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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 61 53
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,002 1,261 1,523
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.80% 3.86% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.27% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,346 798 949
10th Percentile £325 £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 £613 £629 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.82% -4.76% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 20 44
10th Percentile £22.01 £26.48 £22.50
25th Percentile £34.68 £44.69 £26.92
Median hourly rate £54.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +40.45% -36.53%
75th Percentile £80.50 £77.50 £55.90
90th Percentile £88.76 £82.75 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £65.08 £40.94
% change year-on-year -5.50% +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 44,826 29,510 35,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.34% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,774 18,532 22,551
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £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 2,642 1,578 2,152
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.25
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.94 £62.76
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.13 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.88% -39.15% -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 23 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 23 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 23 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 1,736 £513 -2.38% 1,039
UK excluding London +7 1,109 £496 -0.82% 800
London -5 737 £541 -5.98% 375
Work from Home 0 581 £500 -4.76% 484
South East +3 296 £525 -0.94% 226
North of England +7 271 £485 +2.11% 226
North West +15 180 £485 +2.11% 117
Midlands -21 168 £475 -5.09% 128
South West +6 167 £475 -3.55% 99
West Midlands -20 133 £481 -7.46% 81
Scotland +12 116 £450 -4.26% 44
Yorkshire -29 73 £500 -1.23% 74
East of England +3 63 £500 +25.00% 65
East Midlands -17 33 £407 -7.87% 47
Wales -2 24 £525 +82.61% 21
North East -23 20 £350 -3.45% 36
Northern Ireland +7 14 £334 -36.38% 12
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
1 112 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 108 (5.39%) Confluence
3 39 (1.95%) 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 (0.100%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.100%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 158 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (5.84%) Microsoft Project
3 93 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 93 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (1.85%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.85%) Siemens NX
6 14 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.35%) Trello
8 4 (0.20%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.20%) Revit
9 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.100%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.100%) Houdini
10 2 (0.100%) NUKE
11 1 (0.050%) CATIA
11 1 (0.050%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 49 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.15%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.60%) Primavera
5 10 (0.50%) Maximo
6 8 (0.40%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.30%) NetSuite
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%) 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
1 274 (13.69%) Azure
2 126 (6.29%) AWS
3 111 (5.54%) Power Platform
4 102 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
5 81 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (3.60%) SaaS
7 61 (3.05%) Entra ID
8 41 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
9 38 (1.90%) GCP
10 28 (1.40%) GitHub
11 26 (1.30%) Google Workspace
12 25 (1.25%) IaaS
13 24 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
14 21 (1.05%) PowerApps
15 20 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
16 18 (0.90%) Power Automate
17 17 (0.85%) OCI
18 16 (0.80%) OneDrive
19 15 (0.75%) Amazon S3
19 15 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 127 (6.34%) Firewall
2 90 (4.50%) DNS
3 74 (3.70%) WAN
4 66 (3.30%) LAN
5 61 (3.05%) Network Security
6 59 (2.95%) VPN
7 48 (2.40%) MPLS
8 44 (2.20%) BGP
9 39 (1.95%) DHCP
10 35 (1.75%) TCP/IP
11 34 (1.70%) VLAN
11 34 (1.70%) Wireless
12 33 (1.65%) OSPF
13 32 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
14 30 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 25 (1.25%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.80%) IPsec
16 16 (0.80%) SSL
17 15 (0.75%) BIG-IP
17 15 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.30%) Power BI
2 46 (2.30%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (0.75%) Tableau
5 14 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
5 14 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.60%) Metadata
7 10 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.45%) SAP HANA
9 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.30%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.25%) Big Data
12 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.25%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 213 (10.64%) JIRA
2 30 (1.50%) Git
3 15 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.65%) GitLab
5 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.40%) Selenium
6 5 (0.25%) Subversion
7 4 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.15%) JMeter
8 3 (0.15%) MSTest
8 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.100%) Appium
9 2 (0.100%) Hudson
9 2 (0.100%) MSI
9 2 (0.100%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.050%) Gatling
10 1 (0.050%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.050%) TestRail
General
1 816 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 630 (31.47%) Finance
3 269 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.34%) Organisational Skills
6 104 (5.19%) Retail
7 101 (5.04%) Banking
8 91 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
8 91 (4.55%) Legal
9 79 (3.95%) Telecoms
10 58 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
10 58 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (2.75%) Manufacturing
12 40 (2.00%) Local Government
13 33 (1.65%) Marketing
14 31 (1.55%) Military
15 23 (1.15%) Investment Banking
16 21 (1.05%) Law
17 19 (0.95%) Financial Institution
17 19 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 480 (23.98%) Project Manager
2 227 (11.34%) Analyst
3 212 (10.59%) Senior
4 197 (9.84%) Lead
5 116 (5.79%) Architect
6 114 (5.69%) Business Analyst
7 100 (5.00%) Senior Manager
8 96 (4.80%) Consultant
9 88 (4.40%) Network Engineer
10 84 (4.20%) Senior Project Manager
11 82 (4.10%) Delivery Manager
11 82 (4.10%) IT Manager
12 59 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 57 (2.85%) Developer
13 57 (2.85%) IT Project Manager
14 44 (2.20%) Technical Manager
15 41 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (2.00%) Project Officer
17 37 (1.85%) Infrastructure Manager
18 35 (1.75%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (1.80%) 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%) JSON
7 12 (0.60%) OAuth
8 10 (0.50%) ADO
9 9 (0.45%) React
9 9 (0.45%) RESTful
9 9 (0.45%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.40%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.40%) SOAP
10 8 (0.40%) Spring
11 7 (0.35%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.30%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.30%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.14%) Management Information System
2 97 (4.85%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.10%) Data Centre
4 79 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.05%) Virtual Team
6 36 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 33 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 32 (1.60%) Operational Technology
10 31 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 31 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 25 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.20%) PKI
13 23 (1.15%) Driving Licence
13 23 (1.15%) Replication
14 22 (1.10%) Clustering
15 21 (1.05%) Data Structures
16 20 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
16 20 (1.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 121 (6.04%) Windows
2 56 (2.80%) Windows Server
3 50 (2.50%) Linux
4 26 (1.30%) 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 (0.100%) Android
9 2 (0.100%) Debian
9 2 (0.100%) VMS
9 2 (0.100%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.050%) CentOS
10 1 (0.050%) pSOS
10 1 (0.050%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (35.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 613 (30.62%) Agile
3 535 (26.72%) Project Management
4 344 (17.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 337 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 321 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
7 316 (15.78%) Migration
8 295 (14.74%) Change Management
9 251 (12.54%) PRINCE2
10 223 (11.14%) Decision-Making
11 207 (10.34%) Waterfall
12 173 (8.64%) ITIL
13 172 (8.59%) Roadmaps
14 171 (8.54%) AI
15 166 (8.29%) DevOps
16 164 (8.19%) Risk Management
17 138 (6.89%) Scrum
18 132 (6.59%) Workshop Facilitation
19 131 (6.54%) ERP
20 129 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 112 (5.59%) SQL
2 97 (4.85%) Python
3 64 (3.20%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.20%) Java
5 20 (1.00%) C#
6 18 (0.90%) Bash
7 17 (0.85%) JavaScript
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%) C++
13 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 427 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 308 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 202 (10.09%) Degree
4 159 (7.94%) PMP
5 133 (6.64%) PMI Certification
6 110 (5.49%) DV Cleared
7 68 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.20%) CCNP
9 43 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (1.95%) CCNA
10 39 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 32 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 27 (1.35%) Azure Certification
12 27 (1.35%) CISSP
13 20 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.85%) MCSE
14 17 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 15 (0.75%) CISM
16 13 (0.65%) CCIE
16 13 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (11.49%) PMO
2 97 (4.85%) QA
3 53 (2.65%) NIST
4 50 (2.50%) GDPR
5 49 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.10%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.75%) SLA
8 19 (0.95%) GRC
9 11 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.50%) NCSC
10 10 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.35%) HL7
13 6 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.30%) IFRS
13 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.25%) GxP
14 5 (0.25%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 99 (4.95%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.20%) Docker
4 20 (1.00%) vSphere
5 19 (0.95%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.60%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.55%) Firmware
8 11 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.15%) Squid
11 2 (0.100%) Ceph
11 2 (0.100%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.050%) ACF2
12 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.050%) RACF
12 1 (0.050%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (2.45%) Terraform
2 48 (2.40%) Ansible
3 31 (1.55%) Kubernetes
4 28 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.15%) FortiGate
6 20 (1.00%) SCCM
7 14 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.40%) Nagios
10 7 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.35%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.30%) SCOM
12 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.25%) Netcool
12 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.20%) Nessus
13 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 396 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 138 (6.89%) SAP
3 121 (6.04%) Cisco
4 111 (5.54%) ServiceNow
5 86 (4.30%) Oracle
6 74 (3.70%) VMware
7 51 (2.55%) Palo Alto
8 49 (2.45%) F5
9 44 (2.20%) Fortinet
10 41 (2.05%) Google
11 37 (1.85%) Salesforce
12 30 (1.50%) SolarWinds
13 28 (1.40%) Juniper
14 24 (1.20%) IBM
15 22 (1.10%) Zscaler
16 21 (1.05%) Workday
17 19 (0.95%) NEC
18 17 (0.85%) Infoblox
18 17 (0.85%) Siemens
18 17 (0.85%) Splunk