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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 61 54
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,183 1,301 1,374
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.02% 3.95% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.36% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,447 830 802
10th Percentile £331 £319 £363
25th Percentile £425 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £709 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 33 39
10th Percentile £23.64 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £35.89 £30.11 £25.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +78.57% -45.31%
75th Percentile £76.75 £70.16 £56.02
90th Percentile £87.83 £84.50 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £60.00 £39.68
% change year-on-year -9.17% +51.21% -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 45,839 29,816 32,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.46% 90.52% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,855 18,531 20,147
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
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 £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,070 1,799 1,460
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.36 £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 £67.50 £44.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +83.63% -47.37% +5.81%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +6 1,844 £525 - 3,783
UK excluding London -2 1,155 £500 +1.63% 2,443
London 0 823 £550 -3.17% 1,701
Work from Home +4 621 £500 -2.44% 1,660
South East -5 309 £525 -2.33% 609
North of England +7 290 £492 +3.61% 575
North West +9 188 £500 +5.26% 332
Midlands -25 157 £475 -3.46% 402
South West -3 151 £525 +13.64% 278
Scotland +20 147 £450 - 240
West Midlands -25 119 £475 -9.52% 265
Yorkshire -17 79 £485 +4.86% 180
East of England +4 65 £500 -4.76% 202
East Midlands -25 34 £425 -0.93% 135
Wales 0 24 £400 +11.11% 52
North East -19 24 £350 -14.79% 65
Northern Ireland +1 16 £394 -17.11% 107
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
1 119 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 112 (5.13%) Confluence
3 35 (1.60%) 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 (0.092%) CICS
9 2 (0.092%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.046%) IIS
10 1 (0.046%) MTS
Applications
1 169 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (5.63%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
4 97 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.78%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.55%) Trello
8 9 (0.41%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.41%) Navisworks
8 9 (0.41%) Revit
9 7 (0.32%) ProjectWise
10 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.092%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.092%) Houdini
11 2 (0.092%) NUKE
12 1 (0.046%) CATIA
12 1 (0.046%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 51 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.10%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.64%) Primavera
5 12 (0.55%) Maximo
6 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.41%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.37%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.32%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.27%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
11 5 (0.23%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 337 (15.44%) Azure
2 142 (6.50%) AWS
3 133 (6.09%) Power Platform
4 128 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
5 98 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (4.26%) SaaS
7 70 (3.21%) Entra ID
8 51 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
9 50 (2.29%) GCP
10 28 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.24%) OCI
12 24 (1.10%) Google Workspace
12 24 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
13 23 (1.05%) GitHub
13 23 (1.05%) PowerApps
14 21 (0.96%) Power Automate
15 19 (0.87%) IaaS
16 14 (0.64%) OneDrive
16 14 (0.64%) PaaS
17 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 136 (6.23%) Firewall
2 88 (4.03%) DNS
3 83 (3.80%) WAN
4 80 (3.66%) Network Security
5 73 (3.34%) LAN
6 66 (3.02%) VPN
7 47 (2.15%) MPLS
8 45 (2.06%) BGP
8 45 (2.06%) DHCP
9 41 (1.88%) Wireless
10 38 (1.74%) VLAN
11 37 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
12 30 (1.37%) OSPF
12 30 (1.37%) TCP/IP
13 24 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 21 (0.96%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.82%) SSL
16 14 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
16 14 (0.64%) IPsec
16 14 (0.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.86%) Power BI
2 40 (1.83%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (0.69%) Metadata
5 13 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.46%) Tableau
7 9 (0.41%) Big Data
7 9 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.37%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
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
1 234 (10.72%) JIRA
2 22 (1.01%) Git
3 13 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.46%) GitLab
5 7 (0.32%) MSI
6 6 (0.27%) Selenium
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
10 2 (0.092%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.092%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.092%) TestNG
11 1 (0.046%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.046%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.046%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.046%) NUnit
11 1 (0.046%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.046%) Oracle Forms
General
1 906 (41.50%) Social Skills
2 665 (30.46%) Finance
3 290 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 168 (7.70%) Organisational Skills
6 135 (6.18%) Banking
7 101 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
8 93 (4.26%) Retail
9 92 (4.21%) Telecoms
10 89 (4.08%) Legal
11 76 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
12 73 (3.34%) Manufacturing
13 61 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (2.02%) Military
15 43 (1.97%) Local Government
16 35 (1.60%) Front Office
17 33 (1.51%) Law
18 31 (1.42%) Marketing
19 24 (1.10%) Investment Banking
20 23 (1.05%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 505 (23.13%) Project Manager
2 250 (11.45%) Analyst
3 229 (10.49%) Senior
4 202 (9.25%) Lead
5 148 (6.78%) Architect
6 147 (6.73%) Business Analyst
7 135 (6.18%) Consultant
8 104 (4.76%) Senior Manager
9 95 (4.35%) Network Engineer
10 92 (4.21%) Delivery Manager
11 86 (3.94%) Senior Project Manager
12 82 (3.76%) IT Manager
13 64 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 60 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
15 57 (2.61%) IT Project Manager
16 51 (2.34%) Developer
17 46 (2.11%) Technical Manager
18 36 (1.65%) Coordinator
18 36 (1.65%) Transformation Manager
19 35 (1.60%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.02%) Terraform
2 39 (1.79%) REST
3 34 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.05%) Middleware
5 15 (0.69%) .NET
5 15 (0.69%) SAP Fiori
6 14 (0.64%) XML
7 13 (0.60%) SOAP
8 11 (0.50%) 802.1X
8 11 (0.50%) JSON
8 11 (0.50%) LDAP
8 11 (0.50%) OAuth
9 10 (0.46%) ADO
9 10 (0.46%) React
9 10 (0.46%) Web Services
10 8 (0.37%) SailPoint
10 8 (0.37%) SAML
11 7 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.32%) Kafka
11 7 (0.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 109 (4.99%) Onboarding
2 107 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 98 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 90 (4.12%) Data Centre
5 48 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 45 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 37 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 36 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 35 (1.60%) Driving Licence
11 34 (1.56%) Cloud Native
11 34 (1.56%) Operational Technology
12 32 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (1.33%) PKI
14 25 (1.15%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.10%) Derivative
16 21 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 19 (0.87%) Clustering
17 19 (0.87%) Replication
18 17 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.78%) Windows
2 76 (3.48%) Linux
3 70 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.37%) Unix
5 14 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.55%) Solaris
7 9 (0.41%) AIX
8 7 (0.32%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.27%) Android
9 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.18%) zOS
12 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.092%) CentOS
13 2 (0.092%) Debian
13 2 (0.092%) VMS
13 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 930 (42.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 689 (31.56%) Agile
3 593 (27.16%) Project Management
4 405 (18.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 402 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 355 (16.26%) Migration
7 352 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
8 323 (14.80%) Change Management
9 285 (13.06%) PRINCE2
10 251 (11.50%) Decision-Making
11 237 (10.86%) Waterfall
12 208 (9.53%) Risk Management
13 195 (8.93%) ITIL
14 189 (8.66%) Roadmaps
15 180 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
16 179 (8.20%) AI
17 178 (8.15%) DevOps
17 178 (8.15%) Workshop Facilitation
18 173 (7.92%) Project Governance
19 164 (7.51%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 106 (4.86%) SQL
2 95 (4.35%) Python
3 75 (3.44%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.15%) Java
5 24 (1.10%) Bash
6 17 (0.78%) VBA
7 16 (0.73%) C#
8 14 (0.64%) JavaScript
9 11 (0.50%) ABAP
10 7 (0.32%) Korn
10 7 (0.32%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
13 4 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.14%) Bicep
14 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 492 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 357 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 207 (9.48%) Degree
4 165 (7.56%) PMP
5 147 (6.73%) PMI Certification
6 127 (5.82%) DV Cleared
7 74 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
8 47 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (2.15%) CCNP
9 39 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.74%) CCNA
10 38 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 37 (1.69%) Azure Certification
12 29 (1.33%) CISSP
13 19 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (0.82%) MCSE
14 18 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
15 15 (0.69%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.69%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (11.18%) PMO
2 95 (4.35%) QA
3 57 (2.61%) NIST
4 55 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 55 (2.52%) GDPR
5 53 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.37%) SLA
7 24 (1.10%) GRC
8 20 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.64%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.41%) NCSC
12 9 (0.41%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.37%) Accessibility
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
1 112 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 80 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (1.37%) Hyper-V
4 26 (1.19%) vSphere
5 21 (0.96%) Docker
6 20 (0.92%) 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 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.092%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.046%) ACF2
12 1 (0.046%) IAG
12 1 (0.046%) KVM
12 1 (0.046%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 53 (2.43%) Ansible
2 35 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.24%) 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 (0.60%) 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
1 495 (22.68%) Microsoft
2 155 (7.10%) Cisco
3 153 (7.01%) SAP
4 130 (5.96%) ServiceNow
5 104 (4.76%) Oracle
5 104 (4.76%) VMware
6 55 (2.52%) Palo Alto
7 51 (2.34%) Fortinet
8 48 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 46 (2.11%) F5
10 38 (1.74%) Google
11 33 (1.51%) Workday
12 30 (1.37%) Juniper
13 29 (1.33%) SolarWinds
14 25 (1.15%) IBM
15 24 (1.10%) Ariba
15 24 (1.10%) Databricks
16 23 (1.05%) Zscaler
17 22 (1.01%) Siemens
17 22 (1.01%) Splunk