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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 51 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,603 1,198 1,725
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.87% 3.90% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.34% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 690 1,134
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £417 £434 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.18% -3.41%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £637
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -4.36% -0.54% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 29 33
10th Percentile £15.91 £19.53 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £22.66 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -9.62% -31.77%
75th Percentile £63.66 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £69.50 £69.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £49.84 £40.94
% change year-on-year -8.79% +21.74% -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 35,955 27,589 38,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.76% 89.91% 86.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,818 17,125 24,933
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.18% -1.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 864 2,185
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.99 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.61 £32.66 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -1.24% -5.53%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.18 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 1,402 £525 - 575
UK excluding London -6 817 £488 -4.36% 507
London +4 656 £550 - 174
Work from Home -4 458 £538 +0.47% 281
North of England +14 242 £480 -4.76% 110
South East -9 182 £525 -4.55% 179
Midlands -10 163 £475 -7.23% 77
North West +22 150 £475 - 75
West Midlands -21 99 £540 -1.82% 46
South West -2 91 £538 +7.50% 59
Yorkshire -13 82 £500 -12.70% 26
Scotland -16 81 £475 - 28
East Midlands -3 64 £435 -3.33% 31
East of England -2 40 £565 +13.68% 50
Wales +3 18 £374 -22.23% 10
North East -10 12 £290 -38.98% 12
Northern Ireland 0 10 £425 -22.73% 2

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
1 116 (7.24%) Confluence
2 70 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.37%) CMS
5 5 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.25%) CICS
7 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.19%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.19%) SAS
7 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.12%) Appian
8 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.062%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.062%) Camunda
9 1 (0.062%) IIS
9 1 (0.062%) Moodle
9 1 (0.062%) Smallworld
Applications
1 148 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (7.05%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (6.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
5 35 (2.18%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.81%) Trello
7 12 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.56%) Siemens NX
9 8 (0.50%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.12%) InDesign
11 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.062%) Revit
12 1 (0.062%) Sketch
12 1 (0.062%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 52 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.75%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.62%) Endur
3 10 (0.62%) Loan IQ
3 10 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.62%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (0.44%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
8 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 196 (12.23%) Azure
2 83 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
3 75 (4.68%) Power Platform
4 72 (4.49%) AWS
5 59 (3.68%) SaaS
6 47 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
7 33 (2.06%) GCP
8 27 (1.68%) Entra ID
9 24 (1.50%) GitHub
10 17 (1.06%) IaaS
11 16 (1.00%) OCI
12 14 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (0.81%) Amazon S3
13 13 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (0.81%) OpenShift
14 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (0.75%) Serverless
14 12 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.05%) Firewall
2 44 (2.74%) WAN
3 42 (2.62%) DNS
4 34 (2.12%) LAN
5 32 (2.00%) Network Security
6 22 (1.37%) BGP
7 21 (1.31%) OSPF
7 21 (1.31%) SD-WAN
8 19 (1.19%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.06%) MPLS
10 16 (1.00%) DHCP
10 16 (1.00%) VPN
11 15 (0.94%) NetScaler
12 14 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 14 (0.87%) Wireless
13 13 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
14 12 (0.75%) VLAN
15 11 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
16 10 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
16 10 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.68%) Power BI
2 26 (1.62%) Tableau
3 25 (1.56%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.50%) Metadata
9 6 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.37%) GIS
9 6 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.37%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.25%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.25%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 205 (12.79%) JIRA
2 23 (1.43%) Git
3 19 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.81%) GitLab
5 5 (0.31%) Selenium
6 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.19%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.19%) Subversion
8 2 (0.12%) Appium
8 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.12%) JMeter
8 2 (0.12%) MSTest
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 678 (42.30%) Social Skills
2 515 (32.13%) Finance
3 221 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 143 (8.92%) Banking
6 111 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
7 63 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
8 58 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (3.31%) Retail
10 50 (3.12%) Legal
11 46 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
12 42 (2.62%) Manufacturing
13 34 (2.12%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.62%) Front Office
15 24 (1.50%) Investment Banking
16 23 (1.43%) Marketing
17 21 (1.31%) Local Government
18 19 (1.19%) Law
19 17 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
20 15 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 435 (27.14%) Project Manager
2 205 (12.79%) Analyst
3 180 (11.23%) Lead
4 149 (9.30%) Business Analyst
5 142 (8.86%) Senior
6 85 (5.30%) Architect
7 84 (5.24%) Consultant
8 64 (3.99%) Delivery Manager
9 60 (3.74%) Senior Manager
10 54 (3.37%) IT Manager
11 50 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
12 46 (2.87%) Senior Project Manager
13 44 (2.74%) Programme Manager
13 44 (2.74%) Technical Manager
14 42 (2.62%) Network Engineer
15 38 (2.37%) IT Project Manager
16 34 (2.12%) SAP Manager
17 31 (1.93%) Infrastructure Manager
18 28 (1.75%) Service Manager
19 27 (1.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.87%) Middleware
2 24 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 20 (1.25%) REST
4 11 (0.69%) XML
5 10 (0.62%) Web Services
6 8 (0.50%) CSS
7 7 (0.44%) HTML
7 7 (0.44%) React
7 7 (0.44%) RESTful
7 7 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
7 7 (0.44%) SOAP
7 7 (0.44%) YAML
8 6 (0.37%) JSON
8 6 (0.37%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.37%) Spring
8 6 (0.37%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.31%) .NET
9 5 (0.31%) ADO
9 5 (0.31%) Node.js
9 5 (0.31%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.99%) Product Ownership
2 69 (4.30%) Onboarding
3 62 (3.87%) Data Centre
4 61 (3.81%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.06%) PMI
6 33 (2.06%) Virtual Team
7 27 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (1.62%) NHS
8 26 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 18 (1.12%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.12%) Replication
11 17 (1.06%) Clustering
12 14 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.87%) Cloud Native
12 14 (0.87%) Life Science
12 14 (0.87%) Operational Technology
13 13 (0.81%) Driving Licence
13 13 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.24%) Windows
2 42 (2.62%) Windows Server
3 31 (1.93%) Linux
4 20 (1.25%) Unix
5 19 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.69%) Solaris
7 11 (0.69%) VMS
8 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.37%) zOS
10 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.25%) OpenVMS
11 4 (0.25%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.25%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.12%) Android
12 2 (0.12%) pSOS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.062%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (34.44%) Agile
2 486 (30.32%) Project Management
3 474 (29.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 284 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
5 230 (14.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 228 (14.22%) Migration
7 226 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 225 (14.04%) PRINCE2
9 200 (12.48%) Change Management
10 164 (10.23%) Waterfall
11 161 (10.04%) DevOps
12 145 (9.05%) Decision-Making
13 139 (8.67%) Scrum
14 137 (8.55%) Roadmaps
15 128 (7.99%) Risk Management
16 123 (7.67%) ITIL
17 121 (7.55%) Business Analysis
17 121 (7.55%) Workshop Facilitation
18 116 (7.24%) Project Governance
19 112 (6.99%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 85 (5.30%) SQL
2 80 (4.99%) Python
3 51 (3.18%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.56%) Java
5 22 (1.37%) Bash
6 13 (0.81%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.62%) C#
8 9 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.31%) Go
10 5 (0.31%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.31%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.25%) ABAP
11 4 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.25%) C++
11 4 (0.25%) COBOL
11 4 (0.25%) Perl
12 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.19%) JCL
12 3 (0.19%) REXX
Qualifications
1 307 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 237 (14.78%) Degree
3 217 (13.54%) SC Cleared
4 144 (8.98%) PMP
5 130 (8.11%) PMI Certification
6 73 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 38 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 33 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (2.00%) CCNP
10 30 (1.87%) APMP
11 22 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 21 (1.31%) CCNA
13 20 (1.25%) CBAP
14 19 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (1.12%) CISSP
15 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
17 14 (0.87%) CISM
18 12 (0.75%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (9.42%) PMO
2 113 (7.05%) QA
3 36 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 36 (2.25%) GDPR
4 35 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.75%) NIST
6 17 (1.06%) SLA
7 15 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 15 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.69%) PSD2
9 9 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.56%) MiFID
9 9 (0.56%) NCSC
10 8 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
10 8 (0.50%) P3O
11 7 (0.44%) GRC
12 6 (0.37%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.37%) ISO 8583
13 5 (0.31%) Basel III
13 5 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 50 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.37%) Docker
4 15 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.87%) vSphere
6 13 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.25%) Firmware
8 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 2 (0.12%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.062%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.062%) RACF
10 1 (0.062%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 42 (2.62%) Ansible
2 35 (2.18%) Terraform
3 28 (1.75%) Kubernetes
4 23 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.31%) SCCM
6 10 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.44%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.37%) Grafana
10 5 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
13 2 (0.12%) CEMLI
13 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
13 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.12%) QRadar
13 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 296 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 133 (8.30%) SAP
3 88 (5.49%) Oracle
4 74 (4.62%) Cisco
5 64 (3.99%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.62%) VMware
7 37 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 29 (1.81%) Palo Alto
9 26 (1.62%) Google
10 21 (1.31%) F5
11 18 (1.12%) Citrix
11 18 (1.12%) Workday
12 16 (1.00%) Aruba
12 16 (1.00%) CheckPoint
12 16 (1.00%) IBM
13 15 (0.94%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.94%) SolarWinds
14 13 (0.81%) Red Hat
15 12 (0.75%) Ariba
15 12 (0.75%) CyberArk