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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 60 52
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,966 1,259 1,599
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 3.89% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 4.30% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,341 787 1,009
10th Percentile £325 £325 £355
25th Percentile £413 £419 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £630 £628
90th Percentile £700 £725 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £488 £504
% change year-on-year +1.54% -3.27% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 22 47
10th Percentile £20.35 £31.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £33.80 £47.38 £26.47
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +52.66% -34.50%
75th Percentile £80.38 £77.19 £55.39
90th Percentile £88.76 £82.13 £66.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.75 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -25.00% +58.77% -33.16%

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 44,833 29,276 36,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.19% 90.47% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,910 18,456 23,540
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,660 1,489 2,488
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +6 1,706 £515 -1.90% 1,124
UK excluding London +8 1,104 £495 +1.54% 890
London -7 712 £550 -4.35% 416
Work from Home +1 568 £515 +0.43% 534
South East +7 280 £525 +1.69% 264
North of England +5 274 £483 +3.04% 212
North West +22 183 £478 +1.87% 113
Midlands -16 179 £475 -7.23% 131
South West +7 166 £500 - 141
West Midlands -19 138 £481 -7.46% 79
Scotland +1 118 £450 -2.60% 50
Yorkshire -24 74 £500 - 72
East of England -9 61 £500 +11.73% 68
East Midlands -14 39 £402 -9.61% 52
Wales 0 22 £525 +89.59% 22
North East -23 19 £350 -3.45% 28
Northern Ireland +5 14 £334 -36.38% 23
Channel Islands +1 1 £550 +22.22%

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
1 109 (5.54%) SharePoint
2 105 (5.34%) Confluence
3 37 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.36%) CMS
5 6 (0.31%) SAS
6 5 (0.25%) Apache
7 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.15%) Appian
8 3 (0.15%) Camunda
8 3 (0.15%) CICS
8 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
8 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.15%) WordPress
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.051%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 157 (7.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 111 (5.65%) Microsoft Project
3 98 (4.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 94 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
5 38 (1.93%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.97%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.36%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.15%) Revit
10 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.10%) Trello
11 1 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.051%) CATIA
11 1 (0.051%) Houdini
11 1 (0.051%) NUKE
11 1 (0.051%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 44 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.27%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.61%) Primavera
4 9 (0.46%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.46%) Maximo
5 7 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.36%) SAP SD
6 6 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.31%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.31%) SAP PSCD
6 6 (0.31%) Summit
7 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.25%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.20%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 240 (12.21%) Azure
2 118 (6.00%) AWS
3 104 (5.29%) Power Platform
4 97 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (3.46%) SaaS
6 65 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (2.75%) Entra ID
8 36 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
9 32 (1.63%) GCP
10 25 (1.27%) Google Workspace
11 23 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.07%) GitHub
12 21 (1.07%) IaaS
13 19 (0.97%) PowerApps
14 18 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
15 16 (0.81%) Power Automate
15 16 (0.81%) Serverless
16 14 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (0.71%) Amazon S3
16 14 (0.71%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 109 (5.54%) Firewall
2 84 (4.27%) DNS
3 68 (3.46%) WAN
4 62 (3.15%) LAN
5 55 (2.80%) Network Security
6 50 (2.54%) VPN
7 42 (2.14%) MPLS
8 39 (1.98%) BGP
9 34 (1.73%) DHCP
10 31 (1.58%) OSPF
11 30 (1.53%) Wireless
12 28 (1.42%) VLAN
13 27 (1.37%) TCP/IP
14 26 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 26 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
15 24 (1.22%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.81%) SSL
17 15 (0.76%) BIG-IP
17 15 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
18 14 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.32%) Power BI
2 40 (2.03%) SQL Server
3 19 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (0.86%) Tableau
5 15 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.66%) Metadata
8 10 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.46%) SAP HANA
10 8 (0.41%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.41%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.36%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.31%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.25%) Big Data
13 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
15 3 (0.15%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 206 (10.48%) JIRA
2 27 (1.37%) Git
3 14 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.66%) GitLab
5 8 (0.41%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.41%) Selenium
6 4 (0.20%) Appium
6 4 (0.20%) Subversion
7 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.15%) JMeter
7 3 (0.15%) MSTest
7 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.10%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.10%) Hudson
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.10%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.10%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.10%) WebDriver
General
1 780 (39.67%) Social Skills
2 626 (31.84%) Finance
3 256 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 216 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 148 (7.53%) Organisational Skills
6 101 (5.14%) Banking
7 98 (4.98%) Retail
8 87 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
9 86 (4.37%) Legal
10 67 (3.41%) Telecoms
11 61 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
12 58 (2.95%) Manufacturing
13 40 (2.03%) Local Government
14 32 (1.63%) Marketing
15 30 (1.53%) Military
16 23 (1.17%) Investment Banking
17 18 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (0.92%) Law
17 18 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 485 (24.67%) Project Manager
2 231 (11.75%) Analyst
3 207 (10.53%) Senior
4 192 (9.77%) Lead
5 117 (5.95%) Business Analyst
6 112 (5.70%) Architect
7 99 (5.04%) Senior Manager
8 88 (4.48%) Consultant
9 80 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
9 80 (4.07%) Senior Project Manager
10 79 (4.02%) IT Manager
11 76 (3.87%) Network Engineer
12 56 (2.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 54 (2.75%) Developer
14 53 (2.70%) IT Project Manager
15 43 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.09%) Technical Manager
17 38 (1.93%) Project Officer
18 36 (1.83%) Infrastructure Manager
18 36 (1.83%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.78%) Middleware
2 33 (1.68%) REST
3 19 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.71%) .NET
5 13 (0.66%) 802.1X
5 13 (0.66%) XML
6 12 (0.61%) OAuth
7 11 (0.56%) ADO
7 11 (0.56%) JSON
8 10 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
8 10 (0.51%) Web Services
9 9 (0.46%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.41%) React
10 8 (0.41%) RESTful
10 8 (0.41%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.41%) Spring
11 6 (0.31%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.31%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.31%) CSS
11 6 (0.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.14%) Management Information System
2 90 (4.58%) Onboarding
3 79 (4.02%) Data Centre
4 69 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 40 (2.03%) Virtual Team
6 34 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 31 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 29 (1.48%) Cloud Native
9 29 (1.48%) Operational Technology
9 29 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.32%) Replication
11 25 (1.27%) Clustering
11 25 (1.27%) PKI
12 23 (1.17%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (0.92%) Driving Licence
14 18 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (0.81%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 115 (5.85%) Windows
2 55 (2.80%) Windows Server
3 48 (2.44%) Linux
4 26 (1.32%) Unix
5 9 (0.46%) AIX
5 9 (0.46%) Solaris
6 7 (0.36%) zOS
7 6 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.10%) Android
10 2 (0.10%) Debian
10 2 (0.10%) VMS
10 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.10%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.051%) pSOS
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (33.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 595 (30.26%) Agile
3 544 (27.67%) Project Management
4 331 (16.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 315 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
6 310 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 303 (15.41%) Migration
8 269 (13.68%) Change Management
9 236 (12.00%) PRINCE2
10 215 (10.94%) Decision-Making
11 203 (10.33%) Waterfall
12 164 (8.34%) Risk Management
13 157 (7.99%) ITIL
14 156 (7.93%) AI
15 154 (7.83%) Roadmaps
16 153 (7.78%) DevOps
17 129 (6.56%) ERP
18 126 (6.41%) Workshop Facilitation
19 125 (6.36%) Validation
20 123 (6.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.65%) SQL
2 94 (4.78%) Python
3 63 (3.20%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.12%) C#
5 21 (1.07%) Java
6 20 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.86%) Bash
8 14 (0.71%) VBA
9 9 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.41%) Go
10 8 (0.41%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.41%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.36%) ABAP
11 7 (0.36%) Bicep
12 6 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.20%) C++
15 3 (0.15%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 416 (21.16%) Security Cleared
2 295 (15.01%) SC Cleared
3 194 (9.87%) Degree
4 158 (8.04%) PMP
5 122 (6.21%) PMI Certification
6 112 (5.70%) DV Cleared
7 65 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (2.14%) CCNP
9 38 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.88%) CCNA
10 37 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 27 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 26 (1.32%) CISSP
13 23 (1.17%) Azure Certification
14 20 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (0.97%) MCSE
16 18 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
17 15 (0.76%) CISM
18 14 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
18 14 (0.71%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (11.09%) PMO
2 105 (5.34%) QA
3 50 (2.54%) NIST
4 49 (2.49%) GDPR
4 49 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.19%) Data Quality
6 31 (1.58%) SLA
7 15 (0.76%) GRC
8 12 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.41%) NCSC
11 7 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
11 7 (0.36%) HL7
11 7 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.25%) GxP
12 5 (0.25%) IFRS
12 5 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 94 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.12%) vSphere
4 21 (1.07%) Docker
5 20 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 20 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.56%) Firmware
7 11 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.15%) Squid
11 2 (0.10%) Ceph
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.051%) ACF2
12 1 (0.051%) KVM
12 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.051%) RACF
12 1 (0.051%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 48 (2.44%) Ansible
2 42 (2.14%) Terraform
3 26 (1.32%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.07%) SCCM
6 20 (1.02%) FortiGate
7 16 (0.81%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.41%) Nagios
10 7 (0.36%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.31%) SCOM
12 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.25%) Netcool
12 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.20%) Cisco Prime
13 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.15%) Check_MK
14 3 (0.15%) Nessus
14 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 379 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 131 (6.66%) SAP
3 109 (5.54%) Cisco
4 108 (5.49%) ServiceNow
5 86 (4.37%) Oracle
6 71 (3.61%) VMware
7 49 (2.49%) Palo Alto
8 43 (2.19%) F5
9 39 (1.98%) Fortinet
10 38 (1.93%) Salesforce
11 35 (1.78%) Google
12 29 (1.48%) SolarWinds
13 25 (1.27%) Juniper
14 23 (1.17%) IBM
15 19 (0.97%) Siemens
16 18 (0.92%) NEC
16 18 (0.92%) Workday
17 17 (0.86%) Aruba
17 17 (0.86%) CheckPoint
17 17 (0.86%) Infoblox