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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 55 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,785 1,141 1,682
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 3.92% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.31% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 699 1,082
10th Percentile £325 £325 £360
25th Percentile £417 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £613 £627 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 22 34
10th Percentile £15.91 £23.02 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.14 £30.84 £26.42
Median hourly rate £37.00 £57.50 £38.30
Median % change year-on-year -35.65% +50.15% -40.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.06 £41.92
90th Percentile £87.83 £78.27 £63.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £62.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year -40.80% +52.66% -37.02%

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 40,077 26,470 37,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 90.96% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,204 17,026 23,967
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +1.77% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,075 2,431
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.35 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.88% -27.07% +7.14%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 1,596 £514 -2.10% 892
UK excluding London 0 982 £485 -3.00% 670
London +2 667 £545 -0.91% 309
Work from Home -1 497 £525 - 396
North of England +27 284 £477 -1.14% 151
South East 0 237 £525 -4.55% 236
Midlands -17 188 £475 -5.00% 108
North West +23 184 £479 +0.79% 78
South West +12 139 £485 +2.11% 86
West Midlands -11 128 £481 -7.46% 72
Yorkshire +4 84 £500 - 50
Scotland -22 75 £500 +5.26% 33
East Midlands -6 59 £453 +1.23% 36
East of England -7 52 £513 +3.64% 57
North East -2 20 £350 -15.15% 27
Wales -2 14 £450 +38.46% 10
Northern Ireland -5 5 £425 -24.44% 5

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 (6.11%) Confluence
2 92 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.28%) CMS
5 4 (0.22%) CICS
6 3 (0.17%) Camunda
6 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
6 3 (0.17%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.056%) Apache
8 1 (0.056%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.056%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.056%) IIS
8 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 151 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (6.39%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (5.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 99 (5.55%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.40%) Siemens NX
7 10 (0.56%) Trello
8 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.22%) Revit
11 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.056%) SPSS
12 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.62%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.67%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.39%) Primavera
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (0.28%) Maximo
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.28%) ProductWriter
7 5 (0.28%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.28%) Summit
8 4 (0.22%) Endur
8 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.22%) Shopify
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 197 (11.04%) Azure
2 99 (5.55%) Microsoft 365
3 91 (5.10%) Power Platform
4 87 (4.87%) AWS
5 68 (3.81%) SaaS
6 45 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
7 34 (1.90%) Entra ID
8 25 (1.40%) GCP
9 22 (1.23%) GitHub
10 20 (1.12%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.12%) IaaS
11 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (0.67%) OneDrive
13 12 (0.67%) PaaS
13 12 (0.67%) PowerApps
13 12 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.04%) Firewall
2 57 (3.19%) DNS
3 42 (2.35%) Network Security
4 39 (2.18%) WAN
5 34 (1.90%) LAN
6 26 (1.46%) BGP
6 26 (1.46%) OSPF
7 23 (1.29%) VLAN
8 21 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 20 (1.12%) VPN
10 19 (1.06%) TCP/IP
11 18 (1.01%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.90%) DHCP
12 16 (0.90%) MPLS
13 14 (0.78%) Wireless
14 13 (0.73%) BIG-IP
14 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
16 11 (0.62%) SSL
17 10 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (4.03%) Power BI
2 30 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.51%) Tableau
4 23 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.78%) Metadata
8 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.28%) Big Data
9 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.28%) SAP HANA
9 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (0.22%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.22%) GIS
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 202 (11.32%) JIRA
2 16 (0.90%) Git
2 16 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.62%) GitLab
4 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 4 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.17%) Appium
7 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.17%) JMeter
7 3 (0.17%) MSTest
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) TestRail
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.056%) Gradle
9 1 (0.056%) Hudson
9 1 (0.056%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.056%) Robot Framework
General
1 682 (38.21%) Social Skills
2 580 (32.49%) Finance
3 260 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 133 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
6 126 (7.06%) Banking
7 76 (4.26%) Retail
8 71 (3.98%) Legal
9 68 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
10 65 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
11 51 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
12 47 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 45 (2.52%) Manufacturing
14 34 (1.90%) Marketing
15 27 (1.51%) Local Government
16 26 (1.46%) Military
17 23 (1.29%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.95%) Financial Institution
19 16 (0.90%) Publishing
20 15 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 491 (27.51%) Project Manager
2 211 (11.82%) Analyst
3 183 (10.25%) Lead
4 174 (9.75%) Senior
5 135 (7.56%) Business Analyst
6 89 (4.99%) Senior Manager
7 83 (4.65%) Architect
8 79 (4.43%) Consultant
9 76 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
10 70 (3.92%) IT Manager
11 69 (3.87%) Senior Project Manager
12 53 (2.97%) Network Engineer
13 48 (2.69%) IT Project Manager
13 48 (2.69%) Technical Manager
14 44 (2.46%) Programme Manager
15 43 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (2.18%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 35 (1.96%) Developer
18 34 (1.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 33 (1.85%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.13%) Middleware
2 25 (1.40%) REST
3 22 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.78%) XML
5 13 (0.73%) ADO
6 10 (0.56%) .NET
7 9 (0.50%) Web Services
8 8 (0.45%) JSON
8 8 (0.45%) OAuth
8 8 (0.45%) React
8 8 (0.45%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.39%) CSS
9 7 (0.39%) Spring
10 5 (0.28%) HTML
11 4 (0.22%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.22%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.22%) IDoc
11 4 (0.22%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (4.93%) Management Information System
2 72 (4.03%) Product Ownership
3 69 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 67 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 30 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (1.62%) Virtual Team
7 27 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 25 (1.40%) Clustering
9 25 (1.40%) Replication
10 24 (1.34%) PMI
11 21 (1.18%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.01%) NHS
13 16 (0.90%) Cloud Native
13 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (0.84%) Life Science
15 13 (0.73%) Derivative
15 13 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 96 (5.38%) Windows
2 48 (2.69%) Windows Server
3 32 (1.79%) Linux
4 25 (1.40%) Unix
5 15 (0.84%) Solaris
6 10 (0.56%) VMS
6 10 (0.56%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.50%) zOS
8 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.34%) AIX
9 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.22%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.22%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.056%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.056%) Android
12 1 (0.056%) Debian
12 1 (0.056%) pSOS
12 1 (0.056%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (31.60%) Agile
2 548 (30.70%) Project Management
3 520 (29.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 298 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
5 275 (15.41%) Migration
6 264 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 256 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 225 (12.61%) PRINCE2
9 204 (11.43%) Change Management
10 187 (10.48%) Decision-Making
10 187 (10.48%) Waterfall
11 158 (8.85%) Risk Management
12 152 (8.52%) DevOps
13 137 (7.68%) Roadmaps
14 134 (7.51%) Scrum
15 121 (6.78%) Workshop Facilitation
16 117 (6.55%) ERP
17 114 (6.39%) Project Governance
18 113 (6.33%) AI
18 113 (6.33%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 86 (4.82%) SQL
2 71 (3.98%) Python
3 49 (2.75%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.18%) Java
5 17 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 16 (0.90%) C#
7 11 (0.62%) Bash
8 8 (0.45%) Go
9 7 (0.39%) Bicep
9 7 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.28%) VBA
12 4 (0.22%) COBOL
12 4 (0.22%) REXX
13 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 390 (21.85%) Security Cleared
2 286 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 203 (11.37%) Degree
4 167 (9.36%) PMP
5 134 (7.51%) PMI Certification
6 92 (5.15%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (1.79%) APMP
10 30 (1.68%) CCNP
11 29 (1.62%) CCNA
12 28 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (1.40%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.06%) CISSP
14 19 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 15 (0.84%) CISM
16 14 (0.78%) CBAP
17 13 (0.73%) Azure Certification
17 13 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (11.48%) PMO
2 116 (6.50%) QA
3 45 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (2.46%) GDPR
5 40 (2.24%) NIST
6 39 (2.18%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.29%) SLA
8 13 (0.73%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.67%) GRC
10 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.45%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.39%) HL7
13 7 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.34%) Basel III
14 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.34%) PSD2
15 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.28%) ISO 19650
15 5 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 63 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.01%) Docker
4 17 (0.95%) vSphere
5 15 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.62%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.34%) Firmware
10 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.11%) Squid
13 1 (0.056%) Ceph
13 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 42 (2.35%) Ansible
2 34 (1.90%) Terraform
3 27 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (1.40%) Kubernetes
5 16 (0.90%) SCCM
6 13 (0.73%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.50%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.50%) Nagios
7 9 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.39%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.28%) Netcool
10 4 (0.22%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.17%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.17%) Puppet
11 3 (0.17%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) Control-M
12 2 (0.11%) Packer
12 2 (0.11%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 322 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 138 (7.73%) SAP
3 83 (4.65%) Oracle
4 81 (4.54%) ServiceNow
5 62 (3.47%) Cisco
6 42 (2.35%) VMware
7 39 (2.18%) Palo Alto
8 35 (1.96%) Google
8 35 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 28 (1.57%) F5
10 25 (1.40%) Siemens
11 20 (1.12%) Atlassian
11 20 (1.12%) IBM
12 19 (1.06%) CheckPoint
13 17 (0.95%) Workday
14 16 (0.90%) Citrix
15 15 (0.84%) Aruba
16 14 (0.78%) NEC
17 13 (0.73%) Infoblox
17 13 (0.73%) SolarWinds