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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 60 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,988 1,259 1,592
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.78% 3.88% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.29% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 791 1,000
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £417 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £634 £629
90th Percentile £700 £725 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £511
% change year-on-year +1.63% -3.77% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 19 46
10th Percentile £20.35 £30.05 £20.98
25th Percentile £33.80 £48.50 £26.36
Median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +46.56% -36.03%
75th Percentile £80.50 £77.50 £55.59
90th Percentile £88.76 £83.00 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £70.16 £40.94
% change year-on-year -22.32% +71.37% -34.50%

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 44,779 29,366 36,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.09% 90.39% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,449 23,259
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,648 1,547 2,431
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.22 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.21 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.65 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.88% -36.15% -3.74%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +10 1,728 £515 -1.91% 901
UK excluding London +6 1,110 £500 +1.63% 765
London +1 724 £541 -4.57% 283
Work from Home +3 573 £513 -0.06% 427
South East +5 289 £525 - 237
North of England +8 274 £485 +2.11% 190
North West +17 183 £483 +1.68% 104
Midlands -17 176 £475 -7.23% 113
South West +13 168 £485 -1.52% 111
West Midlands -15 138 £481 -7.46% 67
Scotland -3 114 £450 -4.26% 43
Yorkshire -29 73 £500 - 58
East of England +6 62 £500 +25.00% 52
East Midlands -13 36 £402 -10.07% 46
Wales +6 23 £500 +80.56% 22
North East -23 20 £350 -3.45% 29
Northern Ireland +2 14 £334 -36.38% 16
Channel Islands +2 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
1 109 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 101 (5.08%) Confluence
3 37 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.35%) CMS
5 6 (0.30%) SAS
6 5 (0.25%) Apache
7 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.15%) Appian
8 3 (0.15%) Camunda
8 3 (0.15%) CICS
8 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
8 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.15%) WordPress
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.10%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 158 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (5.73%) Microsoft Project
3 96 (4.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 95 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
5 35 (1.76%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.91%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.20%) Trello
10 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.15%) Revit
11 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.050%) CATIA
12 1 (0.050%) Houdini
12 1 (0.050%) NUKE
12 1 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 48 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.21%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.55%) Primavera
5 10 (0.50%) Maximo
6 8 (0.40%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.40%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.30%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 6 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
7 6 (0.30%) Summit
8 5 (0.25%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.25%) SAP HR
9 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 258 (12.98%) Azure
2 121 (6.09%) AWS
3 107 (5.38%) Power Platform
4 102 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (3.52%) SaaS
7 57 (2.87%) Entra ID
8 35 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
9 34 (1.71%) GCP
10 26 (1.31%) GitHub
11 25 (1.26%) Google Workspace
12 24 (1.21%) IaaS
12 24 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
14 19 (0.96%) PowerApps
15 16 (0.80%) OCI
15 16 (0.80%) Power Automate
16 15 (0.75%) Serverless
17 14 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (0.70%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 119 (5.99%) Firewall
2 85 (4.28%) DNS
3 67 (3.37%) WAN
4 61 (3.07%) LAN
5 56 (2.82%) VPN
6 55 (2.77%) Network Security
7 43 (2.16%) MPLS
8 40 (2.01%) BGP
9 34 (1.71%) DHCP
10 32 (1.61%) OSPF
11 31 (1.56%) VLAN
11 31 (1.56%) Wireless
12 30 (1.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 29 (1.46%) TCP/IP
14 26 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
15 24 (1.21%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.80%) IPsec
17 15 (0.75%) BIG-IP
17 15 (0.75%) SSL
17 15 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.33%) Power BI
2 43 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
5 14 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (0.70%) Tableau
6 13 (0.65%) Metadata
7 10 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.45%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.45%) SAP HANA
9 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.25%) Big Data
12 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.15%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 205 (10.31%) JIRA
2 29 (1.46%) Git
3 14 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.60%) GitLab
5 9 (0.45%) Selenium
6 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.25%) Subversion
8 3 (0.15%) Appium
8 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.15%) JMeter
8 3 (0.15%) MSTest
8 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.10%) Hudson
9 2 (0.10%) MSI
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.050%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.050%) WebDriver
General
1 801 (40.29%) Social Skills
2 624 (31.39%) Finance
3 262 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (11.12%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.39%) Organisational Skills
6 106 (5.33%) Retail
7 101 (5.08%) Banking
8 89 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 89 (4.48%) Legal
9 69 (3.47%) Telecoms
10 61 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
12 57 (2.87%) Manufacturing
13 40 (2.01%) Local Government
14 32 (1.61%) Marketing
15 30 (1.51%) Military
16 24 (1.21%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (0.96%) Financial Institution
19 18 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 485 (24.40%) Project Manager
2 230 (11.57%) Analyst
3 216 (10.87%) Senior
4 191 (9.61%) Lead
5 114 (5.73%) Business Analyst
6 111 (5.58%) Architect
7 102 (5.13%) Senior Manager
8 92 (4.63%) Consultant
9 84 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
10 83 (4.18%) Senior Project Manager
11 81 (4.07%) IT Manager
12 80 (4.02%) Network Engineer
13 57 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 56 (2.82%) Developer
15 55 (2.77%) IT Project Manager
16 42 (2.11%) Technical Manager
17 41 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
18 38 (1.91%) Project Officer
19 35 (1.76%) Infrastructure Manager
19 35 (1.76%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.76%) Middleware
2 33 (1.66%) REST
3 22 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.80%) .NET
5 13 (0.65%) 802.1X
5 13 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
5 13 (0.65%) XML
6 12 (0.60%) OAuth
7 11 (0.55%) ADO
7 11 (0.55%) JSON
8 10 (0.50%) Web Services
9 9 (0.45%) React
9 9 (0.45%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.40%) RESTful
10 8 (0.40%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.40%) Spring
11 7 (0.35%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.30%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.30%) PySpark
12 6 (0.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 94 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.97%) Data Centre
4 73 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 42 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 34 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 33 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (1.56%) Operational Technology
9 30 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (1.51%) Public Cloud
10 29 (1.46%) Cloud Native
11 26 (1.31%) Replication
12 25 (1.26%) Clustering
13 24 (1.21%) PKI
14 23 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (1.11%) Data Structures
16 20 (1.01%) Driving Licence
17 18 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
17 18 (0.91%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 120 (6.04%) Windows
2 55 (2.77%) Windows Server
3 49 (2.46%) Linux
4 26 (1.31%) Unix
5 9 (0.45%) AIX
5 9 (0.45%) Solaris
6 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.35%) zOS
7 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.10%) Android
10 2 (0.10%) Debian
10 2 (0.10%) VMS
10 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.10%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (34.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 609 (30.63%) Agile
3 538 (27.06%) Project Management
4 338 (17.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 330 (16.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 321 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
7 311 (15.64%) Migration
8 285 (14.34%) Change Management
9 244 (12.27%) PRINCE2
10 219 (11.02%) Decision-Making
11 210 (10.56%) Waterfall
12 168 (8.45%) ITIL
13 164 (8.25%) AI
14 162 (8.15%) Risk Management
14 162 (8.15%) Roadmaps
15 161 (8.10%) DevOps
16 129 (6.49%) Workshop Facilitation
17 128 (6.44%) Scrum
18 127 (6.39%) ERP
19 126 (6.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 110 (5.53%) SQL
2 96 (4.83%) Python
3 66 (3.32%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.11%) Java
5 21 (1.06%) C#
6 17 (0.86%) Bash
6 17 (0.86%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.70%) VBA
8 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.40%) ABAP
9 8 (0.40%) Go
9 8 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.35%) Bicep
11 6 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.20%) C++
13 4 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 422 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 299 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 198 (9.96%) Degree
4 160 (8.05%) PMP
5 128 (6.44%) PMI Certification
6 115 (5.78%) DV Cleared
7 66 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 43 (2.16%) CCNP
9 38 (1.91%) CCNA
9 38 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 25 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.26%) CISSP
12 20 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
12 20 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 19 (0.96%) MCSE
14 15 (0.75%) MCSA
15 14 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
16 13 (0.65%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (11.17%) PMO
2 101 (5.08%) QA
3 51 (2.57%) NIST
4 49 (2.46%) GDPR
5 48 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.11%) Data Quality
7 31 (1.56%) SLA
8 15 (0.75%) GRC
9 12 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.45%) NCSC
12 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.35%) HL7
14 6 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.25%) GxP
15 5 (0.25%) IFRS
15 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 97 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.11%) Docker
3 22 (1.11%) vSphere
4 20 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (0.96%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.55%) Firmware
7 11 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.15%) Squid
10 2 (0.10%) Ceph
10 2 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.050%) ACF2
11 1 (0.050%) KVM
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.050%) RACF
11 1 (0.050%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 50 (2.52%) Ansible
2 46 (2.31%) Terraform
3 26 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.16%) FortiGate
6 21 (1.06%) SCCM
7 17 (0.86%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.40%) Nagios
10 7 (0.35%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.30%) SCOM
12 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.25%) Netcool
12 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.20%) Cisco Prime
13 4 (0.20%) Nessus
13 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.15%) Check_MK
14 3 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 390 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 135 (6.79%) SAP
3 113 (5.68%) Cisco
4 111 (5.58%) ServiceNow
5 88 (4.43%) Oracle
6 71 (3.57%) VMware
7 50 (2.52%) Palo Alto
8 46 (2.31%) F5
9 44 (2.21%) Fortinet
10 37 (1.86%) Salesforce
11 36 (1.81%) Google
12 29 (1.46%) SolarWinds
13 28 (1.41%) Juniper
14 24 (1.21%) IBM
15 20 (1.01%) Workday
16 19 (0.96%) Zscaler
17 18 (0.91%) NEC
17 18 (0.91%) Siemens
18 17 (0.86%) Infoblox
19 16 (0.80%) Aruba