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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 60 57
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,257 1,337 1,373
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.14% 4.03% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 4.46% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,494 856 778
10th Percentile £350 £325 £355
25th Percentile £430 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £625
90th Percentile £714 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 40 41
10th Percentile £24.70 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £37.43 £23.13 £23.60
Median hourly rate £54.00 £54.76 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +56.44% -42.86%
75th Percentile £76.94 £65.00 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.75 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.44 £36.81
% change year-on-year +36.02% +9.86% -38.66%

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 46,102 30,004 32,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.46% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,718 18,629 19,703
10th Percentile £325 £294 £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 £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,326 1,885 1,303
10th Percentile £13.58 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.52 £65.00 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £41.25
% change year-on-year +68.43% -46.02% -2.94%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 1,902 £525 - 3,456
UK excluding London +2 1,206 £500 - 2,102
London +4 833 £550 - 1,461
Work from Home +4 641 £500 -2.47% 1,410
South East -1 323 £525 -2.33% 522
North of England +12 311 £500 +5.26% 528
North West +12 191 £525 +11.11% 279
Midlands -20 167 £475 -3.46% 349
Scotland +15 149 £452 +0.44% 166
South West +2 146 £525 +5.00% 235
West Midlands -14 124 £475 -8.19% 242
Yorkshire -2 96 £482 -3.70% 194
East of England +3 67 £500 -4.76% 196
East Midlands -28 40 £475 +8.57% 105
Wales +4 28 £400 +30.08% 49
North East -18 25 £350 -14.79% 55
Northern Ireland +10 18 £413 -2.65% 78
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
1 119 (5.27%) Confluence
2 115 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.44%) CMS
5 7 (0.31%) Apache
5 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.27%) JBoss
6 6 (0.27%) NetWeaver
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%) SAP EP
9 3 (0.13%) SAP Portal
10 2 (0.089%) CICS
10 2 (0.089%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 168 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
3 99 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
4 93 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.51%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.71%) Siemens NX
7 15 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.62%) AutoCAD
8 14 (0.62%) Revit
9 12 (0.53%) Navisworks
9 12 (0.53%) Trello
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%) Civil 3D
12 2 (0.089%) Houdini
12 2 (0.089%) MicroStation
12 2 (0.089%) NUKE
13 1 (0.044%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 60 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.11%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.62%) Maximo
4 14 (0.62%) Primavera
5 13 (0.58%) SAP FI
6 11 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
7 10 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 9 (0.40%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
8 9 (0.40%) SAP HCM
8 9 (0.40%) SAP HR
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.35%) SAP SD
10 7 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.27%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 364 (16.13%) Azure
2 140 (6.20%) Power Platform
3 136 (6.03%) AWS
4 133 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
5 111 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
6 97 (4.30%) SaaS
7 75 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 55 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
9 54 (2.39%) GCP
10 32 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
11 31 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
12 28 (1.24%) OCI
12 28 (1.24%) PowerApps
13 23 (1.02%) Power Automate
14 22 (0.97%) GitHub
14 22 (0.97%) Google Workspace
15 21 (0.93%) IaaS
16 18 (0.80%) PaaS
17 15 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
18 13 (0.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 140 (6.20%) Firewall
2 91 (4.03%) DNS
3 89 (3.94%) Network Security
4 86 (3.81%) WAN
5 79 (3.50%) LAN
6 63 (2.79%) VPN
7 52 (2.30%) DHCP
8 48 (2.13%) MPLS
8 48 (2.13%) Wireless
9 43 (1.91%) BGP
10 39 (1.73%) VLAN
10 39 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (1.24%) OSPF
11 28 (1.24%) TCP/IP
12 21 (0.93%) SD-WAN
13 18 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 16 (0.71%) Multicast
15 15 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
15 15 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
15 15 (0.66%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (4.74%) Power BI
2 38 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.71%) Data Lake
5 13 (0.58%) Tableau
6 12 (0.53%) Metadata
7 11 (0.49%) Big Data
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 7 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.27%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.22%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.22%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 252 (11.17%) JIRA
2 24 (1.06%) Git
3 12 (0.53%) GitLab
4 11 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.35%) MSI
6 7 (0.31%) Selenium
7 5 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.22%) Subversion
8 3 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.13%) Gatling
8 3 (0.13%) Postman
8 3 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.089%) Appium
9 2 (0.089%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.089%) Hudson
9 2 (0.089%) JMeter
9 2 (0.089%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.089%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.089%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.089%) TestNG
General
1 951 (42.14%) Social Skills
2 705 (31.24%) Finance
3 284 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (10.63%) Public Sector
5 183 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
6 147 (6.51%) Banking
7 93 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
8 92 (4.08%) Manufacturing
9 88 (3.90%) Legal
10 84 (3.72%) Telecoms
11 82 (3.63%) Retail
12 81 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
13 62 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (1.99%) Local Government
15 39 (1.73%) Military
16 36 (1.60%) Front Office
17 35 (1.55%) Law
18 34 (1.51%) Aerospace
19 33 (1.46%) Marketing
20 27 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 504 (22.33%) Project Manager
2 253 (11.21%) Analyst
3 229 (10.15%) Senior
4 204 (9.04%) Lead
5 152 (6.73%) Architect
5 152 (6.73%) Business Analyst
6 134 (5.94%) Consultant
7 101 (4.47%) Delivery Manager
8 100 (4.43%) Network Engineer
9 98 (4.34%) Senior Manager
10 84 (3.72%) Senior Project Manager
11 83 (3.68%) IT Manager
12 67 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 59 (2.61%) IT Project Manager
14 58 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
15 52 (2.30%) Developer
16 48 (2.13%) Technical Manager
17 44 (1.95%) Programme Manager
18 43 (1.91%) Coordinator
19 39 (1.73%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.04%) Terraform
2 39 (1.73%) REST
3 33 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (0.97%) Middleware
5 18 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
6 16 (0.71%) .NET
7 13 (0.58%) SOAP
8 12 (0.53%) OAuth
8 12 (0.53%) SAPUI5
8 12 (0.53%) XML
9 11 (0.49%) 802.1X
9 11 (0.49%) LDAP
10 10 (0.44%) HTML
10 10 (0.44%) JSON
10 10 (0.44%) Web Services
11 9 (0.40%) SAML
12 8 (0.35%) ADO
12 8 (0.35%) Kafka
12 8 (0.35%) RESTful
12 8 (0.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 109 (4.83%) Management Information System
1 109 (4.83%) Onboarding
2 103 (4.56%) Product Ownership
3 100 (4.43%) Data Centre
4 49 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 48 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 41 (1.82%) Operational Technology
6 41 (1.82%) Virtual Team
7 36 (1.60%) Driving Licence
8 35 (1.55%) Cloud Native
8 35 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 33 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (1.28%) PKI
12 23 (1.02%) Public Cloud
13 22 (0.97%) Clustering
13 22 (0.97%) Derivative
14 20 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (0.84%) Life Science
16 18 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 150 (6.65%) Windows
2 79 (3.50%) Linux
3 74 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.51%) Unix
5 18 (0.80%) Solaris
6 15 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.44%) AIX
8 9 (0.40%) 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
11 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.18%) zOS
12 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.13%) VMS
13 2 (0.089%) CentOS
13 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.044%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.044%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,019 (45.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 716 (31.72%) Agile
3 595 (26.36%) Project Management
4 435 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 420 (18.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 377 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
7 351 (15.55%) Migration
8 329 (14.58%) Change Management
9 302 (13.38%) PRINCE2
10 267 (11.83%) Decision-Making
11 245 (10.86%) Waterfall
12 236 (10.46%) Risk Management
13 206 (9.13%) ITIL
14 198 (8.77%) Roadmaps
15 196 (8.68%) Cybersecurity
15 196 (8.68%) Project Governance
16 195 (8.64%) DevOps
17 191 (8.46%) AI
17 191 (8.46%) Workshop Facilitation
18 173 (7.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 104 (4.61%) Python
2 100 (4.43%) SQL
3 77 (3.41%) PowerShell
4 28 (1.24%) Java
5 22 (0.97%) Bash
6 20 (0.89%) C#
7 18 (0.80%) ABAP
8 16 (0.71%) JavaScript
9 15 (0.66%) VBA
10 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.31%) Korn
11 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
13 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.18%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.13%) C++
14 3 (0.13%) COBOL
14 3 (0.13%) RPG
14 3 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 532 (23.57%) Security Cleared
2 388 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 220 (9.75%) Degree
4 169 (7.49%) PMP
5 156 (6.91%) PMI Certification
6 131 (5.80%) DV Cleared
7 74 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (2.13%) CCNP
10 41 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (1.64%) Azure Certification
12 35 (1.55%) CCNA
12 35 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 29 (1.28%) CISSP
14 21 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
16 18 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.80%) MCSE
17 15 (0.66%) CCIE
17 15 (0.66%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (10.46%) PMO
2 106 (4.70%) QA
3 63 (2.79%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.22%) GDPR
4 50 (2.22%) NIST
5 44 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.33%) SLA
7 25 (1.11%) GRC
8 20 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.75%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.44%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.35%) NCSC
13 7 (0.31%) P3O
14 6 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.22%) IFRS
15 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 4 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 116 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 97 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (1.46%) Hyper-V
3 33 (1.46%) vSphere
4 24 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (0.93%) Docker
6 16 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.49%) Firmware
10 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.089%) Ceph
11 2 (0.089%) IAG
11 2 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.089%) Squid
11 2 (0.089%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.044%) RACF
Systems Management
1 53 (2.35%) Ansible
2 38 (1.68%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (1.06%) SCCM
5 18 (0.80%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.71%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.58%) Cisco Prime
9 9 (0.40%) SCOM
9 9 (0.40%) WMI
10 8 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.35%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
11 7 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.22%) Grafana
13 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.22%) Nagios
13 5 (0.22%) Nessus
Vendors
1 521 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 185 (8.20%) SAP
3 164 (7.27%) Cisco
4 122 (5.41%) VMware
5 120 (5.32%) ServiceNow
6 105 (4.65%) Oracle
7 55 (2.44%) Palo Alto
8 52 (2.30%) Fortinet
8 52 (2.30%) Salesforce
9 40 (1.77%) F5
10 36 (1.60%) Google
11 34 (1.51%) Workday
12 32 (1.42%) Juniper
13 31 (1.37%) IBM
14 29 (1.28%) Ariba
15 27 (1.20%) SolarWinds
16 25 (1.11%) Siemens
17 23 (1.02%) Databricks
18 22 (0.97%) Zscaler
19 21 (0.93%) Splunk