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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 55 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,749 1,147 1,719
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 3.88% 3.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.28% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 694 1,132
10th Percentile £325 £322 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £704 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 22 33
10th Percentile £15.94 £21.39 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £27.95 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £51.25 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +43.76% -45.15%
75th Percentile £65.06 £74.06 £40.94
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.27 £62.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -30.06% +58.77% -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 39,397 26,809 37,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.78% 90.76% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,864 17,328 24,353
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £739 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,354 1,060 2,429
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.83 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +48.41% -20.00% -6.17%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +1 1,557 £510 -2.86% 624
UK excluding London -2 954 £481 -3.75% 550
London +1 659 £550 - 163
Work from Home +2 505 £529 +0.71% 255
North of England +21 275 £475 - 110
South East +5 229 £525 -4.55% 208
North West +27 185 £475 - 60
Midlands -10 184 £475 -5.00% 93
South West +9 134 £475 - 69
West Midlands -14 125 £487 -6.87% 64
Yorkshire -9 76 £500 -2.44% 36
Scotland -17 70 £500 +5.26% 17
East Midlands -15 58 £433 -3.24% 29
East of England -12 47 £513 -1.25% 47
Wales -1 18 £413 +26.92% 12
North East -5 16 £350 -15.15% 16
Northern Ireland -3 8 £370 -37.68% 9

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
1 109 (6.23%) Confluence
2 84 (4.80%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.29%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) CICS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.17%) Camunda
6 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.11%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.057%) Apache
8 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.057%) IIS
8 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 151 (8.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (6.58%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
5 28 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.97%) Siemens NX
7 11 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.57%) Trello
9 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.17%) Revit
11 2 (0.11%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.057%) SPSS
12 1 (0.057%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.20%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.69%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.51%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.40%) Endur
7 7 (0.40%) Primavera
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.29%) Summit
10 4 (0.23%) Maximo
10 4 (0.23%) ProductWriter
10 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP MM
11 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (10.58%) Azure
2 96 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
3 84 (4.80%) Power Platform
4 79 (4.52%) AWS
5 67 (3.83%) SaaS
6 43 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
8 29 (1.66%) Entra ID
9 28 (1.60%) GCP
10 21 (1.20%) Google Workspace
11 20 (1.14%) GitHub
12 17 (0.97%) IaaS
13 14 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (0.69%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.69%) OpenShift
14 12 (0.69%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.69%) Serverless
15 11 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 88 (5.03%) Firewall
2 51 (2.92%) DNS
3 38 (2.17%) Network Security
4 37 (2.12%) WAN
5 29 (1.66%) LAN
6 25 (1.43%) BGP
6 25 (1.43%) OSPF
7 21 (1.20%) VLAN
8 19 (1.09%) VPN
9 18 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.03%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.97%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.86%) MPLS
11 15 (0.86%) NetScaler
12 13 (0.74%) DHCP
13 12 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.69%) Wireless
14 11 (0.63%) SSL
14 11 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
15 10 (0.57%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.95%) Power BI
2 30 (1.72%) Tableau
3 29 (1.66%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.74%) Metadata
8 8 (0.46%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.29%) Big Data
10 5 (0.29%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.29%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.29%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.23%) GIS
11 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 207 (11.84%) JIRA
2 18 (1.03%) Git
3 16 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.57%) GitLab
5 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
7 4 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.17%) Appium
8 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.17%) JMeter
8 3 (0.17%) MSTest
8 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
9 2 (0.11%) TestRail
9 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.057%) Gradle
10 1 (0.057%) Hudson
10 1 (0.057%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.057%) Robot Framework
General
1 702 (40.14%) Social Skills
2 579 (33.10%) Finance
3 259 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 134 (7.66%) Banking
6 130 (7.43%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (4.17%) Retail
8 71 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
9 66 (3.77%) Legal
10 64 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
11 53 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (2.63%) Manufacturing
12 46 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 36 (2.06%) Marketing
14 25 (1.43%) Local Government
14 25 (1.43%) Military
15 21 (1.20%) Investment Banking
16 17 (0.97%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.86%) Law
18 14 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 487 (27.84%) Project Manager
2 200 (11.44%) Analyst
3 190 (10.86%) Lead
4 171 (9.78%) Senior
5 136 (7.78%) Business Analyst
6 86 (4.92%) Senior Manager
7 82 (4.69%) Architect
8 80 (4.57%) Consultant
9 73 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
9 73 (4.17%) IT Manager
10 67 (3.83%) Senior Project Manager
11 50 (2.86%) IT Project Manager
12 46 (2.63%) Network Engineer
12 46 (2.63%) Technical Manager
13 44 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (2.34%) Programme Manager
15 35 (2.00%) Project Officer
16 34 (1.94%) SAP Manager
16 34 (1.94%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 32 (1.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.12%) Middleware
2 24 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (1.09%) REST
4 14 (0.80%) XML
5 9 (0.51%) ADO
5 9 (0.51%) Web Services
6 8 (0.46%) .NET
6 8 (0.46%) OAuth
7 7 (0.40%) CSS
7 7 (0.40%) JSON
7 7 (0.40%) React
7 7 (0.40%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.34%) Spring
9 5 (0.29%) HTML
10 4 (0.23%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.23%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.23%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.23%) SOAP
10 4 (0.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.80%) Management Information System
2 78 (4.46%) Product Ownership
3 68 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 60 (3.43%) Data Centre
5 41 (2.34%) Virtual Team
6 32 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
7 29 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (1.60%) PMI
9 25 (1.43%) Clustering
9 25 (1.43%) Public Cloud
9 25 (1.43%) Replication
10 22 (1.26%) NHS
11 21 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 17 (0.97%) Cloud Native
13 15 (0.86%) Derivative
14 14 (0.80%) Life Science
15 13 (0.74%) Driving Licence
15 13 (0.74%) Mainframe
16 12 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (5.37%) Windows
2 48 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 29 (1.66%) Linux
4 23 (1.32%) Unix
5 14 (0.80%) Solaris
6 12 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) VMS
8 9 (0.51%) zOS
9 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.29%) AIX
12 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.11%) pSOS
14 1 (0.057%) Android
14 1 (0.057%) CentOS
14 1 (0.057%) Debian
14 1 (0.057%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (32.36%) Agile
2 553 (31.62%) Project Management
3 516 (29.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 296 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
5 271 (15.49%) Migration
6 266 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 258 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 244 (13.95%) PRINCE2
9 222 (12.69%) Change Management
10 179 (10.23%) Decision-Making
11 177 (10.12%) Waterfall
12 166 (9.49%) DevOps
13 155 (8.86%) Risk Management
14 137 (7.83%) Scrum
15 135 (7.72%) Roadmaps
16 127 (7.26%) Workshop Facilitation
17 125 (7.15%) ITIL
18 121 (6.92%) Budget Management
18 121 (6.92%) ERP
19 116 (6.63%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 89 (5.09%) SQL
2 67 (3.83%) Python
3 46 (2.63%) PowerShell
4 20 (1.14%) Java
5 16 (0.91%) JavaScript
6 12 (0.69%) Bash
6 12 (0.69%) C#
7 8 (0.46%) Go
8 7 (0.40%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.40%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.34%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.29%) Bicep
10 5 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.23%) ABAP
11 4 (0.23%) COBOL
11 4 (0.23%) REXX
11 4 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (0.23%) VBA
12 3 (0.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 375 (21.44%) Security Cleared
2 276 (15.78%) SC Cleared
3 225 (12.86%) Degree
4 170 (9.72%) PMP
5 140 (8.00%) PMI Certification
6 85 (4.86%) DV Cleared
7 35 (2.00%) APMP
7 35 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 31 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 30 (1.72%) CCNP
10 30 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (1.60%) CCNA
12 27 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.97%) CISSP
14 15 (0.86%) CISM
15 14 (0.80%) MCSE
16 13 (0.74%) CBAP
16 13 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (11.15%) PMO
2 124 (7.09%) QA
3 45 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (2.52%) GDPR
5 38 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 38 (2.17%) NIST
6 21 (1.20%) SLA
7 12 (0.69%) GRC
8 10 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 7 (0.40%) P3O
11 6 (0.34%) Basel III
11 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
11 6 (0.34%) HL7
11 6 (0.34%) PSD2
12 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.29%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 60 (3.43%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.09%) Docker
4 18 (1.03%) vSphere
5 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.69%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.29%) Firmware
9 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Squid
10 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.057%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.057%) Ceph
11 1 (0.057%) RACF
11 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 39 (2.23%) Ansible
2 32 (1.83%) Terraform
3 27 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.97%) SCCM
6 13 (0.74%) vCenter Server
7 10 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.51%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.40%) Nagios
10 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.29%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.17%) Netcool
11 3 (0.17%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.17%) Puppet
11 3 (0.17%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) Control-M
12 2 (0.11%) OpenView
12 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 305 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 140 (8.00%) SAP
3 85 (4.86%) Oracle
4 78 (4.46%) ServiceNow
5 60 (3.43%) Cisco
6 43 (2.46%) VMware
7 39 (2.23%) Google
8 35 (2.00%) Palo Alto
8 35 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.37%) F5
10 20 (1.14%) Atlassian
11 19 (1.09%) CheckPoint
11 19 (1.09%) Citrix
12 18 (1.03%) IBM
13 17 (0.97%) Siemens
14 16 (0.91%) Workday
15 14 (0.80%) Aruba
15 14 (0.80%) NEC
16 13 (0.74%) SolarWinds
17 12 (0.69%) Fortinet