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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 60 53
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,061 1,311 1,438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.87% 3.98% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 4.40% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,385 846 881
10th Percentile £325 £324 £359
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 21 43
10th Percentile £22.52 £15.91 £22.60
25th Percentile £35.53 £31.00 £27.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +34.34% -34.50%
75th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £55.79
90th Percentile £90.63 £82.50 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +8.70% +40.45% -34.50%

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 45,262 29,771 33,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,917 18,660 21,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,788 1,660 1,878
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £40.94
% change year-on-year +88.67% -43.09% +3.38%

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 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +7 1,786 £520 -0.95% 1,608
UK excluding London -5 1,122 £500 - 1,127
London +4 781 £540 -8.07% 640
Work from Home +3 612 £500 -4.40% 707
South East -4 293 £525 -2.33% 350
North of England +3 274 £486 +2.37% 286
North West +6 185 £497 +4.59% 151
South West +2 176 £485 +2.11% 139
Midlands -25 166 £475 +1.60% 179
West Midlands -22 131 £475 -8.19% 110
Scotland +11 126 £450 -4.26% 61
Yorkshire -35 69 £500 - 92
East of England +6 60 £500 +5.26% 88
East Midlands -16 33 £407 -4.63% 69
Wales +2 23 £525 +89.59% 34
North East -21 21 £350 - 46
Northern Ireland +4 14 £334 -29.68% 19
Channel Islands - 1 £550 - 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
1 120 (5.82%) SharePoint
2 115 (5.58%) Confluence
3 40 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.34%) Apache
5 6 (0.29%) CMS
5 6 (0.29%) SAS
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.19%) WordPress
8 3 (0.15%) Appian
8 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.15%) JBoss
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
8 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.097%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.097%) Camunda
9 2 (0.097%) CICS
9 2 (0.097%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 158 (7.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (5.92%) Microsoft Project
3 102 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
4 91 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.70%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.78%) Siemens NX
7 15 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) Trello
9 7 (0.34%) Navisworks
9 7 (0.34%) Revit
10 6 (0.29%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.19%) ProjectWise
13 2 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.097%) Houdini
13 2 (0.097%) NUKE
14 1 (0.049%) CATIA
14 1 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 46 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.07%) Teamcenter
3 15 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.68%) Primavera
5 10 (0.49%) Maximo
6 8 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.34%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.34%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.29%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.29%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 5 (0.24%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.24%) Shopify
10 4 (0.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 304 (14.75%) Azure
2 137 (6.65%) AWS
3 115 (5.58%) Power Platform
4 111 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
5 91 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (3.78%) SaaS
7 63 (3.06%) Entra ID
8 45 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
9 40 (1.94%) GCP
10 30 (1.46%) GitHub
11 28 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 26 (1.26%) Google Workspace
12 26 (1.26%) PowerApps
13 25 (1.21%) IaaS
14 23 (1.12%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
15 22 (1.07%) OCI
16 18 (0.87%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 131 (6.36%) Firewall
2 89 (4.32%) DNS
3 74 (3.59%) WAN
4 68 (3.30%) LAN
5 63 (3.06%) Network Security
6 62 (3.01%) VPN
7 49 (2.38%) MPLS
8 45 (2.18%) BGP
9 41 (1.99%) DHCP
10 36 (1.75%) VLAN
11 35 (1.70%) Wireless
12 34 (1.65%) OSPF
13 32 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
14 31 (1.50%) TCP/IP
15 24 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 24 (1.16%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.78%) SSL
17 15 (0.73%) IPsec
18 14 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (4.22%) Power BI
2 46 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.68%) Tableau
5 13 (0.63%) Metadata
5 13 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (0.39%) Big Data
8 8 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.34%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.34%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.29%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.24%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 223 (10.82%) JIRA
2 28 (1.36%) Git
3 16 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.68%) GitLab
5 9 (0.44%) Selenium
6 8 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.24%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.15%) Appium
9 3 (0.15%) JMeter
9 3 (0.15%) MSI
9 3 (0.15%) MSTest
9 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.097%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.097%) Hudson
10 2 (0.097%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.097%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.097%) TestNG
11 1 (0.049%) Postman
11 1 (0.049%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 844 (40.95%) Social Skills
2 648 (31.44%) Finance
3 273 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 154 (7.47%) Organisational Skills
6 110 (5.34%) Banking
7 100 (4.85%) Retail
8 97 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
9 96 (4.66%) Legal
10 85 (4.12%) Telecoms
11 62 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (2.72%) Manufacturing
13 55 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (1.99%) Local Government
15 34 (1.65%) Marketing
15 34 (1.65%) Military
16 24 (1.16%) Financial Institution
16 24 (1.16%) Law
17 23 (1.12%) Front Office
17 23 (1.12%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 487 (23.63%) Project Manager
2 231 (11.21%) Analyst
3 225 (10.92%) Senior
4 198 (9.61%) Lead
5 123 (5.97%) Business Analyst
6 121 (5.87%) Architect
7 117 (5.68%) Consultant
8 104 (5.05%) Senior Manager
9 90 (4.37%) Network Engineer
10 87 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
11 86 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
12 83 (4.03%) IT Manager
13 61 (2.96%) Developer
14 60 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 56 (2.72%) IT Project Manager
16 47 (2.28%) Technical Manager
17 46 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
18 43 (2.09%) Project Officer
19 41 (1.99%) Infrastructure Manager
20 38 (1.84%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.60%) REST
2 29 (1.41%) Middleware
3 23 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.82%) .NET
5 13 (0.63%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.58%) React
7 11 (0.53%) OAuth
7 11 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
7 11 (0.53%) XML
8 10 (0.49%) ADO
8 10 (0.49%) JSON
8 10 (0.49%) Web Services
9 9 (0.44%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.39%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.34%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.34%) Kafka
11 7 (0.34%) Playwright
11 7 (0.34%) PySpark
11 7 (0.34%) RESTful
11 7 (0.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 105 (5.09%) Management Information System
2 102 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 85 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 82 (3.98%) Product Ownership
5 40 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 38 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 35 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.65%) Operational Technology
9 33 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (1.50%) Cloud Native
11 29 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 27 (1.31%) Driving Licence
13 25 (1.21%) PKI
14 24 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 23 (1.12%) Clustering
16 22 (1.07%) Replication
17 21 (1.02%) PMI
18 18 (0.87%) Derivative
18 18 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.26%) Windows
2 62 (3.01%) Linux
3 60 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.26%) Unix
5 10 (0.49%) AIX
5 10 (0.49%) Solaris
6 8 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.34%) zOS
8 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.24%) Android
10 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.097%) Debian
11 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.049%) CentOS
12 1 (0.049%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (37.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 629 (30.52%) Agile
3 556 (26.98%) Project Management
4 366 (17.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 356 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 336 (16.30%) Migration
7 309 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
8 299 (14.51%) Change Management
9 268 (13.00%) PRINCE2
10 227 (11.01%) Decision-Making
11 219 (10.63%) Waterfall
12 186 (9.02%) Risk Management
13 181 (8.78%) ITIL
13 181 (8.78%) Roadmaps
14 178 (8.64%) DevOps
15 172 (8.35%) AI
16 146 (7.08%) User Acceptance Testing
17 145 (7.04%) Workshop Facilitation
18 143 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
19 141 (6.84%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 114 (5.53%) SQL
2 96 (4.66%) Python
3 65 (3.15%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.16%) Java
5 23 (1.12%) Bash
6 18 (0.87%) C#
6 18 (0.87%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.63%) VBA
8 9 (0.44%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.39%) ABAP
9 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
11 5 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.24%) Korn
12 4 (0.19%) Bicep
12 4 (0.19%) Go
12 4 (0.19%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.15%) C++
Qualifications
1 470 (22.80%) Security Cleared
2 340 (16.50%) SC Cleared
3 205 (9.95%) Degree
4 161 (7.81%) PMP
5 139 (6.74%) PMI Certification
6 121 (5.87%) DV Cleared
7 72 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
8 47 (2.28%) CCNP
9 44 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 43 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (2.04%) CCNA
12 32 (1.55%) Azure Certification
12 32 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 26 (1.26%) CISSP
14 19 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.87%) MCSE
16 17 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 14 (0.68%) CISM
17 14 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
18 13 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (11.40%) PMO
2 93 (4.51%) QA
3 59 (2.86%) NIST
4 56 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (2.67%) GDPR
6 43 (2.09%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.70%) SLA
8 22 (1.07%) GRC
9 12 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.53%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.49%) ISO 19650
11 10 (0.49%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.39%) NCSC
12 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.29%) HL7
13 6 (0.29%) IFRS
13 6 (0.29%) P3O
14 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 106 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 62 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.21%) Docker
4 24 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.87%) vSphere
6 17 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.53%) Firmware
8 11 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
10 4 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.15%) Ceph
11 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.097%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.049%) ACF2
13 1 (0.049%) KVM
13 1 (0.049%) RACF
13 1 (0.049%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 50 (2.43%) Ansible
1 50 (2.43%) Terraform
2 31 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.07%) FortiGate
5 20 (0.97%) SCCM
6 15 (0.73%) vCenter Server
7 14 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.44%) SCOM
9 8 (0.39%) Cisco Prime
9 8 (0.39%) Nagios
10 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.34%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.29%) Puppet
12 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.24%) Netcool
12 5 (0.24%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.19%) Grafana
13 4 (0.19%) Nessus
13 4 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 426 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.60%) SAP
3 131 (6.36%) Cisco
4 119 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 88 (4.27%) Oracle
6 85 (4.12%) VMware
7 52 (2.52%) Palo Alto
8 44 (2.13%) Fortinet
9 41 (1.99%) Google
10 40 (1.94%) F5
10 40 (1.94%) Salesforce
11 30 (1.46%) SolarWinds
12 28 (1.36%) Juniper
13 24 (1.16%) IBM
13 24 (1.16%) Workday
14 21 (1.02%) Splunk
14 21 (1.02%) Zscaler
15 20 (0.97%) NEC
16 19 (0.92%) Citrix
17 18 (0.87%) Siemens