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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 58 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,844 1,146 1,597
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 3.96% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.35% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,258 711 1,012
10th Percentile £330 £343 £356
25th Percentile £416 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £494 £525
% change year-on-year -2.18% -5.95% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 16 39
10th Percentile £16.35 £33.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £23.56 £52.81 £26.47
Median hourly rate £40.02 £65.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -38.43% +82.33% -40.58%
75th Percentile £77.19 £77.81 £41.60
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.75 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -43.08% +58.77% -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 41,594 26,332 36,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.70% 91.01% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,970 16,762 23,491
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,502 1,133 2,525
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.29 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.09% -34.02% +8.91%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +8 1,638 £513 -2.38% 1,056
UK excluding London +5 1,037 £483 -2.18% 760
London 0 681 £550 -4.35% 394
Work from Home +1 529 £525 - 480
North of England +26 297 £478 +6.11% 171
South East +8 244 £525 - 246
North West +29 200 £478 +6.11% 101
Midlands -10 193 £470 -8.20% 123
South West +13 144 £500 - 96
West Midlands -13 137 £475 -8.61% 86
Scotland -6 96 £475 +3.26% 34
Yorkshire -12 81 £500 - 54
East Midlands -8 55 £407 -8.89% 37
East of England -4 54 £500 +17.65% 68
North East -14 18 £350 -3.45% 20
Wales -7 16 £463 +51.02% 16
Northern Ireland -1 5 £225 -57.14% 25
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
1 110 (5.97%) Confluence
2 99 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.49%) CMS
5 6 (0.33%) SAS
6 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.22%) Apache
7 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.22%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Camunda
8 3 (0.16%) CICS
8 3 (0.16%) Kentico
8 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
8 3 (0.16%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.11%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 155 (8.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (5.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 101 (5.48%) Microsoft Project
4 88 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (1.74%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.36%) Siemens NX
7 8 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Revit
9 4 (0.22%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 39 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.57%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.49%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.43%) 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%) Oracle General Ledger
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
1 213 (11.55%) Azure
2 100 (5.42%) AWS
3 95 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
3 95 (5.15%) Power Platform
4 67 (3.63%) SaaS
5 52 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (2.39%) Entra ID
7 31 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
7 31 (1.68%) GCP
8 23 (1.25%) GitHub
8 23 (1.25%) Google Workspace
9 21 (1.14%) IaaS
10 18 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
11 17 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (0.76%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.70%) Serverless
14 12 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (0.65%) Amazon S3
15 11 (0.60%) OneDrive
15 11 (0.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (5.91%) Firewall
2 69 (3.74%) DNS
3 55 (2.98%) Network Security
4 50 (2.71%) WAN
5 45 (2.44%) LAN
6 33 (1.79%) VPN
7 28 (1.52%) BGP
7 28 (1.52%) VLAN
8 27 (1.46%) MPLS
8 27 (1.46%) OSPF
9 24 (1.30%) DHCP
10 21 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 20 (1.08%) SD-WAN
12 19 (1.03%) TCP/IP
13 18 (0.98%) Wireless
14 17 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (0.87%) SSL
16 13 (0.70%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.70%) SAN
17 11 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.01%) Power BI
2 41 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.52%) Tableau
4 24 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (0.70%) Metadata
8 10 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.43%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.33%) Big Data
12 6 (0.33%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.27%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (0.16%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.16%) GIS
Development Applications
1 202 (10.95%) JIRA
2 18 (0.98%) Git
3 17 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.60%) 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%) Hudson
8 2 (0.11%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.054%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.054%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.054%) Postman
9 1 (0.054%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.054%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 692 (37.53%) Social Skills
2 567 (30.75%) Finance
3 242 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 134 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
6 119 (6.45%) Banking
7 88 (4.77%) Retail
8 77 (4.18%) Legal
9 71 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
10 64 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (2.66%) Telecoms
12 47 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (2.44%) Manufacturing
14 32 (1.74%) Local Government
15 26 (1.41%) Marketing
16 25 (1.36%) Military
17 22 (1.19%) Investment Banking
18 18 (0.98%) Financial Institution
19 16 (0.87%) Law
19 16 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 468 (25.38%) Project Manager
2 219 (11.88%) Analyst
3 190 (10.30%) Lead
4 184 (9.98%) Senior
5 127 (6.89%) Business Analyst
6 98 (5.31%) Architect
7 87 (4.72%) Senior Manager
8 78 (4.23%) Consultant
9 77 (4.18%) Delivery Manager
10 72 (3.90%) Network Engineer
11 71 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
12 70 (3.80%) IT Manager
13 52 (2.82%) IT Project Manager
14 50 (2.71%) Developer
15 48 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
16 45 (2.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 39 (2.11%) Technical Manager
18 38 (2.06%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 32 (1.74%) Programme Manager
19 32 (1.74%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.22%) Middleware
2 30 (1.63%) REST
3 19 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (0.92%) XML
5 13 (0.70%) .NET
6 12 (0.65%) JSON
7 11 (0.60%) ADO
8 10 (0.54%) OAuth
8 10 (0.54%) Spring Boot
9 9 (0.49%) React
9 9 (0.49%) Spring
9 9 (0.49%) Web Services
10 8 (0.43%) CSS
11 7 (0.38%) 802.1X
11 7 (0.38%) HTML
12 6 (0.33%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.33%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.33%) RESTful
12 6 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
13 5 (0.27%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.21%) Management Information System
2 76 (4.12%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.01%) Data Centre
4 73 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 34 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 31 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 28 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.52%) Replication
9 27 (1.46%) Clustering
9 27 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.30%) Cloud Native
11 21 (1.14%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (1.03%) Operational Technology
13 17 (0.92%) NHS
13 17 (0.92%) PKI
13 17 (0.92%) PMI
14 16 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (0.87%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 108 (5.86%) Windows
2 52 (2.82%) Windows Server
3 40 (2.17%) Linux
4 31 (1.68%) Unix
5 15 (0.81%) Solaris
6 10 (0.54%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.49%) VMS
8 8 (0.43%) AIX
9 7 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.38%) zOS
10 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.22%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.22%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
14 1 (0.054%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.054%) Android
14 1 (0.054%) CentOS
14 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (30.04%) Agile
2 543 (29.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 537 (29.12%) Project Management
4 297 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
5 284 (15.40%) Migration
6 272 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 272 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 222 (12.04%) Change Management
8 211 (11.44%) PRINCE2
9 191 (10.36%) Waterfall
10 187 (10.14%) Decision-Making
11 156 (8.46%) DevOps
12 146 (7.92%) Risk Management
13 133 (7.21%) Roadmaps
14 129 (7.00%) AI
15 126 (6.83%) Scrum
16 125 (6.78%) ITIL
17 116 (6.29%) ERP
18 113 (6.13%) Cybersecurity
19 109 (5.91%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 106 (5.75%) SQL
2 81 (4.39%) Python
3 53 (2.87%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.25%) Java
5 21 (1.14%) C#
6 19 (1.03%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.60%) Bash
8 10 (0.54%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.43%) Go
9 8 (0.43%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.43%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.38%) Bicep
11 6 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
11 6 (0.33%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.27%) ABAP
12 5 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.27%) VBA
13 3 (0.16%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.16%) C++
14 2 (0.11%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 414 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 302 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 181 (9.82%) Degree
4 158 (8.57%) PMP
5 122 (6.62%) PMI Certification
6 96 (5.21%) DV Cleared
7 53 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (2.28%) CCNP
9 35 (1.90%) CCNA
10 33 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 32 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 24 (1.30%) CISSP
12 24 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.08%) APMP
13 20 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 19 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.98%) MCSE
16 17 (0.92%) CISM
16 17 (0.92%) Master's Degree
17 16 (0.87%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (11.39%) PMO
2 102 (5.53%) QA
3 51 (2.77%) NIST
4 49 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.49%) GDPR
6 40 (2.17%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.08%) SLA
8 13 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.70%) GRC
9 10 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.43%) HL7
10 8 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.43%) IFRS
10 8 (0.43%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.33%) Basel III
12 6 (0.33%) GAAP
12 6 (0.33%) NCSC
13 5 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.27%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 77 (4.18%) Active Directory
2 45 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.25%) vSphere
4 20 (1.08%) Docker
5 18 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.60%) Firmware
9 9 (0.49%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.16%) Squid
12 2 (0.11%) Ceph
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.054%) ACF2
13 1 (0.054%) KVM
13 1 (0.054%) RACF
13 1 (0.054%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 45 (2.44%) Ansible
2 37 (2.01%) Terraform
3 33 (1.79%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.81%) vCenter Server
6 12 (0.65%) FortiGate
6 12 (0.65%) SCCM
6 12 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.38%) Nagios
7 7 (0.38%) ZABBIX
8 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.27%) Netcool
8 5 (0.27%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.16%) Grafana
9 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.16%) Puppet
9 3 (0.16%) SCOM
10 2 (0.11%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 330 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 129 (7.00%) SAP
3 88 (4.77%) Oracle
4 85 (4.61%) Cisco
4 85 (4.61%) ServiceNow
5 57 (3.09%) VMware
6 47 (2.55%) Palo Alto
7 37 (2.01%) Google
8 34 (1.84%) F5
8 34 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.36%) Fortinet
9 25 (1.36%) Siemens
10 22 (1.19%) IBM
11 19 (1.03%) CheckPoint
12 17 (0.92%) SolarWinds
13 16 (0.87%) Workday
14 15 (0.81%) Aruba
15 14 (0.76%) Citrix
15 14 (0.76%) Infoblox
15 14 (0.76%) NEC