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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 53 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,542 1,221 1,794
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.94% 3.92% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 4.39% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 999 688 1,204
10th Percentile £331 £331 £363
25th Percentile £413 £433 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £618 £628 £637
90th Percentile £720 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £510 £506
% change year-on-year -4.41% +0.89% +1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 35 25
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £18.18 £23.13 £23.33
Median hourly rate £40.78 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.51% -30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.70 £63.22 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.62 £66.50 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £38.34 £57.32
% change year-on-year +0.98% -33.11% -11.82%

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 34,128 27,815 38,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.17% 89.32% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,612 16,932 25,487
10th Percentile £306 £306 £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 £480 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -3.52% -0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 868 2,102
10th Percentile £14.51 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.04 £31.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -20.52% -10.64% +18.61%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -2 1,339 £525 - 801
UK excluding London -7 779 £488 -4.41% 646
London +1 631 £550 - 282
Work from Home 0 436 £535 +0.94% 372
North of England +13 228 £480 -4.05% 134
South East -5 185 £525 -4.55% 220
Midlands -16 153 £468 -8.78% 115
North West +21 142 £475 -1.55% 82
West Midlands -18 88 £539 -5.03% 83
Scotland -14 78 £450 -5.26% 36
South West -7 76 £538 +7.39% 68
Yorkshire -11 76 £501 -14.66% 41
East Midlands +3 66 £438 -7.28% 32
East of England -7 39 £565 +13.00% 60
Wales +9 18 £322 -39.44% 19
Northern Ireland +1 13 £475 -13.64% 5
North East -11 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
1 112 (7.26%) Confluence
2 60 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.39%) 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%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Appian
7 2 (0.13%) Camunda
7 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.065%) Apache
8 1 (0.065%) IIS
8 1 (0.065%) Moodle
8 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 149 (9.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 107 (6.94%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (6.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 101 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
5 38 (2.46%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.91%) Trello
7 11 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.58%) Siemens NX
9 8 (0.52%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.13%) InDesign
11 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.065%) Revit
12 1 (0.065%) Sketch
12 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 53 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.78%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.65%) Endur
4 10 (0.65%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.65%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (0.45%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.39%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
8 5 (0.32%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.32%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 183 (11.87%) Azure
2 76 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (4.09%) AWS
4 61 (3.96%) Power Platform
5 54 (3.50%) SaaS
6 45 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (2.08%) GCP
8 22 (1.43%) GitHub
9 20 (1.30%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.10%) OCI
11 14 (0.91%) IaaS
12 13 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (0.78%) OpenShift
14 11 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (0.58%) PaaS
15 9 (0.58%) SuccessFactors
16 7 (0.45%) Asana
16 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
17 6 (0.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 78 (5.06%) Firewall
2 43 (2.79%) WAN
3 39 (2.53%) DNS
4 36 (2.33%) LAN
5 30 (1.95%) Network Security
6 22 (1.43%) BGP
6 22 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.30%) OSPF
7 20 (1.30%) SD-WAN
8 17 (1.10%) VPN
9 16 (1.04%) MPLS
10 15 (0.97%) NetScaler
10 15 (0.97%) Wireless
11 14 (0.91%) DHCP
11 14 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 12 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
13 11 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (0.71%) SSL
13 11 (0.71%) VLAN
14 10 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.44%) Power BI
2 28 (1.82%) Tableau
3 21 (1.36%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (0.58%) Metadata
7 8 (0.52%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.39%) GIS
8 6 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.19%) DB2
11 3 (0.19%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (0.19%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.13%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 193 (12.52%) JIRA
2 18 (1.17%) Git
3 16 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.58%) GitLab
5 6 (0.39%) Selenium
6 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
7 4 (0.26%) Subversion
8 3 (0.19%) Appium
8 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.19%) 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
1 654 (42.41%) Social Skills
2 486 (31.52%) Finance
3 204 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (9.27%) Banking
5 139 (9.01%) Public Sector
6 98 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
7 60 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
8 51 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
9 50 (3.24%) Retail
10 44 (2.85%) Manufacturing
11 43 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
12 40 (2.59%) Legal
13 39 (2.53%) Telecoms
14 28 (1.82%) Marketing
15 24 (1.56%) Front Office
16 22 (1.43%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.17%) Law
18 17 (1.10%) Local Government
18 17 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (1.04%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 419 (27.17%) Project Manager
2 206 (13.36%) Analyst
3 178 (11.54%) Lead
4 150 (9.73%) Business Analyst
5 130 (8.43%) Senior
6 86 (5.58%) Architect
7 84 (5.45%) Consultant
8 53 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
9 52 (3.37%) Senior Manager
9 52 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
10 50 (3.24%) IT Manager
11 43 (2.79%) Network Engineer
12 41 (2.66%) Senior Project Manager
13 40 (2.59%) Technical Manager
14 39 (2.53%) Programme Manager
15 35 (2.27%) SAP Manager
16 34 (2.20%) IT Project Manager
17 28 (1.82%) Technical Project Manager
18 27 (1.75%) Infrastructure Manager
19 26 (1.69%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.56%) Middleware
2 23 (1.49%) REST
3 22 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (0.84%) Web Services
5 10 (0.65%) XML
6 8 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
6 8 (0.52%) SOAP
7 7 (0.45%) ADO
7 7 (0.45%) CSS
7 7 (0.45%) HTML
7 7 (0.45%) React
7 7 (0.45%) RESTful
8 6 (0.39%) .NET
8 6 (0.39%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.32%) Node.js
9 5 (0.32%) OAuth
9 5 (0.32%) YAML
9 5 (0.32%) ZK
10 4 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.19%) Product Ownership
2 77 (4.99%) Onboarding
3 59 (3.83%) Data Centre
4 52 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 37 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (2.33%) PMI
7 35 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 32 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.75%) NHS
10 24 (1.56%) Public Cloud
11 21 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.04%) Replication
13 15 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 13 (0.84%) Cloud Native
15 13 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (0.84%) Life Science
16 12 (0.78%) Algorithms
16 12 (0.78%) Clustering
16 12 (0.78%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 86 (5.58%) Windows
2 41 (2.66%) Windows Server
3 31 (2.01%) Linux
4 20 (1.30%) Windows 10
5 19 (1.23%) Unix
6 13 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.78%) Solaris
8 11 (0.71%) VMS
9 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.26%) OpenVMS
12 4 (0.26%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.19%) zOS
14 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.13%) pSOS
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.065%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (34.76%) Agile
2 474 (30.74%) Project Management
3 466 (30.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 287 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
5 232 (15.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 219 (14.20%) Migration
7 214 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 209 (13.55%) PRINCE2
9 183 (11.87%) Change Management
10 164 (10.64%) Waterfall
11 160 (10.38%) DevOps
12 140 (9.08%) Scrum
13 128 (8.30%) Decision-Making
14 121 (7.85%) Risk Management
15 120 (7.78%) Roadmaps
16 119 (7.72%) Business Analysis
17 116 (7.52%) ERP
17 116 (7.52%) ITIL
17 116 (7.52%) Workshop Facilitation
18 111 (7.20%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 78 (5.06%) Python
2 75 (4.86%) SQL
3 46 (2.98%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.56%) Java
5 23 (1.49%) Bash
6 12 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.65%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.45%) C#
9 5 (0.32%) Go
9 5 (0.32%) Perl
10 4 (0.26%) ABAP
10 4 (0.26%) C++
10 4 (0.26%) COBOL
11 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
11 3 (0.19%) HLASM
11 3 (0.19%) JCL
11 3 (0.19%) REXX
11 3 (0.19%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.19%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 268 (17.38%) Security Cleared
2 231 (14.98%) Degree
3 190 (12.32%) SC Cleared
4 139 (9.01%) PMP
5 128 (8.30%) PMI Certification
6 62 (4.02%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.59%) Master's Degree
8 34 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (2.08%) CCNP
10 29 (1.88%) APMP
11 22 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (1.43%) CBAP
11 22 (1.43%) CCNA
12 20 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 16 (1.04%) CISSP
14 14 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.84%) CISM
15 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.78%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (9.21%) PMO
2 101 (6.55%) QA
3 36 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 36 (2.33%) GDPR
4 34 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.62%) NIST
6 16 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (0.97%) SLA
8 14 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.84%) PSD2
10 11 (0.71%) NCSC
11 8 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
11 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.52%) MiFID
11 8 (0.52%) P3O
12 6 (0.39%) ISO 8583
13 5 (0.32%) Basel III
13 5 (0.32%) GRC
14 4 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.23%) Docker
4 15 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.91%) vSphere
6 12 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.19%) NFS
8 3 (0.19%) Veritas File System
8 3 (0.19%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.065%) RACF
Systems Management
1 44 (2.85%) Ansible
2 31 (2.01%) Terraform
3 28 (1.82%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.36%) SCCM
5 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.45%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.39%) Grafana
8 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.32%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.19%) QRadar
12 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.13%) Control-M
12 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 275 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 136 (8.82%) SAP
3 91 (5.90%) Oracle
4 76 (4.93%) Cisco
5 59 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.85%) VMware
7 43 (2.79%) Salesforce
8 28 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.49%) Google
10 22 (1.43%) F5
11 21 (1.36%) Workday
12 18 (1.17%) Citrix
13 17 (1.10%) Aruba
14 15 (0.97%) Red Hat
15 14 (0.91%) CheckPoint
16 13 (0.84%) Ariba
16 13 (0.84%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.84%) IBM
17 12 (0.78%) Fortinet
17 12 (0.78%) SolarWinds