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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 58 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,070 1,319 1,441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.88% 4.01% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 4.43% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,383 851 889
10th Percentile £325 £323 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £638
90th Percentile £706 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 22 44
10th Percentile £22.52 £15.91 £22.50
25th Percentile £35.53 £27.63 £27.17
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year - +34.34% -35.27%
75th Percentile £78.75 £74.73 £55.79
90th Percentile £90.63 £82.13 £67.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +11.82% +34.34% -34.50%

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 45,312 29,789 33,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.84% 90.47% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,626 21,285
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,829 1,693 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +17.24%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +5 1,786 £525 - 1,608
UK excluding London -7 1,124 £500 - 1,149
London +2 785 £550 -7.37% 649
Work from Home +1 613 £500 -4.40% 721
South East -5 294 £525 -2.33% 352
North of England +3 275 £497 +4.59% 287
North West +16 185 £500 +5.26% 160
South West +5 174 £486 +2.37% 145
Midlands -25 164 £475 +0.26% 190
Scotland +7 129 £450 -4.26% 64
West Midlands -26 128 £475 -8.61% 126
Yorkshire -30 70 £500 - 81
East of England +5 60 £500 -4.76% 95
East Midlands -18 34 £407 -5.07% 61
Wales +1 23 £525 +89.59% 27
North East -23 21 £350 - 51
Northern Ireland +5 15 £361 -24.05% 21
Channel Islands - 1 £550 - 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
1 120 (5.80%) SharePoint
2 116 (5.60%) Confluence
3 40 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.34%) Apache
5 6 (0.29%) CMS
5 6 (0.29%) SAS
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.24%) JBoss
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.19%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
8 3 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.097%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.097%) Camunda
9 2 (0.097%) CICS
9 2 (0.097%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 157 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.75%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
4 91 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.77%) Siemens NX
7 14 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.48%) Trello
9 8 (0.39%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 7 (0.34%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
12 5 (0.24%) ProjectWise
13 2 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.097%) Houdini
13 2 (0.097%) NUKE
14 1 (0.048%) CATIA
14 1 (0.048%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 48 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.01%) Teamcenter
3 16 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.72%) Primavera
5 10 (0.48%) Maximo
6 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.39%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.34%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.34%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.29%) ProductWriter
9 6 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.24%) Shopify
11 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.19%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 312 (15.07%) Azure
2 140 (6.76%) AWS
3 117 (5.65%) Power Platform
4 115 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 92 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 77 (3.72%) SaaS
7 67 (3.24%) Entra ID
8 44 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
9 42 (2.03%) GCP
10 30 (1.45%) GitHub
11 28 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.30%) Google Workspace
13 26 (1.26%) IaaS
13 26 (1.26%) PowerApps
14 23 (1.11%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
15 22 (1.06%) OCI
16 18 (0.87%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 129 (6.23%) Firewall
2 88 (4.25%) DNS
3 74 (3.57%) WAN
4 67 (3.24%) LAN
5 64 (3.09%) VPN
6 62 (3.00%) Network Security
7 48 (2.32%) MPLS
8 44 (2.13%) BGP
9 41 (1.98%) DHCP
10 35 (1.69%) VLAN
10 35 (1.69%) Wireless
11 33 (1.59%) OSPF
11 33 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (1.50%) TCP/IP
13 25 (1.21%) SD-WAN
14 23 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 16 (0.77%) SSL
16 14 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
16 14 (0.68%) IPsec
17 13 (0.63%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.30%) Power BI
2 43 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.68%) Metadata
4 14 (0.68%) Tableau
5 12 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (0.48%) Big Data
6 10 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.43%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.34%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.29%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.24%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.24%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 224 (10.82%) JIRA
2 28 (1.35%) Git
3 16 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.72%) GitLab
5 9 (0.43%) Selenium
6 8 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.24%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSI
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.097%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.097%) Hudson
10 2 (0.097%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.097%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.097%) TestNG
11 1 (0.048%) Postman
11 1 (0.048%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 854 (41.26%) Social Skills
2 641 (30.97%) Finance
3 277 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 153 (7.39%) Organisational Skills
6 116 (5.60%) Banking
7 103 (4.98%) Retail
8 100 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
9 96 (4.64%) Legal
10 85 (4.11%) Telecoms
11 63 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
12 60 (2.90%) Manufacturing
13 57 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.93%) Local Government
15 34 (1.64%) Marketing
15 34 (1.64%) Military
16 26 (1.26%) Front Office
17 25 (1.21%) Investment Banking
18 24 (1.16%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 487 (23.53%) Project Manager
2 233 (11.26%) Analyst
3 228 (11.01%) Senior
4 195 (9.42%) Lead
5 126 (6.09%) Business Analyst
6 123 (5.94%) Consultant
7 122 (5.89%) Architect
8 102 (4.93%) Senior Manager
9 88 (4.25%) Network Engineer
10 85 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
10 85 (4.11%) Senior Project Manager
11 82 (3.96%) IT Manager
12 61 (2.95%) Developer
13 60 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 55 (2.66%) IT Project Manager
15 48 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
15 48 (2.32%) Technical Manager
16 42 (2.03%) Project Officer
17 39 (1.88%) Infrastructure Manager
18 38 (1.84%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.64%) REST
2 27 (1.30%) Middleware
3 25 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.82%) .NET
5 13 (0.63%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.58%) React
7 11 (0.53%) OAuth
7 11 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
7 11 (0.53%) XML
8 10 (0.48%) ADO
8 10 (0.48%) JSON
8 10 (0.48%) Web Services
9 9 (0.43%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.39%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.34%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.34%) Kafka
11 7 (0.34%) Playwright
11 7 (0.34%) PySpark
11 7 (0.34%) RESTful
11 7 (0.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.12%) Management Information System
2 103 (4.98%) Onboarding
3 86 (4.15%) Data Centre
4 83 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 44 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (1.88%) Virtual Team
7 33 (1.59%) Operational Technology
8 32 (1.55%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.35%) Driving Licence
11 26 (1.26%) PKI
12 23 (1.11%) Public Cloud
13 20 (0.97%) Clustering
13 20 (0.97%) PMI
14 19 (0.92%) Derivative
14 19 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 135 (6.52%) Windows
2 69 (3.33%) Linux
3 63 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.30%) Unix
5 12 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.48%) AIX
6 10 (0.48%) Solaris
7 6 (0.29%) Android
7 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.24%) zOS
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.097%) Debian
11 2 (0.097%) VMS
11 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (37.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 633 (30.58%) Agile
3 557 (26.91%) Project Management
4 371 (17.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 361 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 336 (16.23%) Migration
7 313 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 299 (14.44%) Change Management
9 267 (12.90%) PRINCE2
10 228 (11.01%) Decision-Making
11 219 (10.58%) Waterfall
12 189 (9.13%) Risk Management
13 185 (8.94%) ITIL
14 182 (8.79%) Roadmaps
15 181 (8.74%) DevOps
16 171 (8.26%) AI
17 150 (7.25%) User Acceptance Testing
18 148 (7.15%) Workshop Facilitation
19 143 (6.91%) Cybersecurity
20 138 (6.67%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 115 (5.56%) SQL
2 100 (4.83%) Python
3 66 (3.19%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.26%) Java
5 25 (1.21%) Bash
6 18 (0.87%) C#
7 17 (0.82%) JavaScript
8 14 (0.68%) VBA
9 9 (0.43%) ABAP
9 9 (0.43%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.43%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.24%) Korn
13 4 (0.19%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.19%) Bicep
13 4 (0.19%) Go
13 4 (0.19%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.14%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 469 (22.66%) Security Cleared
2 336 (16.23%) SC Cleared
3 205 (9.90%) Degree
4 159 (7.68%) PMP
5 136 (6.57%) PMI Certification
6 121 (5.85%) DV Cleared
7 70 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (2.17%) CCNP
9 44 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 44 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (1.93%) CCNA
11 32 (1.55%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 26 (1.26%) CISSP
13 19 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.87%) MCSE
15 17 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
17 14 (0.68%) CISM
18 13 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (11.30%) PMO
2 88 (4.25%) QA
3 60 (2.90%) NIST
4 57 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (2.71%) GDPR
6 42 (2.03%) Data Quality
7 36 (1.74%) SLA
8 22 (1.06%) GRC
9 13 (0.63%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.53%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.48%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.39%) NCSC
13 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.29%) GxP
14 6 (0.29%) HL7
14 6 (0.29%) IFRS
14 6 (0.29%) P3O
15 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 110 (5.31%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.21%) Docker
3 25 (1.21%) Hyper-V
4 19 (0.92%) vSphere
5 17 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.53%) Firmware
8 11 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.19%) Squid
9 4 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.14%) Ceph
10 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.097%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.048%) ACF2
12 1 (0.048%) KVM
12 1 (0.048%) RACF
12 1 (0.048%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 52 (2.51%) Terraform
2 51 (2.46%) Ansible
3 33 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 29 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.06%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.97%) SCCM
7 16 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.72%) vCenter Server
9 10 (0.48%) SCOM
10 8 (0.39%) Cisco Prime
10 8 (0.39%) Nagios
10 8 (0.39%) Puppet
11 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.24%) Netcool
13 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.24%) Tivoli
14 4 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 435 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 141 (6.81%) SAP
3 132 (6.38%) Cisco
4 121 (5.85%) ServiceNow
5 91 (4.40%) VMware
6 90 (4.35%) Oracle
7 50 (2.42%) Palo Alto
8 44 (2.13%) Fortinet
9 42 (2.03%) Google
10 39 (1.88%) F5
10 39 (1.88%) Salesforce
11 28 (1.35%) Juniper
12 27 (1.30%) SolarWinds
13 24 (1.16%) IBM
13 24 (1.16%) Workday
14 22 (1.06%) Splunk
15 21 (1.01%) Zscaler
16 19 (0.92%) Citrix
16 19 (0.92%) NEC
17 18 (0.87%) Siemens