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

 6 months to
31 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 60 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,141 1,319 1,433
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.98% 4.00% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 4.43% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 849 859
10th Percentile £325 £313 £362
25th Percentile £413 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £607 £638
90th Percentile £706 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £513
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.44% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 28 37
10th Percentile £22.36 £15.91 £22.00
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.78 £26.25
Median hourly rate £53.00 £61.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +75.00% -44.00%
75th Percentile £76.00 £71.68 £56.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.25 £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £57.26 £38.75
% change year-on-year -12.67% +47.75% -32.61%

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 45,455 29,807 32,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.45% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,783 18,569 20,737
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% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,905 1,767 1,609
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.30 £18.89
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +8 1,826 £525 - 1,512
UK excluding London -1 1,151 £500 +2.09% 1,116
London +3 810 £550 -2.22% 627
Work from Home +3 623 £500 -1.91% 642
South East -5 304 £525 -2.33% 346
North of England +9 289 £485 +2.11% 254
North West +11 194 £498 +4.74% 138
Midlands -24 160 £475 +5.56% 185
South West -3 158 £513 +7.89% 145
Scotland +16 143 £425 -5.56% 61
West Midlands -16 121 £475 -8.19% 125
Yorkshire -25 74 £485 +0.78% 71
East of England +7 62 £500 -4.76% 102
East Midlands -23 35 £413 -3.40% 58
Wales -1 26 £438 +42.28% 33
North East -16 22 £350 - 48
Northern Ireland +1 16 £388 -18.42% 14
Channel Islands - 6 £538 - 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
1 119 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 113 (5.28%) Confluence
3 35 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
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%) MTS
Applications
1 173 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (5.65%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
4 99 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.75%) Siemens NX
7 11 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.51%) Trello
8 8 (0.37%) Navisworks
8 8 (0.37%) Revit
9 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.28%) ProjectWise
11 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.093%) Houdini
12 2 (0.093%) NUKE
13 1 (0.047%) CATIA
13 1 (0.047%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.12%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.61%) Primavera
5 11 (0.51%) Maximo
6 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.37%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.33%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 328 (15.32%) Azure
2 142 (6.63%) AWS
3 128 (5.98%) Power Platform
4 124 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (3.78%) SaaS
7 71 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 49 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
9 46 (2.15%) GCP
10 28 (1.31%) GitHub
11 27 (1.26%) OCI
11 27 (1.26%) PowerApps
12 25 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
13 24 (1.12%) Google Workspace
14 23 (1.07%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
15 22 (1.03%) IaaS
16 16 (0.75%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.70%) PaaS
18 13 (0.61%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.45%) Firewall
2 88 (4.11%) DNS
3 86 (4.02%) WAN
4 76 (3.55%) LAN
4 76 (3.55%) Network Security
5 70 (3.27%) VPN
6 50 (2.34%) MPLS
7 46 (2.15%) BGP
8 44 (2.06%) DHCP
9 41 (1.91%) Wireless
10 37 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (1.68%) VLAN
12 32 (1.49%) OSPF
13 30 (1.40%) TCP/IP
14 24 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 24 (1.12%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.84%) SSL
16 14 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
16 14 (0.65%) IPsec
17 13 (0.61%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.90%) Power BI
2 41 (1.91%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.75%) Metadata
5 14 (0.65%) Tableau
6 11 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.47%) Big Data
8 9 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.37%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (0.33%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.28%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.23%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 233 (10.88%) JIRA
2 24 (1.12%) Git
3 14 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.47%) GitLab
5 9 (0.42%) Selenium
6 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.28%) MSI
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
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%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.047%) SpecFlow
General
1 886 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 663 (30.97%) Finance
3 296 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 159 (7.43%) Organisational Skills
6 125 (5.84%) Banking
7 101 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
8 100 (4.67%) Retail
9 92 (4.30%) Legal
9 92 (4.30%) Telecoms
10 68 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
10 68 (3.18%) Manufacturing
11 60 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (1.96%) Local Government
13 40 (1.87%) Military
14 34 (1.59%) Marketing
15 32 (1.49%) Front Office
16 29 (1.35%) Law
17 25 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 493 (23.03%) Project Manager
2 243 (11.35%) Analyst
3 224 (10.46%) Senior
4 204 (9.53%) Lead
5 140 (6.54%) Business Analyst
6 139 (6.49%) Architect
7 134 (6.26%) Consultant
8 98 (4.58%) Senior Manager
9 95 (4.44%) Network Engineer
10 86 (4.02%) IT Manager
11 85 (3.97%) Delivery Manager
12 82 (3.83%) Senior Project Manager
13 59 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 57 (2.66%) Developer
15 56 (2.62%) IT Project Manager
16 55 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (1.77%) Project Officer
17 38 (1.77%) Transformation Manager
18 37 (1.73%) Infrastructure Manager
18 37 (1.73%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.29%) Terraform
2 38 (1.77%) REST
3 31 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.17%) Middleware
5 18 (0.84%) .NET
6 13 (0.61%) 802.1X
7 12 (0.56%) XML
8 11 (0.51%) ADO
8 11 (0.51%) OAuth
8 11 (0.51%) React
8 11 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
8 11 (0.51%) Web Services
9 10 (0.47%) JSON
10 9 (0.42%) LDAP
10 9 (0.42%) SOAP
11 8 (0.37%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.37%) SAP Basis
12 7 (0.33%) Kafka
12 7 (0.33%) RESTful
12 7 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 104 (4.86%) Onboarding
2 103 (4.81%) Management Information System
3 90 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 87 (4.06%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 37 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (1.73%) Virtual Team
7 36 (1.68%) Cloud Native
7 36 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 34 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (1.54%) Driving Licence
9 33 (1.54%) Operational Technology
10 32 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.26%) PKI
12 24 (1.12%) Derivative
12 24 (1.12%) Public Cloud
13 21 (0.98%) Clustering
14 19 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (0.89%) Replication
15 18 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.91%) Windows
2 76 (3.55%) Linux
3 71 (3.32%) 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 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.14%) zOS
10 2 (0.093%) CentOS
10 2 (0.093%) Debian
10 2 (0.093%) VMS
10 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 878 (41.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 676 (31.57%) Agile
3 581 (27.14%) Project Management
4 401 (18.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 388 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 348 (16.25%) Migration
7 338 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 323 (15.09%) Change Management
9 281 (13.12%) PRINCE2
10 244 (11.40%) Decision-Making
11 232 (10.84%) Waterfall
12 201 (9.39%) Risk Management
13 194 (9.06%) ITIL
14 189 (8.83%) DevOps
15 185 (8.64%) Roadmaps
16 182 (8.50%) AI
17 169 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
18 165 (7.71%) Workshop Facilitation
19 159 (7.43%) User Acceptance Testing
20 156 (7.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 109 (5.09%) SQL
2 103 (4.81%) Python
3 74 (3.46%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.26%) Bash
4 27 (1.26%) Java
5 19 (0.89%) C#
6 17 (0.79%) JavaScript
6 17 (0.79%) VBA
7 9 (0.42%) ABAP
7 9 (0.42%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
9 6 (0.28%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.23%) BeanShell
10 5 (0.23%) Bicep
10 5 (0.23%) Korn
11 4 (0.19%) Go
12 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.14%) C++
13 2 (0.093%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 478 (22.33%) Security Cleared
2 348 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 204 (9.53%) Degree
4 161 (7.52%) PMP
5 140 (6.54%) PMI Certification
6 118 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 74 (3.46%) Cisco Certification
8 47 (2.20%) CCNP
9 44 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 42 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 40 (1.87%) CCNA
12 36 (1.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 34 (1.59%) Azure Certification
14 29 (1.35%) CISSP
15 19 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.84%) MCSE
17 17 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 16 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
19 15 (0.70%) CISM
19 15 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (11.40%) PMO
2 88 (4.11%) QA
3 61 (2.85%) NIST
4 59 (2.76%) GDPR
5 56 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.24%) Data Quality
7 33 (1.54%) SLA
8 20 (0.93%) GRC
9 15 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.61%) ISO 19650
11 11 (0.51%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.37%) NCSC
13 8 (0.37%) P3O
14 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.33%) GxP
14 7 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
16 5 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 114 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 74 (3.46%) 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
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.093%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.047%) ACF2
13 1 (0.047%) KVM
13 1 (0.047%) oVirt
13 1 (0.047%) RACF
Systems Management
1 54 (2.52%) Ansible
2 34 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.35%) 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 12 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.42%) Puppet
8 9 (0.42%) SCOM
9 8 (0.37%) Nagios
10 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.33%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.28%) WMI
12 5 (0.23%) Netcool
12 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 476 (22.23%) Microsoft
2 151 (7.05%) Cisco
3 140 (6.54%) SAP
4 124 (5.79%) ServiceNow
5 99 (4.62%) Oracle
5 99 (4.62%) VMware
6 53 (2.48%) Palo Alto
7 50 (2.34%) Fortinet
8 46 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 43 (2.01%) F5
10 38 (1.77%) Google
11 30 (1.40%) SolarWinds
12 29 (1.35%) Juniper
13 26 (1.21%) Workday
14 23 (1.07%) Splunk
15 22 (1.03%) IBM
16 21 (0.98%) Siemens
16 21 (0.98%) Zscaler
17 20 (0.93%) NEC
18 19 (0.89%) Ariba
1,724 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide