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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 54 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,638 1,198 1,739
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.84% 3.93% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.36% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,077 701 1,144
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £418 £431 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £637
90th Percentile £722 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -4.88% - +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 29 34
10th Percentile £15.91 £19.53 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £23.60 £24.92
Median hourly rate £45.46 £39.68 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +14.57% -3.08% -37.02%
75th Percentile £63.66 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £69.50 £68.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -17.35% +34.34% -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 36,846 27,490 38,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 90.18% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,348 17,263 25,101
10th Percentile £313 £306 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -2.18% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,189 895 2,262
10th Percentile £14.79 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.05 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £31.76 £33.28
% change year-on-year -20.09% -4.57% -4.91%

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 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 6 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 6 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 1,439 £525 - 760
UK excluding London -5 846 £488 -4.88% 635
London +1 661 £550 - 230
Work from Home +1 471 £538 -0.09% 385
North of England +13 247 £481 -5.30% 128
South East -12 185 £525 -4.55% 220
Midlands -13 173 £475 -7.23% 101
North West +33 153 £475 - 79
West Midlands -17 107 £515 -6.36% 60
South West +5 102 £538 +4.78% 81
Yorkshire -14 83 £500 -12.70% 38
Scotland -16 80 £475 -0.42% 37
East Midlands 0 66 £438 -2.64% 40
East of England -7 41 £570 +14.69% 61
Wales +7 18 £374 -16.83% 16
North East -9 13 £350 -26.35% 13
Northern Ireland -1 9 £450 -18.18% 3

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
1 118 (7.20%) Confluence
2 73 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.37%) CMS
5 5 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.24%) CICS
6 4 (0.24%) SAS
7 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
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 (0.061%) Apache
9 1 (0.061%) Appian
9 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.061%) IIS
9 1 (0.061%) Moodle
9 1 (0.061%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 150 (9.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (7.20%) Microsoft Project
3 106 (6.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 103 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
5 36 (2.20%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.79%) Trello
7 9 (0.55%) Siemens NX
8 8 (0.49%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) InDesign
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.061%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.061%) Revit
10 1 (0.061%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 50 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.79%) Teamcenter
4 12 (0.73%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.61%) Endur
5 10 (0.61%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 7 (0.43%) SAP MM
9 6 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.37%) Primavera
10 5 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
11 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle FAH
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
11 4 (0.24%) SAP PP
12 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 198 (12.09%) Azure
2 86 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (4.64%) Power Platform
4 69 (4.21%) AWS
5 56 (3.42%) SaaS
6 49 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.89%) GCP
9 28 (1.71%) Entra ID
10 24 (1.47%) GitHub
11 19 (1.16%) IaaS
12 15 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (0.92%) OCI
13 13 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (0.79%) Amazon S3
13 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (0.79%) OpenShift
14 12 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.73%) PaaS
14 12 (0.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 84 (5.13%) Firewall
2 43 (2.63%) DNS
2 43 (2.63%) WAN
3 34 (2.08%) LAN
4 30 (1.83%) Network Security
5 22 (1.34%) BGP
5 22 (1.34%) OSPF
6 20 (1.22%) SD-WAN
7 19 (1.16%) TCP/IP
8 17 (1.04%) MPLS
8 17 (1.04%) VPN
9 15 (0.92%) DHCP
9 15 (0.92%) NetScaler
10 14 (0.85%) Wireless
11 13 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 13 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
11 13 (0.79%) VLAN
12 9 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (0.55%) EIGRP
12 9 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (3.66%) Power BI
2 30 (1.83%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.59%) Tableau
4 25 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (0.55%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.49%) Metadata
8 8 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.37%) GIS
9 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.31%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.24%) Big Data
11 4 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.24%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 211 (12.88%) JIRA
2 23 (1.40%) Git
3 19 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.85%) GitLab
5 5 (0.31%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.31%) Selenium
6 3 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.12%) Appium
7 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.12%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.12%) JMeter
7 2 (0.12%) MSTest
7 2 (0.12%) Subversion
7 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.061%) LSMW
General
1 686 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 545 (33.27%) Finance
3 225 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 143 (8.73%) Banking
6 117 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 62 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
8 61 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
9 56 (3.42%) Retail
10 55 (3.36%) Legal
11 48 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
12 45 (2.75%) Manufacturing
13 32 (1.95%) Telecoms
14 25 (1.53%) Marketing
15 24 (1.47%) Front Office
16 23 (1.40%) Investment Banking
17 21 (1.28%) Local Government
18 18 (1.10%) Law
19 16 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 454 (27.72%) Project Manager
2 207 (12.64%) Analyst
3 179 (10.93%) Lead
4 151 (9.22%) Senior
5 146 (8.91%) Business Analyst
6 85 (5.19%) Consultant
7 80 (4.88%) Architect
8 66 (4.03%) Delivery Manager
8 66 (4.03%) Senior Manager
9 57 (3.48%) IT Manager
10 52 (3.17%) Senior Project Manager
11 47 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
12 46 (2.81%) Technical Manager
13 42 (2.56%) IT Project Manager
14 41 (2.50%) Network Engineer
14 41 (2.50%) Programme Manager
15 34 (2.08%) SAP Manager
16 33 (2.01%) Infrastructure Manager
17 30 (1.83%) Service Manager
18 28 (1.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (1.89%) Middleware
2 25 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 18 (1.10%) REST
4 11 (0.67%) Web Services
4 11 (0.67%) XML
5 8 (0.49%) CSS
5 8 (0.49%) React
6 7 (0.43%) .NET
6 7 (0.43%) HTML
6 7 (0.43%) SOAP
6 7 (0.43%) YAML
7 6 (0.37%) JSON
7 6 (0.37%) RESTful
7 6 (0.37%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (0.37%) Spring
7 6 (0.37%) Spring Boot
8 5 (0.31%) Node.js
8 5 (0.31%) OAuth
8 5 (0.31%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.01%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 67 (4.09%) Data Centre
4 64 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.14%) Virtual Team
6 34 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.01%) PMI
8 27 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (1.65%) NHS
9 25 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 23 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.16%) Clustering
11 19 (1.16%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.16%) Replication
12 15 (0.92%) Operational Technology
13 14 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (0.85%) Cloud Native
14 13 (0.79%) Driving Licence
14 13 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.73%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 89 (5.43%) Windows
2 46 (2.81%) Windows Server
3 31 (1.89%) Linux
4 20 (1.22%) Unix
5 19 (1.16%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.67%) VMS
7 10 (0.61%) Solaris
8 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.43%) zOS
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.24%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.24%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.18%) OpenVMS
14 2 (0.12%) Android
14 2 (0.12%) pSOS
15 1 (0.061%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.061%) CentOS
15 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (34.62%) Agile
2 498 (30.40%) Project Management
3 486 (29.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 286 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
5 239 (14.59%) PRINCE2
6 236 (14.41%) Migration
6 236 (14.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 233 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 202 (12.33%) Change Management
9 166 (10.13%) DevOps
10 161 (9.83%) Waterfall
11 150 (9.16%) Decision-Making
12 146 (8.91%) Scrum
13 143 (8.73%) Roadmaps
14 134 (8.18%) Risk Management
15 131 (8.00%) ITIL
16 125 (7.63%) Workshop Facilitation
17 121 (7.39%) Business Analysis
17 121 (7.39%) Project Governance
18 114 (6.96%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 88 (5.37%) SQL
2 76 (4.64%) Python
3 49 (2.99%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.47%) Java
5 22 (1.34%) Bash
6 13 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.61%) C#
8 9 (0.55%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.37%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.31%) Go
10 5 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.24%) Bicep
11 4 (0.24%) C++
11 4 (0.24%) COBOL
12 3 (0.18%) ABAP
12 3 (0.18%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.18%) Perl
12 3 (0.18%) REXX
Qualifications
1 327 (19.96%) Security Cleared
2 236 (14.41%) Degree
3 232 (14.16%) SC Cleared
4 153 (9.34%) PMP
5 135 (8.24%) PMI Certification
6 74 (4.52%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 33 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (1.95%) APMP
10 31 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (1.83%) CCNP
12 22 (1.34%) CCNA
12 22 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (1.22%) CBAP
15 18 (1.10%) CISSP
16 17 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
17 14 (0.85%) CISM
18 12 (0.73%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (9.71%) PMO
2 115 (7.02%) QA
3 40 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (2.38%) GDPR
5 38 (2.32%) Data Quality
6 30 (1.83%) NIST
7 18 (1.10%) SLA
8 13 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.73%) PSD2
10 9 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.55%) MiFID
10 9 (0.55%) NCSC
11 8 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
11 8 (0.49%) GRC
11 8 (0.49%) P3O
12 7 (0.43%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.37%) ISO 8583
14 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.31%) Basel III
System Software
1 54 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.22%) Docker
4 15 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.85%) vSphere
6 12 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.24%) Firmware
9 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.061%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.061%) NFS
11 1 (0.061%) RACF
11 1 (0.061%) Veritas File System
11 1 (0.061%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 42 (2.56%) Ansible
2 36 (2.20%) Terraform
3 28 (1.71%) Kubernetes
4 27 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.22%) SCCM
6 9 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.43%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.37%) Grafana
10 5 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.18%) OMEGAMON
12 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.18%) Puppet
12 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.12%) Control-M
13 2 (0.12%) Nagios
13 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 299 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 136 (8.30%) SAP
3 87 (5.31%) Oracle
4 71 (4.33%) Cisco
5 66 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.63%) VMware
7 38 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 28 (1.71%) Google
8 28 (1.71%) Palo Alto
9 20 (1.22%) F5
10 19 (1.16%) Citrix
11 18 (1.10%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.10%) Workday
12 17 (1.04%) Aruba
13 16 (0.98%) IBM
14 15 (0.92%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.79%) MuleSoft
16 12 (0.73%) Ariba
16 12 (0.73%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.73%) SolarWinds