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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,425 1,363 1,958
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.99% 3.69% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.26% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 916 767 1,308
10th Percentile £316 £359 £359
25th Percentile £410 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £613 £636 £638
90th Percentile £725 £711 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -6.07% +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 40 37
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.08 £20.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.32 £36.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.47 £57.32
Median % change year-on-year +31.90% -39.87% -10.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £65.00 £82.80
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 31,979 31,998 41,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.50% 86.61% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,013 19,257 27,677
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,115 1,171 1,588
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -22.46% +25.29%
75th Percentile £45.46 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +48.33%

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 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 23 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 23 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 -1 1,219 £525 -4.55% 768
UK excluding London -3 752 £493 -6.07% 659
London +11 547 £550 - 212
Work from Home +2 439 £525 -4.55% 341
South East -2 200 £538 -2.27% 239
North of England -2 186 £488 -2.50% 134
Midlands -6 143 £450 -16.67% 113
North West +5 109 £475 +2.70% 84
West Midlands -7 82 £525 -8.70% 71
South West -3 78 £475 -9.52% 84
Scotland -21 78 £465 -2.21% 33
Yorkshire -6 68 £525 -7.41% 36
East Midlands +18 61 £420 -11.11% 41
East of England -9 34 £550 +10.00% 53
Wales +7 23 £305 -47.09% 16
Northern Ireland +3 17 £450 +41.73% 7
North East -12 8 £265 -53.81% 15

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 (6.74%) Confluence
2 60 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.26%) 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 (0.070%) Apache
7 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.070%) Camunda
7 1 (0.070%) CICS
7 1 (0.070%) Drupal
7 1 (0.070%) Moodle
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.070%) Smallworld
Applications
1 116 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
3 93 (6.53%) Microsoft Office
4 76 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (2.74%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.98%) Trello
7 13 (0.91%) 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 (0.070%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.070%) Revit
11 1 (0.070%) Simulink
11 1 (0.070%) Sketch
11 1 (0.070%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.19%) Endur
3 14 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.63%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
7 8 (0.56%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
8 7 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.49%) 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%) SAP EWM
11 4 (0.28%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 176 (12.35%) Azure
2 56 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (3.79%) AWS
4 53 (3.72%) Power Platform
5 49 (3.44%) SaaS
6 43 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (1.96%) GCP
9 20 (1.40%) Entra ID
10 19 (1.33%) OCI
11 16 (1.12%) GitHub
11 16 (1.12%) PaaS
12 13 (0.91%) IaaS
12 13 (0.91%) Power Automate
13 12 (0.84%) Asana
13 12 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.77%) PowerApps
15 9 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.81%) Firewall
2 36 (2.53%) WAN
3 26 (1.82%) LAN
4 25 (1.75%) DNS
5 19 (1.33%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.26%) VPN
7 17 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 16 (1.12%) Wireless
9 14 (0.98%) Network Security
10 13 (0.91%) MPLS
11 12 (0.84%) HTTP
12 11 (0.77%) BGP
12 11 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (0.70%) SAN
13 10 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.56%) EIGRP
14 8 (0.56%) OSPF
14 8 (0.56%) SSH
14 8 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.02%) Power BI
2 17 (1.19%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.05%) Tableau
4 13 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.70%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.70%) 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 (12.07%) JIRA
2 25 (1.75%) Git
3 8 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.49%) Selenium
4 7 (0.49%) Subversion
5 5 (0.35%) GitLab
5 5 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.28%) Fiddler
6 4 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.21%) Appium
8 2 (0.14%) Dreamweaver
8 2 (0.14%) JMeter
8 2 (0.14%) MSTest
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.070%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.070%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.070%) Ranorex
General
1 643 (45.12%) Social Skills
2 461 (32.35%) Finance
3 177 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 101 (7.09%) Banking
6 68 (4.77%) Influencing Skills
6 68 (4.77%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 46 (3.23%) Legal
8 46 (3.23%) Retail
9 44 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.74%) Marketing
12 32 (2.25%) Front Office
13 28 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (1.26%) Local Government
17 16 (1.12%) Law
18 15 (1.05%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 397 (27.86%) Project Manager
2 205 (14.39%) Analyst
3 153 (10.74%) Lead
4 139 (9.75%) Business Analyst
5 117 (8.21%) Senior
6 90 (6.32%) Consultant
7 87 (6.11%) Architect
8 66 (4.63%) IT Manager
9 59 (4.14%) Delivery Manager
10 53 (3.72%) Senior Manager
11 51 (3.58%) IT Project Manager
12 45 (3.16%) Senior Project Manager
13 40 (2.81%) Technical Manager
14 38 (2.67%) Programme Manager
15 33 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.04%) Infrastructure Manager
17 28 (1.96%) Technical Project Manager
18 27 (1.89%) Administrator
18 27 (1.89%) Developer
18 27 (1.89%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.40%) REST
2 19 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.98%) React
3 14 (0.98%) SOAP
4 13 (0.91%) Web Services
5 12 (0.84%) .NET
6 11 (0.77%) AngularJS
6 11 (0.77%) XML
7 10 (0.70%) Middleware
8 8 (0.56%) JMS
8 8 (0.56%) RESTful
8 8 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
8 8 (0.56%) 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%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.28%) ADO
11 4 (0.28%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.98%) Product Ownership
2 69 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 49 (3.44%) Management Information System
4 44 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 39 (2.74%) PMI
6 34 (2.39%) Virtual Team
7 30 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.33%) NHS
11 14 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 13 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (0.84%) Driving Licence
14 11 (0.77%) CMDB
14 11 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (0.77%) Life Science
14 11 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (0.70%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 75 (5.26%) Windows
2 35 (2.46%) Linux
3 33 (2.32%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.33%) Unix
5 14 (0.98%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.42%) Solaris
8 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.35%) OpenVMS
8 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.070%) Android
12 1 (0.070%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.070%) pSOS
12 1 (0.070%) VMS
12 1 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (36.70%) Agile
2 471 (33.05%) Project Management
3 454 (31.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 253 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
5 249 (17.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 225 (15.79%) Change Management
7 206 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 185 (12.98%) Migration
9 183 (12.84%) PRINCE2
10 168 (11.79%) Waterfall
11 142 (9.96%) Roadmaps
12 141 (9.89%) Risk Management
13 140 (9.82%) ITIL
14 129 (9.05%) Scrum
15 123 (8.63%) DevOps
16 121 (8.49%) Decision-Making
17 120 (8.42%) Project Governance
18 119 (8.35%) ERP
19 109 (7.65%) Business Analysis
20 106 (7.44%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 85 (5.96%) SQL
2 69 (4.84%) Python
3 44 (3.09%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.54%) Bash
5 20 (1.40%) Java
6 10 (0.70%) C#
7 8 (0.56%) 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 (0.070%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.070%) JCL
11 1 (0.070%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.070%) REXX
11 1 (0.070%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.070%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 220 (15.44%) Degree
2 215 (15.09%) Security Cleared
3 153 (10.74%) SC Cleared
4 112 (7.86%) PMI Certification
5 104 (7.30%) PMP
6 46 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.11%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.33%) CCNP
12 18 (1.26%) APMP
12 18 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (1.12%) CBAP
13 16 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 11 (0.77%) CCNA
15 9 (0.63%) CISSP
16 8 (0.56%) ACCA
16 8 (0.56%) CIMA
16 8 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.72%) PMO
2 80 (5.61%) QA
3 35 (2.46%) GDPR
4 31 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.11%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 17 (1.19%) NIST
7 17 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.05%) MiFID
9 14 (0.98%) SLA
10 13 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.77%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.77%) PSD2
12 10 (0.70%) EMIR
12 10 (0.70%) NCSC
13 8 (0.56%) COBIT
13 8 (0.56%) P3O
14 6 (0.42%) Def Stans
14 6 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.42%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 40 (2.81%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.77%) Docker
4 10 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.49%) 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
9 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.070%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.070%) RACF
10 1 (0.070%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 25 (1.75%) Ansible
2 23 (1.61%) Terraform
3 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.98%) SCCM
5 11 (0.77%) Kubernetes
6 9 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.35%) FortiGate
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%) 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 (0.070%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 260 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 124 (8.70%) SAP
3 92 (6.46%) Oracle
4 65 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 59 (4.14%) Cisco
6 40 (2.81%) Salesforce
7 37 (2.60%) VMware
8 27 (1.89%) Workday
9 19 (1.33%) IBM
10 18 (1.26%) Citrix
11 15 (1.05%) Ariba
11 15 (1.05%) Fortinet
11 15 (1.05%) Google
11 15 (1.05%) Red Hat
12 14 (0.98%) F5
13 12 (0.84%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.77%) CyberArk
15 10 (0.70%) Blue Prism
15 10 (0.70%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.70%) Planview