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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 54 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,725 1,160 1,711
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 3.96% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.37% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 702 1,129
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £618 £626 £638
90th Percentile £706 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.78% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 24 32
10th Percentile £16.25 £21.67 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £29.84 £26.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £38.30
Median % change year-on-year -20.94% +50.15% -41.08%
75th Percentile £63.50 £69.69 £41.27
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.10 £64.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -24.23% +46.56% -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 39,057 26,521 37,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.17% 90.63% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,711 17,185 24,560
10th Percentile £315 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £636 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,313 1,013 2,392
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.38 £19.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% -9.40% -5.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £77.90 £75.19 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year +27.59% -12.29% -8.15%

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 12 April 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 12 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 17 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 12 April 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 +2 1,528 £515 -1.90% 837
UK excluding London -4 920 £481 -3.78% 680
London +3 672 £550 - 240
Work from Home +5 509 £533 +1.43% 354
North of England +19 258 £475 - 165
South East +4 228 £525 -4.55% 228
Midlands -17 178 £468 -6.40% 106
North West +21 172 £475 - 88
South West +4 117 £475 - 74
West Midlands -19 116 £492 -6.29% 70
Yorkshire -15 75 £525 +5.00% 57
Scotland -23 71 £475 - 37
East Midlands -10 61 £420 -6.04% 36
East of England -16 49 £525 +1.16% 65
Wales +4 20 £413 +26.92% 15
North East -12 13 £350 -15.15% 22
Northern Ireland -6 8 £370 -37.68% 3

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
1 114 (6.61%) Confluence
2 80 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.35%) CMS
5 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.23%) CICS
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.17%) Camunda
7 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.17%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.12%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.058%) Apache
9 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.058%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.058%) IIS
9 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 154 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (6.96%) Microsoft Project
3 109 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
4 105 (6.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.64%) Siemens NX
7 11 (0.64%) Trello
8 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.058%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.058%) InDesign
9 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.058%) Revit
9 1 (0.058%) SPSS
9 1 (0.058%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 48 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.87%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.70%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.52%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.41%) Endur
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.35%) Primavera
9 5 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.29%) Summit
10 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP PP
11 3 (0.17%) Maximo
11 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 195 (11.30%) Azure
2 91 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
3 86 (4.99%) Power Platform
4 82 (4.75%) AWS
5 56 (3.25%) SaaS
6 49 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.80%) Entra ID
9 26 (1.51%) GCP
10 22 (1.28%) GitHub
11 19 (1.10%) IaaS
12 15 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (0.75%) OpenShift
13 13 (0.75%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.75%) Serverless
14 12 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (0.70%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.70%) OCI
14 12 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.22%) Firewall
2 49 (2.84%) DNS
3 42 (2.43%) WAN
4 36 (2.09%) Network Security
5 33 (1.91%) LAN
6 27 (1.57%) BGP
6 27 (1.57%) OSPF
7 21 (1.22%) SD-WAN
8 20 (1.16%) VLAN
9 18 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.04%) TCP/IP
9 18 (1.04%) VPN
10 17 (0.99%) MPLS
11 15 (0.87%) NetScaler
11 15 (0.87%) Wireless
12 14 (0.81%) DHCP
13 13 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
14 10 (0.58%) SAN
14 10 (0.58%) SSL
15 9 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.06%) Power BI
2 31 (1.80%) Tableau
3 29 (1.68%) SQL Server
4 24 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.64%) Metadata
8 8 (0.46%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.35%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.29%) Big Data
11 5 (0.29%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.23%) GIS
12 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 205 (11.88%) JIRA
2 19 (1.10%) Git
3 16 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.58%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) Selenium
6 7 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.29%) JMeter
7 5 (0.29%) MSTest
7 5 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.17%) Appium
8 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
9 2 (0.12%) TestRail
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.058%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.058%) LSMW
10 1 (0.058%) NUnit
General
1 715 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 585 (33.91%) Finance
3 260 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (10.43%) Public Sector
5 139 (8.06%) Banking
6 125 (7.25%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (4.23%) Retail
8 72 (4.17%) Legal
9 71 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
10 64 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
11 58 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
12 49 (2.84%) Manufacturing
13 43 (2.49%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.91%) Marketing
15 26 (1.51%) Local Government
16 22 (1.28%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.16%) Military
18 18 (1.04%) Financial Institution
19 16 (0.93%) Law
20 15 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 495 (28.70%) Project Manager
2 210 (12.17%) Analyst
3 187 (10.84%) Lead
4 172 (9.97%) Senior
5 143 (8.29%) Business Analyst
6 86 (4.99%) Senior Manager
7 83 (4.81%) Consultant
8 82 (4.75%) Architect
9 73 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
10 72 (4.17%) IT Manager
11 65 (3.77%) Senior Project Manager
12 51 (2.96%) IT Project Manager
13 49 (2.84%) Technical Manager
14 46 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
15 42 (2.43%) Network Engineer
16 41 (2.38%) Programme Manager
17 36 (2.09%) Project Officer
18 34 (1.97%) Infrastructure Manager
19 33 (1.91%) SAP Manager
19 33 (1.91%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.97%) Middleware
2 24 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
3 18 (1.04%) REST
4 14 (0.81%) XML
5 11 (0.64%) Web Services
6 9 (0.52%) ADO
7 8 (0.46%) .NET
7 8 (0.46%) React
7 8 (0.46%) Spring Boot
8 7 (0.41%) CSS
8 7 (0.41%) JSON
8 7 (0.41%) Spring
9 6 (0.35%) Node.js
9 6 (0.35%) YAML
10 5 (0.29%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.29%) HTML
10 5 (0.29%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.29%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.23%) OAuth
11 4 (0.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.70%) Product Ownership
2 74 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 73 (4.23%) Onboarding
4 62 (3.59%) Data Centre
5 39 (2.26%) Virtual Team
6 35 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.86%) PMI
8 30 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.45%) NHS
10 25 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 21 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.10%) Cloud Native
12 19 (1.10%) Replication
13 18 (1.04%) Clustering
14 15 (0.87%) Derivative
15 14 (0.81%) Driving Licence
16 13 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.75%) Life Science
17 12 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 87 (5.04%) Windows
2 42 (2.43%) Windows Server
3 29 (1.68%) Linux
4 18 (1.04%) Unix
5 14 (0.81%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.58%) Solaris
6 10 (0.58%) VMS
7 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (0.46%) zOS
8 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.23%) AIX
10 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.12%) Android
11 2 (0.12%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.12%) pSOS
12 1 (0.058%) CentOS
12 1 (0.058%) Debian
12 1 (0.058%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (33.62%) Agile
2 541 (31.36%) Project Management
3 526 (30.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 291 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
5 260 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 258 (14.96%) PRINCE2
7 256 (14.84%) Migration
8 251 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 216 (12.52%) Change Management
10 175 (10.14%) DevOps
11 173 (10.03%) Waterfall
12 166 (9.62%) Decision-Making
13 150 (8.70%) Scrum
14 149 (8.64%) Risk Management
15 139 (8.06%) Roadmaps
16 135 (7.83%) Workshop Facilitation
17 125 (7.25%) ITIL
18 123 (7.13%) Budget Management
19 121 (7.01%) Business Analysis
20 118 (6.84%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 98 (5.68%) SQL
2 63 (3.65%) Python
3 41 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.22%) Java
5 18 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 14 (0.81%) C#
7 12 (0.70%) Bash
8 9 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.46%) Go
9 8 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.29%) Bicep
11 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.23%) ABAP
12 4 (0.23%) COBOL
12 4 (0.23%) VBA
13 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.17%) Assembly Language
13 3 (0.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 361 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 261 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 235 (13.62%) Degree
4 175 (10.14%) PMP
5 147 (8.52%) PMI Certification
6 83 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (2.03%) APMP
9 32 (1.86%) CCNP
10 31 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (1.74%) Master's Degree
11 30 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 29 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (1.51%) CCNA
14 22 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
15 20 (1.16%) CISSP
16 17 (0.99%) CBAP
17 16 (0.93%) CISM
18 13 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
19 12 (0.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (10.96%) PMO
2 120 (6.96%) QA
3 50 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (2.67%) GDPR
5 41 (2.38%) NIST
6 40 (2.32%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.16%) SLA
8 13 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.64%) GRC
10 10 (0.58%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.58%) PSD2
10 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.52%) P3O
12 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.41%) MiFID
14 6 (0.35%) HL7
14 6 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.35%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 56 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.22%) Docker
4 15 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.75%) vSphere
6 12 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.23%) Firmware
11 2 (0.12%) Squid
11 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.058%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.058%) Ceph
12 1 (0.058%) RACF
12 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 32 (1.86%) Ansible
2 31 (1.80%) Terraform
3 28 (1.62%) Kubernetes
4 27 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.99%) SCCM
6 7 (0.41%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.41%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.29%) Nagios
9 3 (0.17%) Netcool
9 3 (0.17%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.17%) Puppet
9 3 (0.17%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.12%) CEMLI
10 2 (0.12%) Control-M
10 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
10 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 294 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 140 (8.12%) SAP
3 83 (4.81%) Oracle
4 77 (4.46%) ServiceNow
5 57 (3.30%) Cisco
6 40 (2.32%) VMware
7 36 (2.09%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.97%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.68%) Google
10 24 (1.39%) F5
11 21 (1.22%) Atlassian
12 19 (1.10%) CheckPoint
12 19 (1.10%) Citrix
13 16 (0.93%) IBM
13 16 (0.93%) Workday
14 14 (0.81%) Aruba
14 14 (0.81%) SolarWinds
15 13 (0.75%) CyberArk
15 13 (0.75%) NEC
16 12 (0.70%) Fortinet