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

 6 months to
21 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 60 56
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,167 1,296 1,380
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.99% 3.97% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 4.38% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,433 836 805
10th Percentile £331 £318 £358
25th Percentile £425 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 34 39
10th Percentile £23.67 £15.91 £20.25
25th Percentile £37.43 £30.07 £24.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +75.00% -44.00%
75th Percentile £76.94 £70.16 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £84.25 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £57.26 £36.81
% change year-on-year +3.05% +55.56% -41.11%

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 45,811 29,562 32,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.30% 90.52% 85.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,345 20,161
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,152 1,818 1,440
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £67.47 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £66.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.06 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.00% -48.10% +1.18%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +4 1,820 £525 - 3,957
UK excluding London -2 1,149 £500 +1.63% 2,581
London +1 810 £550 - 1,698
Work from Home +5 617 £500 -2.47% 1,796
South East -5 306 £525 -2.33% 663
North of England +7 286 £499 +5.00% 601
North West +7 184 £500 +5.26% 342
Midlands -32 152 £475 -2.06% 436
Scotland +20 151 £450 - 245
South West -1 150 £525 +8.25% 288
West Midlands -25 116 £475 -9.07% 282
Yorkshire -12 79 £485 -3.00% 196
East of England 0 64 £500 -4.76% 220
East Midlands -26 33 £425 -0.93% 153
Wales -1 25 £400 +30.08% 57
North East -19 24 £350 -14.79% 66
Northern Ireland +5 17 £400 -15.79% 95
Channel Islands - 9 £525 - 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 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 110 (5.08%) Confluence
3 36 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.32%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
7 4 (0.18%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.18%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
9 2 (0.092%) CICS
9 2 (0.092%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.092%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.046%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 171 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (5.63%) Microsoft Project
3 105 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
4 97 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.57%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.78%) Siemens NX
7 13 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.55%) Trello
9 11 (0.51%) Navisworks
9 11 (0.51%) Revit
10 10 (0.46%) AutoCAD
11 9 (0.42%) ProjectWise
12 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.092%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.092%) Houdini
13 2 (0.092%) NUKE
13 2 (0.092%) Windchill
14 1 (0.046%) CATIA
14 1 (0.046%) Civil 3D
14 1 (0.046%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 52 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.20%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.65%) Primavera
5 12 (0.55%) Maximo
6 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.42%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.42%) SAP SD
8 8 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 333 (15.37%) Azure
2 137 (6.32%) Power Platform
3 135 (6.23%) AWS
4 127 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
5 99 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (4.29%) SaaS
7 73 (3.37%) Entra ID
8 50 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
8 50 (2.31%) GCP
9 28 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
10 26 (1.20%) OCI
11 25 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
12 24 (1.11%) Google Workspace
13 23 (1.06%) GitHub
13 23 (1.06%) PowerApps
14 21 (0.97%) IaaS
14 21 (0.97%) Power Automate
15 17 (0.78%) PaaS
16 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
16 13 (0.60%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 137 (6.32%) Firewall
2 86 (3.97%) DNS
3 81 (3.74%) WAN
4 80 (3.69%) Network Security
5 72 (3.32%) LAN
6 66 (3.05%) VPN
7 47 (2.17%) DHCP
8 46 (2.12%) MPLS
9 44 (2.03%) Wireless
10 43 (1.98%) BGP
11 38 (1.75%) VLAN
12 37 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
13 29 (1.34%) TCP/IP
14 28 (1.29%) OSPF
15 23 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 19 (0.88%) SD-WAN
17 17 (0.78%) SSL
18 14 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.65%) IPsec
18 14 (0.65%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (5.03%) Power BI
2 39 (1.80%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.65%) Metadata
5 13 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.51%) Tableau
7 9 (0.42%) Big Data
8 8 (0.37%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 7 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.32%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.28%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.23%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.23%) SAP HANA
12 4 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 233 (10.75%) JIRA
2 23 (1.06%) Git
3 13 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.51%) GitLab
5 7 (0.32%) MSI
6 5 (0.23%) Selenium
6 5 (0.23%) Subversion
7 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.14%) Hudson
9 2 (0.092%) Appium
9 2 (0.092%) Gatling
9 2 (0.092%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.092%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.092%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.092%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.092%) TestNG
10 1 (0.046%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.046%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.046%) JMeter
General
1 904 (41.72%) Social Skills
2 664 (30.64%) Finance
3 284 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 225 (10.38%) Public Sector
5 168 (7.75%) Organisational Skills
6 136 (6.28%) Banking
7 101 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
8 89 (4.11%) Retail
9 88 (4.06%) Telecoms
10 87 (4.01%) Legal
11 79 (3.65%) Manufacturing
12 75 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
13 61 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (1.98%) Local Government
14 43 (1.98%) Military
15 36 (1.66%) Front Office
16 32 (1.48%) Law
17 31 (1.43%) Marketing
18 25 (1.15%) Aerospace
19 24 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 494 (22.80%) Project Manager
2 244 (11.26%) Analyst
3 228 (10.52%) Senior
4 204 (9.41%) Lead
5 148 (6.83%) Architect
6 143 (6.60%) Business Analyst
7 133 (6.14%) Consultant
8 101 (4.66%) Senior Manager
9 96 (4.43%) Network Engineer
10 88 (4.06%) Delivery Manager
11 85 (3.92%) Senior Project Manager
12 82 (3.78%) IT Manager
13 64 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 59 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
15 56 (2.58%) IT Project Manager
16 52 (2.40%) Developer
17 45 (2.08%) Technical Manager
18 38 (1.75%) Project Officer
19 37 (1.71%) Coordinator
20 36 (1.66%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.03%) Terraform
2 39 (1.80%) REST
3 33 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.06%) Middleware
5 16 (0.74%) SAP Fiori
6 14 (0.65%) .NET
7 12 (0.55%) SOAP
7 12 (0.55%) XML
8 11 (0.51%) 802.1X
8 11 (0.51%) JSON
8 11 (0.51%) LDAP
8 11 (0.51%) OAuth
9 10 (0.46%) ADO
9 10 (0.46%) React
9 10 (0.46%) Web Services
10 8 (0.37%) SAML
11 7 (0.32%) Kafka
11 7 (0.32%) OpenID
11 7 (0.32%) RESTful
11 7 (0.32%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 113 (5.21%) Onboarding
2 108 (4.98%) Management Information System
3 95 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 89 (4.11%) Data Centre
5 48 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 45 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 36 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 36 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (1.62%) Driving Licence
10 34 (1.57%) Operational Technology
11 33 (1.52%) Cloud Native
12 31 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (1.38%) PKI
14 23 (1.06%) Public Cloud
15 22 (1.02%) Derivative
16 20 (0.92%) Clustering
16 20 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (0.83%) Replication
18 16 (0.74%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.83%) Windows
2 75 (3.46%) Linux
3 72 (3.32%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.34%) Unix
5 14 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.55%) Solaris
7 9 (0.42%) AIX
8 8 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.28%) Android
9 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.18%) zOS
12 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.14%) VMS
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.092%) CentOS
13 2 (0.092%) Debian
13 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 938 (43.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 677 (31.24%) Agile
3 583 (26.90%) Project Management
4 400 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 397 (18.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 353 (16.29%) Migration
7 343 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
8 323 (14.91%) Change Management
9 282 (13.01%) PRINCE2
10 242 (11.17%) Decision-Making
11 233 (10.75%) Waterfall
12 207 (9.55%) Risk Management
13 196 (9.04%) ITIL
14 189 (8.72%) Roadmaps
15 177 (8.17%) AI
15 177 (8.17%) DevOps
16 176 (8.12%) Cybersecurity
16 176 (8.12%) Project Governance
17 174 (8.03%) Workshop Facilitation
18 161 (7.43%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 103 (4.75%) SQL
2 95 (4.38%) Python
3 78 (3.60%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.15%) Java
5 23 (1.06%) Bash
6 16 (0.74%) VBA
7 15 (0.69%) C#
7 15 (0.69%) JavaScript
8 12 (0.55%) ABAP
9 8 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.32%) Korn
10 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.28%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.28%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
13 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.14%) Bicep
14 3 (0.14%) C++
14 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 490 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 355 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 209 (9.64%) Degree
4 161 (7.43%) PMP
5 143 (6.60%) PMI Certification
6 129 (5.95%) DV Cleared
7 72 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
8 47 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (2.17%) CCNP
9 41 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.75%) Azure Certification
11 37 (1.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 35 (1.62%) CCNA
13 28 (1.29%) CISSP
14 19 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
14 19 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.83%) MCSE
15 18 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.69%) CCIE
17 14 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (11.08%) PMO
2 97 (4.48%) QA
3 59 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.49%) GDPR
4 54 (2.49%) NIST
5 49 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.34%) SLA
7 25 (1.15%) GRC
8 20 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (0.74%) ISO 19650
10 12 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.37%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.37%) NCSC
13 7 (0.32%) P3O
13 7 (0.32%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.23%) GxP
15 5 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 113 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 80 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.25%) vSphere
5 21 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (0.92%) Docker
7 15 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.51%) Firmware
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.14%) Squid
12 2 (0.092%) Ceph
12 2 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.092%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.046%) KVM
13 1 (0.046%) oVirt
13 1 (0.046%) RACF
13 1 (0.046%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 52 (2.40%) Ansible
2 35 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.02%) FortiGate
4 22 (1.02%) SCCM
5 17 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.69%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.60%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.42%) SCOM
9 8 (0.37%) Puppet
10 7 (0.32%) Nagios
10 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.32%) WMI
11 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.28%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 496 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 161 (7.43%) SAP
3 156 (7.20%) Cisco
4 127 (5.86%) ServiceNow
5 104 (4.80%) VMware
6 98 (4.52%) Oracle
7 55 (2.54%) Palo Alto
8 52 (2.40%) Fortinet
9 47 (2.17%) Salesforce
10 45 (2.08%) F5
11 38 (1.75%) Google
12 33 (1.52%) Workday
13 31 (1.43%) Juniper
14 29 (1.34%) SolarWinds
15 27 (1.25%) IBM
16 25 (1.15%) Ariba
17 24 (1.11%) Databricks
17 24 (1.11%) Siemens
18 23 (1.06%) Splunk
18 23 (1.06%) Zscaler
4,679 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide