Project Delivery Contracts

Project Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Project Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Delivery over the 6 months to 9 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 49 54 58
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,827 3,484 3,695
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.11% 4.53% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 5.03% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 2,487 2,610
10th Percentile £363 £375 £338
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £728 £750 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £458
% change year-on-year +5.00% +9.29% +5.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 57 43
10th Percentile £21.02 £21.40 £19.38
25th Percentile £34.76 £37.13 £25.64
Median hourly rate £56.16 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +62.50% +27.82%
75th Percentile £77.63 £65.30 £64.88
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £71.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -23.08% +40.54% +62.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Project Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,373 69,310 81,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.52% 90.15% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,321 47,960 56,913
10th Percentile £310 £338 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,511 1,674 2,001
10th Percentile £14.36 £13.41 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.93 £17.40 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +62.79% -18.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.00 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.95 £32.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year +36.28% +79.17% -21.74%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 17 Contract 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 9 December 2023. 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 1,544 £550 - 1,261
UK excluding London -2 862 £525 +5.00% 901
London +6 778 £550 -6.78% 420
Work from Home -2 668 £525 -2.78% 600
South East -8 248 £550 +3.77% 243
North of England 0 185 £525 +8.25% 216
Scotland +4 134 £500 +5.26% 65
North West +2 118 £500 +5.26% 109
Midlands +30 107 £500 +4.17% 199
South West -4 101 £538 +3.12% 93
West Midlands +35 91 £507 +3.47% 159
East of England -1 68 £500 -0.79% 73
Yorkshire -5 66 £541 +8.25% 80
Wales -12 25 £503 +5.79% 25
East Midlands +3 14 £500 +2.56% 38
Northern Ireland +9 4 £483 -3.40% 14
North East +11 2 - - 28

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 54 (2.96%) Confluence
2 51 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.71%) CMS
4 12 (0.66%) Tomcat
5 11 (0.60%) MS Exchange
5 11 (0.60%) WebLogic
6 9 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.38%) Tornado
8 6 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.22%) Apache
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.16%) IBM Domino
10 3 (0.16%) IBM Notes
10 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
10 3 (0.16%) MTS
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.16%) ThingWorx
11 2 (0.11%) Appian
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 93 (5.09%) Microsoft Project
2 91 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 57 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.44%) Trello
8 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.11%) Revit
10 1 (0.055%) CATIA
10 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.055%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.055%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 63 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.77%) SAP MM
4 8 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.38%) Endur
5 7 (0.38%) SAP PP
6 6 (0.33%) SAP CO
6 6 (0.33%) SAP FI
6 6 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
6 6 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.27%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.22%) CA PPM
8 4 (0.22%) HFM
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.22%) Primavera
8 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.16%) EuroRunner
Cloud Services
1 255 (13.96%) Azure
2 111 (6.08%) AWS
3 77 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (3.67%) Power Platform
5 61 (3.34%) SaaS
6 44 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
7 41 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 26 (1.42%) GCP
10 22 (1.20%) IaaS
11 17 (0.93%) GitHub
11 17 (0.93%) PowerApps
12 14 (0.77%) PaaS
13 13 (0.71%) Power Automate
14 12 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (0.60%) WhatsApp
16 9 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
17 8 (0.44%) OCI
18 7 (0.38%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.72%) Firewall
2 50 (2.74%) Network Security
3 49 (2.68%) WAN
4 40 (2.19%) DNS
5 39 (2.13%) LAN
6 28 (1.53%) SD-WAN
7 26 (1.42%) VPN
8 19 (1.04%) DSL
9 18 (0.99%) SAN
10 17 (0.93%) MPLS
10 17 (0.93%) SMTP
10 17 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.82%) LTE
11 15 (0.82%) TCP/IP
12 14 (0.77%) DHCP
13 12 (0.66%) Internet
13 12 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
13 12 (0.66%) Wireless
14 11 (0.60%) SSL
15 10 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.12%) Power BI
2 41 (2.24%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (0.66%) Big Data
4 12 (0.66%) Tableau
5 11 (0.60%) Data Lake
5 11 (0.60%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
7 9 (0.49%) GIS
7 9 (0.49%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.49%) Oracle Database
7 9 (0.49%) SAP HANA
8 8 (0.44%) Metadata
8 8 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (0.44%) Star Schema
9 7 (0.38%) Power Query
9 7 (0.38%) SAP BW
10 6 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 155 (8.48%) JIRA
2 49 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 14 (0.77%) Git
4 8 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (0.27%) GitLab
5 5 (0.27%) Subversion
6 4 (0.22%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.11%) Gatling
8 2 (0.11%) Gerrit
8 2 (0.11%) JUnit
8 2 (0.11%) MLflow
8 2 (0.11%) Protractor
8 2 (0.11%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.11%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (0.11%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 619 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 617 (33.77%) Finance
3 227 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 104 (5.69%) Banking
6 96 (5.25%) Telecoms
7 74 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
8 71 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
9 66 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (3.12%) Manufacturing
11 51 (2.79%) Legal
12 48 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 44 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 43 (2.35%) Marketing
15 40 (2.19%) Retail
16 24 (1.31%) Financial Institution
16 24 (1.31%) Investment Banking
17 22 (1.20%) Law
18 18 (0.99%) Local Government
18 18 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 528 (28.90%) Project Manager
2 198 (10.84%) Analyst
3 163 (8.92%) Architect
4 149 (8.16%) Lead
5 142 (7.77%) Senior
6 109 (5.97%) Consultant
7 101 (5.53%) Delivery Manager
8 97 (5.31%) Business Analyst
9 71 (3.89%) IT Manager
10 70 (3.83%) Senior Manager
11 67 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
12 60 (3.28%) Programme Manager
13 56 (3.07%) IT Project Manager
14 55 (3.01%) Senior Project Manager
15 54 (2.96%) Developer
16 43 (2.35%) Security Manager
16 43 (2.35%) Technical Manager
17 39 (2.13%) Security Analyst
18 37 (2.03%) Project Officer
19 34 (1.86%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.41%) REST
2 30 (1.64%) .NET
3 28 (1.53%) JSON
4 24 (1.31%) LDAP
4 24 (1.31%) Middleware
5 22 (1.20%) SOAP
6 21 (1.15%) HTML
7 17 (0.93%) CSS
7 17 (0.93%) Kafka
8 16 (0.88%) XML
9 13 (0.71%) Node.js
10 12 (0.66%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
10 12 (0.66%) React
11 10 (0.55%) Pandas
11 10 (0.55%) Spring
11 10 (0.55%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.49%) OAuth
12 9 (0.49%) pytest
12 9 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 88 (4.82%) Management Information System
2 69 (3.78%) Virtual Team
3 66 (3.61%) Data Centre
4 59 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 29 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 29 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (1.48%) Public Cloud
7 20 (1.09%) CMDB
8 19 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (0.88%) NHS
11 15 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (0.82%) PKI
11 15 (0.82%) Private Cloud
12 14 (0.77%) Cloud Native
13 13 (0.71%) Clustering
13 13 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.60%) CCTV
14 11 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 116 (6.35%) Windows
2 82 (4.49%) Linux
3 62 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 52 (2.85%) Unix
5 39 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 18 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (0.88%) Solaris
9 16 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
10 13 (0.71%) AIX
10 13 (0.71%) Oracle Linux
10 13 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.60%) Ubuntu
12 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.38%) Android
14 6 (0.33%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
17 2 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (36.67%) Agile
2 660 (36.12%) Project Management
3 347 (18.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 298 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
5 201 (11.00%) PRINCE2
6 191 (10.45%) Waterfall
7 180 (9.85%) Risk Management
8 165 (9.03%) Business Case
8 165 (9.03%) Scrum
9 161 (8.81%) Change Management
10 159 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 159 (8.70%) DevOps
11 141 (7.72%) Migration
12 134 (7.33%) Roadmaps
13 125 (6.84%) ITIL
14 118 (6.46%) Programme Management
15 113 (6.19%) Decision-Making
16 103 (5.64%) Project Governance
17 101 (5.53%) Business Analysis
18 99 (5.42%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (5.86%) SQL
2 83 (4.54%) Python
3 49 (2.68%) PowerShell
4 41 (2.24%) Java
5 34 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 19 (1.04%) C#
6 19 (1.04%) Ruby
7 13 (0.71%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.60%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.49%) Scala
10 8 (0.44%) Bash
11 6 (0.33%) ABAP
11 6 (0.33%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.27%) Bicep
13 4 (0.22%) C++
13 4 (0.22%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.22%) R
13 4 (0.22%) VBA
14 3 (0.16%) Go
14 3 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 306 (16.75%) Security Cleared
2 250 (13.68%) Degree
3 218 (11.93%) SC Cleared
4 81 (4.43%) DV Cleared
5 70 (3.83%) PMP
6 60 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
6 60 (3.28%) PMI Certification
7 47 (2.57%) CISSP
8 45 (2.46%) CISM
9 42 (2.30%) APMP
10 37 (2.03%) CCNP
11 32 (1.75%) CLAS
12 28 (1.53%) CESG Certified Professional
12 28 (1.53%) Master's Degree
12 28 (1.53%) SANS
13 24 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (1.15%) CCIE
14 21 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 17 (0.93%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (8.81%) PMO
2 85 (4.65%) QA
3 52 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (2.68%) NIST
5 38 (2.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 35 (1.92%) JSP 440
7 34 (1.86%) NCSC
7 34 (1.86%) SLA
8 33 (1.81%) RMADS
9 25 (1.37%) Data Quality
10 18 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
11 16 (0.88%) Accessibility
12 15 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 13 (0.71%) GDPR
14 6 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.27%) COBIT
16 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.16%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 82 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.71%) Docker
6 9 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (0.44%) BitLocker
7 8 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (0.44%) Terminal Services
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.27%) ProxySG
11 4 (0.22%) Firmware
11 4 (0.22%) vSphere
12 3 (0.16%) NFS
13 2 (0.11%) XenApp
14 1 (0.055%) IAG
14 1 (0.055%) Veritas File System
14 1 (0.055%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 1 (0.055%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (2.63%) Ansible
2 34 (1.86%) Progress Chef
3 31 (1.70%) PowerBroker
4 29 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.42%) SCCM
6 25 (1.37%) Terraform
7 22 (1.20%) Puppet
8 21 (1.15%) Kubernetes
9 19 (1.04%) CFEngine
10 12 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (0.66%) NetBackup
11 11 (0.60%) SCOM
11 11 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.44%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.44%) vMotion
13 8 (0.44%) WSUS
14 7 (0.38%) VxRail
15 5 (0.27%) Tivoli Identity Manager
16 4 (0.22%) yum
Vendors
1 297 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 134 (7.33%) SAP
3 87 (4.76%) Oracle
4 65 (3.56%) Cisco
5 63 (3.45%) VMware
6 53 (2.90%) ServiceNow
7 32 (1.75%) Citrix
8 31 (1.70%) Atlassian
9 24 (1.31%) Salesforce
10 23 (1.26%) Databricks
10 23 (1.26%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.15%) Juniper
12 20 (1.09%) IBM
13 18 (0.99%) Google
14 17 (0.93%) Splunk
15 16 (0.88%) HP
16 14 (0.77%) Ariba
16 14 (0.77%) Zscaler
17 12 (0.66%) CheckPoint
17 12 (0.66%) NetApp