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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,665 1,193 1,711
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.86% 4.04% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 4.48% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,102 713 1,136
10th Percentile £341 £322 £363
25th Percentile £416 £428 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £627
90th Percentile £716 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £501 £507
% change year-on-year -3.89% -1.23% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 25 35
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £17.71 £26.25 £25.59
Median hourly rate £45.46 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% +34.34% -37.02%
75th Percentile £64.69 £65.00 £46.13
90th Percentile £80.60 £77.00 £64.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -24.23% +46.56% -37.02%

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 37,150 26,655 38,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.07% 90.32% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,527 17,023 25,087
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,218 906 2,334
10th Percentile £14.88 £15.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £31.65
% change year-on-year -15.38% +2.69% -9.57%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 0 1,460 £516 -1.75% 799
UK excluding London -4 869 £481 -3.89% 656
London -4 664 £550 - 263
Work from Home -3 480 £538 +1.46% 367
North of England +21 256 £481 -0.26% 129
South East -5 193 £525 -4.55% 219
Midlands -13 173 £475 -5.00% 108
North West +25 159 £476 +0.26% 72
West Midlands -23 109 £500 -4.76% 71
South West +9 107 £508 +1.40% 88
Yorkshire -1 86 £500 -3.57% 45
Scotland -15 80 £488 +2.63% 45
East Midlands -4 64 £438 -2.31% 35
East of England -14 40 £558 +7.42% 56
Wales +2 20 £413 +6.45% 20
North East -7 13 £350 -22.22% 14
Northern Ireland 0 9 £425 -22.73% 3

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 (7.21%) Confluence
2 75 (4.50%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.36%) CMS
5 5 (0.30%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.24%) CICS
6 4 (0.24%) SAS
7 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.18%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.12%) Camunda
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.060%) Apache
9 1 (0.060%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.060%) IIS
9 1 (0.060%) Moodle
9 1 (0.060%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 153 (9.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (7.03%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (6.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 101 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (1.80%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.66%) Trello
8 9 (0.54%) Siemens NX
9 8 (0.48%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.12%) InDesign
10 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.060%) Revit
11 1 (0.060%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.72%) Loan IQ
3 12 (0.72%) Teamcenter
4 9 (0.54%) Endur
4 9 (0.54%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.36%) Primavera
6 6 (0.36%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.24%) SAP PP
8 4 (0.24%) Shopify
9 3 (0.18%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 204 (12.25%) Azure
2 88 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (4.74%) Power Platform
4 75 (4.50%) AWS
5 54 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
5 54 (3.24%) SaaS
6 33 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (1.92%) Entra ID
8 31 (1.86%) GCP
9 27 (1.62%) GitHub
10 20 (1.20%) IaaS
11 16 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (0.84%) Amazon S3
13 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (0.78%) OCI
13 13 (0.78%) OpenShift
13 13 (0.78%) PaaS
13 13 (0.78%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.35%) Firewall
2 48 (2.88%) WAN
3 46 (2.76%) DNS
4 39 (2.34%) LAN
5 32 (1.92%) Network Security
6 23 (1.38%) SD-WAN
7 22 (1.32%) BGP
7 22 (1.32%) OSPF
8 21 (1.26%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.14%) VPN
10 18 (1.08%) MPLS
11 17 (1.02%) Wireless
12 16 (0.96%) DHCP
13 15 (0.90%) NetScaler
14 14 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.84%) VLAN
15 13 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 10 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
17 9 (0.54%) SSL
18 8 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (3.78%) Power BI
2 29 (1.74%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.68%) Tableau
4 25 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.48%) Metadata
7 8 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.30%) GIS
10 5 (0.30%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.30%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.24%) Big Data
11 4 (0.24%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 215 (12.91%) JIRA
2 20 (1.20%) Git
3 19 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.84%) GitLab
5 7 (0.42%) Selenium
6 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.30%) JMeter
6 5 (0.30%) MSTest
6 5 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.12%) Appium
9 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.12%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.060%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Forms
General
1 697 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 561 (33.69%) Finance
3 227 (13.63%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (10.21%) Public Sector
5 140 (8.41%) Banking
6 120 (7.21%) Organisational Skills
7 63 (3.78%) Legal
8 62 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
8 62 (3.72%) Retail
9 60 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
10 49 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
11 44 (2.64%) Manufacturing
12 33 (1.98%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.68%) Marketing
14 24 (1.44%) Front Office
15 23 (1.38%) Investment Banking
15 23 (1.38%) Local Government
16 17 (1.02%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.02%) Law
17 15 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 469 (28.17%) Project Manager
2 204 (12.25%) Analyst
3 180 (10.81%) Lead
4 158 (9.49%) Senior
5 142 (8.53%) Business Analyst
6 81 (4.86%) Consultant
7 80 (4.80%) Architect
8 72 (4.32%) Delivery Manager
9 66 (3.96%) Senior Manager
10 63 (3.78%) IT Manager
11 52 (3.12%) Senior Project Manager
12 49 (2.94%) Technical Manager
13 45 (2.70%) IT Project Manager
13 45 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (2.58%) Network Engineer
14 43 (2.58%) Programme Manager
15 37 (2.22%) Infrastructure Manager
16 33 (1.98%) SAP Manager
17 31 (1.86%) Project Officer
17 31 (1.86%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.98%) Middleware
2 24 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (1.02%) REST
4 13 (0.78%) Web Services
5 11 (0.66%) XML
6 8 (0.48%) Spring Boot
7 7 (0.42%) .NET
7 7 (0.42%) CSS
7 7 (0.42%) Spring
8 6 (0.36%) ADO
8 6 (0.36%) HTML
8 6 (0.36%) JSON
8 6 (0.36%) React
8 6 (0.36%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (0.36%) YAML
9 5 (0.30%) Node.js
9 5 (0.30%) RESTful
9 5 (0.30%) SOAP
10 4 (0.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 79 (4.74%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.50%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.14%) Management Information System
4 65 (3.90%) Data Centre
5 37 (2.22%) Virtual Team
6 34 (2.04%) PMI
7 32 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (1.62%) NHS
9 25 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.20%) Replication
12 19 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.08%) Clustering
14 16 (0.96%) Cloud Native
15 15 (0.90%) Operational Technology
16 14 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
17 12 (0.72%) Derivative
17 12 (0.72%) Driving Licence
17 12 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.53%) Windows
2 47 (2.82%) Windows Server
3 33 (1.98%) Linux
4 19 (1.14%) Unix
5 18 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.66%) VMS
7 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.54%) Solaris
8 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.42%) zOS
10 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.24%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.24%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) Android
12 2 (0.12%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.12%) pSOS
13 1 (0.060%) CentOS
13 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (34.23%) Agile
2 504 (30.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 500 (30.03%) Project Management
4 285 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
5 249 (14.95%) PRINCE2
6 244 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 238 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 233 (13.99%) Migration
9 202 (12.13%) Change Management
10 175 (10.51%) DevOps
11 156 (9.37%) Waterfall
12 152 (9.13%) Scrum
13 150 (9.01%) Decision-Making
14 147 (8.83%) Roadmaps
15 134 (8.05%) Risk Management
16 132 (7.93%) ITIL
17 125 (7.51%) Workshop Facilitation
18 121 (7.27%) Business Analysis
19 118 (7.09%) Project Governance
20 112 (6.73%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 91 (5.47%) SQL
2 80 (4.80%) Python
3 51 (3.06%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.62%) Java
5 23 (1.38%) Bash
6 15 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.78%) C#
8 9 (0.54%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.36%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.30%) Bicep
10 5 (0.30%) Go
10 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.30%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.24%) C++
11 4 (0.24%) COBOL
12 3 (0.18%) ABAP
12 3 (0.18%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.18%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.18%) JCL
Qualifications
1 340 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 243 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 236 (14.17%) Degree
4 156 (9.37%) PMP
5 137 (8.23%) PMI Certification
6 76 (4.56%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 35 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.92%) APMP
11 30 (1.80%) CCNP
12 23 (1.38%) CCNA
12 23 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 20 (1.20%) CBAP
15 19 (1.14%) CISSP
16 17 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
17 15 (0.90%) CISM
18 12 (0.72%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (9.73%) PMO
2 115 (6.91%) QA
3 47 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (2.46%) GDPR
5 40 (2.40%) Data Quality
6 34 (2.04%) NIST
7 19 (1.14%) SLA
8 13 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.60%) PSD2
11 9 (0.54%) GRC
11 9 (0.54%) MiFID
11 9 (0.54%) NCSC
11 9 (0.54%) P3O
12 8 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.36%) ISO 8583
15 5 (0.30%) GAAP
15 5 (0.30%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 58 (3.48%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.44%) Docker
4 15 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.84%) vSphere
6 12 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.24%) Firmware
11 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 40 (2.40%) Ansible
1 40 (2.40%) Terraform
2 28 (1.68%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.20%) SCCM
5 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.42%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.36%) Grafana
8 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.24%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.18%) Nagios
10 3 (0.18%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.18%) Puppet
11 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 300 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 141 (8.47%) SAP
3 82 (4.92%) Oracle
4 72 (4.32%) Cisco
5 67 (4.02%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.58%) VMware
7 37 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 29 (1.74%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.68%) Google
10 22 (1.32%) Atlassian
11 20 (1.20%) F5
12 19 (1.14%) Aruba
12 19 (1.14%) Citrix
12 19 (1.14%) Workday
13 17 (1.02%) CheckPoint
14 16 (0.96%) IBM
15 13 (0.78%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.78%) SolarWinds
16 11 (0.66%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.60%) Siemens