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

 6 months to
9 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 2,077 1,326 1,439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.88% 4.00% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 4.42% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,393 855 889
10th Percentile £325 £324 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 22 44
10th Percentile £22.60 £15.91 £22.50
25th Percentile £35.53 £27.63 £27.17
Median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +34.34% -35.27%
75th Percentile £78.69 £74.73 £55.79
90th Percentile £90.17 £82.13 £67.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +12.73% +34.34% -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 45,550 29,973 33,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.00% 90.45% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,063 18,757 21,325
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.02%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,827 1,692 1,840
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.27
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.47% +12.73%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +6 1,793 £520 -0.95% 1,653
UK excluding London -8 1,129 £500 - 1,125
London -1 785 £550 -6.38% 673
Work from Home +2 618 £500 -3.85% 730
South East -3 293 £525 -2.33% 353
North of England +5 280 £486 +2.37% 283
North West +11 189 £497 +4.59% 159
South West +1 174 £485 +2.11% 142
Midlands -24 165 £475 +0.26% 181
West Midlands -18 130 £475 -8.61% 120
Scotland +9 129 £450 -4.26% 61
Yorkshire -25 71 £500 - 84
East of England +3 60 £500 -4.76% 94
East Midlands -20 33 £407 -5.07% 61
Wales -5 23 £525 +89.59% 27
North East -24 21 £350 - 44
Northern Ireland +5 15 £361 -24.05% 14
Channel Islands - 1 £550 - 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
1 120 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 117 (5.63%) Confluence
3 40 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.34%) Apache
5 6 (0.29%) CMS
5 6 (0.29%) SAS
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.24%) JBoss
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
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 (0.096%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.096%) Camunda
9 2 (0.096%) CICS
9 2 (0.096%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 159 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (5.83%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
4 92 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 36 (1.73%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.77%) Siemens NX
7 15 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.48%) Trello
9 8 (0.39%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 7 (0.34%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) ProjectWise
12 2 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.096%) Houdini
12 2 (0.096%) NUKE
13 1 (0.048%) CATIA
13 1 (0.048%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 48 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.01%) Teamcenter
3 15 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.72%) Primavera
4 10 (0.48%) Maximo
5 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.34%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.34%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.29%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.29%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.24%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.24%) Shopify
10 4 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 309 (14.88%) Azure
2 138 (6.64%) AWS
3 118 (5.68%) Power Platform
4 113 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
5 92 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
6 77 (3.71%) SaaS
7 66 (3.18%) Entra ID
8 45 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
9 40 (1.93%) GCP
10 30 (1.44%) GitHub
11 28 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.30%) Google Workspace
13 26 (1.25%) IaaS
13 26 (1.25%) PowerApps
14 24 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
15 23 (1.11%) Power Automate
16 22 (1.06%) OCI
17 18 (0.87%) OneDrive
18 15 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 131 (6.31%) Firewall
2 89 (4.29%) DNS
3 75 (3.61%) WAN
4 68 (3.27%) LAN
5 64 (3.08%) VPN
6 63 (3.03%) Network Security
7 48 (2.31%) MPLS
8 45 (2.17%) BGP
9 41 (1.97%) DHCP
10 36 (1.73%) VLAN
11 35 (1.69%) Wireless
12 34 (1.64%) OSPF
12 34 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
13 31 (1.49%) TCP/IP
14 26 (1.25%) SD-WAN
15 24 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (0.77%) SSL
17 15 (0.72%) IPsec
18 14 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.33%) Power BI
2 46 (2.21%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.67%) Metadata
4 14 (0.67%) Tableau
5 12 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (0.48%) Big Data
6 10 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.43%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.34%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.29%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.24%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.24%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 225 (10.83%) JIRA
2 28 (1.35%) Git
3 16 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.72%) GitLab
5 9 (0.43%) Selenium
6 8 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.24%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSI
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.096%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.096%) Hudson
10 2 (0.096%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.096%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.096%) TestNG
11 1 (0.048%) Postman
11 1 (0.048%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 856 (41.21%) Social Skills
2 647 (31.15%) Finance
3 279 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (11.07%) Public Sector
5 152 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
6 115 (5.54%) Banking
7 105 (5.06%) Retail
8 98 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
9 97 (4.67%) Legal
10 85 (4.09%) Telecoms
11 63 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
12 59 (2.84%) Manufacturing
13 56 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (1.97%) Local Government
15 34 (1.64%) Marketing
15 34 (1.64%) Military
16 24 (1.16%) Financial Institution
16 24 (1.16%) Front Office
16 24 (1.16%) Investment Banking
16 24 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 490 (23.59%) Project Manager
2 233 (11.22%) Analyst
3 230 (11.07%) Senior
4 197 (9.48%) Lead
5 126 (6.07%) Business Analyst
6 122 (5.87%) Consultant
7 121 (5.83%) Architect
8 104 (5.01%) Senior Manager
9 89 (4.29%) Network Engineer
10 86 (4.14%) Delivery Manager
10 86 (4.14%) Senior Project Manager
11 83 (4.00%) IT Manager
12 61 (2.94%) Developer
12 61 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 56 (2.70%) IT Project Manager
14 48 (2.31%) Technical Manager
15 47 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (2.07%) Project Officer
17 41 (1.97%) Infrastructure Manager
18 38 (1.83%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.59%) REST
2 29 (1.40%) Middleware
3 25 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.82%) .NET
5 13 (0.63%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.58%) React
7 11 (0.53%) OAuth
7 11 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
7 11 (0.53%) XML
8 10 (0.48%) ADO
8 10 (0.48%) JSON
8 10 (0.48%) Web Services
9 9 (0.43%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.39%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.34%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.34%) Kafka
11 7 (0.34%) Playwright
11 7 (0.34%) PySpark
11 7 (0.34%) RESTful
11 7 (0.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 107 (5.15%) Management Information System
2 102 (4.91%) Onboarding
3 88 (4.24%) Data Centre
4 83 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 41 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (1.93%) Virtual Team
7 33 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 33 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.54%) Cloud Native
9 29 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 29 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.35%) Driving Licence
11 25 (1.20%) Clustering
11 25 (1.20%) PKI
12 24 (1.16%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.06%) Replication
14 21 (1.01%) PMI
15 18 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.87%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.36%) Windows
2 65 (3.13%) Linux
3 61 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.25%) Unix
5 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.48%) AIX
6 10 (0.48%) Solaris
7 7 (0.34%) zOS
8 6 (0.29%) Android
8 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.096%) Debian
12 2 (0.096%) VMS
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.048%) CentOS
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 780 (37.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 637 (30.67%) Agile
3 561 (27.01%) Project Management
4 371 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 362 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 342 (16.47%) Migration
7 314 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (14.49%) Change Management
9 267 (12.86%) PRINCE2
10 230 (11.07%) Decision-Making
11 221 (10.64%) Waterfall
12 188 (9.05%) Risk Management
13 185 (8.91%) ITIL
14 182 (8.76%) Roadmaps
15 180 (8.67%) DevOps
16 171 (8.23%) AI
17 151 (7.27%) User Acceptance Testing
18 148 (7.13%) Workshop Facilitation
19 143 (6.88%) Cybersecurity
20 140 (6.74%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 116 (5.58%) SQL
2 99 (4.77%) Python
3 68 (3.27%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.20%) Bash
4 25 (1.20%) Java
5 18 (0.87%) C#
5 18 (0.87%) JavaScript
6 13 (0.63%) VBA
7 9 (0.43%) ABAP
7 9 (0.43%) PL/SQL
8 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
8 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
10 5 (0.24%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.24%) Korn
11 4 (0.19%) Bicep
11 4 (0.19%) Go
11 4 (0.19%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 474 (22.82%) Security Cleared
2 341 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 207 (9.97%) Degree
4 159 (7.66%) PMP
5 139 (6.69%) PMI Certification
6 121 (5.83%) DV Cleared
7 72 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
8 47 (2.26%) CCNP
9 44 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 44 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (2.02%) CCNA
11 32 (1.54%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 26 (1.25%) CISSP
13 19 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.87%) MCSE
15 17 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 14 (0.67%) CISM
16 14 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
17 13 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (11.31%) PMO
2 91 (4.38%) QA
3 59 (2.84%) NIST
4 56 (2.70%) GDPR
4 56 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.07%) Data Quality
6 36 (1.73%) SLA
7 22 (1.06%) GRC
8 12 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.53%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.53%) ISO 19650
10 10 (0.48%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.39%) NCSC
11 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.29%) HL7
12 6 (0.29%) IFRS
12 6 (0.29%) P3O
13 5 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 106 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.20%) Docker
4 24 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.87%) vSphere
6 17 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.53%) Firmware
9 11 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
10 4 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.096%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.048%) ACF2
13 1 (0.048%) KVM
13 1 (0.048%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (2.46%) Terraform
2 50 (2.41%) Ansible
3 32 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 29 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.06%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.96%) SCCM
7 16 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.72%) vCenter Server
9 10 (0.48%) SCOM
10 8 (0.39%) Cisco Prime
10 8 (0.39%) Nagios
10 8 (0.39%) Puppet
11 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.24%) Netcool
12 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.24%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 434 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 141 (6.79%) SAP
3 133 (6.40%) Cisco
4 119 (5.73%) ServiceNow
5 90 (4.33%) Oracle
6 88 (4.24%) VMware
7 52 (2.50%) Palo Alto
8 44 (2.12%) Fortinet
9 42 (2.02%) Google
10 40 (1.93%) F5
11 39 (1.88%) Salesforce
12 30 (1.44%) SolarWinds
13 28 (1.35%) Juniper
14 25 (1.20%) Workday
15 24 (1.16%) IBM
16 22 (1.06%) Splunk
17 21 (1.01%) Zscaler
18 20 (0.96%) NEC
19 19 (0.91%) Citrix
20 18 (0.87%) Siemens
1,877 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide