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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 53 51
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,471 1,309 1,800
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.97% 3.88% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.39% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 748 1,188
10th Percentile £315 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.36% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 36 32
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.88 £21.02
25th Percentile £19.10 £23.37 £36.19
Median hourly rate £45.46 £33.75 £56.16
Median % change year-on-year +34.70% -39.90% -13.60%
75th Percentile £63.66 £62.59 £77.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.95 £45.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.50% -8.13% -23.08%

All Process and 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 32,672 29,808 38,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.28% 88.28% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,566 18,179 25,645
10th Percentile £300 £307 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.70% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,089 966 1,478
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.62 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%
75th Percentile £51.02 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% -30.00% +40.63%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 -1 1,274 £520 -4.59% 1,665
UK excluding London -6 767 £497 -5.36% 1,444
London +3 578 £548 -0.45% 363
Work from Home +1 443 £525 -4.55% 668
South East -1 211 £538 -2.27% 389
North of England +4 206 £478 -5.91% 332
Midlands -9 140 £456 -13.10% 277
North West +9 124 £475 -4.52% 187
West Midlands -19 80 £513 -10.56% 149
Scotland -18 75 £475 - 65
Yorkshire -4 71 £500 -12.70% 126
South West -6 68 £481 -8.33% 186
East Midlands +11 61 £425 -10.53% 119
East of England -4 42 £525 +7.69% 188
Wales +9 21 £322 -41.50% 20
Northern Ireland -2 15 £450 -18.18% 17
North East -7 12 £290 -49.34% 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
1 102 (6.93%) Confluence
2 61 (4.15%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.41%) CMS
5 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.20%) CICS
5 3 (0.20%) NServiceBus
5 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.14%) Appian
6 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.068%) Apache
7 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.068%) IIS
7 1 (0.068%) Moodle
7 1 (0.068%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.068%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 120 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (6.53%) Microsoft Project
3 94 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
4 80 (5.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (2.65%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.16%) Trello
7 13 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.48%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.14%) InDesign
10 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.14%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.068%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.068%) Revit
11 1 (0.068%) Sketch
11 1 (0.068%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 59 (4.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.02%) Endur
3 13 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.68%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.61%) Dynamics GP
7 7 (0.48%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.48%) SAP IBP
7 7 (0.48%) SAP MM
7 7 (0.48%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.34%) SAP GTS
9 5 (0.34%) SAP PP
9 5 (0.34%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.27%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.27%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 184 (12.51%) Azure
2 69 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (4.42%) Power Platform
4 51 (3.47%) AWS
5 46 (3.13%) SaaS
6 43 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
8 29 (1.97%) GCP
9 22 (1.50%) Entra ID
10 19 (1.29%) GitHub
11 17 (1.16%) OCI
12 13 (0.88%) IaaS
12 13 (0.88%) Power Automate
12 13 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
13 12 (0.82%) PowerApps
14 10 (0.68%) OpenShift
15 9 (0.61%) Asana
15 9 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (0.61%) PaaS
16 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.08%) Firewall
2 38 (2.58%) WAN
3 34 (2.31%) DNS
4 32 (2.18%) LAN
5 20 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.29%) SD-WAN
7 18 (1.22%) BGP
7 18 (1.22%) Network Security
8 17 (1.16%) MPLS
9 16 (1.09%) VPN
9 16 (1.09%) Wireless
10 15 (1.02%) OSPF
11 12 (0.82%) HTTP
12 11 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (0.75%) DHCP
12 11 (0.75%) SAN
12 11 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.68%) VLAN
14 9 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.60%) Power BI
2 18 (1.22%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.09%) Tableau
4 15 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (0.82%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.48%) Metadata
9 4 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.27%) GIS
9 4 (0.27%) 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
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 181 (12.30%) JIRA
2 26 (1.77%) Git
3 11 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.48%) GitLab
4 7 (0.48%) Subversion
5 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
5 5 (0.34%) Selenium
6 4 (0.27%) Fiddler
6 4 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.14%) Appium
8 2 (0.14%) JMeter
8 2 (0.14%) MSTest
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.068%) Dreamweaver
9 1 (0.068%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.068%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Forms
General
1 640 (43.51%) Social Skills
2 448 (30.46%) Finance
3 186 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 107 (7.27%) Banking
6 76 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
8 54 (3.67%) Manufacturing
9 48 (3.26%) Retail
10 46 (3.13%) Legal
11 44 (2.99%) Telecoms
12 39 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (2.45%) Marketing
14 35 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (1.90%) Front Office
16 21 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (1.22%) Law
18 17 (1.16%) Local Government
19 15 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 15 (1.02%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 411 (27.94%) Project Manager
2 192 (13.05%) Analyst
3 143 (9.72%) Lead
4 135 (9.18%) Business Analyst
5 121 (8.23%) Senior
6 93 (6.32%) Architect
7 83 (5.64%) Consultant
8 64 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
9 60 (4.08%) IT Manager
10 56 (3.81%) Senior Manager
11 47 (3.20%) Senior Project Manager
12 46 (3.13%) IT Project Manager
13 45 (3.06%) Technical Manager
14 43 (2.92%) Programme Manager
15 37 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
16 33 (2.24%) SAP Manager
17 30 (2.04%) Infrastructure Manager
17 30 (2.04%) Network Engineer
17 30 (2.04%) Technical Project Manager
18 28 (1.90%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.56%) REST
2 19 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.95%) Middleware
3 14 (0.95%) SOAP
4 13 (0.88%) React
4 13 (0.88%) XML
5 12 (0.82%) Web Services
6 10 (0.68%) AngularJS
7 8 (0.54%) .NET
7 8 (0.54%) JMS
7 8 (0.54%) SAP Fiori
7 8 (0.54%) XSD
8 6 (0.41%) ADO
8 6 (0.41%) HTML
8 6 (0.41%) RESTful
9 5 (0.34%) Node.js
9 5 (0.34%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.34%) YAML
9 5 (0.34%) ZK
10 4 (0.27%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.83%) Onboarding
2 69 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.54%) Data Centre
4 39 (2.65%) Management Information System
4 39 (2.65%) PMI
5 33 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.24%) Virtual Team
6 25 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.36%) NHS
9 17 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (0.95%) Public Cloud
11 13 (0.88%) Algorithms
11 13 (0.88%) Life Science
11 13 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
11 13 (0.88%) Replication
12 12 (0.82%) CMDB
12 12 (0.82%) Driving Licence
12 12 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (5.57%) Windows
2 39 (2.65%) Windows Server
3 33 (2.24%) Linux
4 19 (1.29%) Unix
5 14 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.61%) Solaris
8 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.41%) VMS
9 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.34%) OpenVMS
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.20%) zOS
12 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.068%) Android
13 1 (0.068%) pSOS
13 1 (0.068%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.068%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (34.67%) Agile
2 461 (31.34%) Project Management
3 441 (29.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 264 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
5 237 (16.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 216 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 213 (14.48%) Change Management
8 208 (14.14%) Migration
9 192 (13.05%) PRINCE2
10 161 (10.94%) Waterfall
11 141 (9.59%) Roadmaps
12 139 (9.45%) ITIL
13 136 (9.25%) Scrum
14 128 (8.70%) Risk Management
15 127 (8.63%) DevOps
16 126 (8.57%) Decision-Making
17 124 (8.43%) Project Governance
18 116 (7.89%) ERP
19 110 (7.48%) Workshop Facilitation
20 104 (7.07%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 77 (5.23%) SQL
2 69 (4.69%) Python
3 43 (2.92%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.50%) Bash
5 21 (1.43%) Java
6 8 (0.54%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.54%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.41%) ABAP
7 6 (0.41%) C#
7 6 (0.41%) Perl
8 4 (0.27%) C++
9 3 (0.20%) Assembly Language
9 3 (0.20%) COBOL
9 3 (0.20%) HLASM
9 3 (0.20%) JCL
9 3 (0.20%) REXX
10 2 (0.14%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.14%) PHP
10 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 252 (17.13%) Security Cleared
2 221 (15.02%) Degree
3 186 (12.64%) SC Cleared
4 119 (8.09%) PMI Certification
5 113 (7.68%) PMP
6 47 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 34 (2.31%) Master's Degree
8 33 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (1.84%) CCNP
11 24 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (1.43%) APMP
13 18 (1.22%) CCNA
14 17 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 14 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.88%) CBAP
17 11 (0.75%) CISSP
17 11 (0.75%) SAP Certification
18 8 (0.54%) CISM
18 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (8.16%) PMO
2 85 (5.78%) QA
3 34 (2.31%) GDPR
3 34 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 21 (1.43%) NIST
7 18 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.09%) SLA
9 13 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.75%) PSD2
11 10 (0.68%) NCSC
12 9 (0.61%) MiFID
13 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.48%) P3O
14 6 (0.41%) Def Stans
14 6 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.41%) EMIR
14 6 (0.41%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 45 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.95%) Docker
4 11 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.61%) vSphere
7 7 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.27%) Firmware
8 4 (0.27%) NFS
8 4 (0.27%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.27%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.068%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.068%) RACF
Systems Management
1 34 (2.31%) Ansible
2 22 (1.50%) Terraform
3 19 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (1.16%) SCCM
5 16 (1.09%) Kubernetes
6 11 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.41%) Grafana
8 6 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.34%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.27%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.27%) QRadar
10 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.20%) Functional Safety
11 3 (0.20%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.14%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 254 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 133 (9.04%) SAP
3 89 (6.05%) Oracle
4 69 (4.69%) Cisco
5 63 (4.28%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 41 (2.79%) VMware
8 23 (1.56%) Workday
9 20 (1.36%) Palo Alto
10 19 (1.29%) IBM
11 17 (1.16%) Google
12 16 (1.09%) Red Hat
13 15 (1.02%) Citrix
14 14 (0.95%) Aruba
14 14 (0.95%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.95%) F5
14 14 (0.95%) Fortinet
15 13 (0.88%) Ariba
16 11 (0.75%) SolarWinds
17 10 (0.68%) Blue Prism