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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 59 54
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,110 1,321 1,418
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.94% 4.03% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.45% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 853 870
10th Percentile £325 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £620 £609 £634
90th Percentile £708 £724 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £525
% change year-on-year +0.81% -5.52% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 24 42
10th Percentile £22.52 £15.91 £22.55
25th Percentile £34.87 £29.88 £28.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +40.45% -35.27%
75th Percentile £76.75 £71.68 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £81.38 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +7.27% +34.34% -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 45,377 29,691 33,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.71% 90.48% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,881 18,495 21,183
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,839 1,731 1,775
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.38 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% +0.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £42.50
% change year-on-year +88.67% -45.18% +18.88%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +8 1,818 £525 - 1,892
UK excluding London -5 1,147 £500 +0.81% 1,502
London +7 794 £550 -4.35% 754
Work from Home +4 622 £500 -2.91% 908
South East -7 297 £525 -2.33% 399
North of England +4 286 £495 +4.21% 352
North West +12 192 £500 +5.26% 206
South West -4 173 £500 +3.09% 199
Midlands -24 165 £475 +4.11% 228
Scotland +13 132 £444 -1.39% 146
West Midlands -22 125 £475 -7.77% 156
Yorkshire -24 73 £485 +4.86% 97
East of England 0 63 £500 -4.76% 122
East Midlands -22 36 £407 -5.07% 72
Wales -3 25 £525 +76.47% 37
North East -18 22 £350 - 58
Northern Ireland +8 16 £388 -18.42% 52
Channel Islands - 2 £550 - 1

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
1 120 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 113 (5.36%) Confluence
3 42 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
5 6 (0.28%) SAS
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.19%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
8 3 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.095%) Camunda
9 2 (0.095%) CICS
9 2 (0.095%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.047%) MTS
Applications
1 163 (7.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (5.69%) Microsoft Project
3 100 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
4 93 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.61%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.76%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.52%) Trello
9 8 (0.38%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.24%) ProjectWise
12 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.095%) Houdini
13 2 (0.095%) NUKE
14 1 (0.047%) CATIA
14 1 (0.047%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.09%) Teamcenter
3 18 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.71%) Primavera
5 10 (0.47%) Maximo
5 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.38%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.28%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 324 (15.36%) Azure
2 139 (6.59%) AWS
3 128 (6.07%) Power Platform
4 121 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
6 82 (3.89%) SaaS
7 72 (3.41%) Entra ID
8 46 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (2.09%) GCP
10 29 (1.37%) PowerApps
11 28 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.28%) GitHub
13 26 (1.23%) Google Workspace
13 26 (1.23%) Power Automate
14 25 (1.18%) IaaS
14 25 (1.18%) OCI
15 23 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
16 20 (0.95%) OneDrive
17 16 (0.76%) PaaS
18 13 (0.62%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 134 (6.35%) Firewall
2 90 (4.27%) DNS
3 78 (3.70%) WAN
4 71 (3.36%) LAN
5 69 (3.27%) Network Security
6 67 (3.18%) VPN
7 50 (2.37%) MPLS
8 45 (2.13%) BGP
9 44 (2.09%) DHCP
10 41 (1.94%) Wireless
11 36 (1.71%) VLAN
12 34 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (1.56%) OSPF
14 31 (1.47%) TCP/IP
15 25 (1.18%) SD-WAN
16 24 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 17 (0.81%) SSL
18 15 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
19 14 (0.66%) IPsec
20 13 (0.62%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (4.88%) Power BI
2 41 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.76%) Metadata
5 14 (0.66%) Tableau
6 11 (0.52%) Big Data
6 11 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.43%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.38%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 7 (0.33%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.24%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 229 (10.85%) JIRA
2 24 (1.14%) Git
3 14 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.52%) GitLab
5 9 (0.43%) Selenium
6 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.24%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) MSI
8 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.095%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.095%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.095%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.095%) TestNG
11 1 (0.047%) Postman
11 1 (0.047%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 874 (41.42%) Social Skills
2 661 (31.33%) Finance
3 286 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 225 (10.66%) Public Sector
5 151 (7.16%) Organisational Skills
6 120 (5.69%) Banking
7 104 (4.93%) Retail
8 100 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
9 92 (4.36%) Legal
10 90 (4.27%) Telecoms
11 66 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 64 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
13 61 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.94%) Local Government
15 36 (1.71%) Military
16 32 (1.52%) Marketing
17 25 (1.18%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.18%) Front Office
17 25 (1.18%) Law
18 24 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 501 (23.74%) Project Manager
2 243 (11.52%) Analyst
3 226 (10.71%) Senior
4 196 (9.29%) Lead
5 135 (6.40%) Business Analyst
6 132 (6.26%) Consultant
7 131 (6.21%) Architect
8 97 (4.60%) Senior Manager
9 93 (4.41%) Network Engineer
10 84 (3.98%) IT Manager
11 80 (3.79%) Senior Project Manager
12 79 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
13 61 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 60 (2.84%) Developer
15 57 (2.70%) IT Project Manager
16 49 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (1.90%) Technical Manager
18 38 (1.80%) Infrastructure Manager
18 38 (1.80%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 38 (1.80%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (1.75%) REST
2 30 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
3 25 (1.18%) Middleware
4 17 (0.81%) .NET
5 15 (0.71%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.57%) React
6 12 (0.57%) XML
7 11 (0.52%) OAuth
7 11 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
7 11 (0.52%) Web Services
8 10 (0.47%) ADO
8 10 (0.47%) JSON
9 9 (0.43%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.38%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.38%) LDAP
10 8 (0.38%) SOAP
11 7 (0.33%) Kafka
11 7 (0.33%) PySpark
11 7 (0.33%) RESTful
11 7 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 108 (5.12%) Onboarding
2 106 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 88 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 87 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 35 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 34 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.61%) Operational Technology
9 33 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.37%) Driving Licence
13 27 (1.28%) PKI
14 24 (1.14%) Public Cloud
15 21 (1.00%) Clustering
15 21 (1.00%) Derivative
16 20 (0.95%) Replication
17 19 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 19 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 143 (6.78%) Windows
2 72 (3.41%) Linux
3 66 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.28%) Unix
5 14 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.47%) AIX
6 10 (0.47%) Solaris
7 6 (0.28%) Android
7 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.19%) zOS
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.095%) CentOS
11 2 (0.095%) Debian
11 2 (0.095%) VMS
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (39.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 648 (30.71%) Agile
3 571 (27.06%) Project Management
4 390 (18.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 371 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 351 (16.64%) Migration
7 322 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
8 311 (14.74%) Change Management
9 276 (13.08%) PRINCE2
10 234 (11.09%) Decision-Making
11 226 (10.71%) Waterfall
12 193 (9.15%) Risk Management
13 192 (9.10%) ITIL
14 183 (8.67%) DevOps
15 180 (8.53%) AI
15 180 (8.53%) Roadmaps
16 165 (7.82%) Workshop Facilitation
17 158 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
17 158 (7.49%) User Acceptance Testing
18 150 (7.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 113 (5.36%) SQL
2 102 (4.83%) Python
3 71 (3.36%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.23%) Java
5 25 (1.18%) Bash
6 18 (0.85%) C#
7 17 (0.81%) VBA
8 16 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.43%) ABAP
10 8 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.28%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.24%) Korn
14 4 (0.19%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.19%) Bicep
14 4 (0.19%) Go
15 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.14%) C++
16 2 (0.095%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 471 (22.32%) Security Cleared
2 339 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 206 (9.76%) Degree
4 164 (7.77%) PMP
5 143 (6.78%) PMI Certification
6 115 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 73 (3.46%) Cisco Certification
8 46 (2.18%) CCNP
8 46 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 44 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 40 (1.90%) CCNA
11 34 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 34 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 29 (1.37%) CISSP
13 19 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.85%) MCSE
15 17 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
17 15 (0.71%) CISM
18 14 (0.66%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (11.18%) PMO
2 90 (4.27%) QA
3 61 (2.89%) NIST
4 58 (2.75%) GDPR
5 57 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (2.23%) Data Quality
7 34 (1.61%) SLA
8 20 (0.95%) GRC
9 13 (0.62%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.52%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.38%) NCSC
15 7 (0.33%) P3O
16 6 (0.28%) GxP
16 6 (0.28%) IFRS
17 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
17 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 114 (5.40%) Active Directory
2 72 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 22 (1.04%) Docker
5 20 (0.95%) vSphere
6 17 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.66%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.52%) Firmware
9 11 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
10 4 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.095%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.047%) ACF2
13 1 (0.047%) KVM
13 1 (0.047%) oVirt
13 1 (0.047%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 54 (2.56%) Ansible
2 49 (2.32%) Terraform
3 33 (1.56%) Kubernetes
4 31 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.09%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.95%) SCCM
7 16 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.71%) vCenter Server
9 10 (0.47%) Puppet
9 10 (0.47%) SCOM
10 9 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
11 8 (0.38%) Nagios
11 8 (0.38%) NetBackup
12 7 (0.33%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.24%) Netcool
14 5 (0.24%) Tivoli
15 4 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 460 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 143 (6.78%) SAP
3 142 (6.73%) Cisco
4 120 (5.69%) ServiceNow
5 99 (4.69%) Oracle
6 97 (4.60%) VMware
7 52 (2.46%) Palo Alto
8 47 (2.23%) Fortinet
9 42 (1.99%) Google
9 42 (1.99%) Salesforce
10 40 (1.90%) F5
11 29 (1.37%) Juniper
12 28 (1.33%) SolarWinds
13 26 (1.23%) Workday
14 23 (1.09%) IBM
15 22 (1.04%) Splunk
16 21 (1.00%) Zscaler
17 20 (0.95%) CyberArk
17 20 (0.95%) Siemens
18 19 (0.90%) NEC