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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 53 46
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,533 1,200 1,795
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.93% 3.89% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 4.35% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 999 672 1,197
10th Percentile £325 £338 £363
25th Percentile £413 £433 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £637
90th Percentile £720 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -4.88% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 32 27
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.58 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £23.37 £23.79
Median hourly rate £43.12 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £62.55 £64.06 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.05 £67.25 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.44 £39.68 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.90% -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 33,920 27,613 39,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.99% 89.40% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,498 16,798 25,769
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% -0.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,057 854 2,142
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.66 £34.36
Median % change year-on-year -22.98% -4.95% +5.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% +11.93%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 1,332 £525 - 620
UK excluding London -7 778 £488 -4.88% 554
London +3 625 £550 - 191
Work from Home -3 432 £535 -0.23% 292
North of England +11 229 £480 -4.05% 117
South East -4 184 £525 -4.55% 190
Midlands -1 153 £468 -8.68% 82
North West +23 142 £475 -1.55% 72
West Midlands -22 89 £540 -4.76% 52
Yorkshire -14 77 £500 -14.71% 37
South West -8 76 £538 +7.29% 70
Scotland -17 76 £450 -5.26% 29
East Midlands 0 65 £435 -7.45% 30
East of England -3 39 £570 +14.69% 50
Wales +7 20 £374 -26.98% 21
Northern Ireland -1 12 £475 -13.64% 4
North East -13 12 £290 -38.98% 11

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
1 111 (7.24%) Confluence
2 60 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.39%) CMS
5 4 (0.26%) CICS
6 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.20%) MS Project Server
6 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Appian
7 2 (0.13%) Camunda
7 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.065%) IIS
8 1 (0.065%) Moodle
8 1 (0.065%) Smallworld
Applications
1 146 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (6.91%) Microsoft Project
3 102 (6.65%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (6.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (2.48%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.85%) Trello
6 11 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.59%) Siemens NX
8 8 (0.52%) Chatbot
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 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.065%) Revit
11 1 (0.065%) Sketch
11 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 52 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.85%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.65%) Endur
3 10 (0.65%) Loan IQ
3 10 (0.65%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 8 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.52%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
6 7 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.39%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
8 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.33%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.33%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 187 (12.20%) Azure
2 76 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (4.11%) AWS
3 63 (4.11%) Power Platform
4 54 (3.52%) SaaS
5 45 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (2.09%) GCP
7 31 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (1.37%) GitHub
9 20 (1.30%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.11%) OCI
11 14 (0.91%) IaaS
12 13 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (0.78%) OpenShift
14 11 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (0.59%) PaaS
15 9 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
16 8 (0.52%) Serverless
17 7 (0.46%) Asana
17 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 78 (5.09%) Firewall
2 43 (2.80%) WAN
3 38 (2.48%) DNS
4 34 (2.22%) LAN
5 30 (1.96%) Network Security
6 22 (1.44%) BGP
7 20 (1.30%) OSPF
7 20 (1.30%) SD-WAN
7 20 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 17 (1.11%) VPN
9 16 (1.04%) MPLS
10 15 (0.98%) NetScaler
11 14 (0.91%) DHCP
11 14 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 14 (0.91%) Wireless
12 12 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
13 11 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (0.72%) SSL
13 11 (0.72%) VLAN
14 10 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.52%) Power BI
2 27 (1.76%) Tableau
3 23 (1.50%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.59%) Metadata
8 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.39%) GIS
9 6 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.20%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.20%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 193 (12.59%) JIRA
2 18 (1.17%) Git
3 16 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.59%) GitLab
5 5 (0.33%) Selenium
6 4 (0.26%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.20%) Subversion
8 2 (0.13%) Appium
8 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.13%) JMeter
8 2 (0.13%) MSTest
8 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.065%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 651 (42.47%) Social Skills
2 488 (31.83%) Finance
3 204 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (9.26%) Banking
5 139 (9.07%) Public Sector
6 101 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
8 50 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 50 (3.26%) Retail
9 45 (2.94%) Manufacturing
10 42 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (2.67%) Legal
12 38 (2.48%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.76%) Marketing
14 24 (1.57%) Front Office
15 22 (1.44%) Investment Banking
16 18 (1.17%) Law
16 18 (1.17%) Local Government
16 18 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (1.04%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 415 (27.07%) Project Manager
2 205 (13.37%) Analyst
3 178 (11.61%) Lead
4 149 (9.72%) Business Analyst
5 128 (8.35%) Senior
6 86 (5.61%) Architect
7 84 (5.48%) Consultant
8 52 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
8 52 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
9 51 (3.33%) IT Manager
10 50 (3.26%) Senior Manager
11 42 (2.74%) Network Engineer
12 39 (2.54%) Programme Manager
12 39 (2.54%) Senior Project Manager
13 38 (2.48%) Technical Manager
14 35 (2.28%) SAP Manager
15 34 (2.22%) IT Project Manager
16 27 (1.76%) Infrastructure Manager
17 26 (1.70%) PMO Lead
17 26 (1.70%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.57%) Middleware
2 22 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
3 21 (1.37%) REST
4 12 (0.78%) Web Services
4 12 (0.78%) XML
5 8 (0.52%) CSS
5 8 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
5 8 (0.52%) SOAP
6 7 (0.46%) ADO
6 7 (0.46%) HTML
6 7 (0.46%) React
6 7 (0.46%) RESTful
6 7 (0.46%) YAML
7 6 (0.39%) .NET
8 5 (0.33%) JSON
8 5 (0.33%) Node.js
8 5 (0.33%) OAuth
8 5 (0.33%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (0.26%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.22%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.89%) Onboarding
3 59 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 53 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 34 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.22%) PMI
6 33 (2.15%) Virtual Team
7 31 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (1.76%) NHS
9 24 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 23 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (0.98%) Replication
12 14 (0.91%) Data Structures
12 14 (0.91%) Life Science
13 13 (0.85%) Cloud Native
14 12 (0.78%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.78%) Driving Licence
14 12 (0.78%) Operational Technology
14 12 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.48%) Windows
2 41 (2.67%) Windows Server
3 30 (1.96%) Linux
4 19 (1.24%) Unix
4 19 (1.24%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.72%) Solaris
6 11 (0.72%) VMS
7 9 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.26%) OpenVMS
10 4 (0.26%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.20%) zOS
12 2 (0.13%) pSOS
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.065%) Android
13 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (34.57%) Agile
2 469 (30.59%) Project Management
3 455 (29.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 284 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
5 230 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 213 (13.89%) Migration
7 212 (13.83%) PRINCE2
8 209 (13.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 184 (12.00%) Change Management
10 163 (10.63%) Waterfall
11 158 (10.31%) DevOps
12 139 (9.07%) Scrum
13 134 (8.74%) Decision-Making
14 121 (7.89%) Roadmaps
15 120 (7.83%) Risk Management
16 118 (7.70%) Business Analysis
17 115 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
18 114 (7.44%) ERP
18 114 (7.44%) ITIL
19 112 (7.31%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 76 (4.96%) Python
2 74 (4.83%) SQL
3 47 (3.07%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.50%) Java
5 22 (1.44%) Bash
6 11 (0.72%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.59%) C#
7 9 (0.59%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.33%) Go
9 4 (0.26%) ABAP
9 4 (0.26%) C++
9 4 (0.26%) COBOL
9 4 (0.26%) Perl
10 3 (0.20%) Assembly Language
10 3 (0.20%) Bicep
10 3 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.20%) HLASM
10 3 (0.20%) REXX
10 3 (0.20%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 270 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 232 (15.13%) Degree
3 191 (12.46%) SC Cleared
4 139 (9.07%) PMP
5 126 (8.22%) PMI Certification
6 63 (4.11%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.61%) Master's Degree
8 34 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.02%) CCNP
11 29 (1.89%) APMP
12 22 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (1.44%) CBAP
13 21 (1.37%) CCNA
14 20 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (1.04%) CISSP
16 14 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.85%) CISM
17 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
18 12 (0.78%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (9.20%) PMO
2 104 (6.78%) QA
3 34 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.22%) GDPR
3 34 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.57%) NIST
5 16 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (0.98%) SLA
7 14 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.85%) PSD2
9 12 (0.78%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.65%) NCSC
11 8 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
11 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.52%) MiFID
11 8 (0.52%) P3O
12 6 (0.39%) ISO 8583
13 5 (0.33%) Basel III
13 5 (0.33%) GRC
14 4 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.24%) Docker
4 15 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.91%) vSphere
6 11 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) NFS
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas File System
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.065%) RACF
Systems Management
1 42 (2.74%) Ansible
2 31 (2.02%) Terraform
3 28 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.37%) SCCM
5 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.46%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.39%) Grafana
9 5 (0.33%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.33%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.20%) OMEGAMON
12 2 (0.13%) Control-M
12 2 (0.13%) Nagios
12 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.13%) QRadar
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 276 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 134 (8.74%) SAP
3 88 (5.74%) Oracle
4 74 (4.83%) Cisco
5 61 (3.98%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.80%) VMware
7 40 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.76%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.57%) Google
10 21 (1.37%) F5
10 21 (1.37%) Workday
11 18 (1.17%) Citrix
12 16 (1.04%) Aruba
13 15 (0.98%) CheckPoint
14 14 (0.91%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.91%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.85%) Ariba
15 13 (0.85%) IBM
16 12 (0.78%) Siemens
16 12 (0.78%) SolarWinds