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

 6 months to
24 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 60 58
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,213 1,302 1,362
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.03% 3.95% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 4.36% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,461 841 790
10th Percentile £340 £320 £356
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% -0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 33 39
10th Percentile £23.86 £15.91 £20.25
25th Percentile £36.07 £30.05 £24.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +57.14% -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 £51.00 £36.81
% change year-on-year +15.69% +38.57% -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 46,342 29,835 32,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.41% 90.50% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,074 18,533 19,873
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
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 £626 £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 3,192 1,836 1,405
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.32 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 1,862 £525 - 3,298
UK excluding London -1 1,178 £500 - 2,178
London +1 821 £550 - 1,351
Work from Home +3 628 £500 -2.50% 1,395
South East -1 312 £525 -2.33% 590
North of England +11 297 £500 +5.26% 529
North West +10 191 £512 +7.68% 288
Midlands -27 158 £478 -2.15% 355
Scotland +17 151 £450 - 201
South West -2 149 £525 +5.00% 219
West Midlands -16 121 £481 -7.46% 232
Yorkshire -8 83 £485 -7.62% 178
East of England +4 70 £500 -4.76% 170
East Midlands -31 34 £425 -2.30% 122
Wales +1 26 £400 +30.08% 48
North East -23 24 £350 -14.79% 63
Northern Ireland +4 17 £400 -15.79% 87
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
1 117 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 111 (5.02%) Confluence
3 36 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.41%) CMS
5 7 (0.32%) Apache
6 6 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.27%) JBoss
6 6 (0.27%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.23%) SAS
8 4 (0.18%) OpenEdge
8 4 (0.18%) WordPress
9 3 (0.14%) Appian
9 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.14%) Kentico
9 3 (0.14%) SAP EP
10 2 (0.090%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.090%) CICS
10 2 (0.090%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 168 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (5.42%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
4 97 (4.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.77%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.54%) Trello
9 11 (0.50%) AutoCAD
9 11 (0.50%) Navisworks
9 11 (0.50%) Revit
10 9 (0.41%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.14%) Windchill
12 2 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.090%) Houdini
12 2 (0.090%) NUKE
13 1 (0.045%) CATIA
13 1 (0.045%) Civil 3D
13 1 (0.045%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 53 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.22%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.04%) 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 (0.41%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
7 9 (0.41%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.32%) 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 (0.23%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 340 (15.36%) Azure
2 139 (6.28%) Power Platform
3 137 (6.19%) AWS
4 128 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
5 99 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (4.25%) SaaS
7 73 (3.30%) Entra ID
8 53 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
9 51 (2.30%) GCP
10 30 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
11 26 (1.17%) OCI
11 26 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
12 25 (1.13%) PowerApps
13 24 (1.08%) Google Workspace
14 23 (1.04%) GitHub
15 21 (0.95%) IaaS
15 21 (0.95%) Power Automate
16 17 (0.77%) PaaS
17 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (0.59%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 139 (6.28%) Firewall
2 87 (3.93%) DNS
3 85 (3.84%) WAN
4 84 (3.80%) Network Security
5 76 (3.43%) LAN
6 66 (2.98%) VPN
7 47 (2.12%) DHCP
8 46 (2.08%) MPLS
9 44 (1.99%) Wireless
10 43 (1.94%) BGP
11 39 (1.76%) VLAN
12 38 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (1.27%) OSPF
13 28 (1.27%) TCP/IP
14 22 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 20 (0.90%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.72%) SSL
17 14 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (0.63%) IPsec
17 14 (0.63%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (4.88%) Power BI
2 39 (1.76%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.63%) Metadata
5 13 (0.59%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.45%) Tableau
7 9 (0.41%) Big Data
7 9 (0.41%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 7 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.32%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.23%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.23%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 234 (10.57%) JIRA
2 24 (1.08%) Git
3 13 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.54%) GitLab
5 8 (0.36%) MSI
6 5 (0.23%) Selenium
6 5 (0.23%) Subversion
7 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.14%) Hudson
8 3 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.090%) Appium
9 2 (0.090%) Gatling
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%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.045%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.045%) JMeter
General
1 923 (41.71%) Social Skills
2 683 (30.86%) Finance
3 285 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 171 (7.73%) Organisational Skills
6 140 (6.33%) Banking
7 101 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
8 91 (4.11%) Legal
9 90 (4.07%) Retail
10 88 (3.98%) Telecoms
11 82 (3.71%) Manufacturing
12 78 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
13 66 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (1.99%) Local Government
15 43 (1.94%) Military
16 36 (1.63%) Front Office
17 35 (1.58%) Law
18 32 (1.45%) Marketing
19 27 (1.22%) Aerospace
20 24 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 499 (22.55%) Project Manager
2 247 (11.16%) Analyst
3 236 (10.66%) Senior
4 208 (9.40%) Lead
5 153 (6.91%) Architect
6 147 (6.64%) Business Analyst
7 136 (6.15%) Consultant
8 104 (4.70%) Senior Manager
9 96 (4.34%) Network Engineer
10 92 (4.16%) Delivery Manager
11 88 (3.98%) Senior Project Manager
12 82 (3.71%) IT Manager
13 67 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 61 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
15 56 (2.53%) IT Project Manager
16 52 (2.35%) Developer
17 46 (2.08%) Technical Manager
18 38 (1.72%) Transformation Manager
19 37 (1.67%) Coordinator
19 37 (1.67%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.08%) Terraform
2 38 (1.72%) REST
3 33 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.08%) Middleware
5 18 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
6 14 (0.63%) .NET
7 12 (0.54%) SOAP
7 12 (0.54%) XML
8 11 (0.50%) 802.1X
8 11 (0.50%) ADO
8 11 (0.50%) JSON
8 11 (0.50%) LDAP
8 11 (0.50%) OAuth
9 10 (0.45%) React
9 10 (0.45%) Web Services
10 9 (0.41%) SAPUI5
11 8 (0.36%) HTML
11 8 (0.36%) RESTful
11 8 (0.36%) SAML
12 7 (0.32%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 114 (5.15%) Onboarding
2 109 (4.93%) Management Information System
3 98 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 95 (4.29%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 47 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.76%) Virtual Team
8 35 (1.58%) Driving Licence
8 35 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (1.58%) Operational Technology
9 34 (1.54%) Cloud Native
9 34 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 31 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (1.36%) PKI
12 23 (1.04%) Derivative
12 23 (1.04%) Public Cloud
13 21 (0.95%) Clustering
14 20 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.81%) PMI
15 18 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 151 (6.82%) Windows
2 79 (3.57%) Linux
3 74 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.49%) Unix
5 16 (0.72%) Solaris
6 15 (0.68%) 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 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.18%) zOS
12 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.14%) VMS
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.090%) CentOS
13 2 (0.090%) Debian
13 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.045%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 962 (43.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 695 (31.41%) Agile
3 590 (26.66%) Project Management
4 410 (18.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 401 (18.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 360 (16.27%) Migration
7 351 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
8 327 (14.78%) Change Management
9 292 (13.19%) PRINCE2
10 249 (11.25%) Decision-Making
11 238 (10.75%) Waterfall
12 218 (9.85%) Risk Management
13 203 (9.17%) ITIL
14 194 (8.77%) Roadmaps
15 183 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
15 183 (8.27%) DevOps
16 181 (8.18%) AI
17 179 (8.09%) Project Governance
17 179 (8.09%) Workshop Facilitation
18 163 (7.37%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 101 (4.56%) SQL
2 96 (4.34%) Python
3 78 (3.52%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.17%) Java
5 23 (1.04%) Bash
6 17 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 15 (0.68%) C#
7 15 (0.68%) VBA
8 14 (0.63%) ABAP
9 8 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.32%) Korn
10 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.18%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.14%) Bicep
13 3 (0.14%) C++
13 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 509 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 372 (16.81%) SC Cleared
3 215 (9.72%) Degree
4 167 (7.55%) PMP
5 150 (6.78%) PMI Certification
6 129 (5.83%) DV Cleared
7 73 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
8 50 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (2.17%) CCNP
10 41 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.72%) Azure Certification
11 38 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 35 (1.58%) CCNA
13 28 (1.27%) CISSP
14 21 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.81%) MCSE
15 18 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.68%) CCIE
17 14 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (10.71%) PMO
2 98 (4.43%) QA
3 60 (2.71%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.44%) GDPR
4 54 (2.44%) NIST
5 49 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.36%) SLA
7 26 (1.17%) GRC
8 20 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (0.72%) 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 (0.32%) P3O
13 7 (0.32%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.23%) GxP
15 5 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 114 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 91 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (1.40%) vSphere
4 30 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 23 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (0.95%) Docker
7 17 (0.77%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.50%) Firmware
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.14%) Squid
12 2 (0.090%) Ceph
12 2 (0.090%) IAG
12 2 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.090%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.045%) oVirt
13 1 (0.045%) RACF
13 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (2.35%) Ansible
2 35 (1.58%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.04%) SCCM
5 21 (0.95%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.72%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
9 9 (0.41%) SCOM
10 8 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.36%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.36%) Puppet
10 8 (0.36%) WMI
11 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.27%) Nagios
11 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.23%) Grafana
12 5 (0.23%) Nessus
12 5 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 505 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 166 (7.50%) SAP
3 162 (7.32%) Cisco
4 124 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 115 (5.20%) VMware
6 100 (4.52%) Oracle
7 56 (2.53%) Palo Alto
8 53 (2.39%) Fortinet
9 47 (2.12%) Salesforce
10 44 (1.99%) F5
11 38 (1.72%) Google
12 33 (1.49%) Workday
13 31 (1.40%) Juniper
14 29 (1.31%) IBM
15 28 (1.27%) SolarWinds
16 26 (1.17%) Ariba
16 26 (1.17%) Siemens
17 24 (1.08%) Databricks
18 23 (1.04%) Zscaler
19 22 (0.99%) Splunk
3,931 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide