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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 59 50
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,871 1,157 1,610
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.77% 3.95% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.35% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 718 1,021
10th Percentile £333 £348 £356
25th Percentile £416 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £485 £525
% change year-on-year -0.41% -7.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 17 39
10th Percentile £16.55 £34.00 £20.98
25th Percentile £23.47 £55.00 £26.47
Median hourly rate £41.00 £65.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +82.33% -40.58%
75th Percentile £76.75 £77.50 £41.60
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.50 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £67.58 £40.94
% change year-on-year -45.25% +65.07% -35.78%

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 42,104 26,621 36,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.94% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,283 16,896 23,594
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 2,537 1,167 2,565
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +8 1,662 £513 -2.38% 857
UK excluding London +7 1,048 £483 -0.41% 684
London +1 695 £550 -4.18% 281
Work from Home +1 534 £525 +0.38% 396
North of England +23 300 £478 +6.11% 143
South East +10 245 £525 - 237
North West +29 203 £475 +5.56% 80
Midlands -11 194 £470 -8.20% 113
South West +13 143 £493 -1.50% 84
West Midlands -18 137 £475 -9.07% 77
Scotland -7 95 £475 +5.56% 31
Yorkshire -20 81 £500 +5.26% 49
East of England -4 59 £500 +17.65% 61
East Midlands -10 56 £413 -7.72% 36
North East -11 18 £350 -3.45% 18
Wales -2 16 £463 +42.31% 12
Northern Ireland -1 8 £280 -46.76% 20
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
1 112 (5.99%) Confluence
2 101 (5.40%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.48%) CMS
5 6 (0.32%) SAS
6 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.21%) Apache
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.21%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Camunda
8 3 (0.16%) CICS
8 3 (0.16%) Kentico
8 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
8 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 157 (8.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (5.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 103 (5.51%) Microsoft Project
3 87 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.34%) Siemens NX
6 8 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.21%) Revit
8 4 (0.21%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 40 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.55%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.43%) Primavera
6 6 (0.32%) 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
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.27%) Shopify
7 5 (0.27%) Summit
8 4 (0.21%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.21%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 220 (11.76%) Azure
2 100 (5.34%) AWS
3 98 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
3 98 (5.24%) Power Platform
4 69 (3.69%) SaaS
5 56 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (2.51%) Entra ID
7 33 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.66%) GCP
9 24 (1.28%) GitHub
10 23 (1.23%) Google Workspace
10 23 (1.23%) IaaS
11 18 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (0.86%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.69%) Serverless
14 12 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (0.64%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.64%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 110 (5.88%) Firewall
2 70 (3.74%) DNS
3 54 (2.89%) Network Security
4 50 (2.67%) WAN
5 45 (2.41%) LAN
6 34 (1.82%) VPN
7 28 (1.50%) BGP
7 28 (1.50%) VLAN
8 27 (1.44%) MPLS
8 27 (1.44%) OSPF
9 25 (1.34%) DHCP
10 21 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 20 (1.07%) SD-WAN
12 19 (1.02%) TCP/IP
13 18 (0.96%) Wireless
14 16 (0.86%) SSL
14 16 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (0.69%) BIG-IP
15 13 (0.69%) SAN
16 12 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (4.12%) Power BI
2 42 (2.24%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.50%) Tableau
4 24 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (0.69%) Metadata
8 10 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.43%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.32%) Big Data
12 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
15 3 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.16%) GIS
Development Applications
1 205 (10.96%) JIRA
2 18 (0.96%) Git
3 17 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.59%) 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%) 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%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.053%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 703 (37.57%) Social Skills
2 578 (30.89%) Finance
3 246 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 133 (7.11%) Organisational Skills
6 122 (6.52%) Banking
7 88 (4.70%) Retail
8 78 (4.17%) Legal
9 73 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
10 66 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 48 (2.57%) Telecoms
12 33 (1.76%) Local Government
13 27 (1.44%) Marketing
14 25 (1.34%) Military
15 24 (1.28%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.02%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.91%) Publishing
18 16 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 474 (25.33%) Project Manager
2 222 (11.87%) Analyst
3 195 (10.42%) Lead
4 188 (10.05%) Senior
5 129 (6.89%) Business Analyst
6 101 (5.40%) Architect
7 89 (4.76%) Senior Manager
8 80 (4.28%) Consultant
8 80 (4.28%) Delivery Manager
9 73 (3.90%) Senior Project Manager
10 72 (3.85%) Network Engineer
11 70 (3.74%) IT Manager
12 51 (2.73%) IT Project Manager
13 50 (2.67%) Developer
14 48 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
15 47 (2.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 40 (2.14%) Technical Manager
17 38 (2.03%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 32 (1.71%) Project Officer
19 31 (1.66%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.24%) Middleware
2 30 (1.60%) REST
3 20 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.91%) XML
5 13 (0.69%) .NET
6 12 (0.64%) ADO
6 12 (0.64%) JSON
7 10 (0.53%) OAuth
7 10 (0.53%) Spring Boot
8 9 (0.48%) React
8 9 (0.48%) Spring
8 9 (0.48%) Web Services
9 8 (0.43%) CSS
10 7 (0.37%) 802.1X
10 7 (0.37%) HTML
10 7 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.32%) RESTful
12 5 (0.27%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 81 (4.33%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.90%) Data Centre
4 72 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 36 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 31 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 29 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.50%) Replication
10 27 (1.44%) Clustering
10 27 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.39%) Cloud Native
12 21 (1.12%) PKI
13 20 (1.07%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.07%) Operational Technology
14 19 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
15 17 (0.91%) NHS
16 16 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
16 16 (0.86%) Life Science
16 16 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 108 (5.77%) Windows
2 53 (2.83%) Windows Server
3 40 (2.14%) Linux
4 31 (1.66%) Unix
5 15 (0.80%) Solaris
6 10 (0.53%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.43%) AIX
7 8 (0.43%) VMS
8 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.37%) zOS
9 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.21%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.053%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.053%) Android
13 1 (0.053%) CentOS
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (29.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 555 (29.66%) Agile
3 538 (28.75%) Project Management
4 300 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
5 289 (15.45%) Migration
6 278 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 275 (14.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 227 (12.13%) Change Management
9 219 (11.70%) PRINCE2
10 195 (10.42%) Waterfall
11 193 (10.32%) Decision-Making
12 160 (8.55%) DevOps
13 149 (7.96%) Risk Management
14 133 (7.11%) Roadmaps
15 129 (6.89%) AI
16 127 (6.79%) ITIL
16 127 (6.79%) Scrum
17 119 (6.36%) ERP
18 112 (5.99%) Cybersecurity
18 112 (5.99%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 109 (5.83%) SQL
2 83 (4.44%) Python
3 54 (2.89%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.23%) Java
5 21 (1.12%) C#
6 19 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.59%) Bash
8 10 (0.53%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.43%) Go
9 8 (0.43%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.43%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.37%) Bicep
11 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.32%) VBA
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
1 413 (22.07%) Security Cleared
2 303 (16.19%) SC Cleared
3 186 (9.94%) Degree
4 159 (8.50%) PMP
5 123 (6.57%) PMI Certification
6 97 (5.18%) DV Cleared
7 53 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (2.24%) CCNP
9 35 (1.87%) CCNA
10 33 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 32 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (1.34%) CISSP
13 24 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 19 (1.02%) APMP
15 19 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 18 (0.96%) CISM
16 18 (0.96%) MCSE
17 17 (0.91%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (11.38%) PMO
2 103 (5.51%) QA
3 52 (2.78%) NIST
4 50 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.51%) GDPR
6 40 (2.14%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.07%) SLA
8 13 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.69%) GRC
9 10 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.48%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.43%) HL7
11 8 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.43%) IFRS
12 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.32%) Basel III
13 6 (0.32%) GAAP
13 6 (0.32%) NCSC
14 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.27%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 79 (4.22%) Active Directory
2 45 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.23%) vSphere
4 20 (1.07%) Docker
5 18 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.59%) Firmware
9 9 (0.48%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.16%) Squid
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.053%) ACF2
13 1 (0.053%) KVM
13 1 (0.053%) RACF
13 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 45 (2.41%) Ansible
2 38 (2.03%) Terraform
3 33 (1.76%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.80%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.64%) FortiGate
7 12 (0.64%) SCCM
8 7 (0.37%) Nagios
8 7 (0.37%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.27%) Netcool
9 5 (0.27%) Tivoli
10 3 (0.16%) Grafana
10 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.16%) Puppet
10 3 (0.16%) SCOM
11 2 (0.11%) Control-M
11 2 (0.11%) OpenView
11 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 338 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 133 (7.11%) SAP
3 92 (4.92%) Oracle
4 86 (4.60%) ServiceNow
5 85 (4.54%) Cisco
6 58 (3.10%) VMware
7 47 (2.51%) Palo Alto
8 37 (1.98%) Google
9 36 (1.92%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.82%) F5
11 25 (1.34%) Fortinet
11 25 (1.34%) Siemens
12 22 (1.18%) IBM
13 19 (1.02%) CheckPoint
14 17 (0.91%) SolarWinds
14 17 (0.91%) Workday
15 15 (0.80%) Aruba
15 15 (0.80%) NEC
16 14 (0.75%) Citrix
16 14 (0.75%) Infoblox