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

 6 months to
10 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 58 57
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,271 1,341 1,371
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.16% 4.05% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 4.47% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 857 775
10th Percentile £350 £325 £352
25th Percentile £427 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £626 £619 £625
90th Percentile £715 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 40 41
10th Percentile £24.81 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £37.82 £23.13 £23.60
Median hourly rate £53.00 £54.76 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +56.44% -42.86%
75th Percentile £76.75 £65.00 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.75 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.44 £36.81
% change year-on-year +36.02% +9.86% -38.66%

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 46,195 29,974 32,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.49% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,749 18,609 19,667
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,350 1,884 1,294
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.03
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.43% -46.35% -2.35%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +3 1,908 £525 - 3,453
UK excluding London +2 1,212 £500 +1.63% 2,141
London 0 837 £550 - 1,451
Work from Home +5 645 £500 -2.34% 1,396
South East -3 325 £525 -2.33% 522
North of England +9 312 £500 +5.26% 538
North West +6 192 £525 +11.11% 289
Midlands -19 165 £475 -3.46% 357
Scotland +17 152 £451 +0.22% 180
South West -4 146 £525 +5.00% 242
West Midlands -13 122 £475 -7.57% 251
Yorkshire +4 96 £482 -3.65% 193
East of England 0 68 £500 -4.76% 197
East Midlands -23 40 £475 +8.57% 105
Wales +4 29 £400 +30.08% 48
North East -20 25 £350 -14.79% 57
Northern Ireland +10 18 £413 -2.65% 83
Channel Islands - 9 £525 - 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
1 120 (5.28%) Confluence
2 113 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.44%) CMS
5 7 (0.31%) Apache
5 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.26%) JBoss
6 6 (0.26%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.22%) SAS
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.18%) WordPress
9 3 (0.13%) Appian
9 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.13%) Kentico
9 3 (0.13%) SAP EP
9 3 (0.13%) SAP Portal
10 2 (0.088%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.088%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 169 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (5.42%) Microsoft Project
3 97 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
4 94 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.70%) Siemens NX
7 15 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.62%) AutoCAD
8 14 (0.62%) Revit
9 12 (0.53%) Navisworks
9 12 (0.53%) Trello
10 9 (0.40%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.13%) Windchill
12 2 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.088%) Civil 3D
12 2 (0.088%) Houdini
12 2 (0.088%) MicroStation
12 2 (0.088%) NUKE
13 1 (0.044%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 60 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.10%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.62%) Maximo
4 14 (0.62%) Primavera
5 13 (0.57%) SAP FI
6 11 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
7 10 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 9 (0.40%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
8 9 (0.40%) SAP HCM
8 9 (0.40%) SAP HR
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.35%) SAP SD
10 7 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.26%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 368 (16.20%) Azure
2 139 (6.12%) AWS
2 139 (6.12%) Power Platform
3 134 (5.90%) Microsoft 365
4 112 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
5 98 (4.32%) SaaS
6 75 (3.30%) Entra ID
7 56 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
7 56 (2.47%) GCP
8 33 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
9 31 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
10 29 (1.28%) OCI
11 28 (1.23%) PowerApps
12 23 (1.01%) Power Automate
13 22 (0.97%) GitHub
13 22 (0.97%) Google Workspace
14 21 (0.92%) IaaS
15 18 (0.79%) PaaS
16 15 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (0.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 139 (6.12%) Firewall
2 92 (4.05%) DNS
3 89 (3.92%) Network Security
4 86 (3.79%) WAN
5 81 (3.57%) LAN
6 63 (2.77%) VPN
7 52 (2.29%) DHCP
8 50 (2.20%) Wireless
9 48 (2.11%) MPLS
10 44 (1.94%) BGP
11 39 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (1.67%) VLAN
13 29 (1.28%) OSPF
14 28 (1.23%) TCP/IP
15 21 (0.92%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 17 (0.75%) Cisco Wireless
17 17 (0.75%) Multicast
18 16 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
19 15 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.67%) Power BI
2 38 (1.67%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 13 (0.57%) Tableau
6 12 (0.53%) Metadata
7 11 (0.48%) Big Data
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 7 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.26%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.26%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.22%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.22%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 254 (11.18%) JIRA
2 24 (1.06%) Git
3 12 (0.53%) GitLab
4 11 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.35%) MSI
6 7 (0.31%) Selenium
7 5 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.22%) Subversion
8 4 (0.18%) Gatling
9 3 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.13%) JMeter
9 3 (0.13%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.13%) Postman
9 3 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.088%) Appium
10 2 (0.088%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.088%) Hudson
10 2 (0.088%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.088%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.088%) TestNG
General
1 951 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 706 (31.09%) Finance
3 292 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (10.66%) Public Sector
5 185 (8.15%) Organisational Skills
6 150 (6.61%) Banking
7 95 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
8 92 (4.05%) Manufacturing
9 89 (3.92%) Legal
10 85 (3.74%) Telecoms
11 83 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
11 83 (3.65%) Retail
12 61 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
13 45 (1.98%) Local Government
14 38 (1.67%) Military
15 36 (1.59%) Front Office
16 35 (1.54%) Law
17 34 (1.50%) Aerospace
17 34 (1.50%) Marketing
18 28 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 507 (22.32%) Project Manager
2 254 (11.18%) Analyst
3 233 (10.26%) Senior
4 208 (9.16%) Lead
5 154 (6.78%) Architect
6 153 (6.74%) Business Analyst
7 135 (5.94%) Consultant
8 102 (4.49%) Delivery Manager
9 101 (4.45%) Network Engineer
10 98 (4.32%) Senior Manager
11 84 (3.70%) Senior Project Manager
12 83 (3.65%) IT Manager
13 67 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 59 (2.60%) IT Project Manager
15 58 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
16 52 (2.29%) Developer
17 48 (2.11%) Technical Manager
18 44 (1.94%) Programme Manager
19 43 (1.89%) Coordinator
20 41 (1.81%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.03%) Terraform
2 39 (1.72%) REST
3 33 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (0.97%) Middleware
5 18 (0.79%) SAP Fiori
6 16 (0.70%) .NET
7 13 (0.57%) SOAP
8 12 (0.53%) OAuth
8 12 (0.53%) SAPUI5
8 12 (0.53%) XML
9 11 (0.48%) 802.1X
9 11 (0.48%) LDAP
10 10 (0.44%) HTML
10 10 (0.44%) JSON
10 10 (0.44%) Web Services
11 9 (0.40%) SAML
12 8 (0.35%) ADO
12 8 (0.35%) Kafka
12 8 (0.35%) RESTful
12 8 (0.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 109 (4.80%) Management Information System
1 109 (4.80%) Onboarding
2 104 (4.58%) Product Ownership
3 101 (4.45%) Data Centre
4 50 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 48 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 43 (1.89%) Operational Technology
7 40 (1.76%) Virtual Team
8 36 (1.59%) Driving Licence
9 35 (1.54%) Cloud Native
9 35 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 31 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.28%) PKI
13 23 (1.01%) Public Cloud
14 22 (0.97%) Clustering
14 22 (0.97%) Derivative
15 20 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 19 (0.84%) Life Science
17 18 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 150 (6.61%) Windows
2 79 (3.48%) Linux
3 74 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.50%) Unix
5 18 (0.79%) Solaris
6 15 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.44%) AIX
8 9 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.26%) Android
9 6 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.18%) zOS
12 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.13%) VMS
13 2 (0.088%) CentOS
13 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.044%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.044%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,028 (45.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 723 (31.84%) Agile
3 596 (26.24%) Project Management
4 439 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 423 (18.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 384 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
7 351 (15.46%) Migration
8 329 (14.49%) Change Management
9 303 (13.34%) PRINCE2
10 269 (11.85%) Decision-Making
11 250 (11.01%) Waterfall
12 237 (10.44%) Risk Management
13 206 (9.07%) ITIL
14 201 (8.85%) Roadmaps
15 198 (8.72%) Project Governance
16 197 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
17 195 (8.59%) DevOps
18 194 (8.54%) Workshop Facilitation
19 193 (8.50%) AI
20 174 (7.66%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 104 (4.58%) Python
2 100 (4.40%) SQL
3 77 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 28 (1.23%) Java
5 22 (0.97%) Bash
6 20 (0.88%) C#
7 18 (0.79%) ABAP
8 16 (0.70%) JavaScript
9 15 (0.66%) VBA
10 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.31%) Korn
11 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.26%) BeanShell
13 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.18%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.13%) C++
14 3 (0.13%) COBOL
14 3 (0.13%) RPG
14 3 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 537 (23.65%) Security Cleared
2 391 (17.22%) SC Cleared
3 221 (9.73%) Degree
4 169 (7.44%) PMP
5 156 (6.87%) PMI Certification
6 132 (5.81%) DV Cleared
7 73 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (2.07%) CCNP
10 41 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (1.63%) Azure Certification
12 35 (1.54%) CCNA
13 34 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 28 (1.23%) CISSP
15 21 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 19 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
17 18 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
17 18 (0.79%) MCSE
18 15 (0.66%) CCIE
18 15 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (10.48%) PMO
2 107 (4.71%) QA
3 63 (2.77%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.20%) GDPR
5 49 (2.16%) NIST
6 43 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.32%) SLA
8 25 (1.10%) GRC
9 20 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.66%) ISO 19650
11 12 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.44%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.35%) NCSC
14 7 (0.31%) P3O
15 6 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 6 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.22%) IFRS
17 4 (0.18%) GMP
System Software
1 116 (5.11%) Active Directory
2 97 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (1.45%) Hyper-V
3 33 (1.45%) vSphere
4 24 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (0.92%) Docker
6 16 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.48%) Firmware
10 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.088%) Ceph
11 2 (0.088%) IAG
11 2 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.088%) Squid
11 2 (0.088%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.044%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 54 (2.38%) Ansible
2 39 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (1.06%) SCCM
5 18 (0.79%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
9 9 (0.40%) SCOM
9 9 (0.40%) WMI
10 8 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.35%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
11 7 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.22%) Grafana
13 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.22%) Nagios
13 5 (0.22%) Nessus
Vendors
1 526 (23.16%) Microsoft
2 188 (8.28%) SAP
3 165 (7.27%) Cisco
4 122 (5.37%) VMware
5 118 (5.20%) ServiceNow
6 106 (4.67%) Oracle
7 54 (2.38%) Palo Alto
8 53 (2.33%) Fortinet
9 52 (2.29%) Salesforce
10 40 (1.76%) F5
11 37 (1.63%) Google
12 34 (1.50%) Juniper
13 33 (1.45%) Workday
14 31 (1.37%) IBM
15 29 (1.28%) Ariba
16 27 (1.19%) SolarWinds
17 25 (1.10%) Siemens
18 23 (1.01%) Aruba
18 23 (1.01%) Databricks
19 21 (0.92%) Zscaler
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