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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 59 53
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,933 1,243 1,593
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 3.92% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.32% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 777 1,009
10th Percentile £327 £329 £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 £635 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £488 £511
% change year-on-year +1.03% -4.65% +0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 22 46
10th Percentile £19.89 £31.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £33.46 £47.38 £26.36
Median hourly rate £46.00 £62.50 £38.30
Median % change year-on-year -26.40% +63.21% -38.73%
75th Percentile £76.75 £77.19 £54.50
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.13 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -26.92% +58.77% -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 43,975 28,802 36,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.98% 90.72% 85.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,325 18,167 23,595
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -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 2,639 1,417 2,517
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.50 £16.24
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -33.38% +0.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.26% -35.31% +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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +7 1,685 £515 -1.90% 1,162
UK excluding London +4 1,091 £493 +1.03% 901
London -6 699 £550 -4.35% 429
Work from Home +2 563 £515 - 572
North of England +8 281 £481 +2.53% 207
South East +12 270 £525 - 279
North West +24 189 £475 +2.70% 120
Midlands -15 180 £475 -7.23% 127
South West +13 163 £494 -1.25% 117
West Midlands -19 137 £481 -7.92% 76
Scotland +3 112 £463 -1.60% 62
Yorkshire -32 75 £500 - 62
East of England -7 60 £500 +11.73% 74
East Midlands -13 41 £402 -9.15% 51
Wales -5 21 £500 +80.56% 31
North East -22 19 £350 -3.45% 26
Northern Ireland +3 13 £334 -36.38% 26
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 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 106 (5.48%) Confluence
3 38 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.36%) CMS
5 6 (0.31%) 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%) Appian
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 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.10%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 156 (8.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (5.69%) Microsoft Project
3 96 (4.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 90 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (1.76%) MS Visio
6 21 (1.09%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.36%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.16%) Revit
9 3 (0.16%) Trello
10 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.052%) CATIA
11 1 (0.052%) Houdini
11 1 (0.052%) NUKE
11 1 (0.052%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 43 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.35%) Teamcenter
3 11 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.57%) Primavera
4 9 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.47%) Maximo
5 7 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.36%) SAP SD
6 6 (0.31%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.31%) SAP PSCD
6 6 (0.31%) Summit
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.26%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 233 (12.05%) Azure
2 115 (5.95%) AWS
3 103 (5.33%) Power Platform
4 98 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (3.47%) SaaS
6 60 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
7 52 (2.69%) Entra ID
8 33 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.60%) GCP
10 24 (1.24%) Google Workspace
11 23 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.09%) GitHub
12 21 (1.09%) IaaS
13 18 (0.93%) PowerApps
14 16 (0.83%) Serverless
14 16 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
15 15 (0.78%) Power Automate
16 14 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (0.72%) Amazon S3
17 13 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 109 (5.64%) Firewall
2 79 (4.09%) DNS
3 64 (3.31%) WAN
4 58 (3.00%) LAN
5 55 (2.85%) Network Security
6 49 (2.53%) VPN
7 37 (1.91%) MPLS
8 36 (1.86%) BGP
9 32 (1.66%) DHCP
10 30 (1.55%) OSPF
10 30 (1.55%) Wireless
11 29 (1.50%) VLAN
12 26 (1.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 24 (1.24%) SD-WAN
13 24 (1.24%) TCP/IP
13 24 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (0.83%) SSL
15 15 (0.78%) BIG-IP
15 15 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
16 13 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (4.35%) Power BI
2 40 (2.07%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (0.88%) Tableau
5 15 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (0.62%) Metadata
8 10 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.47%) 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 (0.26%) Big Data
13 5 (0.26%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
15 3 (0.16%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 205 (10.61%) JIRA
2 24 (1.24%) Git
3 13 (0.67%) GitLab
3 13 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.41%) Bitbucket
4 8 (0.41%) Selenium
5 4 (0.21%) Appium
6 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.16%) JMeter
6 3 (0.16%) MSTest
6 3 (0.16%) Subversion
6 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.10%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.10%) Hudson
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.10%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.10%) TestComplete
7 2 (0.10%) WebDriver
General
1 762 (39.42%) Social Skills
2 611 (31.61%) Finance
3 255 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.60%) Organisational Skills
6 100 (5.17%) Banking
7 96 (4.97%) Retail
8 84 (4.35%) Legal
9 80 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
10 62 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
10 62 (3.21%) Telecoms
11 57 (2.95%) Manufacturing
12 56 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (1.97%) Local Government
14 30 (1.55%) Marketing
14 30 (1.55%) Military
15 23 (1.19%) Investment Banking
16 18 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 18 (0.93%) Publishing
17 17 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 476 (24.62%) Project Manager
2 228 (11.80%) Analyst
3 204 (10.55%) Senior
4 189 (9.78%) Lead
5 112 (5.79%) Business Analyst
6 108 (5.59%) Architect
7 97 (5.02%) Senior Manager
8 85 (4.40%) Consultant
9 80 (4.14%) Delivery Manager
10 78 (4.04%) IT Manager
10 78 (4.04%) Senior Project Manager
11 76 (3.93%) Network Engineer
12 54 (2.79%) Developer
12 54 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 53 (2.74%) IT Project Manager
14 43 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
15 40 (2.07%) Technical Manager
16 38 (1.97%) Project Officer
17 36 (1.86%) Infrastructure Manager
17 36 (1.86%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (1.86%) Middleware
2 31 (1.60%) REST
3 17 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.72%) .NET
5 13 (0.67%) 802.1X
5 13 (0.67%) XML
6 12 (0.62%) OAuth
7 11 (0.57%) ADO
7 11 (0.57%) JSON
8 10 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
8 10 (0.52%) Web Services
9 9 (0.47%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.41%) React
10 8 (0.41%) RESTful
10 8 (0.41%) Spring
11 6 (0.31%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.31%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.31%) PySpark
11 6 (0.31%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.31%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.17%) Management Information System
2 90 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 77 (3.98%) Data Centre
4 64 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 38 (1.97%) Virtual Team
6 34 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (1.50%) Operational Technology
9 28 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 27 (1.40%) Public Cloud
11 25 (1.29%) Clustering
12 24 (1.24%) PKI
12 24 (1.24%) Replication
13 23 (1.19%) Data Structures
14 18 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
14 18 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (0.83%) Driving Licence
15 16 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 111 (5.74%) Windows
2 54 (2.79%) Windows Server
3 45 (2.33%) Linux
4 26 (1.35%) Unix
5 10 (0.52%) Solaris
6 8 (0.41%) AIX
7 7 (0.36%) zOS
8 6 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.10%) Android
12 2 (0.10%) Debian
12 2 (0.10%) VMS
13 1 (0.052%) CentOS
13 1 (0.052%) pSOS
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (32.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 583 (30.16%) Agile
3 535 (27.68%) Project Management
4 321 (16.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 311 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
6 301 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 291 (15.05%) Migration
8 259 (13.40%) Change Management
9 227 (11.74%) PRINCE2
10 212 (10.97%) Decision-Making
11 195 (10.09%) Waterfall
12 159 (8.23%) Risk Management
13 155 (8.02%) AI
14 154 (7.97%) ITIL
15 148 (7.66%) Roadmaps
16 144 (7.45%) DevOps
17 123 (6.36%) ERP
18 122 (6.31%) Scrum
19 120 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
19 120 (6.21%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 110 (5.69%) SQL
2 88 (4.55%) Python
3 58 (3.00%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.14%) C#
5 21 (1.09%) Java
6 20 (1.03%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.72%) Bash
7 14 (0.72%) VBA
8 9 (0.47%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.41%) Go
9 8 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.36%) ABAP
10 7 (0.36%) Bicep
10 7 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.21%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.21%) C++
14 3 (0.16%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 413 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 292 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 191 (9.88%) Degree
4 155 (8.02%) PMP
5 119 (6.16%) PMI Certification
6 111 (5.74%) DV Cleared
7 65 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.28%) CCNP
9 39 (2.02%) CCNA
10 36 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 25 (1.29%) CISSP
14 22 (1.14%) Azure Certification
15 20 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 19 (0.98%) MCSE
17 15 (0.78%) CISM
17 15 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
17 15 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
18 14 (0.72%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (11.38%) PMO
2 102 (5.28%) QA
3 51 (2.64%) GDPR
4 50 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (2.59%) NIST
5 42 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 30 (1.55%) SLA
7 14 (0.72%) GRC
8 12 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.47%) NCSC
11 8 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.36%) HL7
12 7 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.26%) GxP
14 5 (0.26%) IFRS
14 5 (0.26%) P3O
System Software
1 91 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.14%) vSphere
4 20 (1.03%) Docker
4 20 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.57%) Firmware
6 11 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.16%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.16%) Squid
10 2 (0.10%) Ceph
10 2 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.052%) ACF2
11 1 (0.052%) KVM
11 1 (0.052%) RACF
11 1 (0.052%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 42 (2.17%) Ansible
2 37 (1.91%) Terraform
3 25 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.19%) Kubernetes
5 21 (1.09%) SCCM
6 20 (1.03%) FortiGate
7 16 (0.83%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.41%) Nagios
10 7 (0.36%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.31%) SCOM
12 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.26%) Netcool
12 5 (0.26%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.21%) Cisco Prime
13 4 (0.21%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.16%) Nessus
14 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 365 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 124 (6.41%) SAP
3 106 (5.48%) Cisco
4 105 (5.43%) ServiceNow
5 84 (4.35%) Oracle
6 70 (3.62%) VMware
7 51 (2.64%) Palo Alto
8 40 (2.07%) F5
9 37 (1.91%) Fortinet
10 36 (1.86%) Salesforce
11 34 (1.76%) Google
12 29 (1.50%) SolarWinds
13 23 (1.19%) IBM
14 21 (1.09%) Juniper
14 21 (1.09%) Siemens
15 17 (0.88%) Aruba
15 17 (0.88%) Infoblox
15 17 (0.88%) NEC
16 16 (0.83%) CheckPoint
16 16 (0.83%) Workday