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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,772 1,140 1,685
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 3.89% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.28% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 693 1,086
10th Percentile £325 £325 £361
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.10% -2.50%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £709 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 22 33
10th Percentile £15.91 £21.39 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £27.95 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.78 £51.25 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +43.76% -44.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.06 £40.94
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.27 £57.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.23 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -36.57% +58.77% -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 39,853 26,632 37,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.47% 90.92% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,078 17,168 24,015
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,383 1,080 2,442
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%
75th Percentile £67.13 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.57 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.59% -26.48% +7.14%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +3 1,581 £513 -2.38% 925
UK excluding London -1 970 £483 -3.40% 684
London 0 665 £540 -1.82% 327
Work from Home 0 497 £525 - 398
North of England +27 282 £475 -3.06% 164
South East +4 237 £525 -4.55% 216
Midlands -15 187 £475 -5.19% 103
North West +26 185 £478 +0.53% 88
South West +12 136 £480 +1.05% 91
West Midlands -13 129 £487 -7.33% 68
Yorkshire +2 82 £500 -1.23% 55
Scotland -26 69 £475 - 35
East Midlands -12 57 £455 +1.79% 35
East of England -17 45 £513 -1.25% 72
Wales -1 18 £413 +26.92% 16
North East -8 18 £350 -15.15% 25
Northern Ireland -5 7 £425 -28.42% 4

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
1 106 (5.98%) Confluence
2 89 (5.02%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.28%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) CICS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.17%) Camunda
6 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.11%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.056%) Apache
8 1 (0.056%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.056%) IIS
8 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 150 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (6.43%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (5.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 98 (5.53%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.30%) Siemens NX
7 10 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.56%) Trello
8 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.23%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.056%) SPSS
11 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 46 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.52%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.68%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.51%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.40%) Primavera
6 6 (0.34%) Endur
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.28%) Summit
8 4 (0.23%) Maximo
8 4 (0.23%) ProductWriter
8 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.23%) Shopify
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 184 (10.38%) Azure
2 101 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (4.91%) Power Platform
4 81 (4.57%) AWS
5 69 (3.89%) SaaS
6 41 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.75%) Entra ID
9 28 (1.58%) GCP
10 21 (1.19%) Google Workspace
11 20 (1.13%) GitHub
12 17 (0.96%) IaaS
12 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (0.68%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.68%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.68%) Serverless
15 11 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (0.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.08%) Firewall
2 54 (3.05%) DNS
3 42 (2.37%) Network Security
4 40 (2.26%) WAN
5 32 (1.81%) LAN
6 26 (1.47%) BGP
6 26 (1.47%) OSPF
7 22 (1.24%) VLAN
8 21 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 20 (1.13%) VPN
10 19 (1.07%) SD-WAN
10 19 (1.07%) TCP/IP
11 16 (0.90%) MPLS
12 15 (0.85%) NetScaler
13 14 (0.79%) DHCP
13 14 (0.79%) Wireless
14 13 (0.73%) BIG-IP
14 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.62%) SSL
15 11 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.01%) Power BI
2 29 (1.64%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.52%) Tableau
4 23 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.79%) Metadata
8 8 (0.45%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.28%) Big Data
10 5 (0.28%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.28%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.23%) GIS
11 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 204 (11.51%) JIRA
2 16 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 15 (0.85%) Git
4 11 (0.62%) GitLab
5 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
7 4 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.17%) Appium
8 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.17%) JMeter
8 3 (0.17%) MSTest
8 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
9 2 (0.11%) TestRail
9 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.056%) Gradle
10 1 (0.056%) Hudson
10 1 (0.056%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.056%) Robot Framework
General
1 688 (38.83%) Social Skills
2 575 (32.45%) Finance
3 264 (14.90%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 133 (7.51%) Organisational Skills
6 131 (7.39%) Banking
7 76 (4.29%) Retail
8 70 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (3.84%) Legal
10 64 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
11 51 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
12 49 (2.77%) Telecoms
13 46 (2.60%) Manufacturing
14 34 (1.92%) Marketing
15 26 (1.47%) Military
16 24 (1.35%) Local Government
17 23 (1.30%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.96%) Financial Institution
19 15 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
19 15 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 494 (27.88%) Project Manager
2 202 (11.40%) Analyst
3 182 (10.27%) Lead
4 174 (9.82%) Senior
5 133 (7.51%) Business Analyst
6 88 (4.97%) Senior Manager
7 83 (4.68%) Architect
8 80 (4.51%) Consultant
9 76 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
10 73 (4.12%) IT Manager
11 68 (3.84%) Senior Project Manager
12 53 (2.99%) Network Engineer
13 50 (2.82%) IT Project Manager
14 48 (2.71%) Technical Manager
15 43 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.31%) Programme Manager
17 35 (1.98%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 33 (1.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 33 (1.86%) SAP Manager
19 32 (1.81%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.14%) Middleware
2 22 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (1.24%) REST
3 14 (0.79%) XML
4 10 (0.56%) .NET
5 9 (0.51%) ADO
5 9 (0.51%) Web Services
6 8 (0.45%) JSON
6 8 (0.45%) Spring Boot
7 7 (0.40%) CSS
7 7 (0.40%) OAuth
7 7 (0.40%) React
7 7 (0.40%) Spring
8 5 (0.28%) HTML
9 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.23%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.23%) IDoc
9 4 (0.23%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.23%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (4.91%) Management Information System
2 72 (4.06%) Product Ownership
3 70 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 62 (3.50%) Data Centre
5 33 (1.86%) Virtual Team
6 31 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 31 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.52%) PMI
9 26 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.41%) Clustering
10 25 (1.41%) Replication
11 21 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.19%) NHS
12 18 (1.02%) Cloud Native
13 15 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
13 15 (0.85%) Life Science
14 14 (0.79%) Derivative
14 14 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (0.73%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 97 (5.47%) Windows
2 48 (2.71%) Windows Server
3 30 (1.69%) Linux
4 25 (1.41%) Unix
5 15 (0.85%) Solaris
6 12 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.56%) VMS
8 9 (0.51%) zOS
9 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.34%) AIX
10 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.056%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.056%) Android
14 1 (0.056%) Debian
14 1 (0.056%) pSOS
14 1 (0.056%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (31.88%) Agile
2 546 (30.81%) Project Management
3 516 (29.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 299 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
5 276 (15.58%) Migration
6 263 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 260 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 229 (12.92%) PRINCE2
9 206 (11.63%) Change Management
10 184 (10.38%) Waterfall
11 182 (10.27%) Decision-Making
12 160 (9.03%) Risk Management
13 150 (8.47%) DevOps
14 139 (7.84%) Scrum
15 133 (7.51%) Roadmaps
16 127 (7.17%) Workshop Facilitation
17 121 (6.83%) ERP
18 116 (6.55%) ITIL
19 113 (6.38%) AI
20 111 (6.26%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 88 (4.97%) SQL
2 70 (3.95%) Python
3 46 (2.60%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.19%) Java
5 17 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 14 (0.79%) C#
7 9 (0.51%) Bash
8 8 (0.45%) Go
9 7 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.28%) Bicep
11 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.28%) VBA
12 4 (0.23%) ABAP
12 4 (0.23%) COBOL
12 4 (0.23%) REXX
13 3 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 383 (21.61%) Security Cleared
2 281 (15.86%) SC Cleared
3 212 (11.96%) Degree
4 169 (9.54%) PMP
5 137 (7.73%) PMI Certification
6 89 (5.02%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (1.92%) APMP
8 34 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.75%) CCNP
9 31 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (1.69%) CCNA
11 29 (1.64%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 18 (1.02%) CISSP
15 15 (0.85%) CISM
16 14 (0.79%) MCSE
17 13 (0.73%) CBAP
17 13 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (11.06%) PMO
2 120 (6.77%) QA
3 44 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (2.43%) GDPR
5 39 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 39 (2.20%) NIST
6 22 (1.24%) SLA
7 12 (0.68%) GRC
8 11 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.51%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.40%) HL7
12 7 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.34%) Basel III
13 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.34%) PSD2
14 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.28%) ISO 19650
14 5 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 60 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.02%) Docker
4 17 (0.96%) vSphere
5 15 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.28%) Firmware
9 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Squid
10 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.056%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.056%) Ceph
11 1 (0.056%) RACF
11 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 40 (2.26%) Ansible
2 31 (1.75%) Terraform
3 27 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.85%) SCCM
5 13 (0.73%) vCenter Server
6 9 (0.51%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.51%) Nagios
6 9 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.28%) Netcool
9 4 (0.23%) Tivoli
10 3 (0.17%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.17%) Puppet
10 3 (0.17%) SCOM
11 2 (0.11%) Control-M
11 2 (0.11%) OpenView
11 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 312 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 140 (7.90%) SAP
3 80 (4.51%) Oracle
4 79 (4.46%) ServiceNow
5 60 (3.39%) Cisco
6 40 (2.26%) VMware
7 39 (2.20%) Google
7 39 (2.20%) Palo Alto
8 33 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 28 (1.58%) F5
10 23 (1.30%) Siemens
11 20 (1.13%) Atlassian
11 20 (1.13%) CheckPoint
11 20 (1.13%) Citrix
12 18 (1.02%) IBM
13 17 (0.96%) Workday
14 15 (0.85%) Aruba
15 14 (0.79%) NEC
15 14 (0.79%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.73%) Fortinet