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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 50
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,706 1,184 1,688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.89% 4.04% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 4.46% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 704 1,110
10th Percentile £348 £325 £371
25th Percentile £413 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £637
90th Percentile £716 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £501 £502
% change year-on-year -3.94% -0.20% +0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 24 35
10th Percentile £15.92 £21.67 £20.98
25th Percentile £18.64 £26.81 £25.59
Median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -20.94% +40.45% -36.77%
75th Percentile £63.80 £65.00 £46.13
90th Percentile £81.70 £77.13 £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 37,710 26,528 38,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.02% 90.44% 86.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,926 17,086 24,905
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 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 926 2,329
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £12.98
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.51 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.72 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £31.76 £31.25
% change year-on-year -10.26% +1.63% -10.71%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -2 1,504 £516 -1.75% 802
UK excluding London -2 885 £481 -3.94% 637
London +3 687 £550 - 268
Work from Home +2 497 £538 +2.38% 363
North of England +25 256 £479 +0.79% 126
South East -5 207 £525 -4.55% 225
Midlands -13 177 £475 -5.00% 108
North West +27 164 £475 - 69
West Midlands -21 114 £492 -6.29% 70
South West +13 107 £475 -5.00% 70
Yorkshire -7 83 £500 -1.19% 40
Scotland -19 76 £488 +1.62% 43
East Midlands -8 62 £446 -0.31% 37
East of England -5 43 £565 +13.68% 60
Wales +5 20 £413 +6.45% 19
North East -11 11 £350 -15.15% 18
Northern Ireland -4 8 £370 -32.73% 3

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
1 124 (7.27%) Confluence
2 78 (4.57%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.35%) CMS
5 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.23%) CICS
6 4 (0.23%) 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%) Apache
9 1 (0.059%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.059%) IIS
9 1 (0.059%) Moodle
9 1 (0.059%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 151 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (6.98%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (6.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 101 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (1.76%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.70%) Trello
7 9 (0.53%) Siemens NX
8 8 (0.47%) 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 49 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.70%) Loan IQ
3 12 (0.70%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.59%) Endur
5 9 (0.53%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.35%) Primavera
7 6 (0.35%) SAP MM
8 5 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.23%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.23%) Summit
10 3 (0.18%) Maximo
10 3 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 211 (12.37%) Azure
2 93 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (4.75%) AWS
4 80 (4.69%) Power Platform
5 57 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (3.28%) SaaS
7 36 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
8 33 (1.93%) Entra ID
9 32 (1.88%) GCP
10 27 (1.58%) GitHub
11 20 (1.17%) IaaS
12 16 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
14 14 (0.82%) OCI
14 14 (0.82%) PowerApps
15 13 (0.76%) OpenShift
15 13 (0.76%) PaaS
16 12 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (0.70%) Amazon S3
16 12 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 88 (5.16%) Firewall
2 49 (2.87%) WAN
3 48 (2.81%) DNS
4 39 (2.29%) LAN
5 35 (2.05%) Network Security
6 24 (1.41%) SD-WAN
7 23 (1.35%) BGP
7 23 (1.35%) OSPF
8 20 (1.17%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.11%) VPN
10 18 (1.06%) MPLS
11 15 (0.88%) DHCP
11 15 (0.88%) NetScaler
11 15 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
11 15 (0.88%) VLAN
12 14 (0.82%) Wireless
13 12 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 9 (0.53%) SAN
14 9 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (3.69%) Power BI
2 30 (1.76%) Tableau
3 29 (1.70%) SQL Server
4 24 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.64%) Metadata
8 9 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.29%) Big Data
11 5 (0.29%) GIS
11 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.29%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.29%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 219 (12.84%) JIRA
2 20 (1.17%) Git
3 19 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.82%) GitLab
5 8 (0.47%) Selenium
6 6 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.29%) JMeter
7 5 (0.29%) MSTest
7 5 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.18%) Appium
9 3 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
10 2 (0.12%) TestRail
10 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.059%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.059%) Gradle
General
1 719 (42.15%) Social Skills
2 580 (34.00%) Finance
3 240 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 140 (8.21%) Banking
6 120 (7.03%) Organisational Skills
7 66 (3.87%) Legal
8 64 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
8 64 (3.75%) Retail
9 61 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
10 53 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
11 45 (2.64%) Manufacturing
12 39 (2.29%) Telecoms
13 30 (1.76%) Marketing
14 24 (1.41%) Front Office
15 23 (1.35%) Investment Banking
15 23 (1.35%) Local Government
16 19 (1.11%) Law
17 18 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 16 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 490 (28.72%) Project Manager
2 214 (12.54%) Analyst
3 180 (10.55%) Lead
4 161 (9.44%) Senior
5 149 (8.73%) Business Analyst
6 83 (4.87%) Architect
7 81 (4.75%) Consultant
8 75 (4.40%) Delivery Manager
9 72 (4.22%) Senior Manager
10 66 (3.87%) IT Manager
11 55 (3.22%) Senior Project Manager
12 50 (2.93%) Technical Manager
13 47 (2.75%) IT Project Manager
14 46 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
15 44 (2.58%) Programme Manager
16 40 (2.34%) Network Engineer
17 37 (2.17%) Infrastructure Manager
18 34 (1.99%) SAP Manager
19 32 (1.88%) Technical Project Manager
20 31 (1.82%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.99%) Middleware
2 26 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
3 18 (1.06%) REST
4 12 (0.70%) Web Services
4 12 (0.70%) XML
5 9 (0.53%) .NET
6 8 (0.47%) Spring Boot
7 7 (0.41%) CSS
7 7 (0.41%) Spring
8 6 (0.35%) ADO
8 6 (0.35%) HTML
8 6 (0.35%) JSON
8 6 (0.35%) React
8 6 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (0.35%) YAML
9 5 (0.29%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.29%) SOAP
10 4 (0.23%) Node.js
10 4 (0.23%) OAuth
10 4 (0.23%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.92%) Product Ownership
2 70 (4.10%) Management Information System
3 68 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 64 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 35 (2.05%) PMI
7 32 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.58%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.52%) NHS
11 25 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.23%) Replication
13 20 (1.17%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.06%) Cloud Native
14 18 (1.06%) Clustering
15 15 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (0.82%) Derivative
16 14 (0.82%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.76%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 90 (5.28%) Windows
2 45 (2.64%) Windows Server
3 33 (1.93%) Linux
4 21 (1.23%) Unix
5 16 (0.94%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.64%) VMS
7 9 (0.53%) Solaris
8 8 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.41%) zOS
10 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) Android
11 2 (0.12%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.12%) pSOS
12 1 (0.059%) CentOS
12 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (34.70%) Agile
2 521 (30.54%) Project Management
3 517 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 294 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
5 259 (15.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 256 (15.01%) PRINCE2
7 251 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 237 (13.89%) Migration
9 211 (12.37%) Change Management
10 183 (10.73%) DevOps
11 168 (9.85%) Decision-Making
12 166 (9.73%) Waterfall
13 156 (9.14%) Scrum
14 145 (8.50%) Risk Management
15 138 (8.09%) Roadmaps
16 137 (8.03%) Workshop Facilitation
17 129 (7.56%) ITIL
18 123 (7.21%) Business Analysis
19 118 (6.92%) Project Governance
20 115 (6.74%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 95 (5.57%) SQL
2 81 (4.75%) Python
3 48 (2.81%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.52%) Java
5 23 (1.35%) Bash
6 15 (0.88%) C#
6 15 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (0.35%) Go
8 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.35%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.29%) Bicep
9 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.23%) ABAP
10 4 (0.23%) C++
10 4 (0.23%) COBOL
11 3 (0.18%) Assembly Language
11 3 (0.18%) JCL
11 3 (0.18%) REXX
Qualifications
1 349 (20.46%) Security Cleared
2 250 (14.65%) SC Cleared
3 238 (13.95%) Degree
4 163 (9.55%) PMP
5 143 (8.38%) PMI Certification
6 76 (4.45%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 33 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (1.88%) APMP
10 29 (1.70%) CCNP
11 24 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.41%) CCNA
11 24 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 22 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.17%) CBAP
13 20 (1.17%) CISSP
14 16 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.88%) CISM
16 12 (0.70%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (10.38%) PMO
2 118 (6.92%) QA
3 48 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (2.40%) GDPR
5 39 (2.29%) Data Quality
6 37 (2.17%) NIST
7 20 (1.17%) SLA
8 13 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.70%) 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%) NCSC
11 9 (0.53%) P3O
12 7 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.35%) ISO 8583
14 5 (0.29%) Basel III
14 5 (0.29%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 57 (3.34%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.47%) Docker
4 15 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.82%) vSphere
6 13 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.23%) Firmware
11 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.059%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.059%) Ceph
12 1 (0.059%) RACF
12 1 (0.059%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.059%) Squid
Systems Management
1 41 (2.40%) Terraform
2 39 (2.29%) Ansible
3 29 (1.70%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.00%) SCCM
6 8 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.41%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.35%) Grafana
8 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.18%) Nagios
11 3 (0.18%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.18%) Puppet
12 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 302 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 139 (8.15%) SAP
3 88 (5.16%) Oracle
4 70 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 66 (3.87%) Cisco
6 43 (2.52%) VMware
7 39 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 29 (1.70%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.64%) Google
10 23 (1.35%) Atlassian
11 19 (1.11%) CheckPoint
11 19 (1.11%) Citrix
12 18 (1.06%) Aruba
12 18 (1.06%) F5
12 18 (1.06%) Workday
13 16 (0.94%) IBM
14 13 (0.76%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.70%) CyberArk
15 12 (0.70%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.59%) Ariba