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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 60 53
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,961 1,258 1,606
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 3.89% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 4.30% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 786 1,016
10th Percentile £325 £333 £356
25th Percentile £413 £420 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £634 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £488 £510
% change year-on-year +1.33% -4.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 22 47
10th Percentile £19.89 £31.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £33.46 £47.38 £26.47
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +52.66% -34.50%
75th Percentile £78.06 £77.19 £55.39
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.13 £66.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -26.92% +58.77% -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 44,694 29,246 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.15% 90.54% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,812 18,436 23,663
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,657 1,477 2,496
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +4 1,702 £515 -1.90% 1,107
UK excluding London +8 1,103 £494 +1.33% 857
London -10 709 £550 -4.35% 414
Work from Home +1 563 £515 - 519
North of England +8 278 £481 +1.32% 211
South East +7 277 £525 - 261
North West +25 187 £478 +1.87% 112
Midlands -17 179 £475 -7.23% 120
South West +5 165 £500 - 124
West Midlands -17 138 £481 -7.92% 73
Scotland +6 117 £450 -2.60% 52
Yorkshire -26 74 £500 - 70
East of England -1 61 £500 +11.73% 65
East Midlands -13 39 £402 -9.15% 47
Wales -1 22 £525 +89.59% 23
North East -18 19 £350 -3.45% 30
Northern Ireland +7 14 £334 -36.38% 22
Channel Islands +1 1 £550 +22.22%

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
1 109 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 105 (5.35%) Confluence
3 37 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.36%) CMS
5 6 (0.31%) SAS
6 5 (0.25%) Apache
7 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.15%) Appian
8 3 (0.15%) Camunda
8 3 (0.15%) CICS
8 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
8 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.15%) WordPress
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.051%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 156 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 111 (5.66%) Microsoft Project
3 97 (4.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 93 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
5 37 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 20 (1.02%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.36%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.15%) Revit
10 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.10%) Trello
11 1 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.051%) CATIA
11 1 (0.051%) Houdini
11 1 (0.051%) NUKE
11 1 (0.051%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 43 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.33%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.61%) Primavera
4 11 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.46%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.46%) Maximo
6 7 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.36%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.31%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.31%) SAP PSCD
7 6 (0.31%) Summit
8 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.20%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.20%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 238 (12.14%) Azure
2 117 (5.97%) AWS
3 103 (5.25%) Power Platform
4 96 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (3.47%) SaaS
6 64 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (2.75%) Entra ID
8 35 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
9 32 (1.63%) GCP
10 25 (1.27%) Google Workspace
11 23 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.07%) GitHub
12 21 (1.07%) IaaS
13 18 (0.92%) PowerApps
14 17 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
15 16 (0.82%) Serverless
16 15 (0.76%) Power Automate
17 14 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (0.71%) Amazon S3
18 13 (0.66%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 110 (5.61%) Firewall
2 82 (4.18%) DNS
3 67 (3.42%) WAN
4 61 (3.11%) LAN
5 57 (2.91%) Network Security
6 50 (2.55%) VPN
7 41 (2.09%) MPLS
8 38 (1.94%) BGP
9 32 (1.63%) DHCP
10 31 (1.58%) OSPF
11 30 (1.53%) VLAN
11 30 (1.53%) Wireless
12 26 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 25 (1.27%) TCP/IP
13 25 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
14 24 (1.22%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.82%) SSL
16 15 (0.76%) BIG-IP
16 15 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
17 14 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (4.28%) Power BI
2 40 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 19 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (0.87%) Tableau
5 15 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.66%) Metadata
8 10 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.46%) SAP HANA
10 8 (0.41%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.41%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.31%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.25%) Big Data
13 5 (0.25%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
15 3 (0.15%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 205 (10.45%) JIRA
2 27 (1.38%) Git
3 14 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.66%) GitLab
5 8 (0.41%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.41%) Selenium
6 4 (0.20%) Appium
6 4 (0.20%) Subversion
7 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.15%) JMeter
7 3 (0.15%) MSTest
7 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.10%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.10%) Hudson
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.10%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.10%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.10%) WebDriver
General
1 775 (39.52%) Social Skills
2 622 (31.72%) Finance
3 254 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
6 101 (5.15%) Banking
7 97 (4.95%) Retail
8 86 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
9 85 (4.33%) Legal
10 66 (3.37%) Telecoms
11 61 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
12 58 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 38 (1.94%) Local Government
14 31 (1.58%) Marketing
15 30 (1.53%) Military
16 23 (1.17%) Investment Banking
17 18 (0.92%) Aerospace
17 18 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 480 (24.48%) Project Manager
2 230 (11.73%) Analyst
3 207 (10.56%) Senior
4 191 (9.74%) Lead
5 116 (5.92%) Business Analyst
6 111 (5.66%) Architect
7 99 (5.05%) Senior Manager
8 87 (4.44%) Consultant
9 80 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
9 80 (4.08%) Senior Project Manager
10 79 (4.03%) IT Manager
11 78 (3.98%) Network Engineer
12 54 (2.75%) Developer
13 53 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 53 (2.70%) IT Project Manager
14 43 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
15 40 (2.04%) Technical Manager
16 38 (1.94%) Project Officer
17 36 (1.84%) Infrastructure Manager
17 36 (1.84%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.78%) Middleware
2 33 (1.68%) REST
3 19 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.71%) .NET
5 13 (0.66%) 802.1X
5 13 (0.66%) XML
6 12 (0.61%) OAuth
7 11 (0.56%) ADO
7 11 (0.56%) JSON
8 10 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
8 10 (0.51%) Web Services
9 9 (0.46%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.41%) React
10 8 (0.41%) RESTful
10 8 (0.41%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.41%) Spring
11 6 (0.31%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.31%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.31%) CSS
11 6 (0.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.15%) Management Information System
2 90 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 79 (4.03%) Data Centre
4 68 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 40 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 33 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (1.48%) Cloud Native
8 29 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 29 (1.48%) Operational Technology
9 28 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.27%) Clustering
10 25 (1.27%) PKI
10 25 (1.27%) Replication
11 23 (1.17%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (0.92%) Driving Licence
13 18 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (0.76%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 113 (5.76%) Windows
2 55 (2.80%) Windows Server
3 46 (2.35%) Linux
4 27 (1.38%) Unix
5 10 (0.51%) Solaris
6 8 (0.41%) AIX
7 7 (0.36%) zOS
8 6 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.10%) Android
11 2 (0.10%) Debian
11 2 (0.10%) VMS
11 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.10%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.051%) pSOS
12 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (33.20%) Stakeholder Management
2 591 (30.14%) Agile
3 540 (27.54%) Project Management
4 328 (16.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 313 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
6 308 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 300 (15.30%) Migration
8 268 (13.67%) Change Management
9 232 (11.83%) PRINCE2
10 214 (10.91%) Decision-Making
11 201 (10.25%) Waterfall
12 162 (8.26%) Risk Management
13 157 (8.01%) ITIL
14 156 (7.96%) AI
15 151 (7.70%) DevOps
16 150 (7.65%) Roadmaps
17 129 (6.58%) ERP
18 125 (6.37%) Scrum
18 125 (6.37%) Validation
19 124 (6.32%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.66%) SQL
2 93 (4.74%) Python
3 61 (3.11%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.12%) C#
5 21 (1.07%) Java
6 20 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.82%) Bash
8 14 (0.71%) VBA
9 9 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.41%) Go
10 8 (0.41%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.41%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.36%) ABAP
11 7 (0.36%) Bicep
12 6 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.20%) C++
15 3 (0.15%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 417 (21.26%) Security Cleared
2 297 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 194 (9.89%) Degree
4 157 (8.01%) PMP
5 120 (6.12%) PMI Certification
6 111 (5.66%) DV Cleared
7 66 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.24%) CCNP
9 39 (1.99%) CCNA
10 38 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 37 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 26 (1.33%) CISSP
14 23 (1.17%) Azure Certification
15 20 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 19 (0.97%) MCSE
17 18 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
18 15 (0.76%) CISM
19 14 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
19 14 (0.71%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (11.07%) PMO
2 104 (5.30%) QA
3 50 (2.55%) NIST
4 49 (2.50%) GDPR
4 49 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.19%) Data Quality
6 31 (1.58%) SLA
7 15 (0.76%) GRC
8 12 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.41%) NCSC
11 7 (0.36%) HL7
11 7 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.25%) IFRS
13 5 (0.25%) MiFID
13 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 92 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.12%) vSphere
4 20 (1.02%) Docker
4 20 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (0.97%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.56%) Firmware
7 11 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.15%) Squid
11 2 (0.10%) Ceph
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.051%) ACF2
12 1 (0.051%) KVM
12 1 (0.051%) RACF
12 1 (0.051%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (2.29%) Ansible
2 40 (2.04%) Terraform
3 25 (1.27%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.07%) SCCM
5 20 (1.02%) FortiGate
6 16 (0.82%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.41%) Nagios
9 7 (0.36%) ZABBIX
10 6 (0.31%) SCOM
11 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.25%) Netcool
11 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
12 4 (0.20%) Cisco Prime
12 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.15%) Nessus
13 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 376 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 129 (6.58%) SAP
3 111 (5.66%) Cisco
4 108 (5.51%) ServiceNow
5 86 (4.39%) Oracle
6 70 (3.57%) VMware
7 51 (2.60%) Palo Alto
8 42 (2.14%) F5
9 38 (1.94%) Fortinet
9 38 (1.94%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.78%) Google
11 29 (1.48%) SolarWinds
12 24 (1.22%) Juniper
13 23 (1.17%) IBM
14 20 (1.02%) Siemens
15 18 (0.92%) NEC
15 18 (0.92%) Workday
16 17 (0.87%) Aruba
16 17 (0.87%) CheckPoint
16 17 (0.87%) Infoblox