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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,757 1,153 1,648
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 3.98% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.37% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,187 707 1,057
10th Percentile £325 £325 £362
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £618 £635 £638
90th Percentile £700 £708 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 23 35
10th Percentile £15.95 £23.38 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.75 £30.89 £26.47
Median hourly rate £37.00 £60.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% +68.30% -44.30%
75th Percentile £76.75 £76.88 £41.60
90th Percentile £87.83 £78.45 £62.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -43.08% +58.77% -37.02%

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 39,805 26,361 36,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.96% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,996 16,941 23,723
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.71% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,368 1,073 2,431
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.41 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.90 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.78 £38.00
% change year-on-year +74.59% -32.17% +8.57%

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 13 May 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 13 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 17 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 13 May 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 0 1,570 £515 -1.90% 898
UK excluding London -4 970 £492 -1.60% 678
London 0 654 £550 - 307
Work from Home -3 490 £525 - 369
North of England +30 284 £477 -1.14% 155
South East 0 233 £525 -4.55% 233
North West +32 186 £480 -0.52% 84
Midlands -14 180 £475 -7.23% 107
South West +6 137 £500 +5.26% 87
West Midlands -17 125 £481 -7.46% 79
Yorkshire 0 83 £500 - 46
Scotland -14 78 £475 - 32
East of England -6 56 £500 +1.11% 54
East Midlands -12 54 £455 +1.11% 28
North East -6 19 £350 -15.15% 27
Wales -6 12 £463 +42.31% 16
Northern Ireland -9 2 £225 -60.00% 6

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
1 105 (5.98%) Confluence
2 90 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.28%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) OpenEdge
6 3 (0.17%) Camunda
6 3 (0.17%) CICS
6 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Apache
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.057%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.057%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.057%) IIS
8 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 144 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 108 (6.15%) Microsoft Project
3 98 (5.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 92 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
5 28 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.42%) Siemens NX
7 8 (0.46%) Trello
8 7 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.23%) Revit
11 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.057%) SPSS
12 1 (0.057%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 43 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.65%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.68%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.40%) Primavera
5 6 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.28%) ProductWriter
6 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.28%) Shopify
6 5 (0.28%) Summit
7 4 (0.23%) Endur
7 4 (0.23%) Maximo
7 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 194 (11.04%) Azure
2 95 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
3 93 (5.29%) Power Platform
4 89 (5.07%) AWS
5 69 (3.93%) SaaS
6 43 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
7 34 (1.94%) Entra ID
8 26 (1.48%) GCP
9 22 (1.25%) GitHub
10 21 (1.20%) IaaS
11 19 (1.08%) Google Workspace
11 19 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (0.74%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (0.68%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.68%) PaaS
14 12 (0.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 92 (5.24%) Firewall
2 58 (3.30%) DNS
3 43 (2.45%) Network Security
4 39 (2.22%) WAN
5 34 (1.94%) LAN
6 26 (1.48%) BGP
6 26 (1.48%) OSPF
7 22 (1.25%) VLAN
8 21 (1.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 19 (1.08%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.08%) VPN
10 18 (1.02%) SD-WAN
11 16 (0.91%) DHCP
11 16 (0.91%) MPLS
12 14 (0.80%) Wireless
13 13 (0.74%) BIG-IP
13 13 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
15 11 (0.63%) SAN
15 11 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.15%) Power BI
2 32 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.54%) Tableau
4 23 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.80%) Metadata
8 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.28%) Big Data
9 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.28%) SAP HANA
9 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.23%) GIS
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 196 (11.16%) JIRA
2 16 (0.91%) Git
2 16 (0.91%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.63%) GitLab
4 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 3 (0.17%) Appium
6 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (0.17%) JMeter
6 3 (0.17%) MSTest
6 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
7 2 (0.11%) TestRail
7 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.057%) Gradle
8 1 (0.057%) Hudson
8 1 (0.057%) Robot Framework
General
1 663 (37.73%) Social Skills
2 564 (32.10%) Finance
3 247 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 131 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
6 121 (6.89%) Banking
7 76 (4.33%) Retail
8 70 (3.98%) Legal
9 65 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
9 65 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
10 53 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (2.56%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.50%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.71%) Marketing
14 27 (1.54%) Local Government
14 27 (1.54%) Military
15 22 (1.25%) Investment Banking
16 18 (1.02%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.91%) Publishing
18 15 (0.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 480 (27.32%) Project Manager
2 207 (11.78%) Analyst
3 182 (10.36%) Lead
4 176 (10.02%) Senior
5 130 (7.40%) Business Analyst
6 91 (5.18%) Senior Manager
7 84 (4.78%) Architect
8 78 (4.44%) Consultant
9 75 (4.27%) Delivery Manager
10 71 (4.04%) Senior Project Manager
11 69 (3.93%) IT Manager
12 54 (3.07%) Network Engineer
13 49 (2.79%) IT Project Manager
14 44 (2.50%) Technical Manager
15 43 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.33%) Programme Manager
17 40 (2.28%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 39 (2.22%) Developer
19 34 (1.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 32 (1.82%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.16%) Middleware
2 26 (1.48%) REST
3 22 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.85%) XML
5 13 (0.74%) ADO
6 11 (0.63%) .NET
7 9 (0.51%) OAuth
7 9 (0.51%) Spring Boot
7 9 (0.51%) Web Services
8 8 (0.46%) JSON
8 8 (0.46%) React
8 8 (0.46%) Spring
9 7 (0.40%) CSS
10 6 (0.34%) HTML
11 5 (0.28%) SOAP
12 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
12 4 (0.23%) AngularJS
12 4 (0.23%) GraphQL
12 4 (0.23%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.23%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.18%) Management Information System
2 71 (4.04%) Product Ownership
3 67 (3.81%) Data Centre
4 64 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 32 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 30 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 25 (1.42%) Clustering
9 25 (1.42%) Public Cloud
9 25 (1.42%) Replication
10 21 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.20%) PMI
11 16 (0.91%) Cloud Native
11 16 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
11 16 (0.91%) NHS
12 15 (0.85%) Life Science
13 14 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (0.74%) Operational Technology
15 12 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 97 (5.52%) Windows
2 47 (2.68%) Windows Server
3 34 (1.94%) Linux
4 28 (1.59%) Unix
5 16 (0.91%) Solaris
6 10 (0.57%) VMS
6 10 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.46%) zOS
8 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.34%) AIX
10 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.057%) Android
13 1 (0.057%) CentOS
13 1 (0.057%) pSOS
13 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (31.13%) Project Management
2 542 (30.85%) Agile
3 512 (29.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 292 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
5 276 (15.71%) Migration
6 257 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 245 (13.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 217 (12.35%) PRINCE2
9 203 (11.55%) Change Management
10 184 (10.47%) Waterfall
11 182 (10.36%) Decision-Making
12 153 (8.71%) Risk Management
13 147 (8.37%) DevOps
14 136 (7.74%) Roadmaps
15 124 (7.06%) Scrum
16 117 (6.66%) Workshop Facilitation
17 114 (6.49%) ERP
18 113 (6.43%) AI
19 111 (6.32%) Project Governance
20 110 (6.26%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 86 (4.89%) SQL
2 74 (4.21%) Python
3 47 (2.68%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.25%) Java
5 18 (1.02%) C#
6 17 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.63%) Bash
8 8 (0.46%) Go
9 7 (0.40%) Bicep
9 7 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.28%) VBA
12 3 (0.17%) ABAP
12 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.17%) C++
12 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 388 (22.08%) Security Cleared
2 284 (16.16%) SC Cleared
3 193 (10.98%) Degree
4 165 (9.39%) PMP
5 129 (7.34%) PMI Certification
6 92 (5.24%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.88%) CCNP
9 30 (1.71%) CCNA
9 30 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.65%) APMP
11 26 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
12 22 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 19 (1.08%) CISSP
13 19 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 15 (0.85%) CISM
14 15 (0.85%) MCSE
15 14 (0.80%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (11.38%) PMO
2 106 (6.03%) QA
3 45 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (2.45%) GDPR
5 41 (2.33%) NIST
6 38 (2.16%) Data Quality
7 24 (1.37%) SLA
8 13 (0.74%) GRC
9 11 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.40%) HL7
12 7 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.34%) Basel III
13 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.28%) ISO 19650
14 5 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 63 (3.59%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.02%) Docker
3 18 (1.02%) vSphere
4 15 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.34%) Firmware
8 4 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.11%) Squid
11 1 (0.057%) Ceph
11 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 41 (2.33%) Ansible
2 34 (1.94%) Terraform
3 26 (1.48%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.74%) SCCM
5 13 (0.74%) vCenter Server
6 10 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.51%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.51%) Nagios
8 7 (0.40%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.28%) Netcool
10 4 (0.23%) SCOM
10 4 (0.23%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.17%) Puppet
12 2 (0.11%) Grafana
12 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
12 2 (0.11%) OMEGAMON
12 2 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 310 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 135 (7.68%) SAP
3 83 (4.72%) Oracle
4 76 (4.33%) ServiceNow
5 62 (3.53%) Cisco
6 43 (2.45%) VMware
7 40 (2.28%) Palo Alto
8 34 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 33 (1.88%) Google
10 28 (1.59%) F5
11 25 (1.42%) Siemens
12 21 (1.20%) IBM
13 19 (1.08%) CheckPoint
14 17 (0.97%) Atlassian
14 17 (0.97%) Workday
15 15 (0.85%) Aruba
16 14 (0.80%) Citrix
16 14 (0.80%) Fortinet
16 14 (0.80%) NEC
17 13 (0.74%) SolarWinds