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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 60 54
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,196 1,296 1,392
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.03% 3.96% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.38% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,468 827 816
10th Percentile £325 £320 £363
25th Percentile £422 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £510
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.41% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 31 37
10th Percentile £22.36 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.56 £25.56
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +69.84% -42.50%
75th Percentile £76.00 £73.21 £56.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £85.00 £66.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.50 £60.00 £41.09
% change year-on-year -17.50% +46.02% -34.26%

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 46,106 29,609 32,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.43% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,135 18,363 20,196
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 2,994 1,772 1,501
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.03 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.17% -41.51% +1.96%
75th Percentile £67.84 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £22.60 £43.00
% change year-on-year +85.18% -47.44% +7.50%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +6 1,857 £525 - 2,487
UK excluding London -2 1,171 £500 +2.56% 1,683
London +6 828 £550 -3.76% 1,143
Work from Home +8 639 £500 -2.34% 1,124
South East -5 312 £525 -2.33% 468
North of England +8 295 £486 +2.37% 361
North West +13 197 £500 +5.26% 192
Midlands -27 161 £475 +5.56% 264
South West -6 153 £525 +13.64% 212
Scotland +19 148 £438 -2.78% 153
West Midlands -17 123 £475 -8.61% 176
Yorkshire -13 75 £485 +0.78% 121
East of England +3 64 £500 -4.76% 141
East Midlands -27 34 £425 -0.47% 87
Wales -4 26 £438 +6.06% 41
North East -24 24 £350 - 50
Northern Ireland +2 17 £388 -18.42% 63
Channel Islands - 8 £538 - 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
1 119 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 111 (5.05%) Confluence
3 36 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.32%) Apache
5 6 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.27%) CMS
5 6 (0.27%) JBoss
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
7 4 (0.18%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.18%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
8 3 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.091%) Camunda
9 2 (0.091%) CICS
9 2 (0.091%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.046%) MTS
Applications
1 171 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.42%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
4 98 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.77%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.55%) Trello
8 10 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.36%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.36%) Revit
10 7 (0.32%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.27%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.091%) Houdini
13 2 (0.091%) NUKE
14 1 (0.046%) CATIA
14 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 51 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.09%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.55%) Primavera
5 11 (0.50%) Maximo
6 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.36%) SAP SD
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.32%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.27%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.23%) NEC Housing
10 5 (0.23%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 340 (15.48%) Azure
2 145 (6.60%) AWS
3 133 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 127 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 89 (4.05%) SaaS
7 73 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 50 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
9 49 (2.23%) GCP
10 28 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.23%) GitHub
11 27 (1.23%) OCI
12 26 (1.18%) PowerApps
13 24 (1.09%) Google Workspace
13 24 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
14 22 (1.00%) Power Automate
15 20 (0.91%) IaaS
16 16 (0.73%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.68%) PaaS
18 13 (0.59%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.28%) Firewall
2 89 (4.05%) DNS
3 86 (3.92%) WAN
4 80 (3.64%) Network Security
5 76 (3.46%) LAN
6 66 (3.01%) VPN
7 48 (2.19%) MPLS
8 46 (2.09%) BGP
9 45 (2.05%) DHCP
10 44 (2.00%) Wireless
11 39 (1.78%) VLAN
12 38 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
13 31 (1.41%) OSPF
14 30 (1.37%) TCP/IP
15 24 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 23 (1.05%) SD-WAN
17 18 (0.82%) SSL
18 14 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.64%) IPsec
18 14 (0.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (4.87%) Power BI
2 40 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.73%) Metadata
5 12 (0.55%) Tableau
6 11 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.41%) Big Data
7 9 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.36%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.27%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.27%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.23%) Power Query
12 4 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 233 (10.61%) JIRA
2 24 (1.09%) Git
3 14 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.46%) GitLab
5 9 (0.41%) Selenium
6 7 (0.32%) MSI
7 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.091%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.091%) TestNG
11 1 (0.046%) MLflow
11 1 (0.046%) Postman
11 1 (0.046%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 913 (41.58%) Social Skills
2 660 (30.05%) Finance
3 299 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
4 234 (10.66%) Public Sector
5 165 (7.51%) Organisational Skills
6 131 (5.97%) Banking
7 102 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
8 98 (4.46%) Retail
9 93 (4.23%) Legal
10 92 (4.19%) Telecoms
11 74 (3.37%) Manufacturing
12 70 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
13 61 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (2.05%) Military
15 43 (1.96%) Local Government
16 33 (1.50%) Front Office
17 32 (1.46%) Marketing
18 31 (1.41%) Law
19 24 (1.09%) Financial Institution
20 23 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 502 (22.86%) Project Manager
2 253 (11.52%) Analyst
3 231 (10.52%) Senior
4 207 (9.43%) Lead
5 146 (6.65%) Architect
5 146 (6.65%) Business Analyst
6 133 (6.06%) Consultant
7 101 (4.60%) Senior Manager
8 97 (4.42%) Network Engineer
9 92 (4.19%) Delivery Manager
10 85 (3.87%) Senior Project Manager
11 84 (3.83%) IT Manager
12 62 (2.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 59 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
14 56 (2.55%) Developer
15 55 (2.50%) IT Project Manager
16 42 (1.91%) Technical Manager
17 37 (1.68%) Transformation Manager
18 36 (1.64%) Programme Manager
19 35 (1.59%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.19%) Terraform
2 40 (1.82%) REST
3 36 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.14%) Middleware
5 17 (0.77%) .NET
6 13 (0.59%) 802.1X
6 13 (0.59%) SAP Fiori
6 13 (0.59%) XML
7 12 (0.55%) SOAP
7 12 (0.55%) Web Services
8 11 (0.50%) ADO
8 11 (0.50%) OAuth
8 11 (0.50%) React
9 10 (0.46%) JSON
9 10 (0.46%) LDAP
10 8 (0.36%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.36%) SailPoint
11 7 (0.32%) Kafka
11 7 (0.32%) OpenID
11 7 (0.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 109 (4.96%) Onboarding
2 107 (4.87%) Management Information System
3 98 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 90 (4.10%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 43 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 36 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 36 (1.64%) Virtual Team
9 34 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (1.50%) Driving Licence
10 33 (1.50%) Operational Technology
11 32 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.32%) PKI
13 25 (1.14%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.09%) Derivative
15 21 (0.96%) Replication
16 19 (0.87%) Clustering
16 19 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (0.82%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 146 (6.65%) Windows
2 77 (3.51%) Linux
3 68 (3.10%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.32%) Unix
5 13 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.50%) Solaris
7 10 (0.46%) AIX
8 6 (0.27%) Android
8 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.091%) Debian
12 2 (0.091%) VMS
12 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.046%) CentOS
13 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 916 (41.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 695 (31.65%) Agile
3 597 (27.19%) Project Management
4 411 (18.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 407 (18.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 358 (16.30%) Migration
7 352 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
8 324 (14.75%) Change Management
9 284 (12.93%) PRINCE2
10 248 (11.29%) Decision-Making
11 238 (10.84%) Waterfall
12 207 (9.43%) Risk Management
13 195 (8.88%) ITIL
14 184 (8.38%) AI
14 184 (8.38%) DevOps
15 183 (8.33%) Roadmaps
16 179 (8.15%) Workshop Facilitation
17 174 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
18 164 (7.47%) User Acceptance Testing
19 162 (7.38%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 110 (5.01%) SQL
2 103 (4.69%) Python
3 75 (3.42%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.23%) Java
5 26 (1.18%) Bash
6 19 (0.87%) C#
7 17 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.77%) VBA
8 10 (0.46%) ABAP
9 9 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.32%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.23%) Korn
13 4 (0.18%) Bicep
13 4 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 484 (22.04%) Security Cleared
2 355 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 203 (9.24%) Degree
4 161 (7.33%) PMP
5 144 (6.56%) PMI Certification
6 121 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 74 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (2.19%) CCNP
10 40 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (1.78%) CCNA
12 36 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 35 (1.59%) Azure Certification
14 29 (1.32%) CISSP
15 19 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.82%) MCSE
17 17 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 16 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
19 15 (0.68%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (11.43%) PMO
2 99 (4.51%) QA
3 62 (2.82%) NIST
4 57 (2.60%) GDPR
5 56 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (2.37%) Data Quality
7 31 (1.41%) SLA
8 22 (1.00%) GRC
9 17 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.59%) ISO 19650
11 10 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.46%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.36%) NCSC
13 8 (0.36%) P3O
14 7 (0.32%) GxP
14 7 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 76 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (1.23%) Hyper-V
4 24 (1.09%) Docker
4 24 (1.09%) vSphere
5 19 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.64%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.50%) Firmware
7 11 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.18%) Squid
9 3 (0.14%) Ceph
9 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.046%) IAG
11 1 (0.046%) oVirt
11 1 (0.046%) RHEV
11 1 (0.046%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 53 (2.41%) Ansible
2 34 (1.55%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.05%) FortiGate
5 21 (0.96%) SCCM
6 16 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.68%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
9 9 (0.41%) SCOM
10 8 (0.36%) Nagios
10 8 (0.36%) Puppet
11 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.32%) WMI
11 7 (0.32%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.23%) Netcool
13 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 489 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 155 (7.06%) Cisco
3 149 (6.79%) SAP
4 128 (5.83%) ServiceNow
5 105 (4.78%) Oracle
6 101 (4.60%) VMware
7 54 (2.46%) Palo Alto
8 50 (2.28%) Fortinet
9 49 (2.23%) Salesforce
10 44 (2.00%) F5
11 38 (1.73%) Google
12 30 (1.37%) SolarWinds
13 29 (1.32%) Juniper
13 29 (1.32%) Workday
14 24 (1.09%) IBM
15 23 (1.05%) Splunk
16 22 (1.00%) Databricks
16 22 (1.00%) Siemens
17 21 (0.96%) Ariba
17 21 (0.96%) Zscaler