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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,786 1,148 1,695
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 3.92% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.31% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 700 1,091
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £521 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% -1.65% -3.64%
75th Percentile £613 £628 £638
90th Percentile £700 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.35% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 22 34
10th Percentile £15.91 £23.02 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £30.84 £26.42
Median hourly rate £37.00 £57.50 £38.30
Median % change year-on-year -35.65% +50.15% -40.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.06 £41.92
90th Percentile £86.16 £78.27 £63.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £62.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year -40.80% +52.66% -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 40,275 26,638 37,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.44% 90.95% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,293 17,157 24,168
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,413 1,083 2,449
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.75 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.35% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £27.94 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.37% -25.49% +7.14%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +1 1,596 £513 -2.38% 962
UK excluding London -3 980 £483 -3.35% 761
London -1 668 £538 -2.27% 305
Work from Home 0 500 £525 - 439
North of England +28 283 £476 +0.21% 162
South East +9 237 £525 -4.55% 258
Midlands -18 188 £475 -5.00% 111
North West +25 186 £478 +0.53% 80
South West +11 138 £485 +2.11% 99
West Midlands -15 129 £487 -5.97% 69
Yorkshire +1 81 £500 - 56
Scotland -18 74 £488 +2.63% 41
East Midlands -11 58 £455 +1.79% 42
East of England -12 50 £513 +3.64% 79
North East -3 19 £350 -15.15% 31
Wales -6 15 £450 +38.46% 19
Northern Ireland -5 6 £425 -28.42% 8

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
1 109 (6.10%) Confluence
2 92 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.34%) CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.22%) CICS
7 3 (0.17%) Camunda
7 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.17%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.056%) Apache
9 1 (0.056%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.056%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.056%) IIS
9 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 151 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (6.38%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (5.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 100 (5.60%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 24 (1.34%) Siemens NX
7 10 (0.56%) Trello
8 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.22%) Revit
11 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.056%) SPSS
12 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.57%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.67%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.39%) Primavera
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (0.28%) Endur
7 5 (0.28%) Maximo
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.28%) ProductWriter
7 5 (0.28%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.28%) Summit
8 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.22%) Shopify
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 198 (11.09%) Azure
2 101 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
3 91 (5.10%) Power Platform
4 87 (4.87%) AWS
5 69 (3.86%) SaaS
6 44 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (1.96%) Entra ID
8 34 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (1.46%) GCP
10 22 (1.23%) GitHub
11 21 (1.18%) Google Workspace
12 20 (1.12%) IaaS
13 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
14 16 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (0.67%) OneDrive
15 12 (0.67%) PaaS
15 12 (0.67%) PowerApps
15 12 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.04%) Firewall
2 57 (3.19%) DNS
3 42 (2.35%) Network Security
4 39 (2.18%) WAN
5 34 (1.90%) LAN
6 26 (1.46%) BGP
6 26 (1.46%) OSPF
7 23 (1.29%) VLAN
8 21 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 20 (1.12%) VPN
10 19 (1.06%) TCP/IP
11 18 (1.01%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.90%) DHCP
12 16 (0.90%) MPLS
13 14 (0.78%) Wireless
14 13 (0.73%) BIG-IP
14 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.67%) NetScaler
15 12 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
16 11 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (4.03%) Power BI
2 30 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.51%) Tableau
4 23 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.78%) Metadata
8 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.28%) Big Data
9 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.28%) SAP HANA
9 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (0.22%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.22%) GIS
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 201 (11.25%) JIRA
2 16 (0.90%) Git
2 16 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.62%) GitLab
4 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 4 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.17%) Appium
7 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.17%) JMeter
7 3 (0.17%) MSTest
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) TestRail
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.056%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.056%) LSMW
9 1 (0.056%) NUnit
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle Forms
General
1 682 (38.19%) Social Skills
2 573 (32.08%) Finance
3 261 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 132 (7.39%) Organisational Skills
6 127 (7.11%) Banking
7 77 (4.31%) Retail
8 70 (3.92%) Legal
9 69 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
10 65 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
11 51 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
12 49 (2.74%) Telecoms
13 46 (2.58%) Manufacturing
14 33 (1.85%) Marketing
15 27 (1.51%) Local Government
16 26 (1.46%) Military
17 23 (1.29%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.95%) Financial Institution
19 15 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
19 15 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 491 (27.49%) Project Manager
2 213 (11.93%) Analyst
3 182 (10.19%) Lead
4 174 (9.74%) Senior
5 137 (7.67%) Business Analyst
6 88 (4.93%) Senior Manager
7 84 (4.70%) Architect
8 80 (4.48%) Consultant
9 76 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
10 72 (4.03%) IT Manager
11 68 (3.81%) Senior Project Manager
12 53 (2.97%) Network Engineer
13 49 (2.74%) IT Project Manager
14 48 (2.69%) Technical Manager
15 43 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.30%) Programme Manager
17 36 (2.02%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 34 (1.90%) Developer
18 34 (1.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 33 (1.85%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.13%) Middleware
2 25 (1.40%) REST
3 22 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.78%) XML
5 12 (0.67%) ADO
6 10 (0.56%) .NET
7 9 (0.50%) Web Services
8 8 (0.45%) JSON
8 8 (0.45%) OAuth
8 8 (0.45%) React
8 8 (0.45%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.39%) CSS
9 7 (0.39%) Spring
10 5 (0.28%) HTML
11 4 (0.22%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.22%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.22%) IDoc
11 4 (0.22%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.70%) Management Information System
2 71 (3.98%) Product Ownership
3 70 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 67 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 32 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 31 (1.74%) Virtual Team
7 30 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.40%) Clustering
10 25 (1.40%) PMI
10 25 (1.40%) Replication
11 21 (1.18%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.01%) NHS
13 16 (0.90%) Cloud Native
13 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (0.84%) Life Science
15 14 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
16 13 (0.73%) Derivative
17 12 (0.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 98 (5.49%) Windows
2 49 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 31 (1.74%) Linux
4 25 (1.40%) Unix
5 15 (0.84%) Solaris
6 11 (0.62%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.56%) VMS
8 9 (0.50%) zOS
9 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.34%) AIX
10 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.22%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.22%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.056%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.056%) Android
14 1 (0.056%) Debian
14 1 (0.056%) pSOS
14 1 (0.056%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (31.69%) Agile
2 546 (30.57%) Project Management
3 522 (29.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 298 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
5 275 (15.40%) Migration
6 266 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 260 (14.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 227 (12.71%) PRINCE2
9 203 (11.37%) Change Management
10 188 (10.53%) Waterfall
11 185 (10.36%) Decision-Making
12 158 (8.85%) Risk Management
13 153 (8.57%) DevOps
14 134 (7.50%) Roadmaps
14 134 (7.50%) Scrum
15 126 (7.05%) Workshop Facilitation
16 118 (6.61%) ERP
17 114 (6.38%) AI
17 114 (6.38%) Business Analysis
18 112 (6.27%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 85 (4.76%) SQL
2 71 (3.98%) Python
3 50 (2.80%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.18%) Java
5 17 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 15 (0.84%) C#
7 11 (0.62%) Bash
8 8 (0.45%) Go
9 7 (0.39%) Bicep
9 7 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.28%) VBA
12 4 (0.22%) COBOL
12 4 (0.22%) REXX
13 3 (0.17%) ABAP
13 3 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 387 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 283 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 206 (11.53%) Degree
4 169 (9.46%) PMP
5 136 (7.61%) PMI Certification
6 92 (5.15%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (1.85%) APMP
8 33 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (1.68%) CCNP
10 29 (1.62%) CCNA
10 29 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.46%) Master's Degree
13 21 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 19 (1.06%) CISSP
15 15 (0.84%) CISM
16 14 (0.78%) CBAP
17 13 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (11.48%) PMO
2 119 (6.66%) QA
3 45 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (2.46%) GDPR
5 40 (2.24%) NIST
6 38 (2.13%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.29%) SLA
8 13 (0.73%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.67%) GRC
10 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.45%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.39%) HL7
13 7 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.34%) Basel III
14 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.34%) PSD2
15 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.28%) ISO 19650
15 5 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 64 (3.58%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.01%) Docker
4 17 (0.95%) vSphere
5 15 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.34%) Firmware
9 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.11%) Squid
12 1 (0.056%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.056%) Ceph
12 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 42 (2.35%) Ansible
2 34 (1.90%) Terraform
3 28 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (1.40%) Kubernetes
5 17 (0.95%) SCCM
6 13 (0.73%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.50%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.50%) Nagios
7 9 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.39%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.28%) Netcool
10 4 (0.22%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.17%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.17%) Puppet
11 3 (0.17%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
12 2 (0.11%) Packer
12 2 (0.11%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 324 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 139 (7.78%) SAP
3 83 (4.65%) Oracle
4 81 (4.54%) ServiceNow
5 62 (3.47%) Cisco
6 42 (2.35%) VMware
7 39 (2.18%) Palo Alto
8 37 (2.07%) Google
9 33 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 28 (1.57%) F5
11 24 (1.34%) Siemens
12 20 (1.12%) Atlassian
12 20 (1.12%) IBM
13 19 (1.06%) CheckPoint
14 18 (1.01%) Citrix
15 17 (0.95%) Workday
16 15 (0.84%) Aruba
17 14 (0.78%) NEC
18 13 (0.73%) Infoblox
18 13 (0.73%) SolarWinds