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

 6 months to
28 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 59 53
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,141 1,310 1,426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.98% 4.00% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 4.43% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 846 860
10th Percentile £325 £313 £362
25th Percentile £413 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £638
90th Percentile £706 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 27 37
10th Percentile £22.36 £15.91 £22.50
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.56 £26.68
Median hourly rate £53.00 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +71.43% -44.66%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.16 £56.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £80.25 £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £57.26 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.67% +63.59% -42.86%

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 45,469 29,582 33,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.43% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,813 18,412 20,921
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 2,891 1,754 1,674
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.92 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.80% -46.07% +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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +4 1,830 £525 - 2,464
UK excluding London -3 1,150 £500 +1.63% 1,701
London +4 812 £550 -2.91% 1,087
Work from Home 0 627 £500 -2.39% 1,131
South East -5 301 £525 -2.33% 425
North of England +6 289 £485 +2.11% 399
North West +15 195 £497 +4.66% 223
Midlands -23 163 £475 +5.56% 273
South West +2 160 £513 +7.89% 249
Scotland +17 141 £425 -5.56% 140
West Midlands -21 124 £475 -8.61% 182
Yorkshire -24 73 £493 +6.49% 111
East of England +5 62 £500 -4.76% 152
East Midlands -25 35 £413 -3.40% 90
Wales -4 26 £438 +42.28% 41
North East -19 22 £350 - 70
Northern Ireland +2 16 £388 -18.42% 50
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
1 118 (5.51%) SharePoint
2 113 (5.28%) Confluence
3 36 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
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%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 172 (8.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (5.60%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
4 97 (4.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.63%) 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 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.12%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.61%) Primavera
5 11 (0.51%) Maximo
6 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.37%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.33%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.28%) ProductWriter
9 6 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 326 (15.23%) Azure
2 142 (6.63%) AWS
3 128 (5.98%) Power Platform
4 122 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
5 99 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (3.78%) SaaS
7 70 (3.27%) Entra ID
8 49 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
9 46 (2.15%) GCP
10 28 (1.31%) GitHub
11 27 (1.26%) OCI
11 27 (1.26%) PowerApps
12 25 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
13 24 (1.12%) Google Workspace
14 23 (1.07%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
15 22 (1.03%) IaaS
16 16 (0.75%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.70%) PaaS
18 13 (0.61%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.45%) Firewall
2 88 (4.11%) DNS
3 87 (4.06%) WAN
4 76 (3.55%) LAN
4 76 (3.55%) Network Security
5 70 (3.27%) VPN
6 50 (2.34%) MPLS
7 47 (2.20%) BGP
8 43 (2.01%) DHCP
9 42 (1.96%) Wireless
10 37 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (1.68%) VLAN
12 33 (1.54%) OSPF
13 30 (1.40%) TCP/IP
14 25 (1.17%) SD-WAN
15 24 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 18 (0.84%) SSL
17 15 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.65%) IPsec
19 13 (0.61%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.90%) Power BI
2 43 (2.01%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.17%) 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%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.23%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 233 (10.88%) JIRA
2 24 (1.12%) Git
3 14 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.47%) 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
1 888 (41.48%) Social Skills
2 663 (30.97%) Finance
3 294 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 228 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 158 (7.38%) Organisational Skills
6 125 (5.84%) Banking
7 101 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
8 100 (4.67%) Retail
9 93 (4.34%) Legal
10 91 (4.25%) Telecoms
11 67 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 66 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
13 62 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (2.01%) Local Government
15 40 (1.87%) Military
16 34 (1.59%) Marketing
17 31 (1.45%) Front Office
18 27 (1.26%) Law
19 25 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 24 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 489 (22.84%) Project Manager
2 247 (11.54%) Analyst
3 224 (10.46%) Senior
4 203 (9.48%) Lead
5 141 (6.59%) Business Analyst
6 139 (6.49%) Architect
7 135 (6.31%) Consultant
8 98 (4.58%) Senior Manager
9 96 (4.48%) Network Engineer
10 84 (3.92%) IT Manager
11 83 (3.88%) Delivery Manager
12 82 (3.83%) Senior Project Manager
13 59 (2.76%) Developer
13 59 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 55 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
15 54 (2.52%) IT Project Manager
16 38 (1.77%) Project Officer
16 38 (1.77%) Technical Manager
16 38 (1.77%) Transformation Manager
17 36 (1.68%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.24%) Terraform
2 38 (1.77%) REST
3 32 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.17%) Middleware
5 19 (0.89%) .NET
6 13 (0.61%) 802.1X
7 12 (0.56%) React
7 12 (0.56%) XML
8 11 (0.51%) ADO
8 11 (0.51%) OAuth
8 11 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
8 11 (0.51%) Web Services
9 10 (0.47%) JSON
10 9 (0.42%) LDAP
10 9 (0.42%) SOAP
11 8 (0.37%) .NET Framework
11 8 (0.37%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.37%) SAP Basis
12 7 (0.33%) Kafka
12 7 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 108 (5.04%) Onboarding
2 105 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 90 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 89 (4.16%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 37 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (1.68%) Cloud Native
8 36 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 34 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (1.54%) Driving Licence
10 33 (1.54%) Operational Technology
11 32 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.21%) PKI
13 25 (1.17%) Derivative
14 24 (1.12%) Public Cloud
15 20 (0.93%) Clustering
15 20 (0.93%) Replication
16 19 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.91%) Windows
2 76 (3.55%) Linux
3 70 (3.27%) 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 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.14%) zOS
10 2 (0.093%) CentOS
10 2 (0.093%) Debian
10 2 (0.093%) VMS
10 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 871 (40.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 674 (31.48%) Agile
3 578 (27.00%) Project Management
4 403 (18.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 388 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 351 (16.39%) Migration
7 336 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
8 322 (15.04%) Change Management
9 277 (12.94%) PRINCE2
10 243 (11.35%) Decision-Making
11 231 (10.79%) Waterfall
12 199 (9.29%) Risk Management
13 194 (9.06%) ITIL
14 188 (8.78%) DevOps
15 183 (8.55%) Roadmaps
16 182 (8.50%) AI
17 167 (7.80%) Cybersecurity
17 167 (7.80%) Workshop Facilitation
18 162 (7.57%) User Acceptance Testing
19 152 (7.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.18%) SQL
2 103 (4.81%) Python
3 72 (3.36%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.26%) Bash
4 27 (1.26%) Java
5 19 (0.89%) C#
6 17 (0.79%) JavaScript
6 17 (0.79%) VBA
7 9 (0.42%) ABAP
7 9 (0.42%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.33%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
10 5 (0.23%) BeanShell
10 5 (0.23%) Korn
11 4 (0.19%) Bicep
11 4 (0.19%) Go
12 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.14%) C++
13 2 (0.093%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 477 (22.28%) Security Cleared
2 345 (16.11%) SC Cleared
3 205 (9.57%) Degree
4 161 (7.52%) PMP
5 140 (6.54%) PMI Certification
6 118 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 76 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (2.24%) CCNP
9 44 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 41 (1.91%) CCNA
10 41 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 33 (1.54%) Azure Certification
13 29 (1.35%) CISSP
14 20 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.84%) MCSE
16 17 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 16 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
18 15 (0.70%) CISM
18 15 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (11.30%) PMO
2 88 (4.11%) QA
3 61 (2.85%) NIST
4 59 (2.76%) GDPR
5 56 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.29%) Data Quality
7 33 (1.54%) SLA
8 20 (0.93%) GRC
9 15 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.61%) ISO 19650
11 11 (0.51%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.37%) NCSC
13 8 (0.37%) P3O
14 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.28%) GxP
16 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (5.28%) Active Directory
2 75 (3.50%) 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
12 2 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.093%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.047%) ACF2
13 1 (0.047%) RACF
13 1 (0.047%) RHEV
13 1 (0.047%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 54 (2.52%) Ansible
2 34 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.31%) 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 9 (0.42%) Puppet
8 9 (0.42%) SCOM
9 8 (0.37%) Nagios
9 8 (0.37%) 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 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.23%) Netcool
12 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.23%) WMI
Vendors
1 473 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 151 (7.05%) Cisco
3 141 (6.59%) SAP
4 123 (5.74%) ServiceNow
5 100 (4.67%) Oracle
5 100 (4.67%) VMware
6 54 (2.52%) Palo Alto
7 50 (2.34%) Fortinet
8 46 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 43 (2.01%) F5
10 38 (1.77%) Google
11 30 (1.40%) SolarWinds
12 29 (1.35%) Juniper
13 26 (1.21%) Workday
14 23 (1.07%) Splunk
15 22 (1.03%) IBM
16 21 (0.98%) Siemens
16 21 (0.98%) Zscaler
17 20 (0.93%) NEC
18 19 (0.89%) Ariba
2,869 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide