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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,898 1,198 1,602
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 3.98% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 4.37% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,294 748 1,015
10th Percentile £329 £342 £355
25th Percentile £415 £424 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £635 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £485 £511
% change year-on-year +0.52% -5.13% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 21 45
10th Percentile £17.02 £36.00 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.42 £50.76 £24.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £65.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +82.33% -40.58%
75th Percentile £72.32 £77.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.50 £66.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.77 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -35.74% +58.77% -34.50%

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 43,238 27,425 37,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 91.06% 85.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,959 17,371 23,647
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,600 1,291 2,584
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.65
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.88 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.04 £38.12
% change year-on-year +79.73% -34.32% +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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +6 1,666 £515 -1.91% 840
UK excluding London +2 1,070 £488 +0.52% 730
London -9 693 £550 -4.35% 289
Work from Home 0 545 £514 -0.19% 399
North of England +9 280 £475 +5.56% 151
South East +7 267 £525 - 244
Midlands -13 188 £475 -7.23% 111
North West +28 187 £475 +4.11% 88
South West +4 151 £485 -9.77% 96
West Midlands -12 137 £475 -9.07% 65
Scotland 0 109 £463 +1.87% 35
Yorkshire -24 76 £500 +9.89% 46
East of England -5 58 £500 +11.73% 71
East Midlands -6 49 £413 -6.78% 46
North East -21 19 £350 -3.45% 20
Wales -2 17 £525 +89.59% 29
Northern Ireland +1 12 £334 -36.38% 18
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 (5.80%) Confluence
2 108 (5.69%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.37%) 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%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.16%) WordPress
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 159 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (5.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 102 (5.37%) Microsoft Project
4 90 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (1.63%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.16%) Siemens NX
7 10 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.16%) Revit
9 3 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.053%) CATIA
10 1 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 41 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.37%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.47%) Primavera
5 8 (0.42%) 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%) SAP SD
6 6 (0.32%) Summit
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.26%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 225 (11.85%) Azure
2 109 (5.74%) AWS
3 100 (5.27%) Power Platform
4 96 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (3.58%) SaaS
6 54 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (2.63%) Entra ID
8 34 (1.79%) GCP
9 30 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.32%) GitHub
11 24 (1.26%) Google Workspace
12 22 (1.16%) IaaS
13 20 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
14 17 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (0.84%) PowerApps
15 16 (0.84%) Serverless
16 14 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (0.74%) Amazon S3
16 14 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
17 13 (0.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.69%) Firewall
2 74 (3.90%) DNS
3 60 (3.16%) WAN
4 56 (2.95%) Network Security
5 55 (2.90%) LAN
6 46 (2.42%) VPN
7 34 (1.79%) BGP
7 34 (1.79%) MPLS
8 31 (1.63%) OSPF
9 28 (1.48%) DHCP
9 28 (1.48%) VLAN
10 25 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 25 (1.32%) Wireless
11 24 (1.26%) SD-WAN
12 23 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
13 21 (1.11%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.79%) BIG-IP
14 15 (0.79%) IPsec
14 15 (0.79%) SSL
15 13 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (4.32%) Power BI
2 42 (2.21%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.37%) Tableau
4 23 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.63%) Metadata
7 10 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.47%) SAP HANA
9 8 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.42%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.32%) Big Data
11 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.26%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.16%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 211 (11.12%) JIRA
2 23 (1.21%) Git
3 16 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.63%) GitLab
5 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.37%) Selenium
6 4 (0.21%) Appium
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%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.11%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.11%) Subversion
8 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 733 (38.62%) Social Skills
2 599 (31.56%) Finance
3 244 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 141 (7.43%) Organisational Skills
6 113 (5.95%) Banking
7 94 (4.95%) Retail
8 82 (4.32%) Legal
9 80 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
10 68 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
11 58 (3.06%) Telecoms
12 53 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
13 52 (2.74%) Manufacturing
14 38 (2.00%) Local Government
15 30 (1.58%) Military
16 28 (1.48%) Marketing
17 22 (1.16%) Investment Banking
18 21 (1.11%) Financial Institution
19 18 (0.95%) Publishing
20 16 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 465 (24.50%) Project Manager
2 227 (11.96%) Analyst
3 205 (10.80%) Lead
4 203 (10.70%) Senior
5 119 (6.27%) Business Analyst
6 103 (5.43%) Architect
7 96 (5.06%) Senior Manager
8 81 (4.27%) Delivery Manager
9 80 (4.21%) Consultant
10 77 (4.06%) Senior Project Manager
11 76 (4.00%) Network Engineer
12 75 (3.95%) IT Manager
13 52 (2.74%) Developer
13 52 (2.74%) IT Project Manager
14 50 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 46 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (2.11%) Technical Manager
17 36 (1.90%) Project Officer
17 36 (1.90%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 34 (1.79%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.00%) Middleware
2 29 (1.53%) REST
3 19 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.79%) XML
5 13 (0.68%) .NET
6 12 (0.63%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.63%) OAuth
7 11 (0.58%) JSON
8 10 (0.53%) ADO
9 9 (0.47%) React
9 9 (0.47%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
10 8 (0.42%) Spring
10 8 (0.42%) Web Services
11 7 (0.37%) RESTful
12 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.32%) CSS
12 6 (0.32%) SailPoint
12 6 (0.32%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.27%) Management Information System
2 90 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 76 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 68 (3.58%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 31 (1.63%) Cloud Native
8 30 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 27 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.32%) Clustering
11 24 (1.26%) PKI
11 24 (1.26%) Replication
12 23 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 23 (1.21%) Operational Technology
13 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (0.84%) PMI
15 15 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 105 (5.53%) Windows
2 52 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 41 (2.16%) Linux
4 27 (1.42%) Unix
5 11 (0.58%) Solaris
6 8 (0.42%) AIX
7 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.37%) zOS
8 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.32%) VMS
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.11%) Android
11 2 (0.11%) Debian
12 1 (0.053%) CentOS
12 1 (0.053%) pSOS
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (32.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 576 (30.35%) Agile
3 532 (28.03%) Project Management
4 302 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 298 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
6 296 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 294 (15.49%) Migration
8 241 (12.70%) Change Management
9 225 (11.85%) PRINCE2
10 200 (10.54%) Decision-Making
11 191 (10.06%) Waterfall
12 154 (8.11%) DevOps
12 154 (8.11%) Risk Management
13 148 (7.80%) ITIL
14 144 (7.59%) AI
15 139 (7.32%) Roadmaps
16 121 (6.38%) Scrum
17 119 (6.27%) ERP
18 117 (6.16%) Change Control
18 117 (6.16%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.85%) SQL
2 86 (4.53%) Python
3 53 (2.79%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.16%) Java
5 21 (1.11%) C#
6 18 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.58%) Bash
8 10 (0.53%) VBA
9 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.42%) Go
10 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.37%) Bicep
12 6 (0.32%) ABAP
12 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.21%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.16%) C++
15 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 408 (21.50%) Security Cleared
2 294 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 191 (10.06%) Degree
4 158 (8.32%) PMP
5 122 (6.43%) PMI Certification
6 103 (5.43%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (2.27%) CCNP
9 37 (1.95%) CCNA
10 35 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 25 (1.32%) CISSP
14 19 (1.00%) MCSE
14 19 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.95%) APMP
15 18 (0.95%) Azure Certification
15 18 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
16 15 (0.79%) CISM
16 15 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (11.28%) PMO
2 101 (5.32%) QA
3 50 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (2.63%) NIST
4 47 (2.48%) GDPR
5 41 (2.16%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.32%) SLA
7 14 (0.74%) GRC
8 10 (0.53%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.42%) IFRS
10 8 (0.42%) NCSC
11 7 (0.37%) HL7
11 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.32%) Basel III
12 6 (0.32%) GAAP
13 5 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 84 (4.43%) Active Directory
2 48 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
3 20 (1.05%) vSphere
4 19 (1.00%) Docker
5 17 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.58%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.53%) Firmware
9 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.16%) OpenAM
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%) RACF
12 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 45 (2.37%) Ansible
2 43 (2.27%) Terraform
3 29 (1.53%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.00%) FortiGate
6 16 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 15 (0.79%) SCCM
8 13 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.37%) Nagios
9 7 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.26%) Netcool
10 5 (0.26%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (0.16%) Nessus
11 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
11 3 (0.16%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 351 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 125 (6.59%) SAP
3 99 (5.22%) Cisco
3 99 (5.22%) ServiceNow
4 88 (4.64%) Oracle
5 65 (3.42%) VMware
6 52 (2.74%) Palo Alto
7 38 (2.00%) Google
8 37 (1.95%) F5
9 36 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 32 (1.69%) Fortinet
11 24 (1.26%) IBM
11 24 (1.26%) SolarWinds
12 22 (1.16%) Siemens
13 19 (1.00%) Workday
14 18 (0.95%) CheckPoint
14 18 (0.95%) Juniper
15 17 (0.90%) Aruba
15 17 (0.90%) Infoblox
15 17 (0.90%) NEC