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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 54 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,730 1,169 1,700
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.78% 4.00% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.41% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 708 1,123
10th Percentile £325 £325 £370
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £618 £627 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 25 32
10th Percentile £16.25 £21.81 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £30.78 £26.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £38.30
Median % change year-on-year -24.23% +56.68% -41.08%
75th Percentile £63.50 £67.50 £41.27
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.02 £64.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -24.23% +46.56% -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 39,074 26,483 37,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.36% 90.62% 86.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,751 17,195 24,633
10th Percentile £315 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 997 2,379
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.79
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.91
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.80 £70.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +22.37% -9.09% -8.08%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -2 1,532 £515 -1.90% 826
UK excluding London -7 917 £481 -3.80% 656
London +1 678 £550 - 267
Work from Home +3 510 £530 +0.95% 345
North of England +13 255 £477 +0.42% 128
South East +4 229 £525 -4.55% 235
Midlands -18 176 £472 -5.70% 109
North West +24 171 £475 - 73
South West +8 116 £475 - 74
West Midlands -18 114 £492 -6.29% 71
Yorkshire -13 75 £525 +5.00% 38
Scotland -21 72 £475 -0.42% 38
East Midlands -6 61 £420 -5.08% 38
East of England -13 50 £525 +5.63% 64
Wales +1 20 £413 +26.92% 17
North East -11 11 £350 -15.15% 17
Northern Ireland -6 8 £370 -34.22% 4

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
1 114 (6.59%) Confluence
2 78 (4.51%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.35%) CMS
5 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.23%) CICS
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.17%) Camunda
7 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.17%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.12%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.058%) Apache
9 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.058%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.058%) IIS
9 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 156 (9.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (6.94%) Microsoft Project
3 109 (6.30%) Microsoft Office
4 105 (6.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.68%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.64%) Trello
8 10 (0.58%) Siemens NX
9 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.12%) InDesign
10 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.058%) Revit
11 1 (0.058%) SPSS
11 1 (0.058%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.81%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.69%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.52%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.40%) Endur
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.35%) Primavera
8 5 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
8 5 (0.29%) Summit
9 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.23%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.23%) SAP PSCD
10 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 198 (11.45%) Azure
2 92 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
3 86 (4.97%) Power Platform
4 82 (4.74%) AWS
5 56 (3.24%) SaaS
6 49 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.79%) Entra ID
9 26 (1.50%) GCP
10 22 (1.27%) GitHub
11 19 (1.10%) IaaS
12 15 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (0.81%) PowerApps
14 13 (0.75%) OpenShift
14 13 (0.75%) Serverless
15 12 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (0.69%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.69%) OCI
15 12 (0.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.14%) Firewall
2 50 (2.89%) DNS
3 43 (2.49%) WAN
4 34 (1.97%) LAN
4 34 (1.97%) Network Security
5 27 (1.56%) BGP
5 27 (1.56%) OSPF
6 21 (1.21%) SD-WAN
7 19 (1.10%) VLAN
8 18 (1.04%) MPLS
8 18 (1.04%) TCP/IP
8 18 (1.04%) VPN
9 17 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (0.87%) DHCP
10 15 (0.87%) NetScaler
10 15 (0.87%) Wireless
11 13 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
12 10 (0.58%) SAN
12 10 (0.58%) SSL
13 9 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.05%) Power BI
2 31 (1.79%) Tableau
3 30 (1.73%) SQL Server
4 24 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.64%) Metadata
8 8 (0.46%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.35%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.29%) Big Data
11 5 (0.29%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.29%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 205 (11.85%) JIRA
2 19 (1.10%) Git
3 16 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.58%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) Selenium
6 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.29%) JMeter
7 5 (0.29%) MSTest
7 5 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.17%) Appium
8 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
9 2 (0.12%) TestRail
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.058%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.058%) LSMW
10 1 (0.058%) NUnit
General
1 720 (41.62%) Social Skills
2 587 (33.93%) Finance
3 263 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (10.52%) Public Sector
5 141 (8.15%) Banking
6 125 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (4.22%) Legal
7 73 (4.22%) Retail
8 70 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
9 63 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
10 58 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (2.83%) Manufacturing
12 44 (2.54%) Telecoms
13 34 (1.97%) Marketing
14 26 (1.50%) Local Government
15 23 (1.33%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.10%) Military
17 18 (1.04%) Financial Institution
18 16 (0.92%) Law
19 15 (0.87%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 496 (28.67%) Project Manager
2 215 (12.43%) Analyst
3 186 (10.75%) Lead
4 173 (10.00%) Senior
5 146 (8.44%) Business Analyst
6 86 (4.97%) Senior Manager
7 84 (4.86%) Consultant
8 83 (4.80%) Architect
9 73 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
9 73 (4.22%) IT Manager
10 65 (3.76%) Senior Project Manager
11 52 (3.01%) IT Project Manager
12 49 (2.83%) Technical Manager
13 46 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (2.37%) Programme Manager
15 40 (2.31%) Network Engineer
16 35 (2.02%) Project Officer
17 34 (1.97%) Infrastructure Manager
18 33 (1.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 33 (1.91%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.97%) Middleware
2 24 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
3 18 (1.04%) REST
4 14 (0.81%) XML
5 11 (0.64%) Web Services
6 9 (0.52%) ADO
7 8 (0.46%) .NET
7 8 (0.46%) React
7 8 (0.46%) Spring Boot
8 7 (0.40%) CSS
8 7 (0.40%) JSON
8 7 (0.40%) Spring
9 6 (0.35%) HTML
9 6 (0.35%) Node.js
9 6 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
9 6 (0.35%) YAML
10 5 (0.29%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.29%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.23%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.68%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.34%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 62 (3.58%) Data Centre
5 38 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 35 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.85%) PMI
8 31 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.45%) NHS
10 25 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 21 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.10%) Cloud Native
12 19 (1.10%) Replication
13 18 (1.04%) Clustering
14 15 (0.87%) Derivative
15 14 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (0.81%) Driving Licence
16 13 (0.75%) Life Science
17 12 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (5.26%) Windows
2 45 (2.60%) Windows Server
3 30 (1.73%) Linux
4 18 (1.04%) Unix
5 16 (0.92%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.58%) Solaris
6 10 (0.58%) VMS
7 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (0.46%) zOS
8 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.23%) AIX
9 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.12%) Android
10 2 (0.12%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.12%) pSOS
11 1 (0.058%) Debian
11 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (33.76%) Agile
2 544 (31.45%) Project Management
3 528 (30.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 296 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
5 265 (15.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 259 (14.97%) PRINCE2
7 255 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 255 (14.74%) Migration
8 217 (12.54%) Change Management
9 174 (10.06%) DevOps
10 173 (10.00%) Waterfall
11 168 (9.71%) Decision-Making
12 153 (8.84%) Scrum
13 147 (8.50%) Risk Management
14 140 (8.09%) Roadmaps
15 137 (7.92%) Workshop Facilitation
16 126 (7.28%) ITIL
17 125 (7.23%) Business Analysis
18 122 (7.05%) Budget Management
19 118 (6.82%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 98 (5.66%) SQL
2 62 (3.58%) Python
3 42 (2.43%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.21%) Java
5 18 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 14 (0.81%) C#
7 12 (0.69%) Bash
8 9 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.46%) Go
9 8 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.29%) Bicep
11 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.23%) ABAP
12 4 (0.23%) COBOL
12 4 (0.23%) VBA
13 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.17%) Assembly Language
13 3 (0.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 363 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 262 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 235 (13.58%) Degree
4 176 (10.17%) PMP
5 148 (8.55%) PMI Certification
6 83 (4.80%) DV Cleared
7 35 (2.02%) APMP
7 35 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (1.79%) CCNP
9 30 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (1.73%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 26 (1.50%) CCNA
12 22 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.10%) CISSP
14 17 (0.98%) CBAP
15 15 (0.87%) CISM
16 13 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (10.92%) PMO
2 121 (6.99%) QA
3 49 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (2.66%) GDPR
5 40 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 40 (2.31%) NIST
6 20 (1.16%) SLA
7 13 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.64%) GRC
9 10 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.58%) PSD2
9 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.52%) P3O
11 8 (0.46%) MiFID
12 7 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.40%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.35%) Basel III
13 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.35%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 59 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.21%) Docker
4 15 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.81%) vSphere
6 12 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.23%) Firmware
10 2 (0.12%) Squid
10 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.058%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.058%) Ceph
11 1 (0.058%) RACF
11 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 32 (1.85%) Ansible
2 31 (1.79%) Terraform
3 28 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (0.98%) SCCM
5 7 (0.40%) FortiGate
5 7 (0.40%) vCenter Server
6 6 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.29%) Nagios
8 3 (0.17%) Netcool
8 3 (0.17%) OMEGAMON
8 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.17%) Puppet
8 3 (0.17%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.12%) CEMLI
9 2 (0.12%) Control-M
9 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
9 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 299 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 141 (8.15%) SAP
3 83 (4.80%) Oracle
4 77 (4.45%) ServiceNow
5 57 (3.29%) Cisco
6 42 (2.43%) VMware
7 36 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 32 (1.85%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.68%) Google
10 23 (1.33%) F5
11 21 (1.21%) Atlassian
12 20 (1.16%) Citrix
13 18 (1.04%) CheckPoint
14 16 (0.92%) IBM
14 16 (0.92%) Workday
15 14 (0.81%) Aruba
15 14 (0.81%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.75%) CyberArk
16 13 (0.75%) NEC
17 11 (0.64%) Adobe