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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 58 58
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,260 1,330 1,361
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.14% 4.02% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 4.45% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 851 772
10th Percentile £350 £325 £355
25th Percentile £430 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £625
90th Percentile £713 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 38 41
10th Percentile £24.70 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £37.43 £26.29 £23.60
Median hourly rate £54.00 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +64.29% -42.86%
75th Percentile £76.94 £65.00 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.25 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £51.00 £36.81
% change year-on-year +7.84% +38.57% -38.66%

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 46,126 29,916 32,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.50% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,740 18,573 19,640
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,322 1,863 1,307
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.95 £65.23 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +68.05% -47.49% -

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 October 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 October 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 8 October 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 1,904 £525 - 3,471
UK excluding London +3 1,207 £500 - 2,217
London -1 833 £550 -0.90% 1,408
Work from Home +2 645 £500 -2.44% 1,461
South East +1 325 £525 -2.33% 595
North of England +10 312 £500 +5.26% 552
North West +11 192 £525 +11.11% 293
Midlands -22 168 £475 -3.46% 362
Scotland +18 148 £451 +0.22% 174
South West -1 144 £525 +4.22% 231
West Midlands -11 127 £478 -7.61% 248
Yorkshire -4 96 £478 -4.50% 198
East of England -5 67 £500 -4.76% 184
East Midlands -25 38 £475 +8.57% 113
Wales +7 28 £400 +30.08% 63
North East -17 25 £350 -14.79% 61
Northern Ireland +13 18 £413 -2.65% 75
Channel Islands - 9 £525 - 5

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 (5.31%) SharePoint
2 118 (5.22%) Confluence
3 34 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.44%) CMS
5 7 (0.31%) Apache
5 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.27%) JBoss
6 6 (0.27%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.22%) SAS
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.18%) WordPress
9 3 (0.13%) Appian
9 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.13%) Kentico
9 3 (0.13%) SAP EP
10 2 (0.088%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.088%) OpenROAD
10 2 (0.088%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 168 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (5.62%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
4 93 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.71%) Siemens NX
7 15 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.62%) AutoCAD
8 14 (0.62%) Revit
9 12 (0.53%) Navisworks
9 12 (0.53%) Trello
10 9 (0.40%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.13%) Windchill
12 2 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.088%) Civil 3D
12 2 (0.088%) Houdini
12 2 (0.088%) MicroStation
12 2 (0.088%) NUKE
13 1 (0.044%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 59 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.11%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.62%) Maximo
4 14 (0.62%) Primavera
5 13 (0.58%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.44%) SAP Payroll
6 10 (0.44%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.40%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
8 8 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.35%) SAP HCM
8 8 (0.35%) SAP HR
8 8 (0.35%) SAP SD
9 7 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.27%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.27%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 361 (15.97%) Azure
2 142 (6.28%) Power Platform
3 134 (5.93%) AWS
4 130 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
5 113 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (4.16%) SaaS
7 75 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 57 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
9 53 (2.35%) GCP
10 33 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
11 30 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
12 28 (1.24%) PowerApps
13 26 (1.15%) OCI
14 23 (1.02%) Power Automate
15 22 (0.97%) GitHub
15 22 (0.97%) Google Workspace
16 21 (0.93%) IaaS
17 18 (0.80%) PaaS
18 15 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
19 13 (0.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 141 (6.24%) Firewall
2 91 (4.03%) DNS
3 89 (3.94%) Network Security
4 88 (3.89%) WAN
5 80 (3.54%) LAN
6 63 (2.79%) VPN
7 52 (2.30%) DHCP
8 48 (2.12%) MPLS
9 47 (2.08%) Wireless
10 41 (1.81%) BGP
11 39 (1.73%) VLAN
11 39 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (1.24%) TCP/IP
13 26 (1.15%) OSPF
14 22 (0.97%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 15 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
16 15 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
16 15 (0.66%) Cisco Wireless
16 15 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.82%) Power BI
2 38 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.71%) Data Lake
5 13 (0.58%) Tableau
6 12 (0.53%) Metadata
7 11 (0.49%) Big Data
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 7 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.27%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.22%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.22%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 252 (11.15%) JIRA
2 24 (1.06%) Git
3 12 (0.53%) GitLab
4 11 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.35%) MSI
6 6 (0.27%) Selenium
7 5 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.22%) Subversion
8 3 (0.13%) Gatling
8 3 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.088%) Appium
9 2 (0.088%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.088%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.088%) Hudson
9 2 (0.088%) JMeter
9 2 (0.088%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.088%) Postman
9 2 (0.088%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.088%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.088%) TestNG
General
1 945 (41.81%) Social Skills
2 707 (31.28%) Finance
3 286 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 182 (8.05%) Organisational Skills
6 144 (6.37%) Banking
7 95 (4.20%) Manufacturing
8 93 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
9 89 (3.94%) Legal
10 84 (3.72%) Retail
11 83 (3.67%) Telecoms
12 79 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
13 64 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (1.99%) Local Government
15 39 (1.73%) Military
16 36 (1.59%) Front Office
17 35 (1.55%) Law
18 34 (1.50%) Aerospace
18 34 (1.50%) Marketing
19 27 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 506 (22.39%) Project Manager
2 255 (11.28%) Analyst
3 231 (10.22%) Senior
4 201 (8.89%) Lead
5 154 (6.81%) Business Analyst
6 153 (6.77%) Architect
7 135 (5.97%) Consultant
8 101 (4.47%) Delivery Manager
9 100 (4.42%) Network Engineer
10 99 (4.38%) Senior Manager
11 85 (3.76%) Senior Project Manager
12 84 (3.72%) IT Manager
13 66 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 60 (2.65%) IT Project Manager
15 59 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
16 52 (2.30%) Developer
17 49 (2.17%) Technical Manager
18 44 (1.95%) Coordinator
18 44 (1.95%) Programme Manager
19 39 (1.73%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.04%) Terraform
2 38 (1.68%) REST
3 34 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.02%) Middleware
5 18 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
6 16 (0.71%) .NET
7 13 (0.58%) SOAP
8 12 (0.53%) OAuth
8 12 (0.53%) XML
9 11 (0.49%) 802.1X
9 11 (0.49%) LDAP
9 11 (0.49%) SAPUI5
10 10 (0.44%) HTML
10 10 (0.44%) JSON
10 10 (0.44%) Web Services
11 9 (0.40%) ADO
11 9 (0.40%) SAML
12 8 (0.35%) RESTful
12 8 (0.35%) SailPoint
13 7 (0.31%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 112 (4.96%) Management Information System
2 109 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 102 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 99 (4.38%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 49 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 41 (1.81%) Virtual Team
7 40 (1.77%) Operational Technology
8 36 (1.59%) Driving Licence
9 35 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 35 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 31 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.28%) PKI
13 23 (1.02%) Clustering
14 22 (0.97%) Derivative
14 22 (0.97%) Public Cloud
15 20 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 19 (0.84%) Life Science
17 18 (0.80%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 150 (6.64%) Windows
2 79 (3.50%) Linux
3 73 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.50%) Unix
5 18 (0.80%) Solaris
6 15 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.44%) AIX
8 9 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.27%) Android
9 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.22%) zOS
11 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.13%) VMS
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.088%) CentOS
12 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.044%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.044%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,010 (44.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 716 (31.68%) Agile
3 598 (26.46%) Project Management
4 438 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 415 (18.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 376 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
7 356 (15.75%) Migration
8 329 (14.56%) Change Management
9 301 (13.32%) PRINCE2
10 268 (11.86%) Decision-Making
11 246 (10.88%) Waterfall
12 236 (10.44%) Risk Management
13 206 (9.12%) ITIL
14 201 (8.89%) Roadmaps
15 197 (8.72%) DevOps
16 194 (8.58%) Cybersecurity
16 194 (8.58%) Project Governance
17 192 (8.50%) AI
18 191 (8.45%) Workshop Facilitation
19 171 (7.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 102 (4.51%) Python
2 100 (4.42%) SQL
3 77 (3.41%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.19%) Java
5 22 (0.97%) Bash
6 19 (0.84%) C#
7 17 (0.75%) ABAP
8 16 (0.71%) JavaScript
9 15 (0.66%) VBA
10 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.31%) Korn
11 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
13 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.18%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.13%) C++
14 3 (0.13%) RPG
14 3 (0.13%) VB
14 3 (0.13%) VB6
Qualifications
1 528 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 387 (17.12%) SC Cleared
3 222 (9.82%) Degree
4 169 (7.48%) PMP
5 156 (6.90%) PMI Certification
6 130 (5.75%) DV Cleared
7 74 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (2.12%) CCNP
9 46 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 41 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (1.64%) Azure Certification
12 35 (1.55%) CCNA
12 35 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 29 (1.28%) CISSP
14 21 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
16 18 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.80%) MCSE
17 15 (0.66%) CCIE
17 15 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (10.44%) PMO
2 106 (4.69%) QA
3 62 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.21%) GDPR
4 50 (2.21%) NIST
5 44 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.28%) SLA
7 25 (1.11%) GRC
8 20 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.75%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.40%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.35%) NCSC
14 7 (0.31%) P3O
15 6 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.22%) IFRS
16 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 4 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 115 (5.09%) Active Directory
2 96 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (1.46%) Hyper-V
4 32 (1.42%) vSphere
5 24 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (0.93%) Docker
7 16 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.49%) Firmware
11 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.088%) Ceph
12 2 (0.088%) IAG
12 2 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.088%) Squid
12 2 (0.088%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.044%) RACF
Systems Management
1 51 (2.26%) Ansible
2 38 (1.68%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.02%) SCCM
5 18 (0.80%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.71%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.58%) Cisco Prime
9 9 (0.40%) SCOM
9 9 (0.40%) WMI
10 8 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.35%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
11 7 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.22%) Grafana
13 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.22%) Nagios
13 5 (0.22%) Nessus
Vendors
1 522 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 183 (8.10%) SAP
3 164 (7.26%) Cisco
4 121 (5.35%) VMware
5 119 (5.27%) ServiceNow
6 104 (4.60%) Oracle
7 55 (2.43%) Palo Alto
8 52 (2.30%) Fortinet
8 52 (2.30%) Salesforce
9 40 (1.77%) F5
10 36 (1.59%) Google
11 33 (1.46%) Workday
12 32 (1.42%) IBM
12 32 (1.42%) Juniper
13 29 (1.28%) Ariba
14 27 (1.19%) SolarWinds
15 25 (1.11%) Siemens
16 24 (1.06%) Databricks
17 22 (0.97%) Zscaler
18 21 (0.93%) Aruba