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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 53 47
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,569 1,217 1,742
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.85% 3.95% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.40% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 690 1,151
10th Percentile £335 £331 £363
25th Percentile £415 £435 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £637
90th Percentile £720 £700 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -6.10% +0.24% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 32 27
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.58 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £23.37 £22.29
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% -1.82% -40.58%
75th Percentile £63.40 £64.06 £61.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £76.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.95 £39.68 £45.75
% change year-on-year +8.23% -13.27% -29.62%

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 35,377 27,631 38,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.89% 89.70% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,416 17,028 25,083
10th Percentile £311 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 844 2,147
10th Percentile £14.58 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.32
90th Percentile £70.36 £75.00 £73.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.85% -12.53% +5.26%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -2 1,367 £525 - 622
UK excluding London -6 793 £481 -6.10% 560
London -1 644 £550 +1.85% 180
Work from Home -6 451 £536 -0.69% 289
North of England +7 234 £478 -5.26% 118
South East -14 183 £525 -4.55% 185
Midlands -17 156 £475 -7.32% 98
North West +24 145 £474 -1.76% 84
West Midlands -27 94 £550 -3.00% 65
South West -6 83 £538 +7.39% 60
Yorkshire -10 79 £513 -10.51% 25
Scotland -18 77 £463 -3.44% 32
East Midlands 0 63 £435 -7.45% 32
East of England -9 40 £575 +21.05% 56
Wales +3 18 £374 -26.98% 16
Northern Ireland +3 12 £475 -13.64% 2
North East -11 12 £290 -38.98% 13

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
1 115 (7.33%) Confluence
2 61 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.38%) CMS
5 5 (0.32%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.25%) CICS
7 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.19%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.19%) SAS
7 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.13%) Appian
8 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.064%) Apache
9 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.064%) Camunda
9 1 (0.064%) IIS
9 1 (0.064%) Smallworld
Applications
1 149 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 108 (6.88%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (6.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 101 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
5 36 (2.29%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.83%) Trello
7 12 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.57%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.57%) Siemens NX
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.13%) InDesign
10 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.064%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.064%) Revit
11 1 (0.064%) Sketch
11 1 (0.064%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.83%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.64%) Endur
4 10 (0.64%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.57%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 8 (0.51%) SAP MM
7 7 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.38%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
9 5 (0.32%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.32%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 189 (12.05%) Azure
2 78 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (4.53%) AWS
4 66 (4.21%) Power Platform
5 56 (3.57%) SaaS
6 46 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (2.04%) GCP
8 24 (1.53%) GitHub
9 22 (1.40%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.08%) OCI
11 15 (0.96%) IaaS
12 14 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (0.83%) Amazon S3
13 13 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (0.83%) OpenShift
14 12 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (0.70%) Serverless
16 10 (0.64%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 82 (5.23%) Firewall
2 44 (2.80%) WAN
3 40 (2.55%) DNS
4 36 (2.29%) LAN
5 30 (1.91%) Network Security
6 22 (1.40%) BGP
7 21 (1.34%) OSPF
7 21 (1.34%) SD-WAN
8 19 (1.21%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.08%) MPLS
10 16 (1.02%) VPN
11 15 (0.96%) DHCP
11 15 (0.96%) NetScaler
12 14 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 14 (0.89%) Wireless
13 13 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
14 12 (0.76%) VLAN
15 11 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
16 10 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
16 10 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.51%) Power BI
2 27 (1.72%) SQL Server
2 27 (1.72%) Tableau
3 22 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
5 13 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (0.64%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.51%) Metadata
8 6 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.38%) GIS
8 6 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.25%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.19%) SAP Data Services
11 3 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 199 (12.68%) JIRA
2 23 (1.47%) Git
3 19 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.83%) GitLab
5 5 (0.32%) Selenium
6 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.25%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.19%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.19%) Subversion
8 2 (0.13%) Appium
8 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.13%) JMeter
8 2 (0.13%) MSTest
8 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 663 (42.26%) Social Skills
2 497 (31.68%) Finance
3 216 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 143 (9.11%) Banking
6 108 (6.88%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
8 54 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
9 51 (3.25%) Retail
10 48 (3.06%) Legal
11 45 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (2.74%) Manufacturing
13 34 (2.17%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.85%) Marketing
15 26 (1.66%) Front Office
16 23 (1.47%) Investment Banking
17 21 (1.34%) Local Government
18 19 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
19 18 (1.15%) Law
20 16 (1.02%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 417 (26.58%) Project Manager
2 205 (13.07%) Analyst
3 180 (11.47%) Lead
4 149 (9.50%) Business Analyst
5 137 (8.73%) Senior
6 86 (5.48%) Architect
6 86 (5.48%) Consultant
7 62 (3.95%) Delivery Manager
8 55 (3.51%) Senior Manager
9 52 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
10 49 (3.12%) IT Manager
11 45 (2.87%) Technical Manager
12 43 (2.74%) Network Engineer
12 43 (2.74%) Senior Project Manager
13 41 (2.61%) Programme Manager
14 36 (2.29%) SAP Manager
15 34 (2.17%) IT Project Manager
16 29 (1.85%) Infrastructure Manager
17 27 (1.72%) Administrator
17 27 (1.72%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.91%) Middleware
2 23 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
3 20 (1.27%) REST
4 12 (0.76%) XML
5 11 (0.70%) Web Services
6 8 (0.51%) CSS
6 8 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
7 7 (0.45%) HTML
7 7 (0.45%) React
7 7 (0.45%) RESTful
7 7 (0.45%) SOAP
7 7 (0.45%) YAML
8 6 (0.38%) .NET
8 6 (0.38%) ADO
8 6 (0.38%) Spring
8 6 (0.38%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.32%) JSON
9 5 (0.32%) Node.js
9 5 (0.32%) OAuth
9 5 (0.32%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.23%) Product Ownership
2 73 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 62 (3.95%) Data Centre
4 56 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 31 (1.98%) PMI
8 28 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.72%) NHS
10 26 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.59%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.15%) Replication
13 17 (1.08%) Clustering
14 16 (1.02%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (0.96%) Life Science
16 13 (0.83%) Cloud Native
17 12 (0.76%) Algorithms
17 12 (0.76%) Driving Licence
17 12 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 86 (5.48%) Windows
2 43 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 31 (1.98%) Linux
4 20 (1.27%) Unix
5 19 (1.21%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.70%) Solaris
7 11 (0.70%) VMS
8 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.38%) zOS
11 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.25%) OpenVMS
12 4 (0.25%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.25%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.13%) pSOS
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.064%) AIX
15 1 (0.064%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (34.23%) Agile
2 477 (30.40%) Project Management
3 456 (29.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 284 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
5 225 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 222 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 217 (13.83%) Migration
8 211 (13.45%) PRINCE2
9 191 (12.17%) Change Management
10 161 (10.26%) DevOps
11 157 (10.01%) Waterfall
12 137 (8.73%) Decision-Making
12 137 (8.73%) Scrum
13 129 (8.22%) Roadmaps
14 121 (7.71%) Risk Management
15 118 (7.52%) Business Analysis
16 114 (7.27%) Workshop Facilitation
17 113 (7.20%) ITIL
17 113 (7.20%) Project Governance
18 110 (7.01%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 84 (5.35%) SQL
2 78 (4.97%) Python
3 50 (3.19%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.59%) Java
5 22 (1.40%) Bash
6 13 (0.83%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.70%) PL/SQL
8 9 (0.57%) C#
9 6 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.38%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.32%) Go
10 5 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.25%) ABAP
11 4 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.25%) C++
11 4 (0.25%) COBOL
11 4 (0.25%) Perl
12 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.19%) JCL
12 3 (0.19%) REXX
Qualifications
1 299 (19.06%) Security Cleared
2 232 (14.79%) Degree
3 212 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 137 (8.73%) PMP
5 121 (7.71%) PMI Certification
6 74 (4.72%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.49%) Master's Degree
8 35 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.10%) CCNP
9 33 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.85%) APMP
11 23 (1.47%) CCNA
12 21 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.27%) CBAP
14 19 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (1.02%) CISSP
16 14 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.83%) CISM
17 13 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
18 12 (0.76%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (9.18%) PMO
2 109 (6.95%) QA
3 35 (2.23%) GDPR
4 34 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 32 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.53%) NIST
7 17 (1.08%) SLA
8 15 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.70%) PSD2
11 10 (0.64%) MiFID
12 9 (0.57%) NCSC
13 8 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
13 8 (0.51%) P3O
14 7 (0.45%) GRC
15 6 (0.38%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.38%) ISO 8583
16 5 (0.32%) Basel III
17 4 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 45 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.40%) Docker
4 15 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.89%) vSphere
6 12 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.25%) Firmware
8 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) NFS
9 2 (0.13%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.13%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.064%) RACF
Systems Management
1 41 (2.61%) Ansible
2 34 (2.17%) Terraform
3 28 (1.78%) Kubernetes
4 22 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.34%) SCCM
6 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.45%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.38%) Grafana
10 5 (0.32%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
13 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
13 2 (0.13%) Control-M
13 2 (0.13%) Nagios
13 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
13 2 (0.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 284 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 135 (8.60%) SAP
3 88 (5.61%) Oracle
4 75 (4.78%) Cisco
5 64 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 41 (2.61%) VMware
7 38 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 29 (1.85%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.53%) Google
10 21 (1.34%) F5
11 19 (1.21%) Workday
12 18 (1.15%) Citrix
13 17 (1.08%) Aruba
14 16 (1.02%) CheckPoint
14 16 (1.02%) IBM
15 15 (0.96%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.96%) SolarWinds
16 14 (0.89%) Red Hat
17 13 (0.83%) Ariba
18 12 (0.76%) Siemens
709 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide