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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 58 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,888 1,189 1,617
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 3.98% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 4.37% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,294 744 1,021
10th Percentile £335 £345 £356
25th Percentile £419 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £520
% change year-on-year - -6.73% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 20 43
10th Percentile £16.95 £35.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £24.65 £49.63 £25.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £62.50 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -34.40% +75.32% -40.58%
75th Percentile £67.89 £77.50 £43.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.75 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.27 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -41.12% +58.77% -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 42,996 27,186 37,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.90% 91.05% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,808 17,251 23,716
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,575 1,262 2,618
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.73
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.82 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 1,663 £515 -1.91% 735
UK excluding London +4 1,061 £485 - 671
London -2 692 £550 -4.35% 234
Work from Home -1 544 £514 -0.19% 360
North of England +10 283 £479 +6.39% 131
South East +4 260 £525 - 230
Midlands -14 192 £475 -7.23% 95
North West +25 190 £478 +4.66% 78
South West +8 151 £500 -6.98% 79
West Midlands -15 137 £475 -9.52% 55
Scotland -3 106 £475 +2.81% 33
Yorkshire -25 76 £500 +8.70% 40
East of England -9 56 £500 +11.73% 71
East Midlands -5 53 £413 -6.78% 40
North East -21 19 £350 -3.45% 18
Wales -7 15 £475 +65.22% 25
Northern Ireland -1 10 £280 -46.76% 35
Channel Islands +1 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
1 110 (5.83%) Confluence
2 105 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.37%) CMS
5 6 (0.32%) SAS
6 4 (0.21%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.21%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.16%) Camunda
7 3 (0.16%) CICS
7 3 (0.16%) Kentico
7 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.16%) WordPress
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 159 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (5.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 100 (5.30%) Microsoft Project
4 88 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.22%) Siemens NX
7 10 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.16%) Revit
9 3 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.053%) CATIA
10 1 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 36 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.43%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.48%) Primavera
5 8 (0.42%) Maximo
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
6 6 (0.32%) Summit
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.26%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.26%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 219 (11.60%) Azure
2 105 (5.56%) AWS
3 96 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
3 96 (5.08%) Power Platform
4 69 (3.65%) SaaS
5 54 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (2.54%) Entra ID
7 30 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
7 30 (1.59%) GCP
8 24 (1.27%) GitHub
9 23 (1.22%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.11%) IaaS
11 19 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (0.85%) PowerApps
12 16 (0.85%) Serverless
13 14 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (0.74%) Amazon S3
14 13 (0.69%) Power Automate
14 13 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 105 (5.56%) Firewall
2 70 (3.71%) DNS
3 58 (3.07%) Network Security
4 54 (2.86%) WAN
5 48 (2.54%) LAN
6 43 (2.28%) VPN
7 31 (1.64%) BGP
8 29 (1.54%) MPLS
8 29 (1.54%) OSPF
9 28 (1.48%) VLAN
10 27 (1.43%) DHCP
11 24 (1.27%) Wireless
12 23 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 21 (1.11%) SD-WAN
13 21 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
14 18 (0.95%) TCP/IP
15 15 (0.79%) SSL
16 13 (0.69%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.69%) IPsec
16 13 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.13%) Power BI
2 41 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.54%) Tableau
4 23 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.64%) Metadata
7 10 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.42%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.42%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.32%) Big Data
10 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.26%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
13 3 (0.16%) GIS
Development Applications
1 208 (11.02%) JIRA
2 23 (1.22%) Git
3 14 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.64%) GitLab
5 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.32%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) Appium
7 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.16%) JMeter
7 3 (0.16%) MSTest
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.053%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.053%) NUnit
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle APEX
General
1 726 (38.45%) Social Skills
2 594 (31.46%) Finance
3 246 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (11.60%) Public Sector
5 138 (7.31%) Organisational Skills
6 118 (6.25%) Banking
7 89 (4.71%) Retail
8 83 (4.40%) Legal
9 75 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
10 67 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (2.81%) Telecoms
12 50 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
13 49 (2.60%) Manufacturing
14 37 (1.96%) Local Government
15 30 (1.59%) Military
16 26 (1.38%) Marketing
17 22 (1.17%) Investment Banking
18 20 (1.06%) Financial Institution
19 18 (0.95%) Publishing
20 16 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 464 (24.58%) Project Manager
2 222 (11.76%) Analyst
3 205 (10.86%) Lead
4 197 (10.43%) Senior
5 119 (6.30%) Business Analyst
6 102 (5.40%) Architect
7 94 (4.98%) Senior Manager
8 81 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
9 80 (4.24%) Consultant
10 77 (4.08%) Network Engineer
11 76 (4.03%) IT Manager
12 75 (3.97%) Senior Project Manager
13 53 (2.81%) Developer
13 53 (2.81%) IT Project Manager
14 50 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (2.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 39 (2.07%) Technical Manager
17 37 (1.96%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 35 (1.85%) Project Officer
19 33 (1.75%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.07%) Middleware
2 30 (1.59%) REST
3 19 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.79%) XML
5 13 (0.69%) .NET
6 11 (0.58%) 802.1X
6 11 (0.58%) JSON
7 10 (0.53%) ADO
7 10 (0.53%) OAuth
8 9 (0.48%) React
8 9 (0.48%) Spring Boot
8 9 (0.48%) Web Services
9 8 (0.42%) Spring
10 7 (0.37%) RESTful
11 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.32%) CSS
11 6 (0.32%) PySpark
11 6 (0.32%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.30%) Management Information System
2 89 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 72 (3.81%) Data Centre
3 72 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 34 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (1.69%) Virtual Team
6 31 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 31 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (1.48%) Cloud Native
8 25 (1.32%) Clustering
8 25 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 24 (1.27%) Replication
10 23 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.17%) Operational Technology
12 21 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.11%) PKI
13 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (0.85%) NHS
14 16 (0.85%) PMI
15 15 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 104 (5.51%) Windows
2 49 (2.60%) Windows Server
3 41 (2.17%) Linux
4 30 (1.59%) Unix
5 14 (0.74%) Solaris
6 8 (0.42%) AIX
6 8 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.37%) zOS
8 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.26%) VMS
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.11%) Android
11 2 (0.11%) Debian
12 1 (0.053%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.053%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (31.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 570 (30.19%) Agile
3 534 (28.28%) Project Management
4 301 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
5 296 (15.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 293 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 287 (15.20%) Migration
8 240 (12.71%) Change Management
9 223 (11.81%) PRINCE2
10 197 (10.43%) Decision-Making
11 188 (9.96%) Waterfall
12 155 (8.21%) DevOps
13 153 (8.10%) Risk Management
14 140 (7.42%) ITIL
15 136 (7.20%) AI
16 132 (6.99%) Roadmaps
17 123 (6.51%) Scrum
18 116 (6.14%) ERP
19 114 (6.04%) Validation
20 113 (5.99%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.88%) SQL
2 87 (4.61%) Python
3 52 (2.75%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.22%) Java
5 21 (1.11%) C#
6 17 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.58%) Bash
8 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.42%) Go
9 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.42%) VBA
10 7 (0.37%) Bicep
11 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.26%) ABAP
12 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.21%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.16%) C++
14 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 409 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 297 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 186 (9.85%) Degree
4 157 (8.32%) PMP
5 122 (6.46%) PMI Certification
6 100 (5.30%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (2.28%) CCNP
9 38 (2.01%) CCNA
10 33 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.38%) CISSP
12 24 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 19 (1.01%) APMP
14 18 (0.95%) Azure Certification
14 18 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (0.95%) MCSE
15 17 (0.90%) CISM
15 17 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (11.23%) PMO
2 101 (5.35%) QA
3 53 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (2.81%) NIST
4 48 (2.54%) GDPR
5 39 (2.07%) Data Quality
6 21 (1.11%) SLA
7 14 (0.74%) GRC
8 10 (0.53%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.42%) IFRS
11 7 (0.37%) HL7
11 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.32%) Basel III
12 6 (0.32%) GAAP
12 6 (0.32%) NCSC
13 5 (0.26%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 79 (4.18%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.01%) vSphere
4 18 (0.95%) Docker
4 18 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.48%) Firmware
9 8 (0.42%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.16%) Squid
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.053%) ACF2
13 1 (0.053%) KVM
13 1 (0.053%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.053%) RACF
13 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 43 (2.28%) Ansible
2 41 (2.17%) Terraform
3 29 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.90%) FortiGate
6 15 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.69%) SCCM
8 12 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.37%) Nagios
9 7 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.26%) Netcool
10 5 (0.26%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
11 3 (0.16%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 337 (17.85%) Microsoft
2 125 (6.62%) SAP
3 97 (5.14%) ServiceNow
4 96 (5.08%) Cisco
5 91 (4.82%) Oracle
6 57 (3.02%) VMware
7 52 (2.75%) Palo Alto
8 36 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.80%) F5
9 34 (1.80%) Google
10 30 (1.59%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.22%) IBM
11 23 (1.22%) Siemens
12 22 (1.17%) SolarWinds
13 18 (0.95%) CheckPoint
13 18 (0.95%) Workday
14 17 (0.90%) Aruba
14 17 (0.90%) Infoblox
14 17 (0.90%) Juniper
14 17 (0.90%) NEC