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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 60 58
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,271 1,325 1,359
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.14% 4.01% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 4.43% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,500 849 772
10th Percentile £350 £325 £355
25th Percentile £428 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £625
90th Percentile £714 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 37 41
10th Percentile £24.70 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £37.43 £26.50 £23.60
Median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +71.43% -44.00%
75th Percentile £76.94 £65.00 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 £52.76 £36.81
% change year-on-year +8.05% +43.34% -39.91%

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 46,438 29,893 32,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.54% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,948 18,567 19,512
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,331 1,864 1,314
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.08 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.87 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.56% -39.40% -2.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.13 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +70.85% -48.10% +1.18%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 1,909 £525 - 3,490
UK excluding London +4 1,208 £500 - 2,227
London +1 838 £550 - 1,431
Work from Home +5 646 £500 -2.44% 1,448
South East +3 329 £525 -2.33% 599
North of England +12 310 £500 +5.26% 544
North West +15 190 £525 +11.11% 287
Midlands -21 166 £475 -3.63% 380
Scotland +20 151 £450 - 174
South West 0 142 £525 +4.22% 226
West Midlands -15 125 £475 -8.61% 257
Yorkshire -7 96 £478 -4.45% 196
East of England +5 68 £500 -4.76% 191
East Midlands -29 38 £475 +8.57% 122
Wales +3 28 £400 +30.08% 58
North East -17 25 £350 -14.79% 61
Northern Ireland +7 16 £400 -15.79% 76
Channel Islands - 9 £525 - 5

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
1 119 (5.24%) SharePoint
2 118 (5.20%) Confluence
3 35 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.44%) CMS
5 7 (0.31%) Apache
6 6 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.26%) JBoss
6 6 (0.26%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.22%) SAS
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.18%) WordPress
9 3 (0.13%) Appian
9 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.13%) Kentico
9 3 (0.13%) SAP EP
10 2 (0.088%) CICS
10 2 (0.088%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.088%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 168 (7.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (5.64%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
4 93 (4.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.70%) Siemens NX
7 15 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.62%) AutoCAD
8 14 (0.62%) Revit
9 12 (0.53%) Navisworks
9 12 (0.53%) Trello
10 9 (0.40%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.13%) Windchill
12 2 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.088%) Civil 3D
12 2 (0.088%) Houdini
12 2 (0.088%) MicroStation
12 2 (0.088%) NUKE
13 1 (0.044%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 59 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.14%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.62%) Maximo
4 14 (0.62%) Primavera
5 13 (0.57%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.44%) SAP Payroll
6 10 (0.44%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.40%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
8 8 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.35%) SAP HCM
8 8 (0.35%) SAP HR
8 8 (0.35%) SAP SD
9 7 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.26%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 364 (16.03%) Azure
2 143 (6.30%) Power Platform
3 137 (6.03%) AWS
4 130 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
5 114 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (4.18%) SaaS
7 75 (3.30%) Entra ID
8 57 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
9 52 (2.29%) GCP
10 33 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
11 30 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
12 28 (1.23%) PowerApps
13 26 (1.14%) OCI
14 23 (1.01%) Power Automate
15 22 (0.97%) GitHub
15 22 (0.97%) Google Workspace
16 21 (0.92%) IaaS
17 18 (0.79%) PaaS
18 15 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
19 13 (0.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.08%) Firewall
2 91 (4.01%) DNS
3 86 (3.79%) Network Security
3 86 (3.79%) WAN
4 80 (3.52%) LAN
5 62 (2.73%) VPN
6 51 (2.25%) DHCP
7 46 (2.03%) MPLS
7 46 (2.03%) Wireless
8 40 (1.76%) BGP
9 38 (1.67%) VLAN
9 38 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (1.19%) TCP/IP
11 25 (1.10%) OSPF
12 20 (0.88%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 15 (0.66%) SSL
15 14 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
15 14 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
15 14 (0.62%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (4.84%) Power BI
2 39 (1.72%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.62%) Data Lake
5 13 (0.57%) Metadata
6 10 (0.44%) Tableau
7 9 (0.40%) Big Data
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 7 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.31%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.26%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.26%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.26%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.22%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.22%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 250 (11.01%) JIRA
2 24 (1.06%) Git
3 12 (0.53%) GitLab
3 12 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.35%) MSI
5 6 (0.26%) Selenium
6 5 (0.22%) Subversion
7 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.13%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.13%) Gatling
8 3 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.088%) Appium
9 2 (0.088%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.088%) Hudson
9 2 (0.088%) JMeter
9 2 (0.088%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.088%) Postman
9 2 (0.088%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.088%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.088%) TestNG
General
1 947 (41.70%) Social Skills
2 705 (31.04%) Finance
3 288 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 183 (8.06%) Organisational Skills
6 142 (6.25%) Banking
7 96 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
8 94 (4.14%) Legal
9 92 (4.05%) Manufacturing
10 86 (3.79%) Retail
11 82 (3.61%) Telecoms
12 78 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
13 65 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (1.98%) Local Government
15 38 (1.67%) Military
16 35 (1.54%) Law
16 35 (1.54%) Marketing
17 34 (1.50%) Aerospace
17 34 (1.50%) Front Office
18 27 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 513 (22.59%) Project Manager
2 252 (11.10%) Analyst
3 233 (10.26%) Senior
4 203 (8.94%) Lead
5 153 (6.74%) Architect
5 153 (6.74%) Business Analyst
6 140 (6.16%) Consultant
7 101 (4.45%) Senior Manager
8 99 (4.36%) Network Engineer
9 98 (4.32%) Delivery Manager
10 90 (3.96%) IT Manager
11 86 (3.79%) Senior Project Manager
12 68 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 64 (2.82%) IT Project Manager
14 59 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
15 54 (2.38%) Developer
16 49 (2.16%) Technical Manager
17 43 (1.89%) Coordinator
17 43 (1.89%) Programme Manager
18 40 (1.76%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (1.98%) Terraform
2 39 (1.72%) REST
3 34 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.01%) Middleware
5 18 (0.79%) SAP Fiori
6 16 (0.70%) .NET
7 14 (0.62%) SOAP
7 14 (0.62%) XML
8 11 (0.48%) 802.1X
8 11 (0.48%) JSON
8 11 (0.48%) LDAP
8 11 (0.48%) OAuth
8 11 (0.48%) SAPUI5
9 10 (0.44%) HTML
9 10 (0.44%) Web Services
10 9 (0.40%) ADO
10 9 (0.40%) React
11 8 (0.35%) RESTful
11 8 (0.35%) SailPoint
11 8 (0.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 114 (5.02%) Management Information System
2 111 (4.89%) Onboarding
3 101 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 98 (4.32%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 41 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 38 (1.67%) Operational Technology
9 35 (1.54%) Driving Licence
10 34 (1.50%) Cloud Native
10 34 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 30 (1.32%) PKI
13 23 (1.01%) Clustering
13 23 (1.01%) Derivative
13 23 (1.01%) Public Cloud
14 20 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 20 (0.88%) Life Science
15 18 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 153 (6.74%) Windows
2 81 (3.57%) Linux
3 73 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.54%) Unix
5 18 (0.79%) Solaris
6 15 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.44%) AIX
8 9 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.26%) Android
9 6 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.22%) zOS
11 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.13%) VMS
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.088%) CentOS
12 2 (0.088%) Debian
12 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.044%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,010 (44.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 721 (31.75%) Agile
3 601 (26.46%) Project Management
4 432 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 412 (18.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 377 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
7 361 (15.90%) Migration
8 329 (14.49%) Change Management
9 301 (13.25%) PRINCE2
10 262 (11.54%) Decision-Making
11 247 (10.88%) Waterfall
12 236 (10.39%) Risk Management
13 205 (9.03%) ITIL
14 200 (8.81%) Roadmaps
15 198 (8.72%) DevOps
16 194 (8.54%) Project Governance
17 192 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
18 190 (8.37%) Workshop Facilitation
19 188 (8.28%) AI
20 175 (7.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 99 (4.36%) Python
1 99 (4.36%) SQL
2 77 (3.39%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.19%) Java
4 22 (0.97%) Bash
5 19 (0.84%) C#
6 18 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.75%) ABAP
8 15 (0.66%) VBA
9 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.31%) Korn
10 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.26%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.22%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.13%) Bicep
14 3 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
14 3 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 534 (23.51%) Security Cleared
2 394 (17.35%) SC Cleared
3 222 (9.78%) Degree
4 172 (7.57%) PMP
5 156 (6.87%) PMI Certification
6 133 (5.86%) DV Cleared
7 72 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
8 47 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (2.07%) CCNP
9 41 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 36 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 33 (1.45%) CCNA
13 28 (1.23%) CISSP
14 21 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.79%) MCSE
15 18 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.66%) CCIE
16 15 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (10.44%) PMO
2 108 (4.76%) QA
3 59 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.20%) GDPR
4 50 (2.20%) NIST
5 44 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.32%) SLA
7 27 (1.19%) GRC
8 20 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.75%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.40%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.35%) NCSC
14 7 (0.31%) P3O
15 6 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.22%) GxP
16 5 (0.22%) IFRS
16 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 115 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 96 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 32 (1.41%) vSphere
5 24 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (0.92%) Docker
7 17 (0.75%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.48%) Firmware
11 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.088%) Ceph
12 2 (0.088%) IAG
12 2 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.088%) Squid
12 2 (0.088%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.044%) RACF
Systems Management
1 51 (2.25%) Ansible
2 38 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.01%) SCCM
5 18 (0.79%) FortiGate
6 16 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.70%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.40%) SCOM
8 9 (0.40%) WMI
9 8 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (0.35%) NetBackup
9 8 (0.35%) Puppet
10 7 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.22%) Grafana
12 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.22%) Nagios
12 5 (0.22%) Nessus
Vendors
1 524 (23.07%) Microsoft
2 182 (8.01%) SAP
3 162 (7.13%) Cisco
4 122 (5.37%) VMware
5 120 (5.28%) ServiceNow
6 105 (4.62%) Oracle
7 54 (2.38%) Palo Alto
8 51 (2.25%) Fortinet
8 51 (2.25%) Salesforce
9 41 (1.81%) F5
10 36 (1.59%) Google
11 34 (1.50%) Workday
12 32 (1.41%) IBM
12 32 (1.41%) Juniper
13 28 (1.23%) Ariba
14 27 (1.19%) SolarWinds
15 25 (1.10%) Siemens
16 24 (1.06%) Databricks
17 22 (0.97%) Zscaler
18 21 (0.92%) Splunk