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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 60 57
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,234 1,307 1,361
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.07% 3.98% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 4.39% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 838 777
10th Percentile £340 £322 £356
25th Percentile £425 £410 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £625
90th Percentile £713 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 35 40
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.91 £20.75
25th Percentile £37.82 £28.28 £23.45
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +74.09% -42.56%
75th Percentile £77.13 £65.00 £55.79
90th Percentile £87.83 £84.00 £65.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 £52.76 £33.93
% change year-on-year +8.05% +55.48% -39.68%

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 46,343 29,774 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 90.67% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,026 18,502 19,486
10th Percentile £325 £296 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,222 1,849 1,345
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.29 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.27 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.98% -48.10% +1.18%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 1,881 £525 - 3,044
UK excluding London +2 1,193 £500 - 1,971
London -1 823 £550 -2.48% 1,197
Work from Home +7 635 £500 -2.91% 1,306
South East +1 321 £525 -2.33% 495
North of England +6 308 £500 +5.26% 498
North West +10 192 £525 +11.11% 250
Midlands -26 159 £478 -3.02% 339
Scotland +21 150 £450 - 167
South West -2 145 £525 +5.00% 211
West Midlands -18 123 £481 -7.46% 225
Yorkshire -7 93 £485 -7.62% 186
East of England +6 69 £500 -4.76% 162
East Midlands -30 33 £425 -3.76% 114
Wales +1 27 £400 +30.08% 45
North East -18 24 £350 -14.79% 62
Northern Ireland +4 16 £400 -15.79% 76
Channel Islands - 9 £525 - 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
1 119 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 114 (5.10%) Confluence
3 37 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.40%) CMS
5 7 (0.31%) Apache
6 6 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.27%) JBoss
6 6 (0.27%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.22%) SAS
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.18%) WordPress
9 3 (0.13%) Appian
9 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.13%) Kentico
9 3 (0.13%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.13%) SAP EP
10 2 (0.090%) CICS
10 2 (0.090%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 167 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.33%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
4 94 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.76%) Siemens NX
7 14 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.54%) AutoCAD
8 12 (0.54%) Revit
8 12 (0.54%) Trello
9 11 (0.49%) Navisworks
10 9 (0.40%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.13%) Windchill
12 2 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.090%) Houdini
12 2 (0.090%) MicroStation
12 2 (0.090%) NUKE
13 1 (0.045%) CATIA
13 1 (0.045%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 55 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.21%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.63%) Primavera
5 13 (0.58%) Maximo
6 12 (0.54%) SAP FI
7 10 (0.45%) Workday HCM
8 9 (0.40%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.36%) SAP Payroll
9 8 (0.36%) SAP SD
10 7 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
10 7 (0.31%) SAP HR
11 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.27%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.27%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 350 (15.67%) Azure
2 142 (6.36%) Power Platform
3 140 (6.27%) AWS
4 130 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (4.21%) SaaS
7 74 (3.31%) Entra ID
8 57 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
9 52 (2.33%) GCP
10 33 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
11 28 (1.25%) PowerApps
11 28 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
12 26 (1.16%) OCI
13 24 (1.07%) Google Workspace
14 23 (1.03%) Power Automate
15 22 (0.98%) GitHub
16 21 (0.94%) IaaS
17 18 (0.81%) PaaS
18 14 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
19 13 (0.58%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 138 (6.18%) Firewall
2 90 (4.03%) DNS
3 86 (3.85%) Network Security
4 85 (3.80%) WAN
5 78 (3.49%) LAN
6 65 (2.91%) VPN
7 51 (2.28%) DHCP
8 46 (2.06%) MPLS
9 45 (2.01%) Wireless
10 40 (1.79%) BGP
11 38 (1.70%) VLAN
11 38 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (1.21%) TCP/IP
13 25 (1.12%) OSPF
14 20 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 19 (0.85%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.67%) SSL
17 14 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (0.63%) Multicast
18 13 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.88%) Power BI
2 40 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 14 (0.63%) Metadata
5 10 (0.45%) Tableau
6 9 (0.40%) Big Data
7 8 (0.36%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 7 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.31%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.22%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.22%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 236 (10.56%) JIRA
2 24 (1.07%) Git
3 13 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.54%) GitLab
5 9 (0.40%) MSI
6 5 (0.22%) Selenium
6 5 (0.22%) Subversion
7 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.13%) Gatling
8 3 (0.13%) Hudson
8 3 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.090%) Appium
9 2 (0.090%) JMeter
9 2 (0.090%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.090%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.090%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.090%) TestNG
10 1 (0.045%) PowerBuilder
General
1 926 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 685 (30.66%) Finance
3 282 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 175 (7.83%) Organisational Skills
6 138 (6.18%) Banking
7 99 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
8 92 (4.12%) Legal
9 87 (3.89%) Manufacturing
10 86 (3.85%) Retail
11 85 (3.80%) Telecoms
12 77 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
13 65 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (1.92%) Local Government
15 41 (1.84%) Military
16 36 (1.61%) Marketing
17 35 (1.57%) Front Office
17 35 (1.57%) Law
18 29 (1.30%) Aerospace
19 26 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 505 (22.61%) Project Manager
2 246 (11.01%) Analyst
3 236 (10.56%) Senior
4 206 (9.22%) Lead
5 155 (6.94%) Architect
6 145 (6.49%) Business Analyst
7 136 (6.09%) Consultant
8 101 (4.52%) Senior Manager
9 97 (4.34%) Network Engineer
10 90 (4.03%) Delivery Manager
11 86 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
12 84 (3.76%) IT Manager
13 68 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 61 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
15 58 (2.60%) IT Project Manager
16 55 (2.46%) Developer
17 46 (2.06%) Technical Manager
18 38 (1.70%) Coordinator
19 37 (1.66%) Project Officer
19 37 (1.66%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.01%) Terraform
2 39 (1.75%) REST
3 34 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.12%) Middleware
5 18 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
6 17 (0.76%) .NET
7 15 (0.67%) XML
8 14 (0.63%) SOAP
9 12 (0.54%) JSON
10 11 (0.49%) 802.1X
10 11 (0.49%) ADO
10 11 (0.49%) LDAP
10 11 (0.49%) OAuth
11 10 (0.45%) HTML
11 10 (0.45%) React
11 10 (0.45%) SAPUI5
11 10 (0.45%) Web Services
12 8 (0.36%) RESTful
12 8 (0.36%) SAML
13 7 (0.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 112 (5.01%) Onboarding
2 110 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 98 (4.39%) Data Centre
3 98 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 50 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 46 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (1.75%) Virtual Team
7 35 (1.57%) Driving Licence
7 35 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (1.57%) Operational Technology
8 34 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 33 (1.48%) Cloud Native
10 30 (1.34%) PKI
10 30 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.03%) Clustering
11 23 (1.03%) Public Cloud
12 22 (0.98%) Derivative
13 20 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (0.81%) Replication
15 17 (0.76%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 153 (6.85%) Windows
2 80 (3.58%) Linux
3 74 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.57%) Unix
5 18 (0.81%) Solaris
6 15 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.45%) AIX
8 8 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.27%) Android
9 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.22%) zOS
11 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.13%) VMS
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.090%) CentOS
12 2 (0.090%) Debian
12 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 975 (43.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 708 (31.69%) Agile
3 590 (26.41%) Project Management
4 420 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 399 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 366 (16.38%) Migration
7 359 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
8 334 (14.95%) Change Management
9 292 (13.07%) PRINCE2
10 251 (11.24%) Decision-Making
11 238 (10.65%) Waterfall
12 224 (10.03%) Risk Management
13 200 (8.95%) ITIL
14 195 (8.73%) Roadmaps
15 187 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
15 187 (8.37%) DevOps
15 187 (8.37%) Project Governance
16 183 (8.19%) Workshop Facilitation
17 181 (8.10%) AI
18 168 (7.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 101 (4.52%) SQL
2 97 (4.34%) Python
3 77 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.21%) Java
5 22 (0.98%) Bash
6 19 (0.85%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.76%) C#
8 15 (0.67%) ABAP
8 15 (0.67%) VBA
9 8 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.31%) Korn
10 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.18%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.13%) C++
13 3 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.13%) VB
13 3 (0.13%) VB6
Qualifications
1 522 (23.37%) Security Cleared
2 383 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 215 (9.62%) Degree
4 162 (7.25%) PMP
5 146 (6.54%) PMI Certification
6 131 (5.86%) DV Cleared
7 73 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (2.15%) CCNP
9 41 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.70%) Azure Certification
11 36 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 34 (1.52%) CCNA
13 27 (1.21%) CISSP
14 21 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.81%) MCSE
15 18 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.67%) CCIE
17 14 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (10.65%) PMO
2 105 (4.70%) QA
3 60 (2.69%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.42%) GDPR
5 53 (2.37%) NIST
6 48 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.30%) SLA
8 26 (1.16%) GRC
9 20 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.76%) ISO 19650
11 12 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.36%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.36%) NCSC
14 7 (0.31%) P3O
15 6 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.27%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.22%) IFRS
16 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 116 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 94 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (1.48%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.39%) vSphere
5 23 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (0.94%) Docker
7 17 (0.76%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.49%) Firmware
11 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.090%) Ceph
12 2 (0.090%) IAG
12 2 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.090%) Squid
12 2 (0.090%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.045%) RACF
Systems Management
1 51 (2.28%) Ansible
2 37 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.03%) SCCM
5 19 (0.85%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.72%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.58%) Cisco Prime
9 9 (0.40%) SCOM
9 9 (0.40%) WMI
10 8 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.36%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.36%) Puppet
11 7 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.22%) Grafana
13 5 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.22%) Nagios
13 5 (0.22%) Nessus
Vendors
1 516 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 169 (7.56%) SAP
3 162 (7.25%) Cisco
4 124 (5.55%) ServiceNow
5 118 (5.28%) VMware
6 104 (4.66%) Oracle
7 55 (2.46%) Palo Alto
8 52 (2.33%) Fortinet
9 48 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.88%) F5
11 38 (1.70%) Google
12 33 (1.48%) Workday
13 32 (1.43%) Juniper
14 30 (1.34%) IBM
15 27 (1.21%) Ariba
15 27 (1.21%) SolarWinds
16 26 (1.16%) Siemens
17 24 (1.07%) Databricks
18 22 (0.98%) Zscaler
19 21 (0.94%) Splunk