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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 52 49
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,438 1,375 1,881
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.95% 3.82% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.37% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 788 1,251
10th Percentile £313 £354 £363
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £536 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% -0.69% -1.82%
75th Percentile £610 £630 £639
90th Percentile £725 £703 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.29% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 42 34
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.58 £21.07
25th Percentile £19.63 £22.54 £36.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £33.75 £56.16
Median % change year-on-year +34.70% -39.90% -13.60%
75th Percentile £63.49 £60.00 £77.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £84.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £41.09 £50.00
% change year-on-year +10.64% -17.82% -23.08%

All Process and 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 32,432 31,463 40,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.97% 87.43% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,408 19,089 26,807
10th Percentile £300 £309 £312
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,095 1,098 1,556
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.24 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 17 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 6 December 2025. 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 -2 1,238 £525 -3.67% 717
UK excluding London -6 753 £492 -6.29% 628
London +1 560 £550 - 219
Work from Home -3 436 £525 -3.00% 299
South East -2 210 £538 -2.27% 213
North of England -5 187 £478 -4.55% 135
Midlands -12 141 £463 -12.74% 109
North West +4 108 £475 -2.86% 77
West Midlands -17 81 £525 -8.42% 69
Scotland -17 74 £452 -4.84% 30
South West -4 73 £475 -9.52% 89
Yorkshire -3 68 £500 -12.74% 49
East Midlands +15 60 £420 -11.58% 40
East of England -2 37 £550 +10.00% 61
Wales +9 24 £306 -46.88% 8
Northern Ireland 0 16 £425 -22.73% 5
North East -3 12 £280 -50.55% 15

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 98 (6.82%) Confluence
2 62 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.35%) CMS
4 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.21%) CICS
5 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.14%) Appian
6 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.070%) Apache
7 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.070%) Camunda
7 1 (0.070%) Drupal
7 1 (0.070%) IIS
7 1 (0.070%) Moodle
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.070%) Smallworld
Applications
1 115 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (6.95%) Microsoft Project
3 94 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
4 77 (5.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (2.57%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.25%) Trello
7 13 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.49%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.14%) InDesign
10 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.070%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.070%) Simulink
11 1 (0.070%) Sketch
11 1 (0.070%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 58 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.18%) Endur
3 14 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
5 9 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.63%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.49%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.49%) SAP IBP
7 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.42%) SAP GTS
7 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.35%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.28%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 180 (12.52%) Azure
2 63 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (4.10%) Power Platform
4 49 (3.41%) AWS
4 49 (3.41%) SaaS
5 43 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
7 29 (2.02%) GCP
8 22 (1.53%) Entra ID
9 17 (1.18%) OCI
10 16 (1.11%) GitHub
11 15 (1.04%) PaaS
12 14 (0.97%) IaaS
13 13 (0.90%) Asana
13 13 (0.90%) Power Automate
13 13 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.76%) PowerApps
15 9 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
17 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.06%) Firewall
2 38 (2.64%) WAN
3 31 (2.16%) LAN
4 26 (1.81%) DNS
5 19 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.11%) BGP
7 16 (1.11%) VPN
7 16 (1.11%) Wireless
8 14 (0.97%) MPLS
9 13 (0.90%) Network Security
9 13 (0.90%) OSPF
10 12 (0.83%) HTTP
11 11 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (0.70%) SAN
12 10 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (0.56%) SSH
14 8 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
14 8 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.41%) Power BI
2 17 (1.18%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
3 16 (1.11%) Tableau
4 11 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 9 (0.63%) Data Lake
5 9 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.42%) Metadata
7 5 (0.35%) GIS
8 3 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.21%) Big Data
8 3 (0.21%) DB2
8 3 (0.21%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.14%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 178 (12.38%) JIRA
2 25 (1.74%) Git
3 8 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.49%) Subversion
5 6 (0.42%) GitLab
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (0.35%) Selenium
7 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.28%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.14%) Appium
9 2 (0.14%) JMeter
9 2 (0.14%) MSTest
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.070%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.070%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.070%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle Forms
General
1 640 (44.51%) Social Skills
2 456 (31.71%) Finance
3 182 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.95%) Banking
6 73 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
8 54 (3.76%) Manufacturing
9 47 (3.27%) Legal
10 43 (2.99%) Retail
10 43 (2.99%) Telecoms
11 41 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (2.57%) Marketing
13 32 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.88%) Front Office
15 22 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (1.32%) Local Government
18 18 (1.25%) Law
19 15 (1.04%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 414 (28.79%) Project Manager
2 196 (13.63%) Analyst
3 149 (10.36%) Lead
4 135 (9.39%) Business Analyst
5 122 (8.48%) Senior
6 89 (6.19%) Architect
7 82 (5.70%) Consultant
8 66 (4.59%) IT Manager
9 60 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
10 59 (4.10%) Senior Manager
11 51 (3.55%) IT Project Manager
12 48 (3.34%) Senior Project Manager
13 43 (2.99%) Technical Manager
14 39 (2.71%) Programme Manager
15 37 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (2.16%) Infrastructure Manager
17 29 (2.02%) Technical Project Manager
18 27 (1.88%) SAP Manager
19 26 (1.81%) Administrator
19 26 (1.81%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.46%) REST
2 19 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.97%) SOAP
4 13 (0.90%) React
4 13 (0.90%) Web Services
5 12 (0.83%) Middleware
6 11 (0.76%) AngularJS
6 11 (0.76%) XML
7 10 (0.70%) .NET
8 8 (0.56%) JMS
8 8 (0.56%) RESTful
8 8 (0.56%) XSD
9 6 (0.42%) Node.js
9 6 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.35%) ADO
10 5 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (0.35%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.35%) YAML
11 4 (0.28%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.28%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 68 (4.73%) Onboarding
2 65 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 48 (3.34%) Data Centre
4 42 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.64%) PMI
6 35 (2.43%) Virtual Team
7 33 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.18%) NHS
12 14 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 13 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
14 12 (0.83%) CMDB
14 12 (0.83%) Driving Licence
15 11 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.76%) Life Science
16 10 (0.70%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 75 (5.22%) Windows
2 36 (2.50%) Linux
3 35 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.18%) Unix
5 14 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.42%) Solaris
8 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.35%) OpenVMS
8 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.21%) zOS
10 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.14%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.070%) Android
11 1 (0.070%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.070%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (36.30%) Agile
2 469 (32.61%) Project Management
3 447 (31.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 255 (17.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 252 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
6 219 (15.23%) Change Management
7 213 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 196 (13.63%) Migration
9 190 (13.21%) PRINCE2
10 168 (11.68%) Waterfall
11 139 (9.67%) Roadmaps
12 137 (9.53%) Risk Management
13 136 (9.46%) ITIL
14 131 (9.11%) Decision-Making
15 129 (8.97%) Scrum
16 124 (8.62%) DevOps
17 121 (8.41%) ERP
18 120 (8.34%) Project Governance
19 111 (7.72%) Workshop Facilitation
20 106 (7.37%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 75 (5.22%) SQL
2 67 (4.66%) Python
3 40 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.53%) Bash
5 21 (1.46%) Java
6 7 (0.49%) C#
7 6 (0.42%) C++
7 6 (0.42%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.42%) Perl
7 6 (0.42%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.35%) ABAP
9 3 (0.21%) Assembly Language
9 3 (0.21%) COBOL
9 3 (0.21%) HLASM
9 3 (0.21%) JCL
9 3 (0.21%) REXX
9 3 (0.21%) VBA
10 2 (0.14%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.14%) PHP
10 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 229 (15.92%) Degree
2 219 (15.23%) Security Cleared
3 162 (11.27%) SC Cleared
4 113 (7.86%) PMI Certification
5 105 (7.30%) PMP
6 43 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 33 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.46%) CCNP
12 19 (1.32%) APMP
13 17 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 16 (1.11%) CBAP
15 14 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.90%) CCNA
17 9 (0.63%) CISSP
17 9 (0.63%) SAP Certification
18 7 (0.49%) ACCA
18 7 (0.49%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (8.07%) PMO
2 77 (5.35%) QA
3 35 (2.43%) GDPR
4 31 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.02%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 18 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.18%) NIST
9 16 (1.11%) SLA
10 12 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.76%) PSD2
12 10 (0.70%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.70%) NCSC
13 8 (0.56%) COBIT
13 8 (0.56%) MiFID
14 7 (0.49%) P3O
15 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.42%) Def Stans
15 6 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.42%) EMIR
System Software
1 42 (2.92%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.76%) Docker
4 10 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.35%) vSphere
9 4 (0.28%) NFS
9 4 (0.28%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.28%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.070%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.070%) RACF
12 1 (0.070%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (1.95%) Ansible
2 19 (1.32%) Terraform
3 16 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (1.04%) SCCM
5 10 (0.70%) Kubernetes
5 10 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (0.35%) Grafana
7 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.35%) QRadar
8 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.21%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.14%) CEMLI
10 2 (0.14%) PaperCut
10 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 251 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 127 (8.83%) SAP
3 92 (6.40%) Oracle
4 68 (4.73%) ServiceNow
5 61 (4.24%) Cisco
6 44 (3.06%) Salesforce
7 38 (2.64%) VMware
8 27 (1.88%) Workday
9 21 (1.46%) IBM
10 18 (1.25%) Citrix
11 16 (1.11%) Red Hat
12 15 (1.04%) Ariba
12 15 (1.04%) Google
13 14 (0.97%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.97%) F5
13 14 (0.97%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.97%) Palo Alto
14 12 (0.83%) Aruba
15 11 (0.76%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.70%) Blue Prism