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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 55 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,749 1,136 1,710
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 3.85% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.24% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,172 687 1,122
10th Percentile £325 £323 £363
25th Percentile £413 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 22 34
10th Percentile £15.93 £21.39 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.18 £27.95 £24.92
Median hourly rate £45.46 £51.25 £38.30
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +33.83% -41.08%
75th Percentile £65.13 £74.06 £41.92
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.27 £61.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -30.06% +58.77% -37.02%

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 39,506 26,799 37,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.79% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,946 17,322 24,335
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -0.36% -2.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,068 2,432
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £35.58
% change year-on-year +49.48% -21.29% -4.62%

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 25 April 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 25 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 17 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 25 April 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 +4 1,558 £510 -2.86% 647
UK excluding London 0 960 £481 -3.75% 566
London +6 655 £550 - 171
Work from Home +4 501 £526 +0.24% 299
North of England +25 279 £475 -1.55% 115
South East +2 229 £525 -4.55% 212
North West +25 187 £475 - 62
Midlands -7 184 £475 -5.00% 98
South West +4 135 £475 - 68
West Midlands -12 125 £481 -7.92% 68
Yorkshire -16 77 £500 -1.23% 36
Scotland -18 71 £500 +5.26% 19
East Midlands -14 58 £450 +0.67% 30
East of England -18 47 £513 -1.25% 50
Wales +3 18 £413 +26.92% 12
North East -7 17 £350 -15.15% 19
Northern Ireland -2 8 £370 -37.68% 9

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
1 109 (6.23%) Confluence
2 84 (4.80%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.29%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) CICS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.17%) Camunda
6 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.11%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.057%) Apache
8 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.057%) IIS
8 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 150 (8.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (6.52%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 103 (5.89%) Microsoft Office
5 28 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.03%) Siemens NX
7 11 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.57%) Trello
9 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.17%) Revit
11 2 (0.11%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.057%) SPSS
12 1 (0.057%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.26%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.69%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.51%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.40%) Endur
7 7 (0.40%) Primavera
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.29%) Summit
10 4 (0.23%) Maximo
10 4 (0.23%) ProductWriter
10 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP MM
11 3 (0.17%) Shopify
11 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 182 (10.41%) Azure
2 96 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
3 83 (4.75%) Power Platform
4 79 (4.52%) AWS
5 67 (3.83%) SaaS
6 42 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (1.72%) Entra ID
9 28 (1.60%) GCP
10 21 (1.20%) Google Workspace
11 20 (1.14%) GitHub
12 17 (0.97%) IaaS
13 14 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (0.69%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.69%) OpenShift
14 12 (0.69%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.69%) Serverless
15 11 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.09%) Firewall
2 51 (2.92%) DNS
3 39 (2.23%) Network Security
4 37 (2.12%) WAN
5 29 (1.66%) LAN
6 25 (1.43%) BGP
6 25 (1.43%) OSPF
7 22 (1.26%) VLAN
8 19 (1.09%) VPN
9 18 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.03%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.97%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.86%) MPLS
11 15 (0.86%) NetScaler
12 13 (0.74%) DHCP
13 12 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.69%) Wireless
14 11 (0.63%) SSL
14 11 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
15 10 (0.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.89%) Power BI
2 30 (1.72%) Tableau
3 27 (1.54%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.74%) Metadata
8 8 (0.46%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.29%) Big Data
10 5 (0.29%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.29%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.29%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.23%) GIS
11 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 209 (11.95%) JIRA
2 16 (0.91%) Git
2 16 (0.91%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.57%) GitLab
4 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 4 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.17%) Appium
7 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.17%) JMeter
7 3 (0.17%) MSTest
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) TestRail
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.057%) Gradle
9 1 (0.057%) Hudson
9 1 (0.057%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.057%) Robot Framework
General
1 698 (39.91%) Social Skills
2 576 (32.93%) Finance
3 260 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (10.63%) Public Sector
5 134 (7.66%) Banking
6 129 (7.38%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (4.17%) Retail
8 71 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
9 66 (3.77%) Legal
10 64 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
11 52 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
12 47 (2.69%) Telecoms
13 46 (2.63%) Manufacturing
14 35 (2.00%) Marketing
15 25 (1.43%) Military
16 24 (1.37%) Local Government
17 21 (1.20%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.97%) Financial Institution
19 15 (0.86%) Law
20 14 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 487 (27.84%) Project Manager
2 200 (11.44%) Analyst
3 190 (10.86%) Lead
4 170 (9.72%) Senior
5 136 (7.78%) Business Analyst
6 86 (4.92%) Senior Manager
7 82 (4.69%) Architect
8 80 (4.57%) Consultant
9 74 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
10 71 (4.06%) IT Manager
11 67 (3.83%) Senior Project Manager
12 49 (2.80%) IT Project Manager
13 47 (2.69%) Network Engineer
14 46 (2.63%) Technical Manager
15 44 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.34%) Programme Manager
17 34 (1.94%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 33 (1.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 33 (1.89%) Project Officer
18 33 (1.89%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.12%) Middleware
2 23 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (1.09%) REST
4 14 (0.80%) XML
5 9 (0.51%) ADO
5 9 (0.51%) Web Services
6 7 (0.40%) .NET
6 7 (0.40%) CSS
6 7 (0.40%) JSON
6 7 (0.40%) OAuth
6 7 (0.40%) Spring Boot
7 6 (0.34%) React
7 6 (0.34%) Spring
8 5 (0.29%) HTML
9 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.23%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.23%) IDoc
9 4 (0.23%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.23%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 85 (4.86%) Management Information System
2 77 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 68 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 62 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 41 (2.34%) Virtual Team
6 31 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
6 31 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (1.60%) PMI
9 25 (1.43%) Clustering
9 25 (1.43%) Public Cloud
9 25 (1.43%) Replication
10 21 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.20%) NHS
11 17 (0.97%) Cloud Native
12 15 (0.86%) Derivative
13 14 (0.80%) Life Science
14 13 (0.74%) Driving Licence
14 13 (0.74%) Mainframe
15 12 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.43%) Windows
2 49 (2.80%) Windows Server
3 29 (1.66%) Linux
4 23 (1.32%) Unix
5 14 (0.80%) Solaris
6 12 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.57%) VMS
8 9 (0.51%) zOS
9 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.29%) AIX
12 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.11%) pSOS
14 1 (0.057%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.057%) Android
14 1 (0.057%) CentOS
14 1 (0.057%) Debian
14 1 (0.057%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (32.30%) Agile
2 553 (31.62%) Project Management
3 515 (29.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 297 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
5 272 (15.55%) Migration
6 267 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 260 (14.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 243 (13.89%) PRINCE2
9 222 (12.69%) Change Management
10 179 (10.23%) Decision-Making
11 178 (10.18%) Waterfall
12 165 (9.43%) DevOps
13 156 (8.92%) Risk Management
14 136 (7.78%) Scrum
15 134 (7.66%) Roadmaps
16 127 (7.26%) Workshop Facilitation
17 125 (7.15%) ITIL
18 121 (6.92%) Budget Management
18 121 (6.92%) ERP
19 116 (6.63%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 88 (5.03%) SQL
2 65 (3.72%) Python
3 44 (2.52%) PowerShell
4 20 (1.14%) Java
5 16 (0.91%) JavaScript
6 11 (0.63%) C#
7 10 (0.57%) Bash
8 8 (0.46%) Go
9 7 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.29%) Bicep
11 5 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.23%) ABAP
12 4 (0.23%) COBOL
12 4 (0.23%) REXX
12 4 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.23%) VBA
13 3 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 374 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 275 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 223 (12.75%) Degree
4 171 (9.78%) PMP
5 141 (8.06%) PMI Certification
6 84 (4.80%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (2.00%) APMP
9 33 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (1.77%) CCNP
10 31 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 29 (1.66%) CCNA
11 29 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (1.66%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.97%) CISSP
14 15 (0.86%) CISM
15 14 (0.80%) MCSE
16 13 (0.74%) CBAP
16 13 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (11.15%) PMO
2 124 (7.09%) QA
3 45 (2.57%) GDPR
3 45 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.17%) NIST
5 21 (1.20%) SLA
6 12 (0.69%) GRC
7 10 (0.57%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 7 (0.40%) P3O
10 6 (0.34%) Basel III
10 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.34%) HL7
10 6 (0.34%) PSD2
11 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.29%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 61 (3.49%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.03%) Docker
3 18 (1.03%) vSphere
4 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.29%) Firmware
8 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.057%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.057%) Ceph
10 1 (0.057%) RACF
10 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 39 (2.23%) Ansible
2 30 (1.72%) Terraform
3 27 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.97%) SCCM
6 13 (0.74%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.51%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.40%) Nagios
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.29%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.17%) Netcool
10 3 (0.17%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.17%) Puppet
10 3 (0.17%) SCOM
11 2 (0.11%) Control-M
11 2 (0.11%) OpenView
11 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
11 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 302 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 139 (7.95%) SAP
3 84 (4.80%) Oracle
4 78 (4.46%) ServiceNow
5 61 (3.49%) Cisco
6 43 (2.46%) VMware
7 39 (2.23%) Google
8 36 (2.06%) Palo Alto
9 35 (2.00%) Salesforce
10 24 (1.37%) F5
11 20 (1.14%) Atlassian
12 19 (1.09%) CheckPoint
12 19 (1.09%) Citrix
13 18 (1.03%) IBM
13 18 (1.03%) Siemens
14 16 (0.91%) Workday
15 14 (0.80%) Aruba
15 14 (0.80%) NEC
16 13 (0.74%) SolarWinds
17 12 (0.69%) Fortinet