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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 53 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,510 1,223 1,766
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.07% 3.85% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 4.33% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 985 689 1,169
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £440 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £723 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.94% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 36 28
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.88 £21.17
25th Percentile £17.25 £23.37 £34.50
Median hourly rate £40.44 £33.75 £52.49
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% -35.71% -9.50%
75th Percentile £63.40 £62.95 £71.94
90th Percentile £69.61 £66.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £38.34 £50.00
% change year-on-year -3.50% -23.32% -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 32,565 28,230 37,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.70% 88.92% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,598 17,153 25,051
10th Percentile £304 £308 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,982 906 1,726
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.15
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.80 £17.54
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +17.96%
75th Percentile £56.69 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.81 £75.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £40.28
% change year-on-year -22.03% -23.58% +46.45%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 0 1,321 £525 -1.87% 825
UK excluding London -6 786 £481 -8.33% 789
London +10 606 £550 - 177
Work from Home -1 441 £525 -2.14% 414
North of England +9 222 £478 -4.60% 158
South East 0 199 £538 -4.44% 268
Midlands -4 157 £450 -11.76% 122
North West +14 140 £475 -3.06% 85
West Midlands -24 81 £497 -13.28% 65
Scotland -13 78 £450 -3.33% 33
East Midlands +14 77 £425 -5.56% 57
South West -1 74 £531 +6.04% 90
Yorkshire -7 71 £500 -12.74% 50
East of England -1 36 £538 +7.50% 93
Wales +8 19 £308 -42.12% 29
Northern Ireland -1 14 £475 -13.64% 16
North East -11 12 £290 -49.34% 24

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
1 122 (8.08%) Confluence
2 64 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.26%) CMS
5 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.20%) CICS
5 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.13%) Appian
6 2 (0.13%) MS Project Server
6 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.066%) Apache
7 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.066%) IIS
7 1 (0.066%) Moodle
7 1 (0.066%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
Applications
1 142 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (6.75%) Microsoft Office
3 99 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 97 (6.42%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (2.58%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.99%) Trello
7 14 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.46%) Siemens NX
9 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.13%) InDesign
11 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.066%) Revit
12 1 (0.066%) Sketch
12 1 (0.066%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.73%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.66%) Endur
4 10 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.66%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 9 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 8 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.46%) SAP IBP
7 7 (0.46%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.40%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.33%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
9 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.33%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 190 (12.58%) Azure
2 72 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (4.37%) Power Platform
4 58 (3.84%) AWS
5 54 (3.58%) SaaS
6 44 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
8 32 (2.12%) GCP
9 25 (1.66%) GitHub
10 21 (1.39%) Entra ID
11 19 (1.26%) OCI
12 13 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (0.86%) IaaS
13 12 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (0.73%) OpenShift
15 8 (0.53%) PaaS
16 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
16 7 (0.46%) PowerApps
17 6 (0.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.70%) Firewall
2 41 (2.72%) WAN
3 35 (2.32%) LAN
4 31 (2.05%) DNS
5 28 (1.85%) Network Security
6 22 (1.46%) BGP
7 20 (1.32%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.26%) OSPF
9 18 (1.19%) SD-WAN
10 17 (1.13%) VPN
11 16 (1.06%) MPLS
12 15 (0.99%) Wireless
13 13 (0.86%) NetScaler
13 13 (0.86%) VLAN
14 11 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
14 11 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
15 10 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
15 10 (0.66%) DHCP
16 9 (0.60%) SSL
16 9 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.64%) Power BI
2 28 (1.85%) Tableau
3 19 (1.26%) SQL Server
4 15 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (0.53%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.53%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.46%) Metadata
7 7 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.33%) GIS
9 4 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.20%) DB2
10 3 (0.20%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.20%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 203 (13.44%) JIRA
2 22 (1.46%) Git
3 16 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.53%) GitLab
5 7 (0.46%) Subversion
6 6 (0.40%) Selenium
7 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
8 4 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.20%) Appium
9 3 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.13%) JMeter
10 2 (0.13%) MSTest
10 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.066%) Dreamweaver
11 1 (0.066%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.066%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.066%) Oracle Forms
General
1 636 (42.12%) Social Skills
2 461 (30.53%) Finance
3 192 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (9.07%) Banking
5 132 (8.74%) Public Sector
6 84 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
8 47 (3.11%) Manufacturing
9 45 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
10 44 (2.91%) Retail
11 41 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (2.52%) Legal
13 37 (2.45%) Telecoms
14 28 (1.85%) Front Office
14 28 (1.85%) Marketing
15 18 (1.19%) Investment Banking
15 18 (1.19%) Law
16 16 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.99%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 413 (27.35%) Project Manager
2 189 (12.52%) Analyst
3 167 (11.06%) Lead
4 142 (9.40%) Business Analyst
5 125 (8.28%) Senior
6 97 (6.42%) Architect
7 81 (5.36%) Consultant
8 56 (3.71%) Delivery Manager
8 56 (3.71%) IT Manager
9 55 (3.64%) Senior Manager
10 47 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
11 46 (3.05%) Senior Project Manager
12 43 (2.85%) Technical Manager
13 42 (2.78%) Programme Manager
14 41 (2.72%) IT Project Manager
15 40 (2.65%) Network Engineer
16 35 (2.32%) SAP Manager
17 28 (1.85%) Technical Project Manager
18 27 (1.79%) Administrator
19 26 (1.72%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.39%) REST
3 17 (1.13%) Middleware
4 11 (0.73%) XML
5 10 (0.66%) React
5 10 (0.66%) Web Services
6 9 (0.60%) SOAP
7 8 (0.53%) HTML
8 7 (0.46%) .NET
9 6 (0.40%) ADO
9 6 (0.40%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.40%) CSS
9 6 (0.40%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.40%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.33%) Node.js
10 5 (0.33%) RESTful
10 5 (0.33%) YAML
10 5 (0.33%) ZK
11 4 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.26%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 85 (5.63%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 43 (2.85%) Management Information System
5 41 (2.72%) PMI
6 35 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (2.05%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.46%) NHS
10 21 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.86%) Algorithms
13 13 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.86%) Life Science
13 13 (0.86%) Replication
14 12 (0.79%) Driving Licence
15 11 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 85 (5.63%) Windows
2 39 (2.58%) Windows Server
3 33 (2.19%) Linux
4 19 (1.26%) Unix
4 19 (1.26%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.79%) Solaris
7 10 (0.66%) VMS
8 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.33%) OpenVMS
11 3 (0.20%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.20%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.20%) zOS
12 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.066%) Android
13 1 (0.066%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (34.04%) Agile
2 479 (31.72%) Project Management
3 459 (30.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 273 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
5 227 (15.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 216 (14.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 211 (13.97%) Migration
8 199 (13.18%) PRINCE2
9 197 (13.05%) Change Management
10 161 (10.66%) Waterfall
11 156 (10.33%) DevOps
12 140 (9.27%) Scrum
13 130 (8.61%) ITIL
14 128 (8.48%) Risk Management
15 126 (8.34%) Decision-Making
16 124 (8.21%) Roadmaps
17 120 (7.95%) Project Governance
18 116 (7.68%) ERP
19 112 (7.42%) Workshop Facilitation
20 103 (6.82%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (4.90%) Python
2 73 (4.83%) SQL
3 40 (2.65%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.52%) Bash
4 23 (1.52%) Java
5 11 (0.73%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.66%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.46%) C#
8 6 (0.40%) Perl
9 4 (0.26%) ABAP
9 4 (0.26%) C++
10 3 (0.20%) Assembly Language
10 3 (0.20%) COBOL
10 3 (0.20%) HLASM
10 3 (0.20%) JCL
10 3 (0.20%) REXX
11 2 (0.13%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.13%) PHP
11 2 (0.13%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 270 (17.88%) Security Cleared
2 222 (14.70%) Degree
3 193 (12.78%) SC Cleared
4 125 (8.28%) PMI Certification
5 121 (8.01%) PMP
6 55 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.65%) Master's Degree
8 36 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (2.12%) CCNP
11 28 (1.85%) APMP
12 25 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.46%) CCNA
14 18 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (1.06%) CBAP
16 15 (0.99%) CISSP
17 14 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
18 12 (0.79%) CISM
19 11 (0.73%) SAP Certification
20 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (9.01%) PMO
2 93 (6.16%) QA
3 38 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (2.38%) GDPR
5 30 (1.99%) Data Quality
6 26 (1.72%) NIST
7 18 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 17 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.93%) SLA
10 12 (0.79%) PSD2
11 11 (0.73%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.73%) NCSC
12 8 (0.53%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.53%) MiFID
12 8 (0.53%) P3O
13 7 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.40%) GRC
14 6 (0.40%) ISO 8583
15 5 (0.33%) GMP
System Software
1 43 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.93%) Docker
3 14 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.60%) vSphere
8 4 (0.26%) Firmware
8 4 (0.26%) NFS
8 4 (0.26%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.066%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.066%) RACF
Systems Management
1 41 (2.72%) Ansible
2 28 (1.85%) Terraform
3 25 (1.66%) Kubernetes
4 18 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.19%) SCCM
5 10 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.40%) Grafana
7 6 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.33%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.26%) QRadar
9 4 (0.26%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.20%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (0.13%) Control-M
11 2 (0.13%) Nagios
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 256 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 133 (8.81%) SAP
3 92 (6.09%) Oracle
4 77 (5.10%) Cisco
5 55 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 41 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.72%) VMware
7 27 (1.79%) Palo Alto
8 25 (1.66%) Workday
9 22 (1.46%) Google
10 19 (1.26%) Citrix
11 16 (1.06%) Aruba
11 16 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 15 (0.99%) Atlassian
12 15 (0.99%) IBM
13 13 (0.86%) CheckPoint
13 13 (0.86%) F5
13 13 (0.86%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.79%) CyberArk
15 11 (0.73%) SolarWinds