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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,429 1,341 1,906
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.97% 3.76% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.31% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 765 1,265
10th Percentile £313 £352 £363
25th Percentile £410 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.72% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £610 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.95% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 40 34
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.08 £21.07
25th Percentile £19.63 £22.50 £36.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £58.66
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% -44.60% -8.10%
75th Percentile £63.49 £57.19 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £63.88 £84.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £36.09 £53.66
% change year-on-year +25.96% -32.74% -17.45%

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 32,041 31,135 40,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.06% 87.25% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,133 18,828 26,941
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,077 1,103 1,555
10th Percentile £14.58 £15.22 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -24.14% +24.29%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £43.83
% change year-on-year -29.69% -25.84% +37.15%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 2 December 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 -1 1,229 £525 -3.67% 769
UK excluding London -1 753 £494 -5.95% 697
London +13 552 £550 - 246
Work from Home 0 442 £525 -3.45% 324
South East 0 207 £538 -1.38% 267
North of England -5 188 £488 -2.26% 145
Midlands -3 142 £450 -14.69% 111
North West -2 107 £475 - 74
West Midlands -16 82 £525 -8.42% 63
South West -4 74 £475 -9.52% 84
Scotland -16 74 £452 -4.84% 34
Yorkshire -2 70 £501 -12.65% 52
East Midlands +12 60 £420 -11.58% 45
East of England -4 37 £558 +11.50% 61
Wales +8 24 £306 -46.88% 13
Northern Ireland +3 16 £425 -10.53% 4
North East -7 12 £280 -50.55% 25

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 99 (6.93%) Confluence
2 63 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.35%) CMS
4 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.14%) Appian
6 2 (0.14%) CICS
6 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.070%) Apache
7 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.070%) Camunda
7 1 (0.070%) Drupal
7 1 (0.070%) Moodle
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.070%) Smallworld
Applications
1 116 (8.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 101 (7.07%) Microsoft Project
3 96 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
4 76 (5.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (2.66%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.26%) Trello
7 13 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.49%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.14%) InDesign
10 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.070%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.070%) Simulink
11 1 (0.070%) Sketch
11 1 (0.070%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 59 (4.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.19%) Endur
3 14 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
5 9 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.63%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.49%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.49%) SAP IBP
7 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.42%) SAP GTS
7 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.35%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 179 (12.53%) Azure
2 64 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (4.13%) Power Platform
4 49 (3.43%) AWS
5 47 (3.29%) SaaS
6 43 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
8 29 (2.03%) GCP
9 21 (1.47%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.19%) OCI
11 16 (1.12%) GitHub
12 15 (1.05%) PaaS
13 14 (0.98%) IaaS
14 13 (0.91%) Asana
14 13 (0.91%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.77%) PowerApps
15 11 (0.77%) SuccessFactors
16 9 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
17 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
18 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.01%) Firewall
2 35 (2.45%) WAN
3 28 (1.96%) LAN
4 26 (1.82%) DNS
5 19 (1.33%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.26%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.19%) VPN
8 15 (1.05%) Wireless
9 14 (0.98%) BGP
9 14 (0.98%) MPLS
10 12 (0.84%) HTTP
10 12 (0.84%) Network Security
11 11 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (0.77%) OSPF
12 10 (0.70%) SAN
13 9 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.56%) EIGRP
14 8 (0.56%) SSH
14 8 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.43%) Power BI
2 17 (1.19%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.12%) Tableau
4 15 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.42%) GIS
7 6 (0.42%) Metadata
8 3 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.21%) Big Data
8 3 (0.21%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.14%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 176 (12.32%) JIRA
2 25 (1.75%) Git
3 8 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.49%) Subversion
5 6 (0.42%) GitLab
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (0.35%) Selenium
7 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.28%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.14%) Appium
8 2 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.14%) JMeter
8 2 (0.14%) MSTest
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.070%) Dreamweaver
9 1 (0.070%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.070%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Forms
General
1 639 (44.72%) Social Skills
2 455 (31.84%) Finance
3 183 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 100 (7.00%) Banking
6 73 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
8 55 (3.85%) Manufacturing
9 46 (3.22%) Legal
10 45 (3.15%) Retail
11 42 (2.94%) Telecoms
12 40 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 39 (2.73%) Marketing
14 31 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
15 27 (1.89%) Front Office
16 23 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (1.33%) Local Government
19 18 (1.26%) Law
20 15 (1.05%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 410 (28.69%) Project Manager
2 199 (13.93%) Analyst
3 147 (10.29%) Lead
4 137 (9.59%) Business Analyst
5 119 (8.33%) Senior
6 87 (6.09%) Architect
7 82 (5.74%) Consultant
8 67 (4.69%) IT Manager
9 61 (4.27%) Delivery Manager
10 56 (3.92%) Senior Manager
11 51 (3.57%) IT Project Manager
12 47 (3.29%) Senior Project Manager
13 42 (2.94%) Technical Manager
14 39 (2.73%) Programme Manager
15 36 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.03%) Infrastructure Manager
16 29 (2.03%) Technical Project Manager
17 26 (1.82%) Administrator
17 26 (1.82%) SAP Manager
17 26 (1.82%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.47%) REST
2 19 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.98%) SOAP
4 13 (0.91%) React
4 13 (0.91%) Web Services
5 11 (0.77%) AngularJS
5 11 (0.77%) Middleware
5 11 (0.77%) XML
6 10 (0.70%) .NET
7 8 (0.56%) JMS
7 8 (0.56%) RESTful
7 8 (0.56%) XSD
8 7 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
9 6 (0.42%) Node.js
10 5 (0.35%) ADO
10 5 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (0.35%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.35%) YAML
11 4 (0.28%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.28%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.90%) Onboarding
2 65 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 44 (3.08%) Data Centre
4 42 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.66%) PMI
6 35 (2.45%) Virtual Team
7 33 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 21 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.19%) NHS
11 14 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 12 (0.84%) Driving Licence
12 12 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (0.77%) CMDB
13 11 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.77%) Life Science
14 10 (0.70%) Derivative
14 10 (0.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 75 (5.25%) Windows
2 36 (2.52%) Linux
3 34 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.19%) Unix
5 14 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.42%) Solaris
8 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.35%) OpenVMS
8 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.14%) zOS
11 1 (0.070%) Android
11 1 (0.070%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.070%) pSOS
11 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (36.39%) Agile
2 470 (32.89%) Project Management
3 448 (31.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 253 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
5 250 (17.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 219 (15.33%) Change Management
7 207 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 192 (13.44%) Migration
9 189 (13.23%) PRINCE2
10 168 (11.76%) Waterfall
11 141 (9.87%) Roadmaps
12 136 (9.52%) Risk Management
13 134 (9.38%) ITIL
14 129 (9.03%) Scrum
15 127 (8.89%) Decision-Making
16 122 (8.54%) DevOps
16 122 (8.54%) ERP
17 121 (8.47%) Project Governance
18 113 (7.91%) Workshop Facilitation
19 106 (7.42%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (5.18%) SQL
2 67 (4.69%) Python
3 41 (2.87%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.54%) Bash
5 21 (1.47%) Java
6 7 (0.49%) C#
7 6 (0.42%) ABAP
7 6 (0.42%) C++
7 6 (0.42%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.42%) Perl
7 6 (0.42%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.21%) VBA
9 2 (0.14%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.14%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.14%) COBOL
9 2 (0.14%) HLASM
9 2 (0.14%) JCL
9 2 (0.14%) PHP
9 2 (0.14%) REXX
9 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 225 (15.75%) Degree
2 215 (15.05%) Security Cleared
3 158 (11.06%) SC Cleared
4 113 (7.91%) PMI Certification
5 106 (7.42%) PMP
6 42 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.33%) APMP
11 19 (1.33%) CCNP
12 16 (1.12%) CBAP
12 16 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 14 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.84%) CCNA
15 9 (0.63%) CISSP
15 9 (0.63%) SAP Certification
16 7 (0.49%) ACCA
16 7 (0.49%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (7.98%) PMO
2 77 (5.39%) QA
3 35 (2.45%) GDPR
4 31 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.03%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 18 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.19%) NIST
9 16 (1.12%) SLA
10 12 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.77%) PSD2
12 10 (0.70%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.70%) NCSC
13 8 (0.56%) COBIT
13 8 (0.56%) MiFID
14 7 (0.49%) P3O
15 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.42%) EMIR
15 6 (0.42%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 41 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.77%) Docker
4 10 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.28%) NFS
8 4 (0.28%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.28%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.28%) vSphere
9 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.070%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.070%) RACF
11 1 (0.070%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (1.89%) Ansible
2 19 (1.33%) Terraform
3 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.98%) SCCM
5 10 (0.70%) Kubernetes
6 9 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.35%) Grafana
8 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.35%) QRadar
9 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.14%) CEMLI
11 2 (0.14%) Nagios
11 2 (0.14%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 252 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 125 (8.75%) SAP
3 91 (6.37%) Oracle
4 66 (4.62%) ServiceNow
5 59 (4.13%) Cisco
6 44 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 37 (2.59%) VMware
8 27 (1.89%) Workday
9 20 (1.40%) IBM
10 17 (1.19%) Citrix
11 16 (1.12%) Red Hat
12 15 (1.05%) Ariba
12 15 (1.05%) Google
13 14 (0.98%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.98%) F5
13 14 (0.98%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.84%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.70%) Blue Prism
15 10 (0.70%) Databricks
15 10 (0.70%) SolarWinds