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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 59 52
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,095 1,329 1,408
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.90% 4.02% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 4.44% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 855 868
10th Percentile £325 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.47% -2.31%
75th Percentile £619 £609 £636
90th Percentile £706 £725 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 24 42
10th Percentile £22.52 £15.91 £22.55
25th Percentile £35.53 £29.88 £28.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +40.45% -35.27%
75th Percentile £78.50 £71.68 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £81.38 £67.70
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 45,559 29,946 33,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.84% 90.50% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,021 18,667 21,209
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
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 2,840 1,725 1,823
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £18.25
Median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.50% -38.57% -1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £81.32 £68.00 £74.53
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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +8 1,804 £525 - 1,765
UK excluding London -4 1,140 £500 - 1,237
London +3 787 £550 -5.38% 719
Work from Home +5 624 £500 -3.85% 771
South East -7 297 £525 -2.33% 369
North of England +4 284 £495 +4.21% 298
North West +14 192 £500 +5.26% 157
South West -1 175 £500 +3.09% 163
Midlands -23 162 £475 +0.26% 196
Scotland +10 130 £450 - 78
West Midlands -24 126 £475 -8.61% 128
Yorkshire -29 72 £485 -3.00% 97
East of England +2 61 £500 -4.76% 109
East Midlands -27 34 £407 -4.63% 66
Wales -1 25 £525 +82.61% 27
North East -21 21 £350 - 48
Northern Ireland +6 16 £388 -18.42% 32
Channel Islands - 2 £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
1 121 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 115 (5.49%) Confluence
3 42 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
4 7 (0.33%) 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 (0.095%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.095%) Camunda
9 2 (0.095%) CICS
9 2 (0.095%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 163 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (5.73%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.76%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.53%) Trello
9 8 (0.38%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) ProjectWise
12 2 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.095%) Houdini
12 2 (0.095%) NUKE
13 1 (0.048%) CATIA
13 1 (0.048%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.05%) Teamcenter
3 16 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.72%) Primavera
5 10 (0.48%) Maximo
5 10 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.38%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.29%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 321 (15.32%) Azure
2 138 (6.59%) AWS
3 126 (6.01%) Power Platform
4 120 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
5 94 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (3.87%) SaaS
7 71 (3.39%) Entra ID
8 46 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
9 42 (2.00%) GCP
10 29 (1.38%) Microsoft Copilot
10 29 (1.38%) PowerApps
11 28 (1.34%) GitHub
12 27 (1.29%) Google Workspace
13 26 (1.24%) IaaS
13 26 (1.24%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.15%) OCI
15 23 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
16 20 (0.95%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.72%) PaaS
18 13 (0.62%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 133 (6.35%) Firewall
2 89 (4.25%) DNS
3 77 (3.68%) WAN
4 70 (3.34%) LAN
5 66 (3.15%) Network Security
6 64 (3.05%) VPN
7 49 (2.34%) MPLS
8 45 (2.15%) BGP
9 42 (2.00%) DHCP
10 40 (1.91%) Wireless
11 35 (1.67%) VLAN
12 34 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (1.58%) OSPF
14 31 (1.48%) TCP/IP
15 25 (1.19%) SD-WAN
16 24 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 17 (0.81%) SSL
18 15 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
19 14 (0.67%) IPsec
20 13 (0.62%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (4.77%) Power BI
2 41 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.76%) Metadata
5 14 (0.67%) Tableau
6 11 (0.53%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (0.48%) Big Data
7 10 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.43%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.38%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.33%) 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%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) Power Query
13 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 229 (10.93%) 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 (0.095%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.095%) Hudson
10 2 (0.095%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.095%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.095%) TestNG
11 1 (0.048%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.048%) Oracle APEX
General
1 871 (41.58%) Social Skills
2 656 (31.31%) Finance
3 283 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 228 (10.88%) Public Sector
5 153 (7.30%) Organisational Skills
6 120 (5.73%) Banking
7 106 (5.06%) Retail
8 101 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
9 97 (4.63%) Legal
10 89 (4.25%) Telecoms
11 66 (3.15%) Manufacturing
12 62 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
14 40 (1.91%) Local Government
15 35 (1.67%) Military
16 34 (1.62%) Marketing
17 26 (1.24%) Front Office
18 24 (1.15%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.15%) Investment Banking
18 24 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 497 (23.72%) Project Manager
2 239 (11.41%) Analyst
3 227 (10.84%) Senior
4 195 (9.31%) Lead
5 132 (6.30%) Business Analyst
6 130 (6.21%) Consultant
7 129 (6.16%) Architect
8 99 (4.73%) Senior Manager
9 91 (4.34%) Network Engineer
10 85 (4.06%) IT Manager
11 82 (3.91%) Senior Project Manager
12 79 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
13 61 (2.91%) Developer
13 61 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 58 (2.77%) IT Project Manager
15 48 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (2.10%) Technical Manager
17 38 (1.81%) Infrastructure Manager
17 38 (1.81%) Project Officer
17 38 (1.81%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.67%) REST
2 26 (1.24%) Middleware
2 26 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (0.81%) .NET
4 15 (0.72%) 802.1X
5 12 (0.57%) React
5 12 (0.57%) XML
6 11 (0.53%) OAuth
6 11 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
6 11 (0.53%) Web Services
7 10 (0.48%) ADO
7 10 (0.48%) JSON
8 9 (0.43%) SAP Basis
9 8 (0.38%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.33%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.33%) Kafka
10 7 (0.33%) Playwright
10 7 (0.33%) PySpark
10 7 (0.33%) RESTful
10 7 (0.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.06%) Onboarding
2 105 (5.01%) Management Information System
3 89 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 88 (4.20%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (1.86%) Virtual Team
7 35 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 35 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.62%) Operational Technology
9 32 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
11 28 (1.34%) Driving Licence
12 27 (1.29%) PKI
13 23 (1.10%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.00%) Clustering
15 19 (0.91%) Derivative
15 19 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (0.91%) PMI
15 19 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 138 (6.59%) Windows
2 69 (3.29%) Linux
3 63 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.29%) Unix
5 12 (0.57%) 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 (0.095%) Debian
11 2 (0.095%) VMS
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) CentOS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (39.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 642 (30.64%) Agile
3 566 (27.02%) Project Management
4 386 (18.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 370 (17.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 344 (16.42%) Migration
7 319 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (14.37%) Change Management
9 274 (13.08%) PRINCE2
10 231 (11.03%) Decision-Making
11 224 (10.69%) Waterfall
12 192 (9.16%) Risk Management
13 189 (9.02%) ITIL
14 182 (8.69%) DevOps
14 182 (8.69%) Roadmaps
15 179 (8.54%) AI
16 157 (7.49%) Workshop Facilitation
17 156 (7.45%) User Acceptance Testing
18 155 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
19 146 (6.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 115 (5.49%) SQL
2 100 (4.77%) Python
3 68 (3.25%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.24%) Java
5 25 (1.19%) Bash
6 18 (0.86%) C#
7 17 (0.81%) VBA
8 16 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.43%) ABAP
9 9 (0.43%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.33%) 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
1 471 (22.48%) Security Cleared
2 339 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 207 (9.88%) Degree
4 163 (7.78%) PMP
5 141 (6.73%) PMI Certification
6 116 (5.54%) DV Cleared
7 73 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
8 46 (2.20%) CCNP
8 46 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 44 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 40 (1.91%) CCNA
11 33 (1.58%) Azure Certification
11 33 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 29 (1.38%) CISSP
13 19 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.86%) MCSE
15 17 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
17 15 (0.72%) CISM
18 14 (0.67%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (11.31%) PMO
2 90 (4.30%) QA
3 61 (2.91%) NIST
4 58 (2.77%) GDPR
5 57 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.05%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.67%) SLA
8 21 (1.00%) GRC
9 13 (0.62%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.57%) 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 (0.33%) P3O
16 6 (0.29%) GxP
16 6 (0.29%) IFRS
17 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
17 5 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 113 (5.39%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.10%) Docker
5 19 (0.91%) vSphere
6 17 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.67%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.57%) 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 (0.095%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.048%) ACF2
13 1 (0.048%) oVirt
13 1 (0.048%) RHEV
13 1 (0.048%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 52 (2.48%) Ansible
2 50 (2.39%) Terraform
3 33 (1.58%) Kubernetes
4 31 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.10%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.95%) SCCM
7 16 (0.76%) 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 (0.33%) NetBackup
12 7 (0.33%) 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%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 458 (21.86%) Microsoft
2 140 (6.68%) SAP
3 139 (6.63%) Cisco
4 118 (5.63%) ServiceNow
5 93 (4.44%) Oracle
6 91 (4.34%) VMware
7 52 (2.48%) Palo Alto
8 46 (2.20%) Fortinet
9 42 (2.00%) Google
10 40 (1.91%) F5
11 39 (1.86%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.38%) Juniper
13 28 (1.34%) SolarWinds
14 25 (1.19%) Workday
15 24 (1.15%) IBM
16 22 (1.05%) Splunk
17 21 (1.00%) Zscaler
18 19 (0.91%) Citrix
18 19 (0.91%) NEC
18 19 (0.91%) Siemens