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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 61 58
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,246 1,318 1,370
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.09% 3.99% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 4.40% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 846 785
10th Percentile £350 £322 £355
25th Percentile £425 £412 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £625
90th Percentile £714 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £504
% change year-on-year - -0.79% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 35 40
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.91 £20.75
25th Percentile £37.82 £28.28 £23.45
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +74.09% -42.56%
75th Percentile £77.13 £65.00 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £84.00 £65.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 £52.76 £33.93
% change year-on-year +8.05% +55.48% -39.68%

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 46,382 29,970 32,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.48% 90.66% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,008 18,622 19,630
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,245 1,858 1,349
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.64 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.01% -48.10% +1.18%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +6 1,889 £525 - 3,243
UK excluding London +3 1,199 £500 - 2,125
London +2 824 £550 - 1,283
Work from Home +8 643 £500 -2.91% 1,388
South East 0 323 £525 -2.33% 521
North of England +9 311 £500 +5.26% 533
North West +13 194 £525 +11.11% 278
Midlands -28 161 £475 -3.63% 366
Scotland +20 150 £450 - 184
South West +1 143 £525 +5.00% 227
West Midlands -11 124 £481 -7.46% 246
Yorkshire -5 94 £485 -7.62% 194
East of England +5 70 £500 -4.76% 183
East Midlands -30 34 £425 -3.76% 120
Wales -1 27 £400 +30.08% 58
North East -16 24 £350 -14.79% 61
Northern Ireland +8 16 £400 -15.79% 74
Channel Islands - 9 £525 - 3

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
1 120 (5.34%) SharePoint
2 116 (5.16%) Confluence
3 37 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.40%) CMS
5 7 (0.31%) Apache
6 6 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.27%) JBoss
6 6 (0.27%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.22%) SAS
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.18%) WordPress
9 3 (0.13%) Appian
9 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.13%) Kentico
9 3 (0.13%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.13%) SAP EP
10 2 (0.089%) CICS
10 2 (0.089%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 167 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (5.52%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
4 94 (4.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.76%) Siemens NX
7 14 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.53%) AutoCAD
8 12 (0.53%) Revit
8 12 (0.53%) Trello
9 11 (0.49%) Navisworks
10 9 (0.40%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.13%) Windchill
12 2 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.089%) Houdini
12 2 (0.089%) MicroStation
12 2 (0.089%) NUKE
13 1 (0.045%) CATIA
13 1 (0.045%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 57 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.20%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.62%) Maximo
4 14 (0.62%) Primavera
5 12 (0.53%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.45%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.40%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
7 9 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
8 8 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.36%) SAP HR
8 8 (0.36%) SAP SD
9 7 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.31%) SAP HCM
10 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.27%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 357 (15.89%) Azure
2 143 (6.37%) Power Platform
3 139 (6.19%) AWS
4 132 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 108 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (4.23%) SaaS
7 74 (3.29%) Entra ID
8 56 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
9 52 (2.32%) GCP
10 33 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
11 29 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
12 28 (1.25%) PowerApps
13 26 (1.16%) OCI
14 24 (1.07%) Google Workspace
15 23 (1.02%) Power Automate
16 22 (0.98%) GitHub
17 21 (0.93%) IaaS
18 18 (0.80%) PaaS
19 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
20 13 (0.58%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 139 (6.19%) Firewall
2 91 (4.05%) DNS
3 86 (3.83%) Network Security
4 85 (3.78%) WAN
5 79 (3.52%) LAN
6 65 (2.89%) VPN
7 51 (2.27%) DHCP
8 46 (2.05%) MPLS
8 46 (2.05%) Wireless
9 40 (1.78%) BGP
10 39 (1.74%) VLAN
11 38 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (1.20%) TCP/IP
13 25 (1.11%) OSPF
14 20 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 19 (0.85%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.67%) SSL
17 14 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
17 14 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (4.90%) Power BI
2 40 (1.78%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.62%) Data Lake
4 14 (0.62%) Metadata
5 10 (0.45%) Tableau
6 9 (0.40%) Big Data
7 8 (0.36%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 7 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.31%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.22%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.22%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 242 (10.77%) JIRA
2 24 (1.07%) Git
3 13 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.53%) GitLab
5 9 (0.40%) MSI
6 5 (0.22%) Selenium
6 5 (0.22%) Subversion
7 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.13%) Gatling
8 3 (0.13%) Hudson
8 3 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.089%) Appium
9 2 (0.089%) JMeter
9 2 (0.089%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.089%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.089%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.089%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.089%) TestNG
10 1 (0.045%) PowerBuilder
General
1 930 (41.41%) Social Skills
2 692 (30.81%) Finance
3 284 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (10.51%) Public Sector
5 176 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
6 137 (6.10%) Banking
7 99 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
8 92 (4.10%) Legal
9 89 (3.96%) Manufacturing
10 85 (3.78%) Retail
11 84 (3.74%) Telecoms
12 78 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
13 64 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (1.91%) Local Government
15 40 (1.78%) Military
16 36 (1.60%) Marketing
17 35 (1.56%) Front Office
17 35 (1.56%) Law
18 31 (1.38%) Aerospace
19 27 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 508 (22.62%) Project Manager
2 251 (11.18%) Analyst
3 239 (10.64%) Senior
4 201 (8.95%) Lead
5 155 (6.90%) Architect
6 150 (6.68%) Business Analyst
7 138 (6.14%) Consultant
8 104 (4.63%) Senior Manager
9 98 (4.36%) Network Engineer
10 92 (4.10%) Delivery Manager
11 89 (3.96%) Senior Project Manager
12 87 (3.87%) IT Manager
13 69 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 62 (2.76%) IT Project Manager
15 61 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
16 55 (2.45%) Developer
17 45 (2.00%) Technical Manager
18 39 (1.74%) Coordinator
18 39 (1.74%) Transformation Manager
19 38 (1.69%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.00%) Terraform
2 39 (1.74%) REST
3 34 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.11%) Middleware
5 18 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
6 17 (0.76%) .NET
7 15 (0.67%) XML
8 14 (0.62%) SOAP
9 12 (0.53%) JSON
10 11 (0.49%) 802.1X
10 11 (0.49%) ADO
10 11 (0.49%) LDAP
10 11 (0.49%) OAuth
10 11 (0.49%) SAPUI5
11 10 (0.45%) HTML
11 10 (0.45%) React
11 10 (0.45%) Web Services
12 8 (0.36%) RESTful
12 8 (0.36%) SAML
13 7 (0.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 111 (4.94%) Onboarding
2 110 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 99 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 98 (4.36%) Data Centre
5 50 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 47 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 36 (1.60%) Driving Licence
8 36 (1.60%) Operational Technology
9 35 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
11 33 (1.47%) Cloud Native
12 31 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (1.34%) PKI
14 23 (1.02%) Clustering
14 23 (1.02%) Public Cloud
15 22 (0.98%) Derivative
16 20 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (0.80%) Replication
18 17 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 153 (6.81%) Windows
2 80 (3.56%) Linux
3 74 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.56%) Unix
5 18 (0.80%) Solaris
6 15 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.45%) AIX
8 8 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.27%) Android
9 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.22%) zOS
11 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.13%) VMS
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.089%) CentOS
12 2 (0.089%) Debian
12 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.045%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 981 (43.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 716 (31.88%) Agile
3 594 (26.45%) Project Management
4 423 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 408 (18.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 366 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
7 364 (16.21%) Migration
8 330 (14.69%) Change Management
9 299 (13.31%) PRINCE2
10 253 (11.26%) Decision-Making
11 243 (10.82%) Waterfall
12 226 (10.06%) Risk Management
13 203 (9.04%) ITIL
14 196 (8.73%) Roadmaps
15 193 (8.59%) DevOps
16 186 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
16 186 (8.28%) Project Governance
16 186 (8.28%) Workshop Facilitation
17 180 (8.01%) AI
18 171 (7.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 101 (4.50%) SQL
2 97 (4.32%) Python
3 77 (3.43%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.20%) Java
5 22 (0.98%) Bash
6 19 (0.85%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.76%) C#
8 16 (0.71%) ABAP
9 15 (0.67%) VBA
10 8 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.31%) Korn
11 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.27%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.13%) C++
14 3 (0.13%) Scala
14 3 (0.13%) VB
14 3 (0.13%) VB6
Qualifications
1 529 (23.55%) Security Cleared
2 391 (17.41%) SC Cleared
3 219 (9.75%) Degree
4 167 (7.44%) PMP
5 150 (6.68%) PMI Certification
6 132 (5.88%) DV Cleared
7 73 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (2.14%) CCNP
10 41 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.69%) Azure Certification
11 38 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 34 (1.51%) CCNA
13 27 (1.20%) CISSP
14 21 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.80%) MCSE
15 18 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.67%) CCIE
17 14 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (10.64%) PMO
2 106 (4.72%) QA
3 60 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.23%) GDPR
5 49 (2.18%) NIST
6 45 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.29%) SLA
8 27 (1.20%) GRC
9 21 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.76%) ISO 19650
11 12 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.40%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.36%) NCSC
15 7 (0.31%) P3O
16 6 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
16 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.22%) GxP
17 5 (0.22%) IFRS
17 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 116 (5.16%) Active Directory
2 95 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 32 (1.42%) vSphere
5 24 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (0.93%) Docker
7 17 (0.76%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.49%) Firmware
11 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.089%) Ceph
12 2 (0.089%) IAG
12 2 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.089%) Squid
12 2 (0.089%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.045%) RACF
Systems Management
1 51 (2.27%) Ansible
2 37 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.02%) SCCM
5 19 (0.85%) FortiGate
6 16 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.71%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.58%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.40%) SCOM
8 9 (0.40%) WMI
9 8 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (0.36%) NetBackup
9 8 (0.36%) Puppet
10 7 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.22%) Grafana
12 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.22%) Nagios
12 5 (0.22%) Nessus
Vendors
1 519 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 174 (7.75%) SAP
3 163 (7.26%) Cisco
4 125 (5.57%) ServiceNow
5 119 (5.30%) VMware
6 104 (4.63%) Oracle
7 55 (2.45%) Palo Alto
8 53 (2.36%) Fortinet
9 49 (2.18%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.87%) F5
11 38 (1.69%) Google
12 33 (1.47%) Juniper
12 33 (1.47%) Workday
13 31 (1.38%) IBM
14 27 (1.20%) Ariba
14 27 (1.20%) SolarWinds
15 26 (1.16%) Siemens
16 24 (1.07%) Databricks
17 22 (0.98%) Zscaler
18 21 (0.93%) Splunk