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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,696 1,175 1,702
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.81% 4.04% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.47% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 709 1,126
10th Percentile £335 £325 £373
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £700 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 26 33
10th Percentile £15.91 £21.96 £20.98
25th Percentile £17.71 £30.84 £26.92
Median hourly rate £43.12 £60.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +46.56% -37.02%
75th Percentile £62.25 £66.88 £42.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.93 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -24.23% +46.56% -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 38,122 26,294 38,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.61% 90.44% 86.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,155 17,082 24,859
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 966 2,351
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.24 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.72 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £31.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -1 1,501 £515 -1.90% 826
UK excluding London -7 889 £480 -4.00% 656
London +1 678 £550 - 267
Work from Home +1 495 £538 +2.38% 345
North of England +13 248 £477 +0.42% 128
South East 0 218 £525 -4.55% 235
Midlands -13 172 £468 -6.50% 109
North West +18 163 £475 - 73
South West +10 114 £475 - 74
West Midlands -17 112 £492 -6.29% 71
Yorkshire -13 76 £500 - 38
Scotland -22 73 £475 - 38
East Midlands -9 59 £420 -4.82% 38
East of England -17 45 £565 +13.68% 64
Wales +3 20 £413 +26.92% 17
North East -7 11 £350 -15.15% 17
Northern Ireland -5 8 £370 -35.65% 4

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
1 118 (6.96%) Confluence
2 75 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.35%) CMS
5 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.24%) CICS
6 4 (0.24%) SAS
7 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.18%) Camunda
7 3 (0.18%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.059%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.059%) IIS
9 1 (0.059%) Moodle
9 1 (0.059%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.059%) Smallworld
Applications
1 157 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
3 106 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 103 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.71%) Trello
7 9 (0.53%) Siemens NX
8 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) InDesign
9 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.059%) Revit
10 1 (0.059%) SPSS
10 1 (0.059%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 48 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.71%) Loan IQ
3 12 (0.71%) Teamcenter
4 9 (0.53%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.47%) Endur
5 8 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.35%) Primavera
7 5 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.24%) SAP PP
8 4 (0.24%) Summit
9 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.18%) Shopify
9 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 207 (12.21%) Azure
2 89 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
3 82 (4.83%) Power Platform
4 80 (4.72%) AWS
5 55 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (3.18%) SaaS
7 34 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.83%) Entra ID
9 30 (1.77%) GCP
10 27 (1.59%) GitHub
11 20 (1.18%) IaaS
12 15 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.83%) PowerApps
14 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (0.77%) OCI
14 13 (0.77%) PaaS
14 13 (0.77%) Serverless
15 12 (0.71%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (0.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 92 (5.42%) Firewall
2 49 (2.89%) DNS
3 48 (2.83%) WAN
4 38 (2.24%) LAN
5 34 (2.00%) Network Security
6 26 (1.53%) BGP
6 26 (1.53%) OSPF
7 23 (1.36%) SD-WAN
8 20 (1.18%) TCP/IP
8 20 (1.18%) VPN
9 18 (1.06%) MPLS
10 17 (1.00%) VLAN
11 15 (0.88%) DHCP
11 15 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 15 (0.88%) NetScaler
11 15 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
12 14 (0.83%) Wireless
13 10 (0.59%) SAN
13 10 (0.59%) SSL
14 9 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (3.83%) Power BI
2 32 (1.89%) Tableau
3 29 (1.71%) SQL Server
4 24 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (0.53%) Metadata
8 7 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.29%) Big Data
10 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.29%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.29%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.24%) GIS
11 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 214 (12.62%) JIRA
2 20 (1.18%) Git
3 18 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.83%) GitLab
5 8 (0.47%) Selenium
6 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) JMeter
6 5 (0.29%) MSTest
6 5 (0.29%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.18%) Appium
7 3 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.12%) TestRail
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.059%) Gradle
9 1 (0.059%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.059%) Robot Framework
General
1 707 (41.69%) Social Skills
2 577 (34.02%) Finance
3 248 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (10.73%) Public Sector
5 143 (8.43%) Banking
6 123 (7.25%) Organisational Skills
7 68 (4.01%) Legal
7 68 (4.01%) Retail
8 67 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
9 59 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 43 (2.54%) Telecoms
12 31 (1.83%) Marketing
13 24 (1.42%) Local Government
14 22 (1.30%) Investment Banking
15 21 (1.24%) Front Office
16 19 (1.12%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.06%) Law
18 14 (0.83%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 482 (28.42%) Project Manager
2 213 (12.56%) Analyst
3 185 (10.91%) Lead
4 160 (9.43%) Senior
5 147 (8.67%) Business Analyst
6 80 (4.72%) Architect
6 80 (4.72%) Consultant
7 75 (4.42%) Delivery Manager
8 74 (4.36%) Senior Manager
9 69 (4.07%) IT Manager
10 55 (3.24%) Senior Project Manager
11 50 (2.95%) Technical Manager
12 49 (2.89%) IT Project Manager
13 44 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (2.54%) Programme Manager
15 41 (2.42%) Network Engineer
16 37 (2.18%) Infrastructure Manager
17 33 (1.95%) Project Officer
18 32 (1.89%) SAP Manager
19 31 (1.83%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.95%) Middleware
2 24 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (1.00%) REST
4 11 (0.65%) Web Services
4 11 (0.65%) XML
5 8 (0.47%) .NET
5 8 (0.47%) Spring Boot
6 7 (0.41%) CSS
6 7 (0.41%) Spring
7 6 (0.35%) ADO
7 6 (0.35%) HTML
7 6 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (0.35%) YAML
8 5 (0.29%) JSON
8 5 (0.29%) React
8 5 (0.29%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.24%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.24%) OAuth
9 4 (0.24%) RESTful
9 4 (0.24%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.83%) Product Ownership
2 71 (4.19%) Onboarding
3 68 (4.01%) Management Information System
4 64 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 38 (2.24%) Virtual Team
6 35 (2.06%) PMI
7 32 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 28 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.47%) NHS
11 21 (1.24%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.12%) Cloud Native
12 19 (1.12%) Replication
13 17 (1.00%) Clustering
14 15 (0.88%) Derivative
15 14 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.77%) Driving Licence
17 12 (0.71%) Algorithms
17 12 (0.71%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 88 (5.19%) Windows
2 45 (2.65%) Windows Server
3 31 (1.83%) Linux
4 18 (1.06%) Unix
5 16 (0.94%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.59%) Solaris
6 10 (0.59%) VMS
7 8 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.41%) zOS
9 4 (0.24%) AIX
9 4 (0.24%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.24%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.12%) Android
10 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.12%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.12%) pSOS
11 1 (0.059%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (34.14%) Agile
2 526 (31.01%) Project Management
3 520 (30.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 290 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
5 262 (15.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 256 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 254 (14.98%) PRINCE2
8 239 (14.09%) Migration
9 214 (12.62%) Change Management
10 179 (10.55%) DevOps
11 169 (9.96%) Decision-Making
12 165 (9.73%) Waterfall
13 153 (9.02%) Scrum
14 148 (8.73%) Risk Management
15 138 (8.14%) Roadmaps
15 138 (8.14%) Workshop Facilitation
16 127 (7.49%) ITIL
17 126 (7.43%) Business Analysis
18 117 (6.90%) Budget Management
19 116 (6.84%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 97 (5.72%) SQL
2 76 (4.48%) Python
3 48 (2.83%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.36%) Java
5 19 (1.12%) Bash
6 15 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.83%) C#
8 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.41%) Go
10 6 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.35%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.29%) Bicep
11 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.24%) ABAP
12 4 (0.24%) C++
12 4 (0.24%) COBOL
12 4 (0.24%) VBA
13 3 (0.18%) Assembly Language
13 3 (0.18%) REXX
Qualifications
1 350 (20.64%) Security Cleared
2 251 (14.80%) SC Cleared
3 235 (13.86%) Degree
4 167 (9.85%) PMP
5 145 (8.55%) PMI Certification
6 80 (4.72%) DV Cleared
7 35 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 34 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (1.95%) APMP
10 30 (1.77%) CCNP
10 30 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 25 (1.47%) CCNA
14 22 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
15 20 (1.18%) CISSP
16 18 (1.06%) CBAP
17 15 (0.88%) CISM
17 15 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.65%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (11.08%) PMO
2 116 (6.84%) QA
3 50 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (2.59%) GDPR
5 43 (2.54%) NIST
6 41 (2.42%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.24%) SLA
8 13 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.59%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.59%) PSD2
11 9 (0.53%) GRC
11 9 (0.53%) MiFID
11 9 (0.53%) P3O
12 7 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.41%) NCSC
12 7 (0.41%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.35%) Basel III
13 6 (0.35%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 56 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.30%) Docker
4 15 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.83%) vSphere
6 12 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.24%) Firmware
10 2 (0.12%) Squid
10 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.059%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.059%) Ceph
11 1 (0.059%) RACF
11 1 (0.059%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 39 (2.30%) Terraform
2 36 (2.12%) Ansible
3 28 (1.65%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.00%) SCCM
6 7 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.41%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.29%) Nagios
9 4 (0.24%) Grafana
10 3 (0.18%) Netcool
10 3 (0.18%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.18%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.18%) Puppet
10 3 (0.18%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) OpenView
11 2 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 293 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 138 (8.14%) SAP
3 85 (5.01%) Oracle
4 72 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 65 (3.83%) Cisco
6 41 (2.42%) VMware
7 39 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 31 (1.83%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.65%) Google
10 21 (1.24%) Atlassian
10 21 (1.24%) F5
11 19 (1.12%) CheckPoint
11 19 (1.12%) Citrix
12 18 (1.06%) Aruba
13 16 (0.94%) IBM
13 16 (0.94%) Workday
14 14 (0.83%) SolarWinds
15 13 (0.77%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.71%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.65%) Fortinet