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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 59 52
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,001 1,254 1,541
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.79% 3.84% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.25% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,350 794 964
10th Percentile £327 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £419 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £630 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 20 44
10th Percentile £21.92 £26.48 £21.43
25th Percentile £34.58 £44.69 £26.86
Median hourly rate £53.50 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +40.45% -36.53%
75th Percentile £81.38 £77.50 £55.79
90th Percentile £89.23 £82.75 £67.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.25 £65.08 £40.94
% change year-on-year -7.42% +58.96% -37.02%

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 44,825 29,480 35,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.35% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,802 18,519 22,641
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,641 1,572 2,187
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%
75th Percentile £68.50 £50.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.75 £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.88% -39.15% -1.95%

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 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 22 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 22 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 +8 1,734 £513 -2.38% 1,164
UK excluding London +6 1,110 £500 - 845
London -3 734 £538 -6.52% 436
Work from Home +4 583 £500 -4.40% 534
South East +5 295 £525 -0.47% 243
North of England +8 273 £485 +2.11% 225
North West +17 182 £485 +2.11% 123
Midlands -18 171 £475 -6.17% 133
South West +3 164 £475 -2.06% 123
West Midlands -20 136 £481 -7.46% 82
Scotland +3 116 £450 -4.26% 43
Yorkshire -26 73 £500 -1.23% 71
East of England +9 63 £500 +25.00% 62
East Midlands -17 33 £407 -7.97% 51
Wales -2 24 £525 +82.61% 22
North East -21 20 £350 -3.45% 32
Northern Ireland +5 14 £334 -36.38% 14
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
1 111 (5.55%) SharePoint
2 104 (5.20%) Confluence
3 39 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.30%) CMS
4 6 (0.30%) SAS
5 5 (0.25%) Apache
6 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
6 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.15%) Appian
7 3 (0.15%) Camunda
7 3 (0.15%) CICS
7 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.15%) Kentico
7 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.15%) WordPress
8 2 (0.100%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.100%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.100%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 154 (7.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (5.70%) Microsoft Project
3 91 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
4 90 (4.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (1.85%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.90%) Siemens NX
7 14 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.35%) Trello
9 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.15%) Revit
10 2 (0.100%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.100%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.100%) Houdini
10 2 (0.100%) NUKE
11 1 (0.050%) CATIA
11 1 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 49 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.20%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.60%) Primavera
5 10 (0.50%) Maximo
6 8 (0.40%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.30%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 6 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
8 5 (0.25%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.25%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.25%) Summit
9 4 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 272 (13.59%) Azure
2 124 (6.20%) AWS
3 109 (5.45%) Power Platform
4 104 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
5 79 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (3.50%) SaaS
7 61 (3.05%) Entra ID
8 40 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
9 38 (1.90%) GCP
10 28 (1.40%) GitHub
11 25 (1.25%) Google Workspace
11 25 (1.25%) IaaS
12 24 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.05%) PowerApps
14 20 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
15 18 (0.90%) Power Automate
16 17 (0.85%) OCI
17 16 (0.80%) OneDrive
18 15 (0.75%) Serverless
19 14 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 128 (6.40%) Firewall
2 91 (4.55%) DNS
3 73 (3.65%) WAN
4 65 (3.25%) LAN
5 61 (3.05%) Network Security
6 59 (2.95%) VPN
7 47 (2.35%) MPLS
8 44 (2.20%) BGP
9 39 (1.95%) DHCP
10 35 (1.75%) TCP/IP
11 34 (1.70%) VLAN
11 34 (1.70%) Wireless
12 33 (1.65%) OSPF
13 32 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
14 30 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 25 (1.25%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.80%) IPsec
16 16 (0.80%) SSL
17 15 (0.75%) BIG-IP
17 15 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.25%) Power BI
2 46 (2.30%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (0.70%) Tableau
5 12 (0.60%) Metadata
6 10 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.45%) SAP HANA
8 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.30%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.25%) Big Data
11 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.25%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 208 (10.39%) JIRA
2 30 (1.50%) Git
3 15 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.65%) GitLab
5 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.40%) Selenium
6 5 (0.25%) Subversion
7 4 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.15%) JMeter
8 3 (0.15%) MSTest
8 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.100%) Appium
9 2 (0.100%) Hudson
9 2 (0.100%) MSI
9 2 (0.100%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.050%) Gatling
10 1 (0.050%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.050%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.050%) TestRail
General
1 818 (40.88%) Social Skills
2 630 (31.48%) Finance
3 268 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (11.09%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.35%) Organisational Skills
6 105 (5.25%) Retail
7 98 (4.90%) Banking
8 91 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
8 91 (4.55%) Legal
9 77 (3.85%) Telecoms
10 57 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (2.75%) Manufacturing
12 40 (2.00%) Local Government
13 33 (1.65%) Marketing
14 31 (1.55%) Military
15 22 (1.10%) Investment Banking
16 21 (1.05%) Law
17 19 (0.95%) Financial Institution
17 19 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 481 (24.04%) Project Manager
2 227 (11.34%) Analyst
3 216 (10.79%) Senior
4 194 (9.70%) Lead
5 115 (5.75%) Architect
6 113 (5.65%) Business Analyst
7 104 (5.20%) Senior Manager
8 95 (4.75%) Consultant
9 88 (4.40%) Network Engineer
10 85 (4.25%) Delivery Manager
11 84 (4.20%) IT Manager
11 84 (4.20%) Senior Project Manager
12 59 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 58 (2.90%) IT Project Manager
14 56 (2.80%) Developer
15 44 (2.20%) Technical Manager
16 41 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (2.00%) Project Officer
18 37 (1.85%) Infrastructure Manager
19 36 (1.80%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (1.80%) REST
2 33 (1.65%) Middleware
3 21 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.80%) .NET
5 14 (0.70%) XML
6 13 (0.65%) 802.1X
6 13 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
6 13 (0.65%) Web Services
7 12 (0.60%) JSON
7 12 (0.60%) OAuth
8 10 (0.50%) ADO
9 9 (0.45%) React
9 9 (0.45%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.40%) RESTful
10 8 (0.40%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.40%) SOAP
10 8 (0.40%) Spring
11 7 (0.35%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.30%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.30%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.05%) Management Information System
2 96 (4.80%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.10%) Data Centre
4 77 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 43 (2.15%) Virtual Team
6 35 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 31 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 31 (1.55%) Operational Technology
9 31 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.20%) PKI
10 24 (1.20%) Replication
11 23 (1.15%) Clustering
11 23 (1.15%) Driving Licence
12 20 (1.00%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
12 20 (1.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 123 (6.15%) Windows
2 57 (2.85%) Windows Server
3 50 (2.50%) Linux
4 26 (1.30%) Unix
5 9 (0.45%) AIX
5 9 (0.45%) Solaris
6 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.35%) zOS
7 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.100%) Android
9 2 (0.100%) Debian
9 2 (0.100%) VMS
9 2 (0.100%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.050%) CentOS
10 1 (0.050%) pSOS
10 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (34.98%) Stakeholder Management
2 615 (30.73%) Agile
3 533 (26.64%) Project Management
4 344 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 337 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 324 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
7 314 (15.69%) Migration
8 295 (14.74%) Change Management
9 250 (12.49%) PRINCE2
10 223 (11.14%) Decision-Making
11 206 (10.29%) Waterfall
12 174 (8.70%) ITIL
13 171 (8.55%) AI
13 171 (8.55%) Roadmaps
14 164 (8.20%) DevOps
15 160 (8.00%) Risk Management
16 134 (6.70%) Scrum
17 132 (6.60%) Workshop Facilitation
18 131 (6.55%) ERP
19 127 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.55%) SQL
2 96 (4.80%) Python
3 65 (3.25%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.05%) Java
5 20 (1.00%) C#
6 18 (0.90%) Bash
7 17 (0.85%) JavaScript
8 14 (0.70%) VBA
9 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.40%) ABAP
10 8 (0.40%) Go
10 8 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.35%) Bicep
12 6 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.30%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.20%) C++
14 4 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 427 (21.34%) Security Cleared
2 308 (15.39%) SC Cleared
3 199 (9.95%) Degree
4 161 (8.05%) PMP
5 132 (6.60%) PMI Certification
6 109 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 68 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.20%) CCNP
9 43 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 40 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (1.95%) CCNA
12 32 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 27 (1.35%) Azure Certification
14 26 (1.30%) CISSP
15 20 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.90%) MCSE
16 18 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 14 (0.70%) CISM
18 13 (0.65%) CCIE
18 13 (0.65%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (11.54%) PMO
2 97 (4.85%) QA
3 52 (2.60%) NIST
4 50 (2.50%) GDPR
5 49 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.05%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.75%) SLA
8 18 (0.90%) GRC
9 11 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.45%) NCSC
12 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.35%) HL7
14 6 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.30%) IFRS
14 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.25%) GxP
16 4 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 99 (4.95%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.15%) Docker
4 21 (1.05%) vSphere
5 19 (0.95%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.60%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.55%) Firmware
9 11 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.15%) Squid
12 2 (0.100%) Ceph
12 2 (0.100%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.050%) ACF2
13 1 (0.050%) KVM
13 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.050%) RACF
13 1 (0.050%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 49 (2.45%) Ansible
2 48 (2.40%) Terraform
3 29 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 28 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.15%) FortiGate
6 20 (1.00%) SCCM
7 15 (0.75%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.40%) Nagios
10 7 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.35%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.30%) SCOM
12 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.25%) Netcool
12 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.20%) Nessus
13 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.15%) Grafana
14 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 397 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 137 (6.85%) SAP
3 121 (6.05%) Cisco
4 112 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 86 (4.30%) Oracle
6 75 (3.75%) VMware
7 51 (2.55%) Palo Alto
8 49 (2.45%) F5
9 44 (2.20%) Fortinet
10 40 (2.00%) Google
11 37 (1.85%) Salesforce
12 30 (1.50%) SolarWinds
13 28 (1.40%) Juniper
14 24 (1.20%) IBM
15 22 (1.10%) Zscaler
16 21 (1.05%) Workday
17 19 (0.95%) NEC
18 18 (0.90%) Siemens
19 17 (0.85%) Infoblox
19 17 (0.85%) Splunk