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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,784 1,158 1,627
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 3.97% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.36% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,215 714 1,033
10th Percentile £326 £322 £363
25th Percentile £420 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £637
90th Percentile £700 £719 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 22 37
10th Percentile £16.10 £26.33 £20.98
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.06 £26.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £60.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% +68.30% -44.73%
75th Percentile £79.50 £77.19 £42.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £78.46 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.02 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -41.51% +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 40,582 26,548 36,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 91.02% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,477 17,040 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,106 2,443
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -32.93% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +1 1,593 £515 -1.91% 851
UK excluding London +5 993 £485 -3.00% 668
London -3 663 £550 - 292
Work from Home -2 496 £525 +1.16% 387
North of England +31 296 £478 +0.53% 144
South East 0 228 £525 - 211
North West +31 192 £479 +0.79% 84
Midlands -10 189 £475 -7.23% 108
South West +7 140 £493 -1.50% 92
West Midlands -9 133 £481 -7.46% 80
Yorkshire -2 86 £500 - 39
Scotland -16 83 £475 +5.56% 47
East Midlands -10 55 £453 +1.23% 28
East of England -6 54 £500 +11.73% 50
North East -6 22 £350 -6.67% 24
Wales -2 15 £475 +46.15% 16
Northern Ireland -13 3 £225 -60.00% 11

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
1 105 (5.89%) Confluence
2 91 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.34%) CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.22%) Apache
6 4 (0.22%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.17%) Camunda
7 3 (0.17%) CICS
7 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.17%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.11%) IIS
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 145 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (5.83%) Microsoft Project
3 99 (5.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 86 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (1.63%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.40%) Siemens NX
7 8 (0.45%) Trello
8 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.22%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.056%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 43 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.63%) Teamcenter
3 11 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.62%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.39%) Primavera
5 6 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.34%) ProductWriter
5 6 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.28%) Shopify
6 5 (0.28%) Summit
7 4 (0.22%) Maximo
7 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.22%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.17%) Endur
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.17%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 198 (11.10%) Azure
2 98 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
3 92 (5.16%) Power Platform
4 91 (5.10%) AWS
5 71 (3.98%) SaaS
6 44 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (1.96%) Entra ID
8 32 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.63%) GCP
10 23 (1.29%) Google Workspace
11 22 (1.23%) GitHub
11 22 (1.23%) IaaS
12 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (0.73%) PowerApps
15 12 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (0.67%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.67%) PaaS
15 12 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.49%) Firewall
2 61 (3.42%) DNS
3 46 (2.58%) Network Security
4 43 (2.41%) WAN
5 39 (2.19%) LAN
6 28 (1.57%) BGP
7 27 (1.51%) OSPF
8 25 (1.40%) VLAN
9 22 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 22 (1.23%) VPN
10 21 (1.18%) TCP/IP
11 19 (1.07%) MPLS
12 18 (1.01%) DHCP
12 18 (1.01%) SD-WAN
13 16 (0.90%) Wireless
14 14 (0.78%) BIG-IP
14 14 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
15 13 (0.73%) SAN
15 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
16 11 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (4.04%) Power BI
2 36 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.51%) Tableau
4 24 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.78%) Metadata
8 7 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
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%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.22%) GIS
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 198 (11.10%) JIRA
2 17 (0.95%) Git
3 16 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.62%) GitLab
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
7 3 (0.17%) Appium
7 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.17%) JMeter
7 3 (0.17%) MSTest
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) TestRail
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.056%) Hudson
9 1 (0.056%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.056%) LSMW
9 1 (0.056%) NUnit
General
1 674 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 567 (31.78%) Finance
3 244 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (10.54%) Public Sector
5 132 (7.40%) Organisational Skills
6 122 (6.84%) Banking
7 79 (4.43%) Retail
8 70 (3.92%) Legal
9 65 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
10 64 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (2.58%) Telecoms
13 43 (2.41%) Manufacturing
14 30 (1.68%) Marketing
15 27 (1.51%) Local Government
15 27 (1.51%) Military
16 22 (1.23%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.01%) Financial Institution
18 16 (0.90%) Publishing
19 15 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 471 (26.40%) Project Manager
2 209 (11.72%) Analyst
3 188 (10.54%) Lead
4 176 (9.87%) Senior
5 130 (7.29%) Business Analyst
6 89 (4.99%) Architect
7 88 (4.93%) Senior Manager
8 81 (4.54%) Consultant
9 76 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
10 68 (3.81%) IT Manager
10 68 (3.81%) Senior Project Manager
11 61 (3.42%) Network Engineer
12 49 (2.75%) IT Project Manager
13 46 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
14 45 (2.52%) Developer
15 42 (2.35%) Technical Manager
16 38 (2.13%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 37 (2.07%) Programme Manager
18 36 (2.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 33 (1.85%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.13%) Middleware
2 27 (1.51%) REST
3 20 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.90%) XML
5 12 (0.67%) .NET
5 12 (0.67%) ADO
6 10 (0.56%) OAuth
7 9 (0.50%) JSON
7 9 (0.50%) Spring Boot
7 9 (0.50%) Web Services
8 8 (0.45%) React
8 8 (0.45%) Spring
9 7 (0.39%) CSS
10 6 (0.34%) HTML
11 5 (0.28%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.28%) RESTful
11 5 (0.28%) SAP Basis
11 5 (0.28%) SOAP
12 4 (0.22%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.10%) Management Information System
2 70 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 69 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.76%) Onboarding
5 32 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 31 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 26 (1.46%) Clustering
9 26 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 26 (1.46%) Replication
10 21 (1.18%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.01%) Cloud Native
12 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
12 16 (0.90%) NHS
12 16 (0.90%) Operational Technology
12 16 (0.90%) PMI
13 15 (0.84%) Life Science
14 14 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 102 (5.72%) Windows
2 50 (2.80%) Windows Server
3 36 (2.02%) Linux
4 28 (1.57%) Unix
5 15 (0.84%) Solaris
6 10 (0.56%) VMS
6 10 (0.56%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.45%) AIX
7 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.45%) zOS
8 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.22%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.22%) Windows 8
10 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.056%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.056%) Android
12 1 (0.056%) CentOS
12 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (29.93%) Agile
1 534 (29.93%) Project Management
2 512 (28.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 286 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
4 282 (15.81%) Migration
5 259 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 247 (13.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 210 (11.77%) PRINCE2
8 206 (11.55%) Change Management
9 184 (10.31%) Decision-Making
10 183 (10.26%) Waterfall
11 150 (8.41%) DevOps
12 148 (8.30%) Risk Management
13 131 (7.34%) Roadmaps
14 123 (6.89%) Scrum
15 116 (6.50%) Workshop Facilitation
16 114 (6.39%) AI
16 114 (6.39%) ITIL
17 113 (6.33%) ERP
17 113 (6.33%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 90 (5.04%) SQL
2 77 (4.32%) Python
3 49 (2.75%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.23%) Java
5 19 (1.07%) C#
6 17 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.56%) Bash
8 8 (0.45%) Go
9 7 (0.39%) Bicep
9 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.39%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.28%) VBA
12 4 (0.22%) ABAP
13 3 (0.17%) C++
13 3 (0.17%) COBOL
13 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 397 (22.25%) Security Cleared
2 292 (16.37%) SC Cleared
3 186 (10.43%) Degree
4 152 (8.52%) PMP
5 116 (6.50%) PMI Certification
6 91 (5.10%) DV Cleared
7 45 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (2.13%) CCNP
9 34 (1.91%) CCNA
10 32 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (1.23%) APMP
14 20 (1.12%) Master's Degree
15 19 (1.07%) CISSP
15 19 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 16 (0.90%) MCSE
16 16 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (0.84%) Azure Certification
17 15 (0.84%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (10.87%) PMO
2 99 (5.55%) QA
3 47 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (2.52%) NIST
5 43 (2.41%) GDPR
6 42 (2.35%) Data Quality
7 22 (1.23%) SLA
8 13 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.73%) GRC
9 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.45%) HL7
10 8 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.34%) Basel III
11 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
11 6 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.28%) IFRS
12 5 (0.28%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 67 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.18%) vSphere
4 18 (1.01%) Docker
5 16 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.39%) Firmware
9 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.11%) Squid
11 1 (0.056%) Ceph
11 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 42 (2.35%) Ansible
2 34 (1.91%) Terraform
3 28 (1.57%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.73%) SCCM
5 13 (0.73%) vCenter Server
6 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.56%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.50%) Nagios
9 7 (0.39%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.28%) Netcool
10 5 (0.28%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.17%) Grafana
11 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.17%) Puppet
11 3 (0.17%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) Control-M
12 2 (0.11%) OMEGAMON
12 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 311 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 133 (7.46%) SAP
3 80 (4.48%) Oracle
4 79 (4.43%) ServiceNow
5 72 (4.04%) Cisco
6 49 (2.75%) VMware
7 45 (2.52%) Palo Alto
8 37 (2.07%) Google
9 36 (2.02%) Salesforce
10 32 (1.79%) F5
11 25 (1.40%) Siemens
12 21 (1.18%) IBM
13 20 (1.12%) CheckPoint
14 17 (0.95%) Fortinet
15 16 (0.90%) Aruba
15 16 (0.90%) Atlassian
16 15 (0.84%) SolarWinds
17 14 (0.78%) Citrix
17 14 (0.78%) Workday
18 13 (0.73%) NEC