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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,791 1,149 1,685
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 3.92% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.31% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 701 1,086
10th Percentile £325 £325 £361
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £523 £536
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £710 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 23 33
10th Percentile £15.91 £21.53 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £28.89 £26.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £55.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -32.73% +54.28% -44.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.88 £40.94
90th Percentile £85.60 £78.19 £57.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £62.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year -40.80% +52.66% -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 40,206 26,654 37,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 90.92% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,270 17,186 24,018
10th Percentile £320 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,084 2,441
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.64 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.84% -26.13% +7.14%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +5 1,601 £513 -2.38% 953
UK excluding London -3 980 £483 -3.40% 753
London +2 672 £538 -2.27% 298
Work from Home +3 502 £525 - 434
North of England +28 286 £477 -1.14% 162
South East +7 235 £525 -4.55% 255
Midlands -14 189 £475 -5.00% 109
North West +25 187 £478 +0.53% 80
South West +8 137 £480 +1.05% 96
West Midlands -16 130 £487 -5.97% 69
Yorkshire -6 83 £500 -1.23% 53
Scotland -25 72 £500 +5.26% 35
East Midlands -9 58 £455 +1.79% 40
East of England -11 50 £513 +3.64% 84
North East -6 19 £350 -15.15% 33
Wales -7 15 £450 +38.46% 19
Northern Ireland -5 7 £425 -28.42% 8

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
1 110 (6.14%) Confluence
2 92 (5.14%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.34%) CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.22%) CICS
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.17%) Camunda
7 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.17%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.056%) Apache
9 1 (0.056%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.056%) IIS
9 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 152 (8.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (6.37%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (5.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 100 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
5 29 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 24 (1.34%) Siemens NX
7 10 (0.56%) Trello
8 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.22%) Revit
11 3 (0.17%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.056%) SPSS
12 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.56%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.67%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.39%) Primavera
6 6 (0.34%) Maximo
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (0.28%) Endur
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.28%) ProductWriter
7 5 (0.28%) Summit
8 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.22%) Shopify
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 197 (11.00%) Azure
2 101 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
3 90 (5.03%) Power Platform
4 88 (4.91%) AWS
5 71 (3.96%) SaaS
6 44 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
7 34 (1.90%) Entra ID
8 27 (1.51%) GCP
9 22 (1.23%) GitHub
10 21 (1.17%) Google Workspace
11 19 (1.06%) IaaS
12 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (0.73%) Amazon S3
14 13 (0.73%) Serverless
15 12 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (0.67%) PaaS
15 12 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.03%) Firewall
2 57 (3.18%) DNS
3 42 (2.35%) Network Security
4 40 (2.23%) WAN
5 33 (1.84%) LAN
6 26 (1.45%) BGP
6 26 (1.45%) OSPF
7 23 (1.28%) VLAN
8 21 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 20 (1.12%) VPN
10 19 (1.06%) SD-WAN
10 19 (1.06%) TCP/IP
11 16 (0.89%) DHCP
11 16 (0.89%) MPLS
12 14 (0.78%) Wireless
13 13 (0.73%) BIG-IP
13 13 (0.73%) NetScaler
13 13 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
15 11 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (3.96%) Power BI
2 30 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.51%) Tableau
4 23 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.78%) Metadata
8 8 (0.45%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.28%) Big Data
10 5 (0.28%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.28%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.22%) GIS
11 4 (0.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 203 (11.33%) JIRA
2 16 (0.89%) Git
2 16 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.61%) GitLab
4 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.34%) Selenium
6 4 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.17%) Appium
7 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.17%) JMeter
7 3 (0.17%) MSTest
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) TestRail
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.056%) Gradle
9 1 (0.056%) Hudson
9 1 (0.056%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.056%) Robot Framework
General
1 687 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 575 (32.10%) Finance
3 265 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (10.72%) Public Sector
5 133 (7.43%) Organisational Skills
6 128 (7.15%) Banking
7 77 (4.30%) Retail
8 70 (3.91%) Legal
8 70 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
10 51 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (2.74%) Telecoms
12 46 (2.57%) Manufacturing
13 34 (1.90%) Marketing
14 27 (1.51%) Local Government
15 26 (1.45%) Military
16 23 (1.28%) Investment Banking
17 17 (0.95%) Financial Institution
18 15 (0.84%) Law
18 15 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 491 (27.41%) Project Manager
2 211 (11.78%) Analyst
3 183 (10.22%) Lead
4 177 (9.88%) Senior
5 136 (7.59%) Business Analyst
6 89 (4.97%) Senior Manager
7 83 (4.63%) Architect
8 81 (4.52%) Consultant
9 77 (4.30%) Delivery Manager
10 73 (4.08%) IT Manager
11 69 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
12 54 (3.02%) Network Engineer
13 50 (2.79%) IT Project Manager
14 48 (2.68%) Technical Manager
15 43 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.29%) Programme Manager
17 35 (1.95%) SC Cleared Project Manager
18 33 (1.84%) Developer
18 33 (1.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 32 (1.79%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.12%) Middleware
2 24 (1.34%) REST
3 22 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.78%) XML
5 12 (0.67%) ADO
6 10 (0.56%) .NET
7 9 (0.50%) Web Services
8 8 (0.45%) JSON
8 8 (0.45%) OAuth
8 8 (0.45%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.39%) CSS
9 7 (0.39%) React
9 7 (0.39%) Spring
10 5 (0.28%) HTML
11 4 (0.22%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.22%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.22%) IDoc
11 4 (0.22%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (4.80%) Management Information System
2 72 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 71 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 66 (3.69%) Data Centre
5 32 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 32 (1.79%) Virtual Team
6 31 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.45%) Public Cloud
9 25 (1.40%) Clustering
9 25 (1.40%) PMI
9 25 (1.40%) Replication
10 21 (1.17%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.06%) NHS
12 18 (1.01%) Cloud Native
13 16 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (0.84%) Life Science
15 14 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
16 13 (0.73%) Derivative
17 12 (0.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 97 (5.42%) Windows
2 48 (2.68%) Windows Server
3 31 (1.73%) Linux
4 25 (1.40%) Unix
5 15 (0.84%) Solaris
6 11 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.56%) VMS
8 9 (0.50%) zOS
9 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.34%) AIX
10 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.22%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.22%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.056%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.056%) Android
14 1 (0.056%) Debian
14 1 (0.056%) pSOS
14 1 (0.056%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (31.88%) Agile
2 551 (30.76%) Project Management
3 519 (28.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 301 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
5 275 (15.35%) Migration
6 268 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 265 (14.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 229 (12.79%) PRINCE2
9 206 (11.50%) Change Management
10 189 (10.55%) Waterfall
11 186 (10.39%) Decision-Making
12 157 (8.77%) Risk Management
13 153 (8.54%) DevOps
14 137 (7.65%) Scrum
15 136 (7.59%) Roadmaps
16 125 (6.98%) Workshop Facilitation
17 119 (6.64%) ERP
18 116 (6.48%) AI
19 114 (6.37%) ITIL
20 113 (6.31%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 87 (4.86%) SQL
2 74 (4.13%) Python
3 50 (2.79%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.17%) Java
5 17 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 14 (0.78%) C#
7 11 (0.61%) Bash
8 8 (0.45%) Go
9 7 (0.39%) Bicep
9 7 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.28%) VBA
12 4 (0.22%) ABAP
12 4 (0.22%) COBOL
12 4 (0.22%) REXX
13 3 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 387 (21.61%) Security Cleared
2 285 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 211 (11.78%) Degree
4 170 (9.49%) PMP
5 137 (7.65%) PMI Certification
6 89 (4.97%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.84%) APMP
10 31 (1.73%) CCNP
10 31 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (1.68%) CCNA
12 28 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (1.51%) Master's Degree
14 21 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 19 (1.06%) CISSP
16 15 (0.84%) CISM
17 14 (0.78%) CBAP
18 13 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
18 13 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (11.39%) PMO
2 120 (6.70%) QA
3 45 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (2.40%) GDPR
5 40 (2.23%) NIST
6 39 (2.18%) Data Quality
7 23 (1.28%) SLA
8 13 (0.73%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.67%) GRC
10 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.45%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.39%) HL7
13 7 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.34%) Basel III
14 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.34%) PSD2
15 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.28%) ISO 19650
15 5 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 62 (3.46%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.12%) Docker
4 17 (0.95%) vSphere
5 16 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.61%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.34%) Firmware
10 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.11%) Squid
13 1 (0.056%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.056%) Ceph
13 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 42 (2.35%) Ansible
2 36 (2.01%) Terraform
3 27 (1.51%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (0.95%) SCCM
5 13 (0.73%) vCenter Server
6 9 (0.50%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.50%) Nagios
6 9 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.39%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.28%) Netcool
9 4 (0.22%) Tivoli
10 3 (0.17%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.17%) Puppet
10 3 (0.17%) SCOM
11 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.11%) Packer
11 2 (0.11%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 323 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 139 (7.76%) SAP
3 83 (4.63%) Oracle
4 82 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 63 (3.52%) Cisco
6 42 (2.35%) VMware
7 39 (2.18%) Palo Alto
8 38 (2.12%) Google
9 33 (1.84%) Salesforce
10 28 (1.56%) F5
11 24 (1.34%) Siemens
12 20 (1.12%) Atlassian
12 20 (1.12%) CheckPoint
12 20 (1.12%) IBM
13 19 (1.06%) Citrix
14 17 (0.95%) Workday
15 15 (0.84%) Aruba
16 14 (0.78%) NEC
16 14 (0.78%) SolarWinds
17 13 (0.73%) Fortinet