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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 60 53
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,002 1,256 1,582
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.80% 3.86% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.27% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,358 791 992
10th Percentile £326 £325 £359
25th Percentile £413 £419 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.33%
75th Percentile £613 £636 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £513
% change year-on-year +1.63% -4.00% +0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 19 44
10th Percentile £19.89 £30.05 £20.98
25th Percentile £33.46 £48.50 £26.57
Median hourly rate £51.50 £60.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +46.56% -36.03%
75th Percentile £81.38 £77.50 £55.79
90th Percentile £89.23 £83.00 £67.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £70.16 £40.94
% change year-on-year -15.91% +71.37% -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 44,805 29,397 36,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.38% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,846 18,489 23,062
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,636 1,550 2,325
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.65 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.75 £70.00 £73.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.18% -4.70%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +9 1,740 £515 -1.90% 837
UK excluding London +6 1,111 £500 +1.63% 681
London -1 735 £546 -4.53% 277
Work from Home +4 578 £513 -0.49% 380
South East +6 291 £525 - 217
North of England +8 274 £485 +2.11% 180
North West +20 183 £483 +1.68% 96
Midlands -18 175 £481 -6.05% 107
South West +8 168 £485 -1.52% 88
West Midlands -19 139 £481 -8.38% 65
Scotland +3 114 £450 -4.26% 36
Yorkshire -22 73 £500 - 58
East of England +4 62 £500 +25.00% 50
East Midlands -17 34 £402 -10.07% 42
Wales +1 23 £500 +73.91% 15
North East -22 20 £350 -3.45% 27
Northern Ireland +2 14 £334 -36.38% 4
Channel Islands +2 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
1 107 (5.34%) SharePoint
2 103 (5.14%) Confluence
3 36 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.35%) CMS
5 6 (0.30%) SAS
6 5 (0.25%) Apache
7 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.15%) Appian
8 3 (0.15%) Camunda
8 3 (0.15%) CICS
8 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
8 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.15%) WordPress
9 2 (0.100%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.100%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.100%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 159 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (5.69%) Microsoft Project
3 96 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 92 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
5 35 (1.75%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.90%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.30%) Trello
10 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.15%) Revit
11 2 (0.100%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.100%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.100%) Houdini
11 2 (0.100%) NUKE
12 1 (0.050%) CATIA
12 1 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 48 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.20%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.60%) Primavera
4 10 (0.50%) Maximo
5 8 (0.40%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.40%) SAP SD
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.30%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 6 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
6 6 (0.30%) Summit
7 5 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.25%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 266 (13.29%) Azure
2 123 (6.14%) AWS
3 106 (5.29%) Power Platform
4 100 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 77 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (3.55%) SaaS
7 57 (2.85%) Entra ID
8 38 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
9 35 (1.75%) GCP
10 26 (1.30%) GitHub
11 25 (1.25%) Google Workspace
11 25 (1.25%) IaaS
12 24 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
14 19 (0.95%) PowerApps
15 16 (0.80%) OCI
15 16 (0.80%) Power Automate
16 15 (0.75%) Serverless
17 14 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (0.70%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 122 (6.09%) Firewall
2 86 (4.30%) DNS
3 67 (3.35%) WAN
4 61 (3.05%) LAN
5 57 (2.85%) VPN
6 55 (2.75%) Network Security
7 43 (2.15%) BGP
7 43 (2.15%) MPLS
8 35 (1.75%) DHCP
9 34 (1.70%) VLAN
9 34 (1.70%) Wireless
10 32 (1.60%) OSPF
11 30 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 30 (1.50%) TCP/IP
12 29 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
13 24 (1.20%) SD-WAN
14 16 (0.80%) IPsec
14 16 (0.80%) SSL
15 15 (0.75%) BIG-IP
15 15 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.15%) Power BI
2 43 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
5 14 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (0.70%) Tableau
6 13 (0.65%) Metadata
7 10 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.45%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.45%) SAP HANA
9 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.25%) Big Data
12 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.15%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 208 (10.39%) JIRA
2 29 (1.45%) Git
3 14 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.60%) GitLab
5 9 (0.45%) Selenium
6 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.25%) Subversion
8 3 (0.15%) Appium
8 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.15%) JMeter
8 3 (0.15%) MSTest
8 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.100%) Hudson
9 2 (0.100%) MSI
9 2 (0.100%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.100%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.050%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.050%) TestComplete
10 1 (0.050%) TestNG
General
1 812 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 634 (31.67%) Finance
3 264 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.34%) Organisational Skills
6 106 (5.29%) Retail
7 104 (5.19%) Banking
8 90 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
9 89 (4.45%) Legal
10 71 (3.55%) Telecoms
11 61 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (2.85%) Manufacturing
14 40 (2.00%) Local Government
15 32 (1.60%) Marketing
16 30 (1.50%) Military
17 24 (1.20%) Investment Banking
18 20 (1.00%) Financial Institution
18 20 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
19 18 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 487 (24.33%) Project Manager
2 234 (11.69%) Analyst
3 216 (10.79%) Senior
4 192 (9.59%) Lead
5 117 (5.84%) Business Analyst
6 112 (5.59%) Architect
7 103 (5.14%) Senior Manager
8 92 (4.60%) Consultant
9 86 (4.30%) Delivery Manager
10 84 (4.20%) Senior Project Manager
11 83 (4.15%) Network Engineer
12 82 (4.10%) IT Manager
13 57 (2.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 56 (2.80%) Developer
14 56 (2.80%) IT Project Manager
15 42 (2.10%) Technical Manager
16 41 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (1.90%) Project Officer
17 38 (1.90%) Service Manager
18 36 (1.80%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (1.80%) Middleware
2 35 (1.75%) REST
3 22 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.80%) .NET
5 15 (0.75%) XML
6 13 (0.65%) 802.1X
6 13 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
6 13 (0.65%) Web Services
7 12 (0.60%) OAuth
8 11 (0.55%) ADO
8 11 (0.55%) JSON
9 9 (0.45%) React
9 9 (0.45%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.40%) RESTful
10 8 (0.40%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.40%) SOAP
10 8 (0.40%) Spring
11 7 (0.35%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.30%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.30%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 104 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 94 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 81 (4.05%) Data Centre
4 76 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 43 (2.15%) Virtual Team
6 34 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 33 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 31 (1.55%) Operational Technology
8 31 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.45%) Cloud Native
10 26 (1.30%) Replication
11 25 (1.25%) Clustering
12 24 (1.20%) PKI
13 23 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (1.10%) Data Structures
15 20 (1.00%) Driving Licence
15 20 (1.00%) PMI
16 18 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 121 (6.04%) Windows
2 55 (2.75%) Windows Server
3 50 (2.50%) Linux
4 26 (1.30%) Unix
5 9 (0.45%) AIX
5 9 (0.45%) Solaris
6 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.35%) zOS
7 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.100%) Android
9 2 (0.100%) Debian
9 2 (0.100%) VMS
9 2 (0.100%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.050%) pSOS
10 1 (0.050%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (35.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 619 (30.92%) Agile
3 545 (27.22%) Project Management
4 341 (17.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 335 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 322 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
7 314 (15.68%) Migration
8 290 (14.49%) Change Management
9 248 (12.39%) PRINCE2
10 222 (11.09%) Decision-Making
11 212 (10.59%) Waterfall
12 171 (8.54%) ITIL
13 165 (8.24%) AI
13 165 (8.24%) DevOps
14 164 (8.19%) Roadmaps
15 161 (8.04%) Risk Management
16 135 (6.74%) Scrum
17 132 (6.59%) ERP
18 130 (6.49%) Workshop Facilitation
19 127 (6.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 110 (5.49%) SQL
2 96 (4.80%) Python
3 66 (3.30%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.10%) Java
5 21 (1.05%) C#
6 18 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.85%) Bash
8 14 (0.70%) VBA
9 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.40%) ABAP
10 8 (0.40%) Go
10 8 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.35%) Bicep
12 6 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.30%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.20%) C++
14 4 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 429 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 306 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 202 (10.09%) Degree
4 162 (8.09%) PMP
5 132 (6.59%) PMI Certification
6 112 (5.59%) DV Cleared
7 66 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 43 (2.15%) CCNP
10 40 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.90%) CCNA
12 32 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 25 (1.25%) Azure Certification
13 25 (1.25%) CISSP
14 20 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
14 20 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (0.95%) MCSE
16 15 (0.75%) MCSA
17 14 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
18 13 (0.65%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (11.24%) PMO
2 100 (5.00%) QA
3 51 (2.55%) NIST
4 49 (2.45%) GDPR
5 48 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.10%) Data Quality
7 31 (1.55%) SLA
8 17 (0.85%) GRC
9 12 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.45%) NCSC
12 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.35%) HL7
14 6 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
15 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.25%) GxP
15 5 (0.25%) IFRS
15 5 (0.25%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 96 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 55 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.15%) vSphere
4 22 (1.10%) Docker
5 20 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (0.95%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.55%) Firmware
8 11 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.55%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.15%) Squid
11 2 (0.100%) Ceph
11 2 (0.100%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.050%) ACF2
12 1 (0.050%) KVM
12 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.050%) RACF
12 1 (0.050%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 50 (2.50%) Ansible
2 46 (2.30%) Terraform
3 26 (1.30%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.15%) FortiGate
6 20 (1.00%) SCCM
7 17 (0.85%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.40%) Nagios
10 7 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.35%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.30%) SCOM
12 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.25%) Netcool
12 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.20%) Nessus
13 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.15%) Grafana
14 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 393 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.79%) SAP
3 116 (5.79%) Cisco
4 113 (5.64%) ServiceNow
5 88 (4.40%) Oracle
6 72 (3.60%) VMware
7 50 (2.50%) Palo Alto
8 48 (2.40%) F5
9 44 (2.20%) Fortinet
10 37 (1.85%) Salesforce
11 36 (1.80%) Google
12 29 (1.45%) SolarWinds
13 28 (1.40%) Juniper
14 24 (1.20%) IBM
15 20 (1.00%) Workday
16 19 (0.95%) Zscaler
17 18 (0.90%) NEC
17 18 (0.90%) Siemens
18 17 (0.85%) Infoblox
19 16 (0.80%) Splunk