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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 60 53
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 -5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,137 1,310 1,433
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.98% 4.00% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 4.42% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,419 843 870
10th Percentile £325 £313 £360
25th Percentile £413 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £638
90th Percentile £706 £724 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 28 37
10th Percentile £22.36 £15.91 £22.50
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.78 £26.68
Median hourly rate £53.00 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +64.29% -44.66%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.16 £56.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £79.88 £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +57.14% -42.86%

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 45,399 29,629 33,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.55% 90.46% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,782 18,436 20,950
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,881 1,773 1,687
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +6.25%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 1,827 £525 - 2,512
UK excluding London -1 1,150 £500 +1.63% 1,738
London +9 811 £550 -2.65% 1,092
Work from Home +2 627 £500 -2.44% 1,142
South East -6 300 £525 -2.33% 438
North of England +13 287 £485 +2.11% 412
North West +14 193 £498 +4.74% 231
Midlands -21 163 £475 +2.70% 269
South West -2 162 £510 +7.37% 253
Scotland +18 142 £425 -5.56% 145
West Midlands -17 124 £475 -8.61% 177
Yorkshire -28 73 £493 +6.49% 116
East of England 0 62 £500 -4.76% 161
East Midlands -24 35 £413 -3.85% 91
Wales -2 26 £438 +42.28% 42
North East -21 22 £350 - 69
Northern Ireland 0 16 £388 -18.42% 51
Channel Islands - 4 £538 - 1

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
1 117 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 113 (5.29%) Confluence
3 37 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.33%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.28%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) JBoss
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
7 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.19%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
8 3 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.094%) Camunda
9 2 (0.094%) CICS
9 2 (0.094%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.047%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 170 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.57%) Microsoft Project
3 102 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.75%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.51%) Trello
9 8 (0.37%) Navisworks
9 8 (0.37%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.28%) ProjectWise
12 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.094%) Houdini
13 2 (0.094%) NUKE
14 1 (0.047%) CATIA
14 1 (0.047%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.08%) Teamcenter
3 22 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.61%) Primavera
5 10 (0.47%) Maximo
5 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.28%) ProductWriter
8 6 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 326 (15.26%) Azure
2 143 (6.69%) AWS
3 127 (5.94%) Power Platform
4 122 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 98 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (3.79%) SaaS
7 71 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 48 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
9 46 (2.15%) GCP
10 28 (1.31%) GitHub
11 27 (1.26%) OCI
12 26 (1.22%) PowerApps
13 25 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
14 24 (1.12%) Google Workspace
15 23 (1.08%) IaaS
15 23 (1.08%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
16 16 (0.75%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.70%) PaaS
18 13 (0.61%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 137 (6.41%) Firewall
2 89 (4.16%) DNS
3 86 (4.02%) WAN
4 75 (3.51%) LAN
5 73 (3.42%) Network Security
6 69 (3.23%) VPN
7 51 (2.39%) MPLS
8 47 (2.20%) BGP
9 43 (2.01%) DHCP
10 41 (1.92%) Wireless
11 36 (1.68%) VLAN
11 36 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
12 33 (1.54%) OSPF
13 30 (1.40%) TCP/IP
14 25 (1.17%) SD-WAN
15 24 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 18 (0.84%) SSL
17 15 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
18 14 (0.66%) IPsec
19 13 (0.61%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.91%) Power BI
2 42 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.75%) Metadata
5 14 (0.66%) Tableau
6 11 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.47%) Big Data
7 10 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.42%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (0.37%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 7 (0.33%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.28%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.28%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.23%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 232 (10.86%) JIRA
2 24 (1.12%) Git
3 14 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.47%) GitLab
5 9 (0.42%) Selenium
6 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) MSI
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.094%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.094%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.094%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.094%) TestNG
11 1 (0.047%) Postman
11 1 (0.047%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 887 (41.51%) Social Skills
2 663 (31.02%) Finance
3 294 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 160 (7.49%) Organisational Skills
6 124 (5.80%) Banking
7 101 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
7 101 (4.73%) Retail
8 92 (4.31%) Legal
9 91 (4.26%) Telecoms
10 67 (3.14%) Manufacturing
11 66 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (1.97%) Local Government
14 40 (1.87%) Military
15 33 (1.54%) Marketing
16 30 (1.40%) Front Office
17 27 (1.26%) Law
18 25 (1.17%) Financial Institution
18 25 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 493 (23.07%) Project Manager
2 246 (11.51%) Analyst
3 225 (10.53%) Senior
4 203 (9.50%) Lead
5 140 (6.55%) Business Analyst
6 135 (6.32%) Architect
7 134 (6.27%) Consultant
8 100 (4.68%) Senior Manager
9 95 (4.45%) Network Engineer
10 84 (3.93%) Senior Project Manager
11 83 (3.88%) Delivery Manager
11 83 (3.88%) IT Manager
12 59 (2.76%) Developer
12 59 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 53 (2.48%) IT Project Manager
14 52 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
15 38 (1.78%) Technical Manager
15 38 (1.78%) Transformation Manager
16 37 (1.73%) Infrastructure Manager
16 37 (1.73%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.25%) Terraform
2 38 (1.78%) REST
3 32 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.17%) Middleware
5 18 (0.84%) .NET
6 13 (0.61%) 802.1X
7 12 (0.56%) React
8 11 (0.51%) ADO
8 11 (0.51%) OAuth
8 11 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
8 11 (0.51%) Web Services
8 11 (0.51%) XML
9 9 (0.42%) JSON
9 9 (0.42%) LDAP
9 9 (0.42%) SOAP
10 8 (0.37%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.37%) SAP Basis
11 7 (0.33%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.33%) Kafka
11 7 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 109 (5.10%) Onboarding
2 107 (5.01%) Management Information System
3 90 (4.21%) Data Centre
3 90 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (1.73%) Virtual Team
6 36 (1.68%) Cloud Native
6 36 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 34 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.54%) Operational Technology
9 32 (1.50%) Driving Licence
10 31 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (1.22%) PKI
12 25 (1.17%) Derivative
13 24 (1.12%) Public Cloud
14 20 (0.94%) Clustering
14 20 (0.94%) Replication
15 19 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 18 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 149 (6.97%) Windows
2 76 (3.56%) Linux
3 71 (3.32%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.26%) Unix
5 14 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.47%) AIX
6 10 (0.47%) Solaris
7 6 (0.28%) Android
7 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.14%) zOS
10 2 (0.094%) CentOS
10 2 (0.094%) Debian
10 2 (0.094%) VMS
10 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (40.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 670 (31.35%) Agile
3 581 (27.19%) Project Management
4 401 (18.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 388 (18.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 351 (16.42%) Migration
7 334 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
8 320 (14.97%) Change Management
9 277 (12.96%) PRINCE2
10 241 (11.28%) Decision-Making
11 230 (10.76%) Waterfall
12 198 (9.27%) Risk Management
13 192 (8.98%) ITIL
14 187 (8.75%) DevOps
15 183 (8.56%) AI
16 182 (8.52%) Roadmaps
17 166 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
18 165 (7.72%) Workshop Facilitation
19 161 (7.53%) User Acceptance Testing
20 152 (7.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 109 (5.10%) SQL
2 103 (4.82%) Python
3 72 (3.37%) PowerShell
4 27 (1.26%) Bash
4 27 (1.26%) Java
5 18 (0.84%) C#
6 17 (0.80%) VBA
7 16 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.42%) ABAP
9 8 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.23%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.23%) Korn
13 4 (0.19%) Bicep
13 4 (0.19%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.14%) C++
15 2 (0.094%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 473 (22.13%) Security Cleared
2 342 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 203 (9.50%) Degree
4 161 (7.53%) PMP
5 140 (6.55%) PMI Certification
6 118 (5.52%) DV Cleared
7 76 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (2.25%) CCNP
9 45 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 41 (1.92%) CCNA
10 41 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 33 (1.54%) Azure Certification
13 29 (1.36%) CISSP
14 19 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.84%) MCSE
16 17 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 16 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
18 15 (0.70%) CISM
19 14 (0.66%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (11.42%) PMO
2 87 (4.07%) QA
3 62 (2.90%) NIST
4 60 (2.81%) GDPR
5 57 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.25%) Data Quality
7 33 (1.54%) SLA
8 19 (0.89%) GRC
9 15 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.61%) ISO 19650
11 11 (0.51%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.37%) NCSC
13 8 (0.37%) P3O
14 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.28%) GxP
16 5 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 114 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 75 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.31%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.08%) Docker
5 20 (0.94%) vSphere
6 17 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.66%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.51%) Firmware
9 11 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.094%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.047%) ACF2
13 1 (0.047%) RACF
13 1 (0.047%) RHEV
13 1 (0.047%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 54 (2.53%) Ansible
2 34 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.08%) FortiGate
5 21 (0.98%) SCCM
6 15 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.70%) vCenter Server
7 11 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.42%) Puppet
8 9 (0.42%) SCOM
9 8 (0.37%) Nagios
9 8 (0.37%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.33%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.23%) Netcool
12 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.23%) WMI
Vendors
1 470 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 150 (7.02%) Cisco
3 141 (6.60%) SAP
4 123 (5.76%) ServiceNow
5 101 (4.73%) VMware
6 100 (4.68%) Oracle
7 53 (2.48%) Palo Alto
8 50 (2.34%) Fortinet
9 46 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.97%) F5
11 38 (1.78%) Google
12 29 (1.36%) Juniper
12 29 (1.36%) SolarWinds
13 26 (1.22%) Workday
14 23 (1.08%) Splunk
15 22 (1.03%) IBM
16 21 (0.98%) Zscaler
17 20 (0.94%) CyberArk
17 20 (0.94%) NEC
17 20 (0.94%) Siemens