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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 59 53
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,197 1,307 1,395
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.03% 3.96% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.38% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,466 833 818
10th Percentile £325 £317 £363
25th Percentile £422 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.47% -2.31%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £704 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £510
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.41% -0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 31 37
10th Percentile £22.52 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.56 £25.56
Median hourly rate £52.50 £62.50 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +69.84% -42.50%
75th Percentile £76.00 £73.21 £56.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £85.00 £66.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.75 £60.00 £41.09
% change year-on-year -17.08% +46.02% -34.26%

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 46,112 29,840 32,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.46% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,098 18,520 20,299
10th Percentile £325 £300 £312
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,038 1,780 1,507
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.89% -47.37% +8.65%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +5 1,856 £525 - 1,672
UK excluding London -1 1,172 £500 +2.56% 1,182
London +2 825 £550 -2.91% 680
Work from Home +6 638 £500 -1.48% 672
South East -5 312 £525 -2.33% 379
North of England +6 297 £485 +2.11% 247
North West +8 197 £499 +5.00% 120
Midlands -30 161 £475 +5.56% 207
South West -3 150 £525 +13.64% 140
Scotland +12 149 £444 -1.39% 65
West Midlands -20 123 £475 -8.61% 141
Yorkshire -20 77 £485 +0.78% 84
East of England -2 65 £500 -4.76% 105
East Midlands -29 34 £425 -0.47% 65
Wales 0 26 £438 +21.53% 38
North East -24 24 £350 - 44
Northern Ireland +3 17 £388 -18.42% 21
Channel Islands - 8 £538 - 1

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
1 121 (5.51%) SharePoint
2 112 (5.10%) Confluence
3 37 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.32%) Apache
5 6 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.27%) CMS
5 6 (0.27%) JBoss
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
7 4 (0.18%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.18%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
8 3 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.091%) CICS
9 2 (0.091%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.046%) IIS
10 1 (0.046%) MTS
Applications
1 173 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (5.46%) Microsoft Project
3 107 (4.87%) Microsoft Office
4 99 (4.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.77%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.55%) Trello
8 10 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
9 9 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.41%) Navisworks
9 9 (0.41%) Revit
10 7 (0.32%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.091%) Houdini
12 2 (0.091%) NUKE
13 1 (0.046%) CATIA
13 1 (0.046%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 50 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.09%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.59%) Primavera
5 11 (0.50%) Maximo
6 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.36%) SAP SD
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.32%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.27%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 339 (15.43%) Azure
2 145 (6.60%) AWS
3 136 (6.19%) Power Platform
4 128 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
5 98 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
6 90 (4.10%) SaaS
7 70 (3.19%) Entra ID
8 50 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
9 49 (2.23%) GCP
10 28 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.23%) GitHub
11 27 (1.23%) OCI
12 26 (1.18%) PowerApps
13 24 (1.09%) Google Workspace
13 24 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
14 22 (1.00%) Power Automate
15 20 (0.91%) IaaS
16 16 (0.73%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.68%) PaaS
18 13 (0.59%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.28%) Firewall
2 90 (4.10%) DNS
3 85 (3.87%) WAN
4 81 (3.69%) Network Security
5 75 (3.41%) LAN
6 66 (3.00%) VPN
7 48 (2.18%) MPLS
8 46 (2.09%) BGP
8 46 (2.09%) DHCP
9 43 (1.96%) Wireless
10 39 (1.78%) VLAN
11 37 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (1.41%) OSPF
12 31 (1.41%) TCP/IP
13 24 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 22 (1.00%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.82%) SSL
16 14 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
16 14 (0.64%) IPsec
16 14 (0.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (5.01%) Power BI
2 40 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.73%) Metadata
5 12 (0.55%) Tableau
6 11 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.41%) Big Data
7 9 (0.41%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.36%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.27%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.27%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.23%) Power Query
12 4 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 234 (10.65%) JIRA
2 24 (1.09%) Git
3 14 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.46%) GitLab
5 9 (0.41%) Selenium
6 7 (0.32%) MSI
7 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.091%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.091%) TestNG
11 1 (0.046%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.046%) Postman
11 1 (0.046%) Snyk
General
1 916 (41.69%) Social Skills
2 655 (29.81%) Finance
3 298 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 167 (7.60%) Organisational Skills
6 132 (6.01%) Banking
7 101 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
8 98 (4.46%) Retail
9 94 (4.28%) Telecoms
10 90 (4.10%) Legal
11 74 (3.37%) Manufacturing
12 72 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
13 61 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (2.05%) Military
15 42 (1.91%) Local Government
16 32 (1.46%) Front Office
16 32 (1.46%) Marketing
17 31 (1.41%) Law
18 23 (1.05%) Financial Institution
18 23 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 504 (22.94%) Project Manager
2 255 (11.61%) Analyst
3 230 (10.47%) Senior
4 205 (9.33%) Lead
5 148 (6.74%) Business Analyst
6 147 (6.69%) Architect
7 132 (6.01%) Consultant
8 102 (4.64%) Senior Manager
9 96 (4.37%) Network Engineer
10 91 (4.14%) Delivery Manager
11 85 (3.87%) Senior Project Manager
12 84 (3.82%) IT Manager
13 63 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 59 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
15 56 (2.55%) IT Project Manager
16 54 (2.46%) Developer
17 43 (1.96%) Technical Manager
18 38 (1.73%) Transformation Manager
19 37 (1.68%) Coordinator
20 36 (1.64%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.09%) Terraform
2 40 (1.82%) REST
3 35 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.14%) Middleware
5 16 (0.73%) .NET
6 13 (0.59%) SAP Fiori
6 13 (0.59%) XML
7 12 (0.55%) 802.1X
7 12 (0.55%) SOAP
7 12 (0.55%) Web Services
8 11 (0.50%) ADO
8 11 (0.50%) OAuth
8 11 (0.50%) React
9 10 (0.46%) JSON
9 10 (0.46%) LDAP
10 8 (0.36%) SailPoint
11 7 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.32%) Kafka
11 7 (0.32%) PySpark
11 7 (0.32%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 109 (4.96%) Management Information System
2 108 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 101 (4.60%) Product Ownership
4 91 (4.14%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 43 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 38 (1.73%) Virtual Team
9 35 (1.59%) Cloud Native
10 34 (1.55%) Driving Licence
10 34 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 33 (1.50%) Operational Technology
12 32 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (1.32%) PKI
14 25 (1.14%) Public Cloud
15 22 (1.00%) Derivative
16 21 (0.96%) Replication
17 20 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 19 (0.86%) Clustering
19 18 (0.82%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.69%) Windows
2 78 (3.55%) Linux
3 69 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.32%) Unix
5 13 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.50%) Solaris
7 10 (0.46%) AIX
8 6 (0.27%) Android
8 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.091%) CentOS
12 2 (0.091%) Debian
12 2 (0.091%) VMS
12 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 920 (41.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 696 (31.68%) Agile
3 599 (27.26%) Project Management
4 412 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 410 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 355 (16.16%) Migration
7 352 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
8 326 (14.84%) Change Management
9 282 (12.84%) PRINCE2
10 248 (11.29%) Decision-Making
11 240 (10.92%) Waterfall
12 210 (9.56%) Risk Management
13 197 (8.97%) ITIL
14 185 (8.42%) Roadmaps
15 182 (8.28%) AI
15 182 (8.28%) DevOps
16 181 (8.24%) Workshop Facilitation
17 176 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
18 165 (7.51%) Project Governance
18 165 (7.51%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 109 (4.96%) SQL
2 100 (4.55%) Python
3 74 (3.37%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.09%) Bash
4 24 (1.09%) Java
5 20 (0.91%) C#
6 17 (0.77%) JavaScript
6 17 (0.77%) VBA
7 10 (0.46%) ABAP
8 9 (0.41%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.32%) Korn
9 7 (0.32%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
10 6 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (0.18%) Bicep
11 4 (0.18%) Go
12 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 489 (22.26%) Security Cleared
2 358 (16.29%) SC Cleared
3 204 (9.29%) Degree
4 163 (7.42%) PMP
5 145 (6.60%) PMI Certification
6 121 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 75 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (2.18%) CCNP
9 39 (1.78%) CCNA
10 38 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 34 (1.55%) Azure Certification
13 31 (1.41%) CISSP
14 19 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.82%) MCSE
16 17 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 16 (0.73%) CISM
18 14 (0.64%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (11.47%) PMO
2 101 (4.60%) QA
3 61 (2.78%) NIST
4 56 (2.55%) GDPR
4 56 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 31 (1.41%) SLA
7 23 (1.05%) GRC
8 17 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.64%) ISO 19650
10 10 (0.46%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.36%) NCSC
12 8 (0.36%) P3O
13 7 (0.32%) GxP
13 7 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 112 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 77 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 25 (1.14%) Docker
5 24 (1.09%) vSphere
6 19 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.50%) Firmware
8 11 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.18%) Squid
10 3 (0.14%) Ceph
10 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.046%) IAG
12 1 (0.046%) oVirt
12 1 (0.046%) RACF
12 1 (0.046%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 53 (2.41%) Ansible
2 35 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.00%) FortiGate
5 21 (0.96%) SCCM
6 16 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.68%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
9 9 (0.41%) SCOM
10 8 (0.36%) Nagios
10 8 (0.36%) Puppet
11 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.32%) WMI
11 7 (0.32%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.23%) Netcool
13 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 492 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 154 (7.01%) Cisco
3 149 (6.78%) SAP
4 129 (5.87%) ServiceNow
5 105 (4.78%) Oracle
6 102 (4.64%) VMware
7 54 (2.46%) Palo Alto
8 50 (2.28%) Fortinet
9 49 (2.23%) Salesforce
10 44 (2.00%) F5
11 38 (1.73%) Google
12 30 (1.37%) SolarWinds
13 29 (1.32%) Juniper
13 29 (1.32%) Workday
14 24 (1.09%) IBM
15 23 (1.05%) Databricks
15 23 (1.05%) Splunk
16 22 (1.00%) Siemens
17 21 (0.96%) Ariba
17 21 (0.96%) Zscaler