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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 60 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,142 1,301 1,437
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.99% 3.97% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 4.39% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 838 873
10th Percentile £325 £314 £360
25th Percentile £413 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £619 £609 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £525
% change year-on-year +0.81% -5.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 28 38
10th Percentile £22.36 £15.91 £22.50
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.78 £26.74
Median hourly rate £53.00 £57.50 £38.87
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +47.93% -38.55%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.16 £56.13
90th Percentile £87.83 £79.88 £68.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -9.09% +34.34% -33.16%

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 45,365 29,616 33,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.47% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,789 18,444 20,998
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% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,884 1,758 1,700
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £67.99 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +6.25%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +8 1,833 £525 - 1,215
UK excluding London -1 1,158 £500 +0.81% 1,002
London +11 807 £550 -2.91% 392
Work from Home +6 627 £500 -2.47% 500
South East -4 304 £525 -2.33% 304
North of England +9 287 £486 +2.37% 224
North West +11 194 £499 +5.00% 119
Midlands -22 167 £475 +0.26% 163
South West -3 162 £510 +6.25% 151
Scotland +17 143 £425 -5.56% 47
West Midlands -17 127 £475 -8.61% 113
Yorkshire -21 72 £493 +6.49% 68
East of England +2 62 £500 -4.76% 98
East Midlands -25 35 £413 -3.85% 49
Wales -4 25 £475 +59.66% 35
North East -19 22 £350 - 40
Northern Ireland +1 16 £388 -18.42% 10
Channel Islands - 4 £538 - 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
1 119 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 114 (5.32%) Confluence
3 37 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
5 6 (0.28%) SAS
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) 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 (0.093%) Camunda
9 2 (0.093%) CICS
9 2 (0.093%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.047%) MTS
Applications
1 168 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (5.51%) Microsoft Project
3 101 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.75%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.51%) Trello
9 8 (0.37%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.37%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.28%) ProjectWise
12 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.093%) Houdini
13 2 (0.093%) NUKE
14 1 (0.047%) CATIA
14 1 (0.047%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (1.07%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.65%) Primavera
4 10 (0.47%) Maximo
4 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.37%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
6 7 (0.33%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.28%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
8 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 323 (15.08%) Azure
2 143 (6.68%) AWS
3 128 (5.98%) Power Platform
4 124 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (3.73%) SaaS
7 70 (3.27%) Entra ID
8 49 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
9 46 (2.15%) GCP
10 27 (1.26%) GitHub
10 27 (1.26%) OCI
10 27 (1.26%) PowerApps
11 25 (1.17%) Google Workspace
11 25 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
12 24 (1.12%) Power Automate
13 23 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
14 22 (1.03%) IaaS
15 16 (0.75%) OneDrive
16 14 (0.65%) PaaS
17 13 (0.61%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 137 (6.40%) Firewall
2 89 (4.15%) DNS
3 85 (3.97%) WAN
4 75 (3.50%) LAN
5 71 (3.31%) Network Security
6 69 (3.22%) VPN
7 50 (2.33%) MPLS
8 47 (2.19%) BGP
9 43 (2.01%) DHCP
10 42 (1.96%) Wireless
11 37 (1.73%) VLAN
12 36 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (1.54%) OSPF
14 31 (1.45%) TCP/IP
15 25 (1.17%) SD-WAN
16 24 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 18 (0.84%) SSL
18 15 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
19 14 (0.65%) IPsec
20 13 (0.61%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.90%) Power BI
2 41 (1.91%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.75%) Metadata
5 14 (0.65%) Tableau
6 11 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.47%) Big Data
7 10 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.42%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (0.37%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 7 (0.33%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.23%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.23%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 232 (10.83%) JIRA
2 24 (1.12%) Git
3 14 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.51%) GitLab
5 9 (0.42%) Selenium
6 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) MSI
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
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 (0.093%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.093%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.093%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.093%) TestNG
11 1 (0.047%) Postman
11 1 (0.047%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 892 (41.64%) Social Skills
2 662 (30.91%) Finance
3 298 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (10.78%) Public Sector
5 159 (7.42%) Organisational Skills
6 125 (5.84%) Banking
7 105 (4.90%) Retail
8 103 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
9 93 (4.34%) Legal
10 91 (4.25%) Telecoms
11 69 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (3.17%) Manufacturing
13 65 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
14 40 (1.87%) Local Government
14 40 (1.87%) Military
15 33 (1.54%) Marketing
16 29 (1.35%) Front Office
17 26 (1.21%) Law
18 25 (1.17%) Financial Institution
18 25 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 497 (23.20%) Project Manager
2 245 (11.44%) Analyst
3 224 (10.46%) Senior
4 206 (9.62%) Lead
5 141 (6.58%) Business Analyst
6 136 (6.35%) Architect
7 133 (6.21%) Consultant
8 98 (4.58%) Senior Manager
9 95 (4.44%) Network Engineer
10 84 (3.92%) Delivery Manager
11 82 (3.83%) Senior Project Manager
12 81 (3.78%) IT Manager
13 60 (2.80%) Developer
14 59 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 53 (2.47%) IT Project Manager
16 51 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (1.87%) Technical Manager
18 37 (1.73%) Infrastructure Manager
18 37 (1.73%) Project Officer
18 37 (1.73%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.24%) Terraform
2 38 (1.77%) REST
3 31 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 26 (1.21%) Middleware
5 18 (0.84%) .NET
6 14 (0.65%) 802.1X
7 12 (0.56%) React
8 11 (0.51%) ADO
8 11 (0.51%) OAuth
8 11 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
8 11 (0.51%) Web Services
8 11 (0.51%) XML
9 9 (0.42%) JSON
9 9 (0.42%) LDAP
9 9 (0.42%) SOAP
10 8 (0.37%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.37%) SAP Basis
11 7 (0.33%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.33%) Kafka
11 7 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 110 (5.14%) Onboarding
2 107 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 91 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 90 (4.20%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 37 (1.73%) Cloud Native
8 36 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 33 (1.54%) Driving Licence
10 33 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (1.54%) Operational Technology
11 29 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.21%) PKI
13 24 (1.12%) Derivative
13 24 (1.12%) Public Cloud
14 21 (0.98%) Clustering
15 19 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (0.89%) PMI
15 19 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.86%) Windows
2 75 (3.50%) Linux
3 68 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.26%) Unix
5 14 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.47%) AIX
6 10 (0.47%) Solaris
7 6 (0.28%) Android
7 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.19%) zOS
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.093%) CentOS
11 2 (0.093%) Debian
11 2 (0.093%) VMS
11 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (40.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 674 (31.47%) Agile
3 580 (27.08%) Project Management
4 404 (18.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 386 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 350 (16.34%) Migration
7 333 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
8 316 (14.75%) Change Management
9 282 (13.17%) PRINCE2
10 238 (11.11%) Decision-Making
11 229 (10.69%) Waterfall
12 201 (9.38%) Risk Management
13 193 (9.01%) ITIL
14 187 (8.73%) DevOps
15 185 (8.64%) Roadmaps
16 184 (8.59%) AI
17 167 (7.80%) Workshop Facilitation
18 162 (7.56%) Cybersecurity
19 159 (7.42%) User Acceptance Testing
20 154 (7.19%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.18%) SQL
2 101 (4.72%) Python
3 71 (3.31%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.26%) Java
5 26 (1.21%) Bash
6 18 (0.84%) C#
7 17 (0.79%) VBA
8 16 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.42%) ABAP
10 8 (0.37%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.33%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.23%) BeanShell
13 5 (0.23%) Korn
14 4 (0.19%) Bicep
14 4 (0.19%) Go
15 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.14%) C++
16 2 (0.093%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 481 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 349 (16.29%) SC Cleared
3 202 (9.43%) Degree
4 164 (7.66%) PMP
5 142 (6.63%) PMI Certification
6 118 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 77 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.29%) CCNP
9 45 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 42 (1.96%) CCNA
11 41 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 34 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 33 (1.54%) Azure Certification
14 29 (1.35%) CISSP
15 19 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.84%) MCSE
17 17 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 16 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
19 15 (0.70%) CISM
20 14 (0.65%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (11.34%) PMO
2 88 (4.11%) QA
3 61 (2.85%) NIST
4 58 (2.71%) GDPR
5 56 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.24%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.63%) SLA
8 20 (0.93%) GRC
9 14 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.61%) ISO 19650
11 11 (0.51%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.37%) NCSC
14 8 (0.37%) P3O
15 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.28%) IFRS
15 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (5.28%) Active Directory
2 74 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.31%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.07%) Docker
5 20 (0.93%) vSphere
6 17 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.51%) Firmware
9 11 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.047%) ACF2
13 1 (0.047%) oVirt
13 1 (0.047%) RACF
13 1 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (2.57%) Ansible
2 34 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.07%) FortiGate
5 21 (0.98%) SCCM
6 15 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.70%) vCenter Server
7 11 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
8 10 (0.47%) Puppet
9 9 (0.42%) SCOM
10 8 (0.37%) Nagios
10 8 (0.37%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.33%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.23%) Netcool
13 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
13 5 (0.23%) WMI
Vendors
1 468 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 149 (6.96%) Cisco
3 144 (6.72%) SAP
4 123 (5.74%) ServiceNow
5 100 (4.67%) Oracle
6 99 (4.62%) VMware
7 54 (2.52%) Palo Alto
8 49 (2.29%) Fortinet
9 45 (2.10%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.96%) F5
11 41 (1.91%) Google
12 29 (1.35%) Juniper
12 29 (1.35%) SolarWinds
13 27 (1.26%) Workday
14 23 (1.07%) IBM
14 23 (1.07%) Splunk
15 21 (0.98%) Zscaler
16 20 (0.93%) CyberArk
16 20 (0.93%) Siemens
17 19 (0.89%) Databricks