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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 61 54
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,206 1,301 1,374
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.04% 3.95% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 4.36% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 830 802
10th Percentile £332 £319 £363
25th Percentile £425 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 33 39
10th Percentile £23.67 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £36.07 £30.11 £25.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +78.57% -45.31%
75th Percentile £76.94 £70.16 £56.02
90th Percentile £87.83 £84.50 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £60.00 £39.68
% change year-on-year -1.67% +51.21% -36.51%

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 46,183 29,816 32,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.52% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,080 18,531 20,147
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,092 1,799 1,460
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.42 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.31% -47.37% +5.81%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +5 1,861 £525 - 4,070
UK excluding London -2 1,172 £500 +1.63% 2,648
London +1 827 £550 -3.17% 1,752
Work from Home +9 629 £500 -2.44% 1,747
South East -6 316 £525 -2.33% 672
North of England +5 291 £492 +3.61% 637
North West +11 189 £500 +5.26% 365
Midlands -30 159 £475 -3.46% 423
South West 0 152 £525 +13.64% 298
Scotland +21 150 £450 - 259
West Midlands -25 120 £475 -9.52% 273
Yorkshire -18 79 £485 +4.86% 204
East of England -3 66 £500 -4.76% 226
East Midlands -21 35 £448 +4.31% 149
Wales -1 25 £400 +11.11% 57
North East -21 24 £350 -14.79% 71
Northern Ireland +1 17 £400 -15.79% 100
Channel Islands - 9 £525 - 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
1 120 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 113 (5.12%) Confluence
3 36 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.32%) Apache
5 6 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.27%) CMS
5 6 (0.27%) JBoss
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
7 4 (0.18%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.18%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
9 2 (0.091%) CICS
9 2 (0.091%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.091%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.045%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 170 (7.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (5.62%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
4 98 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.77%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.54%) Trello
8 9 (0.41%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.41%) Navisworks
8 9 (0.41%) Revit
9 7 (0.32%) ProjectWise
10 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.091%) Houdini
11 2 (0.091%) NUKE
11 2 (0.091%) Windchill
12 1 (0.045%) CATIA
12 1 (0.045%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.045%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 52 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.18%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.63%) Primavera
5 12 (0.54%) Maximo
6 10 (0.45%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.41%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.41%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.36%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.27%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
11 5 (0.23%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 340 (15.41%) Azure
2 143 (6.48%) AWS
3 134 (6.07%) Power Platform
4 130 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
5 99 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (4.26%) SaaS
7 71 (3.22%) Entra ID
8 52 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
9 50 (2.27%) GCP
10 28 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.22%) OCI
12 25 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
13 24 (1.09%) Google Workspace
14 23 (1.04%) GitHub
14 23 (1.04%) PowerApps
15 21 (0.95%) Power Automate
16 19 (0.86%) IaaS
17 14 (0.63%) OneDrive
17 14 (0.63%) PaaS
18 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 139 (6.30%) Firewall
2 90 (4.08%) DNS
3 83 (3.76%) WAN
4 81 (3.67%) Network Security
5 73 (3.31%) LAN
6 67 (3.04%) VPN
7 47 (2.13%) MPLS
8 46 (2.09%) DHCP
9 45 (2.04%) BGP
10 43 (1.95%) Wireless
11 39 (1.77%) VLAN
12 37 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (1.36%) OSPF
13 30 (1.36%) TCP/IP
14 24 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 21 (0.95%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.82%) SSL
17 14 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (0.63%) IPsec
17 14 (0.63%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.81%) Power BI
2 41 (1.86%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.73%) Metadata
5 13 (0.59%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.45%) Tableau
7 9 (0.41%) Big Data
7 9 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.41%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 7 (0.32%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.23%) Power Query
10 5 (0.23%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 237 (10.74%) JIRA
2 23 (1.04%) Git
3 13 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.45%) GitLab
5 7 (0.32%) MSI
6 6 (0.27%) Selenium
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
10 2 (0.091%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.091%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.091%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.091%) TestNG
11 1 (0.045%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.045%) NUnit
11 1 (0.045%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.045%) Postman
General
1 917 (41.57%) Social Skills
2 674 (30.55%) Finance
3 290 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 233 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 171 (7.75%) Organisational Skills
6 137 (6.21%) Banking
7 102 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 93 (4.22%) Retail
8 93 (4.22%) Telecoms
9 89 (4.03%) Legal
10 77 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
11 76 (3.45%) Manufacturing
12 61 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (1.99%) Military
14 43 (1.95%) Local Government
15 35 (1.59%) Front Office
16 34 (1.54%) Law
17 31 (1.41%) Marketing
18 24 (1.09%) Investment Banking
19 23 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 511 (23.16%) Project Manager
2 251 (11.38%) Analyst
3 233 (10.56%) Senior
4 206 (9.34%) Lead
5 152 (6.89%) Architect
6 147 (6.66%) Business Analyst
7 136 (6.17%) Consultant
8 105 (4.76%) Senior Manager
9 96 (4.35%) Network Engineer
10 93 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
11 87 (3.94%) Senior Project Manager
12 82 (3.72%) IT Manager
13 65 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 61 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
15 57 (2.58%) IT Project Manager
16 52 (2.36%) Developer
17 46 (2.09%) Technical Manager
18 37 (1.68%) Project Officer
18 37 (1.68%) Transformation Manager
19 36 (1.63%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (1.99%) Terraform
2 40 (1.81%) REST
3 34 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (1.09%) Middleware
5 16 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
6 15 (0.68%) .NET
7 14 (0.63%) XML
8 13 (0.59%) SOAP
9 11 (0.50%) 802.1X
9 11 (0.50%) JSON
9 11 (0.50%) LDAP
9 11 (0.50%) OAuth
10 10 (0.45%) ADO
10 10 (0.45%) React
10 10 (0.45%) Web Services
11 8 (0.36%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.36%) SailPoint
11 8 (0.36%) SAML
12 7 (0.32%) Kafka
12 7 (0.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 110 (4.99%) Onboarding
2 107 (4.85%) Management Information System
3 98 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 90 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 48 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 46 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 37 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (1.59%) Driving Licence
10 34 (1.54%) Cloud Native
10 34 (1.54%) Operational Technology
11 32 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.31%) PKI
13 25 (1.13%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.09%) Derivative
15 21 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 19 (0.86%) Clustering
16 19 (0.86%) Replication
17 17 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 150 (6.80%) Windows
2 76 (3.45%) Linux
3 71 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.36%) Unix
5 14 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.54%) Solaris
7 9 (0.41%) AIX
8 8 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.27%) Android
9 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.18%) zOS
12 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.091%) CentOS
13 2 (0.091%) Debian
13 2 (0.091%) VMS
13 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (42.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 699 (31.69%) Agile
3 601 (27.24%) Project Management
4 410 (18.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 404 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 357 (16.18%) Migration
7 353 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 327 (14.82%) Change Management
9 290 (13.15%) PRINCE2
10 253 (11.47%) Decision-Making
11 238 (10.79%) Waterfall
12 210 (9.52%) Risk Management
13 197 (8.93%) ITIL
14 192 (8.70%) Roadmaps
15 182 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
16 181 (8.20%) AI
17 180 (8.16%) DevOps
18 179 (8.11%) Workshop Facilitation
19 177 (8.02%) Project Governance
20 166 (7.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 107 (4.85%) SQL
2 95 (4.31%) Python
3 76 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.18%) Java
5 24 (1.09%) Bash
6 17 (0.77%) VBA
7 16 (0.73%) C#
8 15 (0.68%) JavaScript
9 12 (0.54%) ABAP
10 8 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.32%) Korn
11 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.27%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
14 4 (0.18%) Go
15 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.14%) C++
15 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 500 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 363 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 210 (9.52%) Degree
4 166 (7.52%) PMP
5 147 (6.66%) PMI Certification
6 129 (5.85%) DV Cleared
7 75 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (2.18%) CCNP
9 39 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.72%) CCNA
10 38 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 37 (1.68%) Azure Certification
12 29 (1.31%) CISSP
13 19 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (0.82%) MCSE
14 18 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
15 15 (0.68%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.68%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (11.11%) PMO
2 95 (4.31%) QA
3 57 (2.58%) Data Quality
3 57 (2.58%) NIST
4 55 (2.49%) GDPR
5 53 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.36%) SLA
7 25 (1.13%) GRC
8 20 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.63%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.45%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.41%) NCSC
12 9 (0.41%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.36%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.32%) GxP
14 7 (0.32%) P3O
15 6 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 113 (5.12%) Active Directory
2 81 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (1.36%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.22%) vSphere
5 21 (0.95%) Docker
5 21 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.50%) Firmware
7 11 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.18%) Squid
9 3 (0.14%) Ceph
9 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.045%) IAG
11 1 (0.045%) oVirt
11 1 (0.045%) RACF
11 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (2.40%) Ansible
2 35 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.00%) FortiGate
4 22 (1.00%) SCCM
5 17 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.68%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.41%) SCOM
9 8 (0.36%) Puppet
10 7 (0.32%) Nagios
10 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.32%) WMI
11 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.27%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.18%) Netcool
Vendors
1 500 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 160 (7.25%) SAP
3 157 (7.12%) Cisco
4 130 (5.89%) ServiceNow
5 105 (4.76%) Oracle
5 105 (4.76%) VMware
6 56 (2.54%) Palo Alto
7 52 (2.36%) Fortinet
8 48 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 46 (2.09%) F5
10 38 (1.72%) Google
11 33 (1.50%) Workday
12 30 (1.36%) Juniper
13 29 (1.31%) SolarWinds
14 27 (1.22%) IBM
15 25 (1.13%) Ariba
16 24 (1.09%) Databricks
16 24 (1.09%) Siemens
17 23 (1.04%) Zscaler
18 22 (1.00%) Splunk