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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,438 1,362 1,900
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.98% 3.71% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.27% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 922 766 1,264
10th Percentile £313 £356 £363
25th Percentile £410 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £541 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +0.23% -1.82%
75th Percentile £609 £634 £638
90th Percentile £725 £705 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -6.29% +1.20% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 41 35
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £33.52
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £57.32
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% -43.30% -8.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £56.25 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £84.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £33.93 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.98% -32.14% -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 32,304 31,906 40,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.43% 86.97% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,227 19,221 26,955
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £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 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 1,156 1,551
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.22 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.52 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +25.71%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% -26.97% +41.14%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 27 November 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 -2 1,233 £525 -4.55% 826
UK excluding London -1 758 £492 -6.29% 711
London +8 554 £550 - 254
Work from Home -1 446 £525 -4.11% 364
South East -5 199 £538 -1.38% 274
North of England -1 190 £484 -3.25% 133
Midlands -2 144 £450 -18.18% 119
North West +3 109 £475 +5.56% 78
West Midlands -17 82 £525 -8.70% 76
South West 0 79 £475 -9.52% 88
Scotland -16 78 £465 -2.21% 33
Yorkshire -9 70 £501 -11.73% 41
East Midlands +18 62 £420 -11.58% 42
East of England -10 34 £550 +7.32% 65
Wales +10 24 £306 -46.92% 15
Northern Ireland +4 17 £450 +41.73% 6
North East -12 10 £270 -52.94% 15

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
1 101 (7.02%) Confluence
2 59 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.35%) CMS
4 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.14%) Appian
6 2 (0.14%) CICS
6 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.070%) Apache
7 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.070%) Camunda
7 1 (0.070%) Drupal
7 1 (0.070%) Moodle
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.070%) Smallworld
Applications
1 116 (8.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (6.82%) Microsoft Project
3 93 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
4 77 (5.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (2.71%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.11%) Trello
7 13 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.21%) InDesign
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.070%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.070%) Revit
11 1 (0.070%) Simulink
11 1 (0.070%) Sketch
11 1 (0.070%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 59 (4.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.18%) Endur
3 14 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
6 9 (0.63%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.63%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.49%) SAP IBP
8 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.42%) SAP GTS
8 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.35%) SAP MDG
9 5 (0.35%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.28%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 179 (12.45%) Azure
2 62 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (4.03%) Power Platform
4 51 (3.55%) AWS
5 49 (3.41%) SaaS
6 43 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (1.95%) GCP
9 21 (1.46%) Entra ID
10 19 (1.32%) OCI
11 16 (1.11%) GitHub
12 15 (1.04%) PaaS
13 14 (0.97%) IaaS
14 13 (0.90%) Power Automate
15 12 (0.83%) Asana
15 12 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
16 11 (0.76%) PowerApps
17 9 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
18 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.85%) Firewall
2 35 (2.43%) WAN
3 28 (1.95%) LAN
4 26 (1.81%) DNS
5 19 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.25%) VPN
7 16 (1.11%) Wireless
8 14 (0.97%) MPLS
9 13 (0.90%) Network Security
10 12 (0.83%) BGP
10 12 (0.83%) HTTP
11 11 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (0.70%) SAN
12 10 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (0.63%) OSPF
14 8 (0.56%) EIGRP
14 8 (0.56%) SSH
14 8 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.34%) Power BI
2 17 (1.18%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.04%) Tableau
4 13 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.42%) GIS
9 5 (0.35%) Metadata
10 3 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.21%) Big Data
10 3 (0.21%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.14%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 177 (12.31%) JIRA
2 26 (1.81%) Git
3 8 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.49%) Subversion
5 6 (0.42%) GitLab
5 6 (0.42%) Selenium
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.28%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.14%) Appium
8 2 (0.14%) Dreamweaver
8 2 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.14%) JMeter
8 2 (0.14%) MSTest
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.070%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.070%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Forms
General
1 649 (45.13%) Social Skills
2 470 (32.68%) Finance
3 187 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (7.93%) Public Sector
5 102 (7.09%) Banking
6 69 (4.80%) Influencing Skills
6 69 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (4.10%) Manufacturing
8 48 (3.34%) Legal
9 47 (3.27%) Retail
10 46 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (2.92%) Telecoms
12 41 (2.85%) Marketing
13 31 (2.16%) Front Office
14 29 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (1.32%) Local Government
18 18 (1.25%) Law
19 14 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 400 (27.82%) Project Manager
2 209 (14.53%) Analyst
3 155 (10.78%) Lead
4 143 (9.94%) Business Analyst
5 118 (8.21%) Senior
6 91 (6.33%) Consultant
7 88 (6.12%) Architect
8 67 (4.66%) IT Manager
9 60 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
10 54 (3.76%) Senior Manager
11 51 (3.55%) IT Project Manager
12 45 (3.13%) Senior Project Manager
13 41 (2.85%) Technical Manager
14 37 (2.57%) Programme Manager
15 35 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.02%) Infrastructure Manager
16 29 (2.02%) Technical Project Manager
17 27 (1.88%) Developer
17 27 (1.88%) SAP Manager
18 26 (1.81%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.39%) REST
2 19 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.97%) SOAP
4 13 (0.90%) React
4 13 (0.90%) Web Services
5 12 (0.83%) .NET
6 11 (0.76%) AngularJS
6 11 (0.76%) Middleware
6 11 (0.76%) XML
7 8 (0.56%) JMS
7 8 (0.56%) RESTful
7 8 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
7 8 (0.56%) XSD
8 6 (0.42%) Node.js
8 6 (0.42%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.42%) YAML
9 5 (0.35%) ADO
9 5 (0.35%) Flash
9 5 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (0.28%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.87%) Product Ownership
2 68 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 50 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 43 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 39 (2.71%) PMI
6 34 (2.36%) Virtual Team
7 33 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.25%) NHS
12 14 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 12 (0.83%) Driving Licence
13 12 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.76%) CMDB
14 11 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (0.76%) Life Science
14 11 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (0.70%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (5.22%) Windows
2 35 (2.43%) Linux
3 34 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.32%) Unix
5 13 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.42%) Solaris
7 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.35%) OpenVMS
7 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.14%) zOS
10 1 (0.070%) Android
10 1 (0.070%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.070%) pSOS
10 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (37.00%) Agile
2 472 (32.82%) Project Management
3 455 (31.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 256 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
5 253 (17.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 228 (15.86%) Change Management
7 209 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 195 (13.56%) Migration
9 186 (12.93%) PRINCE2
10 170 (11.82%) Waterfall
11 144 (10.01%) Roadmaps
12 140 (9.74%) ITIL
13 139 (9.67%) Risk Management
14 129 (8.97%) Decision-Making
14 129 (8.97%) Scrum
15 124 (8.62%) DevOps
16 120 (8.34%) Project Governance
17 119 (8.28%) ERP
18 113 (7.86%) Business Analysis
18 113 (7.86%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 85 (5.91%) SQL
2 69 (4.80%) Python
3 44 (3.06%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.53%) Bash
5 20 (1.39%) Java
6 10 (0.70%) C#
7 7 (0.49%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.42%) ABAP
8 6 (0.42%) C++
8 6 (0.42%) Perl
8 6 (0.42%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.28%) VBA
10 2 (0.14%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.14%) Assembly Language
10 2 (0.14%) COBOL
10 2 (0.14%) HLASM
10 2 (0.14%) JCL
10 2 (0.14%) PHP
10 2 (0.14%) REXX
10 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 226 (15.72%) Degree
2 216 (15.02%) Security Cleared
3 156 (10.85%) SC Cleared
4 113 (7.86%) PMI Certification
5 106 (7.37%) PMP
6 46 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.25%) CCNP
11 18 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (1.18%) APMP
13 16 (1.11%) CBAP
13 16 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 11 (0.76%) CCNA
15 9 (0.63%) CISSP
15 9 (0.63%) SAP Certification
16 8 (0.56%) ACCA
16 8 (0.56%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (7.86%) PMO
2 79 (5.49%) QA
3 35 (2.43%) GDPR
4 31 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.09%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 17 (1.18%) NIST
7 17 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.11%) SLA
9 14 (0.97%) MiFID
10 12 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.76%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.76%) PSD2
12 10 (0.70%) EMIR
12 10 (0.70%) NCSC
13 8 (0.56%) COBIT
14 7 (0.49%) P3O
15 6 (0.42%) Def Stans
15 6 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.42%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 41 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.76%) Docker
4 10 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.28%) NFS
8 4 (0.28%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.28%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.28%) vSphere
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.070%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.070%) RACF
10 1 (0.070%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (1.88%) Ansible
2 21 (1.46%) Terraform
3 16 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.97%) SCCM
5 11 (0.76%) Kubernetes
6 9 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.35%) Grafana
8 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.35%) QRadar
9 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.14%) CEMLI
11 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.14%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (0.14%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 262 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 127 (8.83%) SAP
3 90 (6.26%) Oracle
4 66 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 59 (4.10%) Cisco
6 41 (2.85%) Salesforce
7 37 (2.57%) VMware
8 27 (1.88%) Workday
9 20 (1.39%) IBM
10 17 (1.18%) Citrix
11 15 (1.04%) Ariba
11 15 (1.04%) Google
11 15 (1.04%) Red Hat
12 14 (0.97%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.90%) Atlassian
13 13 (0.90%) F5
14 11 (0.76%) CyberArk
15 10 (0.70%) Blue Prism
15 10 (0.70%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.70%) SolarWinds