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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 53 48
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,807 1,152 1,619
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 4.03% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.42% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 717 1,034
10th Percentile £336 £334 £357
25th Percentile £420 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £626
90th Percentile £700 £721 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 18 39
10th Percentile £16.20 £25.17 £20.98
25th Percentile £21.25 £38.56 £26.47
Median hourly rate £37.00 £65.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -43.08% +82.33% -42.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £45.50
90th Percentile £85.60 £78.55 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £68.75 £40.94
% change year-on-year -46.18% +67.93% -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 40,998 26,034 36,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 91.02% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,676 16,714 23,582
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,064 2,485
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £74.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.35 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +76.32% -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 26 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 26 May 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 26 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 +4 1,612 £513 -2.38% 1,043
UK excluding London +2 1,010 £483 -3.40% 746
London -7 671 £550 -0.45% 395
Work from Home -1 500 £525 +0.77% 466
North of England +26 290 £477 +0.42% 172
South East +3 234 £525 -1.64% 237
Midlands -11 195 £475 -7.23% 121
North West +28 193 £478 +0.53% 104
South West +11 141 £493 -1.50% 96
West Midlands -19 137 £475 -8.61% 82
Scotland -12 89 £463 +2.78% 45
Yorkshire -5 82 £500 - 45
East Midlands -10 57 £413 -7.72% 39
East of England -8 56 £500 +17.65% 57
North East -7 19 £350 -3.45% 26
Wales -2 15 £475 +46.15% 14
Northern Ireland -8 4 £225 -60.00% 14
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 (5.87%) Confluence
2 95 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.39%) CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.22%) Apache
6 4 (0.22%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.17%) Camunda
7 3 (0.17%) CICS
7 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.17%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.17%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
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%) WebSphere
Applications
1 148 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (5.76%) Microsoft Project
3 99 (5.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 89 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.38%) Siemens NX
7 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.33%) Trello
9 4 (0.22%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.055%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 38 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.60%) Teamcenter
3 11 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.50%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.39%) 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 (0.28%) Maximo
7 5 (0.28%) Shopify
7 5 (0.28%) Summit
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.17%) Endur
9 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 206 (11.40%) Azure
2 95 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 94 (5.20%) AWS
4 93 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 71 (3.93%) SaaS
6 49 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (2.21%) Entra ID
8 31 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.72%) GCP
9 23 (1.27%) Google Workspace
10 22 (1.22%) GitHub
10 22 (1.22%) IaaS
11 20 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.77%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (0.66%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.66%) Serverless
15 11 (0.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 99 (5.48%) Firewall
2 62 (3.43%) DNS
3 48 (2.66%) Network Security
4 45 (2.49%) WAN
5 42 (2.32%) LAN
6 27 (1.49%) BGP
7 26 (1.44%) OSPF
8 25 (1.38%) VLAN
9 23 (1.27%) VPN
10 22 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 21 (1.16%) MPLS
12 20 (1.11%) TCP/IP
13 19 (1.05%) DHCP
14 18 (1.00%) SD-WAN
15 17 (0.94%) Wireless
16 14 (0.77%) BIG-IP
16 14 (0.77%) Structured Cabling
17 13 (0.72%) SAN
17 13 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
18 12 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (3.98%) Power BI
2 38 (2.10%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.55%) Tableau
4 23 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.77%) Metadata
8 7 (0.39%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.39%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.28%) Big Data
10 5 (0.28%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.17%) GIS
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 197 (10.90%) JIRA
2 17 (0.94%) Git
3 16 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.55%) GitLab
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.33%) Selenium
7 3 (0.17%) Appium
7 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
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%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.055%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.055%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.055%) LSMW
9 1 (0.055%) NUnit
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle Forms
General
1 678 (37.52%) Social Skills
2 565 (31.27%) Finance
3 239 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 134 (7.42%) Organisational Skills
6 121 (6.70%) Banking
7 82 (4.54%) Retail
8 74 (4.10%) Legal
9 66 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
10 61 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
12 47 (2.60%) Telecoms
13 43 (2.38%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.49%) Local Government
14 27 (1.49%) Marketing
14 27 (1.49%) Military
15 22 (1.22%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.94%) Publishing
18 15 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 474 (26.23%) Project Manager
2 209 (11.57%) Analyst
3 189 (10.46%) Lead
4 177 (9.80%) Senior
5 127 (7.03%) Business Analyst
6 91 (5.04%) Architect
7 90 (4.98%) Senior Manager
8 82 (4.54%) Consultant
9 76 (4.21%) Delivery Manager
10 71 (3.93%) Senior Project Manager
11 67 (3.71%) IT Manager
12 64 (3.54%) Network Engineer
13 49 (2.71%) IT Project Manager
14 47 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (2.55%) Developer
16 41 (2.27%) Technical Manager
17 40 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 37 (2.05%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 34 (1.88%) Programme Manager
20 32 (1.77%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.05%) Middleware
2 26 (1.44%) REST
3 19 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.94%) XML
5 14 (0.77%) .NET
6 12 (0.66%) ADO
7 10 (0.55%) JSON
7 10 (0.55%) OAuth
8 9 (0.50%) Spring Boot
8 9 (0.50%) Web Services
9 8 (0.44%) CSS
9 8 (0.44%) React
9 8 (0.44%) Spring
10 7 (0.39%) HTML
11 6 (0.33%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.33%) RESTful
12 5 (0.28%) 802.1X
12 5 (0.28%) SailPoint
12 5 (0.28%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 92 (5.09%) Management Information System
2 74 (4.10%) Data Centre
3 71 (3.93%) Onboarding
4 69 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 32 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (1.66%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.49%) Clustering
8 27 (1.49%) Replication
9 26 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 21 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.11%) Cloud Native
13 18 (1.00%) Operational Technology
14 17 (0.94%) NHS
15 16 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (0.89%) PMI
16 15 (0.83%) Life Science
17 14 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
18 13 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 102 (5.64%) Windows
2 50 (2.77%) Windows Server
3 37 (2.05%) Linux
4 29 (1.60%) Unix
5 15 (0.83%) Solaris
6 10 (0.55%) VMS
6 10 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.44%) AIX
7 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.44%) zOS
8 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.33%) 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 (0.055%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.055%) Android
12 1 (0.055%) CentOS
12 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (29.77%) Agile
1 538 (29.77%) Project Management
2 530 (29.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 295 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
4 275 (15.22%) Migration
5 266 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 258 (14.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 211 (11.68%) PRINCE2
8 208 (11.51%) Change Management
9 186 (10.29%) Waterfall
10 184 (10.18%) Decision-Making
11 152 (8.41%) DevOps
12 146 (8.08%) Risk Management
13 130 (7.19%) Roadmaps
14 123 (6.81%) Scrum
15 122 (6.75%) AI
16 118 (6.53%) ITIL
17 113 (6.25%) Project Governance
18 111 (6.14%) ERP
19 110 (6.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 97 (5.37%) SQL
2 76 (4.21%) Python
3 52 (2.88%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.27%) Java
5 21 (1.16%) C#
6 18 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.61%) Bash
8 8 (0.44%) Go
8 8 (0.44%) PL/SQL
8 8 (0.44%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.39%) Bicep
9 7 (0.39%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.33%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.28%) VBA
12 4 (0.22%) ABAP
13 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.17%) C++
13 3 (0.17%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 405 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 297 (16.44%) SC Cleared
3 181 (10.02%) Degree
4 151 (8.36%) PMP
5 115 (6.36%) PMI Certification
6 93 (5.15%) DV Cleared
7 47 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (2.10%) CCNP
9 34 (1.88%) CCNA
10 33 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (1.27%) CISSP
13 21 (1.16%) APMP
13 21 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 19 (1.05%) Master's Degree
15 18 (1.00%) MCSE
16 17 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 16 (0.89%) CISM
18 15 (0.83%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (11.12%) PMO
2 97 (5.37%) QA
3 47 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (2.60%) NIST
4 42 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 42 (2.32%) GDPR
5 21 (1.16%) SLA
6 13 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.72%) GRC
7 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.44%) HL7
8 8 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 8 (0.44%) IFRS
8 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.44%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.33%) Basel III
9 6 (0.33%) GAAP
9 6 (0.33%) NCSC
10 5 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 72 (3.98%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.33%) vSphere
4 19 (1.05%) Docker
5 17 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.39%) Firmware
8 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.17%) Squid
10 2 (0.11%) Ceph
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.055%) KVM
11 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 42 (2.32%) Ansible
2 35 (1.94%) Terraform
3 29 (1.60%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.77%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.72%) SCCM
6 13 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.61%) 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%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
12 2 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 322 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 132 (7.30%) SAP
3 83 (4.59%) Oracle
4 81 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 79 (4.37%) Cisco
6 54 (2.99%) VMware
7 46 (2.55%) Palo Alto
8 37 (2.05%) Google
8 37 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 32 (1.77%) F5
10 25 (1.38%) Siemens
11 21 (1.16%) IBM
12 20 (1.11%) CheckPoint
13 18 (1.00%) Aruba
13 18 (1.00%) Fortinet
14 16 (0.89%) SolarWinds
15 15 (0.83%) Workday
16 14 (0.77%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.77%) Citrix
16 14 (0.77%) NEC