puppet
12 3 (0.16%) SCOM
13 2 (0.11%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 339 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 127 (6.76%) SAP
3 95 (5.05%) ServiceNow
4 93 (4.95%) Cisco
5 91 (4.84%) Oracle
6 54 (2.87%) VMware
7 51 (2.71%) Palo Alto
8 36 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.81%) F5
9 34 (1.81%) Google
10 29 (1.54%) Fortinet
11 25 (1.33%) Siemens
12 23 (1.22%) IBM
13 22 (1.17%) SolarWinds
14 18 (0.96%) CheckPoint
14 18 (0.96%) Workday
15 17 (0.90%) Aruba
16 16 (0.85%) Infoblox
16 16 (0.85%) NEC
17 15 (0.80%) Juniper