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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 54 51
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,370 1,365 1,926
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.01% 3.71% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.31% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 766 1,286
10th Percentile £324 £356 £356
25th Percentile £410 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% - -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -3.53% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 41 42
10th Percentile £15.91 £21.25 £21.02
25th Percentile £19.13 £25.36 £36.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £57.49
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% -39.12% +11.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.56 £77.88
90th Percentile £73.86 £65.00 £83.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.44 £41.09 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.59% -21.73% +1.56%

All Process and 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 30,904 31,684 41,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.40% 86.12% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,274 19,074 28,148
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,970 1,136 1,597
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -15.64% +25.31%
75th Percentile £42.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.55 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £36.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -38.15% -15.29% +53.26%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025. 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 0 1,178 £525 -3.23% 1,306
UK excluding London -8 703 £492 -3.53% 1,052
London +8 549 £575 +4.55% 502
Work from Home -4 425 £525 -1.87% 536
South East -7 183 £538 +2.38% 499
North of England -5 158 £475 -5.00% 192
Midlands -5 144 £450 -14.69% 125
North West -1 96 £466 +3.44% 125
West Midlands -10 87 £520 -9.45% 69
South West 0 79 £500 -4.76% 85
Scotland -22 79 £450 - 40
Yorkshire -9 59 £513 +2.55% 45
East Midlands +13 57 £423 -10.11% 55
East of England -1 39 £525 +5.00% 90
Wales -1 15 £360 -37.61% 25
Northern Ireland -4 13 £373 +17.32% 11
North East -16 3 £411 -28.41% 23

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 84 (6.13%) Confluence
2 66 (4.82%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.36%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.29%) CMS
6 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
6 3 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.15%) Appian
7 2 (0.15%) SAS
7 2 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.073%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.073%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.073%) Camunda
8 1 (0.073%) Drupal
8 1 (0.073%) Moodle
8 1 (0.073%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.073%) Smallworld
Applications
1 103 (7.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (5.69%) Microsoft Project
3 74 (5.40%) Microsoft Office
4 63 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (2.85%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.95%) Trello
7 9 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.22%) InDesign
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.15%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.073%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.073%) Revit
11 1 (0.073%) Simulink
11 1 (0.073%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 72 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.02%) Endur
3 10 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.58%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.58%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
7 6 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.44%) SAP GTS
7 6 (0.44%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.36%) SAP PLM
8 5 (0.36%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 178 (12.99%) Azure
2 58 (4.23%) AWS
3 54 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (3.94%) Power Platform
4 45 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (3.07%) SaaS
6 26 (1.90%) OCI
7 25 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (1.82%) GCP
8 20 (1.46%) Entra ID
9 16 (1.17%) GitHub
10 15 (1.09%) PaaS
11 14 (1.02%) Asana
12 13 (0.95%) IaaS
12 13 (0.95%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (0.73%) PowerApps
13 10 (0.73%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (0.51%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.92%) Firewall
2 37 (2.70%) WAN
3 28 (2.04%) LAN
4 27 (1.97%) DNS
5 18 (1.31%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.31%) VPN
6 17 (1.24%) SD-WAN
7 16 (1.17%) Network Security
7 16 (1.17%) Wireless
8 13 (0.95%) MPLS
8 13 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.88%) HTTP
10 10 (0.73%) BGP
10 10 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (0.73%) SAN
11 9 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
11 9 (0.66%) Internet
12 8 (0.58%) SSH
12 8 (0.58%) Wireshark
13 7 (0.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.21%) Power BI
2 21 (1.53%) SAP HANA
3 19 (1.39%) SQL Server
4 13 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
4 13 (0.95%) Tableau
5 12 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.36%) Big Data
9 5 (0.36%) GIS
10 4 (0.29%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.29%) Metadata
10 4 (0.29%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.15%) Looker
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 159 (11.61%) JIRA
2 26 (1.90%) Git
3 10 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.66%) Selenium
5 6 (0.44%) Subversion
6 5 (0.36%) GitLab
7 4 (0.29%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.29%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.22%) Appium
9 2 (0.15%) Dreamweaver
9 2 (0.15%) Gradle
9 2 (0.15%) JMeter
9 2 (0.15%) Maven
9 2 (0.15%) MSTest
9 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.073%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Forms
General
1 618 (45.11%) Social Skills
2 452 (32.99%) Finance
3 144 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (7.59%) Banking
5 102 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 72 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
7 62 (4.53%) Manufacturing
8 58 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
9 51 (3.72%) Retail
10 50 (3.65%) Telecoms
11 44 (3.21%) Legal
12 40 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (2.70%) Marketing
14 36 (2.63%) Front Office
15 26 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (1.75%) Billing
16 24 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
17 23 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (1.24%) Financial Institution
19 16 (1.17%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 374 (27.30%) Project Manager
2 199 (14.53%) Analyst
3 141 (10.29%) Lead
4 134 (9.78%) Business Analyst
5 114 (8.32%) Senior
6 106 (7.74%) Consultant
7 102 (7.45%) Architect
8 65 (4.74%) IT Manager
9 60 (4.38%) Delivery Manager
10 55 (4.01%) IT Project Manager
11 46 (3.36%) Senior Manager
12 37 (2.70%) Senior Project Manager
13 34 (2.48%) Technical Manager
14 33 (2.41%) Developer
15 31 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.12%) Infrastructure Manager
16 29 (2.12%) Programme Manager
17 27 (1.97%) Service Architect
18 26 (1.90%) Technical Project Manager
19 25 (1.82%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.41%) Web Services
2 20 (1.46%) REST
3 17 (1.24%) .NET
3 17 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (1.09%) React
4 15 (1.09%) SOAP
5 11 (0.80%) AngularJS
5 11 (0.80%) Middleware
5 11 (0.80%) XML
6 10 (0.73%) RESTful
6 10 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
7 8 (0.58%) JMS
7 8 (0.58%) XSD
8 7 (0.51%) .NET Core
8 7 (0.51%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.44%) HTML
10 5 (0.36%) CSS
10 5 (0.36%) Flash
10 5 (0.36%) Node.js
10 5 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (4.74%) Product Ownership
2 62 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 42 (3.07%) Management Information System
4 36 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 29 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (1.90%) PMI
7 23 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (1.46%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.02%) Algorithms
10 13 (0.95%) NHS
11 11 (0.80%) Data Structures
11 11 (0.80%) Life Science
12 10 (0.73%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.73%) Mobile App
13 9 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 64 (4.67%) Windows
2 32 (2.34%) Linux
3 24 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.39%) Unix
5 15 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.36%) OpenVMS
9 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.29%) Solaris
9 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) Android
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.073%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.073%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (34.82%) Agile
2 452 (32.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 437 (31.90%) Project Management
4 231 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
5 229 (16.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 196 (14.31%) Change Management
7 188 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 165 (12.04%) Migration
9 158 (11.53%) Waterfall
10 146 (10.66%) PRINCE2
11 143 (10.44%) Roadmaps
12 132 (9.64%) Risk Management
13 120 (8.76%) Scrum
14 117 (8.54%) ITIL
14 117 (8.54%) Project Governance
15 110 (8.03%) ERP
16 109 (7.96%) Decision-Making
17 106 (7.74%) Business Analysis
17 106 (7.74%) DevOps
18 97 (7.08%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 92 (6.72%) SQL
2 67 (4.89%) Python
3 43 (3.14%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.82%) Java
5 20 (1.46%) Bash
6 16 (1.17%) C#
7 11 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.51%) C++
9 6 (0.44%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.36%) ABAP
11 4 (0.29%) Perl
11 4 (0.29%) VBA
12 2 (0.15%) PHP
12 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.073%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.073%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.073%) Go
13 1 (0.073%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.073%) R
13 1 (0.073%) Swift
Qualifications
1 217 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 180 (13.14%) Degree
3 162 (11.82%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.57%) PMI Certification
5 85 (6.20%) PMP
6 40 (2.92%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.24%) CBAP
10 17 (1.24%) CCNP
11 14 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (0.73%) CCNA
13 9 (0.66%) CISSP
13 9 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 8 (0.58%) ACCA
14 8 (0.58%) CIMA
14 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.51%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (6.72%) PMO
2 61 (4.45%) QA
3 28 (2.04%) GDPR
4 27 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 19 (1.39%) MiFID
7 16 (1.17%) EMIR
7 16 (1.17%) NIST
8 15 (1.09%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.02%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.80%) SLA
12 10 (0.73%) NCSC
13 9 (0.66%) PSD2
14 8 (0.58%) COBIT
14 8 (0.58%) P3O
15 6 (0.44%) Def Stans
15 6 (0.44%) GRC
15 6 (0.44%) IFRS
System Software
1 38 (2.77%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.80%) Docker
4 7 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.29%) NFS
6 4 (0.29%) Veritas File System
6 4 (0.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (0.29%) vSphere
7 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.073%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 23 (1.68%) Terraform
2 21 (1.53%) Ansible
3 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.66%) Kubernetes
4 9 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.58%) SCCM
6 6 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.36%) Grafana
7 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.36%) QRadar
8 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.22%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.15%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.073%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 243 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 144 (10.51%) SAP
3 92 (6.72%) Oracle
4 58 (4.23%) Cisco
5 57 (4.16%) ServiceNow
6 42 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 33 (2.41%) VMware
8 25 (1.82%) Workday
9 17 (1.24%) IBM
10 14 (1.02%) F5
10 14 (1.02%) Fortinet
11 13 (0.95%) Ariba
11 13 (0.95%) Citrix
12 12 (0.88%) CyberArk
12 12 (0.88%) Meraki
13 11 (0.80%) Palo Alto
13 11 (0.80%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.73%) Blue Prism
14 10 (0.73%) Planview
14 10 (0.73%) Splunk