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

 6 months to
23 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 59 57
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,206 1,290 1,349
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.02% 3.95% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.36% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 833 785
10th Percentile £337 £319 £356
25th Percentile £425 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £625
90th Percentile £711 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £494 £510
% change year-on-year +1.26% -3.18% -0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 32 39
10th Percentile £23.72 £15.91 £20.25
25th Percentile £36.64 £29.16 £24.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +64.29% -44.00%
75th Percentile £76.75 £66.29 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £84.75 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £52.76 £36.81
% change year-on-year +3.31% +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 46,309 29,588 32,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 90.49% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,063 18,372 19,750
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 £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,189 1,818 1,403
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £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 £74.70
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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +6 1,855 £525 - 3,628
UK excluding London 0 1,172 £500 +1.26% 2,361
London +2 820 £550 - 1,459
Work from Home +6 626 £500 -2.47% 1,500
South East -6 309 £525 -2.33% 650
North of England +4 295 £500 +5.26% 564
North West +12 189 £512 +7.68% 305
Midlands -25 159 £481 -1.54% 389
Scotland +24 151 £450 - 209
South West -3 149 £525 +6.60% 243
West Midlands -11 121 £481 -7.46% 257
Yorkshire -16 83 £485 -3.00% 194
East of England +3 68 £500 -4.76% 202
East Midlands -31 35 £448 +2.87% 131
Wales 0 26 £400 +30.08% 54
North East -17 24 £350 -14.79% 66
Northern Ireland +4 17 £400 -15.79% 74
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 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 110 (4.99%) 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 (0.091%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.091%) CICS
10 2 (0.091%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 171 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (5.53%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
4 97 (4.40%) 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 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.091%) Houdini
12 2 (0.091%) NUKE
13 1 (0.045%) CATIA
13 1 (0.045%) Civil 3D
13 1 (0.045%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 54 (2.45%) 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
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 Payroll
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 338 (15.32%) Azure
2 141 (6.39%) Power Platform
3 137 (6.21%) AWS
4 128 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (4.26%) SaaS
7 73 (3.31%) Entra ID
8 53 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
9 51 (2.31%) GCP
10 30 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
11 26 (1.18%) OCI
12 25 (1.13%) PowerApps
12 25 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
13 24 (1.09%) 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
1 136 (6.17%) Firewall
2 86 (3.90%) DNS
3 83 (3.76%) WAN
4 82 (3.72%) Network Security
5 74 (3.35%) LAN
6 66 (2.99%) VPN
7 47 (2.13%) DHCP
8 46 (2.09%) MPLS
9 44 (1.99%) Wireless
10 43 (1.95%) BGP
11 38 (1.72%) VLAN
12 37 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (1.27%) OSPF
13 28 (1.27%) TCP/IP
14 22 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 19 (0.86%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.73%) SSL
17 14 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (0.63%) IPsec
17 14 (0.63%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (4.99%) Power BI
2 39 (1.77%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.63%) Metadata
5 13 (0.59%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.50%) 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
1 233 (10.56%) JIRA
2 24 (1.09%) 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 (0.091%) Appium
9 2 (0.091%) Gatling
9 2 (0.091%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.091%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.091%) TestNG
10 1 (0.045%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.045%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.045%) Metasploit
General
1 919 (41.66%) Social Skills
2 681 (30.87%) Finance
3 286 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (10.43%) Public Sector
5 171 (7.75%) Organisational Skills
6 140 (6.35%) Banking
7 100 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
8 89 (4.03%) Retail
9 88 (3.99%) Legal
9 88 (3.99%) Telecoms
10 82 (3.72%) Manufacturing
11 77 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (1.95%) Local Government
13 43 (1.95%) Military
14 36 (1.63%) Front Office
15 34 (1.54%) Law
16 33 (1.50%) Marketing
17 25 (1.13%) Aerospace
18 24 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 499 (22.62%) Project Manager
2 246 (11.15%) Analyst
3 233 (10.56%) Senior
4 210 (9.52%) Lead
5 152 (6.89%) Architect
6 145 (6.57%) Business Analyst
7 136 (6.17%) Consultant
8 105 (4.76%) Senior Manager
9 95 (4.31%) Network Engineer
10 90 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
11 88 (3.99%) Senior Project Manager
12 82 (3.72%) IT Manager
13 64 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 60 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
15 56 (2.54%) IT Project Manager
16 52 (2.36%) Developer
17 46 (2.09%) Technical Manager
18 38 (1.72%) Transformation Manager
19 37 (1.68%) Coordinator
19 37 (1.68%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.04%) Terraform
2 39 (1.77%) REST
3 33 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.09%) Middleware
5 18 (0.82%) 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 8 (0.36%) HTML
10 8 (0.36%) SAML
10 8 (0.36%) SAPUI5
11 7 (0.32%) Kafka
11 7 (0.32%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 114 (5.17%) Onboarding
2 109 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 96 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 92 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 47 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 36 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 36 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (1.59%) Driving Licence
9 35 (1.59%) Operational Technology
10 33 (1.50%) Cloud Native
11 31 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 30 (1.36%) PKI
13 23 (1.04%) Derivative
13 23 (1.04%) Public Cloud
14 21 (0.95%) Clustering
15 20 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 18 (0.82%) Replication
17 17 (0.77%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 152 (6.89%) Windows
2 80 (3.63%) Linux
3 74 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.50%) Unix
5 16 (0.73%) Solaris
6 15 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.50%) 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 (0.091%) CentOS
13 2 (0.091%) Debian
13 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 956 (43.34%) Stakeholder Management
2 693 (31.41%) Agile
3 591 (26.79%) Project Management
4 407 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 401 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 359 (16.27%) Migration
7 350 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
8 326 (14.78%) Change Management
9 290 (13.15%) PRINCE2
10 248 (11.24%) Decision-Making
11 239 (10.83%) Waterfall
12 215 (9.75%) Risk Management
13 202 (9.16%) ITIL
14 193 (8.75%) Roadmaps
15 182 (8.25%) DevOps
16 180 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
16 180 (8.16%) Project Governance
17 179 (8.11%) AI
17 179 (8.11%) Workshop Facilitation
18 162 (7.34%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 103 (4.67%) SQL
2 97 (4.40%) Python
3 79 (3.58%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.18%) Java
5 23 (1.04%) Bash
6 17 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.73%) VBA
8 15 (0.68%) C#
9 13 (0.59%) ABAP
10 8 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.32%) Korn
11 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.27%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
14 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.14%) Bicep
15 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 505 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 368 (16.68%) SC Cleared
3 212 (9.61%) Degree
4 167 (7.57%) PMP
5 149 (6.75%) PMI Certification
6 130 (5.89%) DV Cleared
7 73 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (2.18%) CCNP
10 41 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.72%) Azure Certification
11 38 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 35 (1.59%) CCNA
13 28 (1.27%) CISSP
14 20 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.82%) MCSE
16 18 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
17 15 (0.68%) CCIE
18 14 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (10.97%) PMO
2 99 (4.49%) QA
3 61 (2.77%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.45%) GDPR
4 54 (2.45%) NIST
5 49 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.31%) SLA
7 26 (1.18%) GRC
8 20 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (0.73%) 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 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 88 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (1.36%) Hyper-V
4 29 (1.31%) vSphere
5 21 (0.95%) Docker
5 21 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.50%) Firmware
10 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.14%) Squid
11 2 (0.091%) Ceph
11 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.045%) IAG
12 1 (0.045%) oVirt
12 1 (0.045%) RACF
12 1 (0.045%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 52 (2.36%) Ansible
2 35 (1.59%) 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 15 (0.68%) 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 7 (0.32%) Nagios
12 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.27%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.23%) Grafana
13 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 502 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 167 (7.57%) SAP
3 160 (7.25%) Cisco
4 126 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 112 (5.08%) VMware
6 100 (4.53%) Oracle
7 55 (2.49%) Palo Alto
8 52 (2.36%) Fortinet
9 47 (2.13%) Salesforce
10 44 (1.99%) F5
11 38 (1.72%) Google
12 33 (1.50%) Workday
13 31 (1.41%) Juniper
14 29 (1.31%) IBM
14 29 (1.31%) SolarWinds
15 26 (1.18%) Ariba
15 26 (1.18%) Siemens
16 24 (1.09%) Databricks
17 23 (1.04%) Splunk
17 23 (1.04%) Zscaler
4,276 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide