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

 6 months to
21 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 59 53
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,121 1,315 1,436
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.96% 4.01% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 4.43% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 847 875
10th Percentile £325 £316 £356
25th Percentile £413 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £619 £609 £636
90th Percentile £704 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 28 43
10th Percentile £22.36 £15.91 £22.60
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.78 £27.71
Median hourly rate £53.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +40.45% -36.03%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.16 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £79.88 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -9.09% +34.34% -34.50%

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 45,356 29,667 33,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 90.51% 85.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,834 18,495 21,131
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% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,855 1,741 1,763
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%
75th Percentile £67.94 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -42.17% +12.54%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 1,825 £525 - 1,282
UK excluding London -2 1,151 £500 +1.63% 1,039
London +4 798 £550 -4.35% 425
Work from Home +6 629 £500 -2.70% 535
South East -6 295 £525 -2.33% 341
North of England +10 290 £486 +2.37% 245
North West +15 196 £500 +5.26% 129
South West -3 168 £500 +4.17% 138
Midlands -20 168 £475 +2.70% 162
Scotland +13 135 £425 -5.56% 53
West Midlands -19 127 £475 -8.61% 107
Yorkshire -24 73 £485 +4.86% 78
East of England +10 63 £500 -4.76% 95
East Midlands -23 37 £413 -4.79% 52
Wales -4 25 £525 +76.47% 31
North East -16 22 £350 - 44
Northern Ireland +2 16 £388 -22.50% 12
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
1 124 (5.85%) SharePoint
2 114 (5.37%) Confluence
3 41 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
5 6 (0.28%) SAS
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.24%) 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
1 166 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.61%) Microsoft Project
3 102 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
4 95 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.75%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.57%) 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 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.08%) Teamcenter
3 21 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 321 (15.13%) Azure
2 138 (6.51%) AWS
3 130 (6.13%) Power Platform
4 125 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
6 82 (3.87%) SaaS
7 69 (3.25%) Entra ID
8 48 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (2.07%) GCP
10 29 (1.37%) PowerApps
11 28 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.27%) GitHub
12 27 (1.27%) OCI
13 26 (1.23%) Google Workspace
13 26 (1.23%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.13%) IaaS
15 23 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
16 19 (0.90%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.71%) PaaS
18 13 (0.61%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 136 (6.41%) Firewall
2 88 (4.15%) DNS
3 82 (3.87%) WAN
4 74 (3.49%) LAN
5 69 (3.25%) Network Security
5 69 (3.25%) VPN
6 51 (2.40%) MPLS
7 47 (2.22%) BGP
8 43 (2.03%) DHCP
9 42 (1.98%) Wireless
10 37 (1.74%) VLAN
11 35 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
12 33 (1.56%) OSPF
13 31 (1.46%) TCP/IP
14 25 (1.18%) SD-WAN
15 24 (1.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 17 (0.80%) SSL
17 15 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.66%) IPsec
19 13 (0.61%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.95%) Power BI
2 41 (1.93%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.75%) Metadata
5 15 (0.71%) Tableau
6 11 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.47%) Big Data
7 10 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.42%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.38%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.38%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.24%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 231 (10.89%) 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 (0.24%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) MSI
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
1 879 (41.44%) Social Skills
2 662 (31.21%) Finance
3 294 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 228 (10.75%) Public Sector
5 154 (7.26%) Organisational Skills
6 121 (5.70%) Banking
7 104 (4.90%) Retail
8 100 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
9 94 (4.43%) Legal
10 91 (4.29%) Telecoms
11 68 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
11 68 (3.21%) Manufacturing
12 62 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (1.93%) Local Government
14 36 (1.70%) Military
15 32 (1.51%) Marketing
16 26 (1.23%) Front Office
16 26 (1.23%) Law
17 24 (1.13%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 505 (23.81%) Project Manager
2 241 (11.36%) Analyst
3 224 (10.56%) Senior
4 197 (9.29%) Lead
5 136 (6.41%) Business Analyst
6 132 (6.22%) Consultant
7 131 (6.18%) Architect
8 97 (4.57%) Senior Manager
9 95 (4.48%) Network Engineer
10 81 (3.82%) IT Manager
10 81 (3.82%) Senior Project Manager
11 79 (3.72%) Delivery Manager
12 61 (2.88%) Developer
13 60 (2.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 55 (2.59%) IT Project Manager
15 49 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (1.89%) Technical Manager
17 38 (1.79%) Infrastructure Manager
17 38 (1.79%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 37 (1.74%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.31%) Terraform
2 37 (1.74%) REST
3 32 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.18%) Middleware
5 17 (0.80%) .NET
6 14 (0.66%) 802.1X
7 12 (0.57%) React
7 12 (0.57%) XML
8 11 (0.52%) OAuth
8 11 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
8 11 (0.52%) Web Services
9 10 (0.47%) ADO
9 10 (0.47%) 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%) Kafka
12 7 (0.33%) PySpark
12 7 (0.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 108 (5.09%) Onboarding
2 105 (4.95%) Management Information System
3 90 (4.24%) Data Centre
4 89 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 44 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 35 (1.65%) Cloud Native
8 34 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.60%) Operational Technology
9 32 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 32 (1.51%) Driving Licence
10 30 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (1.23%) PKI
12 24 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.04%) Derivative
14 21 (0.99%) Clustering
15 20 (0.94%) Replication
16 19 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 19 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 142 (6.69%) Windows
2 72 (3.39%) Linux
3 65 (3.06%) 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 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.24%) 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
1 850 (40.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 657 (30.98%) Agile
3 575 (27.11%) Project Management
4 398 (18.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 375 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 351 (16.55%) Migration
7 327 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
8 315 (14.85%) Change Management
9 279 (13.15%) PRINCE2
10 234 (11.03%) Decision-Making
11 225 (10.61%) Waterfall
12 193 (9.10%) Risk Management
13 191 (9.01%) ITIL
14 184 (8.68%) DevOps
15 183 (8.63%) Roadmaps
16 181 (8.53%) AI
17 166 (7.83%) Workshop Facilitation
18 158 (7.45%) User Acceptance Testing
19 157 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
20 151 (7.12%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 113 (5.33%) SQL
2 101 (4.76%) Python
3 70 (3.30%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.23%) Java
5 25 (1.18%) Bash
6 17 (0.80%) 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 (0.24%) 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
1 470 (22.16%) Security Cleared
2 340 (16.03%) SC Cleared
3 206 (9.71%) Degree
4 167 (7.87%) PMP
5 145 (6.84%) PMI Certification
6 115 (5.42%) DV Cleared
7 76 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.31%) CCNP
9 45 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 44 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 42 (1.98%) CCNA
12 33 (1.56%) Azure Certification
12 33 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 28 (1.32%) CISSP
14 18 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.85%) MCSE
15 17 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
17 15 (0.71%) CISM
18 14 (0.66%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (11.27%) PMO
2 88 (4.15%) QA
3 59 (2.78%) NIST
4 57 (2.69%) GDPR
5 55 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (2.22%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.65%) SLA
8 20 (0.94%) GRC
9 13 (0.61%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.52%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.38%) NCSC
13 8 (0.38%) P3O
13 8 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.28%) GxP
14 6 (0.28%) IFRS
15 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
15 5 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 111 (5.23%) Active Directory
2 72 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 22 (1.04%) Docker
5 20 (0.94%) vSphere
6 17 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.66%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.57%) 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%) oVirt
13 1 (0.047%) RACF
13 1 (0.047%) RHEV
13 1 (0.047%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 54 (2.55%) Ansible
2 33 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 30 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.08%) FortiGate
5 20 (0.94%) SCCM
6 15 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) Netcool
13 5 (0.24%) Tivoli
14 4 (0.19%) Nessus
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 463 (21.83%) Microsoft
2 148 (6.98%) Cisco
3 142 (6.69%) SAP
4 121 (5.70%) ServiceNow
5 101 (4.76%) Oracle
6 96 (4.53%) VMware
7 53 (2.50%) Palo Alto
8 47 (2.22%) Fortinet
9 43 (2.03%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.98%) F5
10 42 (1.98%) Google
11 29 (1.37%) Juniper
11 29 (1.37%) SolarWinds
12 26 (1.23%) Workday
13 23 (1.08%) IBM
14 22 (1.04%) Splunk
15 21 (0.99%) Zscaler
16 20 (0.94%) Siemens
17 19 (0.90%) Citrix
17 19 (0.90%) NEC
1,453 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide