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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 52 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,544 1,225 1,810
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.02% 3.91% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 4.39% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,006 690 1,205
10th Percentile £333 £349 £363
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £618 £631 £638
90th Percentile £723 £696 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £519 £506
% change year-on-year -5.20% +2.67% +1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 35 29
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £18.18 £23.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.78 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.48% -35.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.70 £63.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.62 £66.50 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £37.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.64% -26.00% -23.08%

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 33,541 27,883 38,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.38% 89.07% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,255 16,908 25,386
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £643
90th Percentile £722 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,020 876 1,970
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.49
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.80% +44.23%

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 28 January 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 28 January 2026.

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 28 January 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 -4 1,344 £525 -0.94% 735
UK excluding London -7 787 £492 -5.20% 681
London +5 633 £550 - 186
Work from Home -2 436 £525 -2.60% 342
North of England +6 221 £481 -3.97% 136
South East -7 189 £525 -7.08% 238
Midlands -6 158 £468 -7.83% 122
North West +15 140 £475 -2.96% 78
West Midlands -17 87 £537 -5.29% 78
Scotland -14 82 £450 -0.66% 28
South West -10 78 £538 +7.39% 74
East Midlands 0 72 £438 -4.76% 44
Yorkshire -10 70 £501 -14.66% 43
East of England +1 37 £550 +10.00% 69
Wales +4 19 £308 -42.12% 22
Northern Ireland -2 14 £475 -13.64% 4
North East -12 12 £290 -49.34% 18

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
1 119 (7.71%) Confluence
2 62 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.32%) CMS
5 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.19%) CICS
5 3 (0.19%) MS Project Server
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.13%) Appian
6 2 (0.13%) Camunda
6 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.065%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.065%) Apache
7 1 (0.065%) IIS
7 1 (0.065%) Moodle
7 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 145 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
3 101 (6.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 101 (6.54%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (2.40%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.91%) Trello
6 13 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.58%) Siemens NX
8 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.13%) InDesign
10 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.065%) Revit
11 1 (0.065%) Sketch
11 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.78%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.71%) Endur
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 10 (0.65%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.58%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
7 8 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
8 7 (0.45%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.45%) SAP IBP
8 7 (0.45%) SAP MM
9 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.39%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
10 5 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.32%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 196 (12.69%) Azure
2 76 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (4.60%) Power Platform
4 62 (4.02%) AWS
5 55 (3.56%) SaaS
6 45 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (2.07%) GCP
8 25 (1.62%) GitHub
9 21 (1.36%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.10%) OCI
11 14 (0.91%) IaaS
12 13 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (0.71%) OpenShift
14 9 (0.58%) PaaS
14 9 (0.58%) SuccessFactors
15 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 74 (4.79%) Firewall
2 40 (2.59%) WAN
3 35 (2.27%) LAN
4 34 (2.20%) DNS
5 27 (1.75%) Network Security
6 21 (1.36%) BGP
6 21 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.23%) OSPF
7 19 (1.23%) SD-WAN
8 17 (1.10%) VPN
9 16 (1.04%) MPLS
10 15 (0.97%) Wireless
11 14 (0.91%) NetScaler
12 12 (0.78%) DHCP
12 12 (0.78%) VLAN
13 11 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
14 10 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (0.65%) SSL
15 9 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.82%) Power BI
2 28 (1.81%) Tableau
3 20 (1.30%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.58%) Metadata
8 8 (0.52%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.39%) GIS
11 5 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.26%) SAP HANA
12 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.19%) DB2
13 3 (0.19%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle ODI
14 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 201 (13.02%) JIRA
2 23 (1.49%) Git
3 16 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.58%) GitLab
5 7 (0.45%) Subversion
6 6 (0.39%) Selenium
7 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
8 4 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.19%) Appium
9 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.13%) JMeter
10 2 (0.13%) MSTest
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
10 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 657 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 483 (31.28%) Finance
3 201 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (9.07%) Public Sector
5 139 (9.00%) Banking
6 92 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
7 61 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
8 49 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 47 (3.04%) Manufacturing
10 46 (2.98%) Retail
11 42 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
12 41 (2.66%) Telecoms
13 37 (2.40%) Legal
14 28 (1.81%) Front Office
15 26 (1.68%) Marketing
16 20 (1.30%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.17%) Law
18 17 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 425 (27.53%) Project Manager
2 206 (13.34%) Analyst
3 180 (11.66%) Lead
4 150 (9.72%) Business Analyst
5 131 (8.48%) Senior
6 87 (5.63%) Architect
7 82 (5.31%) Consultant
8 57 (3.69%) Delivery Manager
9 56 (3.63%) Senior Manager
10 55 (3.56%) IT Manager
11 49 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
12 46 (2.98%) Technical Manager
13 43 (2.78%) Senior Project Manager
14 41 (2.66%) Programme Manager
15 40 (2.59%) Network Engineer
16 39 (2.53%) IT Project Manager
17 35 (2.27%) SAP Manager
18 31 (2.01%) Technical Project Manager
19 26 (1.68%) Administrator
19 26 (1.68%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (1.55%) REST
3 20 (1.30%) Middleware
4 13 (0.84%) Web Services
4 13 (0.84%) XML
5 10 (0.65%) React
5 10 (0.65%) SOAP
6 8 (0.52%) HTML
7 7 (0.45%) .NET
7 7 (0.45%) ADO
7 7 (0.45%) AngularJS
7 7 (0.45%) RESTful
7 7 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (0.39%) CSS
8 6 (0.39%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.39%) ZK
9 5 (0.32%) Node.js
9 5 (0.32%) OAuth
9 5 (0.32%) Spring
9 5 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.63%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.63%) Data Centre
4 49 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (2.46%) PMI
6 35 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 29 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (1.62%) NHS
9 20 (1.30%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.04%) Replication
12 15 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.84%) Data Structures
13 13 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.84%) Life Science
14 12 (0.78%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.78%) Cloud Native
14 12 (0.78%) Clustering
14 12 (0.78%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.96%) Windows
2 42 (2.72%) Windows Server
3 33 (2.14%) Linux
4 21 (1.36%) Unix
5 20 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.78%) Solaris
8 11 (0.71%) VMS
9 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.32%) OpenVMS
12 4 (0.26%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.19%) zOS
14 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.065%) Android
15 1 (0.065%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (35.23%) Agile
2 484 (31.35%) Project Management
3 475 (30.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 284 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
5 238 (15.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 221 (14.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 217 (14.05%) Migration
8 207 (13.41%) PRINCE2
9 192 (12.44%) Change Management
10 172 (11.14%) Waterfall
11 163 (10.56%) DevOps
12 145 (9.39%) Scrum
13 130 (8.42%) Risk Management
14 129 (8.35%) Decision-Making
15 123 (7.97%) ITIL
16 121 (7.84%) Project Governance
17 120 (7.77%) ERP
18 119 (7.71%) Roadmaps
19 116 (7.51%) Business Analysis
19 116 (7.51%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 76 (4.92%) Python
1 76 (4.92%) SQL
2 45 (2.91%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.75%) Java
4 24 (1.55%) Bash
5 12 (0.78%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.65%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.45%) C#
8 6 (0.39%) Perl
9 5 (0.32%) C++
10 4 (0.26%) ABAP
10 4 (0.26%) Go
11 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
11 3 (0.19%) COBOL
11 3 (0.19%) HLASM
11 3 (0.19%) JCL
11 3 (0.19%) REXX
11 3 (0.19%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.13%) PHP
12 2 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 269 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 228 (14.77%) Degree
3 191 (12.37%) SC Cleared
4 132 (8.55%) PMP
5 126 (8.16%) PMI Certification
6 62 (4.02%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.59%) Master's Degree
8 37 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.01%) CCNP
11 29 (1.88%) APMP
12 21 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (1.36%) CCNA
13 20 (1.30%) CBAP
14 18 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 15 (0.97%) CISSP
15 15 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.78%) CISM
16 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.71%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (8.87%) PMO
2 100 (6.48%) QA
3 37 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (2.27%) GDPR
5 32 (2.07%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.75%) NIST
7 18 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (1.10%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.91%) SLA
10 13 (0.84%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.78%) PSD2
12 11 (0.71%) NCSC
13 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.52%) MiFID
13 8 (0.52%) P3O
14 7 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.39%) GRC
15 6 (0.39%) ISO 8583
16 5 (0.32%) Basel III
16 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 44 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.17%) Docker
4 15 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.84%) vSphere
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) NFS
7 4 (0.26%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.065%) RACF
8 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (2.91%) Ansible
2 29 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.88%) Terraform
3 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (1.30%) SCCM
4 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.45%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.39%) Grafana
7 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.26%) QRadar
10 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
11 2 (0.13%) Control-M
11 2 (0.13%) Nagios
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 275 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 133 (8.61%) SAP
3 97 (6.28%) Oracle
4 76 (4.92%) Cisco
5 57 (3.69%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.85%) VMware
7 40 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.49%) Workday
10 22 (1.42%) Google
11 18 (1.17%) Citrix
12 16 (1.04%) Aruba
12 16 (1.04%) Red Hat
13 15 (0.97%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.97%) F5
13 15 (0.97%) IBM
14 13 (0.84%) CheckPoint
14 13 (0.84%) CyberArk
14 13 (0.84%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.78%) Siemens