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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 51 48
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,548 1,216 1,782
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.88% 3.96% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.43% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 689 1,174
10th Percentile £334 £336 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.18% -3.41%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £638
90th Percentile £720 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -6.10% - +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 32 28
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.58 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £23.37 £22.81
Median hourly rate £43.12 £35.00 £38.58
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -9.27% -35.71%
75th Percentile £62.55 £64.06 £63.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £76.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.44 £39.68 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.90% -20.64% -23.08%

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 34,650 27,474 38,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.87% 89.55% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,945 16,847 25,520
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,102 836 2,133
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -4.41% -1.68%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +7.69%

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 February 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 February 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 16 February 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 -5 1,348 £525 - 627
UK excluding London -9 785 £481 -6.10% 554
London +1 631 £550 +1.85% 178
Work from Home +1 439 £538 -0.05% 311
North of England +14 232 £478 -4.55% 118
South East -14 182 £525 -4.55% 184
Midlands -12 154 £475 -7.32% 84
North West +21 144 £474 -1.76% 83
West Midlands -18 91 £550 -3.00% 57
South West -10 82 £538 +7.29% 65
Yorkshire -10 78 £501 -12.65% 24
Scotland -17 75 £450 -6.05% 32
East Midlands +3 64 £438 -6.78% 27
East of England -7 39 £570 +20.00% 55
Wales +6 19 £336 -34.44% 22
Northern Ireland +1 12 £475 -13.64% 3
North East -10 12 £290 -38.98% 13

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
1 113 (7.30%) Confluence
2 60 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.39%) CMS
5 4 (0.26%) CICS
6 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.19%) MS Project Server
6 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Appian
7 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.065%) Apache
8 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.065%) IIS
8 1 (0.065%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 147 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (7.04%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (6.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 99 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
5 37 (2.39%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.84%) Trello
7 12 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.58%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.58%) Siemens NX
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.13%) InDesign
10 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.065%) Revit
11 1 (0.065%) Sketch
11 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 53 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.84%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.65%) Endur
3 10 (0.65%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.58%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 8 (0.52%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.39%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
8 5 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.32%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.32%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 185 (11.95%) Azure
2 76 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (4.52%) AWS
4 65 (4.20%) Power Platform
5 55 (3.55%) SaaS
6 45 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.07%) GCP
8 31 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (1.49%) GitHub
10 20 (1.29%) Entra ID
11 17 (1.10%) OCI
12 14 (0.90%) IaaS
13 13 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (0.84%) OpenShift
14 12 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (0.78%) Amazon S3
15 11 (0.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (0.65%) Serverless
16 10 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.23%) Firewall
2 45 (2.91%) WAN
3 39 (2.52%) DNS
4 36 (2.33%) LAN
5 30 (1.94%) Network Security
6 23 (1.49%) BGP
7 21 (1.36%) OSPF
7 21 (1.36%) SD-WAN
8 19 (1.23%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.10%) MPLS
9 17 (1.10%) VPN
10 15 (0.97%) DHCP
10 15 (0.97%) NetScaler
11 14 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 14 (0.90%) Wireless
12 13 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
13 12 (0.78%) VLAN
14 11 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
15 10 (0.65%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.55%) Power BI
2 27 (1.74%) Tableau
3 26 (1.68%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.52%) Metadata
9 6 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.39%) GIS
9 6 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.19%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.19%) SAP Data Services
12 3 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 196 (12.66%) JIRA
2 23 (1.49%) Git
3 18 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.71%) GitLab
5 5 (0.32%) Selenium
6 4 (0.26%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.19%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.19%) Subversion
8 2 (0.13%) Appium
8 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.13%) JMeter
8 2 (0.13%) MSTest
8 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 652 (42.12%) Social Skills
2 488 (31.52%) Finance
3 212 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (9.50%) Public Sector
5 138 (8.91%) Banking
6 102 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
7 58 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
8 54 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
9 49 (3.17%) Retail
10 44 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
11 42 (2.71%) Legal
11 42 (2.71%) Manufacturing
12 35 (2.26%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.81%) Marketing
14 24 (1.55%) Front Office
15 21 (1.36%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.29%) Local Government
17 18 (1.16%) Law
17 18 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 412 (26.61%) Project Manager
2 204 (13.18%) Analyst
3 178 (11.50%) Lead
4 149 (9.63%) Business Analyst
5 133 (8.59%) Senior
6 86 (5.56%) Architect
7 83 (5.36%) Consultant
8 59 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
9 54 (3.49%) Senior Manager
10 52 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
11 49 (3.17%) IT Manager
12 43 (2.78%) Network Engineer
13 42 (2.71%) Senior Project Manager
14 41 (2.65%) Technical Manager
15 39 (2.52%) Programme Manager
16 35 (2.26%) SAP Manager
17 33 (2.13%) IT Project Manager
18 29 (1.87%) Infrastructure Manager
19 27 (1.74%) Administrator
20 26 (1.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.74%) Middleware
2 22 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
3 20 (1.29%) REST
4 12 (0.78%) XML
5 11 (0.71%) Web Services
6 8 (0.52%) CSS
6 8 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
7 7 (0.45%) HTML
7 7 (0.45%) React
7 7 (0.45%) RESTful
7 7 (0.45%) SOAP
7 7 (0.45%) YAML
8 6 (0.39%) .NET
8 6 (0.39%) ADO
9 5 (0.32%) JSON
9 5 (0.32%) Node.js
9 5 (0.32%) OAuth
9 5 (0.32%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.26%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.26%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 77 (4.97%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 62 (4.01%) Data Centre
4 55 (3.55%) Management Information System
5 34 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.07%) Virtual Team
7 31 (2.00%) PMI
8 28 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
8 28 (1.81%) NHS
9 25 (1.61%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.16%) Replication
12 16 (1.03%) Clustering
13 15 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.90%) Life Science
15 13 (0.84%) Cloud Native
16 12 (0.78%) Algorithms
16 12 (0.78%) Driving Licence
16 12 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 85 (5.49%) Windows
2 42 (2.71%) Windows Server
3 31 (2.00%) Linux
4 19 (1.23%) Unix
4 19 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.71%) Solaris
6 11 (0.71%) VMS
7 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.32%) zOS
10 4 (0.26%) OpenVMS
10 4 (0.26%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.13%) pSOS
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.065%) Android
13 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (34.56%) Agile
2 472 (30.49%) Project Management
3 452 (29.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 283 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
5 224 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 218 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 217 (14.02%) Migration
8 211 (13.63%) PRINCE2
9 191 (12.34%) Change Management
10 159 (10.27%) DevOps
11 157 (10.14%) Waterfall
12 138 (8.91%) Decision-Making
12 138 (8.91%) Scrum
13 124 (8.01%) Roadmaps
14 120 (7.75%) Risk Management
15 118 (7.62%) Business Analysis
16 113 (7.30%) Workshop Facilitation
17 112 (7.24%) ITIL
17 112 (7.24%) Project Governance
18 109 (7.04%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 79 (5.10%) SQL
2 77 (4.97%) Python
3 50 (3.23%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.49%) Java
5 22 (1.42%) Bash
6 13 (0.84%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.58%) C#
7 9 (0.58%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.32%) Go
8 5 (0.32%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.26%) ABAP
9 4 (0.26%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.26%) C++
9 4 (0.26%) COBOL
9 4 (0.26%) Perl
9 4 (0.26%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
10 3 (0.19%) JCL
10 3 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 291 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 232 (14.99%) Degree
3 205 (13.24%) SC Cleared
4 137 (8.85%) PMP
5 123 (7.95%) PMI Certification
6 73 (4.72%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.52%) Master's Degree
8 35 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.13%) CCNP
9 33 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.87%) APMP
11 23 (1.49%) CCNA
12 21 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.29%) CBAP
14 19 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (1.03%) CISSP
16 14 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.84%) CISM
17 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
18 12 (0.78%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (9.04%) PMO
2 107 (6.91%) QA
3 35 (2.26%) GDPR
4 34 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 32 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.49%) NIST
7 16 (1.03%) SLA
8 15 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.78%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.71%) PSD2
12 9 (0.58%) NCSC
13 8 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
13 8 (0.52%) MiFID
13 8 (0.52%) P3O
14 6 (0.39%) GRC
14 6 (0.39%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.39%) ISO 8583
15 5 (0.32%) Basel III
16 4 (0.26%) EMIR
System Software
1 43 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.36%) Docker
4 15 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.90%) vSphere
6 12 (0.78%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.26%) Firmware
8 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) NFS
9 2 (0.13%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.13%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.065%) RACF
Systems Management
1 41 (2.65%) Ansible
2 33 (2.13%) Terraform
3 28 (1.81%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.36%) SCCM
5 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.45%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.39%) Grafana
9 5 (0.32%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
12 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.13%) Control-M
12 2 (0.13%) Nagios
12 2 (0.13%) QRadar
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 280 (18.09%) Microsoft
2 135 (8.72%) SAP
3 86 (5.56%) Oracle
4 76 (4.91%) Cisco
5 62 (4.01%) ServiceNow
6 41 (2.65%) VMware
7 39 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 29 (1.87%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.55%) Google
10 21 (1.36%) F5
10 21 (1.36%) Workday
11 18 (1.16%) Citrix
12 17 (1.10%) Aruba
13 16 (1.03%) CheckPoint
14 15 (0.97%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.97%) IBM
14 15 (0.97%) SolarWinds
15 14 (0.90%) Red Hat
16 13 (0.84%) Ariba
17 12 (0.78%) Siemens