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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 52 47
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,508 1,223 1,735
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.07% 3.84% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 4.33% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 979 686 1,151
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -7.14% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 35 28
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.80 £21.17
25th Percentile £17.25 £23.13 £34.50
Median hourly rate £40.61 £32.50 £54.99
Median % change year-on-year +24.95% -40.90% -5.19%
75th Percentile £63.40 £63.22 £76.56
90th Percentile £69.68 £66.50 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £39.68 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.43% -20.64% -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 32,585 28,260 37,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.84% 88.76% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,582 17,185 24,531
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £742 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,992 898 1,578
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.17
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.56 £18.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%
75th Percentile £55.89 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.33
% change year-on-year -21.76% -29.73% +46.88%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -1 1,315 £520 -3.53% 773
UK excluding London -10 783 £488 -7.14% 728
London +10 604 £550 - 178
Work from Home -3 438 £525 -3.67% 370
North of England +10 221 £478 -5.91% 157
South East -1 203 £538 -4.44% 252
Midlands -3 154 £455 -11.22% 111
North West +15 140 £475 -4.52% 87
West Midlands -20 79 £525 -8.38% 60
Scotland -16 78 £450 -5.26% 34
East Midlands +12 76 £436 -3.64% 49
Yorkshire -6 70 £500 -12.70% 50
South West -21 70 £513 -2.38% 84
East of England -9 36 £538 +7.50% 75
Wales +6 20 £322 -39.44% 23
Northern Ireland -1 14 £475 -13.64% 9
North East -8 12 £290 -49.34% 21

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
1 117 (7.76%) Confluence
2 63 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.27%) CMS
5 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.20%) CICS
5 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.13%) Appian
6 2 (0.13%) MS Project Server
6 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.066%) Apache
7 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.066%) Camunda
7 1 (0.066%) IIS
7 1 (0.066%) Moodle
7 1 (0.066%) Smallworld
Applications
1 137 (9.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (6.63%) Microsoft Office
3 95 (6.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 92 (6.10%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (2.59%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.99%) Trello
7 14 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.40%) Siemens NX
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 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.066%) Revit
11 1 (0.066%) Sketch
11 1 (0.066%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.73%) Endur
3 11 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.66%) SAP ERP
4 10 (0.66%) Teamcenter
5 9 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 9 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 8 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.46%) SAP IBP
7 7 (0.46%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.40%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
9 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.33%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.27%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 189 (12.53%) Azure
2 70 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (4.18%) Power Platform
4 57 (3.78%) AWS
5 54 (3.58%) SaaS
6 44 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (2.06%) GCP
9 25 (1.66%) GitHub
10 21 (1.39%) Entra ID
11 19 (1.26%) OCI
12 13 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (0.86%) IaaS
13 12 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (0.66%) OpenShift
16 8 (0.53%) PaaS
17 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
17 7 (0.46%) PowerApps
18 6 (0.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.71%) Firewall
2 41 (2.72%) WAN
3 35 (2.32%) LAN
4 31 (2.06%) DNS
5 26 (1.72%) Network Security
6 22 (1.46%) BGP
7 20 (1.33%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.26%) OSPF
9 18 (1.19%) SD-WAN
10 16 (1.06%) MPLS
10 16 (1.06%) VPN
11 15 (0.99%) Wireless
12 13 (0.86%) NetScaler
12 13 (0.86%) VLAN
13 11 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
14 10 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (0.66%) DHCP
15 9 (0.60%) SAN
15 9 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.45%) Power BI
2 27 (1.79%) Tableau
3 19 (1.26%) SQL Server
4 15 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (0.53%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.53%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.46%) Metadata
7 7 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.33%) GIS
9 4 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.27%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.20%) DB2
10 3 (0.20%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.20%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.13%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 195 (12.93%) JIRA
2 22 (1.46%) Git
3 15 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.46%) GitLab
4 7 (0.46%) Subversion
5 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
5 5 (0.33%) Selenium
6 4 (0.27%) Fiddler
6 4 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.13%) Appium
8 2 (0.13%) JMeter
8 2 (0.13%) MSTest
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.066%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.066%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.066%) LSMW
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle Forms
General
1 639 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 455 (30.17%) Finance
3 190 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (8.82%) Banking
5 132 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 82 (5.44%) Organisational Skills
7 63 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
8 48 (3.18%) Manufacturing
9 44 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
9 44 (2.92%) Retail
10 41 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (2.59%) Legal
12 37 (2.45%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.86%) Marketing
14 27 (1.79%) Front Office
15 19 (1.26%) Law
16 17 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.06%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.99%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 414 (27.45%) Project Manager
2 195 (12.93%) Analyst
3 163 (10.81%) Lead
4 143 (9.48%) Business Analyst
5 124 (8.22%) Senior
6 99 (6.56%) Architect
7 83 (5.50%) Consultant
8 58 (3.85%) IT Manager
9 56 (3.71%) Delivery Manager
9 56 (3.71%) Senior Manager
10 47 (3.12%) Senior Project Manager
10 47 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
11 44 (2.92%) Technical Manager
12 43 (2.85%) IT Project Manager
13 42 (2.79%) Programme Manager
14 40 (2.65%) Network Engineer
15 37 (2.45%) SAP Manager
16 29 (1.92%) Technical Project Manager
17 28 (1.86%) SAP Project Manager
18 26 (1.72%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.39%) REST
3 17 (1.13%) Middleware
4 11 (0.73%) XML
5 10 (0.66%) React
5 10 (0.66%) Web Services
6 9 (0.60%) SOAP
7 8 (0.53%) HTML
8 7 (0.46%) .NET
8 7 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
9 6 (0.40%) ADO
9 6 (0.40%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.40%) CSS
9 6 (0.40%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.33%) Node.js
10 5 (0.33%) RESTful
10 5 (0.33%) YAML
10 5 (0.33%) ZK
11 4 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.27%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.57%) Product Ownership
2 74 (4.91%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.78%) Data Centre
4 41 (2.72%) PMI
5 40 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 35 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.46%) NHS
9 22 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 16 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (0.86%) Algorithms
12 13 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (0.86%) Life Science
12 13 (0.86%) Replication
13 12 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
14 11 (0.73%) Driving Licence
14 11 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 86 (5.70%) Windows
2 40 (2.65%) Windows Server
3 33 (2.19%) Linux
4 20 (1.33%) Unix
5 18 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.80%) Solaris
8 10 (0.66%) VMS
9 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.33%) OpenVMS
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.20%) zOS
12 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.13%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.066%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.066%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (34.08%) Agile
2 481 (31.90%) Project Management
3 459 (30.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 273 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
5 228 (15.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 217 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 215 (14.26%) Migration
8 199 (13.20%) PRINCE2
9 198 (13.13%) Change Management
10 162 (10.74%) Waterfall
11 156 (10.34%) DevOps
12 138 (9.15%) Scrum
13 135 (8.95%) ITIL
14 130 (8.62%) Risk Management
15 125 (8.29%) Decision-Making
15 125 (8.29%) Roadmaps
16 124 (8.22%) ERP
17 121 (8.02%) Project Governance
18 113 (7.49%) Workshop Facilitation
19 102 (6.76%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (4.91%) SQL
2 73 (4.84%) Python
3 40 (2.65%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.46%) Bash
4 22 (1.46%) Java
5 10 (0.66%) JavaScript
5 10 (0.66%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.40%) C#
6 6 (0.40%) Perl
7 5 (0.33%) ABAP
8 4 (0.27%) C++
9 3 (0.20%) Assembly Language
9 3 (0.20%) COBOL
9 3 (0.20%) HLASM
9 3 (0.20%) JCL
9 3 (0.20%) REXX
10 2 (0.13%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.13%) PHP
10 2 (0.13%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 269 (17.84%) Security Cleared
2 221 (14.66%) Degree
3 196 (13.00%) SC Cleared
4 124 (8.22%) PMI Certification
5 119 (7.89%) PMP
6 51 (3.38%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.65%) Master's Degree
8 37 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (2.12%) CCNP
11 27 (1.79%) APMP
12 24 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.46%) CCNA
14 18 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (1.06%) CBAP
16 14 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.86%) CISSP
18 11 (0.73%) SAP Certification
19 10 (0.66%) CISM
20 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (8.89%) PMO
2 87 (5.77%) QA
3 38 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (2.39%) GDPR
5 29 (1.92%) Data Quality
6 26 (1.72%) NIST
7 20 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 18 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.93%) SLA
11 11 (0.73%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.73%) NCSC
11 11 (0.73%) PSD2
12 8 (0.53%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.53%) MiFID
13 7 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.46%) P3O
14 6 (0.40%) ISO 8583
15 5 (0.33%) EMIR
15 5 (0.33%) GMP
System Software
1 43 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 14 (0.93%) Docker
5 13 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.60%) vSphere
9 4 (0.27%) Firmware
9 4 (0.27%) NFS
9 4 (0.27%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.27%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.066%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.066%) RACF
Systems Management
1 40 (2.65%) Ansible
2 28 (1.86%) Terraform
3 25 (1.66%) Kubernetes
4 18 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.13%) SCCM
6 10 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.40%) Grafana
8 6 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.33%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.27%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.27%) QRadar
10 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.20%) OMEGAMON
12 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.13%) Control-M
12 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 252 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 138 (9.15%) SAP
3 95 (6.30%) Oracle
4 77 (5.11%) Cisco
5 55 (3.65%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.85%) Salesforce
7 42 (2.79%) VMware
8 27 (1.79%) Palo Alto
9 26 (1.72%) Workday
10 21 (1.39%) Google
11 19 (1.26%) Citrix
12 16 (1.06%) Aruba
12 16 (1.06%) IBM
12 16 (1.06%) Red Hat
13 15 (0.99%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.86%) CheckPoint
14 13 (0.86%) F5
14 13 (0.86%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.80%) CyberArk
16 11 (0.73%) SolarWinds