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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,673 1,188 1,711
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.87% 4.05% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.48% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,110 711 1,130
10th Percentile £340 £325 £371
25th Percentile £415 £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 £629
90th Percentile £716 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -3.89% -1.81% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 25 35
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £17.25 £26.25 £25.59
Median hourly rate £45.46 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% +34.34% -36.53%
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £46.13
90th Percentile £81.15 £77.00 £64.30
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 37,207 26,505 38,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 90.41% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,564 17,019 25,049
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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £744 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,206 924 2,336
10th Percentile £14.93 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.99 £16.05
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.64 £31.50
% change year-on-year -13.08% +0.44% -10.00%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 1,473 £515 -1.90% 799
UK excluding London -6 863 £481 -3.89% 671
London +1 678 £550 - 253
Work from Home -1 483 £538 +1.46% 353
North of England +22 252 £481 +1.32% 125
South East -7 195 £525 -4.55% 218
Midlands -14 170 £475 -5.00% 114
North West +24 159 £475 - 63
West Midlands -16 109 £494 -5.95% 71
South West +8 107 £494 -1.25% 89
Yorkshire -5 84 £500 -2.39% 45
Scotland -19 76 £488 +2.63% 56
East Midlands -11 61 £431 -3.99% 42
East of England -6 42 £570 +9.83% 62
Wales +5 20 £413 +6.45% 20
North East -7 11 £350 -22.22% 18
Northern Ireland -2 8 £370 -22.11% 4

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
1 122 (7.29%) Confluence
2 76 (4.54%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.36%) CMS
5 5 (0.30%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.24%) CICS
6 4 (0.24%) SAS
7 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.18%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.12%) Camunda
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.060%) Apache
9 1 (0.060%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.060%) IIS
9 1 (0.060%) Moodle
9 1 (0.060%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 152 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (6.87%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (6.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 102 (6.10%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (1.73%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.72%) Trello
8 9 (0.54%) Siemens NX
9 8 (0.48%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.12%) InDesign
10 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.060%) Revit
11 1 (0.060%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.72%) Loan IQ
3 12 (0.72%) Teamcenter
4 9 (0.54%) Endur
4 9 (0.54%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.36%) Primavera
5 6 (0.36%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.24%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.24%) SAP PP
7 4 (0.24%) Shopify
8 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 206 (12.31%) Azure
2 90 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (4.72%) Power Platform
4 75 (4.48%) AWS
5 55 (3.29%) SaaS
6 53 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
7 34 (2.03%) Entra ID
8 31 (1.85%) GCP
9 27 (1.61%) GitHub
10 20 (1.20%) IaaS
11 16 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (0.84%) OCI
13 14 (0.84%) PowerApps
14 13 (0.78%) OpenShift
14 13 (0.78%) PaaS
15 12 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (0.72%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 87 (5.20%) Firewall
2 48 (2.87%) WAN
3 43 (2.57%) DNS
4 38 (2.27%) LAN
5 34 (2.03%) Network Security
6 23 (1.37%) SD-WAN
7 22 (1.32%) BGP
7 22 (1.32%) OSPF
8 20 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.14%) VPN
10 18 (1.08%) MPLS
11 15 (0.90%) DHCP
11 15 (0.90%) NetScaler
11 15 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
12 14 (0.84%) VLAN
12 14 (0.84%) Wireless
13 11 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 9 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.48%) SAN
16 7 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (3.71%) Power BI
2 30 (1.79%) Tableau
3 27 (1.61%) SQL Server
4 24 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (0.54%) Metadata
8 7 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.36%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.30%) Big Data
10 5 (0.30%) GIS
10 5 (0.30%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.24%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 217 (12.97%) JIRA
2 21 (1.26%) Git
3 19 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.84%) GitLab
5 7 (0.42%) Selenium
6 6 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.30%) JMeter
7 5 (0.30%) MSTest
7 5 (0.30%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.12%) Appium
10 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
10 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.060%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.060%) Gradle
11 1 (0.060%) LSMW
General
1 703 (42.02%) Social Skills
2 566 (33.83%) Finance
3 232 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 139 (8.31%) Banking
6 119 (7.11%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (3.83%) Legal
8 63 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 61 (3.65%) Retail
10 59 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
12 46 (2.75%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.09%) Telecoms
14 28 (1.67%) Marketing
15 24 (1.43%) Front Office
16 23 (1.37%) Local Government
17 21 (1.26%) Investment Banking
18 18 (1.08%) Financial Institution
19 17 (1.02%) Law
20 16 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 473 (28.27%) Project Manager
2 207 (12.37%) Analyst
3 179 (10.70%) Lead
4 157 (9.38%) Senior
5 144 (8.61%) Business Analyst
6 79 (4.72%) Architect
6 79 (4.72%) Consultant
7 72 (4.30%) Delivery Manager
8 65 (3.89%) Senior Manager
9 64 (3.83%) IT Manager
10 51 (3.05%) Senior Project Manager
11 50 (2.99%) Technical Manager
12 45 (2.69%) IT Project Manager
13 44 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (2.57%) Programme Manager
15 39 (2.33%) Network Engineer
16 37 (2.21%) Infrastructure Manager
17 33 (1.97%) SAP Manager
18 32 (1.91%) Project Officer
18 32 (1.91%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.03%) Middleware
2 26 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 16 (0.96%) REST
4 13 (0.78%) Web Services
5 11 (0.66%) XML
6 8 (0.48%) .NET
6 8 (0.48%) Spring Boot
7 7 (0.42%) CSS
7 7 (0.42%) React
7 7 (0.42%) Spring
8 6 (0.36%) ADO
8 6 (0.36%) HTML
8 6 (0.36%) JSON
8 6 (0.36%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (0.36%) YAML
9 5 (0.30%) Node.js
9 5 (0.30%) RESTful
9 5 (0.30%) SOAP
10 4 (0.24%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.96%) Product Ownership
2 72 (4.30%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 64 (3.83%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.09%) Virtual Team
6 34 (2.03%) PMI
7 31 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (1.55%) NHS
10 25 (1.49%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.20%) Replication
12 19 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.08%) Clustering
14 16 (0.96%) Cloud Native
15 15 (0.90%) Operational Technology
16 14 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
17 12 (0.72%) Driving Licence
17 12 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.72%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 88 (5.26%) Windows
2 45 (2.69%) Windows Server
3 31 (1.85%) Linux
4 19 (1.14%) Unix
5 18 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.66%) VMS
7 9 (0.54%) Solaris
8 8 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.42%) zOS
10 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.24%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.24%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) Android
12 2 (0.12%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.12%) pSOS
13 1 (0.060%) CentOS
13 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (34.61%) Agile
2 509 (30.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 507 (30.30%) Project Management
4 287 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
5 252 (15.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 248 (14.82%) PRINCE2
7 246 (14.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 234 (13.99%) Migration
9 206 (12.31%) Change Management
10 175 (10.46%) DevOps
11 163 (9.74%) Waterfall
12 157 (9.38%) Decision-Making
13 156 (9.32%) Scrum
14 145 (8.67%) Roadmaps
15 139 (8.31%) Risk Management
16 132 (7.89%) Workshop Facilitation
17 131 (7.83%) ITIL
18 121 (7.23%) Business Analysis
19 119 (7.11%) Project Governance
20 113 (6.75%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 92 (5.50%) SQL
2 79 (4.72%) Python
3 51 (3.05%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.49%) Java
5 23 (1.37%) Bash
6 15 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.84%) C#
8 9 (0.54%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.36%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.30%) Bicep
10 5 (0.30%) Go
10 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.24%) ABAP
11 4 (0.24%) C++
11 4 (0.24%) COBOL
12 3 (0.18%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.18%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.18%) JCL
Qualifications
1 341 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 244 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 234 (13.99%) Degree
4 158 (9.44%) PMP
5 138 (8.25%) PMI Certification
6 75 (4.48%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 33 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (1.91%) APMP
10 30 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.67%) CCNP
12 24 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 21 (1.26%) CCNA
16 20 (1.20%) CBAP
16 20 (1.20%) CISSP
17 16 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
18 15 (0.90%) CISM
19 12 (0.72%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (10.28%) PMO
2 116 (6.93%) QA
3 50 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (2.45%) GDPR
5 40 (2.39%) Data Quality
6 36 (2.15%) NIST
7 19 (1.14%) SLA
8 13 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.60%) NCSC
10 10 (0.60%) PSD2
11 9 (0.54%) GRC
11 9 (0.54%) MiFID
11 9 (0.54%) P3O
12 7 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.36%) ISO 8583
14 5 (0.30%) GAAP
14 5 (0.30%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 57 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.43%) Docker
4 15 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.84%) vSphere
6 12 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.24%) Firmware
11 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.060%) RACF
12 1 (0.060%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 40 (2.39%) Terraform
2 38 (2.27%) Ansible
3 28 (1.67%) Kubernetes
4 27 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.14%) SCCM
6 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.42%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.36%) Grafana
9 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
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
1 300 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 139 (8.31%) SAP
3 83 (4.96%) Oracle
4 70 (4.18%) ServiceNow
5 66 (3.95%) Cisco
6 43 (2.57%) VMware
7 38 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 28 (1.67%) Google
8 28 (1.67%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.37%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.14%) Citrix
10 19 (1.14%) Workday
11 18 (1.08%) Aruba
12 17 (1.02%) CheckPoint
12 17 (1.02%) F5
13 16 (0.96%) IBM
14 13 (0.78%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.72%) CyberArk
15 12 (0.72%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.60%) Adobe