Project Delivery Contracts

Project Delivery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Project Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 53 53
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,243 1,596 2,366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.90% 3.69% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 4.32% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 1,011 1,650
10th Percentile £329 £356 £369
25th Percentile £420 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £635 £629 £650
90th Percentile £725 £732 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -4.41% - +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 47 45
10th Percentile £31.50 £20.98 £21.25
25th Percentile £47.38 £26.47 £41.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.94 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.66% -34.50% +40.45%
75th Percentile £77.19 £55.39 £82.50
90th Percentile £82.13 £66.20 £88.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £40.94 £62.50
% change year-on-year +58.77% -34.50% +33.48%

All Process and 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 28,883 36,949 50,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.68% 85.32% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,181 23,576 35,000
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,432 2,509 1,726
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.28
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.12 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 18 Contract 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 6 July 2025. 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 1,021 £525 - 5,259
UK excluding London -6 614 £488 -4.41% 3,205
London -4 497 £575 +4.55% 2,371
Work from Home -2 405 £515 -1.90% 2,434
North of England -3 129 £469 -6.25% 785
South East -16 126 £525 +5.00% 813
Midlands +10 121 £512 +1.64% 497
Scotland -1 99 £470 -6.00% 226
West Midlands +7 82 £522 -0.50% 312
South West -4 80 £500 -5.66% 380
North West 0 72 £463 -11.90% 480
Yorkshire +19 52 £500 +6.38% 250
East Midlands +6 38 £443 -4.32% 182
East of England +13 37 £448 -18.93% 375
Northern Ireland -7 12 £525 +228.13% 76
Wales -10 9 £277 -45.97% 78
North East -13 5 £363 -30.95% 59
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 70 (5.63%) Confluence
2 48 (3.86%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.72%) CMS
5 6 (0.48%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.16%) Drupal
7 2 (0.16%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.16%) SAS
7 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.080%) Apache
8 1 (0.080%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.080%) JBoss
8 1 (0.080%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.080%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.080%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.080%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 85 (6.84%) Microsoft Project
2 63 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.65%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.37%) Trello
7 5 (0.40%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.080%) InDesign
9 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.080%) Revit
9 1 (0.080%) Simulink
9 1 (0.080%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 68 (5.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.80%) Endur
3 9 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.64%) SAP PP
5 7 (0.56%) SAP MDG
5 7 (0.56%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.48%) SAP FI
6 6 (0.48%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 6 (0.48%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.40%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.40%) SAP PLM
7 5 (0.40%) SAP PS
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 166 (13.35%) Azure
2 80 (6.44%) AWS
3 64 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (3.38%) Power Platform
5 42 (3.38%) SaaS
6 27 (2.17%) IaaS
7 24 (1.93%) GCP
8 22 (1.77%) Entra ID
8 22 (1.77%) OCI
9 19 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (1.45%) Asana
10 18 (1.45%) PaaS
11 12 (0.97%) Serverless
12 11 (0.88%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.80%) PowerApps
13 10 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
14 8 (0.64%) OneDrive
15 7 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (0.56%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.39%) Firewall
2 32 (2.57%) VPN
3 29 (2.33%) Network Security
4 25 (2.01%) DNS
5 22 (1.77%) WAN
6 20 (1.61%) LAN
7 19 (1.53%) MPLS
8 17 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (1.21%) BGP
10 14 (1.13%) OSPF
11 12 (0.97%) Internet
11 12 (0.97%) TCP/IP
12 11 (0.88%) Multicast
13 10 (0.80%) Wireless
14 9 (0.72%) HTTP
14 9 (0.72%) VSAN
15 8 (0.64%) SAN
16 7 (0.56%) IPsec
17 6 (0.48%) Broadband
17 6 (0.48%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (2.74%) Power BI
2 20 (1.61%) SAP HANA
3 16 (1.29%) Big Data
4 15 (1.21%) Data Lake
4 15 (1.21%) SQL Server
5 14 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.64%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.64%) NoSQL
8 8 (0.64%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.64%) Tableau
9 5 (0.40%) GIS
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.32%) Metadata
10 4 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.24%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.24%) DB2
11 3 (0.24%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 121 (9.73%) JIRA
2 19 (1.53%) Git
3 5 (0.40%) GitLab
3 5 (0.40%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.40%) Selenium
4 3 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.24%) Subversion
5 2 (0.16%) Gradle
5 2 (0.16%) JMeter
5 2 (0.16%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.16%) Maven
5 2 (0.16%) Postman
6 1 (0.080%) Appium
6 1 (0.080%) Gatling
6 1 (0.080%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.080%) MLflow
6 1 (0.080%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.080%) Ranorex
6 1 (0.080%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.080%) SpecFlow
General
1 533 (42.88%) Social Skills
2 472 (37.97%) Finance
3 134 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (8.85%) Banking
5 94 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 66 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
7 62 (4.99%) Telecoms
8 55 (4.42%) Manufacturing
9 54 (4.34%) Marketing
10 48 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
11 44 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
12 43 (3.46%) Legal
13 36 (2.90%) Retail
14 26 (2.09%) Billing
14 26 (2.09%) Front Office
15 24 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 18 (1.45%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.45%) Investment Banking
17 17 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.29%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 341 (27.43%) Project Manager
2 139 (11.18%) Analyst
3 120 (9.65%) Lead
4 111 (8.93%) Senior
5 91 (7.32%) Business Analyst
6 90 (7.24%) Consultant
7 75 (6.03%) Architect
8 67 (5.39%) Delivery Manager
9 54 (4.34%) IT Manager
10 48 (3.86%) Developer
10 48 (3.86%) IT Project Manager
11 36 (2.90%) Senior Manager
12 33 (2.65%) Programme Manager
13 31 (2.49%) Infrastructure Manager
13 31 (2.49%) Technical Manager
14 30 (2.41%) Senior Project Manager
15 29 (2.33%) Network Engineer
16 26 (2.09%) Engagement Manager
17 25 (2.01%) Infrastructure Project Manager
18 24 (1.93%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.41%) .NET
1 30 (2.41%) Web Services
2 22 (1.77%) React
3 14 (1.13%) HTML
4 13 (1.05%) CSS
4 13 (1.05%) Middleware
4 13 (1.05%) Spring
4 13 (1.05%) XML
5 12 (0.97%) .NET Core
5 12 (0.97%) EntireX
5 12 (0.97%) SOAP
6 11 (0.88%) Spring Boot
7 10 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (0.72%) JSON
8 9 (0.72%) REST
9 8 (0.64%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.64%) RESTful
10 7 (0.56%) ADO
10 7 (0.56%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 49 (3.94%) Management Information System
1 49 (3.94%) Product Ownership
2 32 (2.57%) Data Centre
2 32 (2.57%) Onboarding
3 24 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
4 23 (1.85%) PMI
5 21 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (1.45%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.29%) Operational Technology
9 15 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (0.97%) Life Science
11 10 (0.80%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.72%) IoT
12 9 (0.72%) Market Risk
12 9 (0.72%) Mobile App
12 9 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
13 8 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 67 (5.39%) Windows
2 35 (2.82%) Windows Server
3 31 (2.49%) Linux
4 18 (1.45%) Unix
4 18 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.40%) Windows 8
8 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.40%) Windows XP
8 5 (0.40%) zOS
9 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) Android
10 2 (0.16%) Solaris
11 1 (0.080%) AIX
11 1 (0.080%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (35.00%) Agile
2 421 (33.87%) Project Management
3 384 (30.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 232 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 162 (13.03%) Change Management
7 147 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 140 (11.26%) Migration
9 128 (10.30%) Risk Management
10 117 (9.41%) Waterfall
11 113 (9.09%) PRINCE2
12 104 (8.37%) Scrum
13 102 (8.21%) DevOps
14 101 (8.13%) Roadmaps
15 97 (7.80%) Decision-Making
16 93 (7.48%) ITIL
17 92 (7.40%) Project Governance
18 84 (6.76%) Budget Management
19 77 (6.19%) Validation
20 76 (6.11%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 90 (7.24%) SQL
2 54 (4.34%) Python
3 39 (3.14%) PowerShell
4 34 (2.74%) JavaScript
5 33 (2.65%) Java
6 28 (2.25%) C#
7 7 (0.56%) PHP
8 6 (0.48%) Bicep
8 6 (0.48%) C
8 6 (0.48%) C++
8 6 (0.48%) Perl
9 5 (0.40%) Bash
9 5 (0.40%) VBA
10 4 (0.32%) JCL
10 4 (0.32%) R
11 3 (0.24%) ABAP
11 3 (0.24%) COBOL
11 3 (0.24%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.24%) REXX
12 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 210 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 168 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 156 (12.55%) Degree
4 88 (7.08%) PMI Certification
5 75 (6.03%) PMP
6 32 (2.57%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.53%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.13%) CCNP
11 14 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.88%) CCIE
12 11 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.80%) CBAP
14 9 (0.72%) APMP
14 9 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 8 (0.64%) AWS Certification
15 8 (0.64%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.19%) PMO
2 62 (4.99%) QA
3 24 (1.93%) GDPR
4 17 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.13%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.13%) MiFID
6 11 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.80%) EMIR
7 10 (0.80%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.72%) SLA
9 6 (0.48%) IFRS
9 6 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.48%) NIST
9 6 (0.48%) P3O
10 5 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.32%) GxP
11 4 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 3 (0.24%) COBIT
System Software
1 49 (3.94%) Active Directory
2 29 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.21%) vSphere
4 14 (1.13%) Docker
5 10 (0.80%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.48%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.16%) XenApp
12 1 (0.080%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.080%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.080%) KVM
12 1 (0.080%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.080%) NFS
12 1 (0.080%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.080%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 36 (2.90%) Terraform
2 29 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.69%) Ansible
4 18 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.88%) SCCM
7 9 (0.72%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.48%) PowerCLI
8 6 (0.48%) VxRail
8 6 (0.48%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.32%) WSUS
10 2 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
10 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.16%) SELinux
10 2 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.16%) Tivoli NetView
10 2 (0.16%) vRealize
11 1 (0.080%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 226 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 157 (12.63%) SAP
3 69 (5.55%) Oracle
4 46 (3.70%) VMware
5 45 (3.62%) Cisco
6 40 (3.22%) ServiceNow
7 31 (2.49%) IBM
8 29 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.77%) Databricks
10 16 (1.29%) Workday
11 15 (1.21%) Google
12 14 (1.13%) Ariba
12 14 (1.13%) Dell
12 14 (1.13%) SolarWinds
13 12 (0.97%) Software AG
13 12 (0.97%) Splunk
13 12 (0.97%) webMethods
14 11 (0.88%) F5
14 11 (0.88%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.80%) Meraki