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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 53 50
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,426 1,337 1,947
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.99% 3.69% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.27% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 755 1,307
10th Percentile £314 £356 £360
25th Percentile £410 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% - -1.19%
75th Percentile £609 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £513 £516
% change year-on-year -4.88% -0.73% +3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 38 36
10th Percentile £15.91 £19.23 £20.37
25th Percentile £19.18 £22.77 £34.76
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £57.49
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% -39.12% -0.01%
75th Percentile £63.58 £59.06 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £83.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +6.96% -15.00% -13.04%

All Process and 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 32,049 31,289 41,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.77% 86.33% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,064 18,819 27,584
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 1,102 1,587
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.11 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.14 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £33.54 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.43% -24.63% +50.85%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 -1 1,225 £525 -4.55% 1,278
UK excluding London -4 752 £488 -4.88% 865
London +7 550 £550 - 479
Work from Home -1 445 £525 -3.67% 605
South East -1 197 £538 -1.38% 294
North of England -1 184 £475 -5.00% 192
Midlands -3 148 £450 -18.18% 156
North West +4 111 £468 +1.14% 127
West Midlands -11 85 £525 -8.70% 97
South West +1 79 £475 -7.41% 98
Scotland -19 77 £450 -1.32% 41
Yorkshire -18 65 £500 -11.77% 47
East Midlands +11 63 £420 -10.64% 58
East of England -12 34 £550 +12.82% 72
Wales +11 23 £305 -47.09% 18
Northern Ireland 0 17 £450 +41.73% 9
North East -13 7 £270 -52.84% 19

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 94 (6.59%) Confluence
2 63 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.35%) CMS
4 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
5 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.14%) Appian
6 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.070%) Camunda
7 1 (0.070%) CICS
7 1 (0.070%) Drupal
7 1 (0.070%) Moodle
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.070%) Smallworld
Applications
1 112 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (6.38%) Microsoft Project
3 89 (6.24%) Microsoft Office
4 71 (4.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (2.73%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.98%) Trello
7 13 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.21%) InDesign
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.14%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.070%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.070%) Revit
11 1 (0.070%) Simulink
11 1 (0.070%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 57 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.19%) Endur
3 12 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.63%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
6 8 (0.56%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.49%) SAP IBP
7 7 (0.49%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.42%) SAP GTS
8 6 (0.42%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.35%) SAP PLM
9 5 (0.35%) SAP VC
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 179 (12.55%) Azure
2 58 (4.07%) AWS
2 58 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (3.72%) Power Platform
4 49 (3.44%) SaaS
5 43 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
7 27 (1.89%) GCP
8 22 (1.54%) OCI
9 20 (1.40%) Entra ID
10 16 (1.12%) GitHub
11 15 (1.05%) PaaS
12 13 (0.91%) IaaS
12 13 (0.91%) Power Automate
13 12 (0.84%) Asana
13 12 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.77%) PowerApps
15 9 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (0.49%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.02%) Firewall
2 36 (2.52%) WAN
3 28 (1.96%) DNS
4 26 (1.82%) LAN
5 19 (1.33%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.33%) VPN
6 18 (1.26%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.19%) Network Security
8 16 (1.12%) Wireless
9 13 (0.91%) MPLS
10 12 (0.84%) HTTP
11 11 (0.77%) BGP
11 11 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (0.70%) SAN
12 10 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.56%) EIGRP
13 8 (0.56%) OSPF
13 8 (0.56%) SSH
13 8 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.02%) Power BI
2 18 (1.26%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.05%) Tableau
4 13 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.70%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.35%) GIS
8 5 (0.35%) Metadata
8 5 (0.35%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.21%) Big Data
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 167 (11.71%) JIRA
2 27 (1.89%) Git
3 10 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.49%) Selenium
4 7 (0.49%) Subversion
5 5 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.28%) Fiddler
6 4 (0.28%) GitLab
6 4 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.21%) Appium
8 2 (0.14%) Dreamweaver
8 2 (0.14%) Gradle
8 2 (0.14%) JMeter
8 2 (0.14%) Maven
8 2 (0.14%) MSTest
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.070%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Forms
General
1 642 (45.02%) Social Skills
2 465 (32.61%) Finance
3 174 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 99 (6.94%) Banking
6 67 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
7 66 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
8 58 (4.07%) Manufacturing
9 48 (3.37%) Legal
10 47 (3.30%) Retail
11 44 (3.09%) Telecoms
12 43 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (2.66%) Marketing
14 33 (2.31%) Front Office
15 27 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (1.19%) Local Government
18 15 (1.05%) Law
19 14 (0.98%) Billing
Job Titles
1 392 (27.49%) Project Manager
2 200 (14.03%) Analyst
3 152 (10.66%) Lead
4 136 (9.54%) Business Analyst
5 121 (8.49%) Senior
6 98 (6.87%) Consultant
7 88 (6.17%) Architect
8 64 (4.49%) IT Manager
9 61 (4.28%) Delivery Manager
10 53 (3.72%) Senior Manager
11 51 (3.58%) IT Project Manager
12 45 (3.16%) Senior Project Manager
13 39 (2.73%) Technical Manager
14 35 (2.45%) Programme Manager
15 34 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.03%) Developer
16 29 (2.03%) Infrastructure Manager
17 28 (1.96%) Technical Project Manager
18 27 (1.89%) Administrator
18 27 (1.89%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.33%) REST
2 18 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (1.05%) Web Services
4 14 (0.98%) React
4 14 (0.98%) SOAP
5 13 (0.91%) .NET
6 11 (0.77%) AngularJS
6 11 (0.77%) XML
7 10 (0.70%) Middleware
7 10 (0.70%) RESTful
8 9 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
9 8 (0.56%) JMS
9 8 (0.56%) XSD
10 6 (0.42%) HTML
10 6 (0.42%) Node.js
10 6 (0.42%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.42%) YAML
11 5 (0.35%) CSS
11 5 (0.35%) Flash
12 4 (0.28%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 69 (4.84%) Product Ownership
2 68 (4.77%) Onboarding
3 48 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.95%) Data Centre
5 38 (2.66%) PMI
6 34 (2.38%) Virtual Team
7 31 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.33%) NHS
11 14 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 12 (0.84%) Driving Licence
12 12 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.77%) Life Science
14 10 (0.70%) CMDB
14 10 (0.70%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.70%) Mobile App
14 10 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 74 (5.19%) Windows
2 35 (2.45%) Linux
3 31 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.33%) Unix
5 14 (0.98%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.42%) Solaris
8 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.35%) OpenVMS
8 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.070%) Android
12 1 (0.070%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.070%) pSOS
12 1 (0.070%) VMS
12 1 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (36.12%) Agile
2 468 (32.82%) Project Management
3 449 (31.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 252 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
5 250 (17.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 223 (15.64%) Change Management
7 202 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 184 (12.90%) Migration
9 178 (12.48%) PRINCE2
10 165 (11.57%) Waterfall
11 143 (10.03%) Roadmaps
12 140 (9.82%) Risk Management
13 137 (9.61%) ITIL
14 130 (9.12%) Scrum
15 122 (8.56%) DevOps
16 120 (8.42%) Project Governance
17 117 (8.20%) Decision-Making
18 116 (8.13%) ERP
19 108 (7.57%) Business Analysis
20 106 (7.43%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 87 (6.10%) SQL
2 71 (4.98%) Python
3 45 (3.16%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.54%) Bash
4 22 (1.54%) Java
5 12 (0.84%) C#
6 11 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.49%) ABAP
8 6 (0.42%) C++
8 6 (0.42%) Perl
8 6 (0.42%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.28%) VBA
10 2 (0.14%) COBOL
10 2 (0.14%) PHP
10 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.070%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.070%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.070%) HLASM
11 1 (0.070%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.070%) Swift
Qualifications
1 218 (15.29%) Degree
2 214 (15.01%) Security Cleared
3 153 (10.73%) SC Cleared
4 110 (7.71%) PMI Certification
5 101 (7.08%) PMP
6 45 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.33%) CCNP
11 17 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (1.12%) APMP
12 16 (1.12%) CBAP
12 16 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 11 (0.77%) CCNA
14 9 (0.63%) CISSP
15 8 (0.56%) ACCA
15 8 (0.56%) CIMA
15 8 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (7.29%) PMO
2 79 (5.54%) QA
3 34 (2.38%) GDPR
4 29 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.96%) Data Quality
6 25 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 17 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.12%) MiFID
8 16 (1.12%) NIST
9 13 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.91%) SLA
10 11 (0.77%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.77%) EMIR
10 11 (0.77%) PSD2
11 10 (0.70%) NCSC
12 8 (0.56%) COBIT
12 8 (0.56%) P3O
13 6 (0.42%) Def Stans
13 6 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.42%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 41 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (0.91%) Docker
4 10 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.35%) vSphere
9 4 (0.28%) NFS
9 4 (0.28%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.28%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.070%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.070%) RACF
11 1 (0.070%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 24 (1.68%) Ansible
2 22 (1.54%) Terraform
3 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (1.05%) SCCM
4 10 (0.70%) Kubernetes
5 9 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.35%) Grafana
7 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.35%) QRadar
8 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.14%) CEMLI
10 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.14%) PaperCut
10 2 (0.14%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 260 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 122 (8.56%) SAP
3 93 (6.52%) Oracle
4 64 (4.49%) ServiceNow
5 62 (4.35%) Cisco
6 40 (2.81%) Salesforce
7 38 (2.66%) VMware
8 27 (1.89%) Workday
9 20 (1.40%) IBM
10 18 (1.26%) Citrix
11 15 (1.05%) Fortinet
11 15 (1.05%) Google
12 14 (0.98%) F5
12 14 (0.98%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.84%) Ariba
13 12 (0.84%) CyberArk
14 11 (0.77%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.77%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.70%) Databricks
15 10 (0.70%) Splunk