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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 58 52
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,076 1,336 1,438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.89% 4.06% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 4.48% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,393 861 888
10th Percentile £325 £321 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.47% -2.31%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £636
90th Percentile £705 £725 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 24 43
10th Percentile £22.44 £15.91 £22.60
25th Percentile £35.37 £29.88 £27.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +40.45% -35.27%
75th Percentile £78.56 £71.68 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £81.38 £67.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.25 £55.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +9.55% +34.34% -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 45,250 29,801 33,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.48% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,843 18,616 21,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £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 2,819 1,703 1,838
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.31 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +13.33%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 1,789 £525 - 1,638
UK excluding London -7 1,127 £500 - 1,158
London +2 783 £550 -8.33% 680
Work from Home +2 618 £500 -4.76% 738
South East -2 294 £525 -2.33% 354
North of England +4 277 £496 +4.40% 273
North West +13 187 £500 +5.26% 145
South West +1 175 £488 +1.56% 148
Midlands -26 162 £475 +0.26% 194
Scotland +7 130 £450 -2.60% 67
West Midlands -20 126 £475 -8.61% 127
Yorkshire -30 70 £493 -1.50% 83
East of England +3 60 £500 -4.76% 100
East Midlands -23 34 £407 -5.07% 65
Wales 0 24 £525 +89.59% 28
North East -23 21 £350 - 51
Northern Ireland +6 15 £361 -24.05% 27
Channel Islands - 1 £550 - 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
1 120 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 112 (5.39%) Confluence
3 40 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.34%) Apache
4 7 (0.34%) SAS
5 6 (0.29%) CMS
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.24%) JBoss
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
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 (0.096%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.096%) Camunda
9 2 (0.096%) CICS
9 2 (0.096%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 159 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (5.78%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
4 94 (4.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.77%) Siemens NX
7 14 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.53%) Trello
9 8 (0.39%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 7 (0.34%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
12 5 (0.24%) ProjectWise
13 2 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.096%) Houdini
13 2 (0.096%) NUKE
14 1 (0.048%) CATIA
14 1 (0.048%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.01%) Teamcenter
3 16 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.72%) Primavera
5 10 (0.48%) Maximo
6 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.39%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.34%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.34%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.29%) ProductWriter
9 6 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.24%) Shopify
11 4 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 315 (15.17%) Azure
2 134 (6.45%) AWS
3 117 (5.64%) Power Platform
4 116 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
5 93 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (3.85%) SaaS
7 68 (3.28%) Entra ID
8 45 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
9 42 (2.02%) GCP
10 28 (1.35%) GitHub
10 28 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.30%) Google Workspace
12 26 (1.25%) IaaS
12 26 (1.25%) PowerApps
13 23 (1.11%) OCI
13 23 (1.11%) Power Automate
13 23 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
14 18 (0.87%) OneDrive
15 15 (0.72%) PaaS
16 13 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 131 (6.31%) Firewall
2 89 (4.29%) DNS
3 75 (3.61%) WAN
4 68 (3.28%) LAN
5 64 (3.08%) Network Security
5 64 (3.08%) VPN
6 49 (2.36%) MPLS
7 45 (2.17%) BGP
8 42 (2.02%) DHCP
9 37 (1.78%) Wireless
10 35 (1.69%) VLAN
11 34 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
12 33 (1.59%) OSPF
13 31 (1.49%) TCP/IP
14 25 (1.20%) SD-WAN
15 24 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 17 (0.82%) SSL
17 15 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.67%) IPsec
19 13 (0.63%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (4.38%) Power BI
2 41 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.67%) Metadata
4 14 (0.67%) Tableau
5 12 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.48%) Big Data
7 10 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.43%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.39%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.34%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.29%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.24%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.24%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 222 (10.69%) JIRA
2 23 (1.11%) Git
3 14 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.63%) GitLab
5 9 (0.43%) Selenium
6 6 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.24%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSI
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.096%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.096%) Hudson
10 2 (0.096%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.096%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.096%) TestNG
11 1 (0.048%) Postman
11 1 (0.048%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 858 (41.33%) Social Skills
2 648 (31.21%) Finance
3 278 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 151 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
6 116 (5.59%) Banking
7 106 (5.11%) Retail
8 101 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
9 97 (4.67%) Legal
10 86 (4.14%) Telecoms
11 65 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 58 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
12 58 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (1.97%) Local Government
14 34 (1.64%) Marketing
14 34 (1.64%) Military
15 26 (1.25%) Front Office
16 25 (1.20%) Investment Banking
17 24 (1.16%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 494 (23.80%) Project Manager
2 236 (11.37%) Analyst
3 228 (10.98%) Senior
4 195 (9.39%) Lead
5 129 (6.21%) Business Analyst
6 127 (6.12%) Consultant
7 122 (5.88%) Architect
8 100 (4.82%) Senior Manager
9 90 (4.34%) Network Engineer
10 84 (4.05%) IT Manager
11 83 (4.00%) Senior Project Manager
12 80 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
13 61 (2.94%) Developer
13 61 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 57 (2.75%) IT Project Manager
15 48 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (1.97%) Project Officer
17 40 (1.93%) Technical Manager
18 39 (1.88%) Infrastructure Manager
19 38 (1.83%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.69%) REST
2 26 (1.25%) Middleware
3 25 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.82%) .NET
5 15 (0.72%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.58%) React
6 12 (0.58%) XML
7 11 (0.53%) OAuth
7 11 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
7 11 (0.53%) Web Services
8 10 (0.48%) ADO
8 10 (0.48%) JSON
9 9 (0.43%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.39%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.34%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.34%) Kafka
11 7 (0.34%) Playwright
11 7 (0.34%) PySpark
11 7 (0.34%) RESTful
11 7 (0.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 105 (5.06%) Management Information System
2 104 (5.01%) Onboarding
3 87 (4.19%) Data Centre
4 85 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 44 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 41 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 33 (1.59%) Operational Technology
8 32 (1.54%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 28 (1.35%) Driving Licence
12 27 (1.30%) PKI
13 23 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.01%) Clustering
15 20 (0.96%) PMI
16 19 (0.92%) Derivative
16 19 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 19 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 137 (6.60%) Windows
2 69 (3.32%) Linux
3 63 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.30%) Unix
5 12 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.48%) AIX
6 10 (0.48%) Solaris
7 6 (0.29%) Android
7 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.24%) zOS
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.096%) Debian
11 2 (0.096%) VMS
11 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) CentOS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (38.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 634 (30.54%) Agile
3 556 (26.78%) Project Management
4 375 (18.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 359 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 339 (16.33%) Migration
7 316 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
8 298 (14.35%) Change Management
9 269 (12.96%) PRINCE2
10 229 (11.03%) Decision-Making
11 222 (10.69%) Waterfall
12 187 (9.01%) ITIL
12 187 (9.01%) Risk Management
13 181 (8.72%) Roadmaps
14 180 (8.67%) DevOps
15 172 (8.29%) AI
16 153 (7.37%) User Acceptance Testing
17 150 (7.23%) Workshop Facilitation
18 147 (7.08%) Cybersecurity
19 143 (6.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 115 (5.54%) SQL
2 99 (4.77%) Python
3 67 (3.23%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.25%) Java
5 25 (1.20%) Bash
6 18 (0.87%) C#
7 17 (0.82%) JavaScript
8 14 (0.67%) VBA
9 9 (0.43%) ABAP
9 9 (0.43%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.39%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.24%) Korn
14 4 (0.19%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.19%) Bicep
14 4 (0.19%) Go
15 3 (0.14%) BeanShell
15 3 (0.14%) C++
15 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 463 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 332 (15.99%) SC Cleared
3 204 (9.83%) Degree
4 160 (7.71%) PMP
5 138 (6.65%) PMI Certification
6 117 (5.64%) DV Cleared
7 70 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (2.17%) CCNP
8 45 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 44 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 40 (1.93%) CCNA
11 33 (1.59%) Azure Certification
12 32 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 26 (1.25%) CISSP
14 19 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.87%) MCSE
16 17 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
18 14 (0.67%) CISM
19 13 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (11.42%) PMO
2 87 (4.19%) QA
3 60 (2.89%) NIST
4 57 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (2.70%) GDPR
6 42 (2.02%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.69%) SLA
8 21 (1.01%) GRC
9 13 (0.63%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.53%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.48%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.39%) NCSC
13 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.34%) P3O
15 6 (0.29%) GxP
15 6 (0.29%) IFRS
16 5 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 111 (5.35%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.11%) Docker
5 19 (0.92%) vSphere
6 17 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.67%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.53%) Firmware
9 11 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
10 4 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.096%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.048%) ACF2
13 1 (0.048%) KVM
13 1 (0.048%) oVirt
13 1 (0.048%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 52 (2.50%) Ansible
2 50 (2.41%) Terraform
3 33 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 31 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.11%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.96%) SCCM
7 16 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.72%) vCenter Server
9 10 (0.48%) SCOM
10 9 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
11 8 (0.39%) Nagios
11 8 (0.39%) Puppet
12 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
12 7 (0.34%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
14 5 (0.24%) Netcool
14 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.24%) Tivoli
15 4 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 445 (21.44%) Microsoft
2 140 (6.74%) SAP
3 135 (6.50%) Cisco
4 116 (5.59%) ServiceNow
5 92 (4.43%) Oracle
6 91 (4.38%) VMware
7 51 (2.46%) Palo Alto
8 45 (2.17%) Fortinet
9 42 (2.02%) Google
10 40 (1.93%) F5
10 40 (1.93%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.40%) Juniper
12 28 (1.35%) SolarWinds
13 24 (1.16%) IBM
13 24 (1.16%) Workday
14 22 (1.06%) Splunk
15 21 (1.01%) Zscaler
16 19 (0.92%) Citrix
16 19 (0.92%) NEC
17 18 (0.87%) Siemens