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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 60 53
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,116 1,312 1,422
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.95% 4.00% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 4.42% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,411 849 870
10th Percentile £325 £316 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £619 £609 £634
90th Percentile £706 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 24 42
10th Percentile £22.36 £15.91 £22.55
25th Percentile £34.87 £29.88 £28.88
Median hourly rate £53.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +40.45% -36.03%
75th Percentile £76.00 £71.68 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £81.38 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -9.09% +34.34% -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 45,331 29,700 33,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.46% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,838 18,524 21,130
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,836 1,729 1,767
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.14
Median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £67.99 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -43.53% +17.65%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 1,821 £525 - 1,526
UK excluding London +1 1,150 £500 +1.63% 1,140
London +8 796 £550 -4.35% 595
Work from Home +1 625 £500 -2.50% 637
South East -4 296 £525 -2.33% 360
North of England +11 289 £485 +2.11% 261
North West +14 196 £500 +5.26% 134
South West +2 171 £500 +4.17% 154
Midlands -20 165 £475 +5.56% 177
Scotland +13 135 £425 -5.56% 75
West Midlands -20 124 £475 -8.61% 120
Yorkshire -23 72 £485 +4.86% 87
East of England +7 63 £500 -4.76% 103
East Midlands -23 37 £413 -3.85% 56
Wales -3 25 £525 +76.47% 29
North East -18 22 £350 - 45
Northern Ireland +6 16 £388 -22.50% 15
Channel Islands - 2 £550 - 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
1 123 (5.81%) SharePoint
2 112 (5.29%) Confluence
3 42 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
5 6 (0.28%) SAS
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.19%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
8 3 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.095%) Camunda
9 2 (0.095%) CICS
9 2 (0.095%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.047%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 167 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (5.67%) Microsoft Project
3 101 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
4 95 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.61%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.76%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.52%) Trello
9 8 (0.38%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.28%) ProjectWise
12 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.095%) Houdini
13 2 (0.095%) NUKE
14 1 (0.047%) CATIA
14 1 (0.047%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.09%) Teamcenter
3 19 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.71%) Primavera
5 10 (0.47%) Maximo
5 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.38%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.28%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 325 (15.36%) Azure
2 139 (6.57%) AWS
3 130 (6.14%) Power Platform
4 123 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
6 82 (3.88%) SaaS
7 72 (3.40%) Entra ID
8 46 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (2.08%) GCP
10 29 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
10 29 (1.37%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.28%) GitHub
12 26 (1.23%) Google Workspace
12 26 (1.23%) OCI
12 26 (1.23%) Power Automate
13 25 (1.18%) IaaS
14 23 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
15 20 (0.95%) OneDrive
16 16 (0.76%) PaaS
17 13 (0.61%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 135 (6.38%) Firewall
2 90 (4.25%) DNS
3 80 (3.78%) WAN
4 74 (3.50%) LAN
5 70 (3.31%) Network Security
6 68 (3.21%) VPN
7 51 (2.41%) MPLS
8 45 (2.13%) BGP
9 44 (2.08%) DHCP
10 42 (1.98%) Wireless
11 36 (1.70%) VLAN
12 34 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (1.56%) OSPF
14 31 (1.47%) TCP/IP
15 24 (1.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 24 (1.13%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.80%) SSL
17 15 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.66%) IPsec
19 13 (0.61%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.96%) Power BI
2 41 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.76%) Metadata
5 14 (0.66%) Tableau
6 11 (0.52%) Big Data
6 11 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.43%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.38%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.38%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.24%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 231 (10.92%) JIRA
2 24 (1.13%) Git
3 14 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.52%) GitLab
5 9 (0.43%) Selenium
6 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.24%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) MSI
8 4 (0.19%) 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 (0.095%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.095%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.095%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.095%) TestNG
11 1 (0.047%) Postman
11 1 (0.047%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 881 (41.64%) Social Skills
2 657 (31.05%) Finance
3 289 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (10.73%) Public Sector
5 154 (7.28%) Organisational Skills
6 119 (5.62%) Banking
7 103 (4.87%) Retail
8 100 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
9 93 (4.40%) Legal
10 92 (4.35%) Telecoms
11 67 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 64 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
13 62 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.94%) Local Government
15 36 (1.70%) Military
16 32 (1.51%) Marketing
17 25 (1.18%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.18%) Front Office
17 25 (1.18%) Law
18 24 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 503 (23.77%) Project Manager
2 242 (11.44%) Analyst
3 226 (10.68%) Senior
4 197 (9.31%) Lead
5 135 (6.38%) Business Analyst
6 131 (6.19%) Consultant
7 130 (6.14%) Architect
8 97 (4.58%) Senior Manager
9 94 (4.44%) Network Engineer
10 85 (4.02%) IT Manager
11 80 (3.78%) Senior Project Manager
12 79 (3.73%) Delivery Manager
13 61 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 60 (2.84%) Developer
15 58 (2.74%) IT Project Manager
16 49 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (1.89%) Technical Manager
18 38 (1.80%) Infrastructure Manager
18 38 (1.80%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 37 (1.75%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.32%) Terraform
2 37 (1.75%) REST
3 31 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.18%) Middleware
5 17 (0.80%) .NET
6 15 (0.71%) 802.1X
7 12 (0.57%) React
7 12 (0.57%) XML
8 11 (0.52%) OAuth
8 11 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
8 11 (0.52%) Web Services
9 10 (0.47%) ADO
9 10 (0.47%) JSON
10 9 (0.43%) SAP Basis
11 8 (0.38%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.38%) LDAP
11 8 (0.38%) SOAP
12 7 (0.33%) Kafka
12 7 (0.33%) RESTful
12 7 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 109 (5.15%) Onboarding
2 106 (5.01%) Management Information System
3 88 (4.16%) Data Centre
3 88 (4.16%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 39 (1.84%) Virtual Team
6 35 (1.65%) Cloud Native
7 34 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (1.61%) Operational Technology
8 32 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 32 (1.51%) Driving Licence
9 30 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (1.28%) PKI
11 24 (1.13%) Public Cloud
12 21 (0.99%) Clustering
12 21 (0.99%) Derivative
13 20 (0.95%) Replication
14 19 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 143 (6.76%) Windows
2 72 (3.40%) Linux
3 66 (3.12%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.28%) Unix
5 14 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.47%) AIX
6 10 (0.47%) Solaris
7 6 (0.28%) Android
7 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.19%) zOS
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.095%) CentOS
11 2 (0.095%) Debian
11 2 (0.095%) VMS
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (39.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 651 (30.77%) Agile
3 572 (27.03%) Project Management
4 393 (18.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 374 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 350 (16.54%) Migration
7 326 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
8 313 (14.79%) Change Management
9 279 (13.19%) PRINCE2
10 234 (11.06%) Decision-Making
11 225 (10.63%) Waterfall
12 193 (9.12%) Risk Management
13 191 (9.03%) ITIL
14 184 (8.70%) DevOps
15 180 (8.51%) AI
15 180 (8.51%) Roadmaps
16 165 (7.80%) Workshop Facilitation
17 158 (7.47%) User Acceptance Testing
18 157 (7.42%) Cybersecurity
19 150 (7.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 114 (5.39%) SQL
2 102 (4.82%) Python
3 71 (3.36%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.23%) Java
5 25 (1.18%) Bash
6 18 (0.85%) C#
7 17 (0.80%) VBA
8 16 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.43%) ABAP
10 8 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.33%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.24%) Korn
14 4 (0.19%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.19%) Bicep
14 4 (0.19%) Go
15 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.14%) C++
16 2 (0.095%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 472 (22.31%) Security Cleared
2 340 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 206 (9.74%) Degree
4 166 (7.84%) PMP
5 145 (6.85%) PMI Certification
6 115 (5.43%) DV Cleared
7 75 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (2.27%) CCNP
9 46 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.98%) CCNA
12 34 (1.61%) Azure Certification
12 34 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 29 (1.37%) CISSP
14 19 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.85%) MCSE
16 17 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 16 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
18 15 (0.71%) CISM
19 14 (0.66%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (11.20%) PMO
2 88 (4.16%) QA
3 60 (2.84%) NIST
4 58 (2.74%) GDPR
5 56 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.27%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.65%) SLA
8 20 (0.95%) GRC
9 13 (0.61%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.52%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.38%) NCSC
13 8 (0.38%) P3O
13 8 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.28%) GxP
14 6 (0.28%) IFRS
15 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
15 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 114 (5.39%) Active Directory
2 72 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 22 (1.04%) Docker
5 20 (0.95%) vSphere
6 17 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.66%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.52%) Firmware
9 11 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
10 4 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.095%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.047%) ACF2
13 1 (0.047%) KVM
13 1 (0.047%) RACF
13 1 (0.047%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 54 (2.55%) Ansible
2 33 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 31 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.09%) FortiGate
5 20 (0.95%) SCCM
6 16 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.71%) vCenter Server
8 10 (0.47%) Cisco Prime
8 10 (0.47%) Puppet
8 10 (0.47%) SCOM
9 8 (0.38%) Nagios
9 8 (0.38%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.33%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.24%) Netcool
12 5 (0.24%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 464 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 146 (6.90%) Cisco
3 141 (6.66%) SAP
4 121 (5.72%) ServiceNow
5 100 (4.73%) Oracle
6 97 (4.58%) VMware
7 53 (2.50%) Palo Alto
8 47 (2.22%) Fortinet
9 43 (2.03%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.98%) Google
11 41 (1.94%) F5
12 29 (1.37%) Juniper
12 29 (1.37%) SolarWinds
13 26 (1.23%) Workday
14 23 (1.09%) IBM
15 22 (1.04%) Splunk
16 21 (0.99%) Zscaler
17 20 (0.95%) CyberArk
17 20 (0.95%) Siemens
18 19 (0.90%) NEC