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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 59 54
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,147 1,312 1,433
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.00% 4.01% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 4.43% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 842 859
10th Percentile £325 £313 £362
25th Percentile £413 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £638
90th Percentile £706 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £513
% change year-on-year +1.63% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 28 37
10th Percentile £22.36 £15.91 £22.00
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.78 £26.25
Median hourly rate £53.00 £61.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +75.00% -44.00%
75th Percentile £76.00 £71.68 £56.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.25 £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £57.26 £38.75
% change year-on-year -12.67% +47.75% -35.42%

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 45,369 29,617 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.56% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,730 18,446 20,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £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 2,902 1,758 1,607
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.30 £18.82
Median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.88 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1,827 £525 - 2,665
UK excluding London -3 1,150 £500 +1.63% 1,836
London +5 813 £550 -2.22% 1,204
Work from Home +7 626 £500 -2.34% 1,252
South East -6 307 £525 -2.33% 457
North of England +8 288 £485 +2.11% 429
North West +10 193 £498 +4.74% 240
Midlands -28 159 £475 +5.56% 279
South West -3 154 £513 +7.89% 249
Scotland +14 144 £425 -5.56% 164
West Midlands -21 121 £475 -8.19% 190
Yorkshire -16 74 £485 +0.78% 127
East of England +2 63 £500 -4.76% 165
East Midlands -23 34 £413 -3.40% 88
Wales -1 26 £438 +42.28% 45
North East -25 22 £350 - 65
Northern Ireland +2 16 £388 -18.42% 78
Channel Islands - 6 £538 - 2

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
1 117 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 115 (5.36%) Confluence
3 35 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
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 (0.093%) Camunda
9 2 (0.093%) CICS
9 2 (0.093%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.047%) MTS
Applications
1 171 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (5.50%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
4 97 (4.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.75%) Siemens NX
7 11 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.51%) Trello
8 8 (0.37%) Navisworks
8 8 (0.37%) Revit
9 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.28%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.093%) Houdini
12 2 (0.093%) NUKE
13 1 (0.047%) CATIA
13 1 (0.047%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 48 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (1.07%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.56%) Primavera
4 11 (0.51%) Maximo
5 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.23%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 326 (15.18%) Azure
2 142 (6.61%) AWS
3 126 (5.87%) Power Platform
4 123 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
5 98 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (3.77%) SaaS
7 72 (3.35%) Entra ID
8 48 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
9 47 (2.19%) GCP
10 27 (1.26%) GitHub
10 27 (1.26%) OCI
11 26 (1.21%) PowerApps
12 24 (1.12%) Google Workspace
12 24 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
12 24 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
13 22 (1.02%) Power Automate
14 21 (0.98%) IaaS
15 16 (0.75%) OneDrive
16 14 (0.65%) PaaS
17 13 (0.61%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 139 (6.47%) Firewall
2 88 (4.10%) DNS
3 86 (4.01%) WAN
4 76 (3.54%) LAN
4 76 (3.54%) Network Security
5 70 (3.26%) VPN
6 49 (2.28%) MPLS
7 46 (2.14%) BGP
8 44 (2.05%) DHCP
9 41 (1.91%) Wireless
10 37 (1.72%) VLAN
10 37 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (1.49%) OSPF
12 30 (1.40%) TCP/IP
13 24 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 24 (1.12%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.84%) SSL
15 14 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
15 14 (0.65%) IPsec
16 13 (0.61%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (4.80%) Power BI
2 40 (1.86%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.75%) Metadata
5 14 (0.65%) Tableau
6 11 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.47%) Big Data
8 9 (0.42%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.37%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (0.33%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.28%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.23%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 234 (10.90%) JIRA
2 24 (1.12%) Git
3 14 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.47%) GitLab
5 9 (0.42%) Selenium
6 6 (0.28%) MSI
7 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.093%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.093%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.093%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.093%) TestNG
11 1 (0.047%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.047%) SpecFlow
General
1 889 (41.41%) Social Skills
2 662 (30.83%) Finance
3 296 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 158 (7.36%) Organisational Skills
6 124 (5.78%) Banking
7 101 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
8 100 (4.66%) Retail
9 92 (4.29%) Legal
9 92 (4.29%) Telecoms
10 68 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
11 67 (3.12%) Manufacturing
12 59 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (1.96%) Local Government
14 41 (1.91%) Military
15 34 (1.58%) Marketing
16 32 (1.49%) Front Office
17 29 (1.35%) Law
18 24 (1.12%) Financial Institution
19 23 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 494 (23.01%) Project Manager
2 241 (11.22%) Analyst
3 226 (10.53%) Senior
4 204 (9.50%) Lead
5 141 (6.57%) Architect
6 140 (6.52%) Business Analyst
7 133 (6.19%) Consultant
8 100 (4.66%) Senior Manager
9 95 (4.42%) Network Engineer
10 86 (4.01%) IT Manager
11 84 (3.91%) Delivery Manager
11 84 (3.91%) Senior Project Manager
12 59 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 56 (2.61%) Developer
13 56 (2.61%) IT Project Manager
13 56 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (1.77%) Project Officer
15 37 (1.72%) Infrastructure Manager
15 37 (1.72%) Technical Manager
15 37 (1.72%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.24%) Terraform
2 39 (1.82%) REST
3 31 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.16%) Middleware
5 17 (0.79%) .NET
6 13 (0.61%) 802.1X
7 12 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
7 12 (0.56%) XML
8 11 (0.51%) ADO
8 11 (0.51%) OAuth
8 11 (0.51%) React
8 11 (0.51%) Web Services
9 10 (0.47%) JSON
9 10 (0.47%) LDAP
9 10 (0.47%) SOAP
10 8 (0.37%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.37%) SailPoint
10 8 (0.37%) SAP Basis
11 7 (0.33%) Kafka
11 7 (0.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 107 (4.98%) Onboarding
2 103 (4.80%) Management Information System
3 91 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 88 (4.10%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
6 38 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
7 37 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 36 (1.68%) Cloud Native
9 33 (1.54%) Driving Licence
9 33 (1.54%) Operational Technology
10 32 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.26%) PKI
12 24 (1.12%) Derivative
12 24 (1.12%) Public Cloud
13 21 (0.98%) Clustering
14 20 (0.93%) Replication
15 19 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 18 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.89%) Windows
2 77 (3.59%) Linux
3 71 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.26%) Unix
5 14 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.47%) AIX
6 10 (0.47%) Solaris
7 6 (0.28%) Android
7 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.14%) zOS
10 2 (0.093%) CentOS
10 2 (0.093%) Debian
10 2 (0.093%) VMS
10 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (41.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 679 (31.63%) Agile
3 586 (27.29%) Project Management
4 403 (18.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 392 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 346 (16.12%) Migration
7 340 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
8 325 (15.14%) Change Management
9 279 (12.99%) PRINCE2
10 243 (11.32%) Decision-Making
11 233 (10.85%) Waterfall
12 203 (9.46%) Risk Management
13 193 (8.99%) ITIL
14 186 (8.66%) DevOps
15 184 (8.57%) Roadmaps
16 181 (8.43%) AI
17 170 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
18 167 (7.78%) Workshop Facilitation
19 159 (7.41%) User Acceptance Testing
20 157 (7.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 109 (5.08%) SQL
2 103 (4.80%) Python
3 74 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 28 (1.30%) Java
5 27 (1.26%) Bash
6 19 (0.88%) C#
7 17 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.79%) VBA
8 10 (0.47%) ABAP
9 9 (0.42%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.28%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.28%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.23%) Bicep
12 5 (0.23%) Korn
13 4 (0.19%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.14%) C++
15 2 (0.093%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 475 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 345 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 203 (9.46%) Degree
4 160 (7.45%) PMP
5 139 (6.47%) PMI Certification
6 118 (5.50%) DV Cleared
7 73 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
8 47 (2.19%) CCNP
9 43 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 41 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (1.82%) CCNA
12 36 (1.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 34 (1.58%) Azure Certification
14 29 (1.35%) CISSP
15 18 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.84%) MCSE
16 17 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
16 17 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (0.70%) CISM
17 15 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (11.36%) PMO
2 90 (4.19%) QA
3 62 (2.89%) NIST
4 59 (2.75%) GDPR
5 57 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.24%) Data Quality
7 33 (1.54%) SLA
8 20 (0.93%) GRC
9 15 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.61%) ISO 19650
11 10 (0.47%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.47%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.37%) NCSC
12 8 (0.37%) P3O
13 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.33%) GxP
13 7 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 115 (5.36%) Active Directory
2 75 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.30%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.07%) Docker
5 21 (0.98%) vSphere
6 18 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.51%) Firmware
9 11 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.093%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.047%) ACF2
13 1 (0.047%) KVM
13 1 (0.047%) RACF
13 1 (0.047%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 54 (2.52%) Ansible
2 33 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.07%) FortiGate
5 21 (0.98%) SCCM
6 15 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.70%) vCenter Server
7 12 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.42%) Puppet
8 9 (0.42%) SCOM
9 8 (0.37%) Nagios
10 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.33%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.28%) WMI
12 5 (0.23%) Netcool
12 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 473 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 152 (7.08%) Cisco
3 144 (6.71%) SAP
4 125 (5.82%) ServiceNow
5 100 (4.66%) Oracle
5 100 (4.66%) VMware
6 53 (2.47%) Palo Alto
7 50 (2.33%) Fortinet
8 45 (2.10%) Salesforce
9 43 (2.00%) F5
10 38 (1.77%) Google
11 30 (1.40%) SolarWinds
12 29 (1.35%) Juniper
13 27 (1.26%) Workday
14 23 (1.07%) Splunk
15 22 (1.02%) IBM
16 21 (0.98%) Siemens
16 21 (0.98%) Zscaler
17 20 (0.93%) CyberArk
17 20 (0.93%) NEC