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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 58 57
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,226 1,301 1,377
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.06% 3.93% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 4.35% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,477 837 799
10th Percentile £346 £320 £359
25th Percentile £425 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £710 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 33 39
10th Percentile £24.88 £15.91 £20.25
25th Percentile £37.43 £30.05 £24.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +71.43% -44.00%
75th Percentile £76.94 £65.00 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £84.50 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £52.76 £36.81
% change year-on-year +11.84% +43.34% -39.91%

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 46,293 29,942 32,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 90.52% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,017 18,609 19,950
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,198 1,849 1,396
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £66.00 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.78% -47.67% +1.18%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 1,875 £525 - 3,414
UK excluding London 0 1,190 £500 - 2,230
London +2 819 £550 -4.35% 1,419
Work from Home +6 628 £500 -2.91% 1,472
South East -3 321 £525 -2.33% 598
North of England +10 302 £500 +5.26% 541
North West +9 193 £523 +10.11% 295
Midlands -28 158 £481 -2.24% 368
Scotland +16 149 £450 - 192
South West +1 148 £525 +6.60% 225
West Midlands -16 122 £481 -7.46% 247
Yorkshire -11 86 £485 -7.62% 182
East of England -2 71 £500 -4.76% 191
East Midlands -32 33 £425 -2.30% 120
Wales +1 26 £400 +30.08% 45
North East -18 24 £350 -14.79% 64
Northern Ireland +3 17 £400 -15.79% 92
Channel Islands - 9 £525 - 1

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
1 118 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 112 (5.03%) Confluence
3 37 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.40%) CMS
5 7 (0.31%) Apache
6 6 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.27%) JBoss
6 6 (0.27%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.22%) SAS
8 4 (0.18%) OpenEdge
8 4 (0.18%) WordPress
9 3 (0.13%) Appian
9 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.13%) Kentico
9 3 (0.13%) SAP EP
10 2 (0.090%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.090%) CICS
10 2 (0.090%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 167 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.35%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
4 95 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (1.44%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.76%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.54%) AutoCAD
8 12 (0.54%) Revit
8 12 (0.54%) Trello
9 11 (0.49%) Navisworks
10 9 (0.40%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.13%) Windchill
12 2 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.090%) Houdini
12 2 (0.090%) MicroStation
12 2 (0.090%) NUKE
13 1 (0.045%) CATIA
13 1 (0.045%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 52 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.21%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.63%) Primavera
5 12 (0.54%) Maximo
6 10 (0.45%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.45%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.40%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
7 9 (0.40%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
10 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.27%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.27%) SAP HR
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 348 (15.63%) Azure
2 142 (6.38%) Power Platform
3 141 (6.33%) AWS
4 129 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
5 101 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (4.27%) SaaS
7 74 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 57 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
9 52 (2.34%) GCP
10 32 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.21%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
12 26 (1.17%) OCI
13 24 (1.08%) Google Workspace
14 23 (1.03%) Power Automate
15 22 (0.99%) GitHub
16 21 (0.94%) IaaS
17 17 (0.76%) PaaS
18 13 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
18 13 (0.58%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.20%) Firewall
2 90 (4.04%) DNS
3 85 (3.82%) Network Security
4 84 (3.77%) WAN
5 76 (3.41%) LAN
6 65 (2.92%) VPN
7 50 (2.25%) DHCP
8 46 (2.07%) MPLS
9 44 (1.98%) Wireless
10 40 (1.80%) BGP
11 38 (1.71%) VLAN
11 38 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (1.21%) TCP/IP
13 25 (1.12%) OSPF
14 20 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 19 (0.85%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.72%) SSL
17 14 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (0.63%) Multicast
18 13 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.90%) Power BI
2 41 (1.84%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 14 (0.63%) Metadata
5 11 (0.49%) Tableau
6 9 (0.40%) Big Data
6 9 (0.40%) MongoDB
7 7 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 7 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.31%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
8 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.22%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.22%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 233 (10.47%) JIRA
2 24 (1.08%) Git
3 13 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.54%) GitLab
5 9 (0.40%) MSI
6 5 (0.22%) Selenium
6 5 (0.22%) Subversion
7 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.13%) Gatling
8 3 (0.13%) Hudson
8 3 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.090%) Appium
9 2 (0.090%) JMeter
9 2 (0.090%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.090%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.090%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.090%) TestNG
10 1 (0.045%) PowerBuilder
General
1 932 (41.87%) Social Skills
2 685 (30.77%) Finance
3 284 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
4 234 (10.51%) Public Sector
5 170 (7.64%) Organisational Skills
6 139 (6.24%) Banking
7 99 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
8 91 (4.09%) Legal
9 87 (3.91%) Telecoms
10 85 (3.82%) Retail
11 83 (3.73%) Manufacturing
12 78 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (1.98%) Local Government
15 43 (1.93%) Military
16 36 (1.62%) Front Office
17 35 (1.57%) Law
18 32 (1.44%) Marketing
19 27 (1.21%) Aerospace
20 26 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 500 (22.46%) Project Manager
2 243 (10.92%) Analyst
3 235 (10.56%) Senior
4 209 (9.39%) Lead
5 155 (6.96%) Architect
6 144 (6.47%) Business Analyst
7 138 (6.20%) Consultant
8 102 (4.58%) Senior Manager
9 96 (4.31%) Network Engineer
10 90 (4.04%) Delivery Manager
11 86 (3.86%) Senior Project Manager
12 83 (3.73%) IT Manager
13 68 (3.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 61 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
15 57 (2.56%) IT Project Manager
16 54 (2.43%) Developer
17 47 (2.11%) Technical Manager
18 38 (1.71%) Coordinator
19 37 (1.66%) Project Officer
19 37 (1.66%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.02%) Terraform
2 40 (1.80%) REST
3 34 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.08%) Middleware
5 18 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
6 17 (0.76%) .NET
7 14 (0.63%) SOAP
7 14 (0.63%) XML
8 11 (0.49%) 802.1X
8 11 (0.49%) ADO
8 11 (0.49%) JSON
8 11 (0.49%) LDAP
8 11 (0.49%) OAuth
9 10 (0.45%) HTML
9 10 (0.45%) React
9 10 (0.45%) Web Services
10 9 (0.40%) SAPUI5
11 8 (0.36%) RESTful
11 8 (0.36%) SAML
12 7 (0.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 114 (5.12%) Onboarding
2 110 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 97 (4.36%) Data Centre
3 97 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 50 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 47 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 35 (1.57%) Driving Licence
7 35 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (1.57%) Operational Technology
8 34 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 33 (1.48%) Cloud Native
10 32 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (1.35%) PKI
12 23 (1.03%) Derivative
12 23 (1.03%) Public Cloud
13 22 (0.99%) Clustering
14 20 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.81%) PMI
15 18 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 154 (6.92%) Windows
2 80 (3.59%) Linux
3 74 (3.32%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.57%) Unix
5 18 (0.81%) Solaris
6 15 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.45%) AIX
8 8 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.27%) Android
9 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.18%) zOS
12 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.13%) VMS
12 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.090%) CentOS
13 2 (0.090%) Debian
13 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 976 (43.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 701 (31.49%) Agile
3 586 (26.33%) Project Management
4 417 (18.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 403 (18.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 367 (16.49%) Migration
7 354 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
8 329 (14.78%) Change Management
9 293 (13.16%) PRINCE2
10 250 (11.23%) Decision-Making
11 236 (10.60%) Waterfall
12 220 (9.88%) Risk Management
13 201 (9.03%) ITIL
14 195 (8.76%) Roadmaps
15 189 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
16 187 (8.40%) DevOps
17 184 (8.27%) AI
18 180 (8.09%) Project Governance
19 179 (8.04%) Workshop Facilitation
20 164 (7.37%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 103 (4.63%) SQL
2 98 (4.40%) Python
3 79 (3.55%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.17%) Java
5 23 (1.03%) Bash
6 19 (0.85%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.76%) C#
8 16 (0.72%) VBA
9 14 (0.63%) ABAP
10 8 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.31%) Korn
11 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.27%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.18%) Search Processing Language
13 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.13%) Scala
14 3 (0.13%) VB6
Qualifications
1 521 (23.41%) Security Cleared
2 382 (17.16%) SC Cleared
3 214 (9.61%) Degree
4 165 (7.41%) PMP
5 148 (6.65%) PMI Certification
6 132 (5.93%) DV Cleared
7 73 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
8 50 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (2.16%) CCNP
10 41 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.71%) Azure Certification
12 37 (1.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 34 (1.53%) CCNA
14 28 (1.26%) CISSP
15 21 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 18 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.81%) MCSE
16 18 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
17 15 (0.67%) CCIE
18 14 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (10.51%) PMO
2 102 (4.58%) QA
3 61 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.43%) GDPR
4 54 (2.43%) NIST
5 49 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.35%) SLA
7 26 (1.17%) GRC
8 20 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.76%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.45%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.36%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.36%) NCSC
13 7 (0.31%) P3O
13 7 (0.31%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.22%) GxP
15 5 (0.22%) IFRS
15 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 117 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 94 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (1.48%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.39%) vSphere
5 23 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (0.94%) Docker
7 17 (0.76%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.49%) Firmware
11 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.13%) Squid
11 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.090%) Ceph
12 2 (0.090%) IAG
12 2 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.090%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.045%) RACF
Systems Management
1 51 (2.29%) Ansible
2 37 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.03%) SCCM
5 19 (0.85%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.72%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.58%) Cisco Prime
9 9 (0.40%) SCOM
9 9 (0.40%) WMI
10 8 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.36%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.36%) Puppet
11 7 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.27%) Nagios
12 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.22%) Nessus
13 5 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 512 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 166 (7.46%) SAP
3 161 (7.23%) Cisco
4 124 (5.57%) ServiceNow
5 118 (5.30%) VMware
6 103 (4.63%) Oracle
7 55 (2.47%) Palo Alto
8 51 (2.29%) Fortinet
9 48 (2.16%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.89%) F5
11 38 (1.71%) Google
12 33 (1.48%) Workday
13 31 (1.39%) Juniper
14 29 (1.30%) IBM
15 28 (1.26%) SolarWinds
16 26 (1.17%) Ariba
16 26 (1.17%) Siemens
17 24 (1.08%) Databricks
18 22 (0.99%) Splunk
18 22 (0.99%) Zscaler