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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 60 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,145 1,311 1,426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.99% 4.00% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 4.42% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,431 844 862
10th Percentile £325 £315 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £619 £609 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 28 43
10th Percentile £22.36 £15.91 £22.60
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.78 £27.71
Median hourly rate £53.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +40.45% -36.03%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.16 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £79.88 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -9.09% +34.34% -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 45,595 29,691 33,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.49% 85.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,992 18,509 21,072
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,871 1,749 1,744
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.68% -37.90% -2.41%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -44.58% +10.67%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 +6 1,841 £525 - 2,119
UK excluding London -3 1,163 £500 +1.63% 1,577
London +5 806 £550 -2.65% 867
Work from Home +5 636 £500 -2.44% 980
South East -5 300 £525 -2.33% 410
North of England +9 291 £485 +2.11% 385
North West +12 197 £498 +4.74% 222
Midlands -21 170 £475 +2.70% 232
South West -3 168 £500 +3.09% 225
Scotland +13 139 £425 -5.56% 138
West Midlands -16 128 £475 -8.61% 155
Yorkshire -22 73 £485 +4.86% 113
East of England +3 63 £500 -4.76% 132
East Midlands -23 37 £413 -4.79% 76
Wales -7 25 £525 +76.47% 40
North East -23 22 £350 - 59
Northern Ireland +2 16 £388 -22.50% 51
Channel Islands - 3 £550 - 1

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
1 124 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 116 (5.41%) Confluence
3 40 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
5 6 (0.28%) SAS
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.19%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
8 3 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.093%) Camunda
9 2 (0.093%) CICS
9 2 (0.093%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.047%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 168 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (5.64%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.75%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.51%) Trello
9 8 (0.37%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.37%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.28%) ProjectWise
12 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.093%) Houdini
13 2 (0.093%) NUKE
14 1 (0.047%) CATIA
14 1 (0.047%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.07%) Teamcenter
3 22 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.70%) Primavera
5 10 (0.47%) Maximo
5 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.28%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 324 (15.10%) Azure
2 140 (6.53%) AWS
3 133 (6.20%) Power Platform
4 126 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
6 82 (3.82%) SaaS
7 70 (3.26%) Entra ID
8 49 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (2.05%) GCP
10 29 (1.35%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.26%) GitHub
11 27 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.26%) OCI
12 26 (1.21%) Google Workspace
12 26 (1.21%) Power Automate
13 24 (1.12%) IaaS
14 23 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
15 18 (0.84%) OneDrive
16 15 (0.70%) PaaS
17 13 (0.61%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.43%) Firewall
2 90 (4.20%) DNS
3 84 (3.92%) WAN
4 75 (3.50%) LAN
5 70 (3.26%) Network Security
6 69 (3.22%) VPN
7 51 (2.38%) MPLS
8 47 (2.19%) BGP
9 43 (2.00%) DHCP
10 42 (1.96%) Wireless
11 37 (1.72%) VLAN
12 36 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (1.54%) OSPF
14 31 (1.45%) TCP/IP
15 25 (1.17%) SD-WAN
16 24 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 18 (0.84%) SSL
18 15 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
19 14 (0.65%) IPsec
20 13 (0.61%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (5.03%) Power BI
2 41 (1.91%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.75%) Metadata
5 15 (0.70%) Tableau
6 11 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.47%) Big Data
7 10 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.42%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.37%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.37%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.23%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.23%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 236 (11.00%) JIRA
2 24 (1.12%) Git
3 14 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.51%) GitLab
5 9 (0.42%) Selenium
6 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) MSI
8 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.093%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.093%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.093%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.093%) TestNG
11 1 (0.047%) Postman
11 1 (0.047%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 895 (41.72%) Social Skills
2 666 (31.05%) Finance
3 297 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 233 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 160 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
6 122 (5.69%) Banking
7 105 (4.90%) Retail
8 102 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
9 95 (4.43%) Legal
10 92 (4.29%) Telecoms
11 68 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
11 68 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 63 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (1.91%) Local Government
14 37 (1.72%) Military
15 32 (1.49%) Marketing
16 27 (1.26%) Front Office
17 26 (1.21%) Law
18 25 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 24 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 510 (23.78%) Project Manager
2 246 (11.47%) Analyst
3 226 (10.54%) Senior
4 201 (9.37%) Lead
5 139 (6.48%) Business Analyst
6 132 (6.15%) Consultant
7 131 (6.11%) Architect
8 99 (4.62%) Senior Manager
9 95 (4.43%) Network Engineer
10 83 (3.87%) Senior Project Manager
11 82 (3.82%) Delivery Manager
11 82 (3.82%) IT Manager
12 62 (2.89%) Developer
13 60 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 55 (2.56%) IT Project Manager
15 49 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (1.86%) SC Cleared Project Manager
16 40 (1.86%) Technical Manager
17 38 (1.77%) Infrastructure Manager
18 37 (1.72%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.28%) Terraform
2 37 (1.72%) REST
3 32 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.17%) Middleware
5 18 (0.84%) .NET
6 14 (0.65%) 802.1X
7 12 (0.56%) React
7 12 (0.56%) XML
8 11 (0.51%) OAuth
8 11 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
8 11 (0.51%) Web Services
9 10 (0.47%) ADO
9 10 (0.47%) JSON
10 9 (0.42%) SAP Basis
11 8 (0.37%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.37%) LDAP
11 8 (0.37%) SOAP
12 7 (0.33%) Kafka
12 7 (0.33%) PySpark
12 7 (0.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 110 (5.13%) Onboarding
2 107 (4.99%) Management Information System
3 90 (4.20%) Data Centre
3 90 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 38 (1.77%) Virtual Team
6 35 (1.63%) Cloud Native
7 34 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (1.59%) Operational Technology
8 33 (1.54%) Driving Licence
9 32 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (1.21%) PKI
12 24 (1.12%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.03%) Derivative
14 21 (0.98%) Clustering
15 20 (0.93%) PMI
15 20 (0.93%) Replication
16 19 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 146 (6.81%) Windows
2 75 (3.50%) Linux
3 68 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.26%) Unix
5 14 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.47%) AIX
6 10 (0.47%) Solaris
7 6 (0.28%) Android
7 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.19%) zOS
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.093%) CentOS
11 2 (0.093%) Debian
11 2 (0.093%) VMS
11 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (40.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 667 (31.10%) Agile
3 581 (27.09%) Project Management
4 402 (18.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 383 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 353 (16.46%) Migration
7 334 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
8 318 (14.83%) Change Management
9 282 (13.15%) PRINCE2
10 239 (11.14%) Decision-Making
11 228 (10.63%) Waterfall
12 195 (9.09%) Risk Management
13 193 (9.00%) ITIL
14 186 (8.67%) DevOps
15 184 (8.58%) AI
16 183 (8.53%) Roadmaps
17 168 (7.83%) Workshop Facilitation
18 161 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
18 161 (7.51%) User Acceptance Testing
19 154 (7.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 113 (5.27%) SQL
2 102 (4.76%) Python
3 70 (3.26%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.21%) Bash
4 26 (1.21%) Java
5 18 (0.84%) C#
6 17 (0.79%) VBA
7 16 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.42%) ABAP
9 8 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.23%) Korn
13 4 (0.19%) BeanShell
13 4 (0.19%) Bicep
13 4 (0.19%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.14%) C++
15 2 (0.093%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 477 (22.24%) Security Cleared
2 348 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 205 (9.56%) Degree
4 167 (7.79%) PMP
5 146 (6.81%) PMI Certification
6 115 (5.36%) DV Cleared
7 76 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.28%) CCNP
9 45 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 42 (1.96%) CCNA
12 34 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 33 (1.54%) Azure Certification
14 28 (1.31%) CISSP
15 18 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.84%) MCSE
16 17 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 16 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
18 15 (0.70%) CISM
19 14 (0.65%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (11.28%) PMO
2 88 (4.10%) QA
3 59 (2.75%) NIST
4 57 (2.66%) GDPR
5 55 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.28%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.63%) SLA
8 20 (0.93%) GRC
9 13 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.61%) ISO 19650
10 11 (0.51%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.47%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.37%) NCSC
12 8 (0.37%) P3O
12 8 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.28%) GxP
13 6 (0.28%) IFRS
14 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 113 (5.27%) Active Directory
2 74 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.31%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.07%) Docker
5 20 (0.93%) vSphere
6 17 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.51%) Firmware
9 11 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
10 4 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.047%) oVirt
13 1 (0.047%) RACF
13 1 (0.047%) RHEV
13 1 (0.047%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 55 (2.56%) Ansible
2 34 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 30 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.07%) FortiGate
5 21 (0.98%) SCCM
6 15 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.70%) vCenter Server
7 11 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
8 10 (0.47%) Puppet
9 9 (0.42%) SCOM
10 8 (0.37%) Nagios
10 8 (0.37%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.33%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.23%) Netcool
13 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 470 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 149 (6.95%) Cisco
3 143 (6.67%) SAP
4 123 (5.73%) ServiceNow
5 101 (4.71%) Oracle
6 99 (4.62%) VMware
7 53 (2.47%) Palo Alto
8 48 (2.24%) Fortinet
9 43 (2.00%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.96%) F5
10 42 (1.96%) Google
11 29 (1.35%) Juniper
11 29 (1.35%) SolarWinds
12 26 (1.21%) Workday
13 23 (1.07%) IBM
14 22 (1.03%) Splunk
15 21 (0.98%) Zscaler
16 20 (0.93%) Citrix
16 20 (0.93%) Siemens
17 19 (0.89%) NEC