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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 53 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,540 1,233 1,801
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.00% 3.92% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 4.40% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 695 1,199
10th Percentile £333 £350 £363
25th Percentile £414 £436 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £618 £634 £638
90th Percentile £725 £695 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £515 £504
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.18% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 35 29
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £18.18 £23.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.78 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.48% -35.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.70 £63.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.62 £66.50 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £37.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.64% -26.00% -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 33,625 28,045 38,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.37% 89.09% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,290 17,011 25,209
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £640
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.86% -0.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,022 880 1,958
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +10.65%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.18
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.10% +39.38%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -4 1,338 £525 -0.94% 742
UK excluding London -7 777 £492 -4.42% 695
London +4 636 £550 - 185
Work from Home +1 434 £525 -2.60% 346
North of England +4 219 £481 -3.97% 141
South East -10 186 £525 -6.87% 237
Midlands -13 155 £475 -6.40% 125
North West +13 138 £475 -2.96% 82
West Midlands -19 86 £539 -5.03% 82
Scotland -17 81 £450 -1.32% 31
South West -5 77 £538 +7.39% 75
East Midlands +4 70 £446 -3.13% 43
Yorkshire -13 70 £513 -12.57% 44
East of England -1 37 £550 +10.00% 69
Wales +4 19 £308 -42.12% 25
Northern Ireland 0 14 £475 -13.64% 4
North East -12 12 £290 -49.34% 18

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 (7.66%) Confluence
2 61 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.32%) CMS
5 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.19%) CICS
5 3 (0.19%) MS Project Server
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.13%) Appian
6 2 (0.13%) Camunda
6 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.065%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.065%) Apache
7 1 (0.065%) IIS
7 1 (0.065%) Moodle
7 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 144 (9.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
3 101 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 101 (6.56%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (2.40%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.91%) Trello
6 13 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.58%) Siemens NX
8 7 (0.45%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.13%) InDesign
10 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.065%) Revit
11 1 (0.065%) Sketch
11 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.78%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.71%) Endur
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 10 (0.65%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.58%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
7 8 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
8 7 (0.45%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.45%) SAP IBP
8 7 (0.45%) SAP MM
9 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.39%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
10 5 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.32%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 195 (12.66%) Azure
2 75 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 62 (4.03%) AWS
5 55 (3.57%) SaaS
6 45 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (2.08%) GCP
8 25 (1.62%) GitHub
9 21 (1.36%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.10%) OCI
11 14 (0.91%) IaaS
12 13 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (0.71%) OpenShift
14 9 (0.58%) PaaS
15 8 (0.52%) SuccessFactors
16 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
17 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 74 (4.81%) Firewall
2 40 (2.60%) WAN
3 35 (2.27%) LAN
4 34 (2.21%) DNS
5 27 (1.75%) Network Security
6 21 (1.36%) BGP
6 21 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.23%) OSPF
7 19 (1.23%) SD-WAN
8 17 (1.10%) VPN
9 16 (1.04%) MPLS
10 15 (0.97%) Wireless
11 14 (0.91%) NetScaler
12 12 (0.78%) DHCP
12 12 (0.78%) VLAN
13 11 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
14 10 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (0.65%) SSL
15 9 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.83%) Power BI
2 28 (1.82%) Tableau
3 20 (1.30%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.58%) Metadata
8 8 (0.52%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.39%) GIS
11 5 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.26%) SAP HANA
12 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.19%) DB2
13 3 (0.19%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle ODI
14 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 201 (13.05%) JIRA
2 23 (1.49%) Git
3 16 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.58%) GitLab
5 7 (0.45%) Subversion
6 6 (0.39%) Selenium
7 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
8 4 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.19%) Appium
9 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.13%) JMeter
10 2 (0.13%) MSTest
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
10 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 654 (42.47%) Social Skills
2 482 (31.30%) Finance
3 202 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (9.16%) Banking
5 137 (8.90%) Public Sector
6 92 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
7 61 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
8 49 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
9 47 (3.05%) Manufacturing
9 47 (3.05%) Retail
10 42 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (2.66%) Telecoms
12 37 (2.40%) Legal
13 28 (1.82%) Front Office
14 26 (1.69%) Marketing
15 20 (1.30%) Investment Banking
16 18 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.17%) Law
17 17 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 425 (27.60%) Project Manager
2 206 (13.38%) Analyst
3 178 (11.56%) Lead
4 150 (9.74%) Business Analyst
5 130 (8.44%) Senior
6 85 (5.52%) Architect
7 81 (5.26%) Consultant
8 56 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
9 55 (3.57%) IT Manager
9 55 (3.57%) Senior Manager
10 49 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
11 47 (3.05%) Technical Manager
12 42 (2.73%) Programme Manager
12 42 (2.73%) Senior Project Manager
13 40 (2.60%) Network Engineer
14 39 (2.53%) IT Project Manager
15 35 (2.27%) SAP Manager
16 32 (2.08%) Technical Project Manager
17 26 (1.69%) Administrator
17 26 (1.69%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (1.56%) REST
3 20 (1.30%) Middleware
4 13 (0.84%) Web Services
4 13 (0.84%) XML
5 10 (0.65%) React
5 10 (0.65%) SOAP
6 8 (0.52%) HTML
6 8 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
7 7 (0.45%) .NET
7 7 (0.45%) ADO
7 7 (0.45%) AngularJS
7 7 (0.45%) RESTful
8 6 (0.39%) CSS
8 6 (0.39%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.39%) ZK
9 5 (0.32%) Node.js
9 5 (0.32%) OAuth
9 5 (0.32%) Spring
9 5 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.58%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.94%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.64%) Data Centre
4 48 (3.12%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (2.47%) PMI
6 35 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 31 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (1.62%) NHS
9 20 (1.30%) Public Cloud
10 19 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.04%) Replication
12 15 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.84%) Data Structures
13 13 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.84%) Life Science
14 12 (0.78%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.78%) Cloud Native
14 12 (0.78%) Clustering
14 12 (0.78%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.97%) Windows
2 42 (2.73%) Windows Server
3 33 (2.14%) Linux
4 21 (1.36%) Unix
5 20 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.78%) Solaris
8 11 (0.71%) VMS
9 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.32%) OpenVMS
12 4 (0.26%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.19%) zOS
14 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.13%) pSOS
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.065%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (35.13%) Agile
2 484 (31.43%) Project Management
3 473 (30.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 284 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
5 232 (15.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 219 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 216 (14.03%) Migration
8 205 (13.31%) PRINCE2
9 195 (12.66%) Change Management
10 171 (11.10%) Waterfall
11 162 (10.52%) DevOps
12 144 (9.35%) Scrum
13 130 (8.44%) Decision-Making
14 129 (8.38%) Risk Management
15 124 (8.05%) Project Governance
16 121 (7.86%) ERP
16 121 (7.86%) ITIL
17 120 (7.79%) Roadmaps
18 117 (7.60%) Business Analysis
19 115 (7.47%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 76 (4.94%) Python
1 76 (4.94%) SQL
2 45 (2.92%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.75%) Java
4 24 (1.56%) Bash
5 12 (0.78%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.65%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.45%) C#
8 6 (0.39%) Perl
9 5 (0.32%) C++
10 4 (0.26%) ABAP
10 4 (0.26%) Go
11 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
11 3 (0.19%) COBOL
11 3 (0.19%) HLASM
11 3 (0.19%) JCL
11 3 (0.19%) REXX
11 3 (0.19%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.13%) PHP
12 2 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 267 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 228 (14.81%) Degree
3 189 (12.27%) SC Cleared
4 131 (8.51%) PMP
5 125 (8.12%) PMI Certification
6 62 (4.03%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.60%) Master's Degree
8 37 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.01%) CCNP
11 29 (1.88%) APMP
12 21 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (1.36%) CCNA
13 20 (1.30%) CBAP
14 18 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 15 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.91%) CISSP
17 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
18 11 (0.71%) CISM
18 11 (0.71%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (9.03%) PMO
2 100 (6.49%) QA
3 36 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (2.27%) GDPR
5 32 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 26 (1.69%) NIST
7 18 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (1.10%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.04%) SLA
10 13 (0.84%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.78%) PSD2
12 9 (0.58%) NCSC
13 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.52%) MiFID
13 8 (0.52%) P3O
14 7 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.39%) GRC
15 6 (0.39%) ISO 8583
16 5 (0.32%) Basel III
16 5 (0.32%) GMP
System Software
1 44 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.17%) Docker
4 15 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.84%) vSphere
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) NFS
7 4 (0.26%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.065%) RACF
8 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (2.92%) Ansible
2 29 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.88%) Terraform
3 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (1.30%) SCCM
4 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.45%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.39%) Grafana
7 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.26%) QRadar
10 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
11 2 (0.13%) Control-M
11 2 (0.13%) Nagios
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 272 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 135 (8.77%) SAP
3 98 (6.36%) Oracle
4 76 (4.94%) Cisco
5 57 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.86%) VMware
7 40 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.49%) Workday
10 22 (1.43%) Google
11 18 (1.17%) Citrix
12 16 (1.04%) Aruba
12 16 (1.04%) Red Hat
13 15 (0.97%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.97%) F5
13 15 (0.97%) IBM
14 13 (0.84%) Ariba
14 13 (0.84%) CheckPoint
14 13 (0.84%) CyberArk
14 13 (0.84%) Fortinet