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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 57 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,895 1,208 1,605
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 3.98% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 4.37% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 752 1,018
10th Percentile £330 £343 £356
25th Percentile £415 £424 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £636 £629
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £520
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 21 45
10th Percentile £16.98 £36.00 £20.98
25th Percentile £28.76 £50.76 £24.25
Median hourly rate £42.75 £65.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -34.23% +82.33% -41.80%
75th Percentile £74.54 £77.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.50 £66.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -31.54% +58.77% -34.50%

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 43,335 27,616 36,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 91.08% 85.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,981 17,460 23,548
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,593 1,327 2,546
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.72
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.77 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.83 £38.12
% change year-on-year +79.22% -34.86% +8.91%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +5 1,659 £515 -1.90% 825
UK excluding London +4 1,070 £488 - 725
London -4 689 £550 -5.50% 264
Work from Home 0 550 £515 -0.10% 378
North of England +11 278 £480 +3.78% 152
South East +8 266 £525 - 252
North West +22 186 £475 - 83
Midlands -15 186 £475 -7.23% 107
South West +7 152 £493 -8.37% 88
West Midlands -18 137 £478 -8.03% 62
Scotland +1 110 £463 +1.87% 32
Yorkshire -12 75 £500 +8.70% 48
East of England -4 58 £500 +11.73% 70
East Midlands -4 47 £402 -9.15% 45
North East -22 19 £350 -3.45% 23
Wales -4 18 £500 +80.56% 27
Northern Ireland +1 12 £334 -36.38% 24
Channel Islands +1 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 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 105 (5.54%) Confluence
3 37 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.37%) CMS
5 6 (0.32%) SAS
6 5 (0.26%) Apache
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.21%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Camunda
8 3 (0.16%) CICS
8 3 (0.16%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.16%) Kentico
8 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.16%) WordPress
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 158 (8.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 101 (5.33%) Microsoft Project
4 90 (4.75%) Microsoft Office
5 33 (1.74%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.16%) Siemens NX
7 10 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.16%) Revit
9 3 (0.16%) Trello
10 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.053%) CATIA
11 1 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 41 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.37%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.53%) Primavera
5 9 (0.47%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.42%) Maximo
7 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
7 6 (0.32%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.32%) Summit
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.26%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.21%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.21%) Shopify
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 223 (11.77%) Azure
2 111 (5.86%) AWS
3 99 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 97 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (3.59%) SaaS
6 55 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (2.64%) Entra ID
8 32 (1.69%) GCP
9 30 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (1.21%) Google Workspace
11 22 (1.16%) GitHub
11 22 (1.16%) IaaS
12 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (0.84%) PowerApps
13 16 (0.84%) Serverless
14 14 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (0.74%) Amazon S3
14 14 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
15 13 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 105 (5.54%) Firewall
2 74 (3.91%) DNS
3 60 (3.17%) WAN
4 55 (2.90%) LAN
4 55 (2.90%) Network Security
5 46 (2.43%) VPN
6 35 (1.85%) MPLS
7 34 (1.79%) BGP
8 30 (1.58%) OSPF
9 28 (1.48%) DHCP
9 28 (1.48%) VLAN
10 27 (1.42%) Wireless
11 25 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 24 (1.27%) SD-WAN
12 24 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
13 22 (1.16%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.79%) BIG-IP
14 15 (0.79%) SSL
15 14 (0.74%) IPsec
16 13 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (4.27%) Power BI
2 41 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.16%) Tableau
4 21 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.63%) Metadata
7 10 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.47%) SAP HANA
9 8 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.42%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.32%) Big Data
11 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.26%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.16%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 207 (10.92%) JIRA
2 23 (1.21%) Git
3 14 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.63%) GitLab
5 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.37%) Selenium
6 4 (0.21%) Appium
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%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.11%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.11%) Subversion
8 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 732 (38.63%) Social Skills
2 601 (31.72%) Finance
3 247 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 142 (7.49%) Organisational Skills
6 108 (5.70%) Banking
7 95 (5.01%) Retail
8 81 (4.27%) Legal
9 77 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
10 67 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
11 60 (3.17%) Telecoms
12 54 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
12 54 (2.85%) Manufacturing
13 38 (2.01%) Local Government
14 29 (1.53%) Military
15 28 (1.48%) Marketing
16 22 (1.16%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 18 (0.95%) Publishing
19 16 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 465 (24.54%) Project Manager
2 225 (11.87%) Analyst
3 203 (10.71%) Senior
4 200 (10.55%) Lead
5 115 (6.07%) Business Analyst
6 103 (5.44%) Architect
7 95 (5.01%) Senior Manager
8 81 (4.27%) Consultant
9 80 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
10 76 (4.01%) Network Engineer
10 76 (4.01%) Senior Project Manager
11 75 (3.96%) IT Manager
12 53 (2.80%) Developer
13 52 (2.74%) IT Project Manager
14 49 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 45 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (2.11%) Technical Manager
17 36 (1.90%) Project Officer
17 36 (1.90%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 33 (1.74%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.01%) Middleware
2 30 (1.58%) REST
3 17 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.74%) XML
5 13 (0.69%) .NET
6 12 (0.63%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.63%) OAuth
7 11 (0.58%) ADO
7 11 (0.58%) JSON
8 9 (0.47%) React
8 9 (0.47%) Spring Boot
9 8 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
9 8 (0.42%) Spring
9 8 (0.42%) Web Services
10 7 (0.37%) RESTful
11 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.32%) PySpark
11 6 (0.32%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.32%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 90 (4.75%) Onboarding
3 78 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 66 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 29 (1.53%) Cloud Native
6 29 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (1.42%) Public Cloud
9 26 (1.37%) Operational Technology
10 25 (1.32%) Clustering
11 24 (1.27%) PKI
11 24 (1.27%) Replication
12 23 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (0.84%) NHS
14 16 (0.84%) PMI
15 15 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 107 (5.65%) Windows
2 52 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 41 (2.16%) Linux
4 27 (1.42%) Unix
5 11 (0.58%) Solaris
6 8 (0.42%) AIX
7 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.37%) zOS
8 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.21%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.11%) Android
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.053%) CentOS
13 1 (0.053%) pSOS
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (32.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 578 (30.50%) Agile
3 531 (28.02%) Project Management
4 306 (16.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 298 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
6 295 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 291 (15.36%) Migration
8 246 (12.98%) Change Management
9 224 (11.82%) PRINCE2
10 203 (10.71%) Decision-Making
11 194 (10.24%) Waterfall
12 154 (8.13%) Risk Management
13 149 (7.86%) DevOps
13 149 (7.86%) ITIL
14 144 (7.60%) AI
15 142 (7.49%) Roadmaps
16 120 (6.33%) Scrum
17 119 (6.28%) ERP
18 117 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
19 115 (6.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 110 (5.80%) SQL
2 87 (4.59%) Python
3 53 (2.80%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.16%) Java
5 21 (1.11%) C#
6 19 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.58%) Bash
7 11 (0.58%) VBA
8 9 (0.47%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.42%) Go
9 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.37%) Bicep
10 7 (0.37%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.32%) ABAP
11 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.21%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.16%) C++
14 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 404 (21.32%) Security Cleared
2 290 (15.30%) SC Cleared
3 192 (10.13%) Degree
4 157 (8.28%) PMP
5 123 (6.49%) PMI Certification
6 104 (5.49%) DV Cleared
7 63 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.32%) CCNP
9 38 (2.01%) CCNA
10 36 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.37%) CISSP
12 26 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 20 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 19 (1.00%) Azure Certification
14 19 (1.00%) MCSE
15 17 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
16 16 (0.84%) APMP
16 16 (0.84%) CISM
17 14 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (11.29%) PMO
2 102 (5.38%) QA
3 51 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (2.69%) NIST
4 50 (2.64%) GDPR
5 41 (2.16%) Data Quality
6 26 (1.37%) SLA
7 14 (0.74%) GRC
8 11 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.42%) NCSC
12 7 (0.37%) HL7
12 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.32%) IFRS
13 6 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 85 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 48 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.11%) vSphere
4 20 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (1.00%) Docker
6 16 (0.84%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.58%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.53%) Firmware
9 10 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.16%) OpenAM
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 (2.27%) Ansible
2 40 (2.11%) Terraform
3 27 (1.42%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.00%) FortiGate
6 16 (0.84%) SCCM
6 16 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.37%) Nagios
8 7 (0.37%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.26%) Netcool
9 5 (0.26%) Tivoli
10 3 (0.16%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.16%) Grafana
10 3 (0.16%) Nessus
10 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.16%) Puppet
10 3 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 353 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 121 (6.39%) SAP
3 102 (5.38%) Cisco
4 100 (5.28%) ServiceNow
5 85 (4.49%) Oracle
6 65 (3.43%) VMware
7 51 (2.69%) Palo Alto
8 38 (2.01%) F5
9 36 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.85%) Google
11 34 (1.79%) Fortinet
12 24 (1.27%) SolarWinds
13 23 (1.21%) IBM
14 22 (1.16%) Siemens
15 19 (1.00%) Juniper
16 17 (0.90%) CheckPoint
16 17 (0.90%) Infoblox
16 17 (0.90%) NEC
17 16 (0.84%) Aruba
17 16 (0.84%) Workday