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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 51 49
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,436 1,367 1,911
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.98% 3.73% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.29% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 922 770 1,270
10th Percentile £313 £356 £363
25th Percentile £410 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £609 £634 £638
90th Percentile £725 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -6.29% +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 40 35
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.08 £20.25
25th Percentile £19.38 £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 £63.66 £57.19 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £63.88 £84.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £36.09 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.96% -27.82% -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 32,259 31,857 40,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.36% 87.03% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,239 19,190 27,102
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% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,092 1,151 1,562
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.24% +25.37%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.74 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.05% -26.97% +39.06%

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 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 28 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 28 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 +1 1,234 £525 -4.55% 725
UK excluding London -2 759 £492 -6.29% 652
London +5 552 £550 - 244
Work from Home -3 442 £525 -3.45% 306
South East -6 204 £538 -1.38% 264
North of England -3 190 £480 -3.52% 113
Midlands -7 145 £450 -15.09% 105
North West +4 109 £475 +2.70% 59
West Midlands -17 84 £525 -8.42% 62
Scotland -16 77 £454 -4.42% 27
South West +1 76 £475 -9.52% 82
Yorkshire -10 70 £501 -12.19% 37
East Midlands +18 61 £420 -11.58% 41
East of England -11 36 £550 +7.32% 61
Wales +9 24 £306 -46.92% 16
Northern Ireland +4 16 £425 +33.86% 6
North East -9 10 £270 -52.32% 18

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 (7.03%) Confluence
2 59 (4.11%) 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
1 115 (8.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (6.82%) Microsoft Project
3 94 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
4 76 (5.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (2.65%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.11%) Trello
7 13 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.49%) 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 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.18%) Endur
3 14 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
5 9 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.63%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.49%) SAP IBP
7 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.42%) SAP GTS
7 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.35%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.35%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.28%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 176 (12.26%) Azure
2 61 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (4.04%) Power Platform
4 50 (3.48%) AWS
5 48 (3.34%) SaaS
6 42 (2.92%) 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 (0.91%) Power Automate
15 12 (0.84%) Asana
15 12 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
16 11 (0.77%) PowerApps
17 9 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
18 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.99%) Firewall
2 35 (2.44%) 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%) BGP
8 14 (0.97%) MPLS
9 13 (0.91%) Network Security
10 12 (0.84%) HTTP
11 11 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (0.77%) OSPF
12 10 (0.70%) SAN
13 9 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
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 14 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (0.77%) 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 (12.33%) 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
1 643 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 466 (32.45%) Finance
3 187 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 102 (7.10%) Banking
6 70 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
7 67 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
8 57 (3.97%) Manufacturing
9 46 (3.20%) Legal
9 46 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
10 44 (3.06%) Retail
11 43 (2.99%) Telecoms
12 40 (2.79%) Marketing
13 29 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
13 29 (2.02%) Front Office
14 22 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 21 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (1.32%) Local Government
17 18 (1.25%) Law
18 14 (0.97%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 401 (27.92%) Project Manager
2 209 (14.55%) Analyst
3 153 (10.65%) Lead
4 143 (9.96%) Business Analyst
5 118 (8.22%) Senior
6 87 (6.06%) Architect
6 87 (6.06%) Consultant
7 67 (4.67%) IT Manager
8 62 (4.32%) Delivery Manager
9 54 (3.76%) Senior Manager
10 51 (3.55%) IT Project Manager
11 45 (3.13%) Senior Project Manager
12 41 (2.86%) Technical Manager
13 37 (2.58%) Programme Manager
14 35 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
15 29 (2.02%) Infrastructure Manager
15 29 (2.02%) Technical Project Manager
16 27 (1.88%) SAP Manager
17 26 (1.81%) Developer
17 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 (0.91%) React
4 13 (0.91%) Web Services
5 11 (0.77%) .NET
5 11 (0.77%) AngularJS
5 11 (0.77%) Middleware
5 11 (0.77%) XML
6 8 (0.56%) JMS
6 8 (0.56%) RESTful
6 8 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
6 8 (0.56%) XSD
7 6 (0.42%) Node.js
7 6 (0.42%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.42%) YAML
8 5 (0.35%) ADO
8 5 (0.35%) Flash
8 5 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (0.28%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 68 (4.74%) Onboarding
1 68 (4.74%) Product Ownership
2 47 (3.27%) Management Information System
3 44 (3.06%) Data Centre
4 39 (2.72%) PMI
5 35 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 33 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 21 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.25%) NHS
10 14 (0.97%) Algorithms
11 12 (0.84%) Driving Licence
11 12 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (0.77%) CMDB
12 11 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (0.77%) Life Science
12 11 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (0.70%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 75 (5.22%) Windows
2 35 (2.44%) Linux
3 34 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.32%) Unix
5 13 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.91%) 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 (37.05%) Agile
2 468 (32.59%) Project Management
3 451 (31.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 256 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
5 251 (17.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 226 (15.74%) Change Management
7 209 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 194 (13.51%) Migration
9 186 (12.95%) PRINCE2
10 168 (11.70%) Waterfall
11 143 (9.96%) Roadmaps
12 139 (9.68%) ITIL
13 138 (9.61%) Risk Management
14 133 (9.26%) Scrum
15 128 (8.91%) Decision-Making
16 123 (8.57%) DevOps
17 120 (8.36%) Project Governance
18 119 (8.29%) ERP
19 115 (8.01%) Workshop Facilitation
20 113 (7.87%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 83 (5.78%) SQL
2 69 (4.81%) Python
3 43 (2.99%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.53%) Bash
5 20 (1.39%) Java
6 9 (0.63%) 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
1 227 (15.81%) Degree
2 216 (15.04%) Security Cleared
3 158 (11.00%) SC Cleared
4 114 (7.94%) PMI Certification
5 106 (7.38%) PMP
6 45 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.32%) CCNP
12 17 (1.18%) APMP
12 17 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (1.11%) CBAP
13 16 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 12 (0.84%) 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
1 115 (8.01%) PMO
2 78 (5.43%) QA
3 35 (2.44%) GDPR
4 31 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.02%) 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 12 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.77%) MiFID
10 11 (0.77%) PSD2
11 10 (0.70%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.70%) NCSC
12 9 (0.63%) EMIR
13 8 (0.56%) COBIT
14 7 (0.49%) P3O
15 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.42%) Def Stans
15 6 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 41 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.77%) 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 20 (1.39%) Terraform
3 16 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.97%) SCCM
5 11 (0.77%) 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
1 256 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 126 (8.77%) SAP
3 90 (6.27%) Oracle
4 67 (4.67%) ServiceNow
5 60 (4.18%) Cisco
6 41 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 37 (2.58%) 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%) F5
12 14 (0.97%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.91%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.84%) Palo Alto
15 11 (0.77%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.70%) Blue Prism
16 10 (0.70%) SolarWinds