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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 52 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,523 1,224 1,840
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.96% 3.94% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 4.42% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 688 1,227
10th Percentile £334 £336 £363
25th Percentile £413 £433 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £618 £630 £637
90th Percentile £720 £697 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £506 £502
% change year-on-year -3.61% +0.75% +0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 33 30
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.65 £20.98
25th Percentile £18.18 £22.66 £24.75
Median hourly rate £40.78 £35.00 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.51% -23.50% -23.75%
75th Percentile £61.70 £63.75 £64.56
90th Percentile £67.62 £67.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £39.68 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.43% -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 33,490 27,717 39,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.15% 89.21% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,205 16,795 25,884
10th Percentile £305 £307 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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 £479 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -4.06% -0.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,020 865 2,103
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.98 £35.25
% change year-on-year -20.23% -12.12% +21.55%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -5 1,323 £525 - 766
UK excluding London -7 767 £488 -3.61% 628
London +5 628 £550 - 260
Work from Home -1 436 £525 -2.33% 373
North of England +8 218 £481 -3.75% 132
South East -5 181 £525 -4.55% 217
Midlands -10 151 £468 -8.28% 119
North West +20 137 £475 -2.96% 80
West Midlands -19 87 £539 -5.03% 85
Scotland -13 79 £450 -5.26% 35
South West -11 78 £538 +7.39% 60
Yorkshire -14 71 £501 -14.66% 41
East Midlands +2 65 £435 -7.45% 34
East of England -6 40 £565 +13.00% 56
Wales +6 18 £322 -39.44% 15
Northern Ireland +1 13 £475 -13.64% 6
North East -12 12 £290 -38.98% 14

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
1 113 (7.42%) Confluence
2 60 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.39%) CMS
5 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.20%) CICS
5 3 (0.20%) MS Project Server
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.13%) Appian
6 2 (0.13%) Camunda
6 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.066%) Apache
7 1 (0.066%) IIS
7 1 (0.066%) Moodle
7 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
Applications
1 147 (9.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (6.96%) Microsoft Project
3 101 (6.63%) Microsoft Office
3 101 (6.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (2.50%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.92%) Trello
6 12 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.59%) Siemens NX
8 7 (0.46%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.20%) 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 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.066%) Revit
11 1 (0.066%) Sketch
11 1 (0.066%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 50 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.79%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.66%) Endur
4 10 (0.66%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.66%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
6 8 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
7 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.46%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.39%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
9 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.33%) SAP PP
9 5 (0.33%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 187 (12.28%) Azure
2 76 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (4.20%) AWS
4 63 (4.14%) Power Platform
5 53 (3.48%) SaaS
6 45 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (2.17%) GCP
8 32 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.44%) GitHub
10 20 (1.31%) Entra ID
11 17 (1.12%) OCI
12 14 (0.92%) IaaS
13 13 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (0.72%) OpenShift
15 9 (0.59%) PaaS
15 9 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
16 7 (0.46%) Asana
16 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
17 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 77 (5.06%) Firewall
2 43 (2.82%) WAN
3 36 (2.36%) LAN
4 34 (2.23%) DNS
5 27 (1.77%) Network Security
6 22 (1.44%) BGP
7 21 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 20 (1.31%) OSPF
8 20 (1.31%) SD-WAN
9 17 (1.12%) VPN
10 16 (1.05%) MPLS
11 15 (0.98%) NetScaler
11 15 (0.98%) Wireless
12 13 (0.85%) DHCP
13 12 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
14 11 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
14 11 (0.72%) SSL
14 11 (0.72%) VLAN
15 10 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
15 10 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.55%) Power BI
2 28 (1.84%) Tableau
3 22 (1.44%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (0.59%) Metadata
6 9 (0.59%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.46%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.39%) GIS
8 6 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.26%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.20%) DB2
11 3 (0.20%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 195 (12.80%) JIRA
2 22 (1.44%) Git
3 16 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.59%) GitLab
5 6 (0.39%) Selenium
6 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.26%) Subversion
8 3 (0.20%) Appium
8 3 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.13%) JMeter
9 2 (0.13%) MSTest
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
9 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 646 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 474 (31.12%) Finance
3 197 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (9.32%) Banking
5 136 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 97 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
8 51 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (3.35%) Retail
9 44 (2.89%) Manufacturing
10 41 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (2.56%) Telecoms
12 38 (2.50%) Legal
13 27 (1.77%) Marketing
14 25 (1.64%) Front Office
15 21 (1.38%) Investment Banking
16 18 (1.18%) Law
17 17 (1.12%) Financial Institution
17 17 (1.12%) Local Government
18 16 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 416 (27.31%) Project Manager
2 203 (13.33%) Analyst
3 175 (11.49%) Lead
4 149 (9.78%) Business Analyst
5 126 (8.27%) Senior
6 83 (5.45%) Architect
7 80 (5.25%) Consultant
8 53 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
9 52 (3.41%) IT Manager
10 51 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
11 50 (3.28%) Senior Manager
12 42 (2.76%) Network Engineer
13 39 (2.56%) Senior Project Manager
14 38 (2.50%) Technical Manager
15 37 (2.43%) Programme Manager
16 36 (2.36%) IT Project Manager
17 33 (2.17%) SAP Manager
18 27 (1.77%) Technical Project Manager
19 26 (1.71%) Infrastructure Manager
19 26 (1.71%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.51%) REST
2 22 (1.44%) Middleware
2 22 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.92%) Web Services
4 13 (0.85%) XML
5 11 (0.72%) SOAP
6 10 (0.66%) React
7 8 (0.53%) CSS
7 8 (0.53%) HTML
7 8 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (0.46%) .NET
8 7 (0.46%) ADO
8 7 (0.46%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.46%) RESTful
9 6 (0.39%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.39%) ZK
10 5 (0.33%) Node.js
10 5 (0.33%) OAuth
10 5 (0.33%) Spring
10 5 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.25%) Product Ownership
2 78 (5.12%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.74%) Data Centre
4 51 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 37 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
5 37 (2.43%) PMI
6 35 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 32 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (1.71%) NHS
9 21 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 20 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.05%) Replication
12 14 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.92%) Data Structures
13 13 (0.85%) Cloud Native
13 13 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (0.79%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.79%) Clustering
14 12 (0.79%) Life Science
14 12 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 87 (5.71%) Windows
2 42 (2.76%) Windows Server
3 30 (1.97%) Linux
4 20 (1.31%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.18%) Unix
6 13 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.72%) Solaris
7 11 (0.72%) VMS
8 9 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.26%) OpenVMS
11 4 (0.26%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.20%) zOS
13 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.13%) pSOS
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.066%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (34.80%) Agile
2 470 (30.86%) Project Management
3 459 (30.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 283 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
5 228 (14.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 218 (14.31%) Migration
7 214 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 205 (13.46%) PRINCE2
9 183 (12.02%) Change Management
10 164 (10.77%) Waterfall
11 160 (10.51%) DevOps
12 143 (9.39%) Scrum
13 128 (8.40%) Decision-Making
14 120 (7.88%) Risk Management
15 118 (7.75%) Roadmaps
16 116 (7.62%) Business Analysis
16 116 (7.62%) ERP
17 115 (7.55%) ITIL
18 114 (7.49%) Workshop Facilitation
19 113 (7.42%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 78 (5.12%) SQL
2 74 (4.86%) Python
3 47 (3.09%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.64%) Java
5 23 (1.51%) Bash
6 12 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.66%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.46%) C#
9 5 (0.33%) Go
9 5 (0.33%) Perl
10 4 (0.26%) ABAP
11 3 (0.20%) Assembly Language
11 3 (0.20%) C++
11 3 (0.20%) COBOL
11 3 (0.20%) HLASM
11 3 (0.20%) JCL
11 3 (0.20%) REXX
11 3 (0.20%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.13%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 269 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 231 (15.17%) Degree
3 191 (12.54%) SC Cleared
4 137 (9.00%) PMP
5 127 (8.34%) PMI Certification
6 62 (4.07%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.63%) Master's Degree
8 34 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (2.10%) CCNP
10 29 (1.90%) APMP
11 22 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (1.44%) CCNA
12 20 (1.31%) CBAP
13 19 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 15 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.92%) CISSP
16 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.72%) CISM
17 11 (0.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (9.19%) PMO
2 102 (6.70%) QA
3 35 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 35 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (2.23%) GDPR
5 25 (1.64%) NIST
6 16 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 16 (1.05%) SLA
7 13 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.79%) PSD2
9 9 (0.59%) NCSC
10 8 (0.53%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.53%) MiFID
10 8 (0.53%) P3O
11 7 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.39%) GRC
12 6 (0.39%) ISO 8583
13 5 (0.33%) Basel III
14 4 (0.26%) EMIR
System Software
1 43 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.25%) Docker
4 15 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.92%) vSphere
6 12 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.20%) NFS
8 3 (0.20%) Veritas File System
8 3 (0.20%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.066%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.066%) RACF
Systems Management
1 44 (2.89%) Ansible
2 29 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.90%) Terraform
3 21 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (1.38%) SCCM
4 10 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (0.46%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.39%) Grafana
7 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.33%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.20%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.20%) QRadar
11 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
11 2 (0.13%) Control-M
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 275 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 132 (8.67%) SAP
3 94 (6.17%) Oracle
4 76 (4.99%) Cisco
5 61 (4.01%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.82%) VMware
7 42 (2.76%) Salesforce
8 28 (1.84%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.44%) Google
10 21 (1.38%) Workday
11 18 (1.18%) Citrix
12 17 (1.12%) Aruba
12 17 (1.12%) F5
13 15 (0.98%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.92%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.85%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.85%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.79%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.79%) Siemens
16 12 (0.79%) SolarWinds