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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 57 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,037 1,314 1,443
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.85% 3.99% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 4.42% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 848 886
10th Percentile £325 £324 £360
25th Percentile £413 £414 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.33%
75th Percentile £617 £618 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 21 43
10th Percentile £22.44 £15.91 £22.60
25th Percentile £35.37 £31.00 £27.88
Median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +34.34% -34.50%
75th Percentile £79.63 £76.25 £55.79
90th Percentile £91.10 £82.50 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +7.83% +40.45% -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 44,879 29,748 33,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 90.41% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,704 18,653 21,488
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 2,741 1,659 1,873
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +90.72% -43.70% +3.38%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +6 1,765 £520 -0.95% 1,638
UK excluding London -5 1,116 £500 - 1,135
London +3 766 £540 -9.04% 669
Work from Home +2 612 £500 -3.29% 770
South East -4 294 £525 -2.33% 351
North of England +2 270 £485 +2.11% 296
North West +10 182 £496 +4.40% 161
South West +2 175 £485 +2.11% 146
Midlands -26 163 £475 +1.60% 165
West Midlands -25 128 £475 -8.19% 107
Scotland +9 124 £450 -4.26% 64
Yorkshire -33 68 £500 - 92
East of England +9 61 £500 +5.26% 81
East Midlands -16 33 £407 -4.63% 58
Wales 0 25 £500 +80.56% 24
North East -21 21 £350 - 45
Northern Ireland +5 14 £334 -29.68% 35
Channel Islands - 1 £550 - 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
1 118 (5.79%) SharePoint
2 114 (5.60%) Confluence
3 40 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.34%) Apache
5 6 (0.29%) CMS
5 6 (0.29%) SAS
6 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.20%) WordPress
8 3 (0.15%) Appian
8 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.15%) JBoss
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
8 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.098%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.098%) Camunda
9 2 (0.098%) CICS
9 2 (0.098%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 153 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (5.74%) Microsoft Project
3 97 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
4 88 (4.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.67%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.79%) Siemens NX
7 14 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) Trello
9 6 (0.29%) Navisworks
9 6 (0.29%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.15%) ProjectWise
12 2 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.098%) Houdini
12 2 (0.098%) NUKE
13 1 (0.049%) CATIA
13 1 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 46 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.08%) Teamcenter
3 15 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.69%) Primavera
5 10 (0.49%) Maximo
6 8 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.39%) SAP SD
6 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.34%) SAP FI
8 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.29%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.29%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.25%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.25%) Shopify
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
10 4 (0.20%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 298 (14.63%) Azure
2 136 (6.68%) AWS
3 117 (5.74%) Power Platform
4 107 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
5 86 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
6 76 (3.73%) SaaS
7 63 (3.09%) Entra ID
8 45 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
9 39 (1.91%) GCP
10 30 (1.47%) GitHub
11 28 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
12 26 (1.28%) Google Workspace
12 26 (1.28%) PowerApps
13 24 (1.18%) IaaS
14 23 (1.13%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
15 22 (1.08%) OCI
16 18 (0.88%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (0.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 129 (6.33%) Firewall
2 89 (4.37%) DNS
3 74 (3.63%) WAN
4 68 (3.34%) LAN
5 62 (3.04%) Network Security
6 61 (2.99%) VPN
7 48 (2.36%) MPLS
8 45 (2.21%) BGP
9 41 (2.01%) DHCP
10 36 (1.77%) VLAN
11 34 (1.67%) OSPF
11 34 (1.67%) Wireless
12 32 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
13 31 (1.52%) TCP/IP
14 24 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 24 (1.18%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.79%) SSL
16 15 (0.74%) IPsec
17 14 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (4.32%) Power BI
2 48 (2.36%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.69%) Tableau
5 13 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (0.59%) Metadata
7 11 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.44%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.44%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.39%) Big Data
10 8 (0.39%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.34%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.29%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.25%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 222 (10.90%) JIRA
2 30 (1.47%) Git
3 16 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.69%) GitLab
5 9 (0.44%) Selenium
6 8 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.25%) Subversion
8 4 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.15%) Appium
9 3 (0.15%) JMeter
9 3 (0.15%) MSI
9 3 (0.15%) MSTest
9 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.098%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.098%) Hudson
10 2 (0.098%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.098%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.098%) TestNG
11 1 (0.049%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.049%) Postman
General
1 832 (40.84%) Social Skills
2 639 (31.37%) Finance
3 265 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 228 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 146 (7.17%) Organisational Skills
6 105 (5.15%) Banking
7 100 (4.91%) Retail
8 97 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
9 90 (4.42%) Legal
10 83 (4.07%) Telecoms
11 62 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
12 55 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (2.65%) Manufacturing
14 41 (2.01%) Local Government
15 34 (1.67%) Marketing
15 34 (1.67%) Military
16 24 (1.18%) Law
17 23 (1.13%) Investment Banking
18 22 (1.08%) Financial Institution
18 22 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 481 (23.61%) Project Manager
2 231 (11.34%) Analyst
3 221 (10.85%) Senior
4 199 (9.77%) Lead
5 123 (6.04%) Business Analyst
6 118 (5.79%) Architect
7 116 (5.69%) Consultant
8 100 (4.91%) Senior Manager
9 89 (4.37%) Network Engineer
10 84 (4.12%) Delivery Manager
10 84 (4.12%) IT Manager
11 83 (4.07%) Senior Project Manager
12 60 (2.95%) Developer
13 59 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 57 (2.80%) IT Project Manager
15 43 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (2.11%) Technical Manager
16 42 (2.06%) Project Officer
17 39 (1.91%) Infrastructure Manager
18 37 (1.82%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.57%) REST
2 29 (1.42%) Middleware
3 23 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.83%) .NET
5 13 (0.64%) 802.1X
5 13 (0.64%) XML
6 12 (0.59%) JSON
6 12 (0.59%) React
7 11 (0.54%) OAuth
7 11 (0.54%) SAP Fiori
8 10 (0.49%) ADO
8 10 (0.49%) Web Services
9 8 (0.39%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.39%) SAP Basis
10 7 (0.34%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.34%) Kafka
10 7 (0.34%) Playwright
10 7 (0.34%) PySpark
10 7 (0.34%) RESTful
10 7 (0.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.06%) Management Information System
2 101 (4.96%) Onboarding
3 84 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 82 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 40 (1.96%) Virtual Team
6 38 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (1.67%) Operational Technology
8 33 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.52%) Cloud Native
10 27 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.23%) Driving Licence
11 25 (1.23%) PKI
12 24 (1.18%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.13%) Clustering
14 22 (1.08%) Replication
15 21 (1.03%) PMI
16 18 (0.88%) Data Structures
16 18 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (6.23%) Windows
2 62 (3.04%) Linux
3 59 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.28%) Unix
5 10 (0.49%) AIX
5 10 (0.49%) Solaris
6 8 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.34%) zOS
8 5 (0.25%) Android
8 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.098%) Debian
10 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.049%) CentOS
11 1 (0.049%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (37.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 623 (30.58%) Agile
3 549 (26.95%) Project Management
4 360 (17.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 353 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 331 (16.25%) Migration
7 308 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 295 (14.48%) Change Management
9 261 (12.81%) PRINCE2
10 227 (11.14%) Decision-Making
11 216 (10.60%) Waterfall
12 183 (8.98%) Risk Management
13 180 (8.84%) ITIL
14 179 (8.79%) Roadmaps
15 173 (8.49%) DevOps
16 172 (8.44%) AI
17 146 (7.17%) Workshop Facilitation
18 143 (7.02%) User Acceptance Testing
19 141 (6.92%) Scrum
20 138 (6.77%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 115 (5.65%) SQL
2 98 (4.81%) Python
3 67 (3.29%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.18%) Java
5 23 (1.13%) Bash
6 20 (0.98%) C#
7 18 (0.88%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.64%) VBA
9 10 (0.49%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.39%) ABAP
11 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.29%) Bicep
13 6 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.25%) Korn
15 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.20%) Go
15 4 (0.20%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.15%) C++
Qualifications
1 466 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 336 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 201 (9.87%) Degree
4 158 (7.76%) PMP
5 137 (6.73%) PMI Certification
6 120 (5.89%) DV Cleared
7 70 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (2.21%) CCNP
9 43 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 43 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (2.01%) CCNA
11 32 (1.57%) Azure Certification
12 31 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 26 (1.28%) CISSP
14 19 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.88%) MCSE
16 17 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 14 (0.69%) CISM
17 14 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
18 13 (0.64%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (11.29%) PMO
2 95 (4.66%) QA
3 58 (2.85%) NIST
4 55 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.55%) GDPR
6 43 (2.11%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.72%) SLA
8 21 (1.03%) GRC
9 12 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.54%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.49%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.39%) NCSC
13 7 (0.34%) ISO 19650
13 7 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.29%) HL7
14 6 (0.29%) IFRS
14 6 (0.29%) P3O
15 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 105 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 61 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.23%) Docker
4 24 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.88%) vSphere
6 17 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.54%) Firmware
8 11 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.20%) Squid
10 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.15%) Ceph
11 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.098%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.049%) ACF2
13 1 (0.049%) KVM
13 1 (0.049%) RACF
13 1 (0.049%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 50 (2.45%) Ansible
1 50 (2.45%) Terraform
2 31 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.08%) FortiGate
5 20 (0.98%) SCCM
6 14 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.69%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.44%) SCOM
8 8 (0.39%) Nagios
9 7 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
9 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
9 7 (0.34%) ZABBIX
10 6 (0.29%) Puppet
11 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.25%) Netcool
11 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
12 4 (0.20%) Grafana
12 4 (0.20%) Nessus
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 415 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 134 (6.58%) SAP
3 128 (6.28%) Cisco
4 118 (5.79%) ServiceNow
5 89 (4.37%) Oracle
6 84 (4.12%) VMware
7 52 (2.55%) Palo Alto
8 44 (2.16%) Fortinet
9 40 (1.96%) F5
9 40 (1.96%) Google
9 40 (1.96%) Salesforce
10 30 (1.47%) SolarWinds
11 28 (1.37%) Juniper
12 24 (1.18%) IBM
12 24 (1.18%) Workday
13 21 (1.03%) Splunk
13 21 (1.03%) Zscaler
14 20 (0.98%) NEC
15 19 (0.93%) Citrix
16 18 (0.88%) Siemens