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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 58 51
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,084 1,331 1,429
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.90% 4.04% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 4.47% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,390 857 884
10th Percentile £325 £324 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -0.47% -2.31%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £636
90th Percentile £706 £725 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 24 43
10th Percentile £22.44 £15.91 £22.60
25th Percentile £35.37 £29.88 £27.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +40.45% -35.27%
75th Percentile £78.56 £71.68 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £81.38 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.25 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +9.55% +34.34% -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 45,278 29,786 33,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 90.49% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,840 18,586 21,275
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,823 1,710 1,832
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.46
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £74.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 1,795 £524 -0.19% 1,589
UK excluding London -3 1,133 £500 - 1,166
London +6 783 £550 -8.33% 628
Work from Home +3 620 £500 -4.76% 717
South East -5 297 £525 -2.33% 358
North of England +5 280 £495 +4.21% 280
North West +17 189 £500 +5.26% 147
South West -3 173 £488 +1.56% 145
Midlands -25 163 £475 +4.11% 190
Scotland +10 129 £450 -0.88% 73
West Midlands -23 127 £475 -8.19% 126
Yorkshire -26 71 £485 -3.00% 86
East of England +5 61 £500 -4.76% 103
East Midlands -29 34 £407 -4.63% 62
Wales -2 25 £525 +89.59% 30
North East -24 21 £350 - 52
Northern Ireland +5 15 £361 -24.05% 22
Channel Islands - 1 £550 - 1

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
1 118 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 114 (5.47%) Confluence
3 40 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.34%) Apache
4 7 (0.34%) SAS
5 6 (0.29%) CMS
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.24%) JBoss
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.19%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
8 3 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.096%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.096%) Camunda
9 2 (0.096%) CICS
9 2 (0.096%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 161 (7.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (5.76%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
4 94 (4.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.63%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.77%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.53%) Trello
9 8 (0.38%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 7 (0.34%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) ProjectWise
12 2 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.096%) Houdini
12 2 (0.096%) NUKE
13 1 (0.048%) CATIA
13 1 (0.048%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.06%) Teamcenter
3 16 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.72%) Primavera
5 10 (0.48%) Maximo
6 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.38%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.34%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.34%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.29%) ProductWriter
9 6 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 318 (15.26%) Azure
2 136 (6.53%) AWS
3 119 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 117 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
5 93 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (3.89%) SaaS
7 69 (3.31%) Entra ID
8 45 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
9 42 (2.02%) GCP
10 29 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
11 28 (1.34%) GitHub
12 27 (1.30%) Google Workspace
13 26 (1.25%) IaaS
13 26 (1.25%) PowerApps
14 24 (1.15%) OCI
15 23 (1.10%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
16 18 (0.86%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.72%) PaaS
18 13 (0.62%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 133 (6.38%) Firewall
2 89 (4.27%) DNS
3 77 (3.69%) WAN
4 70 (3.36%) LAN
5 64 (3.07%) Network Security
5 64 (3.07%) VPN
6 49 (2.35%) MPLS
7 45 (2.16%) BGP
8 42 (2.02%) DHCP
9 39 (1.87%) Wireless
10 35 (1.68%) VLAN
11 34 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
12 33 (1.58%) OSPF
13 31 (1.49%) TCP/IP
14 25 (1.20%) SD-WAN
15 24 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 17 (0.82%) SSL
17 15 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.67%) IPsec
19 13 (0.62%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (4.46%) Power BI
2 41 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.67%) Metadata
4 14 (0.67%) Tableau
5 12 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.48%) Big Data
7 10 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.43%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.38%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.34%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (0.29%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.24%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.24%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 225 (10.80%) JIRA
2 23 (1.10%) Git
3 14 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.62%) GitLab
5 9 (0.43%) Selenium
6 6 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.24%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) MSI
8 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.096%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.096%) Hudson
10 2 (0.096%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.096%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.096%) TestNG
11 1 (0.048%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.048%) Oracle APEX
General
1 866 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 650 (31.19%) Finance
3 280 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 152 (7.29%) Organisational Skills
6 117 (5.61%) Banking
7 106 (5.09%) Retail
8 101 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
9 98 (4.70%) Legal
10 88 (4.22%) Telecoms
11 66 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 60 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.97%) Local Government
15 35 (1.68%) Military
16 34 (1.63%) Marketing
17 26 (1.25%) Front Office
18 24 (1.15%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.15%) Investment Banking
18 24 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 495 (23.75%) Project Manager
2 237 (11.37%) Analyst
3 226 (10.84%) Senior
4 194 (9.31%) Lead
5 130 (6.24%) Business Analyst
5 130 (6.24%) Consultant
6 124 (5.95%) Architect
7 99 (4.75%) Senior Manager
8 90 (4.32%) Network Engineer
9 85 (4.08%) IT Manager
10 82 (3.93%) Senior Project Manager
11 79 (3.79%) Delivery Manager
12 61 (2.93%) Developer
12 61 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 58 (2.78%) IT Project Manager
14 48 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
15 42 (2.02%) Technical Manager
16 40 (1.92%) Project Officer
17 38 (1.82%) Infrastructure Manager
17 38 (1.82%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.68%) REST
2 27 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
3 26 (1.25%) Middleware
4 17 (0.82%) .NET
5 15 (0.72%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.58%) React
6 12 (0.58%) XML
7 11 (0.53%) OAuth
7 11 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
7 11 (0.53%) Web Services
8 10 (0.48%) ADO
8 10 (0.48%) JSON
9 9 (0.43%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.38%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.34%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.34%) Kafka
11 7 (0.34%) Playwright
11 7 (0.34%) PySpark
11 7 (0.34%) RESTful
11 7 (0.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.09%) Management Information System
2 105 (5.04%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 88 (4.22%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 35 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.63%) Operational Technology
9 33 (1.58%) Cloud Native
10 32 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.34%) Driving Licence
13 27 (1.30%) PKI
14 23 (1.10%) Public Cloud
15 21 (1.01%) Clustering
16 19 (0.91%) Derivative
16 19 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 19 (0.91%) PMI
16 19 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 138 (6.62%) Windows
2 69 (3.31%) Linux
3 63 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.30%) Unix
5 12 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.48%) AIX
6 10 (0.48%) Solaris
7 6 (0.29%) Android
7 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.24%) zOS
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.096%) Debian
11 2 (0.096%) VMS
11 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) CentOS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 814 (39.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 637 (30.57%) Agile
3 560 (26.87%) Project Management
4 379 (18.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 367 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 340 (16.31%) Migration
7 318 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (14.44%) Change Management
9 272 (13.05%) PRINCE2
10 230 (11.04%) Decision-Making
11 222 (10.65%) Waterfall
12 191 (9.17%) Risk Management
13 189 (9.07%) ITIL
14 182 (8.73%) Roadmaps
15 180 (8.64%) DevOps
16 175 (8.40%) AI
17 154 (7.39%) User Acceptance Testing
18 151 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
18 151 (7.25%) Workshop Facilitation
19 146 (7.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 115 (5.52%) SQL
2 100 (4.80%) Python
3 68 (3.26%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.25%) Java
5 25 (1.20%) Bash
6 18 (0.86%) C#
7 16 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 15 (0.72%) VBA
9 9 (0.43%) ABAP
9 9 (0.43%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.24%) Korn
14 4 (0.19%) Bicep
14 4 (0.19%) Go
15 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.14%) BeanShell
15 3 (0.14%) C++
15 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 469 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 337 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 206 (9.88%) Degree
4 162 (7.77%) PMP
5 140 (6.72%) PMI Certification
6 116 (5.57%) DV Cleared
7 70 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (2.16%) CCNP
8 45 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 44 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 40 (1.92%) CCNA
11 33 (1.58%) Azure Certification
11 33 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 26 (1.25%) CISSP
13 19 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.86%) MCSE
15 17 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
17 14 (0.67%) CISM
18 13 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (11.32%) PMO
2 90 (4.32%) QA
3 61 (2.93%) NIST
4 57 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (2.69%) GDPR
6 43 (2.06%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.68%) SLA
8 21 (1.01%) GRC
9 13 (0.62%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.53%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.48%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.38%) NCSC
15 7 (0.34%) P3O
16 6 (0.29%) GxP
16 6 (0.29%) IFRS
17 5 (0.24%) HL7
17 5 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 112 (5.37%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.10%) Docker
5 19 (0.91%) vSphere
6 17 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.67%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.53%) Firmware
9 11 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
10 4 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.096%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.048%) ACF2
13 1 (0.048%) KVM
13 1 (0.048%) oVirt
13 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (2.50%) Ansible
2 50 (2.40%) Terraform
3 33 (1.58%) Kubernetes
4 31 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.10%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.96%) SCCM
7 16 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.72%) vCenter Server
9 10 (0.48%) SCOM
10 9 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
11 8 (0.38%) Nagios
11 8 (0.38%) Puppet
12 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
12 7 (0.34%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
14 5 (0.24%) Netcool
14 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.24%) Tivoli
15 4 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 450 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 140 (6.72%) SAP
3 136 (6.53%) Cisco
4 117 (5.61%) ServiceNow
5 94 (4.51%) Oracle
6 91 (4.37%) VMware
7 52 (2.50%) Palo Alto
8 45 (2.16%) Fortinet
9 42 (2.02%) Google
10 40 (1.92%) F5
11 39 (1.87%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.39%) Juniper
13 28 (1.34%) SolarWinds
14 24 (1.15%) IBM
14 24 (1.15%) Workday
15 22 (1.06%) Splunk
16 21 (1.01%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.91%) Citrix
17 19 (0.91%) NEC
17 19 (0.91%) Siemens