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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,605 1,165 1,746
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.85% 3.90% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.33% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 679 1,148
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £418 £433 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £637
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -4.88% - +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 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 £63.40 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.40 £69.50 £68.50
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 36,085 26,903 38,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.50% 90.10% 86.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,893 16,856 25,223
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £412 £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 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,151 877 2,259
10th Percentile £14.68 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £16.24
Median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.10 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.88 £34.21
% change year-on-year -21.11% -6.81% -2.26%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 1,406 £525 - 697
UK excluding London -6 822 £488 -4.88% 553
London +1 653 £550 - 219
Work from Home -5 460 £538 -0.09% 334
North of England +17 245 £480 -5.88% 116
South East -4 178 £525 -4.55% 182
Midlands -15 166 £475 -7.23% 85
North West +24 152 £475 - 73
West Midlands -18 103 £531 -3.45% 54
South West +9 95 £538 +7.29% 73
Yorkshire -13 83 £500 -12.70% 35
Scotland -18 80 £488 +1.77% 31
East Midlands -6 63 £438 -2.64% 31
East of England -8 40 £565 +13.68% 60
Wales +2 18 £374 -16.83% 12
North East -9 12 £290 -38.98% 11
Northern Ireland +1 9 £450 -18.18% 2

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
1 115 (7.17%) Confluence
2 71 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.37%) CMS
5 5 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.25%) CICS
6 4 (0.25%) SAS
7 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.19%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.062%) Apache
9 1 (0.062%) Appian
9 1 (0.062%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.062%) IIS
9 1 (0.062%) Moodle
9 1 (0.062%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
Applications
1 148 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (7.17%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (6.48%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (6.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (2.18%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.81%) Trello
6 9 (0.56%) Siemens NX
7 7 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) InDesign
9 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.062%) Revit
10 1 (0.062%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 50 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.75%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.69%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.62%) Endur
5 10 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.62%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 7 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.44%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
10 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.25%) Primavera
10 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 191 (11.90%) Azure
2 85 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (4.61%) Power Platform
4 70 (4.36%) AWS
5 57 (3.55%) SaaS
6 46 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.93%) GCP
9 27 (1.68%) Entra ID
10 22 (1.37%) GitHub
11 17 (1.06%) IaaS
12 16 (1.00%) OCI
13 14 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (0.81%) Amazon S3
14 13 (0.81%) OpenShift
15 12 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
15 12 (0.75%) Serverless
16 11 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.05%) Firewall
2 45 (2.80%) WAN
3 41 (2.55%) DNS
4 35 (2.18%) LAN
5 30 (1.87%) Network Security
6 22 (1.37%) BGP
7 21 (1.31%) OSPF
7 21 (1.31%) SD-WAN
8 18 (1.12%) MPLS
8 18 (1.12%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.93%) DHCP
9 15 (0.93%) NetScaler
10 14 (0.87%) VPN
10 14 (0.87%) Wireless
11 13 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 13 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
11 13 (0.81%) VLAN
12 11 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (3.61%) Power BI
2 27 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.62%) Tableau
4 24 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (0.56%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.50%) Metadata
9 7 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.37%) GIS
10 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.31%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.25%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.19%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.19%) SAP Data Services
13 3 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 205 (12.77%) JIRA
2 22 (1.37%) Git
3 19 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.87%) GitLab
5 5 (0.31%) Selenium
6 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.12%) Appium
8 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.12%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.12%) JMeter
8 2 (0.12%) MSTest
8 2 (0.12%) Subversion
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.062%) Gradle
General
1 676 (42.12%) Social Skills
2 522 (32.52%) Finance
3 219 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 143 (8.91%) Banking
6 114 (7.10%) Organisational Skills
7 61 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
8 59 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
9 54 (3.36%) Retail
10 53 (3.30%) Legal
11 47 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
12 42 (2.62%) Manufacturing
13 32 (1.99%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.50%) Front Office
14 24 (1.50%) Marketing
15 23 (1.43%) Investment Banking
16 21 (1.31%) Local Government
17 18 (1.12%) Law
18 16 (1.00%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 437 (27.23%) Project Manager
2 208 (12.96%) Analyst
3 177 (11.03%) Lead
4 148 (9.22%) Business Analyst
5 145 (9.03%) Senior
6 83 (5.17%) Consultant
7 79 (4.92%) Architect
8 65 (4.05%) Delivery Manager
9 62 (3.86%) Senior Manager
10 52 (3.24%) IT Manager
11 48 (2.99%) Senior Project Manager
12 46 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
12 46 (2.87%) Technical Manager
13 43 (2.68%) Network Engineer
14 42 (2.62%) Programme Manager
15 37 (2.31%) IT Project Manager
16 34 (2.12%) SAP Manager
17 32 (1.99%) Infrastructure Manager
18 29 (1.81%) Service Manager
19 28 (1.74%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.87%) Middleware
2 25 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 18 (1.12%) REST
4 11 (0.69%) XML
5 10 (0.62%) Web Services
6 8 (0.50%) CSS
6 8 (0.50%) React
7 7 (0.44%) HTML
7 7 (0.44%) SOAP
7 7 (0.44%) YAML
8 6 (0.37%) .NET
8 6 (0.37%) JSON
8 6 (0.37%) RESTful
8 6 (0.37%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (0.37%) Spring
8 6 (0.37%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.31%) ADO
9 5 (0.31%) Node.js
9 5 (0.31%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 81 (5.05%) Product Ownership
2 74 (4.61%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 62 (3.86%) Data Centre
5 34 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.12%) Virtual Team
6 32 (1.99%) PMI
7 27 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.68%) NHS
8 25 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 24 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.18%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.12%) Replication
12 17 (1.06%) Clustering
13 14 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (0.87%) Cloud Native
13 14 (0.87%) Operational Technology
14 13 (0.81%) Driving Licence
14 13 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.75%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 85 (5.30%) Windows
2 41 (2.55%) Windows Server
3 29 (1.81%) Linux
4 21 (1.31%) Unix
5 19 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.69%) VMS
7 10 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.62%) Solaris
8 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.44%) zOS
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.25%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.25%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.19%) OpenVMS
14 2 (0.12%) Android
14 2 (0.12%) pSOS
15 1 (0.062%) AIX
15 1 (0.062%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (34.39%) Agile
2 490 (30.53%) Project Management
3 474 (29.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 280 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
5 231 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 231 (14.39%) Migration
6 230 (14.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 229 (14.27%) PRINCE2
8 198 (12.34%) Change Management
9 160 (9.97%) DevOps
10 156 (9.72%) Waterfall
11 146 (9.10%) Decision-Making
12 141 (8.79%) Scrum
13 134 (8.35%) Roadmaps
14 132 (8.22%) Risk Management
15 125 (7.79%) ITIL
16 122 (7.60%) Workshop Facilitation
17 121 (7.54%) Business Analysis
18 115 (7.17%) Project Governance
19 112 (6.98%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 86 (5.36%) SQL
2 77 (4.80%) Python
3 48 (2.99%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.56%) Java
5 21 (1.31%) Bash
6 13 (0.81%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.62%) C#
8 9 (0.56%) 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 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.25%) C++
11 4 (0.25%) COBOL
12 3 (0.19%) ABAP
12 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.19%) JCL
12 3 (0.19%) Perl
12 3 (0.19%) REXX
Qualifications
1 317 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 234 (14.58%) Degree
3 225 (14.02%) SC Cleared
4 148 (9.22%) PMP
5 133 (8.29%) PMI Certification
6 74 (4.61%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.31%) Master's Degree
8 34 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (1.99%) CCNP
9 32 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.93%) APMP
11 23 (1.43%) CCNA
12 22 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 20 (1.25%) CBAP
14 19 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (1.12%) CISSP
15 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
17 14 (0.87%) CISM
18 12 (0.75%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (9.66%) PMO
2 115 (7.17%) QA
3 38 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (2.12%) GDPR
6 29 (1.81%) NIST
7 19 (1.18%) SLA
8 15 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.75%) PSD2
11 9 (0.56%) MiFID
11 9 (0.56%) NCSC
12 8 (0.50%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.50%) GRC
12 8 (0.50%) P3O
13 7 (0.44%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.37%) ISO 8583
15 5 (0.31%) Basel III
15 5 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 49 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.37%) Docker
4 15 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.87%) vSphere
6 11 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.25%) Firmware
8 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.062%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.062%) NFS
10 1 (0.062%) RACF
10 1 (0.062%) Veritas File System
10 1 (0.062%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 40 (2.49%) Ansible
2 34 (2.12%) Terraform
3 29 (1.81%) Kubernetes
4 24 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.25%) SCCM
6 9 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.44%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.37%) Grafana
10 5 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
12 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.12%) Control-M
13 2 (0.12%) Nagios
13 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.12%) Puppet
13 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 294 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 134 (8.35%) SAP
3 87 (5.42%) Oracle
4 74 (4.61%) Cisco
5 65 (4.05%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.62%) VMware
7 36 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 30 (1.87%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.74%) Google
10 20 (1.25%) F5
11 19 (1.18%) Citrix
12 18 (1.12%) Workday
13 17 (1.06%) Aruba
13 17 (1.06%) CheckPoint
13 17 (1.06%) IBM
14 15 (0.93%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.87%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.81%) MuleSoft
17 12 (0.75%) Ariba
17 12 (0.75%) CyberArk