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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,724 1,155 1,716
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 3.93% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.33% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 706 1,130
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.90% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 24 33
10th Percentile £15.92 £21.67 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £29.84 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -20.94% +61.29% -45.15%
75th Percentile £63.50 £69.69 £40.94
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.10 £62.30
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 39,218 26,699 37,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.74% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,782 17,291 24,442
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,336 1,037 2,416
10th Percentile £14.93 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.74 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65.33 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £71.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.88 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.53% -17.50% -

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 19 April 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 April 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 April 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 1,531 £515 -1.90% 909
UK excluding London -3 931 £481 -3.90% 717
London +4 659 £550 - 282
Work from Home +7 496 £536 +2.14% 393
North of England +12 264 £475 - 169
South East +5 226 £525 -4.55% 237
Midlands -12 182 £475 -5.00% 121
North West +21 176 £475 - 92
South West +11 128 £475 - 79
West Midlands -19 124 £487 -7.33% 80
Yorkshire -16 74 £513 +1.23% 57
Scotland -24 70 £475 - 41
East Midlands -11 57 £420 -6.04% 41
East of England -10 46 £538 +3.56% 62
Wales +4 18 £413 +26.92% 18
North East -5 16 £350 -15.15% 22
Northern Ireland -2 8 £370 -37.68% 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
1 109 (6.32%) Confluence
2 84 (4.87%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.35%) CMS
5 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.23%) CICS
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.17%) Camunda
7 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.17%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.12%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.058%) Apache
9 1 (0.058%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.058%) IIS
9 1 (0.058%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 151 (8.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (6.73%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
3 105 (6.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.75%) Siemens NX
6 11 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.52%) Trello
8 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.058%) Revit
9 1 (0.058%) SPSS
9 1 (0.058%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 46 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.99%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.70%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.52%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.41%) Endur
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.35%) Primavera
9 5 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.29%) Summit
10 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.17%) ProductWriter
11 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.17%) Shopify
11 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 190 (11.02%) Azure
2 98 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
3 85 (4.93%) Power Platform
4 83 (4.81%) AWS
5 64 (3.71%) SaaS
6 46 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (1.74%) GCP
9 28 (1.62%) Entra ID
10 20 (1.16%) GitHub
10 20 (1.16%) Google Workspace
11 19 (1.10%) IaaS
12 15 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (0.75%) OpenShift
13 13 (0.75%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.75%) Serverless
14 12 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (0.70%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.70%) OCI
14 12 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.22%) Firewall
2 53 (3.07%) DNS
3 41 (2.38%) WAN
4 37 (2.15%) Network Security
5 32 (1.86%) LAN
6 27 (1.57%) BGP
6 27 (1.57%) OSPF
7 21 (1.22%) SD-WAN
7 21 (1.22%) VLAN
8 19 (1.10%) VPN
9 18 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.04%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.99%) MPLS
11 15 (0.87%) DHCP
11 15 (0.87%) NetScaler
12 14 (0.81%) Wireless
13 13 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
14 11 (0.64%) SSL
14 11 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.06%) Power BI
2 30 (1.74%) Tableau
3 29 (1.68%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.70%) Metadata
7 8 (0.46%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.29%) Big Data
10 5 (0.29%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.29%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.29%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.23%) GIS
11 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 206 (11.95%) JIRA
2 19 (1.10%) Git
3 16 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.58%) GitLab
5 7 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.35%) 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%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.12%) TestRail
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.058%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.058%) Gradle
9 1 (0.058%) Hudson
General
1 703 (40.78%) Social Skills
2 577 (33.47%) Finance
3 254 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 135 (7.83%) Banking
6 127 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
7 71 (4.12%) Retail
8 68 (3.94%) Legal
9 62 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
10 57 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (2.78%) Manufacturing
12 45 (2.61%) Telecoms
13 36 (2.09%) Marketing
14 25 (1.45%) Local Government
15 24 (1.39%) Military
16 21 (1.22%) Investment Banking
17 17 (0.99%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.81%) Front Office
18 14 (0.81%) Law
Job Titles
1 485 (28.13%) Project Manager
2 200 (11.60%) Analyst
3 189 (10.96%) Lead
4 167 (9.69%) Senior
5 135 (7.83%) Business Analyst
6 85 (4.93%) Consultant
7 84 (4.87%) Senior Manager
8 82 (4.76%) Architect
9 74 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
9 74 (4.29%) IT Manager
10 64 (3.71%) Senior Project Manager
11 52 (3.02%) IT Project Manager
12 46 (2.67%) Technical Manager
13 45 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (2.44%) Network Engineer
15 41 (2.38%) Programme Manager
16 35 (2.03%) Project Officer
17 34 (1.97%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 33 (1.91%) SAP Manager
19 32 (1.86%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.97%) Middleware
2 25 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (1.10%) REST
4 14 (0.81%) XML
5 9 (0.52%) ADO
5 9 (0.52%) Web Services
6 8 (0.46%) .NET
6 8 (0.46%) OAuth
6 8 (0.46%) React
6 8 (0.46%) Spring Boot
7 7 (0.41%) CSS
7 7 (0.41%) JSON
7 7 (0.41%) Spring
8 6 (0.35%) Node.js
8 6 (0.35%) YAML
9 5 (0.29%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.29%) HTML
10 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.23%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.52%) Management Information System
2 77 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 67 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 62 (3.60%) Data Centre
5 39 (2.26%) Virtual Team
6 34 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 29 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.62%) PMI
10 25 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.33%) NHS
12 21 (1.22%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.10%) Cloud Native
13 19 (1.10%) Replication
14 18 (1.04%) Clustering
15 15 (0.87%) Derivative
16 14 (0.81%) Driving Licence
17 12 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
17 12 (0.70%) Life Science
17 12 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 86 (4.99%) Windows
2 42 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 30 (1.74%) Linux
4 22 (1.28%) Unix
5 14 (0.81%) Solaris
6 12 (0.70%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.58%) VMS
8 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (0.46%) zOS
9 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.29%) AIX
12 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.12%) Android
13 2 (0.12%) OpenVMS
13 2 (0.12%) pSOS
14 1 (0.058%) CentOS
14 1 (0.058%) Debian
14 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (32.77%) Agile
2 543 (31.50%) Project Management
3 510 (29.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 287 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
5 265 (15.37%) Migration
6 260 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 259 (15.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 245 (14.21%) PRINCE2
9 220 (12.76%) Change Management
10 173 (10.03%) Waterfall
11 170 (9.86%) DevOps
12 166 (9.63%) Decision-Making
13 152 (8.82%) Risk Management
14 141 (8.18%) Scrum
15 138 (8.00%) Roadmaps
16 129 (7.48%) Workshop Facilitation
17 123 (7.13%) ITIL
18 122 (7.08%) Budget Management
19 116 (6.73%) Business Analysis
19 116 (6.73%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 95 (5.51%) SQL
2 67 (3.89%) Python
3 39 (2.26%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.22%) Java
5 16 (0.93%) JavaScript
6 12 (0.70%) C#
7 11 (0.64%) Bash
8 9 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.46%) Go
9 8 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.29%) Bicep
11 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.23%) ABAP
12 4 (0.23%) COBOL
12 4 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.23%) VBA
13 3 (0.17%) HLASM
13 3 (0.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 366 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 269 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 228 (13.23%) Degree
4 170 (9.86%) PMP
5 141 (8.18%) PMI Certification
6 83 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (2.09%) APMP
9 33 (1.91%) CCNP
10 32 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 30 (1.74%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
14 26 (1.51%) CCNA
15 22 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
16 19 (1.10%) CISSP
17 15 (0.87%) CISM
18 13 (0.75%) CBAP
18 13 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
19 12 (0.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (11.19%) PMO
2 119 (6.90%) QA
3 47 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (2.61%) GDPR
5 41 (2.38%) NIST
6 37 (2.15%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.22%) SLA
8 13 (0.75%) GRC
9 10 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.41%) P3O
13 6 (0.35%) Basel III
13 6 (0.35%) HL7
13 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.35%) PSD2
14 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 58 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.16%) Docker
4 15 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.75%) vSphere
6 12 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.29%) Firmware
11 2 (0.12%) Squid
11 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.058%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.058%) Ceph
12 1 (0.058%) RACF
12 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 33 (1.91%) Ansible
1 33 (1.91%) Terraform
2 28 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (0.99%) SCCM
5 9 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.46%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.41%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.35%) Nagios
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.23%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.17%) Netcool
11 3 (0.17%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.17%) Puppet
12 2 (0.12%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.12%) Control-M
12 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 294 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 137 (7.95%) SAP
3 88 (5.10%) Oracle
4 77 (4.47%) ServiceNow
5 57 (3.31%) Cisco
6 40 (2.32%) VMware
7 38 (2.20%) Google
8 35 (2.03%) Salesforce
9 33 (1.91%) Palo Alto
10 24 (1.39%) F5
11 21 (1.22%) Atlassian
12 19 (1.10%) CheckPoint
12 19 (1.10%) Citrix
13 16 (0.93%) IBM
13 16 (0.93%) Workday
14 15 (0.87%) SolarWinds
15 14 (0.81%) Aruba
16 13 (0.75%) CyberArk
16 13 (0.75%) NEC
16 13 (0.75%) Siemens