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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 52 50
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,693 1,188 1,700
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.85% 4.09% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 4.51% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 709 1,119
10th Percentile £340 £324 £371
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £700 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 27 34
10th Percentile £15.91 £22.10 £20.98
25th Percentile £18.18 £28.89 £26.92
Median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -24.23% +46.56% -36.77%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £48.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.84 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -24.23% +46.56% -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 37,733 26,318 38,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 90.56% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,910 17,091 24,889
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £738 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,221 949 2,344
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.19 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £34.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -1.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £76.00 £76.25 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £31.52 £31.80
% change year-on-year -4.82% -0.88% -12.28%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 0 1,497 £515 -1.90% 826
UK excluding London -6 876 £481 -3.75% 656
London +4 685 £550 - 267
Work from Home -6 494 £538 +2.38% 345
North of England +20 251 £479 +6.39% 128
South East -3 209 £525 -4.55% 235
Midlands -14 174 £475 -5.19% 109
North West +19 161 £475 +2.70% 73
West Midlands -20 111 £492 -6.29% 71
South West +9 109 £475 -2.56% 74
Yorkshire -6 81 £500 - 38
Scotland -21 73 £475 - 38
East Midlands -8 62 £441 - 38
East of England -15 41 £565 +13.68% 64
Wales +1 20 £413 +26.92% 17
North East -7 11 £350 -15.15% 17
Northern Ireland -8 8 £370 -40.80% 4

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
1 121 (7.15%) Confluence
2 77 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.35%) CMS
5 5 (0.30%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.24%) CICS
6 4 (0.24%) SAS
7 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.18%) Camunda
7 3 (0.18%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.059%) Apache
9 1 (0.059%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.059%) IIS
9 1 (0.059%) Moodle
9 1 (0.059%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 154 (9.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (7.15%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (6.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 100 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.71%) Trello
7 9 (0.53%) Siemens NX
8 8 (0.47%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) InDesign
9 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.059%) Revit
10 1 (0.059%) SPSS
10 1 (0.059%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 50 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.71%) Loan IQ
3 12 (0.71%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.59%) Endur
5 9 (0.53%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.35%) Primavera
8 5 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.30%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.24%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.24%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.24%) Summit
10 3 (0.18%) Maximo
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 209 (12.34%) Azure
2 92 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (4.78%) Power Platform
4 79 (4.67%) AWS
5 58 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (3.13%) SaaS
7 35 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
8 32 (1.89%) Entra ID
9 29 (1.71%) GCP
10 28 (1.65%) GitHub
11 20 (1.18%) IaaS
12 16 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
14 14 (0.83%) PowerApps
15 13 (0.77%) OCI
15 13 (0.77%) OpenShift
15 13 (0.77%) PaaS
16 12 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (0.71%) Amazon S3
16 12 (0.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.38%) Firewall
2 49 (2.89%) DNS
2 49 (2.89%) WAN
3 38 (2.24%) LAN
4 34 (2.01%) Network Security
5 26 (1.54%) BGP
5 26 (1.54%) OSPF
6 24 (1.42%) SD-WAN
7 22 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 20 (1.18%) VPN
9 18 (1.06%) MPLS
10 17 (1.00%) VLAN
11 15 (0.89%) DHCP
11 15 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 15 (0.89%) NetScaler
11 15 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
12 14 (0.83%) Wireless
13 10 (0.59%) SAN
14 9 (0.53%) SSL
14 9 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (3.78%) Power BI
2 31 (1.83%) Tableau
3 28 (1.65%) SQL Server
4 24 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (0.59%) Metadata
8 7 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.30%) Big Data
10 5 (0.30%) GIS
10 5 (0.30%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.30%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.30%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 219 (12.94%) JIRA
2 19 (1.12%) Git
2 19 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 14 (0.83%) GitLab
4 8 (0.47%) Selenium
5 6 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.30%) JMeter
6 5 (0.30%) MSTest
6 5 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) Appium
7 3 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.12%) TestRail
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.059%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.059%) Gradle
General
1 708 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 573 (33.85%) Finance
3 249 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 140 (8.27%) Banking
6 122 (7.21%) Organisational Skills
7 67 (3.96%) Retail
8 66 (3.90%) Legal
9 64 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
10 60 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
11 55 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (2.54%) Manufacturing
13 40 (2.36%) Telecoms
14 31 (1.83%) Marketing
15 24 (1.42%) Front Office
16 23 (1.36%) Local Government
17 22 (1.30%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.12%) Law
19 17 (1.00%) Financial Institution
20 14 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 484 (28.59%) Project Manager
2 213 (12.58%) Analyst
3 180 (10.63%) Lead
4 162 (9.57%) Senior
5 151 (8.92%) Business Analyst
6 80 (4.73%) Architect
6 80 (4.73%) Consultant
7 76 (4.49%) Delivery Manager
8 74 (4.37%) Senior Manager
9 67 (3.96%) IT Manager
10 56 (3.31%) Senior Project Manager
11 48 (2.84%) IT Project Manager
11 48 (2.84%) Technical Manager
12 43 (2.54%) Programme Manager
12 43 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
13 42 (2.48%) Network Engineer
14 38 (2.24%) Infrastructure Manager
15 33 (1.95%) SAP Manager
16 32 (1.89%) Project Officer
17 31 (1.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.01%) Middleware
2 25 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 16 (0.95%) REST
4 11 (0.65%) Web Services
4 11 (0.65%) XML
5 9 (0.53%) .NET
6 8 (0.47%) Spring Boot
7 7 (0.41%) CSS
7 7 (0.41%) Spring
8 6 (0.35%) ADO
8 6 (0.35%) HTML
8 6 (0.35%) JSON
8 6 (0.35%) React
8 6 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (0.35%) YAML
9 5 (0.30%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.24%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.24%) Node.js
10 4 (0.24%) OAuth
10 4 (0.24%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 70 (4.13%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 65 (3.84%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.13%) Virtual Team
6 34 (2.01%) PMI
7 32 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 31 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.65%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.48%) NHS
12 21 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.18%) Replication
14 19 (1.12%) Cloud Native
15 17 (1.00%) Clustering
16 15 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (0.83%) Derivative
18 13 (0.77%) Driving Licence
18 13 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
19 12 (0.71%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 89 (5.26%) Windows
2 45 (2.66%) Windows Server
3 34 (2.01%) Linux
4 20 (1.18%) Unix
5 16 (0.95%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.59%) Solaris
6 10 (0.59%) VMS
7 8 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.41%) zOS
9 4 (0.24%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.24%) Windows 8
10 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 3 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.12%) Android
11 2 (0.12%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.12%) pSOS
12 1 (0.059%) CentOS
12 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (34.67%) Agile
2 524 (30.95%) Project Management
3 510 (30.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 295 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
5 257 (15.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 256 (15.12%) PRINCE2
7 254 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 240 (14.18%) Migration
9 209 (12.34%) Change Management
10 183 (10.81%) DevOps
11 170 (10.04%) Decision-Making
12 167 (9.86%) Waterfall
13 155 (9.16%) Scrum
14 143 (8.45%) Risk Management
15 139 (8.21%) Workshop Facilitation
16 137 (8.09%) Roadmaps
17 127 (7.50%) ITIL
18 125 (7.38%) Business Analysis
19 119 (7.03%) Project Governance
20 113 (6.67%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 95 (5.61%) SQL
2 78 (4.61%) Python
3 49 (2.89%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.48%) Java
5 22 (1.30%) Bash
6 15 (0.89%) C#
6 15 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.41%) Go
9 6 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.35%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.30%) Bicep
10 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.24%) ABAP
11 4 (0.24%) C++
11 4 (0.24%) COBOL
12 3 (0.18%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.18%) REXX
12 3 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 351 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 253 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 237 (14.00%) Degree
4 165 (9.75%) PMP
5 144 (8.51%) PMI Certification
6 77 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 34 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (1.89%) APMP
10 31 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (1.77%) CCNP
12 25 (1.48%) CCNA
12 25 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 24 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
15 20 (1.18%) CISSP
16 19 (1.12%) CBAP
17 16 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
18 15 (0.89%) CISM
19 12 (0.71%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (10.81%) PMO
2 117 (6.91%) QA
3 47 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (2.42%) GDPR
5 40 (2.36%) Data Quality
6 37 (2.19%) NIST
7 20 (1.18%) SLA
8 13 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.59%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.59%) PSD2
11 9 (0.53%) GRC
11 9 (0.53%) MiFID
11 9 (0.53%) P3O
12 8 (0.47%) NCSC
13 7 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.35%) ISO 8583
15 5 (0.30%) Basel III
15 5 (0.30%) GAAP
System Software
1 56 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.42%) Docker
4 15 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.83%) vSphere
6 12 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.24%) Firmware
10 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.059%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.059%) Ceph
11 1 (0.059%) RACF
11 1 (0.059%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.059%) Squid
Systems Management
1 41 (2.42%) Terraform
2 38 (2.24%) Ansible
3 29 (1.71%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.00%) SCCM
6 8 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.41%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.35%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.35%) Grafana
8 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.24%) Nagios
11 3 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.18%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.18%) Puppet
12 2 (0.12%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 299 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 139 (8.21%) SAP
3 86 (5.08%) Oracle
4 70 (4.13%) ServiceNow
5 65 (3.84%) Cisco
6 42 (2.48%) VMware
7 38 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 31 (1.83%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.65%) Google
10 23 (1.36%) Atlassian
11 21 (1.24%) F5
12 19 (1.12%) CheckPoint
12 19 (1.12%) Citrix
13 18 (1.06%) Aruba
14 16 (0.95%) Workday
15 15 (0.89%) IBM
16 13 (0.77%) SolarWinds
17 12 (0.71%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.71%) MuleSoft
18 11 (0.65%) Fortinet