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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 53 47
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,535 1,215 1,813
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.92% 3.91% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 4.37% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,000 683 1,211
10th Percentile £325 £338 £363
25th Percentile £413 £433 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £618 £629 £637
90th Percentile £720 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -4.88% +0.49% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 32 27
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.58 £20.98
25th Percentile £18.18 £23.37 £23.79
Median hourly rate £40.78 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.51% -30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.70 £64.06 £67.50
90th Percentile £67.62 £67.25 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £39.68 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.43% -20.64% -23.08%

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 34,050 27,793 39,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.05% 89.38% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,585 16,924 25,862
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -3.73% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,077 859 2,130
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.18% -9.97% +11.43%

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 8 February 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 8 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 17 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 8 February 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 -2 1,333 £525 - 767
UK excluding London -8 779 £488 -4.88% 605
London -2 625 £550 - 271
Work from Home -1 431 £535 - 356
North of England +9 229 £480 -4.05% 126
South East -3 185 £525 -4.55% 199
Midlands -6 152 £468 -8.73% 98
North West +19 142 £475 -1.55% 76
West Midlands -21 88 £539 -5.53% 65
South West -7 77 £538 +7.29% 77
Yorkshire -8 77 £500 -14.71% 40
Scotland -16 76 £450 -3.33% 37
East Midlands +2 65 £435 -7.45% 33
East of England -5 38 £565 +13.68% 56
Wales +9 20 £374 -29.55% 21
Northern Ireland +3 13 £475 -13.64%
North East -13 12 £290 -38.98% 13

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
1 111 (7.23%) Confluence
2 60 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.39%) CMS
5 4 (0.26%) CICS
6 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.20%) MS Project Server
6 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Appian
7 2 (0.13%) Camunda
7 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.065%) IIS
8 1 (0.065%) Moodle
8 1 (0.065%) Smallworld
Applications
1 147 (9.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (6.84%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (6.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 101 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
5 39 (2.54%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.85%) Trello
7 11 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.59%) Siemens NX
9 8 (0.52%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.13%) InDesign
11 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.065%) Revit
12 1 (0.065%) Sketch
12 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 52 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.85%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.65%) Endur
4 10 (0.65%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.65%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 8 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
6 8 (0.52%) SAP MM
7 7 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
7 7 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.39%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
9 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.33%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.33%) SAP PP
9 5 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 187 (12.18%) Azure
2 76 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (4.10%) AWS
3 63 (4.10%) Power Platform
4 53 (3.45%) SaaS
5 45 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
6 32 (2.08%) GCP
7 21 (1.37%) GitHub
8 20 (1.30%) Entra ID
9 17 (1.11%) OCI
10 14 (0.91%) IaaS
11 13 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (0.78%) OpenShift
13 11 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (0.59%) PaaS
14 9 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
15 8 (0.52%) Serverless
16 7 (0.46%) Asana
16 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 79 (5.15%) Firewall
2 42 (2.74%) WAN
3 38 (2.48%) DNS
4 35 (2.28%) LAN
5 30 (1.95%) Network Security
6 22 (1.43%) BGP
7 20 (1.30%) OSPF
7 20 (1.30%) SD-WAN
7 20 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 17 (1.11%) MPLS
8 17 (1.11%) VPN
9 15 (0.98%) NetScaler
9 15 (0.98%) Wireless
10 14 (0.91%) DHCP
10 14 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 12 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
12 11 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (0.72%) SSL
12 11 (0.72%) VLAN
13 10 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.52%) Power BI
2 27 (1.76%) Tableau
3 23 (1.50%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.59%) Metadata
8 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.39%) GIS
9 6 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.20%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.20%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 192 (12.51%) JIRA
2 18 (1.17%) Git
3 16 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.59%) GitLab
5 6 (0.39%) Selenium
6 4 (0.26%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.20%) Appium
7 3 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.20%) Subversion
8 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.13%) JMeter
8 2 (0.13%) MSTest
8 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.065%) Cypress.io
General
1 651 (42.41%) Social Skills
2 485 (31.60%) Finance
3 204 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (9.25%) Banking
5 139 (9.06%) Public Sector
6 100 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.84%) Influencing Skills
8 51 (3.32%) Retail
9 50 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (2.93%) Manufacturing
11 42 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
12 40 (2.61%) Legal
13 38 (2.48%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.76%) Marketing
15 24 (1.56%) Front Office
16 22 (1.43%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.17%) Law
18 17 (1.11%) Local Government
18 17 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (1.04%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 414 (26.97%) Project Manager
2 205 (13.36%) Analyst
3 178 (11.60%) Lead
4 149 (9.71%) Business Analyst
5 128 (8.34%) Senior
6 86 (5.60%) Architect
7 83 (5.41%) Consultant
8 53 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
9 52 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
10 50 (3.26%) IT Manager
10 50 (3.26%) Senior Manager
11 43 (2.80%) Network Engineer
12 39 (2.54%) Programme Manager
12 39 (2.54%) Senior Project Manager
12 39 (2.54%) Technical Manager
13 35 (2.28%) SAP Manager
14 34 (2.21%) IT Project Manager
15 27 (1.76%) Infrastructure Manager
15 27 (1.76%) Technical Project Manager
16 26 (1.69%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.56%) Middleware
2 21 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.37%) REST
3 12 (0.78%) Web Services
3 12 (0.78%) XML
4 8 (0.52%) CSS
4 8 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
4 8 (0.52%) SOAP
5 7 (0.46%) ADO
5 7 (0.46%) HTML
5 7 (0.46%) React
5 7 (0.46%) RESTful
5 7 (0.46%) YAML
6 6 (0.39%) .NET
7 5 (0.33%) JSON
7 5 (0.33%) Node.js
7 5 (0.33%) OAuth
7 5 (0.33%) SailPoint
8 4 (0.26%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.26%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.21%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.89%) Onboarding
3 59 (3.84%) Data Centre
4 52 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 34 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.21%) PMI
5 34 (2.21%) Virtual Team
6 31 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.76%) NHS
8 24 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 21 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (0.98%) Replication
11 13 (0.85%) Cloud Native
11 13 (0.85%) Data Structures
11 13 (0.85%) Life Science
12 12 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 12 (0.78%) Driving Licence
12 12 (0.78%) Operational Technology
12 12 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 85 (5.54%) Windows
2 41 (2.67%) Windows Server
3 30 (1.95%) Linux
4 20 (1.30%) Windows 10
5 19 (1.24%) Unix
6 12 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.72%) Solaris
7 11 (0.72%) VMS
8 9 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.26%) OpenVMS
11 4 (0.26%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.20%) zOS
13 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.13%) pSOS
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.065%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (34.59%) Agile
2 468 (30.49%) Project Management
3 458 (29.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 285 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
5 230 (14.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 215 (14.01%) Migration
7 211 (13.75%) PRINCE2
8 210 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 183 (11.92%) Change Management
10 162 (10.55%) Waterfall
11 159 (10.36%) DevOps
12 140 (9.12%) Scrum
13 133 (8.66%) Decision-Making
14 122 (7.95%) Roadmaps
15 121 (7.88%) Risk Management
16 118 (7.69%) Business Analysis
17 115 (7.49%) ITIL
17 115 (7.49%) Workshop Facilitation
18 113 (7.36%) ERP
19 112 (7.30%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 76 (4.95%) Python
2 74 (4.82%) SQL
3 47 (3.06%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.50%) Java
5 22 (1.43%) Bash
6 11 (0.72%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.59%) C#
7 9 (0.59%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.33%) Go
9 4 (0.26%) ABAP
9 4 (0.26%) C++
9 4 (0.26%) COBOL
9 4 (0.26%) Perl
10 3 (0.20%) Assembly Language
10 3 (0.20%) Bicep
10 3 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.20%) HLASM
10 3 (0.20%) REXX
10 3 (0.20%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 270 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 230 (14.98%) Degree
3 191 (12.44%) SC Cleared
4 138 (8.99%) PMP
5 126 (8.21%) PMI Certification
6 63 (4.10%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.61%) Master's Degree
8 34 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (2.08%) CCNP
10 29 (1.89%) APMP
11 22 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (1.43%) CBAP
11 22 (1.43%) CCNA
12 20 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 16 (1.04%) CISSP
14 14 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.85%) CISM
15 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.78%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (9.19%) PMO
2 104 (6.78%) QA
3 34 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.21%) GDPR
3 34 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.63%) NIST
5 16 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (0.98%) SLA
7 14 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.85%) PSD2
9 11 (0.72%) NCSC
10 8 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
10 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.52%) MiFID
10 8 (0.52%) P3O
11 6 (0.39%) ISO 8583
12 5 (0.33%) Basel III
12 5 (0.33%) GRC
13 4 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.24%) Docker
4 15 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.91%) vSphere
6 11 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) NFS
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas File System
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.065%) RACF
Systems Management
1 42 (2.74%) Ansible
2 31 (2.02%) Terraform
3 28 (1.82%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.37%) SCCM
5 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.46%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.39%) Grafana
8 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.33%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.33%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.20%) OMEGAMON
12 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.13%) Control-M
12 2 (0.13%) Nagios
12 2 (0.13%) QRadar
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 277 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 134 (8.73%) SAP
3 87 (5.67%) Oracle
4 75 (4.89%) Cisco
5 61 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.80%) VMware
7 40 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.76%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.50%) Google
10 21 (1.37%) F5
10 21 (1.37%) Workday
11 18 (1.17%) Citrix
12 17 (1.11%) Aruba
13 15 (0.98%) CheckPoint
14 14 (0.91%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.91%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.85%) Ariba
15 13 (0.85%) IBM
16 12 (0.78%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.78%) Siemens