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

 6 months to
26 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 60 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,138 1,306 1,436
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.99% 3.99% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 4.41% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,423 843 873
10th Percentile £325 £313 £360
25th Percentile £413 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £619 £609 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £525
% change year-on-year +0.81% -5.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 28 37
10th Percentile £22.28 £15.91 £22.50
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.78 £26.68
Median hourly rate £51.50 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +64.29% -44.66%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.16 £56.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £79.88 £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +57.14% -42.86%

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 45,367 29,590 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.44% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,794 18,422 20,982
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,879 1,766 1,695
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +6.25%

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 26 August 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 26 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 18 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 26 August 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 +8 1,829 £525 - 1,114
UK excluding London -3 1,154 £500 +0.81% 816
London +6 807 £550 -2.91% 394
Work from Home +7 628 £500 -2.47% 475
South East -6 302 £525 -2.33% 200
North of England +7 289 £485 +2.11% 184
North West +14 193 £498 +4.74% 96
Midlands -20 164 £475 +0.26% 148
South West -5 162 £510 +6.25% 138
Scotland +17 141 £425 -5.56% 41
West Midlands -24 125 £475 -8.61% 100
Yorkshire -18 75 £493 +6.49% 51
East of England +1 62 £500 -4.76% 91
East Midlands -24 35 £413 -3.85% 47
Wales -3 26 £438 +47.06% 32
North East -21 22 £350 - 39
Northern Ireland 0 16 £388 -18.42% 12
Channel Islands - 4 £538 - 1

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
1 117 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 114 (5.33%) Confluence
3 37 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
5 6 (0.28%) SAS
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.19%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
8 3 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.094%) Camunda
9 2 (0.094%) CICS
9 2 (0.094%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.047%) MTS
Applications
1 169 (7.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.57%) Microsoft Project
3 101 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
4 95 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.75%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.51%) Trello
9 8 (0.37%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.37%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.28%) ProjectWise
12 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.094%) Houdini
13 2 (0.094%) NUKE
14 1 (0.047%) CATIA
14 1 (0.047%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (1.08%) Teamcenter
4 14 (0.65%) Primavera
5 10 (0.47%) Maximo
5 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.28%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 326 (15.25%) Azure
2 143 (6.69%) AWS
3 127 (5.94%) Power Platform
4 123 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
5 97 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (3.70%) SaaS
7 71 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 50 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
9 46 (2.15%) GCP
10 28 (1.31%) GitHub
11 27 (1.26%) OCI
12 26 (1.22%) PowerApps
13 25 (1.17%) Google Workspace
13 25 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
14 23 (1.08%) IaaS
14 23 (1.08%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
15 16 (0.75%) OneDrive
16 14 (0.65%) PaaS
17 13 (0.61%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.45%) Firewall
2 89 (4.16%) DNS
3 86 (4.02%) WAN
4 75 (3.51%) LAN
5 73 (3.41%) Network Security
6 69 (3.23%) VPN
7 50 (2.34%) MPLS
8 47 (2.20%) BGP
9 43 (2.01%) DHCP
10 42 (1.96%) Wireless
11 37 (1.73%) VLAN
11 37 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
12 33 (1.54%) OSPF
13 31 (1.45%) TCP/IP
14 25 (1.17%) SD-WAN
15 24 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 18 (0.84%) SSL
17 15 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.65%) IPsec
19 13 (0.61%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.91%) Power BI
2 41 (1.92%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.75%) Metadata
5 14 (0.65%) Tableau
6 11 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.47%) Big Data
7 10 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.42%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (0.37%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 7 (0.33%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.23%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.23%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 233 (10.90%) JIRA
2 24 (1.12%) Git
3 14 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.51%) GitLab
5 9 (0.42%) Selenium
6 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) MSI
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.094%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.094%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.094%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.094%) TestNG
11 1 (0.047%) Postman
11 1 (0.047%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 890 (41.63%) Social Skills
2 665 (31.10%) Finance
3 296 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 159 (7.44%) Organisational Skills
6 126 (5.89%) Banking
7 105 (4.91%) Retail
8 103 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
9 93 (4.35%) Legal
10 91 (4.26%) Telecoms
11 67 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 65 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
13 63 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (1.96%) Local Government
15 40 (1.87%) Military
16 33 (1.54%) Marketing
17 29 (1.36%) Front Office
18 27 (1.26%) Law
19 25 (1.17%) Financial Institution
19 25 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 495 (23.15%) Project Manager
2 245 (11.46%) Analyst
3 226 (10.57%) Senior
4 206 (9.64%) Lead
5 140 (6.55%) Business Analyst
6 134 (6.27%) Architect
6 134 (6.27%) Consultant
7 100 (4.68%) Senior Manager
8 95 (4.44%) Network Engineer
9 84 (3.93%) Senior Project Manager
10 83 (3.88%) Delivery Manager
10 83 (3.88%) IT Manager
11 59 (2.76%) Developer
11 59 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 53 (2.48%) IT Project Manager
13 51 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
14 39 (1.82%) Technical Manager
15 38 (1.78%) Transformation Manager
16 37 (1.73%) Infrastructure Manager
16 37 (1.73%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.25%) Terraform
2 38 (1.78%) REST
3 32 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 26 (1.22%) Middleware
5 18 (0.84%) .NET
6 14 (0.65%) 802.1X
7 12 (0.56%) React
8 11 (0.51%) ADO
8 11 (0.51%) OAuth
8 11 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
8 11 (0.51%) Web Services
8 11 (0.51%) XML
9 9 (0.42%) JSON
9 9 (0.42%) LDAP
9 9 (0.42%) SOAP
10 8 (0.37%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.37%) SAP Basis
11 7 (0.33%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.33%) Kafka
11 7 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 110 (5.14%) Onboarding
2 108 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 90 (4.21%) Data Centre
3 90 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (1.73%) Virtual Team
6 36 (1.68%) Cloud Native
7 35 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 33 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.50%) Driving Licence
9 32 (1.50%) Operational Technology
10 30 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (1.22%) PKI
12 25 (1.17%) Derivative
13 24 (1.12%) Public Cloud
14 21 (0.98%) Clustering
15 20 (0.94%) Replication
16 19 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 149 (6.97%) Windows
2 76 (3.55%) Linux
3 70 (3.27%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.26%) Unix
5 14 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.47%) AIX
6 10 (0.47%) Solaris
7 6 (0.28%) Android
7 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.19%) zOS
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.094%) CentOS
11 2 (0.094%) Debian
11 2 (0.094%) VMS
11 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (40.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 671 (31.38%) Agile
3 581 (27.17%) Project Management
4 402 (18.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 390 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 350 (16.37%) Migration
7 332 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
8 318 (14.87%) Change Management
9 279 (13.05%) PRINCE2
10 239 (11.18%) Decision-Making
11 228 (10.66%) Waterfall
12 199 (9.31%) Risk Management
13 192 (8.98%) ITIL
14 188 (8.79%) DevOps
15 184 (8.61%) Roadmaps
16 182 (8.51%) AI
17 164 (7.67%) Cybersecurity
17 164 (7.67%) Workshop Facilitation
18 161 (7.53%) User Acceptance Testing
19 153 (7.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.19%) SQL
2 102 (4.77%) Python
3 71 (3.32%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.26%) Bash
4 27 (1.26%) Java
5 18 (0.84%) C#
6 17 (0.80%) VBA
7 16 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.42%) ABAP
9 8 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.23%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.23%) Korn
13 4 (0.19%) Bicep
13 4 (0.19%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.14%) C++
15 2 (0.094%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 477 (22.31%) Security Cleared
2 346 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 202 (9.45%) Degree
4 163 (7.62%) PMP
5 141 (6.59%) PMI Certification
6 118 (5.52%) DV Cleared
7 77 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.29%) CCNP
9 45 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 42 (1.96%) CCNA
11 41 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 35 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 33 (1.54%) Azure Certification
14 28 (1.31%) CISSP
15 19 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.84%) MCSE
17 17 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 16 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
19 14 (0.65%) CCIE
19 14 (0.65%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (11.51%) PMO
2 88 (4.12%) QA
3 60 (2.81%) NIST
4 58 (2.71%) GDPR
5 56 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.29%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.64%) SLA
8 20 (0.94%) GRC
9 15 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.61%) ISO 19650
11 11 (0.51%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.37%) NCSC
14 8 (0.37%) P3O
15 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
16 6 (0.28%) GxP
17 5 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 114 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 75 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.31%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.08%) Docker
5 20 (0.94%) vSphere
6 17 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.51%) Firmware
9 11 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.094%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.047%) ACF2
13 1 (0.047%) KVM
13 1 (0.047%) RACF
13 1 (0.047%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 54 (2.53%) Ansible
2 34 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.08%) FortiGate
5 21 (0.98%) SCCM
6 15 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.70%) vCenter Server
7 11 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.42%) Puppet
8 9 (0.42%) SCOM
9 8 (0.37%) Nagios
9 8 (0.37%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.33%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.23%) Netcool
12 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.23%) WMI
Vendors
1 469 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 149 (6.97%) Cisco
3 144 (6.74%) SAP
4 123 (5.75%) ServiceNow
5 101 (4.72%) Oracle
5 101 (4.72%) VMware
6 54 (2.53%) Palo Alto
7 50 (2.34%) Fortinet
8 45 (2.10%) Salesforce
9 42 (1.96%) F5
10 40 (1.87%) Google
11 29 (1.36%) Juniper
11 29 (1.36%) SolarWinds
12 26 (1.22%) Workday
13 23 (1.08%) IBM
13 23 (1.08%) Splunk
14 21 (0.98%) Zscaler
15 20 (0.94%) CyberArk
15 20 (0.94%) NEC
15 20 (0.94%) Siemens
1,266 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide