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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,442 1,376 1,875
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.95% 3.81% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.36% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 789 1,248
10th Percentile £313 £356 £363
25th Percentile £410 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £609 £631 £640
90th Percentile £720 £702 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.29% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 42 33
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.58 £21.04
25th Percentile £19.63 £22.54 £36.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £33.75 £57.32
Median % change year-on-year +34.70% -41.12% -11.82%
75th Percentile £63.49 £60.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £85.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £41.09 £50.00
% change year-on-year +10.64% -17.82% -23.08%

All Process and 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 32,500 31,582 39,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.05% 87.42% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,460 19,152 26,649
10th Percentile £300 £310 £312
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,092 1,104 1,551
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.53 £63.51 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.93 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.71% -23.53% +30.77%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 -1 1,241 £525 -3.67% 1,422
UK excluding London -5 757 £492 -6.29% 1,380
London +5 558 £548 -0.45% 259
Work from Home -6 441 £525 -3.23% 555
South East -3 209 £538 -2.27% 372
North of England -1 189 £480 -3.76% 311
Midlands -8 144 £450 -14.29% 256
North West +5 108 £475 - 162
West Midlands -17 83 £525 -8.42% 143
Scotland -18 74 £452 -4.84% 89
South West -10 73 £475 -9.52% 168
Yorkshire +4 70 £500 -12.74% 126
East Midlands +14 61 £420 -11.58% 105
East of England -7 37 £550 +10.00% 163
Wales +6 24 £306 -46.88% 30
Northern Ireland +1 16 £425 -22.73% 21
North East -6 12 £280 -50.55% 29

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 99 (6.87%) Confluence
2 63 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.35%) CMS
4 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.21%) CICS
5 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.14%) Appian
6 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.069%) Apache
7 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.069%) Camunda
7 1 (0.069%) Drupal
7 1 (0.069%) IIS
7 1 (0.069%) Moodle
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.069%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.069%) Smallworld
Applications
1 116 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (7.07%) Microsoft Project
3 96 (6.66%) Microsoft Office
4 77 (5.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (2.64%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.25%) Trello
7 13 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.49%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.14%) InDesign
10 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.069%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.069%) Simulink
11 1 (0.069%) Sketch
11 1 (0.069%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 60 (4.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.18%) Endur
3 14 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.62%) Dynamics GP
5 9 (0.62%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.62%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.49%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.49%) SAP IBP
7 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.42%) SAP GTS
7 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.35%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.28%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.28%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 180 (12.48%) Azure
2 64 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (4.09%) Power Platform
4 49 (3.40%) AWS
5 48 (3.33%) SaaS
6 43 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
8 29 (2.01%) GCP
9 22 (1.53%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.18%) OCI
11 16 (1.11%) GitHub
12 15 (1.04%) PaaS
13 14 (0.97%) IaaS
14 13 (0.90%) Asana
14 13 (0.90%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.76%) PowerApps
15 11 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
16 9 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
17 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
18 7 (0.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.12%) Firewall
2 38 (2.64%) WAN
3 31 (2.15%) LAN
4 27 (1.87%) DNS
5 19 (1.32%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.18%) VPN
7 16 (1.11%) BGP
7 16 (1.11%) Wireless
8 14 (0.97%) MPLS
9 13 (0.90%) Network Security
9 13 (0.90%) OSPF
10 12 (0.83%) HTTP
11 11 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (0.69%) SAN
12 10 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (0.55%) EIGRP
14 8 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
14 8 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.40%) Power BI
2 17 (1.18%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
3 16 (1.11%) Tableau
4 11 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 9 (0.62%) Data Lake
5 9 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.42%) GIS
6 6 (0.42%) Metadata
7 3 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.21%) Big Data
7 3 (0.21%) DB2
7 3 (0.21%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.14%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 178 (12.34%) JIRA
2 25 (1.73%) Git
3 8 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.49%) Subversion
5 6 (0.42%) GitLab
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (0.35%) Selenium
7 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.28%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.14%) Appium
9 2 (0.14%) JMeter
9 2 (0.14%) MSTest
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.069%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.069%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.069%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle Forms
General
1 647 (44.87%) Social Skills
2 462 (32.04%) Finance
3 183 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 102 (7.07%) Banking
6 73 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
8 55 (3.81%) Manufacturing
9 47 (3.26%) Legal
10 44 (3.05%) Retail
11 42 (2.91%) Telecoms
12 41 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (2.57%) Marketing
14 32 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
15 27 (1.87%) Front Office
16 23 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (1.32%) Local Government
19 18 (1.25%) Law
20 15 (1.04%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 415 (28.78%) Project Manager
2 198 (13.73%) Analyst
3 148 (10.26%) Lead
4 137 (9.50%) Business Analyst
5 120 (8.32%) Senior
6 88 (6.10%) Architect
7 82 (5.69%) Consultant
8 67 (4.65%) IT Manager
9 59 (4.09%) Delivery Manager
10 57 (3.95%) Senior Manager
11 51 (3.54%) IT Project Manager
12 48 (3.33%) Senior Project Manager
13 42 (2.91%) Technical Manager
14 39 (2.70%) Programme Manager
15 36 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (2.15%) Infrastructure Manager
17 29 (2.01%) Technical Project Manager
18 27 (1.87%) SAP Manager
19 26 (1.80%) Administrator
19 26 (1.80%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.46%) REST
2 19 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.97%) SOAP
4 13 (0.90%) React
4 13 (0.90%) Web Services
5 11 (0.76%) AngularJS
5 11 (0.76%) Middleware
5 11 (0.76%) XML
6 10 (0.69%) .NET
7 8 (0.55%) JMS
7 8 (0.55%) RESTful
7 8 (0.55%) XSD
8 7 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
9 6 (0.42%) Node.js
10 5 (0.35%) ADO
10 5 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (0.35%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.35%) YAML
11 4 (0.28%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.28%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.85%) Onboarding
2 67 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 48 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 42 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.64%) PMI
6 35 (2.43%) Virtual Team
7 33 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.18%) NHS
12 14 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 13 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
14 12 (0.83%) CMDB
14 12 (0.83%) Driving Licence
15 11 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.76%) Life Science
16 10 (0.69%) Derivative
16 10 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (5.27%) Windows
2 36 (2.50%) Linux
3 35 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.18%) Unix
5 14 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.42%) Solaris
8 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.35%) OpenVMS
8 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.21%) zOS
10 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.14%) VMS
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.069%) Android
11 1 (0.069%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.069%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (35.99%) Agile
2 472 (32.73%) Project Management
3 452 (31.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 255 (17.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 254 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
6 219 (15.19%) Change Management
7 211 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 196 (13.59%) Migration
9 190 (13.18%) PRINCE2
10 168 (11.65%) Waterfall
11 141 (9.78%) Roadmaps
12 138 (9.57%) Risk Management
13 137 (9.50%) ITIL
14 129 (8.95%) Decision-Making
14 129 (8.95%) Scrum
15 123 (8.53%) DevOps
16 122 (8.46%) ERP
17 121 (8.39%) Project Governance
18 113 (7.84%) Workshop Facilitation
19 107 (7.42%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 75 (5.20%) SQL
2 67 (4.65%) Python
3 41 (2.84%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.53%) Bash
5 21 (1.46%) Java
6 7 (0.49%) C#
7 6 (0.42%) ABAP
7 6 (0.42%) C++
7 6 (0.42%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.42%) Perl
7 6 (0.42%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.21%) Assembly Language
8 3 (0.21%) COBOL
8 3 (0.21%) HLASM
8 3 (0.21%) JCL
8 3 (0.21%) REXX
8 3 (0.21%) VBA
9 2 (0.14%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.14%) PHP
9 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 230 (15.95%) Degree
2 219 (15.19%) Security Cleared
3 162 (11.23%) SC Cleared
4 114 (7.91%) PMI Certification
5 107 (7.42%) PMP
6 43 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 32 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.46%) CCNP
11 19 (1.32%) APMP
12 17 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 16 (1.11%) CBAP
14 14 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.90%) CCNA
16 9 (0.62%) CISSP
16 9 (0.62%) SAP Certification
17 7 (0.49%) ACCA
17 7 (0.49%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (7.91%) PMO
2 78 (5.41%) QA
3 35 (2.43%) GDPR
4 31 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.01%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 18 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.18%) NIST
9 16 (1.11%) SLA
10 12 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.76%) PSD2
12 10 (0.69%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.69%) NCSC
13 8 (0.55%) COBIT
13 8 (0.55%) MiFID
14 7 (0.49%) P3O
15 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.42%) Def Stans
15 6 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.42%) EMIR
System Software
1 42 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.76%) Docker
4 10 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.35%) vSphere
9 4 (0.28%) NFS
9 4 (0.28%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.28%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.069%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.069%) RACF
12 1 (0.069%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (1.94%) Ansible
2 19 (1.32%) Terraform
3 17 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (1.04%) SCCM
5 10 (0.69%) Kubernetes
5 10 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (0.35%) Grafana
7 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.35%) QRadar
8 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.21%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.14%) CEMLI
10 2 (0.14%) Nagios
10 2 (0.14%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 253 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 127 (8.81%) SAP
3 92 (6.38%) Oracle
4 68 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 61 (4.23%) Cisco
6 44 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 38 (2.64%) VMware
8 27 (1.87%) Workday
9 21 (1.46%) IBM
10 18 (1.25%) Citrix
11 16 (1.11%) Red Hat
12 15 (1.04%) Ariba
12 15 (1.04%) Google
13 14 (0.97%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.97%) F5
13 14 (0.97%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.97%) Palo Alto
14 12 (0.83%) Aruba
15 11 (0.76%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.69%) Blue Prism