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

 6 months to
15 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 61 53
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,189 1,281 1,381
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.02% 3.95% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.36% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 820 806
10th Percentile £325 £320 £363
25th Percentile £425 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £638
90th Percentile £707 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 31 39
10th Percentile £23.50 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £35.53 £30.08 £25.46
Median hourly rate £52.75 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +71.43% -44.66%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.16 £56.02
90th Percentile £87.83 £85.00 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £54.51 £39.68
% change year-on-year -8.27% +37.37% -36.51%

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 45,945 29,375 32,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.44% 90.50% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,954 18,237 20,159
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 3,063 1,777 1,475
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.42 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.47 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £66.70 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.08 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.13% -47.67% +6.17%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 1,849 £525 - 3,702
UK excluding London 0 1,155 £500 +1.63% 2,400
London +6 831 £550 -3.17% 1,665
Work from Home +1 628 £500 -2.44% 1,653
South East -7 307 £525 -2.33% 613
North of England +8 290 £485 +2.11% 548
North West +12 190 £500 +5.26% 312
Midlands -27 160 £475 -2.76% 394
Scotland +31 149 £450 - 235
South West -9 148 £525 +13.64% 276
West Midlands -24 122 £475 -9.07% 262
Yorkshire -7 77 £485 +0.78% 176
East of England -2 65 £500 -4.76% 201
East Midlands -23 34 £425 -0.47% 130
Wales -1 24 £400 +11.11% 56
North East -16 24 £350 - 63
Northern Ireland +1 16 £394 -17.11% 101
Channel Islands - 9 £525 - 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
1 120 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 112 (5.12%) Confluence
3 36 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.32%) Apache
5 6 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.27%) CMS
5 6 (0.27%) JBoss
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
7 4 (0.18%) NetWeaver
7 4 (0.18%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.18%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
9 2 (0.091%) CICS
9 2 (0.091%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.046%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.046%) SAP EP
Applications
1 169 (7.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (5.53%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
4 98 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.78%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.55%) Trello
8 11 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
9 9 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.41%) Navisworks
9 9 (0.41%) Revit
10 7 (0.32%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.091%) Houdini
12 2 (0.091%) NUKE
13 1 (0.046%) CATIA
13 1 (0.046%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 51 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.10%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.59%) Primavera
5 12 (0.55%) Maximo
6 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.37%) SAP SD
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.32%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.23%) NEC Housing
10 5 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 336 (15.35%) Azure
2 142 (6.49%) AWS
3 134 (6.12%) Power Platform
4 128 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
5 97 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (4.25%) SaaS
7 69 (3.15%) Entra ID
8 51 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
9 49 (2.24%) GCP
10 30 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.23%) OCI
12 24 (1.10%) Google Workspace
12 24 (1.10%) PowerApps
12 24 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
13 23 (1.05%) GitHub
14 22 (1.01%) Power Automate
15 19 (0.87%) IaaS
16 15 (0.69%) OneDrive
17 14 (0.64%) PaaS
18 13 (0.59%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 134 (6.12%) Firewall
2 86 (3.93%) DNS
3 83 (3.79%) WAN
4 79 (3.61%) Network Security
5 73 (3.33%) LAN
6 64 (2.92%) VPN
7 47 (2.15%) MPLS
8 45 (2.06%) BGP
8 45 (2.06%) DHCP
9 41 (1.87%) Wireless
10 38 (1.74%) VLAN
11 37 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
12 30 (1.37%) OSPF
13 28 (1.28%) TCP/IP
14 24 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 21 (0.96%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.82%) SSL
17 14 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (0.64%) IPsec
17 14 (0.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.84%) Power BI
2 39 (1.78%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.73%) Metadata
5 13 (0.59%) Data Lake
6 12 (0.55%) Tableau
7 9 (0.41%) Big Data
7 9 (0.41%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.37%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.27%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.23%) Power Query
11 5 (0.23%) SAP HANA
12 4 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 233 (10.64%) JIRA
2 23 (1.05%) Git
3 13 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.46%) GitLab
5 7 (0.32%) MSI
6 6 (0.27%) Selenium
7 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
10 2 (0.091%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.091%) TestNG
11 1 (0.046%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.046%) Gatling
11 1 (0.046%) MLflow
11 1 (0.046%) Postman
11 1 (0.046%) TestRail
11 1 (0.046%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 909 (41.53%) Social Skills
2 664 (30.33%) Finance
3 292 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (10.78%) Public Sector
5 166 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
6 135 (6.17%) Banking
7 102 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
8 93 (4.25%) Retail
8 93 (4.25%) Telecoms
9 90 (4.11%) Legal
10 75 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
11 74 (3.38%) Manufacturing
12 62 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (2.01%) Military
14 42 (1.92%) Local Government
15 34 (1.55%) Front Office
16 32 (1.46%) Law
17 30 (1.37%) Marketing
18 23 (1.05%) Financial Institution
18 23 (1.05%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 506 (23.12%) Project Manager
2 253 (11.56%) Analyst
3 228 (10.42%) Senior
4 202 (9.23%) Lead
5 148 (6.76%) Architect
5 148 (6.76%) Business Analyst
6 131 (5.98%) Consultant
7 104 (4.75%) Senior Manager
8 95 (4.34%) Network Engineer
9 90 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
10 86 (3.93%) Senior Project Manager
11 84 (3.84%) IT Manager
12 64 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 60 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
14 57 (2.60%) IT Project Manager
15 53 (2.42%) Developer
16 44 (2.01%) Technical Manager
17 37 (1.69%) Transformation Manager
18 36 (1.64%) Coordinator
19 35 (1.60%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.01%) Terraform
2 40 (1.83%) REST
3 35 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.05%) Middleware
5 16 (0.73%) .NET
6 14 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
6 14 (0.64%) XML
7 13 (0.59%) SOAP
8 11 (0.50%) 802.1X
8 11 (0.50%) JSON
8 11 (0.50%) OAuth
8 11 (0.50%) React
9 10 (0.46%) ADO
9 10 (0.46%) LDAP
9 10 (0.46%) Web Services
10 8 (0.37%) SailPoint
11 7 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.32%) Kafka
11 7 (0.32%) OpenID
11 7 (0.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 109 (4.98%) Onboarding
2 107 (4.89%) Management Information System
3 100 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 89 (4.07%) Data Centre
5 48 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 45 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 36 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 35 (1.60%) Driving Licence
11 34 (1.55%) Cloud Native
12 33 (1.51%) Operational Technology
13 31 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
14 29 (1.32%) PKI
15 25 (1.14%) Public Cloud
16 23 (1.05%) Derivative
17 21 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 19 (0.87%) Clustering
18 19 (0.87%) Replication
19 18 (0.82%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 145 (6.62%) Windows
2 75 (3.43%) Linux
3 69 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.32%) Unix
5 14 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.50%) Solaris
7 9 (0.41%) AIX
8 6 (0.27%) Android
8 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.091%) CentOS
12 2 (0.091%) Debian
12 2 (0.091%) VMS
12 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 926 (42.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 690 (31.52%) Agile
3 597 (27.27%) Project Management
4 411 (18.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 405 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 356 (16.26%) Migration
7 350 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
8 322 (14.71%) Change Management
9 280 (12.79%) PRINCE2
10 249 (11.38%) Decision-Making
11 240 (10.96%) Waterfall
12 210 (9.59%) Risk Management
13 194 (8.86%) ITIL
14 184 (8.41%) Roadmaps
14 184 (8.41%) Workshop Facilitation
15 182 (8.31%) AI
16 178 (8.13%) DevOps
17 176 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
18 171 (7.81%) Project Governance
19 166 (7.58%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 106 (4.84%) SQL
2 97 (4.43%) Python
3 73 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.10%) Bash
4 24 (1.10%) Java
5 17 (0.78%) C#
5 17 (0.78%) VBA
6 14 (0.64%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.50%) ABAP
8 7 (0.32%) Korn
8 7 (0.32%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.32%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
10 5 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (0.18%) Go
12 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.14%) Bicep
12 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 483 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 352 (16.08%) SC Cleared
3 205 (9.37%) Degree
4 163 (7.45%) PMP
5 145 (6.62%) PMI Certification
6 121 (5.53%) DV Cleared
7 74 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (2.15%) CCNP
10 39 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.74%) CCNA
12 36 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 35 (1.60%) Azure Certification
14 30 (1.37%) CISSP
15 19 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.82%) MCSE
16 18 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
16 18 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (0.69%) CISM
18 14 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (11.42%) PMO
2 98 (4.48%) QA
3 58 (2.65%) NIST
4 54 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 53 (2.42%) GDPR
6 51 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.37%) SLA
8 23 (1.05%) GRC
9 18 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.64%) ISO 19650
11 10 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.41%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.37%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.37%) NCSC
14 7 (0.32%) GxP
14 7 (0.32%) P3O
15 6 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 111 (5.07%) Active Directory
2 79 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 25 (1.14%) vSphere
5 21 (0.96%) Docker
6 20 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.50%) Firmware
8 11 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.18%) Squid
10 3 (0.14%) Ceph
10 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.046%) ACF2
12 1 (0.046%) oVirt
12 1 (0.046%) RACF
12 1 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (2.42%) Ansible
2 35 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.01%) FortiGate
4 22 (1.01%) SCCM
5 17 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.69%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.41%) SCOM
9 8 (0.37%) Puppet
10 7 (0.32%) Nagios
10 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.32%) WMI
11 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.27%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.18%) Netcool
Vendors
1 491 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 155 (7.08%) Cisco
3 152 (6.94%) SAP
4 131 (5.98%) ServiceNow
5 104 (4.75%) Oracle
6 103 (4.71%) VMware
7 53 (2.42%) Palo Alto
8 51 (2.33%) Fortinet
9 48 (2.19%) Salesforce
10 44 (2.01%) F5
11 38 (1.74%) Google
12 33 (1.51%) Workday
13 30 (1.37%) Juniper
14 29 (1.32%) SolarWinds
15 25 (1.14%) IBM
16 24 (1.10%) Databricks
17 23 (1.05%) Ariba
18 22 (1.01%) Siemens
18 22 (1.01%) Splunk
19 21 (0.96%) Zscaler
4,434 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide