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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 52 47
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,536 1,230 1,821
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.97% 3.91% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 4.39% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 989 692 1,212
10th Percentile £333 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £437 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.64% -2.95%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -5.11% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 35 29
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £18.18 £23.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.78 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.48% -35.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.70 £63.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.62 £66.50 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £37.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.64% -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 33,770 28,023 38,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.35% 89.09% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,366 17,006 25,501
10th Percentile £305 £308 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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 £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.86% -0.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,033 877 2,012
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.61% +10.63%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.78 £36.50
% change year-on-year -19.72% -15.67% +35.86%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -2 1,333 £525 -1.41% 734
UK excluding London -7 770 £488 -5.11% 680
London +3 637 £550 - 201
Work from Home 0 438 £525 -2.60% 325
North of England +5 215 £480 -4.10% 137
South East -6 184 £525 -6.87% 233
Midlands -7 154 £468 -7.33% 124
North West +14 135 £475 -2.96% 79
West Midlands -20 87 £537 -5.29% 77
Scotland -16 80 £450 -1.32% 32
South West -9 78 £538 +7.39% 78
Yorkshire -13 70 £501 -14.66% 44
East Midlands +4 68 £438 -4.76% 47
East of England -6 37 £565 +13.00% 66
Wales +6 19 £308 -42.12% 21
Northern Ireland +1 14 £475 -13.64% 3
North East -10 12 £290 -49.34% 17

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 (7.49%) Confluence
2 58 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.17%) 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.065%) Apache
7 1 (0.065%) IIS
7 1 (0.065%) Moodle
7 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 147 (9.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (6.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 102 (6.64%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (6.64%) 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 7 (0.46%) 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 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.78%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.72%) Endur
5 10 (0.65%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 10 (0.65%) SAP ERP
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 MM
9 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.39%) SAP IBP
9 6 (0.39%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
10 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.33%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 189 (12.30%) Azure
2 74 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (4.23%) Power Platform
4 62 (4.04%) AWS
5 55 (3.58%) SaaS
6 45 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (2.08%) GCP
8 24 (1.56%) GitHub
9 20 (1.30%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.11%) OCI
11 14 (0.91%) IaaS
12 13 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (0.72%) OpenShift
14 9 (0.59%) PaaS
14 9 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
15 7 (0.46%) Asana
15 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.95%) Firewall
2 41 (2.67%) WAN
3 36 (2.34%) LAN
4 34 (2.21%) DNS
5 27 (1.76%) Network Security
6 22 (1.43%) BGP
7 21 (1.37%) TCP/IP
8 20 (1.30%) OSPF
9 19 (1.24%) SD-WAN
10 17 (1.11%) VPN
11 16 (1.04%) MPLS
12 15 (0.98%) Wireless
13 14 (0.91%) NetScaler
14 12 (0.78%) DHCP
14 12 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
14 12 (0.78%) VLAN
15 11 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (0.72%) SSL
16 10 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
16 10 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.58%) Power BI
2 28 (1.82%) Tableau
3 21 (1.37%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.11%) 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
11 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
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
14 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 199 (12.96%) JIRA
2 22 (1.43%) Git
3 16 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.59%) GitLab
5 6 (0.39%) Selenium
5 6 (0.39%) Subversion
6 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.20%) Appium
8 3 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) MSTest
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
9 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 653 (42.51%) Social Skills
2 474 (30.86%) Finance
3 201 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (9.24%) Banking
5 135 (8.79%) Public Sector
6 94 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 61 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
8 50 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
9 46 (2.99%) Manufacturing
9 46 (2.99%) Retail
10 42 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (2.67%) Telecoms
12 37 (2.41%) Legal
13 28 (1.82%) Front Office
14 27 (1.76%) Marketing
15 21 (1.37%) Investment Banking
16 18 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.17%) Law
17 16 (1.04%) Local Government
17 16 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 420 (27.34%) Project Manager
2 205 (13.35%) Analyst
3 178 (11.59%) Lead
4 151 (9.83%) Business Analyst
5 128 (8.33%) Senior
6 85 (5.53%) Architect
7 81 (5.27%) Consultant
8 55 (3.58%) Delivery Manager
9 54 (3.52%) IT Manager
10 53 (3.45%) Senior Manager
11 50 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (2.86%) Technical Manager
13 42 (2.73%) Network Engineer
14 40 (2.60%) Programme Manager
14 40 (2.60%) Senior Project Manager
15 38 (2.47%) IT Project Manager
16 34 (2.21%) SAP Manager
17 29 (1.89%) Technical Project Manager
18 26 (1.69%) Administrator
18 26 (1.69%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.50%) REST
2 22 (1.43%) Middleware
2 22 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.91%) Web Services
4 13 (0.85%) XML
5 11 (0.72%) SOAP
6 10 (0.65%) React
7 8 (0.52%) HTML
7 8 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (0.46%) .NET
8 7 (0.46%) ADO
8 7 (0.46%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.46%) CSS
8 7 (0.46%) RESTful
9 6 (0.39%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.39%) ZK
10 5 (0.33%) Node.js
10 5 (0.33%) OAuth
10 5 (0.33%) Spring
10 5 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (5.53%) Product Ownership
2 78 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.71%) Data Centre
4 49 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (2.47%) PMI
6 35 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 32 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (1.69%) NHS
9 20 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 20 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.04%) Replication
11 15 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (0.85%) Data Structures
12 13 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (0.78%) Algorithms
13 12 (0.78%) Cloud Native
13 12 (0.78%) Clustering
13 12 (0.78%) Driving Licence
13 12 (0.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 89 (5.79%) Windows
2 42 (2.73%) Windows Server
3 33 (2.15%) Linux
4 20 (1.30%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.17%) Unix
6 14 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.72%) Solaris
7 11 (0.72%) VMS
8 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.33%) OpenVMS
11 4 (0.26%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.20%) zOS
13 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.13%) pSOS
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.065%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (35.16%) Agile
2 478 (31.12%) Project Management
3 464 (30.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 286 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
5 232 (15.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 219 (14.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 218 (14.19%) Migration
8 207 (13.48%) PRINCE2
9 187 (12.17%) Change Management
10 168 (10.94%) Waterfall
11 161 (10.48%) DevOps
12 143 (9.31%) Scrum
13 129 (8.40%) Decision-Making
14 124 (8.07%) Risk Management
15 121 (7.88%) Roadmaps
16 119 (7.75%) Project Governance
17 118 (7.68%) Business Analysis
18 117 (7.62%) ITIL
19 116 (7.55%) ERP
20 115 (7.49%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 78 (5.08%) SQL
2 75 (4.88%) Python
3 46 (2.99%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.76%) Java
5 23 (1.50%) Bash
6 12 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.65%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.46%) C#
9 5 (0.33%) C++
9 5 (0.33%) Perl
10 4 (0.26%) ABAP
10 4 (0.26%) Go
11 3 (0.20%) Assembly Language
11 3 (0.20%) COBOL
11 3 (0.20%) HLASM
11 3 (0.20%) JCL
11 3 (0.20%) REXX
11 3 (0.20%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.13%) PHP
12 2 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 270 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 228 (14.84%) Degree
3 190 (12.37%) SC Cleared
4 134 (8.72%) PMP
5 126 (8.20%) PMI Certification
6 64 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.60%) Master's Degree
8 34 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (2.08%) CCNP
10 29 (1.89%) APMP
11 22 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (1.43%) CCNA
12 20 (1.30%) CBAP
13 18 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 15 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.91%) CISSP
16 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.72%) CISM
17 11 (0.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (9.18%) PMO
2 101 (6.58%) QA
3 36 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 34 (2.21%) GDPR
5 26 (1.69%) NIST
6 17 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 17 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 16 (1.04%) SLA
8 13 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.78%) PSD2
10 9 (0.59%) NCSC
11 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.52%) MiFID
11 8 (0.52%) P3O
12 7 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.46%) GRC
13 6 (0.39%) ISO 8583
14 5 (0.33%) Basel III
15 4 (0.26%) GAAP
System Software
1 43 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.17%) Docker
4 15 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.85%) vSphere
7 12 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.26%) Firmware
8 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.20%) NFS
9 3 (0.20%) Veritas File System
9 3 (0.20%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.065%) RACF
10 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (2.86%) Ansible
2 29 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.89%) Terraform
3 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (1.30%) SCCM
4 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.46%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.39%) Grafana
7 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.33%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.20%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.20%) QRadar
11 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
11 2 (0.13%) Control-M
11 2 (0.13%) Nagios
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 271 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 135 (8.79%) SAP
3 94 (6.12%) Oracle
4 77 (5.01%) Cisco
5 60 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.80%) VMware
7 40 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 28 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.43%) Google
9 22 (1.43%) Workday
10 18 (1.17%) Citrix
11 17 (1.11%) Aruba
12 16 (1.04%) F5
12 16 (1.04%) Red Hat
13 15 (0.98%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.91%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.85%) Ariba
15 13 (0.85%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.78%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.78%) SolarWinds