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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 57 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,895 1,196 1,594
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 3.98% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 4.37% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 747 1,009
10th Percentile £330 £337 £356
25th Percentile £416 £421 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £634 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £511
% change year-on-year - -5.13% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 21 45
10th Percentile £16.98 £36.00 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.98 £50.76 £24.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £65.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +82.33% -40.58%
75th Percentile £67.89 £77.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.50 £66.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.04 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -39.94% +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 43,234 27,342 36,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 91.04% 85.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,976 17,315 23,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,595 1,301 2,587
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.65
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.79 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.08 £38.12
% change year-on-year +77.47% -34.22% +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 1,667 £515 -1.90% 777
UK excluding London +4 1,064 £485 - 706
London -5 696 £550 -4.35% 239
Work from Home -3 542 £514 +0.02% 386
North of England +6 282 £475 +5.56% 144
South East +10 262 £525 - 240
North West +19 190 £475 +4.11% 85
Midlands -10 190 £475 -7.23% 109
South West +8 150 £485 -9.77% 86
West Midlands -12 137 £475 -9.07% 63
Scotland -1 109 £463 +1.87% 30
Yorkshire -22 75 £500 +9.89% 43
East of England -5 57 £500 +17.65% 70
East Midlands -5 51 £415 -6.21% 46
North East -21 19 £350 -3.45% 21
Wales -6 15 £475 +65.22% 29
Northern Ireland -1 11 £280 -46.76% 22
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
1 112 (5.91%) Confluence
2 107 (5.65%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.37%) 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%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.16%) WordPress
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 162 (8.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (5.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 101 (5.33%) Microsoft Project
4 88 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.21%) 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 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.053%) CATIA
10 1 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 40 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.42%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.47%) Primavera
5 8 (0.42%) Maximo
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
6 6 (0.32%) SAP SD
6 6 (0.32%) Summit
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.26%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 221 (11.66%) Azure
2 107 (5.65%) AWS
3 99 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 96 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (3.69%) SaaS
6 53 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (2.53%) Entra ID
8 32 (1.69%) GCP
9 29 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.32%) GitHub
11 23 (1.21%) Google Workspace
12 22 (1.16%) IaaS
13 20 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
14 17 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (0.84%) PowerApps
15 16 (0.84%) Serverless
16 14 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (0.74%) Amazon S3
16 14 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
17 13 (0.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (5.59%) Firewall
2 71 (3.75%) DNS
3 58 (3.06%) WAN
4 57 (3.01%) Network Security
5 52 (2.74%) LAN
6 44 (2.32%) VPN
7 33 (1.74%) BGP
7 33 (1.74%) MPLS
8 30 (1.58%) OSPF
9 28 (1.48%) VLAN
10 27 (1.42%) DHCP
11 24 (1.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 24 (1.27%) Wireless
12 22 (1.16%) SD-WAN
12 22 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (1.06%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.79%) SSL
15 14 (0.74%) BIG-IP
15 14 (0.74%) IPsec
16 13 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (4.27%) Power BI
2 42 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.53%) Tableau
4 23 (1.21%) 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 8 (0.42%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.42%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.32%) Big Data
10 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.26%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
13 3 (0.16%) GIS
Development Applications
1 210 (11.08%) JIRA
2 22 (1.16%) Git
3 15 (0.79%) 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%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.053%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.053%) Postman
General
1 732 (38.63%) Social Skills
2 599 (31.61%) Finance
3 247 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (11.56%) Public Sector
5 140 (7.39%) Organisational Skills
6 119 (6.28%) Banking
7 90 (4.75%) Retail
8 83 (4.38%) Legal
9 78 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
10 68 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
11 56 (2.96%) Telecoms
12 52 (2.74%) Manufacturing
13 51 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
14 38 (2.01%) Local Government
15 30 (1.58%) Military
16 27 (1.42%) Marketing
17 22 (1.16%) Investment Banking
18 20 (1.06%) Financial Institution
19 18 (0.95%) Publishing
20 16 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 464 (24.49%) Project Manager
2 225 (11.87%) Analyst
3 205 (10.82%) Lead
4 200 (10.55%) Senior
5 119 (6.28%) Business Analyst
6 104 (5.49%) Architect
7 94 (4.96%) Senior Manager
8 81 (4.27%) Consultant
8 81 (4.27%) Delivery Manager
9 76 (4.01%) Network Engineer
10 75 (3.96%) IT Manager
10 75 (3.96%) Senior Project Manager
11 52 (2.74%) Developer
11 52 (2.74%) IT Project Manager
12 50 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
13 48 (2.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 40 (2.11%) Technical Manager
15 36 (1.90%) Project Officer
15 36 (1.90%) SC Cleared Project Manager
16 34 (1.79%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.06%) Middleware
2 29 (1.53%) REST
3 19 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.79%) XML
5 13 (0.69%) .NET
6 11 (0.58%) 802.1X
6 11 (0.58%) JSON
7 10 (0.53%) ADO
7 10 (0.53%) OAuth
8 9 (0.47%) React
8 9 (0.47%) Spring Boot
9 8 (0.42%) Spring
9 8 (0.42%) Web Services
10 7 (0.37%) RESTful
10 7 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.32%) CSS
11 6 (0.32%) PySpark
11 6 (0.32%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.28%) Management Information System
2 88 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 76 (4.01%) Data Centre
4 71 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 30 (1.58%) Cloud Native
7 30 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (1.42%) Public Cloud
9 26 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 25 (1.32%) Clustering
11 24 (1.27%) Replication
12 23 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 23 (1.21%) Operational Technology
13 21 (1.11%) PKI
14 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (0.84%) PMI
16 15 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 104 (5.49%) Windows
2 50 (2.64%) Windows Server
3 41 (2.16%) Linux
4 28 (1.48%) Unix
5 12 (0.63%) Solaris
6 8 (0.42%) AIX
6 8 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.37%) zOS
8 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.32%) VMS
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.11%) Android
11 2 (0.11%) Debian
12 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.053%) CentOS
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (31.93%) Stakeholder Management
2 574 (30.29%) Agile
3 534 (28.18%) Project Management
4 302 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
5 299 (15.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 295 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 292 (15.41%) Migration
8 241 (12.72%) Change Management
9 224 (11.82%) PRINCE2
10 202 (10.66%) Decision-Making
11 190 (10.03%) Waterfall
12 157 (8.28%) DevOps
13 152 (8.02%) Risk Management
14 147 (7.76%) ITIL
15 140 (7.39%) AI
16 135 (7.12%) Roadmaps
17 121 (6.39%) Scrum
18 120 (6.33%) ERP
19 117 (6.17%) Validation
20 115 (6.07%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.86%) SQL
2 86 (4.54%) Python
3 52 (2.74%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.16%) Java
5 21 (1.11%) C#
6 18 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.58%) Bash
8 10 (0.53%) VBA
9 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.42%) Go
10 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.37%) Bicep
12 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.26%) ABAP
13 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.21%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.16%) C++
15 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 406 (21.42%) Security Cleared
2 294 (15.51%) SC Cleared
3 188 (9.92%) Degree
4 157 (8.28%) PMP
5 122 (6.44%) PMI Certification
6 101 (5.33%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (2.27%) CCNP
9 38 (2.01%) CCNA
10 34 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.37%) CISSP
13 25 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 19 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
15 18 (0.95%) APMP
15 18 (0.95%) Azure Certification
15 18 (0.95%) MCSE
15 18 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (0.84%) CISM
17 15 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (11.29%) PMO
2 100 (5.28%) QA
3 52 (2.74%) NIST
4 51 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.53%) GDPR
6 40 (2.11%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.21%) SLA
8 14 (0.74%) GRC
9 10 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.47%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.42%) IFRS
12 7 (0.37%) HL7
12 7 (0.37%) NCSC
12 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.32%) Basel III
13 6 (0.32%) GAAP
14 5 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 80 (4.22%) Active Directory
2 45 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.06%) vSphere
4 19 (1.00%) Docker
4 19 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.53%) Firmware
8 10 (0.53%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.16%) Squid
11 2 (0.11%) Ceph
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.053%) ACF2
12 1 (0.053%) KVM
12 1 (0.053%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.053%) RACF
12 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 44 (2.32%) Ansible
2 42 (2.22%) Terraform
3 30 (1.58%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.90%) FortiGate
6 15 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.69%) SCCM
8 12 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.37%) Nagios
9 7 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.26%) Netcool
10 5 (0.26%) 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%) Packer
12 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 347 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 127 (6.70%) SAP
3 99 (5.22%) Cisco
4 98 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 88 (4.64%) Oracle
6 61 (3.22%) VMware
7 52 (2.74%) Palo Alto
8 36 (1.90%) F5
8 36 (1.90%) Google
8 36 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 31 (1.64%) Fortinet
10 24 (1.27%) IBM
11 23 (1.21%) Siemens
11 23 (1.21%) SolarWinds
12 19 (1.00%) Workday
13 18 (0.95%) CheckPoint
13 18 (0.95%) Juniper
14 17 (0.90%) Aruba
14 17 (0.90%) Infoblox
14 17 (0.90%) NEC