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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 53 50
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,437 1,358 1,958
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.00% 3.70% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.27% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 765 1,309
10th Percentile £317 £360 £359
25th Percentile £410 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -6.07% +1.45% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 41 37
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.50 £20.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.60 £36.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £33.93 £57.32
Median % change year-on-year +33.98% -40.81% -10.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £65.00 £82.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £36.81 £50.00
% change year-on-year +23.52% -26.39% -23.08%

All Process and 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 32,181 31,778 41,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.57% 86.49% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,153 19,119 27,753
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £740 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 1,159 1,593
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.88% -22.89% +25.71%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.71% -26.97% +44.76%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 +2 1,231 £525 -4.55% 1,200
UK excluding London -2 760 £493 -6.07% 841
London +7 551 £550 - 458
Work from Home -1 446 £525 -4.55% 563
South East -3 202 £538 -2.27% 287
North of England 0 188 £484 -3.25% 183
Midlands -7 144 £450 -16.67% 144
North West +4 111 £475 +2.70% 120
West Midlands -9 83 £525 -8.70% 92
South West 0 80 £481 -8.33% 106
Scotland -18 78 £465 -2.21% 46
Yorkshire -14 68 £525 -7.41% 45
East Midlands +17 61 £420 -11.11% 51
East of England -8 35 £550 +12.82% 66
Wales +6 23 £305 -47.09% 20
Northern Ireland +4 17 £450 +41.73% 8
North East -10 8 £265 -53.81% 19

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 96 (6.68%) Confluence
2 61 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.35%) CMS
4 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.14%) Appian
6 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.070%) Apache
7 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.070%) Camunda
7 1 (0.070%) CICS
7 1 (0.070%) Drupal
7 1 (0.070%) Moodle
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.070%) Smallworld
Applications
1 117 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (6.68%) Microsoft Project
3 93 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
4 76 (5.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (2.71%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.97%) Trello
7 13 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.21%) InDesign
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.070%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.070%) Revit
11 1 (0.070%) Simulink
11 1 (0.070%) Sketch
11 1 (0.070%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (3.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.18%) Endur
3 14 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.63%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
7 8 (0.56%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
8 7 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.49%) SAP IBP
9 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.42%) SAP GTS
9 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.35%) SAP MDG
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.28%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 179 (12.46%) Azure
2 58 (4.04%) AWS
3 57 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (3.69%) Power Platform
5 49 (3.41%) SaaS
6 44 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (1.95%) GCP
9 20 (1.39%) Entra ID
9 20 (1.39%) OCI
10 16 (1.11%) GitHub
10 16 (1.11%) PaaS
11 13 (0.90%) IaaS
11 13 (0.90%) Power Automate
12 12 (0.84%) Asana
12 12 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
13 11 (0.77%) PowerApps
14 9 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.78%) Firewall
2 36 (2.51%) WAN
3 27 (1.88%) DNS
4 26 (1.81%) LAN
5 19 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.25%) VPN
7 17 (1.18%) TCP/IP
8 16 (1.11%) Network Security
8 16 (1.11%) Wireless
9 13 (0.90%) MPLS
10 12 (0.84%) HTTP
11 11 (0.77%) BGP
11 11 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (0.70%) SAN
12 10 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.56%) EIGRP
13 8 (0.56%) OSPF
13 8 (0.56%) SSH
13 8 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (2.99%) Power BI
2 18 (1.25%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.04%) Tableau
4 14 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.70%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.42%) GIS
8 5 (0.35%) Metadata
9 4 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.21%) Big Data
10 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.14%) Looker
11 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 172 (11.97%) JIRA
2 25 (1.74%) Git
3 8 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.49%) Selenium
4 7 (0.49%) Subversion
5 5 (0.35%) GitLab
5 5 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.28%) Fiddler
6 4 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.21%) Appium
8 2 (0.14%) Dreamweaver
8 2 (0.14%) JMeter
8 2 (0.14%) MSTest
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.070%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.070%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.070%) Ranorex
General
1 649 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 466 (32.43%) Finance
3 177 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 102 (7.10%) Banking
6 69 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
7 68 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
8 57 (3.97%) Manufacturing
9 46 (3.20%) Legal
9 46 (3.20%) Retail
10 45 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 44 (3.06%) Telecoms
12 39 (2.71%) Marketing
13 32 (2.23%) Front Office
14 28 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 22 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (1.25%) Local Government
18 16 (1.11%) Law
19 15 (1.04%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 398 (27.70%) Project Manager
2 205 (14.27%) Analyst
3 155 (10.79%) Lead
4 139 (9.67%) Business Analyst
5 119 (8.28%) Senior
6 92 (6.40%) Consultant
7 88 (6.12%) Architect
8 66 (4.59%) IT Manager
9 60 (4.18%) Delivery Manager
10 54 (3.76%) Senior Manager
11 51 (3.55%) IT Project Manager
12 45 (3.13%) Senior Project Manager
13 40 (2.78%) Technical Manager
14 38 (2.64%) Programme Manager
15 33 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.02%) Infrastructure Manager
17 28 (1.95%) Technical Project Manager
18 27 (1.88%) Administrator
18 27 (1.88%) Developer
18 27 (1.88%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.39%) REST
2 19 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.97%) React
3 14 (0.97%) SOAP
4 13 (0.90%) .NET
4 13 (0.90%) Web Services
5 11 (0.77%) AngularJS
5 11 (0.77%) XML
6 10 (0.70%) Middleware
7 8 (0.56%) JMS
7 8 (0.56%) RESTful
7 8 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
7 8 (0.56%) XSD
8 6 (0.42%) Node.js
8 6 (0.42%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.42%) YAML
9 5 (0.35%) Flash
10 4 (0.28%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.28%) Ultra Messaging
10 4 (0.28%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.94%) Product Ownership
2 69 (4.80%) Onboarding
3 50 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 44 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 39 (2.71%) PMI
6 34 (2.37%) Virtual Team
7 31 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.32%) NHS
11 14 (0.97%) Algorithms
12 13 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (0.84%) Driving Licence
14 11 (0.77%) CMDB
14 11 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (0.77%) Life Science
14 11 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (0.70%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 76 (5.29%) Windows
2 35 (2.44%) Linux
3 33 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.32%) Unix
5 14 (0.97%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.42%) Solaris
8 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.35%) OpenVMS
8 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.070%) Android
12 1 (0.070%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.070%) pSOS
12 1 (0.070%) VMS
12 1 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (36.53%) Agile
2 473 (32.92%) Project Management
3 456 (31.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 255 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
5 250 (17.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 225 (15.66%) Change Management
7 206 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 187 (13.01%) Migration
9 184 (12.80%) PRINCE2
10 169 (11.76%) Waterfall
11 145 (10.09%) Roadmaps
12 141 (9.81%) Risk Management
13 140 (9.74%) ITIL
14 130 (9.05%) Scrum
15 125 (8.70%) DevOps
16 121 (8.42%) Decision-Making
17 120 (8.35%) ERP
17 120 (8.35%) Project Governance
18 109 (7.59%) Business Analysis
19 106 (7.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 86 (5.98%) SQL
2 70 (4.87%) Python
3 45 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.53%) Bash
5 20 (1.39%) Java
6 10 (0.70%) C#
7 9 (0.63%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.42%) ABAP
8 6 (0.42%) C++
8 6 (0.42%) Perl
8 6 (0.42%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.28%) VBA
10 2 (0.14%) COBOL
10 2 (0.14%) PHP
10 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.070%) HLASM
11 1 (0.070%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.070%) RPG
11 1 (0.070%) Swift
11 1 (0.070%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 222 (15.45%) Degree
2 218 (15.17%) Security Cleared
3 155 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 114 (7.93%) PMI Certification
5 106 (7.38%) PMP
6 47 (3.27%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.32%) CCNP
12 18 (1.25%) APMP
12 18 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (1.11%) CBAP
13 16 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 11 (0.77%) CCNA
15 9 (0.63%) CISSP
16 8 (0.56%) ACCA
16 8 (0.56%) CIMA
16 8 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.65%) PMO
2 81 (5.64%) QA
3 35 (2.44%) GDPR
4 31 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.09%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 17 (1.18%) NIST
7 17 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.04%) MiFID
9 14 (0.97%) SLA
10 13 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.77%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.77%) PSD2
12 10 (0.70%) EMIR
12 10 (0.70%) NCSC
13 8 (0.56%) COBIT
13 8 (0.56%) P3O
14 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.42%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 41 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.77%) Docker
4 10 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.28%) NFS
8 4 (0.28%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.28%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.28%) vSphere
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.070%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.070%) RACF
10 1 (0.070%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 25 (1.74%) Ansible
2 23 (1.60%) Terraform
3 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (1.04%) SCCM
4 11 (0.77%) Kubernetes
5 9 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.35%) Grafana
7 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.35%) QRadar
8 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.14%) CEMLI
10 2 (0.14%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.070%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.070%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 265 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 125 (8.70%) SAP
3 93 (6.47%) Oracle
4 65 (4.52%) ServiceNow
5 61 (4.24%) Cisco
6 40 (2.78%) Salesforce
7 37 (2.57%) VMware
8 27 (1.88%) Workday
9 20 (1.39%) IBM
10 18 (1.25%) Citrix
11 15 (1.04%) Ariba
11 15 (1.04%) Fortinet
11 15 (1.04%) Google
11 15 (1.04%) Red Hat
12 14 (0.97%) F5
13 13 (0.90%) CyberArk
14 12 (0.84%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.70%) Blue Prism
15 10 (0.70%) Planview
15 10 (0.70%) SolarWinds