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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 58 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,857 1,158 1,616
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 3.96% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.35% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,268 719 1,024
10th Percentile £330 £349 £357
25th Percentile £415 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -0.92% -7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 17 39
10th Percentile £16.35 £34.00 £20.98
25th Percentile £23.56 £55.00 £26.47
Median hourly rate £40.02 £65.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -38.43% +82.33% -40.58%
75th Percentile £77.19 £77.50 £41.60
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.50 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £67.58 £40.94
% change year-on-year -45.25% +65.07% -35.78%

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 41,928 26,614 37,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.71% 90.94% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,175 16,900 23,706
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 2,525 1,165 2,567
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +6 1,650 £513 -2.38% 1,074
UK excluding London +5 1,043 £483 -0.92% 779
London 0 687 £550 -4.18% 400
Work from Home +2 533 £525 - 500
North of England +22 300 £477 +6.06% 167
South East +10 245 £525 - 252
North West +27 203 £475 +5.56% 96
Midlands -8 193 £470 -8.20% 126
South West +11 144 £500 - 104
West Midlands -18 137 £475 -9.07% 83
Scotland -4 96 £475 +5.56% 34
Yorkshire -17 81 £500 +5.26% 55
East of England 0 56 £500 +17.65% 68
East Midlands -8 55 £407 -8.89% 43
North East -14 18 £350 -3.45% 20
Wales -4 16 £463 +42.31% 20
Northern Ireland -1 5 £225 -57.14% 27
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 (6.03%) Confluence
2 101 (5.44%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.48%) CMS
5 6 (0.32%) SAS
6 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.22%) Apache
7 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.22%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Camunda
8 3 (0.16%) CICS
8 3 (0.16%) Kentico
8 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
8 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 156 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (5.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 101 (5.44%) Microsoft Project
4 88 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (1.72%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.35%) Siemens NX
7 8 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Revit
9 4 (0.22%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 39 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.56%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.43%) Primavera
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
7 5 (0.27%) Maximo
7 5 (0.27%) Shopify
7 5 (0.27%) Summit
8 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.16%) Endur
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 215 (11.58%) Azure
2 100 (5.39%) AWS
3 97 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 95 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (3.66%) SaaS
6 53 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (2.42%) Entra ID
8 31 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.67%) GCP
9 23 (1.24%) GitHub
9 23 (1.24%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.13%) IaaS
11 18 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
12 17 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.75%) PowerApps
14 13 (0.70%) Serverless
15 12 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (0.65%) Amazon S3
16 11 (0.59%) OneDrive
16 11 (0.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (5.92%) Firewall
2 69 (3.72%) DNS
3 55 (2.96%) Network Security
4 50 (2.69%) WAN
5 45 (2.42%) LAN
6 33 (1.78%) VPN
7 28 (1.51%) BGP
7 28 (1.51%) VLAN
8 27 (1.45%) MPLS
8 27 (1.45%) OSPF
9 24 (1.29%) DHCP
10 21 (1.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 20 (1.08%) SD-WAN
12 19 (1.02%) TCP/IP
13 18 (0.97%) Wireless
14 17 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (0.86%) SSL
16 13 (0.70%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.70%) SAN
17 12 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (4.09%) Power BI
2 41 (2.21%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.56%) Tableau
4 24 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (0.70%) Metadata
8 10 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.43%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.32%) Big Data
12 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.16%) GIS
Development Applications
1 204 (10.99%) JIRA
2 18 (0.97%) Git
3 17 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.59%) GitLab
5 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.32%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) Appium
7 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
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%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.054%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.054%) LSMW
9 1 (0.054%) NUnit
9 1 (0.054%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.054%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 697 (37.53%) Social Skills
2 572 (30.80%) Finance
3 243 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (10.82%) Public Sector
5 134 (7.22%) Organisational Skills
6 122 (6.57%) Banking
7 88 (4.74%) Retail
8 77 (4.15%) Legal
9 72 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
10 64 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (2.64%) Telecoms
12 47 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
13 46 (2.48%) Manufacturing
14 32 (1.72%) Local Government
15 27 (1.45%) Marketing
16 25 (1.35%) Military
17 24 (1.29%) Investment Banking
18 18 (0.97%) Financial Institution
19 17 (0.92%) Publishing
20 16 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 472 (25.42%) Project Manager
2 221 (11.90%) Analyst
3 193 (10.39%) Lead
4 184 (9.91%) Senior
5 129 (6.95%) Business Analyst
6 99 (5.33%) Architect
7 87 (4.68%) Senior Manager
8 78 (4.20%) Consultant
8 78 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
9 72 (3.88%) Network Engineer
10 71 (3.82%) Senior Project Manager
11 70 (3.77%) IT Manager
12 52 (2.80%) IT Project Manager
13 50 (2.69%) Developer
14 48 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (2.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 40 (2.15%) Technical Manager
17 38 (2.05%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 32 (1.72%) Programme Manager
18 32 (1.72%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.26%) Middleware
2 30 (1.62%) REST
3 19 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.92%) XML
5 13 (0.70%) .NET
6 12 (0.65%) JSON
7 11 (0.59%) ADO
8 10 (0.54%) OAuth
8 10 (0.54%) Spring Boot
9 9 (0.48%) React
9 9 (0.48%) Spring
9 9 (0.48%) Web Services
10 8 (0.43%) CSS
11 7 (0.38%) 802.1X
11 7 (0.38%) HTML
12 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.32%) RESTful
12 6 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
13 5 (0.27%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.17%) Management Information System
2 77 (4.15%) Onboarding
3 75 (4.04%) Data Centre
4 73 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 34 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 31 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 28 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.51%) Replication
9 27 (1.45%) Clustering
9 27 (1.45%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.35%) Cloud Native
11 21 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.08%) Operational Technology
12 20 (1.08%) PKI
13 19 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
14 17 (0.92%) NHS
14 17 (0.92%) PMI
15 16 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (0.86%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 108 (5.82%) Windows
2 52 (2.80%) Windows Server
3 40 (2.15%) Linux
4 31 (1.67%) Unix
5 15 (0.81%) Solaris
6 10 (0.54%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.48%) VMS
8 8 (0.43%) AIX
9 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.38%) zOS
10 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.22%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.22%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
14 1 (0.054%) Android
14 1 (0.054%) CentOS
14 1 (0.054%) pSOS
14 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (29.89%) Agile
2 547 (29.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 538 (28.97%) Project Management
4 297 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
5 284 (15.29%) Migration
6 273 (14.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 272 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 226 (12.17%) Change Management
9 216 (11.63%) PRINCE2
10 193 (10.39%) Waterfall
11 187 (10.07%) Decision-Making
12 157 (8.45%) DevOps
13 149 (8.02%) Risk Management
14 134 (7.22%) Roadmaps
15 130 (7.00%) AI
16 126 (6.79%) Scrum
17 125 (6.73%) ITIL
18 116 (6.25%) ERP
19 114 (6.14%) Cybersecurity
20 110 (5.92%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 108 (5.82%) SQL
2 81 (4.36%) Python
3 53 (2.85%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.24%) Java
5 21 (1.13%) C#
6 19 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.59%) Bash
8 10 (0.54%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.43%) Go
9 8 (0.43%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.43%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.38%) Bicep
11 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.27%) ABAP
12 5 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.27%) VBA
13 3 (0.16%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.16%) C++
13 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 414 (22.29%) Security Cleared
2 302 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 181 (9.75%) Degree
4 161 (8.67%) PMP
5 125 (6.73%) PMI Certification
6 96 (5.17%) DV Cleared
7 53 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (2.26%) CCNP
9 35 (1.88%) CCNA
10 33 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 32 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (1.35%) CISSP
13 24 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
14 20 (1.08%) APMP
14 20 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 19 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 18 (0.97%) CISM
16 18 (0.97%) MCSE
17 17 (0.92%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (11.31%) PMO
2 103 (5.55%) QA
3 52 (2.80%) NIST
4 50 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.53%) GDPR
6 40 (2.15%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.08%) SLA
8 13 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.70%) GRC
9 10 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.48%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.43%) HL7
11 8 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.43%) IFRS
12 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.32%) Basel III
13 6 (0.32%) GAAP
13 6 (0.32%) NCSC
14 5 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.27%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 78 (4.20%) Active Directory
2 45 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.24%) vSphere
4 20 (1.08%) Docker
5 18 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.59%) Firmware
9 9 (0.48%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.16%) Squid
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.054%) ACF2
13 1 (0.054%) KVM
13 1 (0.054%) RACF
13 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 45 (2.42%) Ansible
2 37 (1.99%) Terraform
3 33 (1.78%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.81%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.65%) FortiGate
7 12 (0.65%) SCCM
8 7 (0.38%) Nagios
8 7 (0.38%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.27%) Netcool
9 5 (0.27%) Tivoli
10 3 (0.16%) Grafana
10 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.16%) Puppet
10 3 (0.16%) SCOM
11 2 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.11%) Control-M
11 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 333 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 129 (6.95%) SAP
3 90 (4.85%) Oracle
4 85 (4.58%) Cisco
4 85 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 57 (3.07%) VMware
6 47 (2.53%) Palo Alto
7 37 (1.99%) Google
8 34 (1.83%) F5
8 34 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.35%) Fortinet
9 25 (1.35%) Siemens
10 22 (1.18%) IBM
11 19 (1.02%) CheckPoint
12 17 (0.92%) SolarWinds
12 17 (0.92%) Workday
13 15 (0.81%) Aruba
14 14 (0.75%) Citrix
14 14 (0.75%) Infoblox
14 14 (0.75%) NEC