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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 58 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,920 1,213 1,580
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 3.94% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.34% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,311 752 1,003
10th Percentile £328 £340 £356
25th Percentile £413 £421 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £630 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £485 £513
% change year-on-year +1.44% -5.37% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 22 46
10th Percentile £17.02 £31.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £30.21 £47.38 £24.75
Median hourly rate £44.50 £62.50 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -28.80% +75.32% -40.58%
75th Percentile £76.75 £77.19 £51.94
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.13 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.00 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -29.23% +58.77% -34.50%

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 43,674 27,949 36,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 90.88% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,163 17,650 23,450
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,623 1,373 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.86 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +8.91%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +7 1,677 £515 -1.90% 1,218
UK excluding London +4 1,085 £492 +1.44% 952
London -9 692 £550 -4.35% 469
Work from Home 0 556 £515 +0.43% 619
North of England +10 281 £475 +3.26% 212
South East +9 270 £525 - 300
North West +26 188 £475 +1.33% 120
Midlands -14 185 £475 -7.23% 126
South West +12 158 £500 -6.98% 114
West Midlands -12 138 £481 -7.46% 74
Scotland +2 111 £475 +4.63% 60
Yorkshire -22 76 £500 +8.70% 69
East of England 0 58 £500 +11.73% 79
East Midlands -7 45 £402 -9.15% 52
Wales -3 19 £500 +80.56% 51
North East -18 19 £350 -3.45% 25
Northern Ireland +3 13 £334 -36.38% 33
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
1 111 (5.78%) Confluence
2 110 (5.73%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.36%) CMS
5 6 (0.31%) SAS
6 5 (0.26%) Apache
7 4 (0.21%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.16%) Camunda
8 3 (0.16%) CICS
8 3 (0.16%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.16%) Kentico
8 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.16%) WordPress
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.10%) Appian
9 2 (0.10%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 158 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (5.52%) Microsoft Project
3 101 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 90 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (1.77%) MS Visio
6 21 (1.09%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.16%) Revit
9 3 (0.16%) Trello
10 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.052%) CATIA
11 1 (0.052%) Houdini
11 1 (0.052%) NUKE
11 1 (0.052%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 42 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.30%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.57%) Primavera
5 9 (0.47%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.47%) Maximo
6 6 (0.31%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.31%) SAP PSCD
6 6 (0.31%) SAP SD
6 6 (0.31%) Summit
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.26%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 229 (11.93%) Azure
2 112 (5.83%) AWS
3 102 (5.31%) Power Platform
4 98 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (3.54%) SaaS
6 58 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (2.66%) Entra ID
8 32 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.61%) GCP
10 24 (1.25%) Google Workspace
11 22 (1.15%) GitHub
11 22 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.09%) IaaS
13 17 (0.89%) PowerApps
14 16 (0.83%) Serverless
15 14 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (0.73%) Amazon S3
15 14 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (0.73%) Power Automate
15 14 (0.73%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.63%) Firewall
2 78 (4.06%) DNS
3 60 (3.13%) WAN
4 56 (2.92%) Network Security
5 55 (2.86%) LAN
6 48 (2.50%) VPN
7 35 (1.82%) MPLS
8 34 (1.77%) BGP
9 31 (1.61%) DHCP
10 30 (1.56%) OSPF
11 28 (1.46%) VLAN
12 27 (1.41%) Wireless
13 25 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 24 (1.25%) SD-WAN
14 24 (1.25%) TCP/IP
14 24 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (0.83%) SSL
15 16 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
16 15 (0.78%) BIG-IP
17 14 (0.73%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.32%) Power BI
2 40 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.15%) Tableau
4 20 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (0.63%) Metadata
8 10 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.47%) SAP HANA
10 8 (0.42%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.42%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.31%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.26%) Big Data
13 5 (0.26%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
15 3 (0.16%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 211 (10.99%) JIRA
2 23 (1.20%) Git
3 14 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.63%) GitLab
5 7 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.36%) Selenium
6 4 (0.21%) Appium
7 3 (0.16%) JMeter
7 3 (0.16%) MSTest
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.10%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.10%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.10%) Hudson
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.10%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.10%) Subversion
8 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.10%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.10%) WebDriver
General
1 749 (39.01%) Social Skills
2 609 (31.72%) Finance
3 252 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 146 (7.60%) Organisational Skills
6 107 (5.57%) Banking
7 95 (4.95%) Retail
8 80 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 80 (4.17%) Legal
9 65 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
10 60 (3.13%) Telecoms
11 56 (2.92%) Manufacturing
12 54 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (1.98%) Local Government
14 30 (1.56%) Military
15 28 (1.46%) Marketing
16 23 (1.20%) Investment Banking
17 19 (0.99%) Financial Institution
18 18 (0.94%) Publishing
19 17 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 468 (24.38%) Project Manager
2 232 (12.08%) Analyst
3 203 (10.57%) Senior
4 193 (10.05%) Lead
5 117 (6.09%) Business Analyst
6 108 (5.63%) Architect
7 96 (5.00%) Senior Manager
8 82 (4.27%) Consultant
9 80 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
10 77 (4.01%) Senior Project Manager
11 76 (3.96%) IT Manager
12 75 (3.91%) Network Engineer
13 54 (2.81%) Developer
14 53 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 52 (2.71%) IT Project Manager
16 47 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (2.08%) Technical Manager
18 37 (1.93%) Project Officer
19 35 (1.82%) SC Cleared Project Manager
20 33 (1.72%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (1.93%) Middleware
2 30 (1.56%) REST
3 16 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.73%) .NET
5 13 (0.68%) XML
6 12 (0.63%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.63%) OAuth
7 11 (0.57%) ADO
7 11 (0.57%) JSON
8 9 (0.47%) SAP Fiori
8 9 (0.47%) Spring Boot
9 8 (0.42%) React
9 8 (0.42%) Spring
9 8 (0.42%) Web Services
10 7 (0.36%) RESTful
11 6 (0.31%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.31%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.31%) PySpark
11 6 (0.31%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.31%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 90 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 79 (4.11%) Data Centre
4 67 (3.49%) Product Ownership
5 34 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (1.77%) Virtual Team
6 29 (1.51%) Cloud Native
6 29 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 27 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (1.35%) Operational Technology
10 25 (1.30%) Clustering
11 24 (1.25%) PKI
11 24 (1.25%) Replication
12 23 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 17 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (0.83%) NHS
15 15 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 108 (5.63%) Windows
2 52 (2.71%) Windows Server
3 44 (2.29%) Linux
4 27 (1.41%) Unix
5 11 (0.57%) Solaris
6 8 (0.42%) AIX
7 7 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.36%) zOS
8 6 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.21%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.10%) Android
12 2 (0.10%) Debian
13 1 (0.052%) CentOS
13 1 (0.052%) pSOS
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 580 (30.21%) Agile
3 535 (27.86%) Project Management
4 313 (16.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 307 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
6 300 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 292 (15.21%) Migration
8 253 (13.18%) Change Management
9 224 (11.67%) PRINCE2
10 206 (10.73%) Decision-Making
11 195 (10.16%) Waterfall
12 154 (8.02%) Risk Management
13 153 (7.97%) ITIL
14 152 (7.92%) DevOps
15 150 (7.81%) AI
16 145 (7.55%) Roadmaps
17 123 (6.41%) ERP
18 122 (6.35%) Scrum
19 118 (6.15%) Workshop Facilitation
20 117 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 108 (5.63%) SQL
2 87 (4.53%) Python
3 56 (2.92%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.09%) C#
4 21 (1.09%) Java
5 19 (0.99%) JavaScript
6 13 (0.68%) Bash
7 11 (0.57%) VBA
8 9 (0.47%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.42%) Go
9 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.36%) ABAP
10 7 (0.36%) Bicep
10 7 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.21%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.21%) C++
14 3 (0.16%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 410 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 292 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 194 (10.10%) Degree
4 155 (8.07%) PMP
5 120 (6.25%) PMI Certification
6 108 (5.63%) DV Cleared
7 65 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.29%) CCNP
9 40 (2.08%) CCNA
10 36 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.35%) CISSP
11 26 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 20 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 20 (1.04%) MCSE
12 20 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 16 (0.83%) CISM
13 16 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
14 15 (0.78%) APMP
15 14 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (11.35%) PMO
2 102 (5.31%) QA
3 50 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (2.60%) NIST
4 49 (2.55%) GDPR
5 42 (2.19%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.41%) SLA
7 14 (0.73%) GRC
8 11 (0.57%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.42%) NCSC
12 7 (0.36%) HL7
12 7 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.26%) IFRS
14 5 (0.26%) P3O
14 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 87 (4.53%) Active Directory
2 51 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.15%) vSphere
4 20 (1.04%) Docker
4 20 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.57%) Firmware
7 11 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.16%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.16%) Squid
11 2 (0.10%) Ceph
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.052%) ACF2
12 1 (0.052%) KVM
12 1 (0.052%) RACF
12 1 (0.052%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 43 (2.24%) Ansible
2 40 (2.08%) Terraform
3 27 (1.41%) Kubernetes
4 22 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.99%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.94%) SCCM
7 16 (0.83%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.36%) Nagios
9 7 (0.36%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.26%) Netcool
10 5 (0.26%) SCOM
10 5 (0.26%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.16%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (0.16%) Nessus
11 3 (0.16%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 359 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 123 (6.41%) SAP
3 104 (5.42%) Cisco
4 102 (5.31%) ServiceNow
5 86 (4.48%) Oracle
6 68 (3.54%) VMware
7 51 (2.66%) Palo Alto
8 38 (1.98%) F5
9 36 (1.88%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.82%) Google
11 34 (1.77%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.35%) SolarWinds
13 23 (1.20%) IBM
14 21 (1.09%) Siemens
15 19 (0.99%) Juniper
16 17 (0.89%) CheckPoint
16 17 (0.89%) Infoblox
16 17 (0.89%) NEC
17 16 (0.83%) Aruba
17 16 (0.83%) Workday