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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 58 49
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,866 1,164 1,620
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 3.96% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.35% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,281 721 1,030
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £418 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £485 £525
% change year-on-year -0.41% -7.62% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 17 39
10th Percentile £16.52 £34.00 £20.98
25th Percentile £23.35 £55.00 £26.47
Median hourly rate £40.02 £65.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -38.43% +82.33% -40.58%
75th Percentile £77.19 £77.50 £41.60
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.50 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £67.58 £40.94
% change year-on-year -45.25% +65.07% -37.02%

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 42,291 26,731 37,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 91.01% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,385 16,984 23,772
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,541 1,182 2,587
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 1,658 £513 -2.38% 843
UK excluding London +7 1,040 £483 -0.41% 681
London -2 702 £550 -5.50% 269
Work from Home -3 535 £525 +1.55% 393
North of England +17 293 £477 +6.00% 149
South East +10 244 £525 - 233
North West +24 200 £475 +5.56% 86
Midlands -17 190 £470 -6.37% 107
South West +13 143 £493 -5.06% 78
West Midlands -14 134 £475 -8.61% 69
Scotland -11 97 £488 +7.85% 34
Yorkshire -16 77 £500 +5.26% 49
East of England +3 60 £500 +17.65% 64
East Midlands -12 55 £413 -6.68% 38
North East -14 18 £350 -3.45% 18
Wales -3 16 £463 +42.31% 17
Northern Ireland +1 9 £280 -46.76% 17
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
1 108 (5.79%) Confluence
2 101 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.48%) CMS
5 6 (0.32%) SAS
6 4 (0.21%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.21%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.16%) Camunda
7 3 (0.16%) CICS
7 3 (0.16%) Kentico
7 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 157 (8.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (5.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 100 (5.36%) Microsoft Project
4 87 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (1.71%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.34%) Siemens NX
7 9 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.21%) Revit
9 4 (0.21%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 38 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.55%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.43%) Primavera
6 7 (0.38%) Maximo
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.27%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.27%) Shopify
8 5 (0.27%) Summit
9 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.21%) SAP SD
10 3 (0.16%) Endur
10 3 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.16%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 221 (11.84%) Azure
2 102 (5.47%) AWS
3 97 (5.20%) Power Platform
4 95 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
5 66 (3.54%) SaaS
6 56 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (2.47%) Entra ID
8 32 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
8 32 (1.71%) GCP
9 24 (1.29%) GitHub
10 23 (1.23%) Google Workspace
10 23 (1.23%) IaaS
11 18 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (0.86%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.70%) Serverless
14 12 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (0.64%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.64%) PaaS
14 12 (0.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 110 (5.89%) Firewall
2 69 (3.70%) DNS
3 56 (3.00%) Network Security
4 52 (2.79%) WAN
5 46 (2.47%) LAN
6 34 (1.82%) VPN
7 29 (1.55%) BGP
8 28 (1.50%) VLAN
9 27 (1.45%) MPLS
9 27 (1.45%) OSPF
10 25 (1.34%) DHCP
11 22 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 20 (1.07%) SD-WAN
12 20 (1.07%) Wireless
13 19 (1.02%) TCP/IP
14 16 (0.86%) SSL
14 16 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (0.70%) BIG-IP
15 13 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
16 10 (0.54%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (4.07%) Power BI
2 42 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.50%) Tableau
4 25 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (0.70%) Metadata
8 10 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.43%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.32%) Big Data
12 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
15 3 (0.16%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 201 (10.77%) JIRA
2 18 (0.96%) Git
3 17 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.54%) GitLab
5 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.32%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) Appium
7 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.16%) JMeter
7 3 (0.16%) MSTest
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.054%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.054%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.054%) Postman
9 1 (0.054%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.054%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 700 (37.51%) Social Skills
2 581 (31.14%) Finance
3 244 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 134 (7.18%) Organisational Skills
6 121 (6.48%) Banking
7 87 (4.66%) Retail
8 79 (4.23%) Legal
9 73 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
10 64 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (2.57%) Manufacturing
12 48 (2.57%) Telecoms
13 34 (1.82%) Local Government
14 27 (1.45%) Marketing
15 25 (1.34%) Military
16 24 (1.29%) Investment Banking
17 19 (1.02%) Financial Institution
18 18 (0.96%) Publishing
19 16 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 469 (25.13%) Project Manager
2 222 (11.90%) Analyst
3 198 (10.61%) Lead
4 188 (10.08%) Senior
5 129 (6.91%) Business Analyst
6 100 (5.36%) Architect
7 88 (4.72%) Senior Manager
8 80 (4.29%) Consultant
9 79 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
10 75 (4.02%) Network Engineer
11 72 (3.86%) Senior Project Manager
12 71 (3.80%) IT Manager
13 51 (2.73%) IT Project Manager
14 50 (2.68%) Developer
15 48 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
16 47 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 40 (2.14%) Technical Manager
18 38 (2.04%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 32 (1.71%) Project Officer
20 31 (1.66%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.20%) Middleware
2 29 (1.55%) REST
3 20 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.91%) XML
5 13 (0.70%) .NET
6 12 (0.64%) ADO
7 11 (0.59%) JSON
8 9 (0.48%) OAuth
8 9 (0.48%) React
8 9 (0.48%) Spring Boot
8 9 (0.48%) Web Services
9 8 (0.43%) 802.1X
9 8 (0.43%) CSS
9 8 (0.43%) Spring
10 7 (0.38%) HTML
10 7 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.32%) RESTful
12 5 (0.27%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.20%) Management Information System
2 81 (4.34%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.91%) Data Centre
4 70 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 36 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 31 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 29 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 27 (1.45%) Cloud Native
10 27 (1.45%) Clustering
10 27 (1.45%) Replication
11 21 (1.13%) PKI
12 20 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.07%) Operational Technology
13 19 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
14 17 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
14 17 (0.91%) NHS
15 16 (0.86%) Life Science
15 16 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 106 (5.68%) Windows
2 52 (2.79%) Windows Server
3 40 (2.14%) Linux
4 31 (1.66%) Unix
5 15 (0.80%) Solaris
6 9 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.43%) AIX
7 8 (0.43%) VMS
8 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.38%) zOS
9 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.21%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.054%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.054%) Android
13 1 (0.054%) CentOS
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (30.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 551 (29.53%) Agile
3 535 (28.67%) Project Management
4 295 (15.81%) Migration
5 291 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
6 279 (14.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 277 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 225 (12.06%) Change Management
9 220 (11.79%) PRINCE2
10 191 (10.24%) Waterfall
11 189 (10.13%) Decision-Making
12 159 (8.52%) DevOps
13 150 (8.04%) Risk Management
14 129 (6.91%) AI
14 129 (6.91%) Roadmaps
15 125 (6.70%) Scrum
16 124 (6.65%) ITIL
17 119 (6.38%) ERP
18 112 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
18 112 (6.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 106 (5.68%) SQL
2 83 (4.45%) Python
3 53 (2.84%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.18%) Java
5 21 (1.13%) C#
6 19 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.59%) Bash
8 8 (0.43%) Go
8 8 (0.43%) PL/SQL
8 8 (0.43%) T-SQL
8 8 (0.43%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.38%) Bicep
10 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.32%) VBA
11 5 (0.27%) ABAP
11 5 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.16%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.16%) C++
12 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 408 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 303 (16.24%) SC Cleared
3 184 (9.86%) Degree
4 158 (8.47%) PMP
5 124 (6.65%) PMI Certification
6 93 (4.98%) DV Cleared
7 54 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (2.30%) CCNP
9 36 (1.93%) CCNA
10 34 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 32 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (1.34%) CISSP
13 21 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 19 (1.02%) APMP
14 19 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.96%) Azure Certification
15 18 (0.96%) CISM
15 18 (0.96%) MCSE
16 16 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (11.41%) PMO
2 100 (5.36%) QA
3 53 (2.84%) NIST
4 51 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.47%) GDPR
6 40 (2.14%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.07%) SLA
8 12 (0.64%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.64%) GRC
9 9 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.43%) HL7
10 8 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.43%) IFRS
11 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.32%) Basel III
12 6 (0.32%) GAAP
12 6 (0.32%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.32%) NCSC
13 5 (0.27%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 78 (4.18%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.23%) vSphere
4 20 (1.07%) Docker
5 18 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.48%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.38%) Firmware
9 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.16%) Squid
11 2 (0.11%) Ceph
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.054%) ACF2
12 1 (0.054%) KVM
12 1 (0.054%) RACF
12 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 45 (2.41%) Ansible
2 39 (2.09%) Terraform
3 32 (1.71%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.80%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.70%) FortiGate
7 12 (0.64%) SCCM
7 12 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.38%) Nagios
8 7 (0.38%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.27%) Netcool
9 5 (0.27%) Tivoli
10 4 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
11 3 (0.16%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
12 2 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 337 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 131 (7.02%) SAP
3 91 (4.88%) Oracle
4 88 (4.72%) Cisco
4 88 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 57 (3.05%) VMware
6 49 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 37 (1.98%) Google
8 36 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 35 (1.88%) F5
10 26 (1.39%) Fortinet
11 25 (1.34%) Siemens
12 22 (1.18%) IBM
13 19 (1.02%) CheckPoint
14 18 (0.96%) SolarWinds
15 17 (0.91%) Workday
16 16 (0.86%) Aruba
17 15 (0.80%) Infoblox
17 15 (0.80%) NEC
18 14 (0.75%) Citrix