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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 58 50
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,896 1,204 1,603
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 3.98% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 4.37% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,292 751 1,014
10th Percentile £328 £340 £355
25th Percentile £415 £421 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £486 £513
% change year-on-year +0.26% -5.12% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 21 45
10th Percentile £17.02 £36.00 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.42 £50.76 £24.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £65.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +82.33% -40.58%
75th Percentile £72.32 £77.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.50 £66.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.77 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -35.74% +58.77% -34.50%

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 43,249 27,546 37,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 91.07% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,953 17,432 23,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -4.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,594 1,315 2,564
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.71 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.48% -35.31% +17.65%

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 June 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 June 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 26 June 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 +6 1,662 £515 -1.90% 863
UK excluding London +3 1,067 £488 +0.26% 754
London -2 693 £550 -4.93% 291
Work from Home -4 550 £515 -0.10% 399
North of England +11 277 £480 +6.67% 154
South East +10 264 £525 - 251
Midlands -16 188 £475 -7.23% 112
North West +26 185 £475 +4.11% 85
South West +9 151 £485 -9.77% 97
West Midlands -15 139 £478 -8.49% 64
Scotland -2 109 £463 +1.87% 35
Yorkshire -19 75 £500 +8.70% 50
East of England -4 58 £500 +11.73% 74
East Midlands -1 47 £402 -9.15% 48
North East -17 19 £350 -3.45% 22
Wales -3 18 £500 +80.56% 31
Northern Ireland +3 12 £334 -36.38% 27
Channel Islands +1 1 £550 +22.22%

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
1 109 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 106 (5.59%) Confluence
3 37 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.37%) CMS
5 6 (0.32%) SAS
6 5 (0.26%) Apache
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.21%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Camunda
8 3 (0.16%) CICS
8 3 (0.16%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.16%) Kentico
8 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.16%) WordPress
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 158 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (5.38%) Microsoft Project
3 101 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 90 (4.75%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.16%) Siemens NX
7 10 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.16%) Revit
9 3 (0.16%) Trello
10 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.053%) CATIA
11 1 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 41 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.37%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.47%) Primavera
5 8 (0.42%) Maximo
6 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
6 6 (0.32%) SAP SD
6 6 (0.32%) Summit
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.26%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 226 (11.92%) Azure
2 111 (5.85%) AWS
3 99 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 97 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (3.59%) SaaS
6 54 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (2.64%) Entra ID
8 34 (1.79%) GCP
9 30 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.32%) GitHub
11 23 (1.21%) Google Workspace
11 23 (1.21%) IaaS
12 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
13 17 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (0.84%) PowerApps
14 16 (0.84%) Serverless
15 14 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (0.74%) Amazon S3
15 14 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
16 13 (0.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.70%) Firewall
2 74 (3.90%) DNS
3 59 (3.11%) WAN
4 58 (3.06%) Network Security
5 54 (2.85%) LAN
6 46 (2.43%) VPN
7 34 (1.79%) MPLS
8 33 (1.74%) BGP
9 30 (1.58%) OSPF
10 28 (1.48%) DHCP
10 28 (1.48%) VLAN
11 27 (1.42%) Wireless
12 25 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 24 (1.27%) SD-WAN
14 23 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
15 21 (1.11%) TCP/IP
16 15 (0.79%) BIG-IP
16 15 (0.79%) SSL
17 14 (0.74%) IPsec
18 13 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (4.27%) Power BI
2 42 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.21%) Tableau
4 22 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.63%) Metadata
7 10 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.47%) SAP HANA
9 8 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.42%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.32%) Big Data
11 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.26%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.16%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 208 (10.97%) JIRA
2 23 (1.21%) Git
3 16 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.63%) GitLab
5 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.37%) Selenium
6 4 (0.21%) Appium
7 3 (0.16%) JMeter
7 3 (0.16%) MSTest
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.11%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.11%) Subversion
8 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 731 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 600 (31.65%) Finance
3 246 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (11.55%) Public Sector
5 142 (7.49%) Organisational Skills
6 109 (5.75%) Banking
7 94 (4.96%) Retail
8 82 (4.32%) Legal
9 78 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
10 68 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (3.11%) Telecoms
12 55 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (2.80%) Manufacturing
14 38 (2.00%) Local Government
15 29 (1.53%) Military
16 28 (1.48%) Marketing
17 22 (1.16%) Investment Banking
18 21 (1.11%) Financial Institution
19 18 (0.95%) Publishing
20 15 (0.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 467 (24.63%) Project Manager
2 225 (11.87%) Analyst
3 203 (10.71%) Lead
4 202 (10.65%) Senior
5 117 (6.17%) Business Analyst
6 101 (5.33%) Architect
7 96 (5.06%) Senior Manager
8 80 (4.22%) Consultant
8 80 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
9 77 (4.06%) Network Engineer
9 77 (4.06%) Senior Project Manager
10 75 (3.96%) IT Manager
11 52 (2.74%) Developer
11 52 (2.74%) IT Project Manager
12 49 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 44 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
14 40 (2.11%) Technical Manager
15 36 (1.90%) Project Officer
15 36 (1.90%) SC Cleared Project Manager
16 34 (1.79%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.06%) Middleware
2 29 (1.53%) REST
3 18 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.79%) XML
5 13 (0.69%) .NET
6 12 (0.63%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.63%) OAuth
7 11 (0.58%) JSON
8 10 (0.53%) ADO
9 9 (0.47%) React
9 9 (0.47%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
10 8 (0.42%) Spring
10 8 (0.42%) Web Services
11 7 (0.37%) RESTful
12 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.32%) PySpark
12 6 (0.32%) SailPoint
12 6 (0.32%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.27%) Management Information System
2 90 (4.75%) Onboarding
3 77 (4.06%) Data Centre
4 65 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 31 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 29 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 28 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.37%) Operational Technology
11 25 (1.32%) Clustering
12 24 (1.27%) PKI
12 24 (1.27%) Replication
13 23 (1.21%) Data Structures
14 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (0.84%) PMI
16 15 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 107 (5.64%) Windows
2 53 (2.80%) Windows Server
3 42 (2.22%) Linux
4 27 (1.42%) Unix
5 11 (0.58%) Solaris
6 8 (0.42%) AIX
7 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.37%) zOS
8 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.32%) VMS
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.11%) Android
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.053%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.053%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (32.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 575 (30.33%) Agile
3 532 (28.06%) Project Management
4 304 (16.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 299 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
6 297 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 294 (15.51%) Migration
8 246 (12.97%) Change Management
9 225 (11.87%) PRINCE2
10 203 (10.71%) Decision-Making
11 193 (10.18%) Waterfall
12 155 (8.18%) Risk Management
13 151 (7.96%) DevOps
14 148 (7.81%) ITIL
15 145 (7.65%) AI
16 140 (7.38%) Roadmaps
17 120 (6.33%) Cybersecurity
18 119 (6.28%) ERP
18 119 (6.28%) Scrum
19 117 (6.17%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.85%) SQL
2 86 (4.54%) Python
3 53 (2.80%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.16%) Java
5 21 (1.11%) C#
6 18 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.58%) Bash
8 10 (0.53%) VBA
9 8 (0.42%) Go
9 8 (0.42%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.37%) Bicep
11 6 (0.32%) ABAP
11 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.21%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.16%) C++
14 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 404 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 292 (15.40%) SC Cleared
3 195 (10.28%) Degree
4 159 (8.39%) PMP
5 124 (6.54%) PMI Certification
6 103 (5.43%) DV Cleared
7 62 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.32%) CCNP
9 38 (2.00%) CCNA
10 35 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.37%) CISSP
12 26 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 20 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 19 (1.00%) Azure Certification
14 19 (1.00%) MCSE
15 18 (0.95%) APMP
15 18 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
16 16 (0.84%) CISM
17 15 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (11.34%) PMO
2 101 (5.33%) QA
3 51 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (2.69%) NIST
4 49 (2.58%) GDPR
5 41 (2.16%) Data Quality
6 26 (1.37%) SLA
7 14 (0.74%) GRC
8 10 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.42%) NCSC
11 7 (0.37%) HL7
11 7 (0.37%) IFRS
11 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.26%) GAAP
System Software
1 85 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 48 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.11%) vSphere
4 20 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (1.00%) Docker
6 16 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.58%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.53%) Firmware
8 10 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.16%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.16%) Squid
11 2 (0.11%) Ceph
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.053%) ACF2
12 1 (0.053%) KVM
12 1 (0.053%) RACF
12 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 45 (2.37%) Ansible
2 43 (2.27%) Terraform
3 30 (1.58%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.00%) FortiGate
6 16 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 15 (0.79%) SCCM
8 13 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.37%) Nagios
9 7 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.26%) Netcool
10 5 (0.26%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.16%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (0.16%) Grafana
11 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 353 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 123 (6.49%) SAP
3 101 (5.33%) Cisco
4 100 (5.27%) ServiceNow
5 86 (4.54%) Oracle
6 65 (3.43%) VMware
7 51 (2.69%) Palo Alto
8 37 (1.95%) F5
8 37 (1.95%) Google
9 36 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 33 (1.74%) Fortinet
11 24 (1.27%) IBM
11 24 (1.27%) SolarWinds
12 22 (1.16%) Siemens
13 18 (0.95%) Juniper
14 17 (0.90%) CheckPoint
14 17 (0.90%) Infoblox
14 17 (0.90%) NEC
14 17 (0.90%) Workday
15 16 (0.84%) Aruba