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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 54 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,773 1,156 1,648
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 3.98% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.37% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 711 1,059
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £637
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 22 35
10th Percentile £15.96 £26.33 £20.98
25th Percentile £20.13 £31.06 £26.47
Median hourly rate £38.02 £60.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -36.63% +68.30% -44.73%
75th Percentile £75.06 £77.19 £41.60
90th Percentile £87.83 £78.46 £62.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.02 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -41.51% +58.77% -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 40,228 26,443 36,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.98% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,265 17,000 23,677
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,081 2,436
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 1,583 £515 -1.90% 906
UK excluding London -4 982 £492 -1.60% 674
London -6 656 £550 - 319
Work from Home 0 498 £525 - 453
North of England +27 289 £477 -2.60% 145
South East -3 233 £525 -4.55% 229
North West +30 190 £481 -0.39% 76
Midlands -14 184 £475 -7.23% 110
South West +10 141 £493 +1.55% 94
West Midlands -16 129 £481 -7.46% 82
Yorkshire -4 83 £500 - 45
Scotland -18 78 £475 +0.53% 38
East of England -6 56 £500 +6.38% 46
East Midlands -11 54 £455 +1.45% 28
North East -4 20 £350 -6.67% 27
Wales +1 14 £463 +42.31% 18
Northern Ireland -13 2 £225 -60.00% 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
1 107 (6.03%) Confluence
2 91 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.28%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) OpenEdge
6 3 (0.17%) Camunda
6 3 (0.17%) CICS
6 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
6 3 (0.17%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Apache
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 (0.056%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.056%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.056%) IIS
8 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 146 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (6.20%) Microsoft Project
3 100 (5.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 90 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
5 28 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.41%) Siemens NX
7 8 (0.45%) Trello
8 7 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.23%) Revit
11 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.056%) SPSS
12 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.64%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.68%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.39%) Primavera
5 6 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.34%) ProductWriter
5 6 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.28%) Shopify
6 5 (0.28%) Summit
7 4 (0.23%) Endur
7 4 (0.23%) Maximo
7 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 195 (11.00%) Azure
2 98 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
3 93 (5.25%) Power Platform
4 90 (5.08%) AWS
5 71 (4.00%) SaaS
6 44 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (1.97%) Entra ID
8 33 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.64%) GCP
10 22 (1.24%) GitHub
10 22 (1.24%) Google Workspace
11 21 (1.18%) IaaS
12 19 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (0.73%) PowerApps
15 12 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (0.68%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.68%) PaaS
15 12 (0.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 94 (5.30%) Firewall
2 60 (3.38%) DNS
3 44 (2.48%) Network Security
4 40 (2.26%) WAN
5 35 (1.97%) LAN
6 26 (1.47%) BGP
6 26 (1.47%) OSPF
7 22 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 22 (1.24%) VLAN
8 20 (1.13%) TCP/IP
8 20 (1.13%) VPN
9 18 (1.02%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.90%) DHCP
10 16 (0.90%) MPLS
11 15 (0.85%) Wireless
12 14 (0.79%) BIG-IP
13 13 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
13 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.68%) SSL
15 11 (0.62%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.12%) Power BI
2 33 (1.86%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.52%) Tableau
4 23 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.73%) Metadata
8 7 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.28%) Big Data
10 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.23%) GIS
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 200 (11.28%) JIRA
2 16 (0.90%) Git
2 16 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.62%) GitLab
4 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 3 (0.17%) Appium
6 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (0.17%) JMeter
6 3 (0.17%) MSTest
6 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
7 2 (0.11%) TestRail
7 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.056%) Hudson
8 1 (0.056%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.056%) LSMW
8 1 (0.056%) NUnit
General
1 670 (37.79%) Social Skills
2 566 (31.92%) Finance
3 248 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (10.49%) Public Sector
5 135 (7.61%) Organisational Skills
6 121 (6.82%) Banking
7 77 (4.34%) Retail
8 70 (3.95%) Legal
9 65 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
10 64 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
11 53 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (2.59%) Telecoms
13 44 (2.48%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.64%) Marketing
15 28 (1.58%) Local Government
16 26 (1.47%) Military
17 22 (1.24%) Investment Banking
18 18 (1.02%) Financial Institution
19 16 (0.90%) Publishing
20 15 (0.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 480 (27.07%) Project Manager
2 209 (11.79%) Analyst
3 185 (10.43%) Lead
4 179 (10.10%) Senior
5 132 (7.45%) Business Analyst
6 91 (5.13%) Senior Manager
7 84 (4.74%) Architect
8 80 (4.51%) Consultant
9 76 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
10 71 (4.00%) Senior Project Manager
11 69 (3.89%) IT Manager
12 57 (3.21%) Network Engineer
13 49 (2.76%) IT Project Manager
14 45 (2.54%) Technical Manager
15 43 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.31%) Developer
17 40 (2.26%) Programme Manager
17 40 (2.26%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 34 (1.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 32 (1.80%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.14%) Middleware
2 26 (1.47%) REST
3 20 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.85%) XML
5 12 (0.68%) .NET
5 12 (0.68%) ADO
6 10 (0.56%) OAuth
7 9 (0.51%) Spring Boot
7 9 (0.51%) Web Services
8 8 (0.45%) JSON
8 8 (0.45%) React
8 8 (0.45%) Spring
9 7 (0.39%) CSS
10 6 (0.34%) HTML
11 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.28%) SAP Basis
11 5 (0.28%) SOAP
12 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
12 4 (0.23%) RESTful
12 4 (0.23%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 92 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 71 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 67 (3.78%) Data Centre
4 64 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 32 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 29 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.58%) Virtual Team
8 25 (1.41%) Clustering
8 25 (1.41%) Public Cloud
8 25 (1.41%) Replication
9 21 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 21 (1.18%) PMI
10 17 (0.96%) Cloud Native
11 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
11 16 (0.90%) NHS
12 14 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (0.79%) Life Science
13 13 (0.73%) Operational Technology
14 12 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 99 (5.58%) Windows
2 47 (2.65%) Windows Server
3 36 (2.03%) Linux
4 28 (1.58%) Unix
5 16 (0.90%) Solaris
6 10 (0.56%) VMS
6 10 (0.56%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.45%) AIX
7 8 (0.45%) zOS
8 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.056%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.056%) Android
12 1 (0.056%) CentOS
12 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (30.91%) Project Management
2 543 (30.63%) Agile
3 514 (28.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 294 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
5 281 (15.85%) Migration
6 257 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 243 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 219 (12.35%) PRINCE2
9 209 (11.79%) Change Management
10 186 (10.49%) Decision-Making
10 186 (10.49%) Waterfall
11 154 (8.69%) Risk Management
12 149 (8.40%) DevOps
13 135 (7.61%) Roadmaps
14 125 (7.05%) Scrum
15 117 (6.60%) Workshop Facilitation
16 113 (6.37%) AI
16 113 (6.37%) ERP
17 112 (6.32%) ITIL
17 112 (6.32%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 87 (4.91%) SQL
2 74 (4.17%) Python
3 47 (2.65%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.24%) Java
5 19 (1.07%) C#
6 17 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.62%) Bash
8 8 (0.45%) Go
9 7 (0.39%) Bicep
9 7 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.28%) ABAP
11 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.28%) VBA
12 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.17%) C++
12 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 393 (22.17%) Security Cleared
2 290 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 192 (10.83%) Degree
4 164 (9.25%) PMP
5 127 (7.16%) PMI Certification
6 91 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.86%) CCNP
9 31 (1.75%) CCNA
10 30 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (1.58%) APMP
12 26 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (1.24%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.07%) CISSP
14 19 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 15 (0.85%) CISM
15 15 (0.85%) MCSE
16 14 (0.79%) Azure Certification
16 14 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (11.39%) PMO
2 104 (5.87%) QA
3 44 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (2.43%) GDPR
5 41 (2.31%) NIST
6 39 (2.20%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.30%) SLA
8 13 (0.73%) GRC
9 11 (0.62%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.39%) HL7
12 7 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.34%) Basel III
13 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.28%) GAAP
14 5 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 65 (3.67%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.02%) Docker
3 18 (1.02%) vSphere
4 15 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.39%) Firmware
8 4 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.11%) Squid
11 1 (0.056%) Ceph
11 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 41 (2.31%) Ansible
2 34 (1.92%) Terraform
3 27 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.73%) SCCM
5 13 (0.73%) vCenter Server
6 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.56%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.51%) Nagios
9 7 (0.39%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.28%) Netcool
11 4 (0.23%) SCOM
11 4 (0.23%) Tivoli
12 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.17%) Puppet
13 2 (0.11%) Control-M
13 2 (0.11%) Grafana
13 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
13 2 (0.11%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 310 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 135 (7.61%) SAP
3 84 (4.74%) Oracle
4 75 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 63 (3.55%) Cisco
6 43 (2.43%) VMware
7 40 (2.26%) Palo Alto
8 36 (2.03%) Google
8 36 (2.03%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.64%) F5
10 25 (1.41%) Siemens
11 20 (1.13%) IBM
12 19 (1.07%) CheckPoint
13 17 (0.96%) Atlassian
14 16 (0.90%) Workday
15 15 (0.85%) Aruba
16 14 (0.79%) Citrix
16 14 (0.79%) Fortinet
16 14 (0.79%) NEC
17 13 (0.73%) SolarWinds