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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 54 50
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,302 1,380 2,101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.95% 3.58% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 4.18% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 806 1,431
10th Percentile £320 £361 £356
25th Percentile £410 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -1.85% +0.47%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £525 £505
% change year-on-year -6.29% +3.96% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 39 45
10th Percentile £15.91 £21.25 £22.71
25th Percentile £30.11 £25.46 £41.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £35.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -45.31% +57.13%
75th Percentile £70.16 £56.02 £80.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £65.60 £87.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £39.68 £62.50
% change year-on-year +51.21% -36.51% +53.45%

All Process and 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 29,826 33,000 43,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.52% 85.68% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,546 20,284 29,794
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,802 1,460 1,537
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.56 £43.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -47.53% +2.63% +80.76%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 1,118 £525 -4.55% 1,424
UK excluding London +2 699 £492 -6.29% 1,160
London +1 493 £575 +4.55% 506
Work from Home 0 420 £513 -3.25% 641
South East +1 174 £538 +5.39% 406
North of England +2 153 £475 -11.42% 267
Midlands +8 151 £492 -6.29% 169
West Midlands +2 99 £525 -8.38% 94
North West +1 97 £475 -9.52% 150
South West +16 91 £469 -12.84% 148
Scotland -10 71 £450 - 69
Yorkshire -3 52 £500 -4.76% 91
East Midlands +12 51 £432 -11.66% 69
East of England +11 34 £525 - 86
Northern Ireland +5 19 £475 +196.88% 16
Wales -3 13 £360 -37.61% 23
North East -12 4 £411 -31.54% 31

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (5.68%) Confluence
2 56 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.46%) WebSphere
5 5 (0.38%) CMS
6 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
6 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.15%) Appian
7 2 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.077%) Apache
8 1 (0.077%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.077%) Camunda
8 1 (0.077%) Drupal
8 1 (0.077%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.077%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.077%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 89 (6.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (5.45%) Microsoft Project
3 65 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
4 58 (4.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (3.00%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.77%) Trello
7 7 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.31%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.077%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.077%) InDesign
10 1 (0.077%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.077%) Revit
10 1 (0.077%) Simulink
10 1 (0.077%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 78 (5.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.84%) Endur
2 11 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.61%) SAP MDG
4 8 (0.61%) SAP PP
5 7 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
6 6 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.46%) SAP IBP
6 6 (0.46%) SAP PLM
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.38%) SAP GTS
7 5 (0.38%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 145 (11.14%) Azure
2 58 (4.45%) AWS
3 54 (4.15%) Power Platform
4 52 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (3.15%) SaaS
6 34 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 23 (1.77%) GCP
9 21 (1.61%) OCI
10 16 (1.23%) Entra ID
10 16 (1.23%) IaaS
10 16 (1.23%) PaaS
11 15 (1.15%) Asana
12 13 (1.00%) Power Automate
13 11 (0.84%) PowerApps
14 10 (0.77%) Serverless
15 9 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
16 7 (0.54%) GitHub
16 7 (0.54%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.23%) Firewall
2 26 (2.00%) DNS
3 24 (1.84%) LAN
3 24 (1.84%) WAN
4 23 (1.77%) VPN
5 18 (1.38%) Network Security
5 18 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 14 (1.08%) HTTP
7 14 (1.08%) Wireless
8 12 (0.92%) MPLS
9 11 (0.84%) Internet
9 11 (0.84%) SAN
10 9 (0.69%) BGP
11 8 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (0.54%) DMZ
13 6 (0.46%) IPsec
13 6 (0.46%) SSH
13 6 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.30%) Power BI
2 21 (1.61%) SAP HANA
3 19 (1.46%) SQL Server
4 15 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 13 (1.00%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.77%) Big Data
8 10 (0.77%) Tableau
9 5 (0.38%) Metadata
10 4 (0.31%) GIS
10 4 (0.31%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.31%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.23%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.15%) Looker
Development Applications
1 138 (10.60%) JIRA
2 21 (1.61%) Git
3 7 (0.54%) Selenium
4 6 (0.46%) Subversion
5 4 (0.31%) Fiddler
5 4 (0.31%) GitLab
5 4 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.31%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.23%) Appium
6 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.15%) Gradle
7 2 (0.15%) Maven
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.077%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.077%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.077%) JMeter
8 1 (0.077%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.077%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.077%) SpecFlow
General
1 568 (43.63%) Social Skills
2 450 (34.56%) Finance
3 145 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (7.99%) Banking
5 91 (6.99%) Public Sector
6 64 (4.92%) Manufacturing
7 60 (4.61%) Telecoms
8 58 (4.45%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (3.69%) Marketing
11 47 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (3.61%) Retail
12 38 (2.92%) Legal
13 32 (2.46%) Billing
14 26 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (1.92%) Front Office
16 22 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (1.31%) Electronics
18 17 (1.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 359 (27.57%) Project Manager
2 171 (13.13%) Analyst
3 130 (9.98%) Lead
4 111 (8.53%) Senior
5 109 (8.37%) Architect
6 106 (8.14%) Business Analyst
6 106 (8.14%) Consultant
7 65 (4.99%) IT Manager
8 56 (4.30%) IT Project Manager
9 55 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
10 45 (3.46%) Senior Manager
11 39 (3.00%) Developer
12 38 (2.92%) Senior Project Manager
13 32 (2.46%) Programme Manager
13 32 (2.46%) Technical Manager
14 29 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (2.00%) Service Architect
16 25 (1.92%) SAP Manager
17 23 (1.77%) Infrastructure Manager
17 23 (1.77%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.53%) Web Services
2 19 (1.46%) .NET
2 19 (1.46%) REST
3 15 (1.15%) React
4 14 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (1.00%) SOAP
6 12 (0.92%) EntireX
7 11 (0.84%) XML
8 10 (0.77%) AngularJS
9 9 (0.69%) HTML
9 9 (0.69%) Middleware
9 9 (0.69%) SAP Fiori
10 8 (0.61%) .NET Core
10 8 (0.61%) CSS
10 8 (0.61%) JMS
11 7 (0.54%) ADO
11 7 (0.54%) RESTful
11 7 (0.54%) Spring
11 7 (0.54%) XSD
12 6 (0.46%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 49 (3.76%) Onboarding
1 49 (3.76%) Product Ownership
2 45 (3.46%) Management Information System
3 28 (2.15%) Data Centre
4 26 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (1.92%) PMI
6 22 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 21 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.15%) Life Science
10 12 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (0.92%) Operational Technology
11 9 (0.69%) Mobile App
11 9 (0.69%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.61%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.61%) IoT
12 8 (0.61%) Market Risk
12 8 (0.61%) NHS
12 8 (0.61%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 62 (4.76%) Windows
2 29 (2.23%) Linux
3 28 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.23%) Unix
5 15 (1.15%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.38%) Windows 8
9 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (0.38%) Windows XP
10 4 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.31%) Solaris
11 3 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.23%) OpenVMS
11 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.077%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.077%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.077%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (33.95%) Agile
2 431 (33.10%) Project Management
3 417 (32.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 241 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
5 205 (15.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 188 (14.44%) Change Management
7 170 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 157 (12.06%) Migration
9 144 (11.06%) Waterfall
10 141 (10.83%) Risk Management
11 125 (9.60%) PRINCE2
11 125 (9.60%) Roadmaps
12 107 (8.22%) Project Governance
13 106 (8.14%) ITIL
14 101 (7.76%) Scrum
15 96 (7.37%) Decision-Making
16 95 (7.30%) ERP
17 87 (6.68%) Business Analysis
18 86 (6.61%) DevOps
19 84 (6.45%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (6.61%) SQL
2 46 (3.53%) Python
3 29 (2.23%) PowerShell
4 26 (2.00%) Java
5 17 (1.31%) C#
5 17 (1.31%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.54%) C++
7 5 (0.38%) ABAP
7 5 (0.38%) Perl
7 5 (0.38%) VBA
8 4 (0.31%) Bash
8 4 (0.31%) Bicep
8 4 (0.31%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.23%) C
9 3 (0.23%) COBOL
9 3 (0.23%) R
10 2 (0.15%) Assembly Language
10 2 (0.15%) JCL
10 2 (0.15%) PHP
11 1 (0.077%) Natural
Qualifications
1 222 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 173 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 151 (11.60%) Degree
4 84 (6.45%) PMI Certification
5 77 (5.91%) PMP
6 41 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 27 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (1.23%) CCNP
9 16 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.00%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.77%) CBAP
12 10 (0.77%) CCNA
13 8 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 7 (0.54%) APMP
14 7 (0.54%) HNC
14 7 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (7.30%) PMO
2 63 (4.84%) QA
3 25 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 24 (1.84%) GDPR
5 22 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 16 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.23%) MiFID
7 13 (1.00%) EMIR
7 13 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.77%) SLA
10 9 (0.69%) NIST
11 7 (0.54%) Def Stans
12 6 (0.46%) COBIT
12 6 (0.46%) IFRS
12 6 (0.46%) P3O
13 5 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.38%) NCSC
13 5 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 37 (2.84%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.61%) Docker
4 6 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.38%) vSphere
6 4 (0.31%) NFS
6 4 (0.31%) Veritas File System
6 4 (0.31%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.077%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.077%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.077%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.077%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.23%) Terraform
3 14 (1.08%) Ansible
4 13 (1.00%) SCCM
5 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.38%) QRadar
8 4 (0.31%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.23%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.15%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.15%) WSUS
11 1 (0.077%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.077%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.077%) Nessus
11 1 (0.077%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.077%) Rancher
11 1 (0.077%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 227 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 160 (12.29%) SAP
3 94 (7.22%) Oracle
4 46 (3.53%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.46%) Cisco
6 42 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 32 (2.46%) VMware
8 27 (2.07%) IBM
9 20 (1.54%) Workday
10 13 (1.00%) Ariba
10 13 (1.00%) Databricks
10 13 (1.00%) F5
11 12 (0.92%) Citrix
11 12 (0.92%) Google
11 12 (0.92%) Software AG
11 12 (0.92%) webMethods
12 11 (0.84%) Palo Alto
12 11 (0.84%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.84%) Splunk
13 10 (0.77%) CyberArk