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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 52 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,540 1,229 1,787
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.06% 3.88% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 4.36% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 694 1,188
10th Percentile £329 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £441 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £613 £629 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £502
% change year-on-year -7.14% +4.58% +0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 34 28
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.73 £20.98
25th Percentile £17.25 £22.90 £25.75
Median hourly rate £40.44 £32.50 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year +24.42% -28.96% -22.46%
75th Percentile £63.40 £62.01 £63.69
90th Percentile £69.61 £65.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £34.75 £41.50
% change year-on-year +6.47% -16.27% -36.15%

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 33,213 28,195 38,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.59% 88.98% 87.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,058 17,139 25,095
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,026 893 1,862
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.94 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.01
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -12.19% +15.66%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.62 £39.55
% change year-on-year -21.61% -22.59% +52.12%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -1 1,348 £520 -2.80% 752
UK excluding London -5 795 £488 -7.14% 708
London +4 626 £550 - 179
Work from Home +3 445 £525 -1.87% 358
North of England +13 226 £477 -5.96% 134
South East -3 193 £535 -4.89% 247
Midlands -4 163 £465 -8.37% 129
North West +14 143 £475 -3.80% 75
West Midlands -23 89 £520 -8.77% 75
Scotland -12 80 £450 -1.32% 30
South West +2 77 £538 +7.29% 79
East Midlands +5 75 £435 -3.33% 54
Yorkshire -6 72 £500 -14.75% 41
East of England -10 36 £538 +7.50% 74
Wales +4 19 £308 -42.12% 25
Northern Ireland -1 14 £475 -13.64% 7
North East -10 12 £290 -49.34% 19

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
1 123 (7.99%) Confluence
2 65 (4.22%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.32%) CMS
5 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.19%) CICS
5 3 (0.19%) MS Project Server
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.13%) Appian
6 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.065%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.065%) Apache
7 1 (0.065%) Camunda
7 1 (0.065%) IIS
7 1 (0.065%) Moodle
7 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 147 (9.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
3 103 (6.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 99 (6.43%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (2.34%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.97%) Trello
7 14 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.52%) Siemens NX
9 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.13%) InDesign
11 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.065%) Revit
12 1 (0.065%) Sketch
12 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.71%) Endur
3 11 (0.71%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.65%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
5 9 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
6 8 (0.52%) Loan IQ
7 7 (0.45%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.45%) SAP IBP
7 7 (0.45%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.39%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
9 5 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.32%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 193 (12.53%) Azure
2 74 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (4.22%) Power Platform
4 60 (3.90%) AWS
5 55 (3.57%) SaaS
6 44 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
8 32 (2.08%) GCP
9 25 (1.62%) GitHub
10 21 (1.36%) Entra ID
11 19 (1.23%) OCI
12 13 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (0.84%) IaaS
13 11 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (0.71%) OpenShift
13 11 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
14 8 (0.52%) PaaS
15 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (0.39%) Asana
16 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 72 (4.68%) Firewall
2 41 (2.66%) WAN
3 36 (2.34%) LAN
4 32 (2.08%) DNS
5 28 (1.82%) Network Security
6 21 (1.36%) BGP
7 20 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.23%) OSPF
8 19 (1.23%) SD-WAN
9 16 (1.04%) VPN
10 15 (0.97%) MPLS
10 15 (0.97%) Wireless
11 13 (0.84%) NetScaler
11 13 (0.84%) VLAN
12 11 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
13 10 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (0.65%) DHCP
14 9 (0.58%) EIGRP
14 9 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.51%) Power BI
2 27 (1.75%) Tableau
3 18 (1.17%) SQL Server
4 15 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (0.58%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.52%) Metadata
8 6 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.32%) GIS
10 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.19%) DB2
11 3 (0.19%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (0.19%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 203 (13.18%) JIRA
2 22 (1.43%) Git
3 17 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.58%) GitLab
5 7 (0.45%) Selenium
5 7 (0.45%) Subversion
6 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.26%) Appium
7 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) MSTest
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
9 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 650 (42.21%) Social Skills
2 479 (31.10%) Finance
3 194 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (9.16%) Banking
5 139 (9.03%) Public Sector
6 91 (5.91%) Organisational Skills
7 60 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
8 49 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
9 47 (3.05%) Retail
10 46 (2.99%) Manufacturing
11 41 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
12 39 (2.53%) Telecoms
13 37 (2.40%) Legal
14 28 (1.82%) Front Office
15 27 (1.75%) Marketing
16 19 (1.23%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.17%) Law
18 17 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 17 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
19 15 (0.97%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 422 (27.40%) Project Manager
2 201 (13.05%) Analyst
3 171 (11.10%) Lead
4 149 (9.68%) Business Analyst
5 130 (8.44%) Senior
6 91 (5.91%) Architect
7 81 (5.26%) Consultant
8 61 (3.96%) Delivery Manager
9 56 (3.64%) IT Manager
9 56 (3.64%) Senior Manager
10 48 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
11 44 (2.86%) Technical Manager
12 43 (2.79%) Senior Project Manager
13 42 (2.73%) Programme Manager
14 40 (2.60%) IT Project Manager
14 40 (2.60%) Network Engineer
15 34 (2.21%) SAP Manager
16 29 (1.88%) Technical Project Manager
17 28 (1.82%) Administrator
18 26 (1.69%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.36%) REST
3 20 (1.30%) Middleware
4 12 (0.78%) XML
5 10 (0.65%) React
5 10 (0.65%) Web Services
6 9 (0.58%) SOAP
7 8 (0.52%) HTML
8 7 (0.45%) .NET
8 7 (0.45%) ADO
9 6 (0.39%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.39%) CSS
9 6 (0.39%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.32%) Node.js
10 5 (0.32%) RESTful
10 5 (0.32%) YAML
10 5 (0.32%) ZK
11 4 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.26%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 85 (5.52%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.94%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 46 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.47%) PMI
6 37 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (1.62%) NHS
10 20 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.17%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.04%) Replication
13 15 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (0.84%) Life Science
15 12 (0.78%) Algorithms
15 12 (0.78%) Clustering
15 12 (0.78%) Driving Licence
15 12 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
16 11 (0.71%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 90 (5.84%) Windows
2 42 (2.73%) Windows Server
3 34 (2.21%) Linux
4 20 (1.30%) Unix
5 19 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.78%) Solaris
8 10 (0.65%) VMS
9 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.32%) OpenVMS
12 3 (0.19%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.19%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.19%) zOS
13 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.065%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.065%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (34.94%) Agile
2 494 (32.08%) Project Management
3 478 (31.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 274 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
5 234 (15.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 224 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 217 (14.09%) Migration
8 202 (13.12%) Change Management
8 202 (13.12%) PRINCE2
9 168 (10.91%) Waterfall
10 162 (10.52%) DevOps
11 144 (9.35%) Scrum
12 128 (8.31%) Decision-Making
12 128 (8.31%) Risk Management
13 126 (8.18%) ITIL
14 122 (7.92%) Project Governance
14 122 (7.92%) Roadmaps
15 120 (7.79%) ERP
16 117 (7.60%) Workshop Facilitation
17 114 (7.40%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (4.81%) Python
2 71 (4.61%) SQL
3 44 (2.86%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.56%) Bash
4 24 (1.56%) Java
5 12 (0.78%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.65%) PL/SQL
7 8 (0.52%) C#
8 6 (0.39%) Perl
9 4 (0.26%) ABAP
9 4 (0.26%) C++
10 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
10 3 (0.19%) COBOL
10 3 (0.19%) HLASM
10 3 (0.19%) JCL
10 3 (0.19%) REXX
11 2 (0.13%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.13%) PHP
11 2 (0.13%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 276 (17.92%) Security Cleared
2 229 (14.87%) Degree
3 194 (12.60%) SC Cleared
4 125 (8.12%) PMP
5 124 (8.05%) PMI Certification
6 60 (3.90%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.60%) Master's Degree
8 37 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.01%) CCNP
11 28 (1.82%) APMP
12 27 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (1.36%) CCNA
14 20 (1.30%) CBAP
15 18 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 15 (0.97%) CISSP
17 14 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
18 12 (0.78%) CISM
18 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
19 11 (0.71%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (8.90%) PMO
2 97 (6.30%) QA
3 37 (2.40%) GDPR
3 37 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (1.95%) Data Quality
5 27 (1.75%) NIST
6 18 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.91%) SLA
9 12 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.78%) PSD2
10 11 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 11 (0.71%) NCSC
11 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.52%) MiFID
11 8 (0.52%) P3O
12 7 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.39%) GRC
13 6 (0.39%) ISO 8583
14 5 (0.32%) GMP
System Software
1 43 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (0.97%) Docker
4 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 14 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.78%) vSphere
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) NFS
7 4 (0.26%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.065%) RACF
Systems Management
1 44 (2.86%) Ansible
2 28 (1.82%) Terraform
3 25 (1.62%) Kubernetes
4 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.17%) SCCM
5 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.45%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.39%) Grafana
7 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.26%) QRadar
10 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
11 2 (0.13%) Control-M
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 269 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 133 (8.64%) SAP
3 95 (6.17%) Oracle
4 78 (5.06%) Cisco
5 56 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.86%) VMware
7 39 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.56%) Workday
10 22 (1.43%) Google
11 19 (1.23%) Citrix
12 16 (1.04%) Aruba
12 16 (1.04%) Red Hat
13 15 (0.97%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.97%) IBM
14 13 (0.84%) CheckPoint
14 13 (0.84%) CyberArk
14 13 (0.84%) F5
14 13 (0.84%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.71%) SolarWinds