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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 59 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,027 1,304 1,468
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.82% 3.98% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 4.40% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,369 843 910
10th Percentile £325 £321 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £611 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 22 42
10th Percentile £22.44 £26.22 £22.55
25th Percentile £35.37 £33.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +34.34% -36.53%
75th Percentile £79.63 £74.73 £55.79
90th Percentile £91.10 £82.13 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +7.83% +40.45% -41.51%

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 45,107 29,668 33,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 90.46% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,893 18,635 21,816
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,744 1,629 1,969
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.66 £17.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year +83.17% -40.48% +0.81%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +6 1,759 £515 -1.90% 1,128
UK excluding London 0 1,117 £500 +1.63% 847
London +1 753 £541 -4.83% 433
Work from Home +2 597 £500 -3.10% 494
South East -3 295 £525 -2.33% 272
North of England +7 274 £485 +2.11% 230
North West +7 182 £485 +2.11% 127
South West +4 173 £485 +3.52% 119
Midlands -20 166 £475 +5.56% 124
West Midlands -23 131 £475 -7.77% 77
Scotland +7 119 £450 -4.76% 40
Yorkshire -38 72 £500 - 69
East of England +7 61 £500 +5.26% 58
East Midlands -20 33 £413 -3.40% 47
Wales 0 25 £500 +73.91% 21
North East -27 21 £350 -3.45% 36
Northern Ireland +1 14 £334 -29.68% 7
Channel Islands - 1 £550 -

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
1 116 (5.72%) SharePoint
2 110 (5.43%) Confluence
3 39 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.30%) Apache
4 6 (0.30%) CMS
4 6 (0.30%) SAS
5 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
5 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.15%) Appian
6 3 (0.15%) CICS
6 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.15%) JBoss
6 3 (0.15%) Kentico
6 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.15%) WordPress
7 2 (0.099%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.099%) Camunda
7 2 (0.099%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 153 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (5.72%) Microsoft Project
3 95 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
4 90 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.73%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.79%) Siemens NX
7 14 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.39%) Trello
9 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.20%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.20%) Revit
11 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.099%) Houdini
12 2 (0.099%) NUKE
13 1 (0.049%) CATIA
13 1 (0.049%) ProjectWise
13 1 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 48 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.09%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.64%) Primavera
5 10 (0.49%) Maximo
6 8 (0.39%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.39%) SAP SD
7 7 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.35%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.30%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
8 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.25%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.20%) Magento
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
10 4 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 290 (14.31%) Azure
2 132 (6.51%) AWS
3 112 (5.53%) Power Platform
4 104 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 83 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (3.65%) SaaS
7 62 (3.06%) Entra ID
8 44 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
9 37 (1.83%) GCP
10 30 (1.48%) GitHub
11 26 (1.28%) Google Workspace
11 26 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
12 25 (1.23%) PowerApps
13 24 (1.18%) IaaS
14 23 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
15 22 (1.09%) Power Automate
16 20 (0.99%) OCI
17 18 (0.89%) OneDrive
18 15 (0.74%) Amazon S3
18 15 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 129 (6.36%) Firewall
2 89 (4.39%) DNS
3 74 (3.65%) WAN
4 68 (3.35%) LAN
5 64 (3.16%) Network Security
6 61 (3.01%) VPN
7 48 (2.37%) MPLS
8 45 (2.22%) BGP
9 39 (1.92%) DHCP
10 36 (1.78%) VLAN
11 34 (1.68%) OSPF
11 34 (1.68%) Wireless
12 32 (1.58%) TCP/IP
12 32 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 24 (1.18%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.74%) IPsec
16 14 (0.69%) BIG-IP
16 14 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
16 14 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.19%) Power BI
2 47 (2.32%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (0.69%) Tableau
5 11 (0.54%) Metadata
5 11 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.39%) Big Data
8 8 (0.39%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.30%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.25%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 215 (10.61%) JIRA
2 30 (1.48%) Git
3 16 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.69%) GitLab
5 9 (0.44%) Selenium
6 8 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.25%) Subversion
8 4 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.15%) Appium
9 3 (0.15%) JMeter
9 3 (0.15%) MSTest
9 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.099%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.099%) Hudson
10 2 (0.099%) MSI
10 2 (0.099%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.099%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.099%) TestNG
11 1 (0.049%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.049%) Postman
General
1 826 (40.75%) Social Skills
2 640 (31.57%) Finance
3 266 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 145 (7.15%) Organisational Skills
6 103 (5.08%) Banking
7 101 (4.98%) Retail
8 94 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
9 92 (4.54%) Legal
10 81 (4.00%) Telecoms
11 61 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
12 55 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
12 55 (2.71%) Manufacturing
13 42 (2.07%) Local Government
14 34 (1.68%) Military
15 33 (1.63%) Marketing
16 23 (1.13%) Law
17 22 (1.09%) Investment Banking
18 21 (1.04%) Financial Institution
19 20 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 478 (23.58%) Project Manager
2 227 (11.20%) Analyst
3 220 (10.85%) Senior
4 197 (9.72%) Lead
5 118 (5.82%) Architect
5 118 (5.82%) Business Analyst
6 111 (5.48%) Consultant
7 99 (4.88%) Senior Manager
8 90 (4.44%) Network Engineer
9 85 (4.19%) IT Manager
10 84 (4.14%) Delivery Manager
11 82 (4.05%) Senior Project Manager
12 61 (3.01%) Developer
13 57 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 57 (2.81%) IT Project Manager
14 45 (2.22%) Technical Manager
15 42 (2.07%) Project Officer
15 42 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (1.97%) Infrastructure Manager
17 37 (1.83%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.63%) REST
2 31 (1.53%) Middleware
3 22 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.84%) .NET
5 13 (0.64%) 802.1X
5 13 (0.64%) JSON
5 13 (0.64%) XML
6 11 (0.54%) OAuth
6 11 (0.54%) React
6 11 (0.54%) SAP Fiori
7 10 (0.49%) ADO
7 10 (0.49%) Web Services
8 8 (0.39%) SAP Basis
9 7 (0.35%) .NET Framework
9 7 (0.35%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.35%) Playwright
9 7 (0.35%) PySpark
9 7 (0.35%) RESTful
9 7 (0.35%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.30%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 99 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 85 (4.19%) Data Centre
4 80 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.02%) Virtual Team
6 38 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (1.68%) Operational Technology
7 34 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (1.53%) Cloud Native
10 28 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.23%) Driving Licence
13 24 (1.18%) PKI
14 23 (1.13%) Clustering
15 21 (1.04%) Replication
16 20 (0.99%) PMI
17 19 (0.94%) Data Structures
18 18 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (6.07%) Windows
2 59 (2.91%) Windows Server
3 58 (2.86%) Linux
4 27 (1.33%) Unix
5 11 (0.54%) Solaris
6 10 (0.49%) AIX
7 8 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.35%) zOS
9 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.20%) Android
10 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.099%) Debian
12 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.049%) CentOS
13 1 (0.049%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (36.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 617 (30.44%) Agile
3 543 (26.79%) Project Management
4 354 (17.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 348 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 327 (16.13%) Migration
7 306 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
8 294 (14.50%) Change Management
9 256 (12.63%) PRINCE2
10 225 (11.10%) Decision-Making
11 211 (10.41%) Waterfall
12 181 (8.93%) ITIL
13 176 (8.68%) Risk Management
13 176 (8.68%) Roadmaps
14 172 (8.49%) AI
15 170 (8.39%) DevOps
16 139 (6.86%) Scrum
17 138 (6.81%) Cybersecurity
17 138 (6.81%) User Acceptance Testing
17 138 (6.81%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 112 (5.53%) SQL
2 100 (4.93%) Python
3 62 (3.06%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.13%) Java
5 20 (0.99%) C#
6 19 (0.94%) Bash
7 18 (0.89%) JavaScript
8 14 (0.69%) VBA
9 10 (0.49%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.39%) ABAP
10 8 (0.39%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.35%) Bicep
11 7 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.30%) Korn
12 6 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.25%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.20%) C++
14 4 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 458 (22.59%) Security Cleared
2 331 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 199 (9.82%) Degree
4 156 (7.70%) PMP
5 136 (6.71%) PMI Certification
6 116 (5.72%) DV Cleared
7 70 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (2.22%) CCNP
9 43 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 43 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (2.02%) CCNA
11 31 (1.53%) Azure Certification
11 31 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 28 (1.38%) CISSP
13 19 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.89%) MCSE
15 17 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (0.79%) CISM
17 14 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
18 13 (0.64%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (11.20%) PMO
2 96 (4.74%) QA
3 57 (2.81%) NIST
4 54 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (2.61%) GDPR
6 42 (2.07%) Data Quality
7 34 (1.68%) SLA
8 21 (1.04%) GRC
9 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.49%) NCSC
10 10 (0.49%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 6 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.30%) HL7
12 6 (0.30%) IFRS
12 6 (0.30%) P3O
12 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.25%) GxP
13 5 (0.25%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 101 (4.98%) Active Directory
2 57 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.18%) Docker
4 20 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.89%) vSphere
6 17 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.54%) Firmware
8 11 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.15%) Squid
12 2 (0.099%) Ceph
12 2 (0.099%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.049%) ACF2
13 1 (0.049%) KVM
13 1 (0.049%) RACF
13 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (2.52%) Terraform
2 49 (2.42%) Ansible
3 30 (1.48%) Kubernetes
4 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.09%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.84%) SCCM
7 14 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.69%) vCenter Server
8 8 (0.39%) Nagios
9 7 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
9 7 (0.35%) ZABBIX
10 6 (0.30%) Puppet
10 6 (0.30%) SCOM
11 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.25%) Netcool
11 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
12 4 (0.20%) Grafana
12 4 (0.20%) Nessus
12 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.15%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 409 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 138 (6.81%) SAP
3 128 (6.31%) Cisco
4 112 (5.53%) ServiceNow
5 87 (4.29%) Oracle
6 81 (4.00%) VMware
7 51 (2.52%) Palo Alto
8 45 (2.22%) F5
9 44 (2.17%) Fortinet
10 40 (1.97%) Google
11 38 (1.87%) Salesforce
12 28 (1.38%) Juniper
13 27 (1.33%) SolarWinds
14 25 (1.23%) IBM
15 22 (1.09%) Workday
15 22 (1.09%) Zscaler
16 20 (0.99%) NEC
17 18 (0.89%) Siemens
17 18 (0.89%) Splunk
18 17 (0.84%) Infoblox