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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 54 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,718 1,156 1,732
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 3.95% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.35% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 703 1,142
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £536
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -2.47% -2.50%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £706 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 24 33
10th Percentile £16.15 £21.67 £20.98
25th Percentile £18.64 £29.84 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -20.94% +61.29% -45.15%
75th Percentile £60.50 £69.69 £40.94
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.10 £62.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -24.23% +46.56% -37.02%

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 39,056 26,574 37,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.05% 90.71% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,707 17,203 24,522
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,310 1,024 2,401
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.16 £30.45 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +22.04% -9.24% -7.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.83
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £29.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year +31.90% -12.29% -8.47%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 0 1,522 £515 -1.90% 884
UK excluding London -5 924 £481 -3.80% 725
London +2 662 £550 - 255
Work from Home +5 492 £538 +2.38% 426
North of England +18 260 £475 - 163
South East +3 227 £525 -4.55% 237
Midlands -13 180 £475 -5.00% 117
North West +23 173 £475 - 86
South West +5 122 £475 - 78
West Midlands -16 121 £492 -6.29% 78
Yorkshire -16 74 £513 +2.50% 58
Scotland -20 71 £475 - 39
East Midlands -11 58 £420 -6.04% 39
East of England -14 47 £550 +5.97% 77
Wales -1 20 £413 +26.92% 21
North East -8 15 £350 -15.15% 21
Northern Ireland -5 8 £370 -37.68% 6

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 (6.52%) Confluence
2 85 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.35%) CMS
5 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.23%) CICS
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.17%) Camunda
7 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.17%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.12%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.058%) Apache
9 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.058%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.058%) IIS
9 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 153 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (6.87%) Microsoft Project
3 108 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
4 105 (6.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.64%) Siemens NX
8 9 (0.52%) Trello
9 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.058%) Revit
10 1 (0.058%) SPSS
10 1 (0.058%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 48 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.87%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.70%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.52%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.41%) Endur
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.35%) Primavera
9 5 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.29%) Summit
10 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.17%) Maximo
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
11 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 191 (11.12%) Azure
2 97 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
3 86 (5.01%) Power Platform
4 82 (4.77%) AWS
5 63 (3.67%) SaaS
6 49 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (1.75%) GCP
9 28 (1.63%) Entra ID
10 22 (1.28%) GitHub
11 19 (1.11%) Google Workspace
11 19 (1.11%) IaaS
12 15 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (0.76%) OpenShift
13 13 (0.76%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.76%) Serverless
14 12 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (0.70%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.24%) Firewall
2 53 (3.08%) DNS
3 41 (2.39%) WAN
4 36 (2.10%) Network Security
5 33 (1.92%) LAN
6 27 (1.57%) BGP
6 27 (1.57%) OSPF
7 21 (1.22%) VLAN
8 20 (1.16%) SD-WAN
9 18 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.05%) TCP/IP
9 18 (1.05%) VPN
10 17 (0.99%) MPLS
11 15 (0.87%) DHCP
11 15 (0.87%) NetScaler
11 15 (0.87%) Wireless
12 13 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
13 11 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.58%) SAN
14 10 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.07%) Power BI
2 30 (1.75%) Tableau
3 29 (1.69%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.34%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (0.64%) Metadata
7 8 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.29%) Big Data
10 5 (0.29%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.29%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.23%) GIS
11 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 207 (12.05%) JIRA
2 19 (1.11%) Git
3 16 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.58%) GitLab
5 8 (0.47%) Selenium
6 7 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.29%) JMeter
7 5 (0.29%) MSTest
7 5 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.17%) Appium
8 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
9 2 (0.12%) TestRail
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.058%) Gradle
10 1 (0.058%) Hudson
10 1 (0.058%) Robot Framework
General
1 709 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 579 (33.70%) Finance
3 254 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 136 (7.92%) Banking
6 127 (7.39%) Organisational Skills
7 74 (4.31%) Retail
8 71 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
9 69 (4.02%) Legal
10 61 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
11 58 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
12 49 (2.85%) Manufacturing
13 44 (2.56%) Telecoms
14 36 (2.10%) Marketing
15 26 (1.51%) Local Government
16 23 (1.34%) Military
17 21 (1.22%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.99%) Financial Institution
19 15 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 15 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 489 (28.46%) Project Manager
2 200 (11.64%) Analyst
3 189 (11.00%) Lead
4 168 (9.78%) Senior
5 134 (7.80%) Business Analyst
6 84 (4.89%) Consultant
6 84 (4.89%) Senior Manager
7 81 (4.71%) Architect
8 74 (4.31%) Delivery Manager
9 73 (4.25%) IT Manager
10 64 (3.73%) Senior Project Manager
11 51 (2.97%) IT Project Manager
12 49 (2.85%) Technical Manager
13 45 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (2.44%) Network Engineer
15 41 (2.39%) Programme Manager
16 36 (2.10%) Project Officer
17 34 (1.98%) Infrastructure Manager
17 34 (1.98%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 33 (1.92%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.98%) Middleware
2 24 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
3 18 (1.05%) REST
4 14 (0.81%) XML
5 11 (0.64%) Web Services
6 9 (0.52%) ADO
7 8 (0.47%) .NET
7 8 (0.47%) OAuth
7 8 (0.47%) React
7 8 (0.47%) Spring Boot
8 7 (0.41%) CSS
8 7 (0.41%) JSON
8 7 (0.41%) Spring
9 6 (0.35%) Node.js
9 6 (0.35%) YAML
10 5 (0.29%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.29%) HTML
11 4 (0.23%) RESTful
11 4 (0.23%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.23%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 77 (4.48%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 67 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 62 (3.61%) Data Centre
5 39 (2.27%) Virtual Team
6 35 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 28 (1.63%) PMI
8 28 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 23 (1.34%) NHS
11 21 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.11%) Cloud Native
12 19 (1.11%) Replication
13 18 (1.05%) Clustering
14 15 (0.87%) Derivative
15 14 (0.81%) Driving Licence
16 12 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (0.70%) Life Science
16 12 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 86 (5.01%) Windows
2 42 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 29 (1.69%) Linux
4 21 (1.22%) Unix
5 13 (0.76%) Solaris
5 13 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.58%) VMS
7 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (0.47%) zOS
8 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.23%) AIX
10 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.12%) Android
11 2 (0.12%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.12%) pSOS
12 1 (0.058%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.058%) CentOS
12 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (33.24%) Agile
2 540 (31.43%) Project Management
3 515 (29.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 287 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
5 264 (15.37%) Migration
6 259 (15.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 258 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 250 (14.55%) PRINCE2
9 224 (13.04%) Change Management
10 173 (10.07%) DevOps
11 171 (9.95%) Waterfall
12 166 (9.66%) Decision-Making
13 149 (8.67%) Risk Management
14 143 (8.32%) Scrum
15 138 (8.03%) Roadmaps
16 129 (7.51%) Workshop Facilitation
17 124 (7.22%) ITIL
18 120 (6.98%) Budget Management
19 115 (6.69%) ERP
20 114 (6.64%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 98 (5.70%) SQL
2 66 (3.84%) Python
3 38 (2.21%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.22%) Java
5 18 (1.05%) JavaScript
6 14 (0.81%) C#
7 11 (0.64%) Bash
8 9 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.47%) Go
9 8 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.29%) Bicep
11 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.23%) ABAP
12 4 (0.23%) COBOL
12 4 (0.23%) VBA
13 3 (0.17%) Assembly Language
13 3 (0.17%) JCL
13 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 366 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 268 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 231 (13.45%) Degree
4 171 (9.95%) PMP
5 141 (8.21%) PMI Certification
6 83 (4.83%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.10%) APMP
7 36 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (1.86%) CCNP
9 31 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 29 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 26 (1.51%) CCNA
13 22 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (1.11%) CISSP
15 15 (0.87%) CISM
16 13 (0.76%) CBAP
16 13 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (11.23%) PMO
2 117 (6.81%) QA
3 49 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (2.62%) GDPR
5 41 (2.39%) NIST
6 39 (2.27%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.16%) SLA
8 11 (0.64%) GRC
9 10 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (0.52%) P3O
10 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.47%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.35%) Basel III
13 6 (0.35%) HL7
13 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.35%) MiFID
13 6 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 59 (3.43%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.22%) Docker
4 15 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.76%) vSphere
6 12 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.29%) Firmware
11 2 (0.12%) Squid
11 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.058%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.058%) Ceph
12 1 (0.058%) RACF
12 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 32 (1.86%) Ansible
2 31 (1.80%) Terraform
3 28 (1.63%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.99%) SCCM
6 9 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.41%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.41%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.29%) Nagios
9 3 (0.17%) Netcool
9 3 (0.17%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.17%) Puppet
9 3 (0.17%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.12%) Control-M
10 2 (0.12%) OpenView
10 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
10 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 293 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 139 (8.09%) SAP
3 86 (5.01%) Oracle
4 77 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 57 (3.32%) Cisco
6 40 (2.33%) VMware
7 37 (2.15%) Google
8 35 (2.04%) Salesforce
9 33 (1.92%) Palo Alto
10 24 (1.40%) F5
11 21 (1.22%) Atlassian
12 19 (1.11%) CheckPoint
12 19 (1.11%) Citrix
13 17 (0.99%) Workday
14 16 (0.93%) IBM
15 14 (0.81%) Aruba
15 14 (0.81%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.76%) CyberArk
16 13 (0.76%) NEC
17 11 (0.64%) Fortinet