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

6 months to
28 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 1,822 1,156 1,612
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 4.03% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.43% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 718 1,031
10th Percentile £332 £342 £358
25th Percentile £420 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £719 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 18 40
10th Percentile £16.35 £34.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £22.56 £56.25 £26.57
Median hourly rate £37.00 £68.75 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -46.18% +92.85% -42.96%
75th Percentile £77.19 £78.44 £43.88
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.25 £65.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £72.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year -48.97% +77.09% -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 41,286 26,078 36,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.54% 91.02% 85.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,818 16,706 23,627
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,472 1,084 2,486
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.08 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.84 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.19 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -32.93% +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 28 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 28 May 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 28 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 +4 1,626 £513 -2.38% 873
UK excluding London +2 1,016 £483 -3.40% 680
London -4 680 £550 -1.79% 310
Work from Home 0 507 £525 - 389
North of England +27 293 £477 +0.42% 145
South East +3 235 £525 -3.89% 234
Midlands -12 194 £475 -7.23% 105
North West +31 192 £478 +0.53% 86
South West +14 141 £500 - 85
West Midlands -15 136 £475 -9.07% 72
Scotland -12 91 £450 -2.17% 43
Yorkshire -6 85 £500 - 40
East Midlands -6 57 £413 -7.72% 33
East of England -4 55 £500 +17.65% 53
North East -12 20 £350 -3.45% 23
Wales -6 15 £475 +46.15% 16
Northern Ireland -8 4 £225 -58.62% 12
Channel Islands -1 1 £550 +22.22%

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
1 105 (5.76%) Confluence
2 100 (5.49%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.44%) CMS
5 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.22%) Apache
6 4 (0.22%) CICS
6 4 (0.22%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.16%) Camunda
7 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.16%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.11%) Kentico
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 152 (8.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
3 101 (5.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 90 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (1.65%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.37%) Siemens NX
7 7 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.33%) Trello
9 4 (0.22%) Revit
10 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.055%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 38 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.59%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.49%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.44%) Primavera
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.33%) ProductWriter
6 6 (0.33%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (0.27%) Maximo
7 5 (0.27%) Shopify
7 5 (0.27%) Summit
8 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.16%) Endur
9 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.16%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 210 (11.53%) Azure
2 98 (5.38%) AWS
3 96 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
4 94 (5.16%) Power Platform
5 71 (3.90%) SaaS
6 51 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (2.25%) Entra ID
8 31 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.70%) GCP
9 23 (1.26%) GitHub
9 23 (1.26%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.15%) IaaS
11 20 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
12 17 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.77%) PowerApps
14 13 (0.71%) Serverless
15 12 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (0.66%) Amazon S3
16 11 (0.60%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 101 (5.54%) Firewall
2 64 (3.51%) DNS
3 51 (2.80%) Network Security
4 47 (2.58%) WAN
5 42 (2.31%) LAN
6 26 (1.43%) BGP
6 26 (1.43%) VLAN
6 26 (1.43%) VPN
7 25 (1.37%) OSPF
8 22 (1.21%) MPLS
9 21 (1.15%) DHCP
9 21 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 20 (1.10%) TCP/IP
11 19 (1.04%) SD-WAN
12 17 (0.93%) Wireless
13 13 (0.71%) BIG-IP
13 13 (0.71%) SAN
13 13 (0.71%) SSL
13 13 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
13 13 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.01%) Power BI
2 39 (2.14%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.54%) Tableau
4 23 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.77%) Metadata
8 7 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.38%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.38%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.27%) Big Data
10 5 (0.27%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 198 (10.87%) JIRA
2 18 (0.99%) Git
3 16 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.55%) GitLab
5 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.33%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) Appium
7 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.16%) JMeter
7 3 (0.16%) MSTest
7 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.055%) Gradle
9 1 (0.055%) Hudson
9 1 (0.055%) Postman
9 1 (0.055%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.055%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 690 (37.87%) Social Skills
2 568 (31.17%) Finance
3 238 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (11.09%) Public Sector
5 135 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 120 (6.59%) Banking
7 84 (4.61%) Retail
8 75 (4.12%) Legal
9 66 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
10 63 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
11 52 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (2.52%) Telecoms
13 44 (2.41%) Manufacturing
14 31 (1.70%) Local Government
15 27 (1.48%) Marketing
16 26 (1.43%) Military
17 22 (1.21%) Investment Banking
18 19 (1.04%) Financial Institution
19 16 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 477 (26.18%) Project Manager
2 211 (11.58%) Analyst
3 187 (10.26%) Lead
4 181 (9.93%) Senior
5 125 (6.86%) Business Analyst
6 93 (5.10%) Architect
7 90 (4.94%) Senior Manager
8 82 (4.50%) Consultant
9 76 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
10 72 (3.95%) Senior Project Manager
11 68 (3.73%) IT Manager
12 67 (3.68%) Network Engineer
13 51 (2.80%) IT Project Manager
14 48 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
15 47 (2.58%) Developer
16 41 (2.25%) Technical Manager
17 40 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 39 (2.14%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 34 (1.87%) Programme Manager
20 32 (1.76%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.09%) Middleware
2 26 (1.43%) REST
3 19 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.93%) XML
5 14 (0.77%) .NET
6 11 (0.60%) ADO
7 10 (0.55%) JSON
7 10 (0.55%) OAuth
7 10 (0.55%) Spring Boot
8 9 (0.49%) React
8 9 (0.49%) Spring
8 9 (0.49%) Web Services
9 8 (0.44%) CSS
10 7 (0.38%) HTML
11 6 (0.33%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.33%) 802.1X
11 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.33%) RESTful
12 5 (0.27%) SailPoint
12 5 (0.27%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.16%) Management Information System
2 75 (4.12%) Data Centre
3 73 (4.01%) Onboarding
4 70 (3.84%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
7 30 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.48%) Clustering
8 27 (1.48%) Replication
9 26 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 22 (1.21%) Cloud Native
12 21 (1.15%) Data Structures
13 18 (0.99%) Operational Technology
14 17 (0.93%) NHS
14 17 (0.93%) PMI
15 16 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
15 16 (0.88%) Life Science
16 14 (0.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 103 (5.65%) Windows
2 50 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 40 (2.20%) Linux
4 29 (1.59%) Unix
5 15 (0.82%) Solaris
6 10 (0.55%) VMS
6 10 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.44%) AIX
7 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.44%) zOS
8 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.22%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.22%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.055%) Android
13 1 (0.055%) CentOS
13 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (29.69%) Project Management
2 539 (29.58%) Agile
3 536 (29.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 296 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
5 276 (15.15%) Migration
6 270 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 269 (14.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 211 (11.58%) Change Management
8 211 (11.58%) PRINCE2
9 186 (10.21%) Waterfall
10 184 (10.10%) Decision-Making
11 157 (8.62%) DevOps
12 147 (8.07%) Risk Management
13 132 (7.24%) Roadmaps
14 125 (6.86%) AI
15 120 (6.59%) Scrum
16 117 (6.42%) ITIL
17 113 (6.20%) ERP
18 112 (6.15%) Project Governance
19 108 (5.93%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 99 (5.43%) SQL
2 76 (4.17%) Python
3 52 (2.85%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.32%) Java
5 21 (1.15%) C#
6 18 (0.99%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.60%) Bash
8 8 (0.44%) Go
8 8 (0.44%) PL/SQL
8 8 (0.44%) T-SQL
8 8 (0.44%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.38%) Bicep
10 6 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.33%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.27%) VBA
12 4 (0.22%) ABAP
13 3 (0.16%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.16%) C++
13 3 (0.16%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 408 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 299 (16.41%) SC Cleared
3 183 (10.04%) Degree
4 152 (8.34%) PMP
5 116 (6.37%) PMI Certification
6 95 (5.21%) DV Cleared
7 48 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (2.09%) CCNP
9 34 (1.87%) CCNA
10 33 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (1.26%) CISSP
13 22 (1.21%) APMP
14 21 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 19 (1.04%) Master's Degree
16 18 (0.99%) MCSE
17 17 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 16 (0.88%) Azure Certification
18 16 (0.88%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (11.25%) PMO
2 99 (5.43%) QA
3 49 (2.69%) NIST
4 48 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.41%) GDPR
6 42 (2.31%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.10%) SLA
8 13 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.71%) GRC
9 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.44%) HL7
10 8 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.44%) IFRS
10 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.44%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.33%) Basel III
11 6 (0.33%) GAAP
11 6 (0.33%) NCSC
12 5 (0.27%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 74 (4.06%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.32%) vSphere
4 19 (1.04%) Docker
5 17 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.44%) Firmware
8 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.16%) Squid
11 2 (0.11%) Ceph
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.055%) ACF2
12 1 (0.055%) KVM
12 1 (0.055%) RACF
12 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 43 (2.36%) Ansible
2 36 (1.98%) Terraform
3 31 (1.70%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.77%) vCenter Server
6 13 (0.71%) SCCM
6 13 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.60%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.49%) Nagios
9 7 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.27%) Netcool
10 5 (0.27%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.16%) Grafana
11 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.16%) Puppet
11 3 (0.16%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) Control-M
12 2 (0.11%) OMEGAMON
12 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 327 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 131 (7.19%) SAP
3 87 (4.77%) Oracle
4 81 (4.45%) ServiceNow
5 80 (4.39%) Cisco
6 56 (3.07%) VMware
7 47 (2.58%) Palo Alto
8 37 (2.03%) Google
8 37 (2.03%) Salesforce
9 31 (1.70%) F5
10 25 (1.37%) Siemens
11 22 (1.21%) IBM
12 20 (1.10%) CheckPoint
12 20 (1.10%) Fortinet
13 18 (0.99%) Aruba
14 17 (0.93%) SolarWinds
15 15 (0.82%) Citrix
15 15 (0.82%) Workday
16 14 (0.77%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.77%) NEC