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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 57 52
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,032 1,311 1,434
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.82% 3.96% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.38% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,372 844 886
10th Percentile £325 £321 £360
25th Percentile £413 £418 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.95%
75th Percentile £615 £618 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 23 43
10th Percentile £22.44 £17.97 £22.60
25th Percentile £35.37 £28.75 £27.88
Median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +34.34% -36.53%
75th Percentile £79.63 £73.21 £55.79
90th Percentile £91.10 £81.75 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +12.73% +34.34% -38.20%

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 45,145 29,940 33,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 90.42% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,873 18,766 21,491
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,664 1,872
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.63 £40.94
% change year-on-year +86.03% -42.28% +2.35%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +4 1,761 £520 -0.95% 1,442
UK excluding London -2 1,120 £500 - 1,060
London +1 757 £550 -5.38% 589
Work from Home +3 608 £500 -2.91% 706
South East -2 293 £525 -2.33% 306
North of England +5 275 £485 +2.11% 268
North West +10 185 £490 +3.16% 150
South West +8 175 £485 +3.52% 138
Midlands -26 163 £475 +1.60% 146
West Midlands -23 129 £475 -7.77% 93
Scotland +10 124 £450 -4.26% 70
Yorkshire -34 70 £500 - 78
East of England +13 61 £500 +5.26% 69
East Midlands -25 32 £407 -5.07% 53
Wales 0 25 £500 +80.56% 27
North East -20 21 £350 - 41
Northern Ireland +3 14 £334 -29.68% 58
Channel Islands - 1 £550 -

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
1 116 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 112 (5.51%) Confluence
3 39 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.34%) Apache
5 6 (0.30%) CMS
5 6 (0.30%) SAS
6 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.15%) Appian
8 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.15%) JBoss
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
8 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.15%) WordPress
9 2 (0.098%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.098%) Camunda
9 2 (0.098%) CICS
9 2 (0.098%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 151 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (5.61%) Microsoft Project
3 97 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
4 88 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.67%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.79%) Siemens NX
7 14 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.44%) Trello
9 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.30%) Navisworks
9 6 (0.30%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.15%) ProjectWise
12 2 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.098%) Houdini
12 2 (0.098%) NUKE
13 1 (0.049%) CATIA
13 1 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 46 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.08%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.64%) Primavera
5 10 (0.49%) Maximo
6 8 (0.39%) SAP SD
6 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.34%) SAP FI
8 6 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.30%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.30%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.25%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 4 (0.20%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 296 (14.57%) Azure
2 136 (6.69%) AWS
3 115 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 105 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 84 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (3.64%) SaaS
7 62 (3.05%) Entra ID
8 43 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
9 39 (1.92%) GCP
10 30 (1.48%) GitHub
11 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 26 (1.28%) Google Workspace
13 25 (1.23%) PowerApps
14 24 (1.18%) IaaS
15 23 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
16 22 (1.08%) OCI
16 22 (1.08%) Power Automate
17 18 (0.89%) OneDrive
18 15 (0.74%) Amazon S3
18 15 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 129 (6.35%) Firewall
2 90 (4.43%) DNS
3 74 (3.64%) WAN
4 68 (3.35%) LAN
5 64 (3.15%) Network Security
6 61 (3.00%) VPN
7 48 (2.36%) MPLS
8 45 (2.21%) BGP
9 41 (2.02%) DHCP
10 36 (1.77%) VLAN
11 34 (1.67%) OSPF
11 34 (1.67%) Wireless
12 32 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
13 31 (1.53%) TCP/IP
14 26 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 24 (1.18%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.79%) SSL
17 15 (0.74%) IPsec
18 14 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (4.28%) Power BI
2 48 (2.36%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.69%) Tableau
5 13 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (0.54%) Metadata
6 11 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.44%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.39%) Big Data
9 8 (0.39%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.34%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.25%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 218 (10.73%) JIRA
2 30 (1.48%) Git
3 16 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.69%) GitLab
5 9 (0.44%) Selenium
6 8 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.25%) Subversion
8 4 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.15%) Appium
9 3 (0.15%) JMeter
9 3 (0.15%) MSTest
9 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.098%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.098%) Hudson
10 2 (0.098%) MSI
10 2 (0.098%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.098%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.098%) TestNG
11 1 (0.049%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.049%) Postman
General
1 827 (40.70%) Social Skills
2 636 (31.30%) Finance
3 266 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 228 (11.22%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
6 106 (5.22%) Banking
7 100 (4.92%) Retail
8 96 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
9 91 (4.48%) Legal
10 81 (3.99%) Telecoms
11 62 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
12 54 (2.66%) Manufacturing
13 41 (2.02%) Local Government
14 34 (1.67%) Military
15 33 (1.62%) Marketing
16 24 (1.18%) Law
17 23 (1.13%) Investment Banking
18 22 (1.08%) Financial Institution
19 21 (1.03%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 480 (23.62%) Project Manager
2 228 (11.22%) Analyst
3 220 (10.83%) Senior
4 200 (9.84%) Lead
5 120 (5.91%) Business Analyst
6 117 (5.76%) Architect
7 114 (5.61%) Consultant
8 100 (4.92%) Senior Manager
9 90 (4.43%) Network Engineer
10 85 (4.18%) Delivery Manager
11 84 (4.13%) IT Manager
12 83 (4.08%) Senior Project Manager
13 61 (3.00%) Developer
14 60 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 57 (2.81%) IT Project Manager
16 44 (2.17%) Technical Manager
17 42 (2.07%) Project Officer
17 42 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
18 39 (1.92%) Infrastructure Manager
19 36 (1.77%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.57%) REST
2 29 (1.43%) Middleware
3 22 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.84%) .NET
5 13 (0.64%) 802.1X
5 13 (0.64%) XML
6 12 (0.59%) JSON
7 11 (0.54%) OAuth
7 11 (0.54%) React
7 11 (0.54%) SAP Fiori
8 10 (0.49%) ADO
8 10 (0.49%) Web Services
9 8 (0.39%) PySpark
9 8 (0.39%) SAP Basis
10 7 (0.34%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.34%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.34%) Kafka
10 7 (0.34%) Playwright
10 7 (0.34%) RESTful
10 7 (0.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 101 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 85 (4.18%) Data Centre
4 81 (3.99%) Product Ownership
5 40 (1.97%) Virtual Team
6 38 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (1.67%) Operational Technology
7 34 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (1.53%) Cloud Native
10 27 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 25 (1.23%) Driving Licence
12 25 (1.23%) PKI
13 23 (1.13%) Clustering
14 22 (1.08%) Replication
15 20 (0.98%) PMI
16 18 (0.89%) Data Structures
16 18 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (6.20%) Windows
2 62 (3.05%) Linux
3 59 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.28%) Unix
5 10 (0.49%) AIX
5 10 (0.49%) Solaris
6 8 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.34%) zOS
8 5 (0.25%) Android
8 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.098%) Debian
10 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.049%) CentOS
11 1 (0.049%) VMS
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (36.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 619 (30.46%) Agile
3 543 (26.72%) Project Management
4 360 (17.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 353 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 330 (16.24%) Migration
7 307 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
8 295 (14.52%) Change Management
9 258 (12.70%) PRINCE2
10 228 (11.22%) Decision-Making
11 212 (10.43%) Waterfall
12 180 (8.86%) ITIL
12 180 (8.86%) Risk Management
13 175 (8.61%) Roadmaps
14 173 (8.51%) DevOps
15 172 (8.46%) AI
16 141 (6.94%) User Acceptance Testing
16 141 (6.94%) Workshop Facilitation
17 139 (6.84%) Scrum
18 137 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 116 (5.71%) SQL
2 101 (4.97%) Python
3 65 (3.20%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.18%) Java
5 23 (1.13%) Bash
6 20 (0.98%) C#
7 17 (0.84%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.64%) VBA
9 10 (0.49%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.39%) ABAP
10 8 (0.39%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.34%) Bicep
11 7 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.25%) Korn
14 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.20%) C++
14 4 (0.20%) Go
14 4 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 465 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 336 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 198 (9.74%) Degree
4 155 (7.63%) PMP
5 135 (6.64%) PMI Certification
6 119 (5.86%) DV Cleared
7 70 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (2.21%) CCNP
9 43 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 43 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (2.02%) CCNA
11 32 (1.57%) Azure Certification
12 31 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 28 (1.38%) CISSP
14 19 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.89%) MCSE
16 17 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 16 (0.79%) CISM
18 14 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
19 13 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (11.12%) PMO
2 95 (4.68%) QA
3 57 (2.81%) NIST
4 55 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 54 (2.66%) GDPR
6 43 (2.12%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.72%) SLA
8 21 (1.03%) GRC
9 12 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.49%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.39%) NCSC
12 7 (0.34%) ISO 19650
13 6 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.30%) HL7
13 6 (0.30%) IFRS
13 6 (0.30%) P3O
13 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.25%) GxP
System Software
1 104 (5.12%) Active Directory
2 61 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.23%) Docker
4 24 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.89%) vSphere
6 17 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.54%) Firmware
8 11 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.20%) Squid
10 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.15%) Ceph
11 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.098%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.049%) ACF2
13 1 (0.049%) RACF
13 1 (0.049%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (2.56%) Terraform
2 50 (2.46%) Ansible
3 31 (1.53%) Kubernetes
4 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.08%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.98%) SCCM
7 14 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.69%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.44%) SCOM
9 8 (0.39%) Nagios
10 7 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.34%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.30%) Puppet
12 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.25%) Netcool
12 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.20%) Grafana
13 4 (0.20%) Nessus
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 410 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 134 (6.59%) SAP
3 128 (6.30%) Cisco
4 115 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 88 (4.33%) Oracle
6 84 (4.13%) VMware
7 51 (2.51%) Palo Alto
8 44 (2.17%) Fortinet
9 42 (2.07%) F5
10 40 (1.97%) Google
11 39 (1.92%) Salesforce
12 30 (1.48%) SolarWinds
13 28 (1.38%) Juniper
14 24 (1.18%) IBM
14 24 (1.18%) Workday
15 21 (1.03%) Splunk
15 21 (1.03%) Zscaler
16 20 (0.98%) NEC
17 19 (0.94%) Citrix
18 18 (0.89%) Siemens