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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 61 53
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,015 1,298 1,470
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.83% 3.96% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 4.37% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,364 840 911
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £414 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £613 £627
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 22 42
10th Percentile £22.20 £26.22 £22.55
25th Percentile £34.87 £33.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year - +34.34% -36.53%
75th Percentile £79.63 £74.73 £55.79
90th Percentile £91.10 £82.13 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.25 £57.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +4.78% +40.45% -41.51%

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 44,620 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,627 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,682 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.33 £17.74
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.35 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +7 1,753 £515 -1.90% 1,068
UK excluding London 0 1,116 £500 - 825
London +2 744 £540 -5.51% 396
Work from Home +2 589 £500 -3.29% 488
South East +2 298 £525 -2.33% 264
North of England +3 278 £485 +2.11% 226
North West +7 185 £490 +3.16% 126
South West +2 169 £475 +1.39% 107
Midlands -25 163 £475 -2.06% 121
West Midlands -25 129 £475 -8.19% 70
Scotland +5 115 £450 -5.26% 47
Yorkshire -29 73 £500 - 68
East of England +8 64 £500 +5.26% 56
East Midlands -19 32 £413 -3.85% 51
Wales +1 25 £500 +73.91% 19
North East -30 21 £350 -3.45% 33
Northern Ireland +1 14 £334 -36.38% 8
Channel Islands - 1 £550 -

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
1 114 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 110 (5.46%) Confluence
3 38 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.35%) CMS
5 6 (0.30%) Apache
5 6 (0.30%) SAS
6 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
6 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.15%) Appian
7 3 (0.15%) CICS
7 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.15%) JBoss
7 3 (0.15%) Kentico
7 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.15%) WordPress
8 2 (0.099%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.099%) Camunda
8 2 (0.099%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 156 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (5.86%) Microsoft Project
3 95 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
4 90 (4.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 36 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.79%) Siemens NX
7 15 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.40%) Trello
9 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.20%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.20%) Revit
11 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.099%) Houdini
12 2 (0.099%) NUKE
13 1 (0.050%) CATIA
13 1 (0.050%) ProjectWise
13 1 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 48 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.09%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.60%) Primavera
5 10 (0.50%) Maximo
6 8 (0.40%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.40%) SAP SD
7 7 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.35%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.30%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
8 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.25%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.20%) Magento
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
10 4 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 285 (14.14%) Azure
2 132 (6.55%) AWS
3 108 (5.36%) Power Platform
4 104 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
5 83 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (3.67%) SaaS
7 61 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 44 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
9 38 (1.89%) GCP
10 29 (1.44%) GitHub
11 26 (1.29%) Google Workspace
11 26 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
12 24 (1.19%) IaaS
13 23 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
14 22 (1.09%) PowerApps
15 20 (0.99%) OCI
16 19 (0.94%) Power Automate
17 18 (0.89%) OneDrive
18 15 (0.74%) Amazon S3
18 15 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 126 (6.25%) Firewall
2 87 (4.32%) DNS
3 75 (3.72%) WAN
4 67 (3.33%) LAN
5 64 (3.18%) Network Security
6 59 (2.93%) VPN
7 47 (2.33%) MPLS
8 43 (2.13%) BGP
9 38 (1.89%) DHCP
10 34 (1.69%) VLAN
10 34 (1.69%) Wireless
11 33 (1.64%) TCP/IP
12 32 (1.59%) OSPF
12 32 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 25 (1.24%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.74%) IPsec
16 14 (0.69%) BIG-IP
16 14 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
16 14 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (4.02%) Power BI
2 46 (2.28%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.69%) Tableau
5 13 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.55%) Metadata
8 10 (0.50%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (0.40%) Big Data
10 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.40%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.30%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.25%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 215 (10.67%) JIRA
2 30 (1.49%) Git
3 15 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.69%) GitLab
5 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.40%) Selenium
6 5 (0.25%) Subversion
7 4 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.15%) JMeter
8 3 (0.15%) MSTest
8 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.099%) Appium
9 2 (0.099%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.099%) Hudson
9 2 (0.099%) MSI
9 2 (0.099%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.050%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.050%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.050%) SpecFlow
General
1 821 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 639 (31.71%) Finance
3 264 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (11.12%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.30%) Organisational Skills
6 103 (5.11%) Banking
7 101 (5.01%) Retail
8 92 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
9 91 (4.52%) Legal
10 79 (3.92%) Telecoms
11 61 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
12 55 (2.73%) Manufacturing
13 54 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (2.08%) Local Government
15 34 (1.69%) Marketing
16 32 (1.59%) Military
17 23 (1.14%) Law
18 21 (1.04%) Investment Banking
19 20 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 20 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 482 (23.92%) Project Manager
2 225 (11.17%) Analyst
3 218 (10.82%) Senior
4 195 (9.68%) Lead
5 117 (5.81%) Architect
6 114 (5.66%) Business Analyst
7 105 (5.21%) Consultant
8 99 (4.91%) Senior Manager
9 87 (4.32%) Network Engineer
10 85 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
10 85 (4.22%) IT Manager
11 82 (4.07%) Senior Project Manager
12 58 (2.88%) Developer
13 57 (2.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 57 (2.83%) IT Project Manager
14 45 (2.23%) Technical Manager
15 42 (2.08%) Project Officer
15 42 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (1.99%) Infrastructure Manager
17 37 (1.84%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.64%) REST
2 31 (1.54%) Middleware
3 21 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.84%) .NET
5 13 (0.65%) 802.1X
5 13 (0.65%) JSON
5 13 (0.65%) XML
6 11 (0.55%) React
6 11 (0.55%) SAP Fiori
7 10 (0.50%) ADO
7 10 (0.50%) OAuth
7 10 (0.50%) Web Services
8 8 (0.40%) SAP Basis
9 7 (0.35%) .NET Framework
9 7 (0.35%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.35%) PySpark
9 7 (0.35%) RESTful
9 7 (0.35%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.30%) Kafka
10 6 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.01%) Management Information System
2 99 (4.91%) Onboarding
3 83 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 80 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 42 (2.08%) Virtual Team
6 36 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 35 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.64%) Operational Technology
9 32 (1.59%) Cloud Native
10 29 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.24%) Driving Licence
13 24 (1.19%) Clustering
13 24 (1.19%) PKI
14 22 (1.09%) Replication
15 20 (0.99%) PMI
16 19 (0.94%) Data Structures
16 19 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 120 (5.96%) Windows
2 57 (2.83%) Linux
2 57 (2.83%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.34%) Unix
4 11 (0.55%) Solaris
5 10 (0.50%) AIX
6 8 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.35%) zOS
8 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.099%) Android
11 2 (0.099%) Debian
11 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.050%) CentOS
12 1 (0.050%) VMS
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (35.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 616 (30.57%) Agile
3 542 (26.90%) Project Management
4 349 (17.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 342 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 323 (16.03%) Migration
7 305 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
8 294 (14.59%) Change Management
9 257 (12.75%) PRINCE2
10 223 (11.07%) Decision-Making
11 208 (10.32%) Waterfall
12 181 (8.98%) ITIL
13 177 (8.78%) Roadmaps
14 171 (8.49%) AI
14 171 (8.49%) Risk Management
15 169 (8.39%) DevOps
16 142 (7.05%) Scrum
17 136 (6.75%) Workshop Facilitation
18 135 (6.70%) ERP
18 135 (6.70%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 110 (5.46%) SQL
2 100 (4.96%) Python
3 62 (3.08%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.14%) Java
5 20 (0.99%) C#
6 19 (0.94%) Bash
7 18 (0.89%) JavaScript
8 14 (0.69%) VBA
9 8 (0.40%) ABAP
9 8 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.35%) Bicep
11 6 (0.30%) Korn
11 6 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.25%) Go
12 5 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 451 (22.38%) Security Cleared
2 327 (16.23%) SC Cleared
3 201 (9.98%) Degree
4 159 (7.89%) PMP
5 138 (6.85%) PMI Certification
6 113 (5.61%) DV Cleared
7 68 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 43 (2.13%) CCNP
8 43 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (1.94%) CCNA
10 32 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 30 (1.49%) Azure Certification
12 28 (1.39%) CISSP
13 19 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.89%) MCSE
15 17 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (0.79%) CISM
17 14 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
18 13 (0.65%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (11.22%) PMO
2 96 (4.76%) QA
3 56 (2.78%) NIST
4 53 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.58%) GDPR
6 41 (2.03%) Data Quality
7 34 (1.69%) SLA
8 18 (0.89%) GRC
9 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.50%) NCSC
10 10 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 6 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.30%) HL7
12 6 (0.30%) IFRS
12 6 (0.30%) P3O
12 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.25%) GxP
System Software
1 99 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 55 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.19%) Docker
4 19 (0.94%) vSphere
5 18 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.60%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.55%) Firmware
8 11 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.15%) Squid
12 2 (0.099%) Ceph
12 2 (0.099%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.050%) ACF2
13 1 (0.050%) RACF
13 1 (0.050%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (2.53%) Terraform
2 49 (2.43%) Ansible
3 31 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 27 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.09%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.89%) SCCM
7 14 (0.69%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.40%) Nagios
10 7 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.35%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.30%) Puppet
11 6 (0.30%) SCOM
12 5 (0.25%) Netcool
12 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.20%) Grafana
13 4 (0.20%) Nessus
13 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 405 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 137 (6.80%) SAP
3 125 (6.20%) Cisco
4 114 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 87 (4.32%) Oracle
6 78 (3.87%) VMware
7 49 (2.43%) Palo Alto
8 46 (2.28%) F5
9 44 (2.18%) Fortinet
10 40 (1.99%) Google
11 39 (1.94%) Salesforce
12 28 (1.39%) Juniper
12 28 (1.39%) SolarWinds
13 25 (1.24%) IBM
14 22 (1.09%) Workday
14 22 (1.09%) Zscaler
15 19 (0.94%) NEC
16 18 (0.89%) Siemens
16 18 (0.89%) Splunk
17 17 (0.84%) Infoblox