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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 57 52
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,902 1,210 1,580
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 3.95% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 4.35% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,301 751 1,003
10th Percentile £328 £340 £356
25th Percentile £413 £421 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £630 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +0.46% -4.88% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 22 46
10th Percentile £16.98 £31.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £28.76 £47.38 £24.75
Median hourly rate £42.75 £62.50 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -31.60% +75.32% -40.58%
75th Percentile £74.54 £77.19 £51.94
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.13 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -31.54% +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 43,613 27,816 36,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.98% 90.91% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,139 17,565 23,448
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -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 2,612 1,364 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.00% -34.42% +8.91%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +5 1,664 £515 -1.90% 804
UK excluding London +3 1,071 £490 +0.46% 692
London -6 692 £550 -4.35% 266
Work from Home +1 551 £515 +0.43% 369
North of England +13 280 £475 +2.70% 146
South East +7 267 £525 - 252
North West +25 187 £475 - 83
Midlands -11 184 £475 -7.23% 101
South West +14 152 £500 -6.98% 82
West Midlands -16 137 £478 -8.03% 60
Scotland -5 110 £463 +1.87% 32
Yorkshire -22 76 £500 +8.70% 46
East of England -4 58 £500 +11.73% 64
East Midlands -9 45 £402 -9.15% 41
North East -20 19 £350 -3.45% 19
Wales -4 18 £500 +80.56% 27
Northern Ireland +2 12 £334 -36.38% 12
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
1 110 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 105 (5.52%) Confluence
3 38 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.37%) CMS
5 6 (0.32%) SAS
6 5 (0.26%) Apache
7 4 (0.21%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.16%) Camunda
8 3 (0.16%) CICS
8 3 (0.16%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.16%) Kentico
8 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.16%) WordPress
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 157 (8.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (5.36%) Microsoft Project
3 101 (5.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 90 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
5 33 (1.74%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.16%) Siemens NX
7 11 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.16%) Revit
9 3 (0.16%) Trello
10 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.053%) CATIA
11 1 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 42 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.37%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.58%) Primavera
5 9 (0.47%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.47%) Maximo
6 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
6 6 (0.32%) SAP SD
6 6 (0.32%) Summit
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.26%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.21%) Shopify
9 3 (0.16%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 225 (11.83%) Azure
2 110 (5.78%) AWS
3 102 (5.36%) Power Platform
4 98 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (3.63%) SaaS
6 56 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (2.68%) Entra ID
8 32 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.63%) GCP
10 23 (1.21%) Google Workspace
11 22 (1.16%) GitHub
11 22 (1.16%) IaaS
11 22 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 17 (0.89%) PowerApps
13 16 (0.84%) Serverless
14 14 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (0.74%) Amazon S3
14 14 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (0.74%) Power Automate
14 14 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.68%) Firewall
2 75 (3.94%) DNS
3 60 (3.15%) WAN
4 55 (2.89%) LAN
4 55 (2.89%) Network Security
5 47 (2.47%) VPN
6 35 (1.84%) MPLS
7 34 (1.79%) BGP
8 30 (1.58%) OSPF
9 28 (1.47%) DHCP
9 28 (1.47%) VLAN
10 27 (1.42%) Wireless
11 25 (1.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 24 (1.26%) SD-WAN
12 24 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (1.21%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.79%) BIG-IP
14 15 (0.79%) SSL
15 14 (0.74%) IPsec
16 13 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.36%) Power BI
2 41 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.16%) Tableau
4 21 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.63%) Metadata
7 10 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.47%) SAP HANA
9 8 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.42%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.26%) Big Data
12 5 (0.26%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.16%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 206 (10.83%) JIRA
2 23 (1.21%) Git
3 14 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.63%) GitLab
5 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.37%) Selenium
6 4 (0.21%) Appium
7 3 (0.16%) JMeter
7 3 (0.16%) MSTest
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.11%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.11%) Subversion
8 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 738 (38.80%) Social Skills
2 606 (31.86%) Finance
3 249 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (11.46%) Public Sector
5 144 (7.57%) Organisational Skills
6 108 (5.68%) Banking
7 95 (4.99%) Retail
8 80 (4.21%) Legal
9 77 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
10 66 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
11 60 (3.15%) Telecoms
12 57 (3.00%) Manufacturing
13 54 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
14 38 (2.00%) Local Government
15 29 (1.52%) Military
16 28 (1.47%) Marketing
17 23 (1.21%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.00%) Financial Institution
19 18 (0.95%) Publishing
20 17 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 467 (24.55%) Project Manager
2 227 (11.93%) Analyst
3 203 (10.67%) Senior
4 198 (10.41%) Lead
5 115 (6.05%) Business Analyst
6 104 (5.47%) Architect
7 96 (5.05%) Senior Manager
8 82 (4.31%) Consultant
9 80 (4.21%) Delivery Manager
10 77 (4.05%) Senior Project Manager
11 76 (4.00%) IT Manager
12 75 (3.94%) Network Engineer
13 53 (2.79%) Developer
14 52 (2.73%) IT Project Manager
15 51 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 46 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (2.10%) Technical Manager
18 36 (1.89%) Project Officer
18 36 (1.89%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 33 (1.74%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.00%) Middleware
2 30 (1.58%) REST
3 17 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.74%) .NET
4 14 (0.74%) XML
5 12 (0.63%) 802.1X
5 12 (0.63%) OAuth
6 11 (0.58%) ADO
6 11 (0.58%) JSON
7 9 (0.47%) Spring Boot
8 8 (0.42%) React
8 8 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
8 8 (0.42%) Spring
8 8 (0.42%) Web Services
9 7 (0.37%) RESTful
10 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
10 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.32%) CSS
10 6 (0.32%) PySpark
10 6 (0.32%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.31%) Management Information System
2 90 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 78 (4.10%) Data Centre
4 66 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 29 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 29 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (1.42%) Public Cloud
9 26 (1.37%) Operational Technology
10 25 (1.31%) Clustering
11 24 (1.26%) PKI
11 24 (1.26%) Replication
12 23 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 17 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (0.84%) NHS
15 15 (0.79%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 106 (5.57%) Windows
2 52 (2.73%) Windows Server
3 42 (2.21%) Linux
4 27 (1.42%) Unix
5 11 (0.58%) Solaris
6 8 (0.42%) AIX
7 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.37%) zOS
8 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.21%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.11%) Android
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 1 (0.053%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.053%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (32.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 576 (30.28%) Agile
3 533 (28.02%) Project Management
4 310 (16.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 302 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
6 296 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 291 (15.30%) Migration
8 249 (13.09%) Change Management
9 223 (11.72%) PRINCE2
10 207 (10.88%) Decision-Making
11 194 (10.20%) Waterfall
12 154 (8.10%) Risk Management
13 150 (7.89%) ITIL
14 149 (7.83%) DevOps
15 146 (7.68%) AI
16 144 (7.57%) Roadmaps
17 124 (6.52%) ERP
18 121 (6.36%) Scrum
19 117 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
20 115 (6.05%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 109 (5.73%) SQL
2 87 (4.57%) Python
3 54 (2.84%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.10%) C#
4 21 (1.10%) Java
5 19 (1.00%) JavaScript
6 11 (0.58%) Bash
6 11 (0.58%) VBA
7 9 (0.47%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.42%) Go
8 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.37%) Bicep
9 7 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.32%) ABAP
10 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.21%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.21%) C++
13 3 (0.16%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 404 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 290 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 194 (10.20%) Degree
4 158 (8.31%) PMP
5 123 (6.47%) PMI Certification
6 104 (5.47%) DV Cleared
7 63 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.31%) CCNP
9 38 (2.00%) CCNA
10 36 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.37%) CISSP
12 26 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 20 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 19 (1.00%) Azure Certification
14 19 (1.00%) MCSE
15 17 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
16 16 (0.84%) APMP
16 16 (0.84%) CISM
17 14 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (11.25%) PMO
2 102 (5.36%) QA
3 50 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (2.63%) NIST
4 49 (2.58%) GDPR
5 42 (2.21%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.42%) SLA
7 14 (0.74%) GRC
8 11 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.42%) NCSC
12 7 (0.37%) HL7
12 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.32%) IFRS
13 6 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 85 (4.47%) Active Directory
2 48 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.10%) vSphere
4 20 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (1.00%) Docker
6 16 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.58%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.53%) Firmware
8 10 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.16%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.16%) Squid
11 2 (0.11%) Ceph
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.053%) ACF2
12 1 (0.053%) KVM
12 1 (0.053%) RACF
12 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 43 (2.26%) Ansible
2 40 (2.10%) Terraform
3 26 (1.37%) Kubernetes
4 22 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.00%) FortiGate
6 16 (0.84%) SCCM
6 16 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.37%) Nagios
8 7 (0.37%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.26%) Netcool
9 5 (0.26%) Tivoli
10 3 (0.16%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.16%) Nessus
10 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.16%) Puppet
10 3 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 356 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 122 (6.41%) SAP
3 102 (5.36%) Cisco
4 101 (5.31%) ServiceNow
5 86 (4.52%) Oracle
6 65 (3.42%) VMware
7 51 (2.68%) Palo Alto
8 38 (2.00%) F5
9 36 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.79%) Fortinet
10 34 (1.79%) Google
11 24 (1.26%) SolarWinds
12 23 (1.21%) IBM
13 22 (1.16%) Siemens
14 19 (1.00%) Juniper
15 17 (0.89%) CheckPoint
15 17 (0.89%) Infoblox
15 17 (0.89%) NEC
16 16 (0.84%) Aruba
16 16 (0.84%) Workday