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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 53 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,559 1,210 1,778
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.88% 3.91% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.37% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,017 685 1,174
10th Percentile £330 £334 £363
25th Percentile £413 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.18% -3.41%
75th Percentile £620 £627 £638
90th Percentile £719 £695 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -5.49% +0.24% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 32 27
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.58 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £23.37 £22.29
Median hourly rate £43.12 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -15.66% -30.83%
75th Percentile £62.55 £64.06 £64.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £76.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.44 £39.68 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.90% -20.64% -23.08%

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 34,907 27,716 39,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.98% 89.51% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,112 17,001 25,591
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 852 2,127
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.15%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.32
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.85% -12.53% +7.69%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -1 1,359 £525 - 617
UK excluding London -4 790 £484 -5.49% 548
London +3 638 £550 +2.04% 172
Work from Home -1 441 £535 -0.23% 296
North of England +17 234 £478 -4.55% 119
South East -9 185 £525 -4.55% 183
Midlands -12 155 £475 -7.32% 80
North West +18 145 £474 -1.76% 83
West Midlands -18 92 £550 -3.00% 54
South West -3 81 £538 +7.29% 66
Yorkshire -9 79 £501 -14.66% 25
Scotland -21 75 £450 -5.26% 30
East Midlands +1 64 £438 -6.78% 26
East of England -8 39 £570 +20.00% 54
Wales +5 20 £374 -26.98% 23
Northern Ireland 0 12 £475 -13.64% 3
North East -11 12 £290 -38.98% 13

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
1 115 (7.38%) Confluence
2 61 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.38%) CMS
5 4 (0.26%) CICS
6 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.19%) MS Project Server
6 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Appian
7 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.064%) Apache
8 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.064%) IIS
8 1 (0.064%) Moodle
8 1 (0.064%) Smallworld
Applications
1 148 (9.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (7.06%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 100 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
5 37 (2.37%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.83%) Trello
7 12 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.58%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.58%) Siemens NX
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.13%) InDesign
10 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.064%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.064%) Revit
11 1 (0.064%) Sketch
11 1 (0.064%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 53 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.83%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.64%) Endur
3 10 (0.64%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.58%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 8 (0.51%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.38%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
8 5 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.32%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.32%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.26%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 187 (11.99%) Azure
2 76 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (4.49%) AWS
4 66 (4.23%) Power Platform
5 55 (3.53%) SaaS
6 45 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (2.05%) GCP
8 23 (1.48%) GitHub
9 20 (1.28%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.09%) OCI
11 14 (0.90%) IaaS
12 13 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (0.83%) OpenShift
13 12 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (0.77%) Amazon S3
14 11 (0.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (0.64%) Serverless
15 10 (0.64%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.20%) Firewall
2 45 (2.89%) WAN
3 40 (2.57%) DNS
4 36 (2.31%) LAN
5 30 (1.92%) Network Security
6 23 (1.48%) BGP
7 21 (1.35%) OSPF
7 21 (1.35%) SD-WAN
8 20 (1.28%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.09%) MPLS
9 17 (1.09%) VPN
10 15 (0.96%) DHCP
10 15 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (0.96%) NetScaler
11 14 (0.90%) Wireless
12 13 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
13 12 (0.77%) VLAN
14 11 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
14 11 (0.71%) SSL
15 10 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.59%) Power BI
2 28 (1.80%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.73%) Tableau
4 21 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (0.64%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.51%) Metadata
9 6 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.38%) GIS
9 6 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.38%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.19%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.19%) SAP Data Services
12 3 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 198 (12.70%) JIRA
2 23 (1.48%) Git
3 18 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.71%) GitLab
5 5 (0.32%) Selenium
6 4 (0.26%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.19%) Subversion
8 2 (0.13%) Appium
8 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.13%) JMeter
8 2 (0.13%) MSTest
8 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 657 (42.14%) Social Skills
2 493 (31.62%) Finance
3 213 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 140 (8.98%) Banking
6 103 (6.61%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
8 55 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
9 50 (3.21%) Retail
10 44 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (2.76%) Legal
11 43 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 37 (2.37%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.80%) Marketing
14 24 (1.54%) Front Office
15 23 (1.48%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.22%) Local Government
17 18 (1.15%) Law
17 18 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 414 (26.56%) Project Manager
2 207 (13.28%) Analyst
3 180 (11.55%) Lead
4 150 (9.62%) Business Analyst
5 132 (8.47%) Senior
6 87 (5.58%) Architect
7 83 (5.32%) Consultant
8 61 (3.91%) Delivery Manager
9 54 (3.46%) Senior Manager
10 52 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
11 50 (3.21%) IT Manager
12 44 (2.82%) Network Engineer
13 42 (2.69%) Senior Project Manager
13 42 (2.69%) Technical Manager
14 39 (2.50%) Programme Manager
15 35 (2.25%) SAP Manager
16 34 (2.18%) IT Project Manager
17 31 (1.99%) Infrastructure Manager
18 27 (1.73%) Administrator
19 26 (1.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.73%) Middleware
2 21 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.35%) REST
3 12 (0.77%) Web Services
3 12 (0.77%) XML
4 8 (0.51%) CSS
4 8 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
4 8 (0.51%) SOAP
5 7 (0.45%) ADO
5 7 (0.45%) HTML
5 7 (0.45%) React
5 7 (0.45%) RESTful
5 7 (0.45%) YAML
6 6 (0.38%) .NET
7 5 (0.32%) JSON
7 5 (0.32%) Node.js
7 5 (0.32%) OAuth
7 5 (0.32%) SailPoint
8 4 (0.26%) Ultra Messaging
8 4 (0.26%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 77 (4.94%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.87%) Onboarding
3 62 (3.98%) Data Centre
4 56 (3.59%) Management Information System
5 34 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 31 (1.99%) PMI
8 29 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (1.80%) NHS
10 25 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.15%) Replication
12 16 (1.03%) Clustering
13 15 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (0.90%) Life Science
15 13 (0.83%) Cloud Native
15 13 (0.83%) Data Structures
16 12 (0.77%) Driving Licence
16 12 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 85 (5.45%) Windows
2 42 (2.69%) Windows Server
3 31 (1.99%) Linux
4 19 (1.22%) Unix
4 19 (1.22%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.71%) Solaris
6 11 (0.71%) VMS
7 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.32%) zOS
10 4 (0.26%) OpenVMS
10 4 (0.26%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.13%) pSOS
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.064%) Android
13 1 (0.064%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (34.77%) Agile
2 475 (30.47%) Project Management
3 450 (28.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 288 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
5 228 (14.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 220 (14.11%) Migration
7 217 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 211 (13.53%) PRINCE2
9 191 (12.25%) Change Management
10 164 (10.52%) Waterfall
11 159 (10.20%) DevOps
12 139 (8.92%) Decision-Making
13 138 (8.85%) Scrum
14 125 (8.02%) Roadmaps
15 120 (7.70%) Risk Management
16 118 (7.57%) Business Analysis
17 114 (7.31%) ITIL
17 114 (7.31%) Workshop Facilitation
18 113 (7.25%) Project Governance
19 111 (7.12%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 79 (5.07%) SQL
2 78 (5.00%) Python
3 50 (3.21%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.48%) Java
5 22 (1.41%) Bash
6 13 (0.83%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.58%) C#
7 9 (0.58%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.32%) Go
8 5 (0.32%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.26%) ABAP
9 4 (0.26%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.26%) C++
9 4 (0.26%) COBOL
9 4 (0.26%) Perl
9 4 (0.26%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
10 3 (0.19%) JCL
10 3 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 289 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 232 (14.88%) Degree
3 205 (13.15%) SC Cleared
4 137 (8.79%) PMP
5 123 (7.89%) PMI Certification
6 71 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.50%) Master's Degree
8 35 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.12%) CCNP
9 33 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.86%) APMP
11 23 (1.48%) CCNA
12 21 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.28%) CBAP
14 19 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (1.03%) CISSP
16 14 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.83%) CISM
17 13 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
18 12 (0.77%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (9.11%) PMO
2 108 (6.93%) QA
3 35 (2.25%) GDPR
4 34 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 32 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.48%) NIST
7 16 (1.03%) SLA
8 15 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.77%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.71%) PSD2
12 9 (0.58%) NCSC
13 8 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
13 8 (0.51%) MiFID
13 8 (0.51%) P3O
14 6 (0.38%) GRC
14 6 (0.38%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.38%) ISO 8583
15 5 (0.32%) Basel III
16 4 (0.26%) EMIR
System Software
1 43 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.35%) Docker
4 15 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.90%) vSphere
6 11 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) NFS
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas File System
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.064%) RACF
Systems Management
1 42 (2.69%) Ansible
2 33 (2.12%) Terraform
3 28 (1.80%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.35%) SCCM
5 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.45%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.38%) Grafana
9 5 (0.32%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
12 2 (0.13%) Control-M
12 2 (0.13%) Nagios
12 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.13%) QRadar
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 281 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 136 (8.72%) SAP
3 86 (5.52%) Oracle
4 76 (4.87%) Cisco
5 65 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.76%) VMware
7 41 (2.63%) Salesforce
8 29 (1.86%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.54%) Google
10 22 (1.41%) F5
11 21 (1.35%) Workday
12 18 (1.15%) Citrix
13 17 (1.09%) Aruba
14 16 (1.03%) CheckPoint
15 15 (0.96%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.96%) IBM
15 15 (0.96%) SolarWinds
16 14 (0.90%) Red Hat
17 13 (0.83%) Ariba
18 12 (0.77%) Siemens