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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 58 53
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,077 1,328 1,440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.89% 4.03% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 4.45% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 857 889
10th Percentile £325 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £638
90th Percentile £706 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 23 43
10th Percentile £22.52 £15.91 £22.60
25th Percentile £35.53 £28.75 £27.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year - +34.34% -35.27%
75th Percentile £78.75 £73.21 £55.79
90th Percentile £90.63 £81.75 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +11.82% +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 45,292 29,826 33,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.48% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,883 18,657 21,289
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £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 2,827 1,696 1,836
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.51 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.84 £42.50
% change year-on-year +92.47% -46.26% +17.24%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 1,792 £525 - 2,406
UK excluding London -5 1,123 £500 - 1,659
London +2 790 £550 -6.38% 1,070
Work from Home -1 616 £500 -4.58% 1,120
South East -4 293 £525 -2.33% 438
North of England +7 274 £496 +4.40% 400
North West +11 185 £500 +5.26% 224
South West +6 174 £494 +3.95% 215
Midlands -22 165 £475 -2.06% 264
Scotland +7 129 £450 -4.26% 152
West Midlands -21 129 £475 -8.61% 182
Yorkshire -28 69 £500 - 116
East of England +5 60 £500 -4.76% 130
East Midlands -16 34 £407 -5.07% 80
Wales +1 23 £525 +89.59% 33
North East -23 21 £350 - 67
Northern Ireland +6 15 £361 -24.05% 59
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
2 116 (5.58%) Confluence
3 40 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.34%) Apache
4 7 (0.34%) SAS
5 6 (0.29%) CMS
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
2 120 (5.78%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
4 93 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.77%) Siemens NX
7 14 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.48%) Trello
9 8 (0.39%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 7 (0.34%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
12 5 (0.24%) ProjectWise
13 2 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.096%) Houdini
13 2 (0.096%) NUKE
14 1 (0.048%) CATIA
14 1 (0.048%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.01%) Teamcenter
3 16 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.72%) Primavera
5 10 (0.48%) Maximo
6 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.39%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.34%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.34%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.29%) ProductWriter
9 6 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.24%) Shopify
11 4 (0.19%) Loan IQ
11 4 (0.19%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 315 (15.17%) Azure
2 141 (6.79%) AWS
3 117 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 115 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
5 93 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (3.76%) SaaS
7 68 (3.27%) Entra ID
8 45 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
9 42 (2.02%) 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 23 (1.11%) OCI
14 23 (1.11%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
15 18 (0.87%) OneDrive
16 15 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 130 (6.26%) Firewall
2 89 (4.29%) DNS
3 75 (3.61%) WAN
4 67 (3.23%) LAN
5 64 (3.08%) VPN
6 63 (3.03%) Network Security
7 49 (2.36%) MPLS
8 45 (2.17%) BGP
9 42 (2.02%) DHCP
10 36 (1.73%) Wireless
11 35 (1.69%) VLAN
12 33 (1.59%) OSPF
12 33 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
13 31 (1.49%) TCP/IP
14 25 (1.20%) SD-WAN
15 24 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (0.77%) SSL
17 15 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.67%) IPsec
19 13 (0.63%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.29%) Power BI
2 43 (2.07%) 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
8 8 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.34%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.29%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.24%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.24%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.19%) Power Query
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
1 858 (41.31%) Social Skills
2 647 (31.15%) Finance
3 279 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 154 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 116 (5.58%) Banking
7 105 (5.06%) Retail
8 101 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
9 97 (4.67%) Legal
10 85 (4.09%) Telecoms
11 63 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
12 61 (2.94%) Manufacturing
13 58 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (1.97%) Local Government
15 34 (1.64%) Marketing
15 34 (1.64%) Military
16 26 (1.25%) Front Office
17 25 (1.20%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.20%) Law
18 24 (1.16%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 492 (23.69%) Project Manager
2 235 (11.31%) Analyst
3 229 (11.03%) Senior
4 194 (9.34%) Lead
5 127 (6.11%) Business Analyst
6 126 (6.07%) Consultant
7 122 (5.87%) Architect
8 101 (4.86%) Senior Manager
9 89 (4.29%) Network Engineer
10 85 (4.09%) Delivery Manager
11 84 (4.04%) IT Manager
11 84 (4.04%) Senior Project Manager
12 61 (2.94%) Developer
13 60 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 57 (2.74%) IT Project Manager
15 48 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
15 48 (2.31%) Technical Manager
16 41 (1.97%) Project Officer
17 39 (1.88%) Infrastructure Manager
18 38 (1.83%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.64%) REST
2 26 (1.25%) Middleware
3 25 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.82%) .NET
5 14 (0.67%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.58%) React
7 11 (0.53%) OAuth
7 11 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
7 11 (0.53%) Web Services
7 11 (0.53%) XML
8 10 (0.48%) ADO
8 10 (0.48%) JSON
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
1 106 (5.10%) Management Information System
2 103 (4.96%) Onboarding
3 86 (4.14%) Data Centre
4 84 (4.04%) Product Ownership
5 44 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 41 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 33 (1.59%) Operational Technology
8 32 (1.54%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 28 (1.35%) Driving Licence
12 27 (1.30%) PKI
13 23 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.01%) Clustering
15 20 (0.96%) PMI
16 19 (0.91%) Derivative
16 19 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 19 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 138 (6.64%) Windows
2 69 (3.32%) Linux
3 64 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.30%) Unix
5 12 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.48%) AIX
6 10 (0.48%) Solaris
7 6 (0.29%) Android
7 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.24%) zOS
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.096%) Debian
11 2 (0.096%) VMS
11 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) CentOS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (38.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 637 (30.67%) Agile
3 557 (26.82%) Project Management
4 373 (17.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 362 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 338 (16.27%) Migration
7 315 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (14.49%) Change Management
9 268 (12.90%) PRINCE2
10 229 (11.03%) Decision-Making
11 222 (10.69%) Waterfall
12 189 (9.10%) Risk Management
13 185 (8.91%) ITIL
14 182 (8.76%) DevOps
15 180 (8.67%) Roadmaps
16 173 (8.33%) AI
17 152 (7.32%) User Acceptance Testing
18 149 (7.17%) Workshop Facilitation
19 144 (6.93%) Cybersecurity
20 140 (6.74%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 115 (5.54%) SQL
2 100 (4.81%) Python
3 67 (3.23%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.25%) Java
5 25 (1.20%) Bash
6 18 (0.87%) C#
7 17 (0.82%) JavaScript
8 14 (0.67%) VBA
9 9 (0.43%) ABAP
9 9 (0.43%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.43%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.24%) Korn
13 4 (0.19%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.19%) Bicep
13 4 (0.19%) Go
13 4 (0.19%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.14%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 466 (22.44%) Security Cleared
2 335 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 205 (9.87%) Degree
4 159 (7.66%) PMP
5 137 (6.60%) PMI Certification
6 117 (5.63%) DV Cleared
7 70 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (2.17%) CCNP
8 45 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 44 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 40 (1.93%) CCNA
11 33 (1.59%) Azure Certification
12 32 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 26 (1.25%) CISSP
14 19 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.87%) MCSE
16 17 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
18 14 (0.67%) CISM
19 13 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (11.36%) PMO
2 89 (4.29%) QA
3 60 (2.89%) NIST
4 57 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (2.70%) GDPR
6 42 (2.02%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.69%) SLA
8 21 (1.01%) GRC
9 13 (0.63%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.53%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.48%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.39%) NCSC
13 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.34%) P3O
15 6 (0.29%) GxP
15 6 (0.29%) IFRS
16 5 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 111 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.20%) Docker
3 25 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 19 (0.91%) vSphere
5 17 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.67%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.53%) Firmware
8 11 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.19%) Squid
9 4 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.14%) Ceph
10 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.096%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.048%) ACF2
12 1 (0.048%) KVM
12 1 (0.048%) RHEV
12 1 (0.048%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 52 (2.50%) Terraform
2 51 (2.46%) Ansible
3 33 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 31 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.11%) 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 6 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.24%) Netcool
13 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.24%) Tivoli
14 4 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 441 (21.23%) Microsoft
2 140 (6.74%) SAP
3 133 (6.40%) Cisco
4 121 (5.83%) ServiceNow
5 91 (4.38%) Oracle
5 91 (4.38%) VMware
6 51 (2.46%) Palo Alto
7 45 (2.17%) Fortinet
8 42 (2.02%) Google
9 40 (1.93%) F5
9 40 (1.93%) Salesforce
10 28 (1.35%) Juniper
10 28 (1.35%) SolarWinds
11 24 (1.16%) IBM
11 24 (1.16%) Workday
12 22 (1.06%) Splunk
13 21 (1.01%) Zscaler
14 19 (0.91%) Citrix
14 19 (0.91%) NEC
15 18 (0.87%) Siemens