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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 52 49
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,698 1,177 1,696
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.78% 4.05% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.47% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 710 1,125
10th Percentile £326 £325 £366
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £618 £627 £638
90th Percentile £723 £700 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 25 32
10th Percentile £15.91 £21.81 £20.98
25th Percentile £17.25 £30.78 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.78 £60.00 £38.30
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +56.68% -41.08%
75th Percentile £54.00 £67.50 £41.27
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.02 £64.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.23 £60.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -31.28% +46.56% -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 38,381 26,317 38,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.55% 90.50% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,335 17,078 24,751
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 968 2,345
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.12 £15.89
Median hourly rate £35.77 £31.76 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% -2.28% -10.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £30.62 £31.50
% change year-on-year +14.32% -2.81% -12.50%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 1,505 £515 -1.90% 826
UK excluding London -9 899 £478 -4.50% 656
London -6 668 £550 - 267
Work from Home -1 498 £538 +2.38% 345
North of England +17 251 £477 +0.42% 128
South East -3 220 £525 -4.55% 235
Midlands -18 172 £468 -6.50% 109
North West +16 167 £475 - 73
South West +8 119 £475 - 74
West Midlands -24 111 £492 -6.29% 71
Yorkshire -16 75 £513 +2.50% 38
Scotland -22 71 £475 - 38
East Midlands -8 60 £420 -5.56% 38
East of England -16 47 £550 +5.97% 64
Wales +4 20 £413 +26.92% 17
North East -8 11 £350 -15.15% 17
Northern Ireland -7 8 £370 -35.65% 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
1 114 (6.71%) Confluence
2 78 (4.59%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.35%) CMS
5 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.24%) CICS
7 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.18%) Camunda
7 3 (0.18%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.18%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.059%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.059%) IIS
9 1 (0.059%) Moodle
9 1 (0.059%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.059%) Smallworld
Applications
1 157 (9.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (6.65%) Microsoft Project
3 106 (6.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (6.18%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (1.77%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.71%) Trello
7 9 (0.53%) Siemens NX
8 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) InDesign
9 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.059%) Revit
10 1 (0.059%) SPSS
10 1 (0.059%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.71%) Loan IQ
3 12 (0.71%) Teamcenter
4 9 (0.53%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.47%) Endur
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.35%) Primavera
7 5 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.24%) SAP PP
8 4 (0.24%) Summit
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 203 (11.96%) Azure
2 93 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
3 83 (4.89%) Power Platform
4 77 (4.53%) AWS
5 55 (3.24%) SaaS
6 48 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
8 32 (1.88%) Entra ID
9 25 (1.47%) GCP
10 22 (1.30%) GitHub
11 20 (1.18%) IaaS
12 15 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.82%) PowerApps
14 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (0.77%) OCI
14 13 (0.77%) PaaS
14 13 (0.77%) Serverless
15 12 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (0.71%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 88 (5.18%) Firewall
2 49 (2.89%) DNS
3 42 (2.47%) WAN
4 34 (2.00%) LAN
4 34 (2.00%) Network Security
5 27 (1.59%) BGP
5 27 (1.59%) OSPF
6 20 (1.18%) SD-WAN
7 19 (1.12%) VLAN
8 18 (1.06%) MPLS
8 18 (1.06%) TCP/IP
8 18 (1.06%) VPN
9 16 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (0.88%) DHCP
10 15 (0.88%) NetScaler
10 15 (0.88%) Wireless
11 13 (0.77%) Structured Cabling
12 10 (0.59%) SAN
12 10 (0.59%) SSL
13 9 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (3.89%) Power BI
2 31 (1.83%) Tableau
3 28 (1.65%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (0.59%) Metadata
8 7 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.29%) Big Data
10 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.29%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.29%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.24%) GIS
11 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 207 (12.19%) JIRA
2 20 (1.18%) Git
3 14 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.59%) GitLab
5 8 (0.47%) Selenium
6 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) JMeter
6 5 (0.29%) MSTest
6 5 (0.29%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) Appium
7 3 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.12%) TestRail
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.059%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.059%) Gradle
9 1 (0.059%) Hudson
General
1 709 (41.76%) Social Skills
2 578 (34.04%) Finance
3 251 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (10.78%) Public Sector
5 141 (8.30%) Banking
6 124 (7.30%) Organisational Skills
7 70 (4.12%) Retail
8 67 (3.95%) Legal
8 67 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
9 58 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
9 58 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (2.65%) Manufacturing
11 42 (2.47%) Telecoms
12 31 (1.83%) Marketing
13 24 (1.41%) Local Government
14 22 (1.30%) Investment Banking
15 18 (1.06%) Front Office
15 18 (1.06%) Law
15 18 (1.06%) Military
16 17 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 485 (28.56%) Project Manager
2 211 (12.43%) Analyst
3 186 (10.95%) Lead
4 168 (9.89%) Senior
5 144 (8.48%) Business Analyst
6 81 (4.77%) Consultant
7 80 (4.71%) Architect
7 80 (4.71%) Senior Manager
8 76 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
9 66 (3.89%) IT Manager
10 61 (3.59%) Senior Project Manager
11 50 (2.94%) Technical Manager
12 47 (2.77%) IT Project Manager
13 44 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (2.41%) Programme Manager
15 40 (2.36%) Network Engineer
16 35 (2.06%) Infrastructure Manager
16 35 (2.06%) Project Officer
17 33 (1.94%) SAP Manager
18 31 (1.83%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.88%) Middleware
2 24 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (1.00%) REST
4 12 (0.71%) XML
5 11 (0.65%) Web Services
6 8 (0.47%) ADO
6 8 (0.47%) Spring Boot
7 7 (0.41%) .NET
7 7 (0.41%) CSS
7 7 (0.41%) Spring
8 6 (0.35%) HTML
8 6 (0.35%) JSON
8 6 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (0.35%) YAML
9 5 (0.29%) React
9 5 (0.29%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.24%) Node.js
10 4 (0.24%) OAuth
10 4 (0.24%) RESTful
10 4 (0.24%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.71%) Product Ownership
2 73 (4.30%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.06%) Management Information System
4 63 (3.71%) Data Centre
5 38 (2.24%) Virtual Team
6 34 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.94%) PMI
8 30 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.47%) NHS
11 24 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 21 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.12%) Cloud Native
13 19 (1.12%) Replication
14 17 (1.00%) Clustering
15 14 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (0.82%) Derivative
15 14 (0.82%) Driving Licence
16 12 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 88 (5.18%) Windows
2 46 (2.71%) Windows Server
3 28 (1.65%) Linux
4 17 (1.00%) Unix
5 16 (0.94%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.59%) Solaris
6 10 (0.59%) VMS
7 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.41%) zOS
9 4 (0.24%) AIX
9 4 (0.24%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.24%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.12%) Android
10 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.12%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.12%) pSOS
11 1 (0.059%) CentOS
11 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (33.80%) Agile
2 531 (31.27%) Project Management
3 518 (30.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 291 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
5 265 (15.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 257 (15.14%) PRINCE2
7 255 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 244 (14.37%) Migration
9 216 (12.72%) Change Management
10 172 (10.13%) DevOps
11 168 (9.89%) Waterfall
12 166 (9.78%) Decision-Making
13 149 (8.78%) Risk Management
14 148 (8.72%) Scrum
15 139 (8.19%) Workshop Facilitation
16 138 (8.13%) Roadmaps
17 126 (7.42%) ITIL
18 125 (7.36%) Business Analysis
19 122 (7.18%) Budget Management
20 116 (6.83%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 95 (5.59%) SQL
2 66 (3.89%) Python
3 46 (2.71%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.30%) Java
5 16 (0.94%) Bash
6 15 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.82%) C#
8 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.47%) Go
10 6 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.35%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.29%) Bicep
11 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.24%) ABAP
12 4 (0.24%) C++
12 4 (0.24%) COBOL
12 4 (0.24%) VBA
13 3 (0.18%) HLASM
13 3 (0.18%) JCL
Qualifications
1 354 (20.85%) Security Cleared
2 254 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 233 (13.72%) Degree
4 170 (10.01%) PMP
5 145 (8.54%) PMI Certification
6 81 (4.77%) DV Cleared
7 35 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (1.94%) APMP
8 33 (1.94%) Master's Degree
9 31 (1.83%) CCNP
10 29 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 26 (1.53%) CCNA
13 22 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (1.18%) CISSP
15 17 (1.00%) CBAP
16 15 (0.88%) CISM
17 14 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
18 12 (0.71%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (11.01%) PMO
2 119 (7.01%) QA
3 52 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (2.65%) GDPR
5 43 (2.53%) NIST
6 40 (2.36%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.18%) SLA
8 13 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.59%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.59%) GRC
10 10 (0.59%) PSD2
11 9 (0.53%) P3O
12 8 (0.47%) MiFID
13 7 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.41%) NCSC
13 7 (0.41%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.35%) Basel III
14 6 (0.35%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 59 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.30%) Docker
4 15 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.82%) vSphere
6 12 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.24%) Firmware
10 2 (0.12%) Squid
10 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.059%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.059%) Ceph
11 1 (0.059%) RACF
11 1 (0.059%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 34 (2.00%) Terraform
2 32 (1.88%) Ansible
3 28 (1.65%) Kubernetes
4 27 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.00%) SCCM
6 7 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.41%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.41%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.29%) Nagios
9 3 (0.18%) Netcool
9 3 (0.18%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.18%) Puppet
9 3 (0.18%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.12%) CEMLI
10 2 (0.12%) Control-M
10 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
10 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 295 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 140 (8.24%) SAP
3 84 (4.95%) Oracle
4 75 (4.42%) ServiceNow
5 58 (3.42%) Cisco
6 41 (2.41%) VMware
7 39 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 32 (1.88%) Palo Alto
9 30 (1.77%) Google
10 22 (1.30%) F5
11 21 (1.24%) Atlassian
12 19 (1.12%) CheckPoint
12 19 (1.12%) Citrix
13 15 (0.88%) IBM
13 15 (0.88%) Workday
14 14 (0.82%) Aruba
14 14 (0.82%) SolarWinds
15 13 (0.77%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.71%) MuleSoft
17 10 (0.59%) Infoblox