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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,407 1,328 1,950
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.00% 3.66% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.25% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 749 1,300
10th Percentile £322 £356 £360
25th Percentile £410 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £534
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% -0.70% -2.51%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -4.41% +0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 39 36
10th Percentile £15.91 £16.25 £20.37
25th Percentile £19.63 £23.05 £34.76
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £57.49
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% -39.12% -0.01%
75th Percentile £63.49 £61.28 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.11 £65.60 £83.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +6.96% -15.00% -13.04%

All Process and 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 31,669 31,225 41,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.01% 86.16% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,839 18,782 27,829
10th Percentile £297 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.43% -3.16%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,104 1,592
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.46 £20.12 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.17
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -18.92% +23.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.53 £33.00 £43.83
% change year-on-year -31.73% -24.70% +51.64%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 +2 1,206 £525 -3.67% 1,265
UK excluding London -2 736 £488 -4.41% 860
London +9 551 £550 - 481
Work from Home -2 431 £525 -3.45% 587
South East -2 182 £538 -1.38% 291
North of England -4 180 £475 -5.00% 185
Midlands -3 149 £450 -14.69% 145
North West +4 108 £470 +4.44% 116
West Midlands -8 90 £525 -8.70% 85
South West +2 80 £481 -8.33% 103
Scotland -17 79 £450 -0.66% 37
Yorkshire -6 67 £500 -11.77% 48
East Midlands +19 59 £420 -8.70% 59
East of England -8 35 £525 +5.00% 69
Wales +4 22 £305 -47.06% 26
Northern Ireland +2 16 £450 +41.73% 13
North East -17 4 £411 -28.41% 22

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 88 (6.25%) Confluence
2 61 (4.34%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.36%) CMS
4 5 (0.36%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
5 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.14%) Appian
6 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.071%) Camunda
7 1 (0.071%) Drupal
7 1 (0.071%) Moodle
7 1 (0.071%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.071%) Smallworld
Applications
1 108 (7.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (6.04%) Microsoft Project
3 82 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
4 71 (5.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (2.77%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.92%) Trello
7 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.21%) InDesign
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.071%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.071%) Revit
10 1 (0.071%) Simulink
10 1 (0.071%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 62 (4.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.14%) Endur
3 11 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.57%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.57%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
6 7 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.50%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
7 6 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.43%) SAP GTS
7 6 (0.43%) SAP IBP
7 6 (0.43%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.36%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 179 (12.72%) Azure
2 58 (4.12%) AWS
3 57 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 46 (3.27%) SaaS
6 45 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (1.92%) GCP
8 26 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (1.71%) OCI
10 20 (1.42%) Entra ID
11 16 (1.14%) GitHub
11 16 (1.14%) PaaS
12 14 (1.00%) IaaS
13 13 (0.92%) Power Automate
14 12 (0.85%) Asana
15 11 (0.78%) PowerApps
16 10 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
17 9 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
18 7 (0.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.99%) Firewall
2 38 (2.70%) WAN
3 28 (1.99%) LAN
4 27 (1.92%) DNS
5 19 (1.35%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.35%) VPN
6 18 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.21%) Network Security
8 16 (1.14%) Wireless
9 13 (0.92%) MPLS
10 12 (0.85%) HTTP
10 12 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.78%) BGP
11 11 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (0.71%) Internet
12 10 (0.71%) SAN
13 8 (0.57%) DHCP
13 8 (0.57%) EIGRP
13 8 (0.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (2.99%) Power BI
2 19 (1.35%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.07%) Tableau
4 14 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.71%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.64%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.36%) GIS
9 5 (0.36%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.28%) Big Data
10 4 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.28%) Metadata
11 3 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 161 (11.44%) JIRA
2 27 (1.92%) Git
3 10 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.50%) Selenium
4 7 (0.50%) Subversion
5 5 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.28%) Fiddler
6 4 (0.28%) GitLab
6 4 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.21%) Appium
8 2 (0.14%) Dreamweaver
8 2 (0.14%) Gradle
8 2 (0.14%) JMeter
8 2 (0.14%) Maven
8 2 (0.14%) MSTest
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.071%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle Forms
General
1 634 (45.06%) Social Skills
2 459 (32.62%) Finance
3 162 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 105 (7.46%) Banking
6 68 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
7 61 (4.34%) Manufacturing
7 61 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.41%) Retail
9 47 (3.34%) Telecoms
10 46 (3.27%) Legal
11 44 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (2.70%) Marketing
13 33 (2.35%) Front Office
14 25 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
16 16 (1.14%) Law
16 16 (1.14%) Local Government
17 15 (1.07%) Billing
Job Titles
1 382 (27.15%) Project Manager
2 199 (14.14%) Analyst
3 149 (10.59%) Lead
4 133 (9.45%) Business Analyst
5 120 (8.53%) Senior
6 104 (7.39%) Consultant
7 91 (6.47%) Architect
8 63 (4.48%) IT Manager
9 59 (4.19%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (3.70%) IT Project Manager
11 50 (3.55%) Senior Manager
12 42 (2.99%) Senior Project Manager
13 36 (2.56%) Technical Manager
14 32 (2.27%) Developer
14 32 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
15 29 (2.06%) Infrastructure Manager
15 29 (2.06%) Programme Manager
16 27 (1.92%) Service Architect
17 26 (1.85%) Technical Project Manager
18 25 (1.78%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.49%) Web Services
2 19 (1.35%) REST
3 17 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (1.14%) .NET
5 14 (1.00%) React
5 14 (1.00%) SOAP
6 11 (0.78%) AngularJS
6 11 (0.78%) Middleware
6 11 (0.78%) XML
7 10 (0.71%) RESTful
7 10 (0.71%) SAP Fiori
8 8 (0.57%) JMS
8 8 (0.57%) XSD
9 7 (0.50%) .NET Core
10 6 (0.43%) HTML
10 6 (0.43%) Node.js
10 6 (0.43%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.43%) YAML
11 5 (0.36%) CSS
11 5 (0.36%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.98%) Product Ownership
2 63 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 47 (3.34%) Management Information System
4 40 (2.84%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.49%) PMI
5 35 (2.49%) Virtual Team
6 32 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.28%) NHS
11 14 (1.00%) Algorithms
12 11 (0.78%) Driving Licence
12 11 (0.78%) Life Science
12 11 (0.78%) Mobile App
13 10 (0.71%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (0.71%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.64%) Operational Technology
14 9 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 69 (4.90%) Windows
2 34 (2.42%) Linux
3 28 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.35%) Unix
5 14 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.36%) OpenVMS
7 5 (0.36%) Solaris
7 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.071%) Android
11 1 (0.071%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.071%) pSOS
11 1 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (36.03%) Agile
2 460 (32.69%) Project Management
3 445 (31.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 246 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
5 245 (17.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 218 (15.49%) Change Management
7 197 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 178 (12.65%) Migration
9 173 (12.30%) PRINCE2
10 163 (11.58%) Waterfall
11 140 (9.95%) Roadmaps
12 138 (9.81%) Risk Management
13 132 (9.38%) ITIL
14 128 (9.10%) Scrum
15 123 (8.74%) Project Governance
16 119 (8.46%) DevOps
17 114 (8.10%) Decision-Making
17 114 (8.10%) ERP
18 104 (7.39%) Business Analysis
19 103 (7.32%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 90 (6.40%) SQL
2 70 (4.98%) Python
3 45 (3.20%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.56%) Java
5 21 (1.49%) Bash
6 15 (1.07%) C#
7 10 (0.71%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.50%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.43%) ABAP
9 6 (0.43%) C++
10 5 (0.36%) Perl
11 4 (0.28%) VBA
12 2 (0.14%) PHP
12 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.071%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.071%) COBOL
13 1 (0.071%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.071%) RPG
13 1 (0.071%) Swift
13 1 (0.071%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 212 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 206 (14.64%) Degree
3 153 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 101 (7.18%) PMI Certification
5 91 (6.47%) PMP
6 42 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.35%) CCNP
11 18 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 16 (1.14%) CBAP
13 14 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.78%) APMP
14 11 (0.78%) CCNA
15 9 (0.64%) CISSP
15 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (0.57%) ACCA
16 8 (0.57%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (6.75%) PMO
2 75 (5.33%) QA
3 32 (2.27%) GDPR
4 28 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 28 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 17 (1.21%) NIST
7 16 (1.14%) MiFID
7 16 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.78%) EMIR
9 11 (0.78%) PSD2
9 11 (0.78%) SLA
10 10 (0.71%) NCSC
11 9 (0.64%) P3O
12 8 (0.57%) COBIT
13 6 (0.43%) Def Stans
13 6 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.43%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 41 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (0.92%) Docker
4 10 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.36%) vSphere
8 4 (0.28%) NFS
8 4 (0.28%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.28%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.071%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.071%) RACF
10 1 (0.071%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 25 (1.78%) Terraform
2 22 (1.56%) Ansible
3 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.85%) SCCM
5 10 (0.71%) Kubernetes
6 9 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.36%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.36%) Grafana
8 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.36%) QRadar
8 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.14%) CEMLI
11 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.14%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.071%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 251 (17.84%) Microsoft
2 130 (9.24%) SAP
3 90 (6.40%) Oracle
4 64 (4.55%) Cisco
5 59 (4.19%) ServiceNow
6 39 (2.77%) Salesforce
7 37 (2.63%) VMware
8 24 (1.71%) Workday
9 18 (1.28%) IBM
10 16 (1.14%) Citrix
11 15 (1.07%) Fortinet
11 15 (1.07%) Google
12 14 (1.00%) F5
13 13 (0.92%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.85%) Ariba
14 12 (0.85%) CyberArk
14 12 (0.85%) Meraki
15 11 (0.78%) Palo Alto
16 10 (0.71%) Blue Prism
16 10 (0.71%) Splunk