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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 59 51
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,981 1,269 1,586
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.77% 3.91% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.33% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 795 998
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £414 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £634 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £488 £510
% change year-on-year +1.98% -4.41% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 20 46
10th Percentile £20.35 £30.53 £20.98
25th Percentile £33.80 £44.69 £26.36
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +40.45% -36.03%
75th Percentile £80.50 £77.50 £55.59
90th Percentile £88.76 £82.75 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £65.08 £40.94
% change year-on-year -16.26% +58.96% -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 44,765 29,340 36,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.42% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,476 23,295
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £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 2,647 1,521 2,449
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.25 £24.64 £38.12
% change year-on-year +83.64% -35.36% -0.99%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 1,723 £515 -1.90% 1,163
UK excluding London +4 1,105 £497 +1.98% 992
London -3 724 £550 -3.17% 376
Work from Home -1 571 £514 +0.26% 658
South East +6 284 £525 - 274
North of England +8 274 £483 +1.68% 244
North West +15 184 £483 +1.68% 132
Midlands -14 178 £475 -7.23% 152
South West +13 166 £485 - 134
West Midlands -19 140 £481 -7.46% 86
Scotland -1 114 £450 -2.60% 78
Yorkshire -32 73 £500 - 78
East of England +5 62 £500 +25.00% 83
East Midlands -14 36 £402 -10.07% 65
Wales +3 23 £500 +80.56% 30
North East -25 19 £350 -3.45% 35
Northern Ireland +3 14 £334 -36.38% 23
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
1 109 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 103 (5.20%) Confluence
3 37 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.35%) CMS
5 6 (0.30%) SAS
6 5 (0.25%) Apache
7 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.15%) Appian
8 3 (0.15%) Camunda
8 3 (0.15%) CICS
8 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
8 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.15%) WordPress
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.10%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 155 (7.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (5.70%) Microsoft Project
3 95 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 92 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
5 35 (1.77%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.96%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.15%) Revit
9 3 (0.15%) Trello
10 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.050%) CATIA
11 1 (0.050%) Houdini
11 1 (0.050%) NUKE
11 1 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.26%) Teamcenter
3 11 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.56%) Primavera
4 10 (0.50%) Maximo
5 9 (0.45%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.40%) SAP SD
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%) Summit
8 5 (0.25%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
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
1 250 (12.62%) Azure
2 119 (6.01%) AWS
3 105 (5.30%) Power Platform
4 101 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (3.43%) SaaS
7 56 (2.83%) Entra ID
8 34 (1.72%) GCP
9 33 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.26%) Google Workspace
11 24 (1.21%) GitHub
12 23 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
13 22 (1.11%) IaaS
14 20 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
15 18 (0.91%) PowerApps
16 16 (0.81%) Serverless
17 15 (0.76%) Power Automate
18 14 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (0.71%) Amazon S3
18 14 (0.71%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 119 (6.01%) Firewall
2 85 (4.29%) DNS
3 67 (3.38%) WAN
4 61 (3.08%) LAN
5 57 (2.88%) Network Security
5 57 (2.88%) VPN
6 43 (2.17%) MPLS
7 40 (2.02%) BGP
8 34 (1.72%) DHCP
9 32 (1.62%) OSPF
10 31 (1.56%) VLAN
10 31 (1.56%) Wireless
11 30 (1.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 29 (1.46%) TCP/IP
13 26 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
14 24 (1.21%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.81%) IPsec
16 15 (0.76%) BIG-IP
16 15 (0.76%) SSL
16 15 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.29%) Power BI
2 43 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
4 15 (0.76%) Tableau
5 14 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.66%) Metadata
7 10 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.45%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.45%) SAP HANA
9 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.25%) Big Data
12 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 207 (10.45%) JIRA
2 27 (1.36%) Git
3 14 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.66%) GitLab
5 9 (0.45%) Selenium
6 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.20%) Appium
7 4 (0.20%) Subversion
8 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.15%) JMeter
8 3 (0.15%) MSTest
8 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.10%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.10%) MSI
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.10%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.10%) TestComplete
9 2 (0.10%) WebDriver
General
1 796 (40.18%) Social Skills
2 625 (31.55%) Finance
3 260 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 146 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
6 105 (5.30%) Banking
6 105 (5.30%) Retail
7 89 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
8 88 (4.44%) Legal
9 67 (3.38%) Telecoms
10 62 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 58 (2.93%) Manufacturing
12 57 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
13 40 (2.02%) Local Government
14 31 (1.56%) Marketing
15 30 (1.51%) Military
16 26 (1.31%) Investment Banking
17 19 (0.96%) Financial Institution
17 19 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (0.91%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 483 (24.38%) Project Manager
2 230 (11.61%) Analyst
3 214 (10.80%) Senior
4 191 (9.64%) Lead
5 114 (5.75%) Business Analyst
6 113 (5.70%) Architect
7 100 (5.05%) Senior Manager
8 90 (4.54%) Consultant
9 82 (4.14%) Delivery Manager
10 81 (4.09%) Senior Project Manager
11 79 (3.99%) Network Engineer
12 78 (3.94%) IT Manager
13 57 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 56 (2.83%) Developer
15 52 (2.62%) IT Project Manager
16 42 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
16 42 (2.12%) Technical Manager
17 37 (1.87%) Project Officer
18 36 (1.82%) Infrastructure Manager
18 36 (1.82%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.77%) Middleware
2 33 (1.67%) REST
3 19 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.81%) .NET
5 13 (0.66%) 802.1X
5 13 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
5 13 (0.66%) XML
6 12 (0.61%) OAuth
7 11 (0.56%) ADO
7 11 (0.56%) JSON
8 10 (0.50%) Web Services
9 9 (0.45%) React
9 9 (0.45%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.40%) RESTful
10 8 (0.40%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.40%) Spring
11 7 (0.35%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.30%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.30%) PySpark
12 6 (0.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.20%) Management Information System
2 92 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 78 (3.94%) Data Centre
4 71 (3.58%) Product Ownership
5 42 (2.12%) Virtual Team
6 34 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 33 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (1.56%) Operational Technology
9 30 (1.51%) Cloud Native
9 30 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (1.51%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.31%) Replication
11 25 (1.26%) Clustering
12 24 (1.21%) PKI
13 23 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (1.11%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.06%) Driving Licence
16 18 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
17 16 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 118 (5.96%) Windows
2 55 (2.78%) Windows Server
3 48 (2.42%) Linux
4 25 (1.26%) Unix
5 9 (0.45%) AIX
5 9 (0.45%) Solaris
6 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.35%) zOS
7 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.10%) Android
10 2 (0.10%) Debian
10 2 (0.10%) VMS
10 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.10%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (34.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 604 (30.49%) Agile
3 533 (26.91%) Project Management
4 335 (16.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 321 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 319 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
7 308 (15.55%) Migration
8 279 (14.08%) Change Management
9 242 (12.22%) PRINCE2
10 215 (10.85%) Decision-Making
11 206 (10.40%) Waterfall
12 166 (8.38%) AI
13 163 (8.23%) ITIL
13 163 (8.23%) Risk Management
14 160 (8.08%) Roadmaps
15 156 (7.87%) DevOps
16 126 (6.36%) Cybersecurity
16 126 (6.36%) Scrum
16 126 (6.36%) Validation
16 126 (6.36%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.60%) SQL
2 96 (4.85%) Python
3 66 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.16%) Java
5 22 (1.11%) C#
6 18 (0.91%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.86%) Bash
8 14 (0.71%) VBA
9 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.40%) ABAP
10 8 (0.40%) Go
10 8 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.35%) Bicep
12 6 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.30%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.20%) C++
15 3 (0.15%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 420 (21.20%) Security Cleared
2 298 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 195 (9.84%) Degree
4 160 (8.08%) PMP
5 125 (6.31%) PMI Certification
6 115 (5.81%) DV Cleared
7 66 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (2.17%) CCNP
9 41 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (1.92%) CCNA
10 38 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 27 (1.36%) CISSP
13 25 (1.26%) Azure Certification
14 20 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
15 19 (0.96%) MCSE
16 15 (0.76%) CISM
16 15 (0.76%) MCSA
17 14 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (11.11%) PMO
2 99 (5.00%) QA
3 50 (2.52%) NIST
4 49 (2.47%) GDPR
5 47 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.22%) Data Quality
7 31 (1.56%) SLA
8 15 (0.76%) GRC
9 12 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.45%) NCSC
12 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.35%) HL7
14 6 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.25%) GxP
15 5 (0.25%) IFRS
15 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 96 (4.85%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.11%) Docker
3 22 (1.11%) vSphere
4 20 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (0.96%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.56%) Firmware
7 11 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.15%) Squid
11 2 (0.10%) Ceph
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.050%) ACF2
12 1 (0.050%) KVM
12 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.050%) RACF
12 1 (0.050%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 50 (2.52%) Ansible
2 45 (2.27%) Terraform
3 26 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.16%) FortiGate
6 20 (1.01%) SCCM
7 17 (0.86%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.40%) Nagios
10 7 (0.35%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.30%) SCOM
12 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.25%) Netcool
12 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.20%) Cisco Prime
13 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.15%) Grafana
14 3 (0.15%) Nessus
14 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 386 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 135 (6.81%) SAP
3 112 (5.65%) Cisco
4 109 (5.50%) ServiceNow
5 85 (4.29%) Oracle
6 71 (3.58%) VMware
7 50 (2.52%) Palo Alto
8 46 (2.32%) F5
9 44 (2.22%) Fortinet
10 37 (1.87%) Google
10 37 (1.87%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.46%) SolarWinds
12 28 (1.41%) Juniper
13 24 (1.21%) IBM
14 19 (0.96%) NEC
14 19 (0.96%) Siemens
14 19 (0.96%) Workday
15 18 (0.91%) Zscaler
16 17 (0.86%) Infoblox
17 16 (0.81%) Aruba