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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 54 48
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,739 1,158 1,715
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 3.92% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.32% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 698 1,132
10th Percentile £325 £324 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% -3.37% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 22 33
10th Percentile £15.94 £21.39 £20.98
25th Percentile £19.10 £27.95 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £51.25 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +43.76% -45.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.06 £40.94
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.27 £62.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -30.06% +58.77% -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 39,369 26,799 37,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.74% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,829 17,326 24,410
10th Percentile £318 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,054 2,423
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.25 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £28.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -19.49% -6.17%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 0 1,547 £510 -2.86% 695
UK excluding London 0 947 £481 -3.75% 615
London -1 656 £550 - 183
Work from Home +7 501 £530 +0.95% 297
North of England +20 275 £475 - 129
South East +7 228 £525 -4.55% 215
North West +27 185 £475 - 70
Midlands -12 182 £475 -5.00% 101
South West +8 132 £475 - 76
West Midlands -15 123 £481 -7.46% 67
Yorkshire -11 76 £500 -2.44% 40
Scotland -25 69 £500 +5.82% 28
East Midlands -12 58 £418 -6.60% 34
East of England -6 46 £525 +1.16% 54
Wales +2 18 £413 +26.92% 13
North East -9 16 £350 -15.15% 20
Northern Ireland -2 8 £370 -37.68% 12

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
1 108 (6.21%) Confluence
2 86 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.29%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) CICS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.17%) Camunda
6 3 (0.17%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.12%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.12%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.058%) Apache
8 1 (0.058%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.058%) IIS
8 1 (0.058%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 153 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (6.73%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (5.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.92%) Siemens NX
6 11 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.58%) Trello
8 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.058%) Revit
9 1 (0.058%) SPSS
9 1 (0.058%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.15%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.69%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.52%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.40%) Endur
7 7 (0.40%) Primavera
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.35%) SAP PSCD
9 5 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.29%) Summit
10 4 (0.23%) ProductWriter
10 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP EWM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP MM
11 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.17%) Shopify
11 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 185 (10.64%) Azure
2 97 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
3 84 (4.83%) Power Platform
4 80 (4.60%) AWS
5 63 (3.62%) SaaS
6 42 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 29 (1.67%) Entra ID
9 28 (1.61%) GCP
10 21 (1.21%) Google Workspace
11 20 (1.15%) GitHub
12 17 (0.98%) IaaS
13 14 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (0.75%) OpenShift
15 12 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (0.69%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.69%) PowerApps
15 12 (0.69%) Serverless
16 11 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.12%) Firewall
2 51 (2.93%) DNS
3 38 (2.19%) Network Security
3 38 (2.19%) WAN
4 30 (1.73%) LAN
5 25 (1.44%) BGP
5 25 (1.44%) OSPF
6 21 (1.21%) VLAN
7 19 (1.09%) VPN
8 18 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 18 (1.04%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.98%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.86%) MPLS
10 15 (0.86%) NetScaler
11 13 (0.75%) DHCP
11 13 (0.75%) Wireless
12 12 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
12 12 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.63%) SSL
14 10 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.97%) Power BI
2 30 (1.73%) Tableau
3 29 (1.67%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.63%) Metadata
8 8 (0.46%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.29%) Big Data
10 5 (0.29%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.29%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.29%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.23%) GIS
11 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 206 (11.85%) JIRA
2 18 (1.04%) Git
3 16 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.58%) GitLab
5 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.35%) Selenium
7 4 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.17%) Appium
8 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.17%) JMeter
8 3 (0.17%) MSTest
8 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.12%) TestComplete
9 2 (0.12%) TestRail
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.058%) Hudson
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.058%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.058%) Robot Framework
General
1 701 (40.31%) Social Skills
2 576 (33.12%) Finance
3 256 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 134 (7.71%) Banking
6 129 (7.42%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (4.20%) Retail
8 70 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
9 66 (3.80%) Legal
10 62 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
11 53 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
12 47 (2.70%) Manufacturing
13 46 (2.65%) Telecoms
14 36 (2.07%) Marketing
15 25 (1.44%) Local Government
15 25 (1.44%) Military
16 21 (1.21%) Investment Banking
17 17 (0.98%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.81%) Front Office
18 14 (0.81%) Law
Job Titles
1 487 (28.00%) Project Manager
2 200 (11.50%) Analyst
3 186 (10.70%) Lead
4 171 (9.83%) Senior
5 135 (7.76%) Business Analyst
6 86 (4.95%) Senior Manager
7 81 (4.66%) Architect
8 80 (4.60%) Consultant
9 75 (4.31%) IT Manager
10 72 (4.14%) Delivery Manager
11 67 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
12 53 (3.05%) IT Project Manager
13 47 (2.70%) Technical Manager
14 46 (2.65%) Network Engineer
15 44 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.36%) Programme Manager
17 35 (2.01%) Project Officer
18 34 (1.96%) SAP Manager
18 34 (1.96%) SC Cleared Project Manager
19 33 (1.90%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.01%) Middleware
2 24 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (1.09%) REST
4 14 (0.81%) XML
5 9 (0.52%) ADO
5 9 (0.52%) Web Services
6 8 (0.46%) .NET
6 8 (0.46%) OAuth
7 7 (0.40%) CSS
7 7 (0.40%) JSON
7 7 (0.40%) React
7 7 (0.40%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.35%) Spring
9 5 (0.29%) HTML
10 4 (0.23%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.23%) IDoc
10 4 (0.23%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.23%) SOAP
10 4 (0.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.77%) Management Information System
2 78 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 68 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 61 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 40 (2.30%) Virtual Team
6 33 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 29 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (1.61%) PMI
9 25 (1.44%) Clustering
9 25 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 25 (1.44%) Replication
10 23 (1.32%) NHS
11 21 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.04%) Cloud Native
13 15 (0.86%) Derivative
14 14 (0.81%) Driving Licence
15 13 (0.75%) Mainframe
16 12 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (0.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 93 (5.35%) Windows
2 49 (2.82%) Windows Server
3 31 (1.78%) Linux
4 23 (1.32%) Unix
5 14 (0.81%) Solaris
6 12 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.58%) VMS
8 9 (0.52%) zOS
9 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.29%) AIX
13 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.23%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.12%) Android
14 2 (0.12%) pSOS
15 1 (0.058%) CentOS
15 1 (0.058%) Debian
15 1 (0.058%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (32.43%) Agile
2 548 (31.51%) Project Management
3 508 (29.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 292 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
5 269 (15.47%) Migration
6 262 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 257 (14.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 244 (14.03%) PRINCE2
9 221 (12.71%) Change Management
10 174 (10.01%) Waterfall
11 172 (9.89%) Decision-Making
12 166 (9.55%) DevOps
13 154 (8.86%) Risk Management
14 139 (7.99%) Scrum
15 135 (7.76%) Roadmaps
16 126 (7.25%) ITIL
16 126 (7.25%) Workshop Facilitation
17 119 (6.84%) Budget Management
18 116 (6.67%) Business Analysis
18 116 (6.67%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 91 (5.23%) SQL
2 67 (3.85%) Python
3 46 (2.65%) PowerShell
4 20 (1.15%) Java
5 16 (0.92%) JavaScript
6 12 (0.69%) Bash
6 12 (0.69%) C#
7 8 (0.46%) Go
8 7 (0.40%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.40%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.29%) Bicep
10 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.23%) ABAP
11 4 (0.23%) COBOL
11 4 (0.23%) REXX
11 4 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (0.23%) VBA
12 3 (0.17%) HLASM
Qualifications
1 374 (21.51%) Security Cleared
2 276 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 223 (12.82%) Degree
4 169 (9.72%) PMP
5 140 (8.05%) PMI Certification
6 83 (4.77%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.07%) APMP
8 35 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (1.78%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 30 (1.73%) CCNP
12 29 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (1.61%) CCNA
14 27 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 17 (0.98%) CISSP
16 15 (0.86%) CISM
17 14 (0.81%) MCSE
18 13 (0.75%) CBAP
18 13 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (10.98%) PMO
2 121 (6.96%) QA
3 45 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (2.53%) GDPR
5 38 (2.19%) NIST
6 36 (2.07%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.21%) SLA
8 13 (0.75%) GRC
9 10 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.40%) P3O
12 6 (0.35%) Basel III
12 6 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.35%) HL7
12 6 (0.35%) PSD2
13 5 (0.29%) ISO 19650
13 5 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 60 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.09%) Docker
4 18 (1.04%) vSphere
5 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.75%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.29%) Firmware
9 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.12%) Squid
10 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.058%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.058%) Ceph
11 1 (0.058%) RACF
11 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 39 (2.24%) Ansible
2 32 (1.84%) Terraform
3 27 (1.55%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.98%) SCCM
6 13 (0.75%) vCenter Server
7 10 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.52%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.40%) Nagios
10 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.29%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.17%) Netcool
11 3 (0.17%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.17%) Puppet
11 3 (0.17%) SCOM
12 2 (0.12%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.12%) Control-M
12 2 (0.12%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 305 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 138 (7.94%) SAP
3 85 (4.89%) Oracle
4 79 (4.54%) ServiceNow
5 62 (3.57%) Cisco
6 44 (2.53%) VMware
7 39 (2.24%) Google
8 35 (2.01%) Palo Alto
8 35 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.38%) F5
10 20 (1.15%) Atlassian
11 19 (1.09%) CheckPoint
11 19 (1.09%) Citrix
12 17 (0.98%) IBM
13 16 (0.92%) Siemens
13 16 (0.92%) Workday
14 14 (0.81%) Aruba
14 14 (0.81%) NEC
15 13 (0.75%) CyberArk
15 13 (0.75%) SolarWinds