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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,772 1,162 1,628
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.69% 3.98% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 4.37% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 717 1,034
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £420 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £635
90th Percentile £700 £717 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 22 37
10th Percentile £16.15 £26.33 £20.98
25th Percentile £20.88 £31.06 £26.25
Median hourly rate £38.02 £60.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -36.63% +68.30% -44.73%
75th Percentile £78.13 £77.19 £42.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £78.46 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.04 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -39.94% +58.77% -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 40,493 26,571 36,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.28% 90.99% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,428 17,064 23,633
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,382 1,097 2,442
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.26 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.39% -32.73% +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 19 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 19 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 19 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 0 1,581 £515 -1.90% 885
UK excluding London -2 982 £485 -3.00% 671
London -5 659 £550 - 300
Work from Home -2 490 £525 - 389
North of England +29 291 £478 -2.55% 149
South East -3 228 £525 -4.55% 229
North West +28 189 £481 -0.39% 82
Midlands -11 187 £475 -7.23% 102
South West +14 139 £485 -3.00% 93
West Midlands -13 131 £481 -7.46% 72
Yorkshire -4 84 £500 - 44
Scotland -15 82 £463 +2.78% 37
East of England -5 55 £500 +11.73% 52
East Midlands -11 55 £453 +0.89% 30
North East -4 22 £350 -6.67% 26
Wales -4 13 £463 +42.31% 15
Northern Ireland -13 2 £225 -60.00% 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
1 105 (5.93%) Confluence
2 92 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.28%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) Apache
5 4 (0.23%) OpenEdge
6 3 (0.17%) Camunda
6 3 (0.17%) CICS
6 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
6 3 (0.17%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.11%) IIS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 146 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (5.98%) Microsoft Project
3 100 (5.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 88 (4.97%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.41%) Siemens NX
7 8 (0.45%) Trello
8 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.23%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.056%) SPSS
11 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 43 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.64%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.68%) Loan IQ
4 11 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.40%) Primavera
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.34%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.28%) Shopify
7 5 (0.28%) Summit
8 4 (0.23%) Maximo
8 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 198 (11.17%) Azure
2 98 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
3 94 (5.30%) Power Platform
4 90 (5.08%) AWS
5 70 (3.95%) SaaS
6 45 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (1.98%) Entra ID
8 32 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.64%) GCP
10 22 (1.24%) GitHub
10 22 (1.24%) Google Workspace
10 22 (1.24%) IaaS
11 19 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (0.73%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (0.68%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.68%) PaaS
14 12 (0.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 96 (5.42%) Firewall
2 60 (3.39%) DNS
3 44 (2.48%) Network Security
4 42 (2.37%) WAN
5 38 (2.14%) LAN
6 28 (1.58%) BGP
7 27 (1.52%) OSPF
8 24 (1.35%) VLAN
9 22 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 22 (1.24%) VPN
10 21 (1.19%) TCP/IP
11 18 (1.02%) MPLS
11 18 (1.02%) SD-WAN
12 17 (0.96%) DHCP
13 16 (0.90%) Wireless
14 14 (0.79%) BIG-IP
14 14 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
15 13 (0.73%) SAN
15 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
16 11 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.18%) Power BI
2 36 (2.03%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.52%) Tableau
4 24 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.73%) Metadata
8 7 (0.40%) SAP HANA
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.28%) Big Data
10 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.23%) GIS
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 198 (11.17%) JIRA
2 17 (0.96%) Git
3 16 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.62%) GitLab
5 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
7 3 (0.17%) Appium
7 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
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%) Hudson
9 1 (0.056%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.056%) LSMW
9 1 (0.056%) NUnit
General
1 666 (37.58%) Social Skills
2 563 (31.77%) Finance
3 243 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 132 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
6 124 (7.00%) Banking
7 79 (4.46%) Retail
8 68 (3.84%) Legal
9 65 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
10 64 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
11 52 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (2.60%) Telecoms
13 43 (2.43%) Manufacturing
14 30 (1.69%) Marketing
15 27 (1.52%) Local Government
15 27 (1.52%) Military
16 23 (1.30%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.02%) Financial Institution
18 16 (0.90%) Publishing
19 15 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 473 (26.69%) Project Manager
2 212 (11.96%) Analyst
3 186 (10.50%) Lead
4 176 (9.93%) Senior
5 132 (7.45%) Business Analyst
6 88 (4.97%) Senior Manager
7 85 (4.80%) Architect
8 79 (4.46%) Consultant
9 75 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
10 69 (3.89%) IT Manager
11 68 (3.84%) Senior Project Manager
12 60 (3.39%) Network Engineer
13 49 (2.77%) IT Project Manager
14 44 (2.48%) Developer
14 44 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
15 42 (2.37%) Technical Manager
16 38 (2.14%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 36 (2.03%) Programme Manager
18 35 (1.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 33 (1.86%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.14%) Middleware
2 26 (1.47%) REST
3 20 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.85%) XML
5 12 (0.68%) .NET
5 12 (0.68%) ADO
6 10 (0.56%) OAuth
7 9 (0.51%) Spring Boot
7 9 (0.51%) Web Services
8 8 (0.45%) JSON
8 8 (0.45%) React
8 8 (0.45%) Spring
9 7 (0.40%) CSS
10 6 (0.34%) HTML
11 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.28%) SAP Basis
11 5 (0.28%) SOAP
12 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
12 4 (0.23%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.23%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 90 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 70 (3.95%) Product Ownership
3 69 (3.89%) Data Centre
4 64 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 32 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
6 30 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.58%) Virtual Team
8 26 (1.47%) Clustering
8 26 (1.47%) Public Cloud
8 26 (1.47%) Replication
9 21 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.02%) Cloud Native
11 17 (0.96%) PMI
12 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
12 16 (0.90%) NHS
13 15 (0.85%) Life Science
13 15 (0.85%) Operational Technology
14 14 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 100 (5.64%) Windows
2 48 (2.71%) Windows Server
3 36 (2.03%) Linux
4 28 (1.58%) Unix
5 15 (0.85%) Solaris
6 10 (0.56%) VMS
6 10 (0.56%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.45%) AIX
7 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.45%) zOS
8 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
10 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.056%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.056%) Android
12 1 (0.056%) CentOS
12 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (30.36%) Project Management
2 537 (30.30%) Agile
3 504 (28.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 286 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
5 280 (15.80%) Migration
6 257 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 246 (13.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 211 (11.91%) PRINCE2
9 207 (11.68%) Change Management
10 184 (10.38%) Decision-Making
11 183 (10.33%) Waterfall
12 151 (8.52%) DevOps
13 148 (8.35%) Risk Management
14 130 (7.34%) Roadmaps
15 124 (7.00%) Scrum
16 115 (6.49%) Workshop Facilitation
17 114 (6.43%) AI
17 114 (6.43%) Project Governance
18 113 (6.38%) ITIL
19 112 (6.32%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 89 (5.02%) SQL
2 76 (4.29%) Python
3 48 (2.71%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.24%) Java
5 19 (1.07%) C#
6 17 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.56%) Bash
8 8 (0.45%) Go
9 7 (0.40%) Bicep
9 7 (0.40%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.28%) VBA
12 4 (0.23%) ABAP
13 3 (0.17%) C++
13 3 (0.17%) COBOL
13 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 394 (22.23%) Security Cleared
2 291 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 186 (10.50%) Degree
4 153 (8.63%) PMP
5 117 (6.60%) PMI Certification
6 91 (5.14%) DV Cleared
7 44 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (2.09%) CCNP
9 33 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.86%) CCNA
10 31 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (1.30%) APMP
13 21 (1.19%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.07%) CISSP
14 19 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (0.90%) MCSE
15 16 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (0.85%) Azure Certification
16 15 (0.85%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (11.00%) PMO
2 100 (5.64%) QA
3 46 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (2.48%) NIST
5 43 (2.43%) GDPR
6 42 (2.37%) Data Quality
7 22 (1.24%) SLA
8 13 (0.73%) GRC
9 12 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.45%) HL7
11 8 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.34%) Basel III
12 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.28%) MiFID
13 5 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 66 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 35 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.13%) vSphere
4 18 (1.02%) Docker
5 16 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.68%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.40%) Firmware
9 4 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.11%) Squid
12 1 (0.056%) Ceph
12 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 41 (2.31%) Ansible
2 34 (1.92%) Terraform
3 28 (1.58%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.73%) SCCM
5 13 (0.73%) vCenter Server
6 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.56%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.51%) Nagios
9 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.28%) Netcool
10 5 (0.28%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.17%) Grafana
11 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.17%) Puppet
11 3 (0.17%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
12 2 (0.11%) Packer
12 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 311 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 134 (7.56%) SAP
3 80 (4.51%) Oracle
4 78 (4.40%) ServiceNow
5 70 (3.95%) Cisco
6 46 (2.60%) VMware
7 42 (2.37%) Palo Alto
8 36 (2.03%) Google
8 36 (2.03%) Salesforce
9 31 (1.75%) F5
10 25 (1.41%) Siemens
11 21 (1.19%) IBM
12 19 (1.07%) CheckPoint
13 16 (0.90%) Aruba
13 16 (0.90%) Atlassian
13 16 (0.90%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.79%) Citrix
14 14 (0.79%) SolarWinds
14 14 (0.79%) Workday
15 13 (0.73%) NEC