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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,413 1,356 1,938
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.97% 3.71% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.27% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 762 1,294
10th Percentile £315 £357 £360
25th Percentile £410 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +1.40% -1.01%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -6.24% +1.45% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 40 36
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.08 £20.37
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.32 £34.76
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.47 £56.15
Median % change year-on-year +31.90% -38.62% -13.61%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £65.00 £83.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £36.81 £50.00
% change year-on-year +23.52% -26.39% -23.08%

All Process and 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 31,798 31,745 40,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.44% 86.76% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,901 19,110 27,507
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £740 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,102 1,148 1,575
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +25.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £64.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.74 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.05% -26.97% +39.06%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 17 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 November 2025. 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 -2 1,208 £525 -4.55% 800
UK excluding London -4 747 £492 -6.24% 686
London +8 541 £550 - 226
Work from Home +1 436 £525 -4.55% 363
South East -5 197 £538 -1.83% 254
North of England -3 185 £488 -2.50% 134
Midlands -5 143 £450 -18.18% 118
North West +3 109 £475 +5.56% 86
West Midlands -7 82 £525 -8.70% 75
Scotland -15 78 £465 -2.21% 31
South West +5 77 £475 -9.52% 88
Yorkshire -9 67 £513 -9.57% 36
East Midlands +20 61 £420 -11.58% 42
East of England -7 34 £550 +10.00% 54
Wales +10 23 £305 -47.09% 17
Northern Ireland +4 17 £450 +41.73% 7
North East -14 8 £265 -53.81% 13

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 96 (6.79%) Confluence
2 59 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.35%) CMS
4 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.14%) Appian
6 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.071%) Apache
7 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.071%) Camunda
7 1 (0.071%) CICS
7 1 (0.071%) Drupal
7 1 (0.071%) Moodle
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.071%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.071%) Smallworld
Applications
1 115 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (6.72%) Microsoft Project
3 93 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
4 76 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (2.76%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.99%) Trello
7 13 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.21%) InDesign
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.071%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.071%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.071%) Revit
11 1 (0.071%) Simulink
11 1 (0.071%) Sketch
11 1 (0.071%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.20%) Endur
3 14 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.64%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
7 8 (0.57%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
8 7 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.50%) SAP IBP
9 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.42%) SAP GTS
9 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.35%) SAP MDG
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.28%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 175 (12.38%) Azure
2 55 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (3.82%) AWS
4 53 (3.75%) Power Platform
5 48 (3.40%) SaaS
6 43 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (1.98%) GCP
9 20 (1.42%) Entra ID
10 19 (1.34%) OCI
11 16 (1.13%) GitHub
12 15 (1.06%) PaaS
13 13 (0.92%) Power Automate
14 12 (0.85%) Asana
14 12 (0.85%) IaaS
14 12 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
15 11 (0.78%) PowerApps
16 9 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.76%) Firewall
2 35 (2.48%) WAN
3 26 (1.84%) LAN
4 24 (1.70%) DNS
5 19 (1.34%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.27%) VPN
7 17 (1.20%) TCP/IP
8 16 (1.13%) Wireless
9 13 (0.92%) MPLS
9 13 (0.92%) Network Security
10 12 (0.85%) HTTP
11 11 (0.78%) BGP
11 11 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (0.71%) SAN
12 10 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (0.57%) EIGRP
14 8 (0.57%) OSPF
14 8 (0.57%) SSH
14 8 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.04%) Power BI
2 17 (1.20%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.06%) Tableau
4 13 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.64%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.42%) GIS
8 5 (0.35%) Metadata
9 3 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.21%) Big Data
9 3 (0.21%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle ODI
9 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.14%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 172 (12.17%) JIRA
2 25 (1.77%) Git
3 8 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.50%) Subversion
5 6 (0.42%) Selenium
6 5 (0.35%) GitLab
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.28%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.14%) Appium
8 2 (0.14%) Dreamweaver
8 2 (0.14%) JMeter
8 2 (0.14%) MSTest
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.071%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.071%) Ranorex
9 1 (0.071%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.071%) SpecFlow
General
1 641 (45.36%) Social Skills
2 456 (32.27%) Finance
3 177 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 100 (7.08%) Banking
6 68 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
6 68 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (4.03%) Manufacturing
8 46 (3.26%) Retail
9 45 (3.18%) Legal
10 44 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (2.97%) Telecoms
12 39 (2.76%) Marketing
13 31 (2.19%) Front Office
14 28 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (1.27%) Local Government
17 16 (1.13%) Law
18 15 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 394 (27.88%) Project Manager
2 203 (14.37%) Analyst
3 153 (10.83%) Lead
4 138 (9.77%) Business Analyst
5 116 (8.21%) Senior
6 90 (6.37%) Consultant
7 86 (6.09%) Architect
8 65 (4.60%) IT Manager
9 59 (4.18%) Delivery Manager
10 53 (3.75%) Senior Manager
11 50 (3.54%) IT Project Manager
12 45 (3.18%) Senior Project Manager
13 40 (2.83%) Technical Manager
14 37 (2.62%) Programme Manager
15 33 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.05%) Infrastructure Manager
17 28 (1.98%) Technical Project Manager
18 27 (1.91%) Administrator
18 27 (1.91%) Developer
18 27 (1.91%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.42%) REST
2 19 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.99%) SOAP
4 13 (0.92%) React
4 13 (0.92%) Web Services
5 12 (0.85%) .NET
6 11 (0.78%) AngularJS
6 11 (0.78%) XML
7 10 (0.71%) Middleware
8 8 (0.57%) JMS
8 8 (0.57%) RESTful
8 8 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
8 8 (0.57%) XSD
9 6 (0.42%) Node.js
9 6 (0.42%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.42%) YAML
10 5 (0.35%) Flash
11 4 (0.28%) ADO
11 4 (0.28%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.28%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (5.02%) Product Ownership
2 69 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 49 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 43 (3.04%) Data Centre
5 39 (2.76%) PMI
6 34 (2.41%) Virtual Team
7 30 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.34%) NHS
11 14 (0.99%) Algorithms
12 12 (0.85%) Driving Licence
12 12 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.78%) CMDB
13 11 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.78%) Life Science
13 11 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (0.71%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 74 (5.24%) Windows
2 35 (2.48%) Linux
3 33 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.34%) Unix
5 13 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.92%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.42%) Solaris
7 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.35%) OpenVMS
7 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.071%) Android
10 1 (0.071%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.071%) pSOS
10 1 (0.071%) VMS
10 1 (0.071%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (36.80%) Agile
2 467 (33.05%) Project Management
3 452 (31.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 251 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
5 246 (17.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 224 (15.85%) Change Management
7 205 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 184 (13.02%) Migration
9 182 (12.88%) PRINCE2
10 167 (11.82%) Waterfall
11 141 (9.98%) Roadmaps
12 140 (9.91%) Risk Management
13 138 (9.77%) ITIL
14 127 (8.99%) Scrum
15 123 (8.70%) DevOps
16 120 (8.49%) Decision-Making
17 119 (8.42%) ERP
18 118 (8.35%) Project Governance
19 108 (7.64%) Business Analysis
20 106 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 85 (6.02%) SQL
2 68 (4.81%) Python
3 44 (3.11%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.56%) Bash
5 20 (1.42%) Java
6 10 (0.71%) C#
7 7 (0.50%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.42%) ABAP
8 6 (0.42%) C++
8 6 (0.42%) Perl
8 6 (0.42%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.28%) VBA
10 2 (0.14%) PHP
10 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.071%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.071%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.071%) Go
11 1 (0.071%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.071%) HLASM
11 1 (0.071%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 219 (15.50%) Degree
2 213 (15.07%) Security Cleared
3 152 (10.76%) SC Cleared
4 112 (7.93%) PMI Certification
5 104 (7.36%) PMP
6 45 (3.18%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.12%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.27%) CCNP
11 18 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (1.20%) APMP
13 16 (1.13%) CBAP
13 16 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 11 (0.78%) CCNA
15 9 (0.64%) CISSP
16 8 (0.57%) ACCA
16 8 (0.57%) CIMA
16 8 (0.57%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.78%) PMO
2 79 (5.59%) QA
3 35 (2.48%) GDPR
4 31 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.12%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 17 (1.20%) NIST
7 17 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.06%) MiFID
9 14 (0.99%) SLA
10 12 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.78%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.78%) PSD2
12 10 (0.71%) EMIR
12 10 (0.71%) NCSC
13 8 (0.57%) COBIT
14 7 (0.50%) P3O
15 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.42%) Def Stans
15 6 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 40 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.78%) Docker
4 10 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.28%) NFS
8 4 (0.28%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.28%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.28%) vSphere
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.071%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.071%) RACF
10 1 (0.071%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (1.77%) Ansible
2 23 (1.63%) Terraform
3 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.99%) SCCM
5 11 (0.78%) Kubernetes
6 9 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.35%) Grafana
8 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.35%) QRadar
9 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.14%) CEMLI
11 2 (0.14%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.071%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.071%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 259 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 124 (8.78%) SAP
3 92 (6.51%) Oracle
4 65 (4.60%) ServiceNow
5 58 (4.10%) Cisco
6 40 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 37 (2.62%) VMware
8 27 (1.91%) Workday
9 19 (1.34%) IBM
10 17 (1.20%) Citrix
11 15 (1.06%) Ariba
11 15 (1.06%) Google
11 15 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 14 (0.99%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.92%) F5
14 12 (0.85%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.78%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.71%) Blue Prism
16 10 (0.71%) Palo Alto
16 10 (0.71%) Planview