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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 53 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,542 1,226 1,809
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.06% 3.88% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 4.36% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 691 1,202
10th Percentile £327 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £439 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -1.62% -2.05%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £521 £500
% change year-on-year -6.39% +4.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 34 28
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.73 £20.98
25th Percentile £17.25 £22.90 £25.75
Median hourly rate £40.44 £32.50 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year +24.42% -28.96% -23.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.01 £63.69
90th Percentile £66.74 £65.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £34.75 £41.50
% change year-on-year +6.47% -16.27% -36.15%

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 33,264 28,130 38,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.54% 88.98% 87.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,071 17,089 25,387
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,016 886 1,898
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.91
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.96 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -10.76% +16.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.82 £74.93 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.41 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.08% -18.91% +44.23%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -5 1,345 £523 -2.34% 765
UK excluding London -2 792 £488 -6.39% 720
London +7 628 £550 - 185
Work from Home 0 438 £525 -2.78% 364
North of England +8 222 £478 -5.26% 134
South East -4 193 £535 -4.89% 256
Midlands -5 161 £465 -7.88% 126
North West +13 140 £475 -3.06% 75
West Midlands -26 89 £520 -8.29% 73
Scotland -16 82 £450 -1.32% 32
South West -2 78 £538 +7.39% 79
East Midlands +8 73 £435 -3.33% 53
Yorkshire -16 71 £500 -14.75% 41
East of England -4 36 £538 +7.50% 77
Wales +2 19 £308 -42.12% 25
Northern Ireland -1 14 £475 -13.64% 6
North East -10 12 £290 -49.34% 20

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
1 122 (7.91%) Confluence
2 65 (4.22%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.32%) CMS
5 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.19%) CICS
5 3 (0.19%) MS Project Server
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.13%) Appian
6 2 (0.13%) Camunda
6 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.065%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.065%) Apache
7 1 (0.065%) IIS
7 1 (0.065%) Moodle
7 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 146 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (6.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 99 (6.42%) Microsoft Project
5 37 (2.40%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.91%) Trello
7 8 (0.52%) Siemens NX
8 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.13%) InDesign
10 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.065%) Revit
11 1 (0.065%) Sketch
11 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 50 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.71%) Endur
3 11 (0.71%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.65%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
5 9 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
6 8 (0.52%) Loan IQ
7 7 (0.45%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.45%) SAP IBP
7 7 (0.45%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.39%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
9 5 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.32%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 196 (12.71%) Azure
2 75 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 63 (4.09%) AWS
5 55 (3.57%) SaaS
6 45 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
8 32 (2.08%) GCP
9 25 (1.62%) GitHub
10 21 (1.36%) Entra ID
11 17 (1.10%) OCI
12 13 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (0.84%) IaaS
13 12 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (0.71%) OpenShift
15 8 (0.52%) PaaS
16 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
17 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 73 (4.73%) Firewall
2 41 (2.66%) WAN
3 36 (2.33%) LAN
4 33 (2.14%) DNS
5 27 (1.75%) Network Security
6 21 (1.36%) BGP
6 21 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.23%) OSPF
7 19 (1.23%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.04%) VPN
9 15 (0.97%) MPLS
9 15 (0.97%) Wireless
10 14 (0.91%) NetScaler
11 13 (0.84%) VLAN
12 11 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (0.71%) DHCP
12 11 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
13 10 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (0.65%) SAN
14 9 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.57%) Power BI
2 28 (1.82%) Tableau
3 19 (1.23%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (0.58%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.52%) Metadata
8 7 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.32%) GIS
10 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.26%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.19%) DB2
11 3 (0.19%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.13%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 203 (13.16%) JIRA
2 23 (1.49%) Git
3 16 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.58%) GitLab
5 7 (0.45%) Subversion
6 6 (0.39%) Selenium
7 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
8 4 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.19%) Appium
9 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.13%) JMeter
10 2 (0.13%) MSTest
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
10 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 656 (42.54%) Social Skills
2 483 (31.32%) Finance
3 197 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 138 (8.95%) Banking
6 92 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
8 49 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
9 47 (3.05%) Retail
10 46 (2.98%) Manufacturing
11 42 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
12 40 (2.59%) Telecoms
13 37 (2.40%) Legal
14 28 (1.82%) Front Office
15 26 (1.69%) Marketing
16 19 (1.23%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.17%) Law
18 17 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 17 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
19 15 (0.97%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 420 (27.24%) Project Manager
2 203 (13.16%) Analyst
3 173 (11.22%) Lead
4 152 (9.86%) Business Analyst
5 129 (8.37%) Senior
6 92 (5.97%) Architect
7 81 (5.25%) Consultant
8 58 (3.76%) Delivery Manager
9 56 (3.63%) IT Manager
10 55 (3.57%) Senior Manager
11 49 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
12 45 (2.92%) Technical Manager
13 42 (2.72%) Programme Manager
13 42 (2.72%) Senior Project Manager
14 40 (2.59%) IT Project Manager
14 40 (2.59%) Network Engineer
15 34 (2.20%) SAP Manager
16 30 (1.95%) Technical Project Manager
17 28 (1.82%) Administrator
18 26 (1.69%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
1 24 (1.56%) REST
2 20 (1.30%) Middleware
3 12 (0.78%) Web Services
3 12 (0.78%) XML
4 10 (0.65%) React
4 10 (0.65%) SOAP
5 8 (0.52%) HTML
6 7 (0.45%) .NET
6 7 (0.45%) ADO
6 7 (0.45%) AngularJS
6 7 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (0.39%) CSS
7 6 (0.39%) RESTful
7 6 (0.39%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.39%) ZK
8 5 (0.32%) Node.js
8 5 (0.32%) YAML
9 4 (0.26%) OAuth
9 4 (0.26%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.64%) Product Ownership
2 77 (4.99%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 46 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 39 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (2.46%) PMI
7 34 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 30 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (1.62%) NHS
10 20 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.23%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.04%) Replication
13 15 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (0.84%) Life Science
15 12 (0.78%) Cloud Native
15 12 (0.78%) Clustering
15 12 (0.78%) Data Structures
15 12 (0.78%) Driving Licence
15 12 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.97%) Windows
2 43 (2.79%) Windows Server
3 34 (2.20%) Linux
4 20 (1.30%) Unix
5 19 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.78%) Solaris
8 11 (0.71%) VMS
9 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.32%) OpenVMS
12 3 (0.19%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.19%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.19%) zOS
13 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.065%) Android
14 1 (0.065%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (34.89%) Agile
2 490 (31.78%) Project Management
3 476 (30.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 280 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
5 236 (15.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 222 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 216 (14.01%) Migration
8 202 (13.10%) PRINCE2
9 195 (12.65%) Change Management
10 168 (10.89%) Waterfall
11 164 (10.64%) DevOps
12 144 (9.34%) Scrum
13 129 (8.37%) Decision-Making
14 128 (8.30%) Risk Management
15 126 (8.17%) ITIL
16 121 (7.85%) Project Governance
16 121 (7.85%) Roadmaps
17 120 (7.78%) ERP
18 119 (7.72%) Workshop Facilitation
19 116 (7.52%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 75 (4.86%) Python
2 73 (4.73%) SQL
3 45 (2.92%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.69%) Java
5 24 (1.56%) Bash
6 12 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.65%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.45%) C#
9 6 (0.39%) Perl
10 4 (0.26%) ABAP
10 4 (0.26%) C++
11 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
11 3 (0.19%) COBOL
11 3 (0.19%) Go
11 3 (0.19%) HLASM
11 3 (0.19%) JCL
11 3 (0.19%) REXX
12 2 (0.13%) PHP
12 2 (0.13%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 272 (17.64%) Security Cleared
2 228 (14.79%) Degree
3 194 (12.58%) SC Cleared
4 126 (8.17%) PMP
5 125 (8.11%) PMI Certification
6 60 (3.89%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.59%) Master's Degree
8 37 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.01%) CCNP
11 28 (1.82%) APMP
12 22 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (1.36%) CCNA
14 20 (1.30%) CBAP
15 18 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 15 (0.97%) CISSP
17 14 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
18 12 (0.78%) CISM
18 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
19 11 (0.71%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (8.75%) PMO
2 96 (6.23%) QA
3 37 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (2.33%) GDPR
5 31 (2.01%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.75%) NIST
7 18 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (1.10%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.91%) SLA
10 13 (0.84%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.78%) PSD2
12 11 (0.71%) NCSC
13 10 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.52%) MiFID
14 8 (0.52%) P3O
15 7 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
16 6 (0.39%) GRC
16 6 (0.39%) ISO 8583
17 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 44 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.10%) Docker
4 15 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 15 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.84%) vSphere
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) NFS
7 4 (0.26%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.065%) RACF
Systems Management
1 45 (2.92%) Ansible
2 28 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 28 (1.82%) Terraform
3 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (1.23%) SCCM
5 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.45%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.39%) Grafana
8 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.26%) QRadar
11 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
12 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.13%) Control-M
12 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 270 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 135 (8.75%) SAP
3 95 (6.16%) Oracle
4 78 (5.06%) Cisco
5 57 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 45 (2.92%) VMware
7 40 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.56%) Workday
10 22 (1.43%) Google
11 19 (1.23%) Citrix
12 16 (1.04%) Aruba
12 16 (1.04%) Red Hat
13 15 (0.97%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.97%) IBM
14 14 (0.91%) F5
15 13 (0.84%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.84%) CyberArk
15 13 (0.84%) Fortinet
16 11 (0.71%) Siemens