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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 59 50
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,884 1,183 1,612
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 3.97% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.37% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 738 1,021
10th Percentile £336 £342 £355
25th Percentile £417 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £637 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £485 £511
% change year-on-year -0.15% -5.13% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 20 40
10th Percentile £16.92 £35.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £24.20 £49.63 £25.75
Median hourly rate £41.00 £65.00 £35.33
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +84.01% -39.87%
75th Percentile £67.89 £77.50 £41.27
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.75 £65.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.04 £65.00 £38.30
% change year-on-year -39.94% +69.73% -38.73%

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 42,754 27,087 37,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,630 17,192 23,755
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -3.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,570 1,249 2,608
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.87 £16.02
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +67.72% -29.51% +6.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.32 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +8 1,661 £515 -1.90% 712
UK excluding London +5 1,055 £484 -0.15% 653
London -4 698 £550 -4.35% 220
Work from Home +5 542 £523 +1.55% 347
North of England +18 284 £476 +5.83% 127
South East +7 255 £525 - 232
Midlands -7 195 £475 -7.23% 96
North West +30 193 £475 +5.56% 78
South West +14 146 £500 -6.98% 66
West Midlands -9 138 £475 -9.52% 57
Scotland -3 107 £484 +6.55% 27
Yorkshire -26 75 £500 +5.26% 37
East of England -5 55 £500 +11.73% 69
East Midlands -6 55 £413 -6.68% 39
North East -23 18 £350 -3.45% 17
Wales -7 15 £475 +65.22% 26
Northern Ireland -1 10 £280 -46.76% 35
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 (5.73%) Confluence
2 104 (5.52%) SharePoint
3 39 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.42%) 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%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.16%) Camunda
7 3 (0.16%) CICS
7 3 (0.16%) Kentico
7 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.16%) WordPress
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 160 (8.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (5.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 101 (5.36%) Microsoft Project
4 88 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (1.65%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.22%) Siemens NX
7 9 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.21%) Revit
10 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.16%) Trello
11 1 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 36 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.43%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.48%) Primavera
5 7 (0.37%) Maximo
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
6 6 (0.32%) Summit
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.27%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.27%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.27%) Shopify
8 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 221 (11.73%) Azure
2 104 (5.52%) AWS
3 99 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
4 96 (5.10%) Power Platform
5 66 (3.50%) SaaS
6 55 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (2.55%) Entra ID
8 30 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.54%) GCP
10 23 (1.22%) GitHub
10 23 (1.22%) Google Workspace
10 23 (1.22%) IaaS
11 19 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (0.85%) PowerApps
12 16 (0.85%) Serverless
13 14 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (0.74%) Amazon S3
14 13 (0.69%) Power Automate
15 12 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.73%) Firewall
2 72 (3.82%) DNS
3 58 (3.08%) Network Security
4 53 (2.81%) WAN
5 46 (2.44%) LAN
6 40 (2.12%) VPN
7 31 (1.65%) MPLS
8 30 (1.59%) BGP
9 28 (1.49%) DHCP
9 28 (1.49%) OSPF
9 28 (1.49%) VLAN
10 23 (1.22%) Wireless
11 22 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 21 (1.11%) SD-WAN
13 20 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (1.01%) TCP/IP
15 15 (0.80%) SSL
16 13 (0.69%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
17 12 (0.64%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.14%) Power BI
2 42 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.54%) Tableau
4 24 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.64%) Metadata
7 10 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.42%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.37%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.32%) Big Data
11 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.16%) GIS
Development Applications
1 203 (10.77%) JIRA
2 23 (1.22%) Git
3 14 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.64%) GitLab
5 7 (0.37%) 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%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.053%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.053%) MSI
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.053%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 724 (38.43%) Social Skills
2 597 (31.69%) Finance
3 244 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 139 (7.38%) Organisational Skills
6 119 (6.32%) Banking
7 88 (4.67%) Retail
8 82 (4.35%) Legal
9 76 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
10 67 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (2.81%) Telecoms
12 49 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
12 49 (2.60%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.91%) Local Government
14 29 (1.54%) Military
15 27 (1.43%) Marketing
16 22 (1.17%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 19 (1.01%) Publishing
19 16 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 465 (24.68%) Project Manager
2 220 (11.68%) Analyst
3 202 (10.72%) Lead
4 200 (10.62%) Senior
5 121 (6.42%) Business Analyst
6 101 (5.36%) Architect
7 94 (4.99%) Senior Manager
8 82 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
9 80 (4.25%) Consultant
10 76 (4.03%) IT Manager
10 76 (4.03%) Network Engineer
11 75 (3.98%) Senior Project Manager
12 54 (2.87%) Developer
12 54 (2.87%) IT Project Manager
13 49 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
14 47 (2.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 39 (2.07%) Technical Manager
16 38 (2.02%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 35 (1.86%) Project Officer
18 32 (1.70%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (2.12%) Middleware
2 30 (1.59%) REST
3 19 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.85%) XML
5 13 (0.69%) .NET
6 11 (0.58%) JSON
7 10 (0.53%) 802.1X
7 10 (0.53%) ADO
7 10 (0.53%) OAuth
8 9 (0.48%) React
8 9 (0.48%) Spring Boot
8 9 (0.48%) Web Services
9 8 (0.42%) Spring
10 7 (0.37%) CSS
10 7 (0.37%) RESTful
11 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.32%) HTML
11 6 (0.32%) PySpark
11 6 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.31%) Management Information System
2 86 (4.56%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.87%) Data Centre
4 71 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 35 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.70%) Virtual Team
7 31 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 25 (1.33%) Clustering
10 25 (1.33%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.33%) Replication
11 22 (1.17%) Operational Technology
12 21 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.06%) PKI
14 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
14 17 (0.90%) NHS
15 16 (0.85%) PMI
16 14 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 106 (5.63%) Windows
2 51 (2.71%) Windows Server
3 41 (2.18%) Linux
4 31 (1.65%) Unix
5 14 (0.74%) Solaris
6 9 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.42%) AIX
8 7 (0.37%) zOS
9 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.27%) VMS
11 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.21%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.11%) Android
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
14 1 (0.053%) CentOS
14 1 (0.053%) pSOS
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (31.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 568 (30.15%) Agile
3 529 (28.08%) Project Management
4 297 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
5 292 (15.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 290 (15.39%) Migration
7 289 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 232 (12.31%) Change Management
9 224 (11.89%) PRINCE2
10 194 (10.30%) Decision-Making
11 189 (10.03%) Waterfall
12 157 (8.33%) DevOps
13 154 (8.17%) Risk Management
14 135 (7.17%) ITIL
15 133 (7.06%) AI
16 130 (6.90%) Roadmaps
17 124 (6.58%) Scrum
18 115 (6.10%) ERP
19 114 (6.05%) Validation
19 114 (6.05%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 113 (6.00%) SQL
2 86 (4.56%) Python
3 51 (2.71%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.17%) Java
5 21 (1.11%) C#
6 18 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.58%) Bash
8 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.42%) Go
9 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.42%) VBA
10 7 (0.37%) Bicep
11 6 (0.32%) ABAP
11 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.21%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.16%) C++
14 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 403 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 293 (15.55%) SC Cleared
3 187 (9.93%) Degree
4 157 (8.33%) PMP
5 123 (6.53%) PMI Certification
6 98 (5.20%) DV Cleared
7 57 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (2.28%) CCNP
9 39 (2.07%) CCNA
10 33 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.33%) CISSP
13 23 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 20 (1.06%) APMP
15 19 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
16 18 (0.96%) Azure Certification
16 18 (0.96%) CISM
17 17 (0.90%) MCSE
17 17 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (11.04%) PMO
2 102 (5.41%) QA
3 54 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (2.87%) NIST
4 48 (2.55%) GDPR
5 40 (2.12%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.06%) SLA
7 14 (0.74%) GRC
8 11 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.42%) HL7
10 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.42%) IFRS
11 7 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.32%) Basel III
12 6 (0.32%) GAAP
12 6 (0.32%) NCSC
13 5 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 81 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.06%) vSphere
4 19 (1.01%) Docker
5 17 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.48%) Firmware
9 8 (0.42%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.16%) Squid
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.053%) ACF2
13 1 (0.053%) KVM
13 1 (0.053%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.053%) RACF
13 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 42 (2.23%) Ansible
2 39 (2.07%) Terraform
3 30 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 24 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.80%) FortiGate
6 14 (0.74%) vCenter Server
7 12 (0.64%) SCCM
7 12 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.37%) Nagios
8 7 (0.37%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.27%) Netcool
9 5 (0.27%) Tivoli
10 4 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco Prime
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%) Packer
Vendors
1 338 (17.94%) Microsoft
2 126 (6.69%) SAP
3 95 (5.04%) Cisco
3 95 (5.04%) ServiceNow
4 92 (4.88%) Oracle
5 57 (3.03%) VMware
6 52 (2.76%) Palo Alto
7 37 (1.96%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.80%) F5
8 34 (1.80%) Google
9 29 (1.54%) Fortinet
10 23 (1.22%) IBM
10 23 (1.22%) Siemens
11 22 (1.17%) SolarWinds
12 18 (0.96%) CheckPoint
12 18 (0.96%) Workday
13 17 (0.90%) Aruba
13 17 (0.90%) Infoblox
13 17 (0.90%) NEC
14 16 (0.85%) Juniper