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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 60 56
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 -6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,188 1,308 1,378
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.02% 3.97% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.38% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 840 802
10th Percentile £330 £320 £360
25th Percentile £425 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year - -0.47% -2.31%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £637
90th Percentile £709 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 33 39
10th Percentile £23.67 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £37.43 £30.11 £25.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +78.57% -44.66%
75th Percentile £76.94 £70.16 £56.02
90th Percentile £87.83 £84.50 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £60.00 £39.68
% change year-on-year -1.67% +51.21% -36.51%

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 45,960 29,830 33,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.47% 90.53% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,897 18,534 20,247
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £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 3,123 1,812 1,459
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.23 £14.96
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.69% -47.67% +1.18%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 1,840 £525 - 3,220
UK excluding London -2 1,164 £500 +1.63% 2,137
London -3 815 £550 -3.76% 1,307
Work from Home +7 627 £500 -2.47% 1,288
South East -4 313 £525 -2.33% 627
North of England +5 291 £499 +5.00% 492
North West +10 187 £500 +5.26% 271
Midlands -28 155 £475 -2.06% 345
Scotland +21 152 £450 - 170
South West -2 150 £525 +9.38% 227
West Midlands -24 117 £475 -8.61% 219
Yorkshire -11 81 £485 +0.78% 159
East of England -2 64 £500 -4.76% 179
East Midlands -27 35 £448 +3.59% 126
Wales -2 24 £400 +11.11% 47
North East -25 24 £350 -14.79% 62
Northern Ireland +1 17 £400 -15.79% 71
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
1 118 (5.39%) SharePoint
2 112 (5.12%) Confluence
3 36 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.32%) Apache
5 6 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.27%) CMS
5 6 (0.27%) JBoss
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
7 4 (0.18%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.18%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
9 2 (0.091%) CICS
9 2 (0.091%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.091%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.046%) MTS
Applications
1 170 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (5.58%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
4 97 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.78%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.50%) Navisworks
8 11 (0.50%) Revit
8 11 (0.50%) Trello
9 10 (0.46%) AutoCAD
10 9 (0.41%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.091%) Houdini
12 2 (0.091%) NUKE
12 2 (0.091%) Windchill
13 1 (0.046%) CATIA
13 1 (0.046%) Civil 3D
13 1 (0.046%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 52 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.19%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.64%) Primavera
5 12 (0.55%) Maximo
6 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.41%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.41%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.27%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
11 5 (0.23%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 336 (15.36%) Azure
2 139 (6.35%) AWS
3 137 (6.26%) Power Platform
4 127 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (4.20%) SaaS
7 73 (3.34%) Entra ID
8 51 (2.33%) GCP
9 50 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
11 26 (1.19%) OCI
12 25 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
13 24 (1.10%) Google Workspace
14 23 (1.05%) GitHub
14 23 (1.05%) PowerApps
15 21 (0.96%) IaaS
15 21 (0.96%) Power Automate
16 16 (0.73%) PaaS
17 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (0.59%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 137 (6.26%) Firewall
2 89 (4.07%) DNS
3 81 (3.70%) WAN
4 80 (3.66%) Network Security
5 72 (3.29%) LAN
6 66 (3.02%) VPN
7 47 (2.15%) DHCP
8 46 (2.10%) MPLS
9 44 (2.01%) Wireless
10 43 (1.97%) BGP
11 38 (1.74%) VLAN
12 37 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
13 29 (1.33%) TCP/IP
14 28 (1.28%) OSPF
15 24 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 19 (0.87%) SD-WAN
17 18 (0.82%) SSL
18 14 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.64%) IPsec
18 14 (0.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.98%) Power BI
2 40 (1.83%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.64%) Metadata
5 13 (0.59%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.46%) Tableau
7 9 (0.41%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.37%) Big Data
8 8 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 7 (0.32%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.23%) Power Query
11 5 (0.23%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.23%) SAP HANA
12 4 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 236 (10.79%) JIRA
2 23 (1.05%) Git
3 13 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.50%) GitLab
5 7 (0.32%) MSI
6 6 (0.27%) Selenium
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
10 2 (0.091%) Gatling
10 2 (0.091%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.091%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.091%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.091%) TestNG
11 1 (0.046%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.046%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.046%) JMeter
General
1 909 (41.54%) Social Skills
2 666 (30.44%) Finance
3 287 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
4 228 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 171 (7.82%) Organisational Skills
6 134 (6.12%) Banking
7 101 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 92 (4.20%) Retail
8 92 (4.20%) Telecoms
9 89 (4.07%) Legal
10 78 (3.56%) Manufacturing
11 75 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (2.01%) Military
14 43 (1.97%) Local Government
15 35 (1.60%) Front Office
16 34 (1.55%) Law
17 30 (1.37%) Marketing
18 24 (1.10%) Aerospace
18 24 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 499 (22.81%) Project Manager
2 246 (11.24%) Analyst
3 230 (10.51%) Senior
4 206 (9.41%) Lead
5 151 (6.90%) Architect
6 143 (6.54%) Business Analyst
7 134 (6.12%) Consultant
8 102 (4.66%) Senior Manager
9 96 (4.39%) Network Engineer
10 90 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
11 84 (3.84%) Senior Project Manager
12 81 (3.70%) IT Manager
13 65 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 59 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
15 55 (2.51%) IT Project Manager
16 52 (2.38%) Developer
17 45 (2.06%) Technical Manager
18 37 (1.69%) Coordinator
18 37 (1.69%) Project Officer
18 37 (1.69%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.06%) Terraform
2 40 (1.83%) REST
3 33 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.05%) Middleware
5 16 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
6 15 (0.69%) .NET
7 13 (0.59%) SOAP
8 12 (0.55%) XML
9 11 (0.50%) 802.1X
9 11 (0.50%) JSON
9 11 (0.50%) LDAP
9 11 (0.50%) OAuth
10 10 (0.46%) ADO
10 10 (0.46%) React
10 10 (0.46%) Web Services
11 8 (0.37%) SailPoint
11 8 (0.37%) SAML
12 7 (0.32%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.32%) Kafka
12 7 (0.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 113 (5.16%) Onboarding
2 108 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 96 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 88 (4.02%) Data Centre
5 48 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 46 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (1.74%) Virtual Team
8 37 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 35 (1.60%) Driving Licence
11 34 (1.55%) Cloud Native
11 34 (1.55%) Operational Technology
12 31 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (1.37%) PKI
14 24 (1.10%) Public Cloud
15 22 (1.01%) Derivative
16 21 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 20 (0.91%) Clustering
18 19 (0.87%) Replication
19 17 (0.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 150 (6.86%) Windows
2 77 (3.52%) Linux
3 72 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.33%) Unix
5 14 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.55%) Solaris
7 9 (0.41%) AIX
8 8 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.27%) Android
9 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.18%) zOS
12 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.14%) VMS
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.091%) CentOS
13 2 (0.091%) Debian
13 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 941 (43.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 686 (31.35%) Agile
3 589 (26.92%) Project Management
4 407 (18.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 405 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 353 (16.13%) Migration
7 347 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
8 324 (14.81%) Change Management
9 284 (12.98%) PRINCE2
10 247 (11.29%) Decision-Making
11 235 (10.74%) Waterfall
12 206 (9.41%) Risk Management
13 197 (9.00%) ITIL
14 191 (8.73%) Roadmaps
15 180 (8.23%) DevOps
16 178 (8.14%) AI
16 178 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
17 176 (8.04%) Workshop Facilitation
18 175 (8.00%) Project Governance
19 165 (7.54%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 104 (4.75%) SQL
2 96 (4.39%) Python
3 78 (3.56%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.14%) Java
5 24 (1.10%) Bash
6 17 (0.78%) VBA
7 16 (0.73%) C#
8 15 (0.69%) JavaScript
9 12 (0.55%) ABAP
10 8 (0.37%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.32%) Korn
11 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.27%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
14 4 (0.18%) Go
15 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.14%) Bicep
15 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 498 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 362 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 207 (9.46%) Degree
4 163 (7.45%) PMP
5 145 (6.63%) PMI Certification
6 129 (5.90%) DV Cleared
7 72 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (2.15%) CCNP
10 40 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.74%) Azure Certification
11 38 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 35 (1.60%) CCNA
13 29 (1.33%) CISSP
14 19 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
14 19 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.82%) MCSE
15 18 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.69%) CCIE
16 15 (0.69%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (11.15%) PMO
2 97 (4.43%) QA
3 58 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 55 (2.51%) NIST
5 54 (2.47%) GDPR
6 50 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.37%) SLA
8 25 (1.14%) GRC
9 20 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.73%) ISO 19650
11 12 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.46%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.37%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.37%) NCSC
13 8 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.32%) GxP
14 7 (0.32%) P3O
15 6 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 114 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 81 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (1.37%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.23%) vSphere
5 21 (0.96%) Docker
5 21 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.50%) Firmware
10 4 (0.18%) Squid
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.046%) ACF2
13 1 (0.046%) IAG
13 1 (0.046%) KVM
13 1 (0.046%) RACF
Systems Management
1 53 (2.42%) Ansible
2 36 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.01%) FortiGate
4 22 (1.01%) SCCM
5 17 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.69%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.41%) SCOM
9 8 (0.37%) Puppet
10 7 (0.32%) Nagios
10 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.32%) WMI
11 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.27%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.18%) Netcool
Vendors
1 495 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 161 (7.36%) SAP
3 156 (7.13%) Cisco
4 130 (5.94%) ServiceNow
5 105 (4.80%) VMware
6 101 (4.62%) Oracle
7 55 (2.51%) Palo Alto
8 52 (2.38%) Fortinet
9 47 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 46 (2.10%) F5
11 38 (1.74%) Google
12 33 (1.51%) Workday
13 31 (1.42%) Juniper
14 29 (1.33%) SolarWinds
15 27 (1.23%) IBM
16 25 (1.14%) Ariba
17 24 (1.10%) Databricks
17 24 (1.10%) Siemens
18 23 (1.05%) Splunk
18 23 (1.05%) Zscaler