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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 58 49
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,892 1,191 1,618
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 3.98% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.37% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 743 1,023
10th Percentile £336 £344 £356
25th Percentile £419 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £510
% change year-on-year - -4.90% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 20 44
10th Percentile £16.95 £35.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £24.65 £49.63 £25.75
Median hourly rate £41.00 £62.50 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -34.40% +75.32% -40.58%
75th Percentile £67.89 £77.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.75 £67.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.27 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -41.12% +58.77% -34.50%

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 43,022 27,229 37,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.89% 91.03% 84.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,821 17,261 23,717
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £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 2,576 1,270 2,626
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 21 June 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 1,667 £514 -2.00% 719
UK excluding London +3 1,063 £485 - 669
London -4 694 £550 -4.35% 224
Work from Home -5 545 £514 -0.19% 360
North of England +15 284 £478 +4.95% 131
South East +5 261 £525 - 228
Midlands -13 192 £475 -7.23% 93
North West +28 191 £478 +3.24% 81
South West +8 151 £500 -6.98% 80
West Midlands -16 137 £475 -9.52% 53
Scotland 0 106 £475 +4.63% 30
Yorkshire -23 76 £500 +8.70% 38
East of England -2 56 £500 +11.73% 69
East Midlands -6 53 £413 -6.78% 40
North East -22 19 £350 -3.45% 17
Wales -8 15 £475 +65.22% 29
Northern Ireland -3 10 £280 -46.76% 35
Channel Islands +1 1 £550 +22.22%

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
1 110 (5.81%) Confluence
2 106 (5.60%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.37%) CMS
5 6 (0.32%) SAS
6 4 (0.21%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.21%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.16%) Camunda
7 3 (0.16%) CICS
7 3 (0.16%) Kentico
7 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.16%) WordPress
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 161 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (5.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 100 (5.29%) Microsoft Project
4 88 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.22%) Siemens NX
7 10 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.16%) Revit
9 3 (0.16%) Trello
10 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.053%) CATIA
10 1 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 36 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.43%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.48%) Primavera
5 8 (0.42%) Maximo
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.32%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
6 6 (0.32%) Summit
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.26%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.26%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 219 (11.58%) Azure
2 105 (5.55%) AWS
3 97 (5.13%) Power Platform
4 96 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (3.65%) SaaS
6 54 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (2.54%) Entra ID
8 30 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (1.59%) GCP
9 24 (1.27%) GitHub
10 23 (1.22%) Google Workspace
11 21 (1.11%) IaaS
12 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (0.85%) PowerApps
13 16 (0.85%) Serverless
14 14 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (0.74%) Amazon S3
15 13 (0.69%) Power Automate
15 13 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 106 (5.60%) Firewall
2 70 (3.70%) DNS
3 58 (3.07%) Network Security
4 54 (2.85%) WAN
5 48 (2.54%) LAN
6 43 (2.27%) VPN
7 31 (1.64%) BGP
8 29 (1.53%) MPLS
8 29 (1.53%) OSPF
9 28 (1.48%) VLAN
10 27 (1.43%) DHCP
11 24 (1.27%) Wireless
12 23 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 21 (1.11%) SD-WAN
13 21 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
14 18 (0.95%) TCP/IP
15 15 (0.79%) SSL
16 13 (0.69%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.69%) IPsec
16 13 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (4.18%) Power BI
2 41 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.53%) Tableau
4 23 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.63%) Metadata
7 10 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.42%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.42%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.32%) Big Data
10 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.26%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
13 3 (0.16%) GIS
Development Applications
1 209 (11.05%) JIRA
2 23 (1.22%) Git
3 14 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.63%) GitLab
5 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.32%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) Appium
7 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.16%) JMeter
7 3 (0.16%) MSTest
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.053%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.053%) NUnit
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle APEX
General
1 727 (38.42%) Social Skills
2 595 (31.45%) Finance
3 246 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (11.58%) Public Sector
5 138 (7.29%) Organisational Skills
6 120 (6.34%) Banking
7 89 (4.70%) Retail
8 83 (4.39%) Legal
9 75 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
10 67 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (2.80%) Telecoms
12 50 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
13 49 (2.59%) Manufacturing
14 37 (1.96%) Local Government
15 30 (1.59%) Military
16 26 (1.37%) Marketing
17 23 (1.22%) Investment Banking
18 20 (1.06%) Financial Institution
19 18 (0.95%) Publishing
20 16 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 465 (24.58%) Project Manager
2 222 (11.73%) Analyst
3 205 (10.84%) Lead
4 197 (10.41%) Senior
5 119 (6.29%) Business Analyst
6 103 (5.44%) Architect
7 94 (4.97%) Senior Manager
8 81 (4.28%) Delivery Manager
9 80 (4.23%) Consultant
10 77 (4.07%) Network Engineer
11 76 (4.02%) IT Manager
12 75 (3.96%) Senior Project Manager
13 53 (2.80%) Developer
13 53 (2.80%) IT Project Manager
14 50 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
15 47 (2.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 40 (2.11%) Technical Manager
17 37 (1.96%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 35 (1.85%) Project Officer
19 33 (1.74%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.06%) Middleware
2 30 (1.59%) REST
3 19 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.79%) XML
5 13 (0.69%) .NET
6 11 (0.58%) 802.1X
6 11 (0.58%) JSON
7 10 (0.53%) ADO
7 10 (0.53%) OAuth
8 9 (0.48%) React
8 9 (0.48%) Spring Boot
8 9 (0.48%) Web Services
9 8 (0.42%) Spring
10 7 (0.37%) RESTful
11 6 (0.32%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.32%) CSS
11 6 (0.32%) PySpark
11 6 (0.32%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.29%) Management Information System
2 89 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.86%) Data Centre
4 72 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 34 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 31 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 31 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.48%) Cloud Native
9 25 (1.32%) Clustering
9 25 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.27%) Replication
11 23 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 22 (1.16%) Operational Technology
13 21 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.11%) PKI
14 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (0.85%) NHS
15 16 (0.85%) PMI
16 15 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 104 (5.50%) Windows
2 49 (2.59%) Windows Server
3 41 (2.17%) Linux
4 30 (1.59%) Unix
5 14 (0.74%) Solaris
6 8 (0.42%) AIX
6 8 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.37%) zOS
8 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.26%) VMS
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.16%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.11%) Android
11 2 (0.11%) Debian
12 1 (0.053%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.053%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (31.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 572 (30.23%) Agile
3 534 (28.22%) Project Management
4 302 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
5 297 (15.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 294 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 287 (15.17%) Migration
8 240 (12.68%) Change Management
9 224 (11.84%) PRINCE2
10 199 (10.52%) Decision-Making
11 189 (9.99%) Waterfall
12 155 (8.19%) DevOps
13 153 (8.09%) Risk Management
14 142 (7.51%) ITIL
15 136 (7.19%) AI
16 132 (6.98%) Roadmaps
17 123 (6.50%) Scrum
18 116 (6.13%) ERP
18 116 (6.13%) Validation
19 114 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.87%) SQL
2 87 (4.60%) Python
3 52 (2.75%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.22%) Java
5 21 (1.11%) C#
6 18 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.58%) Bash
8 10 (0.53%) VBA
9 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.42%) Go
10 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.37%) Bicep
12 6 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.26%) ABAP
13 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.21%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.16%) C++
15 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 411 (21.72%) Security Cleared
2 298 (15.75%) SC Cleared
3 186 (9.83%) Degree
4 158 (8.35%) PMP
5 123 (6.50%) PMI Certification
6 101 (5.34%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (2.27%) CCNP
9 38 (2.01%) CCNA
10 33 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 27 (1.43%) CISSP
12 25 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 19 (1.00%) APMP
14 18 (0.95%) Azure Certification
14 18 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (0.95%) MCSE
15 17 (0.90%) CISM
15 17 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (11.26%) PMO
2 101 (5.34%) QA
3 54 (2.85%) NIST
4 53 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.54%) GDPR
6 39 (2.06%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.11%) SLA
8 14 (0.74%) GRC
9 10 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.48%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.42%) IFRS
12 7 (0.37%) HL7
12 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.32%) Basel III
13 6 (0.32%) GAAP
13 6 (0.32%) NCSC
14 5 (0.26%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 79 (4.18%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.00%) vSphere
4 18 (0.95%) Docker
4 18 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.48%) Firmware
9 8 (0.42%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.16%) Squid
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.053%) ACF2
13 1 (0.053%) KVM
13 1 (0.053%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.053%) RACF
13 1 (0.053%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 43 (2.27%) Ansible
2 41 (2.17%) Terraform
3 29 (1.53%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.90%) FortiGate
6 15 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.69%) SCCM
8 12 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.37%) Nagios
9 7 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.26%) Netcool
10 5 (0.26%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
11 3 (0.16%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 338 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 124 (6.55%) SAP
3 98 (5.18%) ServiceNow
4 96 (5.07%) Cisco
5 91 (4.81%) Oracle
6 57 (3.01%) VMware
7 52 (2.75%) Palo Alto
8 36 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.80%) F5
9 34 (1.80%) Google
10 30 (1.59%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.22%) IBM
11 23 (1.22%) Siemens
12 22 (1.16%) SolarWinds
13 18 (0.95%) CheckPoint
13 18 (0.95%) Workday
14 17 (0.90%) Aruba
14 17 (0.90%) Infoblox
14 17 (0.90%) Juniper
14 17 (0.90%) NEC