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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 55 48
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,740 1,148 1,706
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 3.90% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.29% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 701 1,127
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 24 33
10th Percentile £15.94 £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 £65.00 £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 39,324 26,741 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.82% 90.76% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,807 17,298 24,232
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,048 2,416
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.31 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £28.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.01% -17.86% -6.67%

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 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 22 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 22 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 +1 1,544 £513 -2.38% 875
UK excluding London 0 946 £481 -3.75% 700
London -2 655 £550 - 259
Work from Home +6 501 £535 +1.90% 374
North of England +15 273 £475 - 159
South East +4 227 £525 -4.55% 228
North West +22 184 £475 - 86
Midlands -11 184 £475 -5.00% 116
South West +7 130 £475 - 86
West Midlands -13 125 £492 -6.29% 80
Yorkshire -16 75 £500 -1.23% 53
Scotland -21 71 £488 +3.72% 38
East Midlands -13 58 £418 -6.60% 36
East of England -11 46 £525 +1.16% 61
Wales +5 18 £413 +26.92% 13
North East -9 16 £350 -15.15% 22
Northern Ireland -4 8 £370 -37.68% 14

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
1 108 (6.21%) Confluence
2 85 (4.89%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.29%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) CICS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.17%) Camunda
6 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.11%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.057%) Apache
8 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.057%) IIS
8 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 153 (8.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (6.78%) Microsoft Project
3 107 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
4 106 (6.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (1.72%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.86%) Siemens NX
7 11 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.57%) Trello
9 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.057%) Revit
10 1 (0.057%) SPSS
10 1 (0.057%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 46 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.09%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.69%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.52%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.40%) Endur
7 7 (0.40%) Primavera
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.29%) Summit
10 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
11 3 (0.17%) ProductWriter
11 3 (0.17%) Shopify
11 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 189 (10.86%) Azure
2 98 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
3 84 (4.83%) Power Platform
4 82 (4.71%) AWS
5 63 (3.62%) SaaS
6 45 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (1.72%) GCP
9 28 (1.61%) Entra ID
10 20 (1.15%) Google Workspace
11 19 (1.09%) GitHub
12 18 (1.03%) IaaS
13 14 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (0.75%) OpenShift
15 12 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (0.69%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
15 12 (0.69%) PowerApps
15 12 (0.69%) Serverless
16 11 (0.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.23%) Firewall
2 53 (3.05%) DNS
3 42 (2.41%) WAN
4 37 (2.13%) Network Security
5 32 (1.84%) LAN
6 27 (1.55%) BGP
6 27 (1.55%) OSPF
7 21 (1.21%) SD-WAN
7 21 (1.21%) VLAN
8 19 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 19 (1.09%) VPN
9 18 (1.03%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.98%) MPLS
11 15 (0.86%) DHCP
11 15 (0.86%) NetScaler
12 14 (0.80%) Wireless
13 12 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
14 11 (0.63%) SSL
14 11 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.97%) Power BI
2 30 (1.72%) Tableau
3 29 (1.67%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (0.63%) Metadata
7 8 (0.46%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.29%) Big Data
9 5 (0.29%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.29%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.29%) SAP HANA
9 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.23%) GIS
10 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 206 (11.84%) JIRA
2 18 (1.03%) Git
3 16 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.57%) GitLab
5 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.34%) Selenium
7 4 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.17%) Appium
8 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.17%) JMeter
8 3 (0.17%) MSTest
8 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
9 2 (0.11%) TestRail
9 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.057%) Gradle
10 1 (0.057%) Robot Framework
General
1 707 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 579 (33.28%) Finance
3 256 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 134 (7.70%) Banking
6 129 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (4.14%) Retail
8 71 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (3.91%) Legal
10 63 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
11 57 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
12 47 (2.70%) Manufacturing
13 45 (2.59%) Telecoms
14 36 (2.07%) Marketing
15 26 (1.49%) Local Government
16 25 (1.44%) Military
17 21 (1.21%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.98%) Financial Institution
19 14 (0.80%) Front Office
19 14 (0.80%) Law
Job Titles
1 486 (27.93%) Project Manager
2 200 (11.49%) Analyst
3 188 (10.80%) Lead
4 172 (9.89%) Senior
5 136 (7.82%) Business Analyst
6 86 (4.94%) Senior Manager
7 84 (4.83%) Consultant
8 83 (4.77%) Architect
9 75 (4.31%) IT Manager
10 73 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
11 66 (3.79%) Senior Project Manager
12 53 (3.05%) IT Project Manager
13 47 (2.70%) Technical Manager
14 46 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
15 44 (2.53%) Network Engineer
16 41 (2.36%) Programme Manager
17 35 (2.01%) Project Officer
18 34 (1.95%) SAP Manager
18 34 (1.95%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 33 (1.90%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.01%) Middleware
2 25 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (1.09%) REST
4 14 (0.80%) XML
5 9 (0.52%) ADO
5 9 (0.52%) Web Services
6 8 (0.46%) .NET
6 8 (0.46%) OAuth
7 7 (0.40%) CSS
7 7 (0.40%) JSON
7 7 (0.40%) React
7 7 (0.40%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.34%) Spring
9 5 (0.29%) HTML
9 5 (0.29%) YAML
10 4 (0.23%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.23%) Node.js
10 4 (0.23%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.71%) Management Information System
2 78 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 68 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 63 (3.62%) Data Centre
5 40 (2.30%) Virtual Team
6 33 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 29 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (1.61%) PMI
9 25 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.38%) Clustering
10 24 (1.38%) Replication
11 23 (1.32%) NHS
12 21 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.03%) Cloud Native
14 15 (0.86%) Derivative
15 14 (0.80%) Driving Licence
16 13 (0.75%) Mainframe
17 12 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
17 12 (0.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.29%) Windows
2 48 (2.76%) Windows Server
3 31 (1.78%) Linux
4 23 (1.32%) Unix
5 14 (0.80%) Solaris
6 12 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) VMS
8 9 (0.52%) zOS
9 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.29%) AIX
13 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.11%) Android
14 2 (0.11%) pSOS
15 1 (0.057%) CentOS
15 1 (0.057%) Debian
15 1 (0.057%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.057%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (32.59%) Agile
2 548 (31.49%) Project Management
3 511 (29.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 291 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
5 267 (15.34%) Migration
6 261 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 259 (14.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 247 (14.20%) PRINCE2
9 221 (12.70%) Change Management
10 174 (10.00%) Waterfall
11 171 (9.83%) Decision-Making
12 169 (9.71%) DevOps
13 152 (8.74%) Risk Management
14 140 (8.05%) Scrum
15 138 (7.93%) Roadmaps
16 127 (7.30%) ITIL
16 127 (7.30%) Workshop Facilitation
17 121 (6.95%) Budget Management
18 117 (6.72%) ERP
19 116 (6.67%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 93 (5.34%) SQL
2 68 (3.91%) Python
3 45 (2.59%) PowerShell
4 20 (1.15%) Java
5 16 (0.92%) JavaScript
6 12 (0.69%) Bash
6 12 (0.69%) C#
7 8 (0.46%) Go
7 8 (0.46%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.40%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.34%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.29%) Bicep
10 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.23%) ABAP
11 4 (0.23%) COBOL
11 4 (0.23%) REXX
11 4 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (0.23%) VBA
12 3 (0.17%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 375 (21.55%) Security Cleared
2 275 (15.80%) SC Cleared
3 229 (13.16%) Degree
4 170 (9.77%) PMP
5 141 (8.10%) PMI Certification
6 83 (4.77%) DV Cleared
7 38 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (2.07%) APMP
9 33 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.90%) CCNP
10 31 (1.78%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 29 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (1.55%) CCNA
13 26 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (1.09%) CISSP
15 15 (0.86%) CISM
16 13 (0.75%) CBAP
16 13 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.75%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (11.09%) PMO
2 120 (6.90%) QA
3 47 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (2.64%) GDPR
5 40 (2.30%) NIST
6 36 (2.07%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.21%) SLA
8 13 (0.75%) GRC
9 10 (0.57%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.40%) P3O
13 6 (0.34%) Basel III
13 6 (0.34%) HL7
13 6 (0.34%) PSD2
14 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.29%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 58 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.09%) Docker
4 17 (0.98%) vSphere
5 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.69%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.29%) Firmware
9 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Squid
10 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.057%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.057%) Ceph
11 1 (0.057%) RACF
11 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 39 (2.24%) Ansible
2 33 (1.90%) Terraform
3 27 (1.55%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.98%) SCCM
6 12 (0.69%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.46%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.40%) Nagios
10 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.29%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.17%) Netcool
11 3 (0.17%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.17%) Puppet
11 3 (0.17%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.11%) Control-M
12 2 (0.11%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 301 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 140 (8.05%) SAP
3 87 (5.00%) Oracle
4 79 (4.54%) ServiceNow
5 63 (3.62%) Cisco
6 45 (2.59%) VMware
7 38 (2.18%) Google
8 35 (2.01%) Palo Alto
8 35 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.44%) F5
10 20 (1.15%) Atlassian
11 19 (1.09%) CheckPoint
11 19 (1.09%) Citrix
12 17 (0.98%) IBM
13 16 (0.92%) Workday
14 15 (0.86%) Siemens
14 15 (0.86%) SolarWinds
15 14 (0.80%) Aruba
15 14 (0.80%) NEC
16 13 (0.75%) CyberArk