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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,497 1,228 1,756
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.08% 3.84% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 4.34% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 686 1,165
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £722 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.20% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 33 30
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.65 £21.22
25th Percentile £17.25 £22.66 £36.06
Median hourly rate £40.78 £32.50 £58.66
Median % change year-on-year +25.48% -44.60% -0.58%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.00 £77.88
90th Percentile £69.74 £67.00 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.44 £32.50 £58.66
% change year-on-year +24.42% -44.60% -9.75%

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 32,247 28,287 37,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.87% 88.55% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,360 17,181 24,724
10th Percentile £304 £308 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,986 908 1,544
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.92
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +22.16%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £74.79 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.86% -33.10% +65.14%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 9 January 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 1,306 £517 -4.25% 936
UK excluding London -8 764 £488 -7.14% 883
London +12 609 £550 - 182
Work from Home -2 439 £525 -3.67% 359
North of England +4 206 £477 -6.01% 184
South East +2 205 £538 -4.66% 283
Midlands -2 152 £455 -12.29% 135
North West +5 128 £475 -4.52% 94
West Midlands -21 79 £513 -10.56% 64
East Midlands +13 74 £439 -6.52% 71
Scotland -18 73 £475 - 32
South West -10 71 £504 -4.05% 114
Yorkshire -9 67 £500 -12.74% 68
East of England -10 36 £538 +10.26% 109
Wales +8 20 £322 -39.44% 32
Northern Ireland -2 15 £450 -18.18% 13
North East -9 12 £290 -49.34% 24

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
1 113 (7.55%) Confluence
2 62 (4.14%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.27%) CMS
5 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.20%) CICS
5 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.13%) Appian
6 2 (0.13%) MS Project Server
6 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.067%) Apache
7 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.067%) Camunda
7 1 (0.067%) IIS
7 1 (0.067%) Moodle
7 1 (0.067%) Smallworld
Applications
1 137 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
3 94 (6.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 94 (6.28%) Microsoft Project
4 36 (2.40%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.00%) Trello
6 13 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.33%) Siemens NX
9 3 (0.20%) 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 (0.067%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.067%) Revit
11 1 (0.067%) Sketch
11 1 (0.067%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.73%) Endur
3 11 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.67%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.60%) Dynamics GP
5 9 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 8 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
6 8 (0.53%) SAP MM
6 8 (0.53%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.47%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.47%) SAP IBP
8 6 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.40%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
9 5 (0.33%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.27%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 188 (12.56%) Azure
2 73 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (4.28%) Power Platform
4 54 (3.61%) AWS
4 54 (3.61%) SaaS
5 44 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
6 31 (2.07%) GCP
7 25 (1.67%) GitHub
8 21 (1.40%) Entra ID
9 20 (1.34%) OCI
10 13 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (0.87%) IaaS
11 12 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
12 11 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (0.67%) OpenShift
14 8 (0.53%) PaaS
14 8 (0.53%) PowerApps
15 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (0.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 70 (4.68%) Firewall
2 39 (2.61%) WAN
3 33 (2.20%) DNS
3 33 (2.20%) LAN
4 24 (1.60%) Network Security
5 20 (1.34%) BGP
5 20 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.20%) SD-WAN
7 17 (1.14%) MPLS
7 17 (1.14%) OSPF
8 16 (1.07%) VPN
9 14 (0.94%) Wireless
10 13 (0.87%) NetScaler
11 12 (0.80%) VLAN
12 11 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (0.73%) DHCP
12 11 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
13 9 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (0.60%) IPsec
13 9 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.54%) Power BI
2 26 (1.74%) Tableau
3 19 (1.27%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.53%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.47%) Metadata
8 7 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.27%) GIS
9 4 (0.27%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.20%) Big Data
10 3 (0.20%) DB2
10 3 (0.20%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.20%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 193 (12.89%) JIRA
2 22 (1.47%) Git
3 15 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.47%) GitLab
4 7 (0.47%) Subversion
5 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
5 5 (0.33%) Selenium
6 4 (0.27%) Fiddler
6 4 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.13%) Appium
8 2 (0.13%) JMeter
8 2 (0.13%) MSTest
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.067%) Dreamweaver
9 1 (0.067%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.067%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.067%) Oracle Forms
General
1 645 (43.09%) Social Skills
2 449 (29.99%) Finance
3 192 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 129 (8.62%) Banking
6 81 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 65 (4.34%) Influencing Skills
8 50 (3.34%) Manufacturing
9 45 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
9 45 (3.01%) Retail
10 41 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
10 41 (2.74%) Legal
11 38 (2.54%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.80%) Front Office
12 27 (1.80%) Marketing
13 18 (1.20%) Law
13 18 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (1.14%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.07%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 410 (27.39%) Project Manager
2 194 (12.96%) Analyst
3 160 (10.69%) Lead
4 138 (9.22%) Business Analyst
5 124 (8.28%) Senior
6 102 (6.81%) Architect
7 86 (5.74%) Consultant
8 56 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
8 56 (3.74%) IT Manager
9 55 (3.67%) Senior Manager
10 46 (3.07%) Senior Project Manager
10 46 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
11 44 (2.94%) Technical Manager
12 42 (2.81%) IT Project Manager
12 42 (2.81%) Programme Manager
13 36 (2.40%) Network Engineer
14 35 (2.34%) SAP Manager
15 29 (1.94%) Technical Project Manager
16 27 (1.80%) Service Architect
17 26 (1.74%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.40%) REST
3 17 (1.14%) Middleware
4 11 (0.73%) XML
5 10 (0.67%) React
5 10 (0.67%) Web Services
6 9 (0.60%) SOAP
7 8 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (0.47%) .NET
9 6 (0.40%) ADO
9 6 (0.40%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.40%) HTML
10 5 (0.33%) Node.js
10 5 (0.33%) RESTful
10 5 (0.33%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.33%) YAML
10 5 (0.33%) ZK
11 4 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.27%) Ultra Messaging
11 4 (0.27%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.48%) Product Ownership
2 75 (5.01%) Onboarding
3 54 (3.61%) Data Centre
4 41 (2.74%) PMI
5 40 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 28 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (1.40%) NHS
11 18 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.87%) Algorithms
13 13 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (0.87%) Life Science
13 13 (0.87%) Replication
14 12 (0.80%) CMDB
14 12 (0.80%) Driving Licence
14 12 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 85 (5.68%) Windows
2 38 (2.54%) Windows Server
3 33 (2.20%) Linux
4 18 (1.20%) Unix
4 18 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.73%) Solaris
7 10 (0.67%) VMS
8 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.33%) OpenVMS
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.20%) zOS
12 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.13%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.067%) Android
13 1 (0.067%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (34.20%) Agile
2 469 (31.33%) Project Management
3 459 (30.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 272 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
5 229 (15.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 220 (14.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 215 (14.36%) Migration
8 200 (13.36%) PRINCE2
9 199 (13.29%) Change Management
10 164 (10.96%) Waterfall
11 152 (10.15%) DevOps
12 140 (9.35%) ITIL
13 137 (9.15%) Scrum
14 131 (8.75%) Risk Management
15 130 (8.68%) Roadmaps
16 126 (8.42%) Decision-Making
17 125 (8.35%) Project Governance
18 119 (7.95%) ERP
19 108 (7.21%) Workshop Facilitation
20 97 (6.48%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (4.94%) SQL
2 72 (4.81%) Python
3 41 (2.74%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.47%) Bash
4 22 (1.47%) Java
5 10 (0.67%) PL/SQL
6 8 (0.53%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.40%) C#
7 6 (0.40%) Perl
8 5 (0.33%) ABAP
9 4 (0.27%) C++
10 3 (0.20%) Assembly Language
10 3 (0.20%) COBOL
10 3 (0.20%) HLASM
10 3 (0.20%) JCL
10 3 (0.20%) REXX
11 2 (0.13%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.13%) PHP
11 2 (0.13%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 264 (17.64%) Security Cleared
2 221 (14.76%) Degree
3 194 (12.96%) SC Cleared
4 125 (8.35%) PMI Certification
5 119 (7.95%) PMP
6 48 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.74%) Master's Degree
8 36 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (1.94%) CCNP
11 27 (1.80%) APMP
12 23 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.34%) CCNA
14 17 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (1.07%) CBAP
16 14 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.87%) CISSP
18 11 (0.73%) SAP Certification
19 10 (0.67%) CISM
20 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (9.08%) PMO
2 82 (5.48%) QA
3 36 (2.40%) GDPR
3 36 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.74%) NIST
6 24 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 18 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (1.00%) SLA
10 11 (0.73%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.73%) NCSC
11 10 (0.67%) PSD2
12 9 (0.60%) MiFID
13 7 (0.47%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.47%) P3O
14 6 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.40%) EMIR
14 6 (0.40%) ISO 8583
15 5 (0.33%) GMP
System Software
1 44 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.94%) Docker
3 14 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.60%) vSphere
8 4 (0.27%) Firmware
8 4 (0.27%) NFS
8 4 (0.27%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.27%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.067%) RACF
Systems Management
1 40 (2.67%) Ansible
2 28 (1.87%) Terraform
3 25 (1.67%) Kubernetes
4 18 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.20%) SCCM
5 10 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.40%) Grafana
7 6 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.33%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.27%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.27%) QRadar
9 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.20%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (0.13%) CEMLI
11 2 (0.13%) Control-M
11 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 259 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 138 (9.22%) SAP
3 94 (6.28%) Oracle
4 72 (4.81%) Cisco
5 55 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 42 (2.81%) VMware
8 27 (1.80%) Workday
9 24 (1.60%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.47%) Google
11 19 (1.27%) Citrix
12 16 (1.07%) Aruba
12 16 (1.07%) Atlassian
12 16 (1.07%) IBM
12 16 (1.07%) Red Hat
13 14 (0.94%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.80%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.80%) F5
15 11 (0.73%) Ariba
15 11 (0.73%) CyberArk