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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 59 50
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,883 1,175 1,607
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 3.97% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.36% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,294 733 1,019
10th Percentile £340 £350 £356
25th Percentile £419 £425 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £486 £511
% change year-on-year -0.41% -4.89% +1.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 18 40
10th Percentile £16.55 £34.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £23.47 £52.00 £25.75
Median hourly rate £39.04 £65.00 £35.33
Median % change year-on-year -39.94% +84.01% -39.87%
75th Percentile £76.75 £77.50 £41.27
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.25 £65.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £65.00 £38.30
% change year-on-year -43.08% +69.73% -38.73%

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 42,574 26,968 37,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 91.03% 85.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,549 17,103 23,600
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,556 1,231 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.01
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 16 June 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 16 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 18 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 16 June 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 +8 1,669 £513 -2.38% 1,064
UK excluding London +2 1,053 £484 -0.41% 774
London -5 704 £550 -4.35% 413
Work from Home +1 534 £525 +1.16% 480
North of England +24 293 £475 +5.56% 163
South East +8 250 £525 - 252
North West +33 201 £475 +5.56% 96
Midlands -13 194 £475 -7.23% 110
South West +10 144 £493 -8.37% 101
West Midlands -14 138 £475 -9.07% 65
Scotland -2 103 £500 +8.23% 39
Yorkshire -21 75 £500 +11.11% 49
East of England -5 58 £500 +11.73% 87
East Midlands -8 55 £413 -6.68% 45
North East -19 19 £350 -3.45% 23
Wales -6 16 £463 +60.87% 23
Northern Ireland -1 9 £280 -46.76% 22
Channel Islands 0 1 £550 +22.22%

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
1 108 (5.74%) Confluence
2 103 (5.47%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.42%) CMS
5 6 (0.32%) SAS
6 4 (0.21%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.21%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.16%) Camunda
7 3 (0.16%) CICS
7 3 (0.16%) Kentico
7 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 159 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (5.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 102 (5.42%) Microsoft Project
4 87 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (1.65%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.33%) Siemens NX
7 9 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.21%) Revit
10 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.16%) Trello
11 1 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 37 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.54%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.42%) Primavera
6 7 (0.37%) Maximo
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.27%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.27%) Shopify
8 5 (0.27%) Summit
9 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.21%) SAP SD
10 3 (0.16%) BASE24
10 3 (0.16%) Endur
10 3 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 217 (11.52%) Azure
2 101 (5.36%) AWS
3 97 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
3 97 (5.15%) Power Platform
4 67 (3.56%) SaaS
5 54 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 31 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
8 29 (1.54%) GCP
9 23 (1.22%) Google Workspace
9 23 (1.22%) IaaS
10 22 (1.17%) GitHub
11 19 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
12 17 (0.90%) PowerApps
13 15 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (0.69%) Power Automate
14 13 (0.69%) Serverless
15 12 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (0.64%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (5.63%) Firewall
2 68 (3.61%) DNS
3 56 (2.97%) Network Security
4 51 (2.71%) WAN
5 45 (2.39%) LAN
6 35 (1.86%) VPN
7 29 (1.54%) MPLS
7 29 (1.54%) VLAN
8 28 (1.49%) BGP
9 26 (1.38%) OSPF
10 25 (1.33%) DHCP
11 22 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 21 (1.12%) SD-WAN
12 21 (1.12%) Wireless
13 18 (0.96%) TCP/IP
14 17 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (0.74%) SSL
16 13 (0.69%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
17 11 (0.58%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.14%) Power BI
2 42 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.49%) Tableau
4 22 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.69%) Metadata
7 10 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.42%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.37%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.32%) Big Data
11 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (0.16%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 202 (10.73%) JIRA
2 20 (1.06%) Git
3 14 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.53%) GitLab
5 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.32%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) Appium
7 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.16%) JMeter
7 3 (0.16%) MSTest
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.053%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.053%) MSI
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.053%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 719 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 594 (31.55%) Finance
3 245 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 139 (7.38%) Organisational Skills
6 122 (6.48%) Banking
7 87 (4.62%) Retail
8 80 (4.25%) Legal
9 73 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
10 67 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (2.66%) Telecoms
12 49 (2.60%) Manufacturing
13 48 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.81%) Local Government
15 28 (1.49%) Military
16 27 (1.43%) Marketing
17 22 (1.17%) Investment Banking
18 20 (1.06%) Financial Institution
19 18 (0.96%) Publishing
20 16 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 467 (24.80%) Project Manager
2 222 (11.79%) Analyst
3 201 (10.67%) Lead
4 193 (10.25%) Senior
5 126 (6.69%) Business Analyst
6 100 (5.31%) Architect
7 91 (4.83%) Senior Manager
8 84 (4.46%) Delivery Manager
9 80 (4.25%) Consultant
10 75 (3.98%) Network Engineer
11 74 (3.93%) IT Manager
12 73 (3.88%) Senior Project Manager
13 53 (2.81%) Developer
14 52 (2.76%) IT Project Manager
15 49 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
16 47 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 39 (2.07%) Technical Manager
18 38 (2.02%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 35 (1.86%) Project Officer
20 32 (1.70%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.18%) Middleware
2 29 (1.54%) REST
3 19 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.90%) XML
5 13 (0.69%) .NET
6 11 (0.58%) JSON
7 10 (0.53%) ADO
8 9 (0.48%) OAuth
8 9 (0.48%) React
8 9 (0.48%) Spring Boot
8 9 (0.48%) Web Services
9 8 (0.42%) 802.1X
9 8 (0.42%) Spring
10 7 (0.37%) CSS
10 7 (0.37%) RESTful
11 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.32%) HTML
11 6 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
12 5 (0.27%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.20%) Management Information System
2 83 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 74 (3.93%) Data Centre
4 71 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 37 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.70%) Virtual Team
7 30 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 30 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.43%) Cloud Native
8 27 (1.43%) Clustering
8 27 (1.43%) Replication
9 26 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 20 (1.06%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (1.06%) Operational Technology
11 19 (1.01%) PKI
12 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
12 17 (0.90%) NHS
13 16 (0.85%) Life Science
13 16 (0.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 106 (5.63%) Windows
2 51 (2.71%) Windows Server
3 41 (2.18%) Linux
4 32 (1.70%) Unix
5 15 (0.80%) Solaris
6 9 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.42%) AIX
8 7 (0.37%) zOS
9 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.27%) VMS
11 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.21%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.11%) Android
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
14 1 (0.053%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.053%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (31.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 563 (29.90%) Agile
3 538 (28.57%) Project Management
4 298 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
5 293 (15.56%) Migration
6 291 (15.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 284 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 230 (12.21%) Change Management
9 224 (11.90%) PRINCE2
10 195 (10.36%) Decision-Making
11 192 (10.20%) Waterfall
12 156 (8.28%) DevOps
13 154 (8.18%) Risk Management
14 131 (6.96%) Roadmaps
15 130 (6.90%) ITIL
16 129 (6.85%) AI
17 123 (6.53%) Scrum
18 115 (6.11%) ERP
19 114 (6.05%) Workshop Facilitation
20 113 (6.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 108 (5.74%) SQL
2 84 (4.46%) Python
3 52 (2.76%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.17%) Java
5 21 (1.12%) C#
6 18 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.58%) Bash
8 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.42%) Go
9 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.37%) Bicep
10 7 (0.37%) VBA
11 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.27%) ABAP
12 5 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.16%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.16%) C++
13 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 408 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 298 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 185 (9.82%) Degree
4 159 (8.44%) PMP
5 125 (6.64%) PMI Certification
6 98 (5.20%) DV Cleared
7 55 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (2.23%) CCNP
9 38 (2.02%) CCNA
10 34 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.33%) CISSP
13 23 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 20 (1.06%) APMP
14 20 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
15 19 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 18 (0.96%) CISM
16 18 (0.96%) MCSE
17 16 (0.85%) Azure Certification
17 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (11.05%) PMO
2 103 (5.47%) QA
3 52 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (2.76%) NIST
4 47 (2.50%) GDPR
5 39 (2.07%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.06%) SLA
7 14 (0.74%) GRC
8 12 (0.64%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.42%) HL7
10 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.42%) IFRS
11 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.32%) Basel III
12 6 (0.32%) GAAP
12 6 (0.32%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.32%) NCSC
13 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 77 (4.09%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.17%) vSphere
4 19 (1.01%) Docker
5 18 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.85%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.42%) Firmware
10 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.16%) Squid
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.053%) ACF2
13 1 (0.053%) KVM
13 1 (0.053%) RACF
13 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 43 (2.28%) Ansible
2 37 (1.96%) Terraform
3 29 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 24 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.80%) vCenter Server
6 14 (0.74%) FortiGate
7 12 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.58%) SCCM
9 7 (0.37%) Nagios
9 7 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.27%) Netcool
10 5 (0.27%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
11 3 (0.16%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 340 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 129 (6.85%) SAP
3 94 (4.99%) ServiceNow
4 93 (4.94%) Cisco
5 92 (4.89%) Oracle
6 56 (2.97%) VMware
7 51 (2.71%) Palo Alto
8 36 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.81%) F5
9 34 (1.81%) Google
10 27 (1.43%) Fortinet
11 25 (1.33%) Siemens
12 22 (1.17%) IBM
13 20 (1.06%) SolarWinds
14 18 (0.96%) CheckPoint
15 17 (0.90%) Workday
16 16 (0.85%) Aruba
16 16 (0.85%) Infoblox
16 16 (0.85%) NEC
17 15 (0.80%) Juniper