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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,792 1,146 1,620
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 3.98% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.37% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 709 1,036
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £419 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 18 37
10th Percentile £16.20 £25.17 £20.98
25th Percentile £21.25 £38.56 £26.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £65.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -43.08% +82.33% -42.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £42.25
90th Percentile £85.60 £78.55 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £68.75 £40.94
% change year-on-year -46.18% +67.93% -37.02%

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 40,767 26,234 36,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 91.05% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,562 16,839 23,562
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.66% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,395 1,067 2,440
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.36 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.96 £18.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -21.82% +0.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.95 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 1,602 £511 -2.62% 950
UK excluding London +1 997 £483 -3.40% 723
London -2 668 £550 - 347
Work from Home -2 500 £525 +1.55% 438
North of England +30 295 £477 +0.42% 151
South East +1 229 £525 -1.64% 238
North West +28 193 £478 +0.53% 85
Midlands -13 191 £475 -7.23% 116
South West +14 139 £493 - 91
West Midlands -11 133 £475 -8.61% 82
Yorkshire +1 85 £500 - 44
Scotland -13 84 £475 +5.56% 45
East Midlands -8 57 £433 -3.24% 34
East of England -1 56 £500 +11.73% 56
North East -11 21 £350 -3.45% 25
Wales -5 15 £475 +46.15% 14
Northern Ireland -11 3 £225 -60.00% 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
1 105 (5.86%) Confluence
2 93 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.39%) CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.22%) Apache
6 4 (0.22%) CICS
6 4 (0.22%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.17%) Camunda
7 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.17%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.11%) IIS
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 147 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (5.75%) Microsoft Project
3 99 (5.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 87 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.40%) Siemens NX
7 8 (0.45%) Trello
8 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.22%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.056%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 40 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.62%) Teamcenter
3 11 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.50%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.39%) Primavera
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.33%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (0.28%) Maximo
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.28%) Shopify
7 5 (0.28%) Summit
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.22%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.17%) Endur
9 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 201 (11.22%) Azure
2 100 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
3 95 (5.30%) Power Platform
4 91 (5.08%) AWS
5 70 (3.91%) SaaS
6 46 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (2.01%) Entra ID
8 31 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.62%) GCP
10 23 (1.28%) Google Workspace
10 23 (1.28%) IaaS
11 22 (1.23%) GitHub
12 18 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (0.78%) PowerApps
15 12 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (0.67%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.67%) Serverless
16 11 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (5.58%) Firewall
2 61 (3.40%) DNS
3 46 (2.57%) Network Security
4 44 (2.46%) WAN
5 40 (2.23%) LAN
6 28 (1.56%) BGP
7 27 (1.51%) OSPF
8 25 (1.40%) VLAN
9 22 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 22 (1.23%) VPN
10 21 (1.17%) TCP/IP
11 19 (1.06%) MPLS
12 18 (1.00%) DHCP
12 18 (1.00%) SD-WAN
13 17 (0.95%) Wireless
14 14 (0.78%) BIG-IP
14 14 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
15 13 (0.73%) SAN
15 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
16 11 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.13%) Power BI
2 38 (2.12%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.56%) Tableau
4 24 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.78%) Metadata
8 7 (0.39%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.33%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.28%) Big Data
10 5 (0.28%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.17%) GIS
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 196 (10.94%) JIRA
2 18 (1.00%) Git
3 16 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.56%) GitLab
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.33%) Selenium
7 3 (0.17%) Appium
7 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.17%) JMeter
7 3 (0.17%) MSTest
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) TestRail
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.056%) Hudson
9 1 (0.056%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.056%) LSMW
9 1 (0.056%) NUnit
General
1 673 (37.56%) Social Skills
2 569 (31.75%) Finance
3 245 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (10.66%) Public Sector
5 132 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
6 124 (6.92%) Banking
7 80 (4.46%) Retail
8 73 (4.07%) Legal
9 67 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
10 62 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
11 52 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (2.57%) Telecoms
13 43 (2.40%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.62%) Marketing
15 28 (1.56%) Local Government
16 27 (1.51%) Military
17 22 (1.23%) Investment Banking
18 18 (1.00%) Financial Institution
18 18 (1.00%) Publishing
19 15 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 467 (26.06%) Project Manager
2 212 (11.83%) Analyst
3 188 (10.49%) Lead
4 178 (9.93%) Senior
5 130 (7.25%) Business Analyst
6 91 (5.08%) Architect
7 89 (4.97%) Senior Manager
8 81 (4.52%) Consultant
9 76 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
10 70 (3.91%) Senior Project Manager
11 68 (3.79%) IT Manager
12 62 (3.46%) Network Engineer
13 50 (2.79%) IT Project Manager
14 48 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (2.51%) Developer
16 41 (2.29%) Technical Manager
17 38 (2.12%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 37 (2.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 34 (1.90%) Programme Manager
20 32 (1.79%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.12%) Middleware
2 26 (1.45%) REST
3 18 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.95%) XML
5 13 (0.73%) .NET
6 12 (0.67%) ADO
7 10 (0.56%) JSON
7 10 (0.56%) OAuth
8 9 (0.50%) Spring Boot
8 9 (0.50%) Web Services
9 8 (0.45%) CSS
9 8 (0.45%) React
9 8 (0.45%) Spring
10 7 (0.39%) HTML
11 5 (0.28%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.28%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.28%) RESTful
11 5 (0.28%) SAP Basis
11 5 (0.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.25%) Management Information System
2 72 (4.02%) Data Centre
3 68 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 33 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
6 32 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (1.62%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.51%) Clustering
8 27 (1.51%) Replication
9 26 (1.45%) Public Cloud
10 21 (1.17%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.12%) Cloud Native
12 17 (0.95%) Operational Technology
13 16 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
13 16 (0.89%) NHS
13 16 (0.89%) PMI
14 15 (0.84%) Life Science
15 13 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 102 (5.69%) Windows
2 50 (2.79%) Windows Server
3 36 (2.01%) Linux
4 28 (1.56%) Unix
5 15 (0.84%) Solaris
6 10 (0.56%) VMS
6 10 (0.56%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.50%) zOS
8 8 (0.45%) AIX
8 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.22%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.22%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.056%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.056%) Android
13 1 (0.056%) CentOS
13 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (29.80%) Project Management
2 533 (29.74%) Agile
3 516 (28.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 287 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
5 280 (15.63%) Migration
6 262 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 254 (14.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 207 (11.55%) Change Management
8 207 (11.55%) PRINCE2
9 186 (10.38%) Decision-Making
10 183 (10.21%) Waterfall
11 150 (8.37%) DevOps
12 147 (8.20%) Risk Management
13 130 (7.25%) Roadmaps
14 123 (6.86%) Scrum
15 117 (6.53%) AI
15 117 (6.53%) ITIL
16 115 (6.42%) Workshop Facilitation
17 114 (6.36%) Project Governance
18 108 (6.03%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 93 (5.19%) SQL
2 76 (4.24%) Python
3 50 (2.79%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.23%) Java
5 20 (1.12%) C#
6 18 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.56%) Bash
8 8 (0.45%) Go
8 8 (0.45%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.39%) Bicep
9 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.39%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.33%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.28%) VBA
12 4 (0.22%) ABAP
12 4 (0.22%) COBOL
13 3 (0.17%) C++
13 3 (0.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 401 (22.38%) Security Cleared
2 296 (16.52%) SC Cleared
3 186 (10.38%) Degree
4 150 (8.37%) PMP
5 114 (6.36%) PMI Certification
6 91 (5.08%) DV Cleared
7 46 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (2.12%) CCNP
9 34 (1.90%) CCNA
10 32 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 32 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (1.17%) APMP
12 21 (1.17%) CISSP
13 20 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 20 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 17 (0.95%) MCSE
14 17 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 16 (0.89%) CISM
16 15 (0.84%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (11.16%) PMO
2 98 (5.47%) QA
3 47 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (2.57%) NIST
5 42 (2.34%) Data Quality
5 42 (2.34%) GDPR
6 21 (1.17%) SLA
7 13 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 13 (0.73%) GRC
8 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.45%) HL7
9 8 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.39%) IFRS
11 6 (0.33%) Basel III
11 6 (0.33%) NCSC
11 6 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 68 (3.79%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.28%) vSphere
4 19 (1.06%) Docker
5 17 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.84%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.39%) Firmware
10 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.11%) Squid
12 1 (0.056%) Ceph
12 1 (0.056%) KVM
12 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 43 (2.40%) Ansible
2 35 (1.95%) Terraform
3 28 (1.56%) Kubernetes
4 27 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.78%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.73%) SCCM
7 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.56%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.50%) Nagios
10 7 (0.39%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.28%) Netcool
11 5 (0.28%) Tivoli
12 3 (0.17%) Grafana
12 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.17%) Puppet
12 3 (0.17%) SCOM
13 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
13 2 (0.11%) Packer
13 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 315 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 131 (7.31%) SAP
3 82 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 81 (4.52%) Oracle
5 75 (4.19%) Cisco
6 52 (2.90%) VMware
7 45 (2.51%) Palo Alto
8 37 (2.06%) Google
8 37 (2.06%) Salesforce
9 32 (1.79%) F5
10 25 (1.40%) Siemens
11 22 (1.23%) IBM
12 20 (1.12%) CheckPoint
13 17 (0.95%) Fortinet
14 16 (0.89%) Aruba
14 16 (0.89%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.84%) SolarWinds
15 15 (0.84%) Workday
16 14 (0.78%) Citrix
16 14 (0.78%) NEC