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

 6 months to
15 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 58 57
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,325 1,350 1,365
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.20% 4.07% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 4.49% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 871 769
10th Percentile £350 £325 £355
25th Percentile £430 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £637 £618 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.65% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 41 41
10th Percentile £23.71 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £35.71 £24.26 £25.36
Median hourly rate £52.75 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +57.14% -41.67%
75th Percentile £76.75 £65.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £82.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £45.72 £41.09
% change year-on-year +20.30% +11.26% -31.52%

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 46,870 30,047 32,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 90.49% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,156 18,700 19,515
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,444 1,888 1,247
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.94 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.18 £65.25 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -8.14%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +8 1,958 £525 - 537
UK excluding London +4 1,237 £500 +1.63% 444
London +1 863 £550 - 169
Work from Home +3 663 £500 -0.94% 274
South East -1 332 £525 -2.33% 154
North of England +9 321 £500 +5.26% 103
North West +10 198 £525 +11.70% 52
Midlands -20 164 £475 +2.70% 63
Scotland +17 155 £451 +0.22% 15
South West 0 150 £525 +5.00% 73
West Midlands -21 120 £475 -7.57% 43
Yorkshire -5 101 £478 -6.78% 36
East of England +4 70 £500 -4.76% 42
East Midlands -21 41 £475 +10.72% 20
Wales +3 29 £400 +30.08% 9
North East -16 23 £475 +15.64% 15
Northern Ireland +9 19 £425 +0.29% 2
Channel Islands - 9 £525 - 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
1 124 (5.33%) Confluence
2 121 (5.20%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.43%) CMS
5 8 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.30%) Apache
7 6 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.26%) JBoss
7 6 (0.26%) NetWeaver
7 6 (0.26%) SAS
8 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.17%) WordPress
10 3 (0.13%) Appian
10 3 (0.13%) CICS
10 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.13%) Kentico
10 3 (0.13%) SAP EP
10 3 (0.13%) SAP Portal
11 2 (0.086%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 173 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 126 (5.42%) Microsoft Project
3 97 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
4 94 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.51%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.65%) Siemens NX
8 14 (0.60%) AutoCAD
8 14 (0.60%) Revit
9 12 (0.52%) Navisworks
9 12 (0.52%) Trello
10 9 (0.39%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.13%) Windchill
12 2 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.086%) Civil 3D
12 2 (0.086%) Houdini
12 2 (0.086%) MicroStation
12 2 (0.086%) NUKE
13 1 (0.043%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 62 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.03%) Teamcenter
3 15 (0.65%) Primavera
4 14 (0.60%) Maximo
4 14 (0.60%) SAP FI
5 12 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
6 10 (0.43%) SAP HCM
7 9 (0.39%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
7 9 (0.39%) SAP HR
7 9 (0.39%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.34%) SAP SD
9 7 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
9 7 (0.30%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 7 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.26%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 376 (16.17%) Azure
2 146 (6.28%) Power Platform
3 141 (6.06%) AWS
3 141 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
5 101 (4.34%) SaaS
6 78 (3.35%) Entra ID
7 58 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
8 57 (2.45%) GCP
9 34 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
10 32 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
11 30 (1.29%) OCI
12 28 (1.20%) PowerApps
13 23 (0.99%) Power Automate
14 22 (0.95%) GitHub
14 22 (0.95%) Google Workspace
15 21 (0.90%) IaaS
16 18 (0.77%) PaaS
17 15 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
18 13 (0.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 139 (5.98%) Firewall
2 92 (3.96%) DNS
3 88 (3.78%) Network Security
4 87 (3.74%) WAN
5 83 (3.57%) LAN
6 63 (2.71%) VPN
7 52 (2.24%) DHCP
7 52 (2.24%) Wireless
8 49 (2.11%) MPLS
9 44 (1.89%) BGP
10 40 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (1.63%) VLAN
12 29 (1.25%) OSPF
13 28 (1.20%) TCP/IP
14 22 (0.95%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.77%) Cisco Wireless
16 17 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
16 17 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 16 (0.69%) Multicast
18 15 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (4.86%) Power BI
2 39 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (0.73%) Data Lake
5 15 (0.65%) Tableau
6 13 (0.56%) Metadata
7 12 (0.52%) Big Data
8 8 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 7 (0.30%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.30%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.26%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.26%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.22%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.22%) Power Query
11 5 (0.22%) SAP HANA
12 4 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.17%) Db2
Development Applications
1 261 (11.23%) JIRA
2 24 (1.03%) Git
3 12 (0.52%) GitLab
4 11 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.34%) MSI
6 7 (0.30%) Selenium
7 5 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.22%) Subversion
8 4 (0.17%) Gatling
9 3 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.13%) JMeter
9 3 (0.13%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.13%) Postman
9 3 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.086%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.086%) Hudson
10 2 (0.086%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.086%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.086%) TestNG
10 2 (0.086%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 978 (42.06%) Social Skills
2 730 (31.40%) Finance
3 307 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 190 (8.17%) Organisational Skills
6 155 (6.67%) Banking
7 96 (4.13%) Manufacturing
8 95 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
9 93 (4.00%) Legal
10 89 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
11 85 (3.66%) Telecoms
12 81 (3.48%) Retail
13 63 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
14 52 (2.24%) Local Government
15 41 (1.76%) Military
16 38 (1.63%) Front Office
17 37 (1.59%) Aerospace
18 35 (1.51%) Law
19 31 (1.33%) Marketing
20 28 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 523 (22.49%) Project Manager
2 262 (11.27%) Analyst
3 244 (10.49%) Senior
4 206 (8.86%) Lead
5 158 (6.80%) Architect
6 157 (6.75%) Business Analyst
7 136 (5.85%) Consultant
8 108 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
9 104 (4.47%) Senior Manager
10 100 (4.30%) Network Engineer
11 90 (3.87%) Senior Project Manager
12 82 (3.53%) IT Manager
13 67 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 61 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
15 59 (2.54%) IT Project Manager
16 55 (2.37%) Developer
17 50 (2.15%) Technical Manager
18 47 (2.02%) Programme Manager
19 44 (1.89%) Coordinator
20 43 (1.85%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (1.98%) Terraform
2 40 (1.72%) REST
3 34 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (0.99%) Middleware
5 18 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
6 16 (0.69%) .NET
7 13 (0.56%) OAuth
7 13 (0.56%) SOAP
8 12 (0.52%) LDAP
8 12 (0.52%) SAPUI5
8 12 (0.52%) XML
9 11 (0.47%) 802.1X
9 11 (0.47%) Web Services
10 10 (0.43%) HTML
10 10 (0.43%) JSON
10 10 (0.43%) SAML
11 9 (0.39%) ADO
11 9 (0.39%) SailPoint
12 8 (0.34%) Kafka
12 8 (0.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 114 (4.90%) Management Information System
2 112 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 106 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 104 (4.47%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 47 (2.02%) Operational Technology
8 43 (1.85%) Virtual Team
9 38 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 37 (1.59%) Driving Licence
11 36 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.51%) Cloud Native
13 32 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
14 30 (1.29%) PKI
15 23 (0.99%) AI Agents
15 23 (0.99%) Derivative
15 23 (0.99%) Public Cloud
16 22 (0.95%) Clustering
17 20 (0.86%) Life Science
17 20 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 153 (6.58%) Windows
2 80 (3.44%) Linux
3 74 (3.18%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.46%) Unix
5 18 (0.77%) Solaris
6 15 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.43%) AIX
8 9 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.26%) Android
9 6 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.22%) zOS
11 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.13%) macOS
12 3 (0.13%) VMS
13 2 (0.086%) CentOS
13 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.043%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.043%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,070 (46.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 738 (31.74%) Agile
3 616 (26.49%) Project Management
4 448 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 428 (18.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 402 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
7 366 (15.74%) Migration
8 332 (14.28%) Change Management
9 314 (13.51%) PRINCE2
10 280 (12.04%) Decision-Making
11 250 (10.75%) Waterfall
12 243 (10.45%) Risk Management
13 213 (9.16%) Roadmaps
14 207 (8.90%) ITIL
15 204 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
15 204 (8.77%) Project Governance
16 201 (8.65%) AI
17 199 (8.56%) DevOps
18 196 (8.43%) Workshop Facilitation
19 179 (7.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 105 (4.52%) Python
2 103 (4.43%) SQL
3 78 (3.35%) PowerShell
4 28 (1.20%) Java
5 22 (0.95%) Bash
6 20 (0.86%) C#
7 19 (0.82%) ABAP
8 16 (0.69%) JavaScript
8 16 (0.69%) VBA
9 8 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.30%) Korn
10 7 (0.30%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.26%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.22%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.17%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.17%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.13%) Bicep
14 3 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
14 3 (0.13%) VB6
Qualifications
1 549 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 399 (17.16%) SC Cleared
3 233 (10.02%) Degree
4 176 (7.57%) PMP
5 165 (7.10%) PMI Certification
6 132 (5.68%) DV Cleared
7 73 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (2.02%) CCNP
10 42 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (1.59%) Azure Certification
12 36 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 35 (1.51%) CCNA
14 29 (1.25%) CISSP
15 21 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 19 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
17 18 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
17 18 (0.77%) MCSE
18 16 (0.69%) ACCA
18 16 (0.69%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (10.28%) PMO
2 111 (4.77%) QA
3 71 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 51 (2.19%) GDPR
5 50 (2.15%) NIST
6 43 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.29%) SLA
8 25 (1.08%) GRC
9 20 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.65%) ISO 19650
11 12 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.43%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.43%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.34%) NCSC
13 8 (0.34%) P3O
14 6 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.26%) IFRS
14 6 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 116 (4.99%) Active Directory
2 97 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (1.42%) Hyper-V
3 33 (1.42%) vSphere
4 24 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (0.90%) Docker
6 16 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.47%) Firmware
10 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.086%) Ceph
11 2 (0.086%) IAG
11 2 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.086%) Squid
11 2 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.043%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 54 (2.32%) Ansible
2 39 (1.68%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (1.03%) SCCM
5 18 (0.77%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.69%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
9 9 (0.39%) SCOM
9 9 (0.39%) WMI
10 8 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.34%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.34%) Puppet
11 7 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.22%) Grafana
13 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.22%) Nagios
13 5 (0.22%) Nessus
Vendors
1 544 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 193 (8.30%) SAP
3 167 (7.18%) Cisco
4 122 (5.25%) VMware
5 119 (5.12%) ServiceNow
6 110 (4.73%) Oracle
7 54 (2.32%) Fortinet
7 54 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 53 (2.28%) Palo Alto
9 39 (1.68%) F5
10 37 (1.59%) Google
11 36 (1.55%) Juniper
12 33 (1.42%) Workday
13 31 (1.33%) IBM
14 30 (1.29%) Ariba
15 27 (1.16%) SolarWinds
16 25 (1.08%) Aruba
17 24 (1.03%) Databricks
17 24 (1.03%) Siemens
18 23 (0.99%) CyberArk
609 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide