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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 60 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,994 1,260 1,540
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.78% 3.87% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.28% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 796 964
10th Percentile £327 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £419 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £633 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 20 44
10th Percentile £21.92 £26.48 £21.43
25th Percentile £34.58 £44.69 £26.86
Median hourly rate £53.50 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +40.45% -36.53%
75th Percentile £81.38 £77.50 £55.79
90th Percentile £89.23 £82.75 £67.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.25 £65.08 £40.94
% change year-on-year -7.42% +58.96% -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 44,806 29,445 35,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.36% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,768 18,486 22,647
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,649 1,571 2,189
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.88 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.75 £73.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.50% -40.00% -1.45%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +7 1,727 £513 -2.38% 1,130
UK excluding London +4 1,107 £500 - 822
London -2 730 £538 -6.52% 421
Work from Home -1 576 £500 -4.40% 517
South East +5 293 £525 - 242
North of England +12 271 £485 +2.11% 216
North West +18 181 £485 +2.11% 121
Midlands -14 171 £475 -7.23% 124
South West +6 165 £475 -2.06% 121
West Midlands -14 136 £481 -7.92% 76
Scotland +3 116 £450 -4.26% 43
Yorkshire -32 72 £500 -1.23% 67
East of England +6 63 £500 +25.00% 60
East Midlands -16 33 £407 -8.89% 48
Wales -1 24 £525 +82.61% 24
North East -27 20 £350 -3.45% 29
Northern Ireland +3 14 £334 -36.38% 11
Channel Islands - 1 £550 -

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
1 109 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 104 (5.22%) Confluence
3 38 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.30%) CMS
4 6 (0.30%) SAS
5 5 (0.25%) Apache
6 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
6 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.15%) Appian
7 3 (0.15%) Camunda
7 3 (0.15%) CICS
7 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.15%) Kentico
7 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.15%) WordPress
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.10%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 157 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (5.77%) Microsoft Project
3 95 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 93 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
5 37 (1.86%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.90%) Siemens NX
7 14 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.35%) Trello
9 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.15%) Revit
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.10%) Houdini
10 2 (0.10%) NUKE
11 1 (0.050%) CATIA
11 1 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 48 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.20%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.60%) Primavera
4 10 (0.50%) Maximo
5 8 (0.40%) SAP SD
6 7 (0.35%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.30%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 6 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
8 5 (0.25%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.25%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.25%) Summit
9 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 269 (13.49%) Azure
2 123 (6.17%) AWS
3 106 (5.32%) Power Platform
4 103 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 78 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (3.51%) SaaS
7 60 (3.01%) Entra ID
8 39 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
9 35 (1.76%) GCP
10 26 (1.30%) GitHub
11 25 (1.25%) Google Workspace
11 25 (1.25%) IaaS
12 24 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (1.00%) PowerApps
13 20 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
14 17 (0.85%) Power Automate
15 16 (0.80%) OCI
16 15 (0.75%) OneDrive
16 15 (0.75%) Serverless
17 14 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 125 (6.27%) Firewall
2 88 (4.41%) DNS
3 70 (3.51%) WAN
4 64 (3.21%) LAN
5 58 (2.91%) Network Security
6 57 (2.86%) VPN
7 45 (2.26%) MPLS
8 43 (2.16%) BGP
9 37 (1.86%) DHCP
10 34 (1.71%) VLAN
10 34 (1.71%) Wireless
11 32 (1.60%) OSPF
11 32 (1.60%) TCP/IP
12 31 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 23 (1.15%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.80%) IPsec
15 16 (0.80%) SSL
16 15 (0.75%) BIG-IP
16 15 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.16%) Power BI
2 45 (2.26%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (0.70%) Tableau
5 12 (0.60%) Metadata
6 10 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.45%) SAP HANA
8 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.30%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.25%) Big Data
11 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.25%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 209 (10.48%) JIRA
2 29 (1.45%) Git
3 13 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.55%) GitLab
5 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.40%) Selenium
6 5 (0.25%) Subversion
7 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.15%) JMeter
7 3 (0.15%) MSTest
7 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.10%) Appium
8 2 (0.10%) Hudson
8 2 (0.10%) MSI
8 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.050%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.050%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.050%) TestNG
General
1 817 (40.97%) Social Skills
2 629 (31.54%) Finance
3 265 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (11.13%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
6 105 (5.27%) Retail
7 99 (4.96%) Banking
8 91 (4.56%) Legal
9 90 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
10 75 (3.76%) Telecoms
11 58 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
11 58 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
12 55 (2.76%) Manufacturing
13 40 (2.01%) Local Government
14 33 (1.65%) Marketing
15 31 (1.55%) Military
16 22 (1.10%) Investment Banking
17 21 (1.05%) Law
18 19 (0.95%) Financial Institution
18 19 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 480 (24.07%) Project Manager
2 231 (11.58%) Analyst
3 216 (10.83%) Senior
4 193 (9.68%) Lead
5 116 (5.82%) Business Analyst
6 112 (5.62%) Architect
7 104 (5.22%) Senior Manager
8 94 (4.71%) Consultant
9 86 (4.31%) Network Engineer
10 85 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
11 84 (4.21%) Senior Project Manager
12 83 (4.16%) IT Manager
13 58 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 57 (2.86%) IT Project Manager
15 56 (2.81%) Developer
16 43 (2.16%) Technical Manager
17 40 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
18 38 (1.91%) Project Officer
19 37 (1.86%) Infrastructure Manager
20 36 (1.81%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.76%) REST
2 33 (1.65%) Middleware
3 21 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.80%) .NET
5 14 (0.70%) XML
6 13 (0.65%) 802.1X
6 13 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
6 13 (0.65%) Web Services
7 12 (0.60%) OAuth
8 11 (0.55%) JSON
9 10 (0.50%) ADO
10 9 (0.45%) React
10 9 (0.45%) Spring Boot
11 8 (0.40%) RESTful
11 8 (0.40%) SAP Basis
11 8 (0.40%) SOAP
11 8 (0.40%) Spring
12 7 (0.35%) .NET Framework
13 6 (0.30%) AngularJS
13 6 (0.30%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.12%) Management Information System
2 94 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 81 (4.06%) Data Centre
4 77 (3.86%) Product Ownership
5 43 (2.16%) Virtual Team
6 33 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 31 (1.55%) Operational Technology
7 31 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 30 (1.50%) Cloud Native
9 24 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (1.20%) PKI
9 24 (1.20%) Replication
10 23 (1.15%) Clustering
10 23 (1.15%) Driving Licence
11 20 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.00%) PMI
12 18 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 121 (6.07%) Windows
2 55 (2.76%) Windows Server
3 49 (2.46%) Linux
4 25 (1.25%) Unix
5 9 (0.45%) AIX
5 9 (0.45%) Solaris
6 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.35%) zOS
7 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.10%) Android
9 2 (0.10%) Debian
9 2 (0.10%) VMS
9 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.050%) pSOS
10 1 (0.050%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (35.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 617 (30.94%) Agile
3 535 (26.83%) Project Management
4 340 (17.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 335 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 322 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
7 314 (15.75%) Migration
8 292 (14.64%) Change Management
9 248 (12.44%) PRINCE2
10 222 (11.13%) Decision-Making
11 209 (10.48%) Waterfall
12 171 (8.58%) ITIL
13 169 (8.48%) AI
14 168 (8.43%) Roadmaps
15 167 (8.38%) DevOps
16 161 (8.07%) Risk Management
17 134 (6.72%) Scrum
18 133 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
19 130 (6.52%) ERP
20 127 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 110 (5.52%) SQL
2 94 (4.71%) Python
3 63 (3.16%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.05%) Java
5 20 (1.00%) C#
6 17 (0.85%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.80%) Bash
8 14 (0.70%) VBA
9 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.40%) ABAP
10 8 (0.40%) Go
10 8 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.35%) Bicep
12 6 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.30%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.20%) C++
14 4 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 426 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 306 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 202 (10.13%) Degree
4 160 (8.02%) PMP
5 131 (6.57%) PMI Certification
6 108 (5.42%) DV Cleared
7 67 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 43 (2.16%) CCNP
9 40 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (1.96%) CCNA
11 32 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 26 (1.30%) Azure Certification
13 25 (1.25%) CISSP
14 20 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.90%) MCSE
15 18 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 13 (0.65%) CISM
16 13 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
16 13 (0.65%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (11.58%) PMO
2 97 (4.86%) QA
3 51 (2.56%) NIST
4 50 (2.51%) GDPR
5 48 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.06%) Data Quality
7 34 (1.71%) SLA
8 18 (0.90%) GRC
9 11 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.45%) NCSC
12 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.35%) HL7
14 6 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.25%) GxP
15 5 (0.25%) IFRS
16 4 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 98 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.05%) Docker
3 21 (1.05%) vSphere
4 19 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.55%) Firmware
7 11 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.15%) Squid
10 2 (0.10%) Ceph
10 2 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.050%) ACF2
11 1 (0.050%) KVM
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.050%) RACF
11 1 (0.050%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 48 (2.41%) Ansible
2 46 (2.31%) Terraform
3 27 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.15%) FortiGate
5 20 (1.00%) SCCM
6 15 (0.75%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.40%) Nagios
9 7 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
9 7 (0.35%) ZABBIX
10 6 (0.30%) SCOM
11 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.25%) Netcool
11 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
12 4 (0.20%) Nessus
12 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.15%) Grafana
13 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 396 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.82%) SAP
3 119 (5.97%) Cisco
4 112 (5.62%) ServiceNow
5 83 (4.16%) Oracle
6 73 (3.66%) VMware
7 50 (2.51%) Palo Alto
8 48 (2.41%) F5
9 44 (2.21%) Fortinet
10 37 (1.86%) Google
10 37 (1.86%) Salesforce
11 30 (1.50%) SolarWinds
12 28 (1.40%) Juniper
13 24 (1.20%) IBM
14 21 (1.05%) Workday
14 21 (1.05%) Zscaler
15 18 (0.90%) NEC
15 18 (0.90%) Siemens
16 17 (0.85%) Infoblox
16 17 (0.85%) Splunk