Project Delivery Contracts

Project Delivery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Project Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 49 51
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,124 1,716 2,644
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.84% 3.94% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 4.56% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 1,120 1,851
10th Percentile £325 £363 £369
25th Percentile £427 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £657
90th Percentile £700 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £503
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.48% +5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 33 61
10th Percentile £21.39 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £27.95 £26.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £51.25 £35.65 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.76% -45.15% +46.07%
75th Percentile £74.06 £40.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.27 £57.78 £83.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £40.94 £65.00
% change year-on-year +58.77% -37.02% +44.44%

All Process and 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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 18 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 -11 896 £525 -4.55% 1,388
UK excluding London -5 561 £500 -4.76% 832
London -13 447 £550 - 627
Work from Home -9 367 £525 -0.94% 632
Scotland +10 122 £475 -7.32% 66
South East -16 122 £550 +10.00% 220
Midlands +9 105 £500 -4.76% 124
North of England -9 105 £490 -7.55% 222
North West -7 70 £475 -17.39% 138
West Midlands -1 65 £522 -0.50% 69
South West -9 64 £462 -12.83% 105
East Midlands +17 35 £447 -5.89% 55
Yorkshire +6 29 £506 +10.05% 64
East of England +2 24 £519 -5.98% 74
Northern Ireland 0 13 £594 +182.74% 19
Wales -18 7 £325 -36.59% 17
North East -8 6 £413 -17.50% 23
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 67 (5.96%) Confluence
2 31 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.80%) CMS
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.18%) MS Project Server
5 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.18%) SAS
5 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.089%) Apache
6 1 (0.089%) Drupal
6 1 (0.089%) JBoss
6 1 (0.089%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.089%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.089%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.089%) WinCC
6 1 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 71 (6.32%) Microsoft Project
2 53 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (2.67%) MS Visio
6 15 (1.33%) Trello
7 4 (0.36%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.18%) Open Workbench
8 2 (0.18%) Revit
9 1 (0.089%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 48 (4.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (2.49%) Oracle EBS
3 24 (2.14%) Oracle EBS R12
4 13 (1.16%) Maximo
5 12 (1.07%) Oracle ASCP
6 8 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.71%) Endur
7 7 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 6 (0.53%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.44%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.36%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.27%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.27%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.27%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.27%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
12 2 (0.18%) SAP PLM
12 2 (0.18%) SAP SRM
12 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 149 (13.26%) Azure
2 82 (7.30%) AWS
3 60 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (3.47%) Power Platform
5 37 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (3.11%) IaaS
7 31 (2.76%) SaaS
8 28 (2.49%) Entra ID
9 21 (1.87%) GCP
10 18 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (1.25%) PaaS
12 12 (1.07%) OCI
13 11 (0.98%) Asana
13 11 (0.98%) Serverless
14 10 (0.89%) PowerApps
15 7 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (0.62%) GitHub
16 6 (0.53%) Amazon S3
16 6 (0.53%) OpenShift
16 6 (0.53%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.23%) Firewall
2 36 (3.20%) VPN
3 33 (2.94%) MPLS
4 30 (2.67%) DNS
5 29 (2.58%) Network Security
6 23 (2.05%) BGP
7 22 (1.96%) OSPF
8 19 (1.69%) LAN
8 19 (1.69%) WAN
9 13 (1.16%) Multicast
10 12 (1.07%) TCP/IP
10 12 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.80%) Broadband
11 9 (0.80%) IPv6
12 8 (0.71%) IPsec
12 8 (0.71%) Wireless
13 7 (0.62%) EIGRP
13 7 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (0.62%) VSAN
14 6 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.40%) Power BI
2 17 (1.51%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.42%) Data Lake
4 15 (1.33%) Big Data
5 13 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.80%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.53%) Tableau
11 5 (0.44%) Metadata
11 5 (0.44%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.36%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.27%) GIS
13 3 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.27%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.27%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 109 (9.70%) JIRA
2 16 (1.42%) Git
3 5 (0.44%) Subversion
4 4 (0.36%) GitLab
5 3 (0.27%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.27%) JMeter
5 3 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.18%) ERwin
6 2 (0.18%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.18%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.18%) MLflow
6 2 (0.18%) Selenium
6 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.089%) Ant
7 1 (0.089%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.089%) Gatling
7 1 (0.089%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.089%) Postman
7 1 (0.089%) RStudio
General
1 426 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 397 (35.32%) Finance
3 133 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 85 (7.56%) Banking
6 52 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
7 46 (4.09%) Telecoms
8 41 (3.65%) Manufacturing
9 40 (3.56%) Marketing
10 38 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (2.85%) Legal
13 30 (2.67%) Retail
14 19 (1.69%) Local Government
15 17 (1.51%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.42%) Front Office
17 14 (1.25%) Financial Institution
18 12 (1.07%) Back Office
18 12 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (1.07%) Law
Job Titles
1 313 (27.85%) Project Manager
2 107 (9.52%) Senior
3 90 (8.01%) Lead
4 88 (7.83%) Analyst
5 86 (7.65%) Consultant
6 61 (5.43%) Delivery Manager
7 60 (5.34%) Architect
8 49 (4.36%) Business Analyst
8 49 (4.36%) IT Manager
9 48 (4.27%) Developer
10 43 (3.83%) IT Project Manager
11 42 (3.74%) Senior Manager
12 38 (3.38%) Senior Project Manager
13 34 (3.02%) Technical Manager
14 33 (2.94%) Network Engineer
14 33 (2.94%) Programme Manager
15 29 (2.58%) Infrastructure Manager
16 26 (2.31%) Functional Consultant
17 24 (2.14%) Java Developer
17 24 (2.14%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.58%) Spring
2 27 (2.40%) React
2 27 (2.40%) Spring Boot
3 20 (1.78%) .NET
4 12 (1.07%) EntireX
5 11 (0.98%) HTML
6 10 (0.89%) CSS
6 10 (0.89%) Middleware
6 10 (0.89%) XML
7 9 (0.80%) JSON
8 8 (0.71%) Kafka
8 8 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (0.71%) REST
9 7 (0.62%) .NET Core
10 6 (0.53%) ADO
10 6 (0.53%) Node.js
10 6 (0.53%) RESTful
10 6 (0.53%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.53%) SOAP
10 6 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (3.74%) Product Ownership
2 38 (3.38%) Data Centre
3 36 (3.20%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.22%) PMI
5 22 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (1.60%) Operational Technology
7 18 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (0.98%) Life Science
12 10 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (0.89%) Mainframe
13 8 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (0.71%) IoT
13 8 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
13 8 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
14 7 (0.62%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 67 (5.96%) Windows
2 42 (3.74%) Windows Server
3 29 (2.58%) Linux
4 14 (1.25%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.07%) Unix
6 11 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.44%) Windows 8
9 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.44%) Windows XP
9 5 (0.44%) zOS
10 4 (0.36%) Solaris
11 3 (0.27%) Android
11 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.089%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (34.70%) Project Management
2 377 (33.54%) Agile
3 303 (26.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 221 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (11.30%) Change Management
6 118 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 115 (10.23%) Migration
8 112 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 112 (9.96%) Risk Management
9 108 (9.61%) Waterfall
10 101 (8.99%) PRINCE2
11 93 (8.27%) DevOps
12 87 (7.74%) Scrum
13 82 (7.30%) Decision-Making
14 80 (7.12%) ITIL
15 79 (7.03%) Budget Management
16 75 (6.67%) Business Case
16 75 (6.67%) Process Improvement
16 75 (6.67%) Roadmaps
17 70 (6.23%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 67 (5.96%) SQL
2 55 (4.89%) Python
3 45 (4.00%) Java
4 33 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 33 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 18 (1.60%) C#
6 8 (0.71%) Bash
6 8 (0.71%) Bicep
6 8 (0.71%) Perl
7 7 (0.62%) PHP
8 6 (0.53%) C
9 4 (0.36%) JCL
9 4 (0.36%) VBA
10 3 (0.27%) C++
10 3 (0.27%) R
10 3 (0.27%) REXX
10 3 (0.27%) VBScript
11 2 (0.18%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.18%) COBOL
11 2 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 172 (15.30%) Security Cleared
2 147 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 146 (12.99%) Degree
4 84 (7.47%) PMI Certification
5 65 (5.78%) PMP
6 26 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 22 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 16 (1.42%) DV Cleared
11 15 (1.33%) CCIE
12 14 (1.25%) CCNP
12 14 (1.25%) SAP Certification
13 10 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 9 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.80%) CCNA
15 7 (0.62%) CISSP
15 7 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.23%) PMO
2 39 (3.47%) QA
3 18 (1.60%) GDPR
4 14 (1.25%) SLA
5 12 (1.07%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.89%) HIPAA
7 10 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.36%) GxP
9 4 (0.36%) NCSC
9 4 (0.36%) NIST
9 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.27%) NEBOSH
10 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 53 (4.72%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.33%) vSphere
4 13 (1.16%) Docker
5 10 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.53%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.27%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.27%) NFS
11 2 (0.18%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.18%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 1 (0.089%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.089%) KVM
12 1 (0.089%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.089%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.089%) XenApp
12 1 (0.089%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (3.83%) Terraform
2 35 (3.11%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.40%) Ansible
3 27 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.98%) SCCM
6 9 (0.80%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.53%) VxRail
7 6 (0.53%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.36%) PowerCLI
8 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.36%) WSUS
9 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.18%) Nagios
9 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.18%) QRadar
9 2 (0.18%) SELinux
9 2 (0.18%) Tivoli NetView
9 2 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 186 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 115 (10.23%) SAP
3 72 (6.41%) Oracle
4 50 (4.45%) VMware
5 47 (4.18%) Cisco
6 29 (2.58%) IBM
7 28 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 22 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.69%) Databricks
10 15 (1.33%) SolarWinds
11 14 (1.25%) Google
11 14 (1.25%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.16%) Dell
13 12 (1.07%) Software AG
13 12 (1.07%) webMethods
14 11 (0.98%) Splunk
15 10 (0.89%) Adobe
15 10 (0.89%) Ariba
15 10 (0.89%) Workday
16 9 (0.80%) Planview