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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 59 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,047 1,303 1,460
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.84% 3.96% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 4.38% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 839 906
10th Percentile £325 £322 £358
25th Percentile £413 £419 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.95%
75th Percentile £616 £613 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 22 42
10th Percentile £22.44 £26.22 £22.55
25th Percentile £35.37 £33.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +34.34% -36.53%
75th Percentile £79.63 £74.73 £55.79
90th Percentile £91.10 £82.13 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +7.83% +40.45% -41.51%

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 45,324 29,743 33,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.43% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,013 18,657 21,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,761 1,640 1,941
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.32 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.94
% change year-on-year +86.55% -42.44% +2.35%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +7 1,772 £520 -0.95% 1,311
UK excluding London +1 1,129 £500 - 988
London 0 759 £546 -5.12% 502
Work from Home +2 609 £500 -3.85% 621
South East +3 298 £525 -2.33% 305
North of England +8 277 £485 +2.11% 260
North West +8 185 £485 +2.11% 149
South West +4 174 £485 +3.52% 135
Midlands -25 166 £475 +1.60% 143
West Midlands -24 131 £475 -7.77% 89
Scotland +9 124 £450 -2.60% 53
Yorkshire -28 72 £500 - 72
East of England +8 61 £500 +5.26% 66
East Midlands -23 33 £413 -3.85% 54
Wales +5 25 £500 +73.91% 22
North East -21 21 £350 - 41
Northern Ireland +1 14 £334 -29.68% 30
Channel Islands - 1 £550 -

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
1 116 (5.67%) SharePoint
2 112 (5.47%) Confluence
3 39 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.29%) Apache
4 6 (0.29%) CMS
4 6 (0.29%) SAS
5 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
5 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.15%) Appian
6 3 (0.15%) CICS
6 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.15%) JBoss
6 3 (0.15%) Kentico
6 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.15%) WordPress
7 2 (0.098%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.098%) Camunda
7 2 (0.098%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 153 (7.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (5.67%) Microsoft Project
3 95 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
4 90 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.71%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.78%) Siemens NX
7 14 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.44%) Trello
9 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.20%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.20%) Revit
11 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.098%) Houdini
12 2 (0.098%) NUKE
13 1 (0.049%) CATIA
13 1 (0.049%) ProjectWise
13 1 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 49 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.07%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.64%) Primavera
5 10 (0.49%) Maximo
6 8 (0.39%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.39%) SAP SD
6 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.34%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.29%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.24%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 295 (14.41%) Azure
2 134 (6.55%) AWS
3 113 (5.52%) Power Platform
4 105 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 84 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (3.62%) SaaS
7 62 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 44 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 38 (1.86%) GCP
10 30 (1.47%) GitHub
11 27 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
12 26 (1.27%) Google Workspace
13 25 (1.22%) PowerApps
14 24 (1.17%) IaaS
15 23 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
16 22 (1.07%) Power Automate
17 21 (1.03%) OCI
18 18 (0.88%) OneDrive
19 15 (0.73%) Amazon S3
19 15 (0.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 130 (6.35%) Firewall
2 93 (4.54%) DNS
3 74 (3.62%) WAN
4 68 (3.32%) LAN
5 65 (3.18%) Network Security
6 61 (2.98%) VPN
7 48 (2.34%) MPLS
8 45 (2.20%) BGP
9 42 (2.05%) DHCP
10 36 (1.76%) VLAN
11 34 (1.66%) OSPF
11 34 (1.66%) Wireless
12 32 (1.56%) TCP/IP
12 32 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (1.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 24 (1.17%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.73%) IPsec
15 15 (0.73%) SSL
16 14 (0.68%) BIG-IP
16 14 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.15%) Power BI
2 48 (2.34%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (0.68%) Tableau
5 11 (0.54%) Metadata
5 11 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.44%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.39%) Big Data
8 8 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.29%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.24%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 218 (10.65%) JIRA
2 30 (1.47%) Git
3 16 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.68%) GitLab
5 9 (0.44%) Selenium
6 8 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.24%) Subversion
8 4 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.15%) Appium
9 3 (0.15%) JMeter
9 3 (0.15%) MSTest
9 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.098%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.098%) Hudson
10 2 (0.098%) MSI
10 2 (0.098%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.098%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.098%) TestNG
11 1 (0.049%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.049%) Postman
General
1 836 (40.84%) Social Skills
2 647 (31.61%) Finance
3 267 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.18%) Organisational Skills
6 105 (5.13%) Banking
7 101 (4.93%) Retail
8 97 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
9 92 (4.49%) Legal
10 81 (3.96%) Telecoms
11 62 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (2.69%) Manufacturing
14 42 (2.05%) Local Government
15 34 (1.66%) Military
16 33 (1.61%) Marketing
17 24 (1.17%) Law
18 23 (1.12%) Investment Banking
19 21 (1.03%) Financial Institution
19 21 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 481 (23.50%) Project Manager
2 229 (11.19%) Analyst
3 222 (10.85%) Senior
4 200 (9.77%) Lead
5 120 (5.86%) Business Analyst
6 119 (5.81%) Architect
7 117 (5.72%) Consultant
8 99 (4.84%) Senior Manager
9 90 (4.40%) Network Engineer
10 85 (4.15%) Delivery Manager
10 85 (4.15%) IT Manager
11 82 (4.01%) Senior Project Manager
12 61 (2.98%) Developer
13 60 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 57 (2.78%) IT Project Manager
15 45 (2.20%) Technical Manager
16 43 (2.10%) Solutions Architect
17 42 (2.05%) Project Officer
18 40 (1.95%) Infrastructure Manager
19 37 (1.81%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.61%) REST
2 31 (1.51%) Middleware
3 23 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.83%) .NET
5 13 (0.64%) 802.1X
5 13 (0.64%) JSON
5 13 (0.64%) XML
6 11 (0.54%) OAuth
6 11 (0.54%) React
6 11 (0.54%) SAP Fiori
7 10 (0.49%) ADO
7 10 (0.49%) Web Services
8 8 (0.39%) SAP Basis
9 7 (0.34%) .NET Framework
9 7 (0.34%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.34%) Playwright
9 7 (0.34%) PySpark
9 7 (0.34%) RESTful
9 7 (0.34%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.03%) Management Information System
2 100 (4.89%) Onboarding
3 86 (4.20%) Data Centre
4 81 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 38 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (1.66%) Operational Technology
7 34 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (1.51%) Cloud Native
10 28 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.22%) Driving Licence
13 24 (1.17%) PKI
14 23 (1.12%) Clustering
15 21 (1.03%) Replication
16 20 (0.98%) PMI
17 19 (0.93%) Data Structures
18 18 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (6.16%) Windows
2 62 (3.03%) Linux
3 59 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.32%) Unix
5 11 (0.54%) Solaris
6 10 (0.49%) AIX
7 8 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.34%) zOS
9 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.20%) Android
10 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.098%) Debian
12 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.049%) CentOS
13 1 (0.049%) VMS
13 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (36.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 623 (30.43%) Agile
3 548 (26.77%) Project Management
4 359 (17.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 351 (17.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 329 (16.07%) Migration
7 311 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
8 297 (14.51%) Change Management
9 260 (12.70%) PRINCE2
10 227 (11.09%) Decision-Making
11 212 (10.36%) Waterfall
12 181 (8.84%) ITIL
12 181 (8.84%) Risk Management
13 176 (8.60%) Roadmaps
14 173 (8.45%) AI
15 171 (8.35%) DevOps
16 143 (6.99%) Workshop Facilitation
17 142 (6.94%) User Acceptance Testing
18 140 (6.84%) Scrum
19 139 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 114 (5.57%) SQL
2 101 (4.93%) Python
3 65 (3.18%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.12%) Bash
4 23 (1.12%) Java
5 20 (0.98%) C#
6 18 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.68%) VBA
8 10 (0.49%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.39%) ABAP
9 8 (0.39%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.34%) Bicep
10 7 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.29%) Korn
11 6 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.20%) C++
13 4 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 465 (22.72%) Security Cleared
2 336 (16.41%) SC Cleared
3 199 (9.72%) Degree
4 156 (7.62%) PMP
5 136 (6.64%) PMI Certification
6 119 (5.81%) DV Cleared
7 70 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (2.20%) CCNP
9 43 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 43 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (2.00%) CCNA
11 32 (1.56%) Azure Certification
12 31 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 28 (1.37%) CISSP
14 19 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.88%) MCSE
16 17 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 16 (0.78%) CISM
18 14 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
19 13 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (11.14%) PMO
2 96 (4.69%) QA
3 57 (2.78%) NIST
4 55 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 54 (2.64%) GDPR
6 42 (2.05%) Data Quality
7 34 (1.66%) SLA
8 21 (1.03%) GRC
9 12 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.49%) NCSC
10 10 (0.49%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 6 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.29%) HL7
12 6 (0.29%) IFRS
12 6 (0.29%) P3O
12 6 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.24%) GxP
13 5 (0.24%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 104 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 61 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.17%) Docker
3 24 (1.17%) Hyper-V
4 18 (0.88%) vSphere
5 17 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.64%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.54%) Firmware
7 11 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.20%) Squid
9 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.15%) Ceph
10 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
11 2 (0.098%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.049%) ACF2
12 1 (0.049%) KVM
12 1 (0.049%) RACF
12 1 (0.049%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 51 (2.49%) Terraform
2 50 (2.44%) Ansible
3 30 (1.47%) Kubernetes
4 27 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.07%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.98%) SCCM
7 14 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.68%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.44%) SCOM
9 8 (0.39%) Nagios
10 7 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.34%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.29%) Puppet
12 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.24%) Netcool
12 5 (0.24%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.20%) Grafana
13 4 (0.20%) Nessus
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 410 (20.03%) Microsoft
2 139 (6.79%) SAP
3 128 (6.25%) Cisco
4 114 (5.57%) ServiceNow
5 88 (4.30%) Oracle
6 85 (4.15%) VMware
7 51 (2.49%) Palo Alto
8 45 (2.20%) F5
9 44 (2.15%) Fortinet
10 40 (1.95%) Google
11 39 (1.91%) Salesforce
12 30 (1.47%) SolarWinds
13 28 (1.37%) Juniper
14 25 (1.22%) IBM
15 24 (1.17%) Workday
16 22 (1.07%) Zscaler
17 21 (1.03%) Splunk
18 20 (0.98%) NEC
19 19 (0.93%) Citrix
20 18 (0.88%) Siemens