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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 61 53
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,010 1,278 1,488
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.81% 3.88% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 4.29% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,351 820 926
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £414 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £618 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +0.61% -6.29% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 21 42
10th Percentile £22.20 £26.25 £22.55
25th Percentile £34.87 £40.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year - +34.34% -36.53%
75th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £55.79
90th Percentile £92.50 £82.50 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £60.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +3.33% +46.56% -41.51%

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 44,856 29,798 34,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.42% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,719 22,071
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,670 1,616 2,026
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.38 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.38 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.82 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.59% -40.46% -

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 1,747 £513 -2.38% 1,066
UK excluding London +3 1,110 £495 +0.61% 819
London +3 744 £541 -5.98% 386
Work from Home +2 587 £500 -2.91% 489
South East +6 298 £525 -2.33% 261
North of England +6 271 £485 +2.11% 228
North West +10 179 £485 +2.11% 125
South West +4 167 £475 - 104
Midlands -22 165 £475 -2.76% 125
West Midlands -18 131 £475 -8.61% 72
Scotland +10 114 £450 -5.26% 40
Yorkshire -31 73 £500 - 70
East of England +13 66 £500 +21.21% 59
East Midlands -19 32 £413 -3.85% 53
Wales +2 25 £500 +73.91% 18
North East -24 21 £350 -3.45% 34
Northern Ireland +3 14 £334 -36.38% 9
Channel Islands - 1 £550 -

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
1 113 (5.62%) SharePoint
2 108 (5.37%) Confluence
3 38 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.35%) CMS
5 6 (0.30%) Apache
5 6 (0.30%) SAS
6 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
6 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.15%) Appian
7 3 (0.15%) CICS
7 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.15%) Kentico
7 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.15%) WordPress
8 2 (0.100%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.100%) Camunda
8 2 (0.100%) JBoss
8 2 (0.100%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 158 (7.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (5.77%) Microsoft Project
3 93 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
3 93 (4.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.80%) Siemens NX
6 14 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.35%) Trello
8 4 (0.20%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.20%) Revit
9 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.100%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.100%) Houdini
10 2 (0.100%) NUKE
11 1 (0.050%) CATIA
11 1 (0.050%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.09%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.60%) Primavera
5 10 (0.50%) Maximo
6 8 (0.40%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.30%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 6 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
7 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.25%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.25%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.25%) SAP HR
9 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 276 (13.73%) Azure
2 128 (6.37%) AWS
3 113 (5.62%) Power Platform
4 102 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 81 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (3.63%) SaaS
7 60 (2.99%) Entra ID
8 44 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
9 38 (1.89%) GCP
10 28 (1.39%) GitHub
11 26 (1.29%) Google Workspace
11 26 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
12 25 (1.24%) IaaS
13 22 (1.09%) PowerApps
14 20 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
15 19 (0.95%) OCI
15 19 (0.95%) Power Automate
16 17 (0.85%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.75%) Amazon S3
17 15 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 126 (6.27%) Firewall
2 89 (4.43%) DNS
3 74 (3.68%) WAN
4 66 (3.28%) LAN
5 61 (3.03%) Network Security
6 58 (2.89%) VPN
7 47 (2.34%) MPLS
8 44 (2.19%) BGP
9 38 (1.89%) DHCP
10 34 (1.69%) TCP/IP
10 34 (1.69%) VLAN
10 34 (1.69%) Wireless
11 33 (1.64%) OSPF
12 32 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (1.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 25 (1.24%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.80%) IPsec
15 16 (0.80%) SSL
16 15 (0.75%) BIG-IP
16 15 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.28%) Power BI
2 46 (2.29%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (0.70%) Tableau
5 13 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (0.55%) Metadata
7 10 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.40%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.35%) Big Data
11 6 (0.30%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.25%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 211 (10.50%) JIRA
2 30 (1.49%) Git
3 15 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.65%) GitLab
5 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.40%) Selenium
6 5 (0.25%) Subversion
7 4 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.15%) JMeter
8 3 (0.15%) MSTest
8 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.100%) Appium
9 2 (0.100%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.100%) Hudson
9 2 (0.100%) MSI
9 2 (0.100%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.050%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.050%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.050%) TestNG
General
1 817 (40.65%) Social Skills
2 635 (31.59%) Finance
3 266 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 148 (7.36%) Organisational Skills
6 104 (5.17%) Banking
6 104 (5.17%) Retail
7 91 (4.53%) Legal
8 90 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
9 77 (3.83%) Telecoms
10 58 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
12 54 (2.69%) Manufacturing
13 39 (1.94%) Local Government
14 34 (1.69%) Marketing
15 31 (1.54%) Military
16 22 (1.09%) Investment Banking
16 22 (1.09%) Law
17 20 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 485 (24.13%) Project Manager
2 229 (11.39%) Analyst
3 213 (10.60%) Senior
4 194 (9.65%) Lead
5 116 (5.77%) Business Analyst
6 115 (5.72%) Architect
7 101 (5.02%) Senior Manager
8 99 (4.93%) Consultant
9 88 (4.38%) Network Engineer
10 85 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
10 85 (4.23%) IT Manager
11 84 (4.18%) Senior Project Manager
12 58 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 58 (2.89%) IT Project Manager
13 56 (2.79%) Developer
14 45 (2.24%) Technical Manager
15 41 (2.04%) Project Officer
15 41 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (1.99%) Infrastructure Manager
17 36 (1.79%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.69%) REST
2 33 (1.64%) Middleware
3 21 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.80%) .NET
5 13 (0.65%) 802.1X
5 13 (0.65%) JSON
5 13 (0.65%) XML
6 12 (0.60%) SAP Fiori
6 12 (0.60%) Web Services
7 11 (0.55%) OAuth
8 10 (0.50%) ADO
9 9 (0.45%) React
10 8 (0.40%) RESTful
10 8 (0.40%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.40%) Spring Boot
11 7 (0.35%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.35%) PySpark
11 7 (0.35%) SOAP
11 7 (0.35%) Spring
12 6 (0.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.12%) Management Information System
2 99 (4.93%) Onboarding
3 83 (4.13%) Data Centre
4 79 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 40 (1.99%) Virtual Team
6 36 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (1.54%) Operational Technology
10 30 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 30 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 29 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.19%) Clustering
13 24 (1.19%) Driving Licence
13 24 (1.19%) PKI
13 24 (1.19%) Replication
14 20 (1.00%) PMI
15 19 (0.95%) Data Structures
15 19 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 119 (5.92%) Windows
2 56 (2.79%) Windows Server
3 55 (2.74%) Linux
4 25 (1.24%) Unix
5 10 (0.50%) AIX
6 9 (0.45%) Solaris
7 8 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.35%) zOS
9 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.100%) Android
12 2 (0.100%) Debian
12 2 (0.100%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.050%) CentOS
13 1 (0.050%) pSOS
13 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (35.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 618 (30.75%) Agile
3 541 (26.92%) Project Management
4 344 (17.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 335 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 319 (15.87%) Migration
7 309 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
8 297 (14.78%) Change Management
9 260 (12.94%) PRINCE2
10 226 (11.24%) Decision-Making
11 213 (10.60%) Waterfall
12 178 (8.86%) ITIL
12 178 (8.86%) Roadmaps
13 176 (8.76%) AI
14 170 (8.46%) Risk Management
15 166 (8.26%) DevOps
16 139 (6.92%) Scrum
17 136 (6.77%) ERP
18 134 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
18 134 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 110 (5.47%) SQL
2 95 (4.73%) Python
3 63 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.09%) Java
5 20 (1.00%) C#
6 19 (0.95%) Bash
7 18 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 14 (0.70%) VBA
9 8 (0.40%) ABAP
9 8 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.35%) Bicep
11 6 (0.30%) Go
11 6 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.20%) C++
13 4 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 438 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 319 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 203 (10.10%) Degree
4 166 (8.26%) PMP
5 139 (6.92%) PMI Certification
6 112 (5.57%) DV Cleared
7 68 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.19%) CCNP
9 43 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 42 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (1.94%) CCNA
12 32 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 27 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 27 (1.34%) CISSP
14 20 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.85%) MCSE
15 17 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (0.75%) CISM
17 13 (0.65%) CCIE
17 13 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (11.44%) PMO
2 94 (4.68%) QA
3 53 (2.64%) NIST
4 51 (2.54%) GDPR
5 49 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.14%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.74%) SLA
8 19 (0.95%) GRC
9 10 (0.50%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.50%) NCSC
9 10 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.35%) HL7
12 6 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.30%) IFRS
12 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.25%) GxP
13 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 98 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.14%) Docker
4 19 (0.95%) vSphere
5 18 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.60%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.55%) Firmware
8 11 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.15%) Squid
12 2 (0.100%) Ceph
12 2 (0.100%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.100%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.050%) ACF2
13 1 (0.050%) KVM
13 1 (0.050%) RACF
13 1 (0.050%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 50 (2.49%) Terraform
2 49 (2.44%) Ansible
3 30 (1.49%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.14%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.90%) SCCM
7 14 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.40%) Nagios
10 7 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.35%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.30%) SCOM
12 5 (0.25%) Netcool
12 5 (0.25%) Puppet
12 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.20%) Grafana
13 4 (0.20%) Nessus
13 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 400 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 135 (6.72%) SAP
3 122 (6.07%) Cisco
4 116 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 85 (4.23%) Oracle
6 76 (3.78%) VMware
7 50 (2.49%) Palo Alto
8 48 (2.39%) F5
9 44 (2.19%) Fortinet
10 40 (1.99%) Google
11 37 (1.84%) Salesforce
12 30 (1.49%) SolarWinds
13 28 (1.39%) Juniper
14 25 (1.24%) IBM
15 23 (1.14%) Workday
16 21 (1.04%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.95%) NEC
18 18 (0.90%) Splunk
19 17 (0.85%) Infoblox
19 17 (0.85%) Siemens