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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 52 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,533 1,219 1,822
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.03% 3.92% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 4.40% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 684 1,211
10th Percentile £333 £350 £363
25th Percentile £416 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £528 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -2.31% -1.82%
75th Percentile £618 £633 £638
90th Percentile £725 £695 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £519 £511
% change year-on-year -4.98% +1.52% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 35 29
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £17.25 £23.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.61 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.95% -35.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £60.85 £63.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.18 £66.50 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - -26.00% -23.08%

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 33,264 27,700 38,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.38% 89.09% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,060 16,780 25,534
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £643
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,011 875 1,974
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.72% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.43 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.80% -18.85% +44.23%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 27 January 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 +1 1,336 £525 -1.87% 748
UK excluding London -8 781 £493 -4.98% 687
London +4 630 £550 - 189
Work from Home -2 432 £525 -2.78% 345
North of England +6 219 £480 -4.10% 140
South East -6 188 £530 -6.19% 237
Midlands -8 158 £468 -7.83% 122
North West +12 139 £475 -2.96% 80
West Midlands -14 87 £537 -5.29% 79
Scotland -14 81 £450 -0.66% 26
South West -7 77 £538 +7.39% 78
East Midlands +4 72 £438 -4.76% 43
Yorkshire -5 69 £501 -14.66% 42
East of England -3 36 £538 +7.50% 71
Wales +4 19 £308 -42.12% 22
Northern Ireland -2 14 £475 -13.64% 4
North East -12 12 £290 -49.34% 21

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 (7.76%) Confluence
2 62 (4.04%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.33%) CMS
5 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.20%) CICS
5 3 (0.20%) MS Project Server
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.13%) Appian
6 2 (0.13%) Camunda
6 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.065%) Apache
7 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.065%) IIS
7 1 (0.065%) Moodle
7 1 (0.065%) Smallworld
Applications
1 144 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
3 100 (6.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 100 (6.52%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (2.41%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.91%) Trello
6 13 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.59%) Siemens NX
8 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.13%) InDesign
10 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.065%) Revit
11 1 (0.065%) Sketch
11 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.78%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.72%) Endur
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 10 (0.65%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.59%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
7 8 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
8 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.46%) SAP IBP
8 7 (0.46%) SAP MM
9 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.39%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
10 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.33%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 196 (12.79%) Azure
2 76 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (4.37%) Power Platform
4 62 (4.04%) AWS
5 54 (3.52%) SaaS
6 45 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (2.02%) GCP
9 25 (1.63%) GitHub
10 21 (1.37%) Entra ID
11 17 (1.11%) OCI
12 13 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (0.85%) IaaS
13 11 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (0.72%) OpenShift
14 9 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
15 8 (0.52%) PaaS
16 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
17 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 73 (4.76%) Firewall
2 40 (2.61%) WAN
3 35 (2.28%) LAN
4 32 (2.09%) DNS
5 27 (1.76%) Network Security
6 21 (1.37%) BGP
7 20 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.24%) OSPF
8 19 (1.24%) SD-WAN
9 17 (1.11%) VPN
10 16 (1.04%) MPLS
11 15 (0.98%) Wireless
12 14 (0.91%) NetScaler
13 12 (0.78%) VLAN
14 11 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
14 11 (0.72%) DHCP
14 11 (0.72%) Structured Cabling
15 10 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
16 9 (0.59%) EIGRP
16 9 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.59%) Power BI
2 28 (1.83%) Tableau
3 19 (1.24%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.59%) Metadata
8 8 (0.52%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.39%) GIS
11 5 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.26%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.20%) DB2
13 3 (0.20%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.20%) Oracle ODI
13 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 201 (13.11%) JIRA
2 23 (1.50%) Git
3 16 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.59%) GitLab
5 7 (0.46%) Subversion
6 6 (0.39%) Selenium
7 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
8 4 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.20%) Appium
9 3 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.13%) JMeter
10 2 (0.13%) MSTest
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
10 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 654 (42.66%) Social Skills
2 481 (31.38%) Finance
3 199 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (9.07%) Banking
5 138 (9.00%) Public Sector
6 91 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
7 61 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
8 49 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
9 47 (3.07%) Manufacturing
10 44 (2.87%) Retail
11 42 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
12 41 (2.67%) Telecoms
13 37 (2.41%) Legal
14 28 (1.83%) Front Office
15 26 (1.70%) Marketing
16 20 (1.30%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.17%) Law
18 17 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 421 (27.46%) Project Manager
2 201 (13.11%) Analyst
3 176 (11.48%) Lead
4 149 (9.72%) Business Analyst
5 130 (8.48%) Senior
6 88 (5.74%) Architect
7 81 (5.28%) Consultant
8 57 (3.72%) Delivery Manager
9 55 (3.59%) IT Manager
9 55 (3.59%) Senior Manager
10 49 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
11 45 (2.94%) Technical Manager
12 42 (2.74%) Senior Project Manager
13 41 (2.67%) Programme Manager
14 40 (2.61%) Network Engineer
15 39 (2.54%) IT Project Manager
16 35 (2.28%) SAP Manager
17 30 (1.96%) Technical Project Manager
18 27 (1.76%) Administrator
19 26 (1.70%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (1.57%) REST
3 20 (1.30%) Middleware
4 13 (0.85%) XML
5 12 (0.78%) Web Services
6 10 (0.65%) React
6 10 (0.65%) SOAP
7 8 (0.52%) HTML
8 7 (0.46%) .NET
8 7 (0.46%) ADO
8 7 (0.46%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
9 6 (0.39%) CSS
9 6 (0.39%) RESTful
9 6 (0.39%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.39%) ZK
10 5 (0.33%) Node.js
10 5 (0.33%) YAML
11 4 (0.26%) OAuth
11 4 (0.26%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.68%) Product Ownership
2 77 (5.02%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.65%) Data Centre
4 48 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (2.48%) PMI
6 34 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 29 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (1.63%) NHS
9 19 (1.24%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (0.98%) Replication
11 13 (0.85%) Data Structures
11 13 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (0.85%) Life Science
12 12 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 12 (0.78%) Cloud Native
12 12 (0.78%) Driving Licence
12 12 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 91 (5.94%) Windows
2 41 (2.67%) Windows Server
3 33 (2.15%) Linux
4 21 (1.37%) Unix
5 20 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.78%) Solaris
8 11 (0.72%) VMS
9 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.33%) OpenVMS
12 4 (0.26%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.20%) zOS
14 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.065%) Android
15 1 (0.065%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (35.03%) Agile
2 482 (31.44%) Project Management
3 469 (30.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 281 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
5 237 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 221 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 217 (14.16%) Migration
8 201 (13.11%) PRINCE2
9 193 (12.59%) Change Management
10 166 (10.83%) Waterfall
11 163 (10.63%) DevOps
12 144 (9.39%) Scrum
13 129 (8.41%) Decision-Making
13 129 (8.41%) Risk Management
14 122 (7.96%) ITIL
15 121 (7.89%) Project Governance
16 120 (7.83%) Roadmaps
17 119 (7.76%) ERP
18 116 (7.57%) Business Analysis
18 116 (7.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 76 (4.96%) Python
2 75 (4.89%) SQL
3 44 (2.87%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.70%) Java
5 24 (1.57%) Bash
6 12 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.65%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.46%) C#
9 6 (0.39%) Perl
10 5 (0.33%) C++
11 4 (0.26%) ABAP
12 3 (0.20%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.20%) COBOL
12 3 (0.20%) Go
12 3 (0.20%) HLASM
12 3 (0.20%) JCL
12 3 (0.20%) REXX
12 3 (0.20%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.13%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 269 (17.55%) Security Cleared
2 229 (14.94%) Degree
3 191 (12.46%) SC Cleared
4 126 (8.22%) PMP
5 125 (8.15%) PMI Certification
6 61 (3.98%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.61%) Master's Degree
8 37 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.02%) CCNP
11 28 (1.83%) APMP
12 21 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (1.37%) CCNA
13 20 (1.30%) CBAP
14 18 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 15 (0.98%) CISSP
16 14 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.78%) CISM
17 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
18 11 (0.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (8.61%) PMO
2 100 (6.52%) QA
3 37 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (2.28%) GDPR
5 31 (2.02%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.76%) NIST
7 18 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (1.11%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.91%) SLA
10 13 (0.85%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.78%) PSD2
12 11 (0.72%) NCSC
13 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.52%) MiFID
13 8 (0.52%) P3O
14 7 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.39%) GRC
15 6 (0.39%) ISO 8583
15 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 5 (0.33%) GMP
System Software
1 43 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.11%) Docker
4 15 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.85%) vSphere
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) NFS
7 4 (0.26%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.065%) RACF
8 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (2.94%) Ansible
2 29 (1.89%) Terraform
3 28 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.30%) SCCM
5 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.46%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.39%) Grafana
8 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.33%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.26%) QRadar
11 3 (0.20%) OMEGAMON
12 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.13%) Control-M
12 2 (0.13%) Nagios
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 273 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 133 (8.68%) SAP
3 97 (6.33%) Oracle
4 76 (4.96%) Cisco
5 57 (3.72%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.80%) VMware
7 40 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.76%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.50%) Workday
10 22 (1.44%) Google
11 18 (1.17%) Citrix
12 16 (1.04%) Aruba
12 16 (1.04%) Red Hat
13 15 (0.98%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.98%) IBM
14 14 (0.91%) F5
15 13 (0.85%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.85%) CyberArk
15 13 (0.85%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.78%) Siemens