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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,783 1,166 1,628
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 3.97% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.36% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 720 1,034
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £420 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £635
90th Percentile £700 £715 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 22 37
10th Percentile £15.96 £26.33 £20.98
25th Percentile £20.13 £31.06 £26.25
Median hourly rate £38.02 £60.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -36.63% +68.30% -44.73%
75th Percentile £75.06 £77.19 £42.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £78.46 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.02 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -41.51% +58.77% -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 40,423 26,734 36,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 90.97% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,371 17,185 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,395 1,096 2,442
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.39% -32.73% +7.14%

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 May 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 May 2026.

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 18 May 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 +1 1,592 £515 -1.90% 910
UK excluding London -2 985 £492 -1.60% 688
London -5 663 £550 - 313
Work from Home 0 498 £525 - 466
North of England +27 291 £477 -2.65% 156
South East 0 232 £525 -4.55% 233
North West +30 191 £480 -0.52% 85
Midlands -14 185 £475 -7.23% 112
South West +15 141 £493 -1.50% 93
West Midlands -14 130 £481 -7.46% 83
Yorkshire -8 83 £500 - 47
Scotland -17 79 £475 +3.26% 36
East of England -4 56 £500 +6.38% 47
East Midlands -11 54 £455 +1.45% 29
North East -4 21 £350 -6.67% 27
Wales -3 14 £463 +42.31% 16
Northern Ireland -10 2 £225 -60.00% 5

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
1 107 (6.00%) Confluence
2 92 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.28%) CMS
5 4 (0.22%) OpenEdge
6 3 (0.17%) Apache
6 3 (0.17%) Camunda
6 3 (0.17%) CICS
6 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
6 3 (0.17%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.056%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.056%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 146 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 108 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
3 100 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 88 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (1.63%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.40%) Siemens NX
7 8 (0.45%) Trello
8 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.22%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.056%) SPSS
11 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 43 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.63%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.67%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.39%) Primavera
5 6 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.34%) ProductWriter
5 6 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.28%) Shopify
6 5 (0.28%) Summit
7 4 (0.22%) Maximo
7 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.22%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.17%) Endur
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.17%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 197 (11.05%) Azure
2 98 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
3 94 (5.27%) Power Platform
4 91 (5.10%) AWS
5 72 (4.04%) SaaS
6 44 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (1.96%) Entra ID
8 33 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.63%) GCP
10 22 (1.23%) GitHub
10 22 (1.23%) Google Workspace
10 22 (1.23%) IaaS
11 19 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (0.73%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (0.67%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.67%) PaaS
14 12 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 96 (5.38%) Firewall
2 60 (3.37%) DNS
3 44 (2.47%) Network Security
4 40 (2.24%) WAN
5 36 (2.02%) LAN
6 27 (1.51%) BGP
7 26 (1.46%) OSPF
8 23 (1.29%) VLAN
9 22 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 20 (1.12%) TCP/IP
10 20 (1.12%) VPN
11 18 (1.01%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.90%) DHCP
12 16 (0.90%) MPLS
12 16 (0.90%) Wireless
13 14 (0.79%) BIG-IP
13 14 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
14 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.67%) SAN
15 12 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.15%) Power BI
2 34 (1.91%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.51%) Tableau
4 24 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.73%) Metadata
8 7 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.28%) Big Data
10 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.22%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.22%) GIS
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 200 (11.22%) JIRA
2 16 (0.90%) Git
2 16 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.62%) GitLab
4 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 3 (0.17%) Appium
6 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (0.17%) JMeter
6 3 (0.17%) MSTest
6 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
7 2 (0.11%) TestRail
7 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.056%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.056%) LSMW
8 1 (0.056%) NUnit
8 1 (0.056%) Robot Framework
General
1 669 (37.52%) Social Skills
2 568 (31.86%) Finance
3 246 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (10.43%) Public Sector
5 133 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
6 123 (6.90%) Banking
7 79 (4.43%) Retail
8 71 (3.98%) Legal
9 64 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
9 64 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
10 52 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.58%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.47%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.68%) Marketing
14 28 (1.57%) Local Government
15 26 (1.46%) Military
16 23 (1.29%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.01%) Financial Institution
18 16 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 482 (27.03%) Project Manager
2 209 (11.72%) Analyst
3 187 (10.49%) Lead
4 179 (10.04%) Senior
5 133 (7.46%) Business Analyst
6 91 (5.10%) Senior Manager
7 86 (4.82%) Architect
8 80 (4.49%) Consultant
9 76 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
10 71 (3.98%) Senior Project Manager
11 69 (3.87%) IT Manager
12 58 (3.25%) Network Engineer
13 49 (2.75%) IT Project Manager
14 45 (2.52%) Technical Manager
15 44 (2.47%) Developer
15 44 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (2.24%) Programme Manager
16 40 (2.24%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 35 (1.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 32 (1.79%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.13%) Middleware
2 26 (1.46%) REST
3 20 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.84%) XML
5 12 (0.67%) .NET
5 12 (0.67%) ADO
6 10 (0.56%) OAuth
7 9 (0.50%) Spring Boot
7 9 (0.50%) Web Services
8 8 (0.45%) JSON
8 8 (0.45%) React
8 8 (0.45%) Spring
9 7 (0.39%) CSS
10 6 (0.34%) HTML
11 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.28%) SAP Basis
11 5 (0.28%) SOAP
12 4 (0.22%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.22%) 802.1X
12 4 (0.22%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 90 (5.05%) Management Information System
2 70 (3.93%) Product Ownership
3 68 (3.81%) Data Centre
4 65 (3.65%) Onboarding
5 32 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 29 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 26 (1.46%) Clustering
8 26 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 26 (1.46%) Replication
9 21 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 21 (1.18%) PMI
10 17 (0.95%) Cloud Native
11 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
11 16 (0.90%) NHS
12 15 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (0.84%) Life Science
13 13 (0.73%) Operational Technology
14 12 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 101 (5.66%) Windows
2 49 (2.75%) Windows Server
3 37 (2.08%) Linux
4 28 (1.57%) Unix
5 16 (0.90%) Solaris
6 10 (0.56%) VMS
6 10 (0.56%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.45%) AIX
7 8 (0.45%) zOS
8 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.22%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.22%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.056%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.056%) Android
13 1 (0.056%) CentOS
13 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (30.79%) Project Management
2 545 (30.57%) Agile
3 511 (28.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 291 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
5 281 (15.76%) Migration
6 258 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 245 (13.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 216 (12.11%) PRINCE2
9 205 (11.50%) Change Management
10 187 (10.49%) Waterfall
11 186 (10.43%) Decision-Making
12 153 (8.58%) Risk Management
13 150 (8.41%) DevOps
14 134 (7.52%) Roadmaps
15 124 (6.95%) Scrum
16 116 (6.51%) Workshop Facilitation
17 115 (6.45%) AI
18 114 (6.39%) ERP
18 114 (6.39%) Project Governance
19 113 (6.34%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 88 (4.94%) SQL
2 75 (4.21%) Python
3 48 (2.69%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.23%) Java
5 19 (1.07%) C#
6 17 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.62%) Bash
8 8 (0.45%) Go
9 7 (0.39%) Bicep
9 7 (0.39%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.28%) VBA
12 4 (0.22%) ABAP
13 3 (0.17%) C++
13 3 (0.17%) COBOL
13 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 396 (22.21%) Security Cleared
2 292 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 190 (10.66%) Degree
4 161 (9.03%) PMP
5 124 (6.95%) PMI Certification
6 92 (5.16%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (1.91%) CCNP
9 33 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (1.74%) CCNA
10 31 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (1.57%) APMP
12 25 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (1.18%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.07%) CISSP
14 19 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (0.90%) MCSE
15 16 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (0.84%) Azure Certification
16 15 (0.84%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (11.22%) PMO
2 104 (5.83%) QA
3 45 (2.52%) GDPR
3 45 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (2.36%) NIST
5 40 (2.24%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.23%) SLA
7 13 (0.73%) GRC
8 12 (0.67%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.45%) HL7
10 8 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.34%) Basel III
12 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.28%) MiFID
13 5 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 65 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 35 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.12%) vSphere
4 18 (1.01%) Docker
5 16 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.62%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.39%) Firmware
10 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.11%) Squid
13 1 (0.056%) Ceph
13 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 42 (2.36%) Ansible
2 34 (1.91%) Terraform
3 28 (1.57%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.79%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.73%) SCCM
7 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.56%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.50%) Nagios
10 7 (0.39%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.28%) Netcool
12 4 (0.22%) SCOM
12 4 (0.22%) Tivoli
13 3 (0.17%) Grafana
13 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.17%) Puppet
14 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
14 2 (0.11%) Packer
14 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 311 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 135 (7.57%) SAP
3 84 (4.71%) Oracle
4 77 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 66 (3.70%) Cisco
6 45 (2.52%) VMware
7 40 (2.24%) Palo Alto
8 37 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 36 (2.02%) Google
10 30 (1.68%) F5
11 25 (1.40%) Siemens
12 20 (1.12%) IBM
13 19 (1.07%) CheckPoint
14 17 (0.95%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.84%) Aruba
15 15 (0.84%) Fortinet
15 15 (0.84%) Workday
16 14 (0.79%) Citrix
16 14 (0.79%) NEC
17 13 (0.73%) SolarWinds