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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 58 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,835 1,143 1,594
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 3.96% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.36% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,253 705 1,010
10th Percentile £328 £341 £356
25th Percentile £418 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 16 40
10th Percentile £16.25 £33.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £23.19 £52.81 £26.57
Median hourly rate £38.02 £65.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +82.33% -40.58%
75th Percentile £78.06 £77.81 £43.88
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.75 £65.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -43.08% +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 41,432 26,234 36,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.66% 91.00% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,858 16,712 23,486
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,493 1,127 2,523
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 June 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 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 18 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 June 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 +7 1,632 £513 -2.38% 1,121
UK excluding London +4 1,028 £483 -3.40% 789
London 0 680 £550 -4.35% 435
Work from Home +3 523 £525 - 516
North of England +23 296 £478 +6.11% 170
South East +7 239 £525 - 248
North West +29 199 £476 +5.83% 100
Midlands -9 194 £470 -8.20% 128
South West +9 144 £500 - 103
West Midlands -13 137 £475 -8.61% 84
Scotland -13 94 £475 +3.26% 38
Yorkshire -17 81 £500 - 53
East Midlands -6 56 £407 -8.89% 44
East of England -8 54 £500 +17.65% 73
North East -14 18 £350 -3.45% 20
Wales -5 15 £475 +55.10% 17
Northern Ireland -1 4 £225 -57.14% 29
Channel Islands -1 1 £550 +22.22%

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 (5.78%) Confluence
2 98 (5.34%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.49%) CMS
5 6 (0.33%) SAS
6 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.22%) Apache
7 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.22%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Camunda
8 3 (0.16%) CICS
8 3 (0.16%) Kentico
8 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
8 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 151 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 101 (5.50%) Microsoft Project
3 100 (5.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 87 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.36%) Siemens NX
7 8 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Revit
9 4 (0.22%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 40 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.58%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.49%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.44%) Primavera
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.33%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (0.27%) Maximo
7 5 (0.27%) Shopify
7 5 (0.27%) Summit
8 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.16%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 214 (11.66%) Azure
2 100 (5.45%) AWS
3 95 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
3 95 (5.18%) Power Platform
4 68 (3.71%) SaaS
5 52 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (2.40%) Entra ID
7 31 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
7 31 (1.69%) GCP
8 23 (1.25%) GitHub
8 23 (1.25%) Google Workspace
9 21 (1.14%) IaaS
10 18 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
11 17 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (0.76%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.71%) Serverless
14 12 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (0.65%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
15 11 (0.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.89%) Firewall
2 67 (3.65%) DNS
3 55 (3.00%) Network Security
4 49 (2.67%) WAN
5 44 (2.40%) LAN
6 32 (1.74%) VPN
7 28 (1.53%) BGP
7 28 (1.53%) VLAN
8 27 (1.47%) OSPF
9 26 (1.42%) MPLS
10 23 (1.25%) DHCP
11 21 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 20 (1.09%) SD-WAN
13 19 (1.04%) TCP/IP
14 18 (0.98%) Wireless
15 16 (0.87%) SSL
15 16 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
16 13 (0.71%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.71%) SAN
17 11 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.03%) Power BI
2 41 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.53%) Tableau
4 24 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (0.71%) Metadata
8 10 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.44%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.38%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.33%) Big Data
11 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.16%) GIS
Development Applications
1 196 (10.68%) JIRA
2 18 (0.98%) Git
3 17 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.60%) GitLab
5 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.33%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) Appium
7 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.16%) JMeter
7 3 (0.16%) MSTest
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.054%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.054%) LSMW
9 1 (0.054%) NUnit
9 1 (0.054%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.054%) TestRail
General
1 685 (37.33%) Social Skills
2 561 (30.57%) Finance
3 236 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (11.12%) Public Sector
5 133 (7.25%) Organisational Skills
6 119 (6.49%) Banking
7 88 (4.80%) Retail
8 76 (4.14%) Legal
9 69 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
10 62 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
11 47 (2.56%) Telecoms
12 45 (2.45%) Manufacturing
13 31 (1.69%) Local Government
14 26 (1.42%) Marketing
15 25 (1.36%) Military
16 22 (1.20%) Investment Banking
17 18 (0.98%) Financial Institution
18 16 (0.87%) Law
18 16 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 465 (25.34%) Project Manager
2 215 (11.72%) Analyst
3 190 (10.35%) Lead
4 183 (9.97%) Senior
5 125 (6.81%) Business Analyst
6 98 (5.34%) Architect
7 88 (4.80%) Senior Manager
8 80 (4.36%) Consultant
9 79 (4.31%) Delivery Manager
10 71 (3.87%) Network Engineer
11 70 (3.81%) IT Manager
11 70 (3.81%) Senior Project Manager
12 52 (2.83%) IT Project Manager
13 50 (2.72%) Developer
14 49 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (2.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 40 (2.18%) Technical Manager
17 38 (2.07%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 32 (1.74%) Programme Manager
18 32 (1.74%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.23%) Middleware
2 30 (1.63%) REST
3 19 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.93%) XML
5 13 (0.71%) .NET
6 11 (0.60%) ADO
7 10 (0.54%) JSON
7 10 (0.54%) OAuth
7 10 (0.54%) Spring Boot
8 9 (0.49%) React
8 9 (0.49%) Spring
8 9 (0.49%) Web Services
9 8 (0.44%) CSS
10 7 (0.38%) 802.1X
10 7 (0.38%) HTML
11 6 (0.33%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.33%) RESTful
11 6 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
12 5 (0.27%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.18%) Management Information System
2 76 (4.14%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.03%) Data Centre
4 71 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 30 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 28 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.53%) Replication
9 27 (1.47%) Clustering
9 27 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.31%) Cloud Native
11 21 (1.14%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (1.04%) Operational Technology
13 17 (0.93%) NHS
13 17 (0.93%) PKI
13 17 (0.93%) PMI
14 16 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (0.87%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 108 (5.89%) Windows
2 52 (2.83%) Windows Server
3 40 (2.18%) Linux
4 31 (1.69%) Unix
5 15 (0.82%) Solaris
6 10 (0.54%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.49%) VMS
8 8 (0.44%) AIX
9 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.38%) zOS
10 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.22%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.22%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
14 1 (0.054%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.054%) Android
14 1 (0.054%) CentOS
14 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (30.03%) Agile
2 537 (29.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 535 (29.16%) Project Management
4 295 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
5 280 (15.26%) Migration
6 273 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 268 (14.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 220 (11.99%) Change Management
9 211 (11.50%) PRINCE2
10 189 (10.30%) Waterfall
11 185 (10.08%) Decision-Making
12 157 (8.56%) DevOps
13 146 (7.96%) Risk Management
14 134 (7.30%) Roadmaps
15 129 (7.03%) AI
16 124 (6.76%) ITIL
17 123 (6.70%) Scrum
18 115 (6.27%) ERP
19 113 (6.16%) Cybersecurity
20 109 (5.94%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 102 (5.56%) SQL
2 81 (4.41%) Python
3 53 (2.89%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.25%) Java
5 21 (1.14%) C#
6 18 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.60%) Bash
8 8 (0.44%) Go
8 8 (0.44%) PL/SQL
8 8 (0.44%) T-SQL
8 8 (0.44%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.38%) Bicep
10 6 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.33%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.27%) ABAP
11 5 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.27%) VBA
12 3 (0.16%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.16%) C++
13 2 (0.11%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 412 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 302 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 179 (9.75%) Degree
4 155 (8.45%) PMP
5 119 (6.49%) PMI Certification
6 96 (5.23%) DV Cleared
7 51 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (2.18%) CCNP
9 34 (1.85%) CCNA
10 33 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.31%) CISSP
13 20 (1.09%) APMP
13 20 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 19 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.98%) Master's Degree
15 18 (0.98%) MCSE
16 17 (0.93%) CISM
17 16 (0.87%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (11.28%) PMO
2 100 (5.45%) QA
3 50 (2.72%) NIST
4 49 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.51%) GDPR
6 40 (2.18%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.09%) SLA
8 13 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.71%) GRC
9 10 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.44%) HL7
10 8 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.44%) IFRS
10 8 (0.44%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.33%) Basel III
12 6 (0.33%) GAAP
12 6 (0.33%) NCSC
13 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.27%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 77 (4.20%) Active Directory
2 45 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.25%) vSphere
4 20 (1.09%) Docker
5 18 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.60%) Firmware
9 9 (0.49%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.16%) Squid
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.054%) ACF2
13 1 (0.054%) KVM
13 1 (0.054%) RACF
13 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 45 (2.45%) Ansible
2 37 (2.02%) Terraform
3 33 (1.80%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.82%) vCenter Server
6 12 (0.65%) FortiGate
6 12 (0.65%) SCCM
6 12 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.38%) Nagios
7 7 (0.38%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.27%) Netcool
8 5 (0.27%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.16%) Grafana
9 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.16%) Puppet
9 3 (0.16%) SCOM
10 2 (0.11%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
10 2 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 327 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 132 (7.19%) SAP
3 86 (4.69%) Oracle
4 84 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 83 (4.52%) Cisco
6 57 (3.11%) VMware
7 46 (2.51%) Palo Alto
8 37 (2.02%) Google
9 34 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 33 (1.80%) F5
11 25 (1.36%) Siemens
12 24 (1.31%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.20%) IBM
14 19 (1.04%) CheckPoint
15 17 (0.93%) SolarWinds
16 16 (0.87%) Workday
17 15 (0.82%) Aruba
18 14 (0.76%) Citrix
18 14 (0.76%) NEC
19 13 (0.71%) Atlassian