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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 50 46
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,594 1,198 1,754
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.84% 3.94% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.37% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 693 1,152
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £418 £433 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £627
90th Percentile £725 £700 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £513 £509
% change year-on-year -4.88% +0.79% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 29 34
10th Percentile £15.91 £19.53 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £23.60 £24.92
Median hourly rate £45.46 £39.68 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +14.57% -3.08% -34.50%
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.40 £69.50 £68.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -17.35% +34.34% -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 35,946 27,398 38,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.59% 90.01% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,812 17,104 25,306
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -1.93% -1.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,146 887 2,267
10th Percentile £14.66 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £63.48 £64.50 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.35 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.81% -7.16% -2.26%

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 March 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 March 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 1 March 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 +1 1,397 £525 - 782
UK excluding London -5 814 £488 -4.88% 656
London +1 651 £550 - 231
Work from Home -2 455 £538 +0.23% 428
North of England +17 243 £480 -5.88% 125
South East -11 178 £525 -4.55% 223
Midlands -10 163 £475 -7.27% 97
North West +22 150 £475 +2.70% 79
West Midlands -21 100 £537 -2.36% 61
South West -2 93 £538 +7.39% 84
Yorkshire -14 83 £500 -12.70% 37
Scotland -15 79 £500 +4.82% 36
East Midlands -2 63 £438 -2.64% 36
East of England -12 40 £565 +13.68% 80
Wales +1 18 £374 -16.83% 21
North East -9 12 £290 -38.98% 13
Northern Ireland 0 9 £450 -18.18% 6

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
1 114 (7.15%) Confluence
2 70 (4.39%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.38%) CMS
5 5 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.25%) CICS
6 4 (0.25%) SAS
7 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.19%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.063%) Apache
9 1 (0.063%) Appian
9 1 (0.063%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.063%) Camunda
9 1 (0.063%) IIS
9 1 (0.063%) Moodle
9 1 (0.063%) Smallworld
Applications
1 147 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (7.15%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
4 103 (6.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (2.13%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.82%) Trello
7 9 (0.56%) Siemens NX
8 7 (0.44%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.13%) InDesign
10 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.063%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.063%) Revit
11 1 (0.063%) Sketch
11 1 (0.063%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.75%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.63%) Endur
4 10 (0.63%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.44%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
9 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.25%) Primavera
9 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 190 (11.92%) Azure
2 85 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (4.64%) Power Platform
4 69 (4.33%) AWS
5 57 (3.58%) SaaS
6 46 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.94%) GCP
9 27 (1.69%) Entra ID
10 22 (1.38%) GitHub
11 17 (1.07%) IaaS
12 16 (1.00%) OCI
13 14 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (0.82%) Amazon S3
14 13 (0.82%) OpenShift
15 12 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
15 12 (0.75%) Serverless
16 11 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 80 (5.02%) Firewall
2 44 (2.76%) WAN
3 41 (2.57%) DNS
4 35 (2.20%) LAN
5 30 (1.88%) Network Security
6 21 (1.32%) BGP
7 20 (1.25%) OSPF
7 20 (1.25%) SD-WAN
8 18 (1.13%) MPLS
8 18 (1.13%) TCP/IP
9 16 (1.00%) DHCP
10 15 (0.94%) NetScaler
10 15 (0.94%) VPN
11 13 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 13 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
11 13 (0.82%) VLAN
11 13 (0.82%) Wireless
12 10 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (3.64%) Power BI
2 26 (1.63%) Tableau
3 25 (1.57%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (0.56%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.50%) Metadata
9 6 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.38%) GIS
9 6 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.31%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.25%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.25%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.19%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.19%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 200 (12.55%) JIRA
2 22 (1.38%) Git
3 19 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.88%) GitLab
5 5 (0.31%) Selenium
6 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.13%) Appium
8 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.13%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.13%) JMeter
8 2 (0.13%) MSTest
8 2 (0.13%) Subversion
8 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.063%) TestRail
General
1 670 (42.03%) Social Skills
2 518 (32.50%) Finance
3 219 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 142 (8.91%) Banking
6 113 (7.09%) Organisational Skills
7 61 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
8 57 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
9 55 (3.45%) Retail
10 52 (3.26%) Legal
11 47 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
12 42 (2.63%) Manufacturing
13 32 (2.01%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.51%) Front Office
14 24 (1.51%) Marketing
15 23 (1.44%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.25%) Local Government
17 18 (1.13%) Law
18 16 (1.00%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 434 (27.23%) Project Manager
2 204 (12.80%) Analyst
3 179 (11.23%) Lead
4 147 (9.22%) Business Analyst
5 146 (9.16%) Senior
6 83 (5.21%) Consultant
7 79 (4.96%) Architect
8 64 (4.02%) Delivery Manager
9 62 (3.89%) Senior Manager
10 52 (3.26%) IT Manager
11 48 (3.01%) Senior Project Manager
12 46 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (2.82%) Technical Manager
14 43 (2.70%) Programme Manager
15 42 (2.63%) Network Engineer
16 37 (2.32%) IT Project Manager
17 35 (2.20%) SAP Manager
18 32 (2.01%) Infrastructure Manager
19 28 (1.76%) Service Manager
20 27 (1.69%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.88%) Middleware
2 24 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (1.19%) REST
4 11 (0.69%) XML
5 10 (0.63%) Web Services
6 8 (0.50%) CSS
7 7 (0.44%) HTML
7 7 (0.44%) React
7 7 (0.44%) RESTful
7 7 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
7 7 (0.44%) SOAP
7 7 (0.44%) YAML
8 6 (0.38%) JSON
8 6 (0.38%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.38%) Spring
8 6 (0.38%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.31%) .NET
9 5 (0.31%) ADO
9 5 (0.31%) Node.js
9 5 (0.31%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.02%) Product Ownership
2 70 (4.39%) Onboarding
3 62 (3.89%) Management Information System
4 60 (3.76%) Data Centre
5 34 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.13%) Virtual Team
6 32 (2.01%) PMI
7 27 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (1.63%) NHS
9 25 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.07%) Clustering
12 17 (1.07%) Replication
13 14 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (0.88%) Cloud Native
13 14 (0.88%) Operational Technology
14 13 (0.82%) Driving Licence
14 13 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.75%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 85 (5.33%) Windows
2 42 (2.63%) Windows Server
3 29 (1.82%) Linux
4 21 (1.32%) Unix
5 19 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.69%) VMS
7 10 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.63%) Solaris
8 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.44%) zOS
10 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.25%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.25%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.19%) OpenVMS
13 2 (0.13%) Android
13 2 (0.13%) pSOS
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.063%) AIX
14 1 (0.063%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (34.32%) Agile
2 488 (30.61%) Project Management
3 469 (29.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 280 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
5 229 (14.37%) PRINCE2
6 228 (14.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 227 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 227 (14.24%) Migration
8 197 (12.36%) Change Management
9 159 (9.97%) DevOps
10 156 (9.79%) Waterfall
11 145 (9.10%) Decision-Making
12 140 (8.78%) Scrum
13 133 (8.34%) Roadmaps
14 130 (8.16%) Risk Management
15 123 (7.72%) ITIL
16 120 (7.53%) Workshop Facilitation
17 119 (7.47%) Business Analysis
18 116 (7.28%) Project Governance
19 111 (6.96%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 84 (5.27%) SQL
2 77 (4.83%) Python
3 50 (3.14%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.57%) Java
5 21 (1.32%) Bash
6 13 (0.82%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.63%) C#
8 9 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.31%) Go
10 5 (0.31%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.31%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.25%) ABAP
11 4 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.25%) C++
11 4 (0.25%) COBOL
12 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.19%) JCL
12 3 (0.19%) REXX
12 3 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 313 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 233 (14.62%) Degree
3 223 (13.99%) SC Cleared
4 148 (9.28%) PMP
5 133 (8.34%) PMI Certification
6 74 (4.64%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.32%) Master's Degree
8 32 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (1.94%) APMP
9 31 (1.94%) CCNP
10 22 (1.38%) CCNA
10 22 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 20 (1.25%) CBAP
12 18 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (1.13%) CISSP
12 18 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
14 14 (0.88%) CISM
15 12 (0.75%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (9.72%) PMO
2 115 (7.21%) QA
3 37 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (2.13%) GDPR
6 29 (1.82%) NIST
7 19 (1.19%) SLA
8 15 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.75%) PSD2
11 9 (0.56%) MiFID
11 9 (0.56%) NCSC
12 8 (0.50%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.50%) GRC
12 8 (0.50%) P3O
13 7 (0.44%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.38%) ISO 8583
15 5 (0.31%) Basel III
15 5 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 51 (3.20%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.38%) Docker
4 15 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.88%) vSphere
6 11 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.25%) Firmware
8 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.063%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.063%) NFS
10 1 (0.063%) RACF
10 1 (0.063%) Veritas File System
10 1 (0.063%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 40 (2.51%) Ansible
2 34 (2.13%) Terraform
3 28 (1.76%) Kubernetes
4 24 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.32%) SCCM
6 9 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.44%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.38%) Grafana
10 5 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
12 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.13%) Control-M
13 2 (0.13%) Nagios
13 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.13%) Puppet
13 2 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 293 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 135 (8.47%) SAP
3 86 (5.40%) Oracle
4 73 (4.58%) Cisco
5 65 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 41 (2.57%) VMware
7 36 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 29 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.76%) Google
10 20 (1.25%) F5
11 19 (1.19%) Citrix
12 18 (1.13%) Workday
13 17 (1.07%) Aruba
13 17 (1.07%) CheckPoint
13 17 (1.07%) IBM
14 15 (0.94%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.88%) SolarWinds
16 12 (0.75%) Ariba
16 12 (0.75%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.75%) MuleSoft