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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 53 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,547 1,194 1,785
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.93% 3.89% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 4.35% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 668 1,186
10th Percentile £325 £336 £363
25th Percentile £413 £433 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £637
90th Percentile £720 £695 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -4.88% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 32 26
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.58 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £23.37 £23.56
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% -23.50% -23.75%
75th Percentile £63.40 £64.06 £64.56
90th Percentile £69.74 £67.25 £77.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.44 £39.68 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.90% -20.64% -23.08%

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 34,251 27,445 39,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.02% 89.42% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,718 16,700 25,680
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,071 843 2,128
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% -11.20% +10.55%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 1,344 £525 - 620
UK excluding London -8 784 £488 -4.88% 551
London +2 630 £550 - 189
Work from Home 0 437 £535 -0.47% 292
North of England +13 230 £480 -4.05% 113
South East -4 186 £525 -4.55% 192
Midlands -8 154 £472 -8.00% 81
North West +20 143 £475 -1.55% 77
West Midlands -21 90 £545 -3.88% 53
South West -7 77 £538 +7.29% 71
Yorkshire -10 77 £500 -14.71% 28
Scotland -17 77 £463 -2.63% 29
East Midlands -2 65 £435 -7.45% 28
East of England -1 39 £570 +14.69% 50
Wales +4 20 £374 -26.98% 20
Northern Ireland 0 12 £475 -13.64% 3
North East -10 12 £290 -38.98% 11

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 (7.24%) Confluence
2 60 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.39%) CMS
5 4 (0.26%) CICS
6 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.19%) MS Project Server
6 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Appian
7 2 (0.13%) Camunda
7 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.065%) IIS
8 1 (0.065%) Moodle
8 1 (0.065%) Smallworld
Applications
1 147 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (6.85%) Microsoft Project
3 102 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.52%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.84%) Trello
6 11 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.58%) Siemens NX
8 8 (0.52%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.13%) InDesign
10 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.065%) Revit
11 1 (0.065%) Sketch
11 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 52 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.84%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.65%) Endur
3 10 (0.65%) Loan IQ
3 10 (0.65%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 8 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.52%) SAP MM
6 7 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.39%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
8 5 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.32%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.32%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 187 (12.09%) Azure
2 76 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (4.14%) Power Platform
4 63 (4.07%) AWS
5 55 (3.56%) SaaS
6 45 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (2.07%) GCP
8 21 (1.36%) GitHub
9 20 (1.29%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.10%) OCI
11 14 (0.90%) IaaS
12 13 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (0.84%) OpenShift
13 11 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
15 9 (0.58%) PaaS
16 8 (0.52%) Serverless
17 7 (0.45%) Asana
17 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.24%) Firewall
2 45 (2.91%) WAN
3 40 (2.59%) DNS
4 36 (2.33%) LAN
5 31 (2.00%) Network Security
6 23 (1.49%) BGP
7 21 (1.36%) OSPF
7 21 (1.36%) SD-WAN
8 20 (1.29%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.10%) MPLS
9 17 (1.10%) VPN
10 15 (0.97%) DHCP
10 15 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 15 (0.97%) NetScaler
11 14 (0.90%) Wireless
12 13 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
13 12 (0.78%) VLAN
14 11 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
14 11 (0.71%) SSL
15 10 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.56%) Power BI
2 27 (1.75%) Tableau
3 23 (1.49%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.58%) Metadata
8 7 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.39%) GIS
9 6 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.19%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.19%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 194 (12.54%) JIRA
2 18 (1.16%) Git
3 16 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.58%) GitLab
5 5 (0.32%) Selenium
6 4 (0.26%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.26%) Fiddler
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.19%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.19%) Subversion
8 2 (0.13%) Appium
8 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.13%) JMeter
8 2 (0.13%) MSTest
8 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.13%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle Forms
General
1 654 (42.28%) Social Skills
2 494 (31.93%) Finance
3 205 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (9.24%) Banking
5 141 (9.11%) Public Sector
6 101 (6.53%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
8 52 (3.36%) Retail
9 50 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (2.91%) Manufacturing
11 43 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (2.78%) Legal
12 39 (2.52%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.75%) Marketing
14 24 (1.55%) Front Office
15 22 (1.42%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.23%) Local Government
17 18 (1.16%) Law
17 18 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 418 (27.02%) Project Manager
2 206 (13.32%) Analyst
3 179 (11.57%) Lead
4 150 (9.70%) Business Analyst
5 129 (8.34%) Senior
6 87 (5.62%) Architect
7 85 (5.49%) Consultant
8 53 (3.43%) Delivery Manager
9 52 (3.36%) IT Manager
9 52 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
10 51 (3.30%) Senior Manager
11 44 (2.84%) Network Engineer
12 39 (2.52%) Programme Manager
12 39 (2.52%) Senior Project Manager
13 38 (2.46%) Technical Manager
14 36 (2.33%) SAP Manager
15 35 (2.26%) IT Project Manager
16 29 (1.87%) Infrastructure Manager
17 26 (1.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 26 (1.68%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.68%) Middleware
2 22 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
3 21 (1.36%) REST
4 12 (0.78%) Web Services
4 12 (0.78%) XML
5 8 (0.52%) CSS
5 8 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
5 8 (0.52%) SOAP
6 7 (0.45%) ADO
6 7 (0.45%) HTML
6 7 (0.45%) React
6 7 (0.45%) RESTful
6 7 (0.45%) YAML
7 6 (0.39%) .NET
8 5 (0.32%) JSON
8 5 (0.32%) Node.js
8 5 (0.32%) OAuth
8 5 (0.32%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.26%) Ultra Messaging
9 4 (0.26%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.85%) Onboarding
3 61 (3.94%) Data Centre
4 54 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (2.20%) PMI
7 33 (2.13%) Virtual Team
8 31 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.75%) NHS
10 25 (1.62%) Public Cloud
11 24 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (0.97%) Replication
13 14 (0.90%) Data Structures
13 14 (0.90%) Life Science
14 13 (0.84%) Cloud Native
14 13 (0.84%) Clustering
15 12 (0.78%) Driving Licence
15 12 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.43%) Windows
2 41 (2.65%) Windows Server
3 30 (1.94%) Linux
4 19 (1.23%) Unix
4 19 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.71%) Solaris
6 11 (0.71%) VMS
7 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.32%) zOS
10 4 (0.26%) OpenVMS
10 4 (0.26%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.26%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.13%) pSOS
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.065%) Android
13 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (34.45%) Agile
2 470 (30.38%) Project Management
3 457 (29.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 285 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
5 232 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 218 (14.09%) Migration
7 213 (13.77%) PRINCE2
8 210 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 185 (11.96%) Change Management
10 165 (10.67%) Waterfall
11 158 (10.21%) DevOps
12 139 (8.99%) Scrum
13 136 (8.79%) Decision-Making
14 123 (7.95%) Roadmaps
15 121 (7.82%) Risk Management
16 118 (7.63%) Business Analysis
17 116 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
18 115 (7.43%) ITIL
19 114 (7.37%) ERP
19 114 (7.37%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 76 (4.91%) Python
2 74 (4.78%) SQL
3 47 (3.04%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.49%) Java
5 22 (1.42%) Bash
6 12 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.58%) C#
7 9 (0.58%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.32%) Go
9 4 (0.26%) ABAP
9 4 (0.26%) C++
9 4 (0.26%) COBOL
9 4 (0.26%) Perl
10 3 (0.19%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
10 3 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.19%) JCL
10 3 (0.19%) REXX
10 3 (0.19%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 275 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 233 (15.06%) Degree
3 194 (12.54%) SC Cleared
4 140 (9.05%) PMP
5 127 (8.21%) PMI Certification
6 65 (4.20%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.59%) Master's Degree
8 35 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (2.13%) CCNP
11 29 (1.87%) APMP
12 23 (1.49%) CCNA
13 22 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.42%) CBAP
14 20 (1.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (1.03%) CISSP
16 14 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.84%) CISM
17 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
18 12 (0.78%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (9.11%) PMO
2 106 (6.85%) QA
3 35 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 35 (2.26%) GDPR
4 34 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.55%) NIST
6 16 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (0.97%) SLA
8 14 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.84%) PSD2
10 12 (0.78%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.65%) NCSC
12 8 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.52%) MiFID
12 8 (0.52%) P3O
13 6 (0.39%) ISO 8583
14 5 (0.32%) Basel III
14 5 (0.32%) GRC
15 4 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.23%) Docker
4 15 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.90%) vSphere
6 11 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) NFS
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas File System
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.065%) RACF
Systems Management
1 42 (2.71%) Ansible
2 31 (2.00%) Terraform
3 28 (1.81%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.36%) SCCM
5 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.45%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.39%) Grafana
9 5 (0.32%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
12 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.13%) Control-M
12 2 (0.13%) Nagios
12 2 (0.13%) QRadar
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 278 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 135 (8.73%) SAP
3 88 (5.69%) Oracle
4 76 (4.91%) Cisco
5 61 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.78%) VMware
7 41 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 29 (1.87%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.55%) Google
10 22 (1.42%) F5
11 21 (1.36%) Workday
12 18 (1.16%) Citrix
13 17 (1.10%) Aruba
14 16 (1.03%) CheckPoint
15 15 (0.97%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.97%) IBM
16 14 (0.90%) Red Hat
17 13 (0.84%) Ariba
18 12 (0.78%) Siemens
18 12 (0.78%) SolarWinds