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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 60 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,133 1,317 1,440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.98% 3.99% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 4.41% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 847 874
10th Percentile £325 £313 £360
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.47% -2.31%
75th Percentile £619 £609 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 28 40
10th Percentile £22.36 £15.91 £22.50
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.78 £26.86
Median hourly rate £53.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +40.45% -35.27%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.16 £55.90
90th Percentile £87.83 £79.88 £68.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -9.09% +34.34% -33.16%

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 45,360 29,849 33,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.48% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,797 18,603 21,010
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% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,875 1,763 1,706
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +7.39%

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 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 24 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 24 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 1,830 £525 - 1,252
UK excluding London -1 1,156 £500 +1.63% 1,020
London +10 801 £550 -2.91% 415
Work from Home +3 630 £500 -2.44% 520
South East -5 301 £525 -2.33% 324
North of England +10 290 £485 +2.11% 231
North West +11 196 £497 +4.66% 127
Midlands -21 168 £475 +2.70% 160
South West -5 165 £500 +4.17% 147
Scotland +12 138 £425 -5.56% 50
West Midlands -15 126 £475 -8.61% 105
Yorkshire -17 73 £485 +4.86% 68
East of England -1 62 £500 -4.76% 96
East Midlands -17 37 £413 -4.79% 54
Wales -4 25 £525 +76.47% 32
North East -19 22 £350 - 39
Northern Ireland +2 16 £388 -18.42% 11
Channel Islands - 3 £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
1 123 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 114 (5.34%) Confluence
3 39 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
5 6 (0.28%) SAS
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) 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 (0.094%) Camunda
9 2 (0.094%) CICS
9 2 (0.094%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.047%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 168 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.58%) Microsoft Project
3 102 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (4.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.75%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.52%) Trello
9 8 (0.38%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.28%) ProjectWise
12 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.094%) Houdini
13 2 (0.094%) NUKE
14 1 (0.047%) CATIA
14 1 (0.047%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.08%) Teamcenter
3 22 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.66%) 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 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 323 (15.14%) Azure
2 141 (6.61%) AWS
3 129 (6.05%) Power Platform
4 125 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (3.75%) SaaS
7 69 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 49 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (2.06%) GCP
10 28 (1.31%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.27%) GitHub
11 27 (1.27%) OCI
12 26 (1.22%) Google Workspace
12 26 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
13 25 (1.17%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.13%) IaaS
15 23 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
16 17 (0.80%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.70%) PaaS
18 13 (0.61%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.47%) Firewall
2 90 (4.22%) DNS
3 84 (3.94%) WAN
4 75 (3.52%) LAN
5 70 (3.28%) Network Security
6 69 (3.23%) VPN
7 51 (2.39%) MPLS
8 47 (2.20%) BGP
9 43 (2.02%) DHCP
10 42 (1.97%) Wireless
11 37 (1.73%) VLAN
12 36 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (1.55%) OSPF
14 31 (1.45%) TCP/IP
15 25 (1.17%) SD-WAN
16 24 (1.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 18 (0.84%) SSL
18 15 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
19 14 (0.66%) IPsec
20 13 (0.61%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.92%) Power BI
2 41 (1.92%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.75%) Metadata
5 14 (0.66%) Tableau
6 10 (0.47%) Big Data
6 10 (0.47%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.42%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.38%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.23%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 233 (10.92%) JIRA
2 24 (1.13%) Git
3 14 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.52%) GitLab
5 9 (0.42%) Selenium
6 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) MSI
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
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 (0.094%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.094%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.094%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.094%) TestNG
11 1 (0.047%) Postman
11 1 (0.047%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 885 (41.49%) Social Skills
2 660 (30.94%) Finance
3 294 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 159 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
6 122 (5.72%) Banking
7 105 (4.92%) Retail
8 102 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
9 94 (4.41%) Legal
10 91 (4.27%) Telecoms
11 68 (3.19%) Manufacturing
12 67 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
13 62 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
14 40 (1.88%) Local Government
15 37 (1.73%) Military
16 32 (1.50%) Marketing
17 27 (1.27%) Front Office
18 26 (1.22%) Law
19 25 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 24 (1.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 503 (23.58%) Project Manager
2 246 (11.53%) Analyst
3 225 (10.55%) Senior
4 201 (9.42%) Lead
5 139 (6.52%) Business Analyst
6 133 (6.24%) Architect
7 132 (6.19%) Consultant
8 99 (4.64%) Senior Manager
9 95 (4.45%) Network Engineer
10 83 (3.89%) Senior Project Manager
11 82 (3.84%) Delivery Manager
11 82 (3.84%) IT Manager
12 60 (2.81%) Developer
12 60 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 55 (2.58%) IT Project Manager
14 49 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
15 40 (1.88%) Technical Manager
16 39 (1.83%) SC Cleared Project Manager
17 37 (1.73%) Infrastructure Manager
17 37 (1.73%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.30%) Terraform
2 37 (1.73%) REST
3 31 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.17%) Middleware
5 18 (0.84%) .NET
6 14 (0.66%) 802.1X
7 12 (0.56%) React
8 11 (0.52%) OAuth
8 11 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
8 11 (0.52%) Web Services
8 11 (0.52%) XML
9 10 (0.47%) ADO
10 9 (0.42%) JSON
10 9 (0.42%) SAP Basis
11 8 (0.38%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.38%) LDAP
11 8 (0.38%) SOAP
12 7 (0.33%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.33%) Kafka
12 7 (0.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 109 (5.11%) Onboarding
2 105 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 90 (4.22%) Data Centre
3 90 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 38 (1.78%) Virtual Team
6 36 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 34 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (1.59%) Operational Technology
8 33 (1.55%) Driving Licence
8 33 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (1.22%) PKI
12 24 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.03%) Derivative
14 21 (0.98%) Clustering
15 20 (0.94%) PMI
15 20 (0.94%) Replication
16 19 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.89%) Windows
2 76 (3.56%) Linux
3 68 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.27%) 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%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.19%) zOS
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.094%) CentOS
11 2 (0.094%) Debian
11 2 (0.094%) VMS
11 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 860 (40.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 664 (31.13%) Agile
3 578 (27.10%) Project Management
4 399 (18.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 380 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 352 (16.50%) Migration
7 330 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
8 314 (14.72%) Change Management
9 281 (13.17%) PRINCE2
10 235 (11.02%) Decision-Making
11 225 (10.55%) Waterfall
12 195 (9.14%) Risk Management
13 191 (8.95%) ITIL
14 186 (8.72%) DevOps
15 183 (8.58%) AI
16 180 (8.44%) Roadmaps
17 166 (7.78%) Workshop Facilitation
18 160 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
18 160 (7.50%) User Acceptance Testing
19 152 (7.13%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.20%) SQL
2 101 (4.74%) Python
3 71 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.22%) Bash
4 26 (1.22%) Java
5 18 (0.84%) C#
6 17 (0.80%) VBA
7 16 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.42%) ABAP
9 8 (0.38%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.23%) Korn
13 4 (0.19%) BeanShell
13 4 (0.19%) Bicep
13 4 (0.19%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.14%) C++
15 2 (0.094%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 478 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 348 (16.32%) SC Cleared
3 202 (9.47%) Degree
4 166 (7.78%) PMP
5 145 (6.80%) PMI Certification
6 117 (5.49%) DV Cleared
7 77 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.30%) CCNP
9 45 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 42 (1.97%) CCNA
10 42 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 33 (1.55%) Azure Certification
13 29 (1.36%) CISSP
14 18 (0.84%) MCSE
15 17 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
17 15 (0.70%) CISM
18 14 (0.66%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (11.20%) PMO
2 89 (4.17%) QA
3 59 (2.77%) NIST
4 57 (2.67%) GDPR
5 55 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.25%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.64%) SLA
8 20 (0.94%) GRC
9 13 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.61%) ISO 19650
10 11 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.47%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.38%) NCSC
12 8 (0.38%) P3O
12 8 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.28%) GxP
13 6 (0.28%) IFRS
14 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 112 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 74 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.31%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.08%) Docker
5 20 (0.94%) vSphere
6 17 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.66%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.56%) 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 (0.094%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.047%) ACF2
13 1 (0.047%) RACF
13 1 (0.047%) RHEV
13 1 (0.047%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 55 (2.58%) Ansible
2 34 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 30 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.08%) FortiGate
5 21 (0.98%) SCCM
6 15 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.70%) vCenter Server
7 11 (0.52%) Cisco Prime
8 10 (0.47%) Puppet
9 9 (0.42%) SCOM
10 8 (0.38%) Nagios
10 8 (0.38%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.33%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.23%) Netcool
13 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
13 5 (0.23%) WMI
Vendors
1 467 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 149 (6.99%) Cisco
3 143 (6.70%) SAP
4 121 (5.67%) ServiceNow
5 101 (4.74%) Oracle
6 99 (4.64%) VMware
7 53 (2.48%) Palo Alto
8 48 (2.25%) Fortinet
9 43 (2.02%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.97%) F5
10 42 (1.97%) Google
11 29 (1.36%) Juniper
11 29 (1.36%) SolarWinds
12 27 (1.27%) Workday
13 23 (1.08%) IBM
14 22 (1.03%) Splunk
15 21 (0.98%) Zscaler
16 20 (0.94%) Citrix
16 20 (0.94%) Siemens
17 19 (0.89%) NEC