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

 6 months to
12 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 61 54
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 -5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,194 1,297 1,406
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.02% 3.93% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 4.34% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,465 828 825
10th Percentile £325 £320 £363
25th Percentile £425 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £706 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 32 38
10th Percentile £23.53 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £35.53 £30.10 £25.41
Median hourly rate £53.00 £61.25 £35.90
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +70.61% -43.91%
75th Percentile £76.38 £71.68 £56.13
90th Percentile £87.83 £84.75 £65.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £57.26 £39.68
% change year-on-year -12.67% +44.29% -36.51%

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 46,152 29,871 33,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.49% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,085 18,553 20,430
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 3,056 1,793 1,507
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.78 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.58 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.32% -47.50% +7.50%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +2 1,855 £525 - 2,114
UK excluding London 0 1,168 £500 +1.63% 1,395
London +5 827 £550 -4.35% 912
Work from Home +7 631 £500 -2.44% 889
South East -3 312 £525 -2.33% 431
North of England +7 292 £485 +2.11% 291
North West +13 192 £498 +4.74% 143
Midlands -26 161 £475 +0.26% 245
Scotland +23 150 £450 - 85
South West -4 150 £525 +13.64% 174
West Midlands -20 123 £475 -8.61% 158
Yorkshire -20 77 £485 +0.78% 99
East of England +8 66 £500 -4.76% 117
East Midlands -29 34 £425 -0.47% 86
Wales -4 25 £400 +11.11% 39
North East -23 24 £350 - 51
Northern Ireland +2 17 £388 -18.42% 33
Channel Islands - 8 £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
1 120 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 112 (5.10%) Confluence
3 37 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.32%) Apache
5 6 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.27%) CMS
5 6 (0.27%) JBoss
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
7 4 (0.18%) NetWeaver
7 4 (0.18%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.18%) WordPress
8 3 (0.14%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
9 2 (0.091%) CICS
9 2 (0.091%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.046%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.046%) SAP EP
Applications
1 171 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.42%) Microsoft Project
3 106 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
4 99 (4.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.77%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.55%) Trello
8 11 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
9 9 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.41%) Navisworks
9 9 (0.41%) Revit
10 7 (0.32%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.091%) Houdini
12 2 (0.091%) NUKE
13 1 (0.046%) CATIA
13 1 (0.046%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 50 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.09%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.59%) Primavera
5 12 (0.55%) Maximo
6 10 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.36%) SAP SD
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.32%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.27%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.23%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 339 (15.45%) Azure
2 144 (6.56%) AWS
3 135 (6.15%) Power Platform
4 128 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (4.19%) SaaS
7 69 (3.14%) Entra ID
8 51 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
9 48 (2.19%) GCP
10 30 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.23%) OCI
12 24 (1.09%) GitHub
12 24 (1.09%) Google Workspace
12 24 (1.09%) PowerApps
12 24 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
13 22 (1.00%) Power Automate
14 19 (0.87%) IaaS
15 15 (0.68%) OneDrive
16 14 (0.64%) PaaS
17 13 (0.59%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 135 (6.15%) Firewall
2 89 (4.06%) DNS
3 83 (3.78%) WAN
4 80 (3.65%) Network Security
5 72 (3.28%) LAN
6 66 (3.01%) VPN
7 48 (2.19%) MPLS
8 46 (2.10%) BGP
8 46 (2.10%) DHCP
9 40 (1.82%) Wireless
10 38 (1.73%) VLAN
11 36 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (1.41%) OSPF
13 30 (1.37%) TCP/IP
14 24 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 21 (0.96%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.82%) SSL
17 14 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (0.64%) IPsec
17 14 (0.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (4.88%) Power BI
2 39 (1.78%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.73%) Metadata
5 12 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 12 (0.55%) Tableau
6 9 (0.41%) Big Data
6 9 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 8 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.36%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.27%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.27%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.23%) Power Query
11 4 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 232 (10.57%) JIRA
2 24 (1.09%) Git
3 14 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.46%) GitLab
5 7 (0.32%) MSI
5 7 (0.32%) Selenium
6 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.23%) Subversion
7 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.14%) Appium
8 3 (0.14%) Hudson
9 2 (0.091%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.091%) TestNG
10 1 (0.046%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.046%) Gatling
10 1 (0.046%) MLflow
10 1 (0.046%) Postman
10 1 (0.046%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.046%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 917 (41.80%) Social Skills
2 657 (29.95%) Finance
3 295 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 166 (7.57%) Organisational Skills
6 133 (6.06%) Banking
7 103 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
8 94 (4.28%) Retail
8 94 (4.28%) Telecoms
9 89 (4.06%) Legal
10 74 (3.37%) Manufacturing
11 73 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (2.01%) Military
14 42 (1.91%) Local Government
15 33 (1.50%) Front Office
16 31 (1.41%) Law
16 31 (1.41%) Marketing
17 23 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 23 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 503 (22.93%) Project Manager
2 258 (11.76%) Analyst
3 229 (10.44%) Senior
4 203 (9.25%) Lead
5 149 (6.79%) Architect
5 149 (6.79%) Business Analyst
6 133 (6.06%) Consultant
7 102 (4.65%) Senior Manager
8 95 (4.33%) Network Engineer
9 89 (4.06%) Delivery Manager
10 85 (3.87%) Senior Project Manager
11 83 (3.78%) IT Manager
12 64 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 60 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
14 56 (2.55%) IT Project Manager
15 54 (2.46%) Developer
16 45 (2.05%) Technical Manager
17 38 (1.73%) Transformation Manager
18 37 (1.69%) Coordinator
19 36 (1.64%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.05%) Terraform
2 41 (1.87%) REST
3 35 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 23 (1.05%) Middleware
5 16 (0.73%) .NET
6 14 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
7 13 (0.59%) SOAP
7 13 (0.59%) XML
8 11 (0.50%) 802.1X
8 11 (0.50%) OAuth
8 11 (0.50%) React
8 11 (0.50%) Web Services
9 10 (0.46%) ADO
9 10 (0.46%) JSON
9 10 (0.46%) LDAP
10 8 (0.36%) SailPoint
11 7 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.32%) Kafka
11 7 (0.32%) OpenID
11 7 (0.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 108 (4.92%) Management Information System
1 108 (4.92%) Onboarding
2 101 (4.60%) Product Ownership
3 89 (4.06%) Data Centre
4 47 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 45 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
7 37 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 35 (1.60%) Cloud Native
8 35 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (1.55%) Driving Licence
10 33 (1.50%) Operational Technology
11 31 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.32%) PKI
13 25 (1.14%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.00%) Derivative
15 20 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 20 (0.91%) Replication
16 19 (0.87%) Clustering
17 17 (0.77%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.70%) Windows
2 77 (3.51%) Linux
3 70 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.32%) Unix
5 14 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.50%) Solaris
7 10 (0.46%) AIX
8 6 (0.27%) Android
8 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.18%) zOS
11 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.091%) CentOS
12 2 (0.091%) Debian
12 2 (0.091%) VMS
12 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 924 (42.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 695 (31.68%) Agile
3 596 (27.16%) Project Management
4 412 (18.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 408 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 356 (16.23%) Migration
7 350 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
8 323 (14.72%) Change Management
9 280 (12.76%) PRINCE2
10 248 (11.30%) Decision-Making
11 239 (10.89%) Waterfall
12 210 (9.57%) Risk Management
13 195 (8.89%) ITIL
14 185 (8.43%) Workshop Facilitation
15 184 (8.39%) Roadmaps
16 182 (8.30%) AI
17 180 (8.20%) DevOps
18 174 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
19 167 (7.61%) Project Governance
20 164 (7.47%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 106 (4.83%) SQL
2 98 (4.47%) Python
3 74 (3.37%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.14%) Java
5 24 (1.09%) Bash
6 18 (0.82%) C#
7 17 (0.77%) VBA
8 15 (0.68%) JavaScript
9 11 (0.50%) ABAP
10 8 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.32%) Korn
11 7 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
13 4 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.14%) Bicep
14 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 486 (22.15%) Security Cleared
2 354 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 203 (9.25%) Degree
4 162 (7.38%) PMP
5 144 (6.56%) PMI Certification
6 122 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 74 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (2.14%) CCNP
10 39 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.73%) CCNA
12 36 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 34 (1.55%) Azure Certification
14 30 (1.37%) CISSP
15 18 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.82%) MCSE
15 18 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (0.68%) CISM
18 14 (0.64%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (11.53%) PMO
2 99 (4.51%) QA
3 59 (2.69%) NIST
4 54 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (2.42%) Data Quality
5 53 (2.42%) GDPR
6 30 (1.37%) SLA
7 23 (1.05%) GRC
8 18 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.64%) ISO 19650
10 10 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.46%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.41%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.36%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.36%) NCSC
12 8 (0.36%) P3O
13 7 (0.32%) GxP
14 6 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 112 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 78 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 24 (1.09%) vSphere
5 23 (1.05%) Docker
6 19 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.59%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.50%) Firmware
9 11 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.18%) Squid
11 3 (0.14%) Ceph
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.046%) oVirt
13 1 (0.046%) RACF
13 1 (0.046%) RHEV
13 1 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (2.42%) Ansible
2 35 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.00%) FortiGate
4 22 (1.00%) SCCM
5 16 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.68%) vCenter Server
7 13 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.41%) SCOM
9 8 (0.36%) Nagios
9 8 (0.36%) Puppet
10 7 (0.32%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.32%) WMI
10 7 (0.32%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.23%) Netcool
12 5 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 492 (22.42%) Microsoft
2 154 (7.02%) Cisco
3 151 (6.88%) SAP
4 129 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 103 (4.69%) Oracle
6 102 (4.65%) VMware
7 53 (2.42%) Palo Alto
8 50 (2.28%) Fortinet
9 49 (2.23%) Salesforce
10 44 (2.01%) F5
11 38 (1.73%) Google
12 31 (1.41%) Workday
13 30 (1.37%) SolarWinds
14 29 (1.32%) Juniper
15 25 (1.14%) IBM
16 23 (1.05%) Databricks
16 23 (1.05%) Splunk
17 22 (1.00%) Siemens
18 21 (0.96%) Ariba
18 21 (0.96%) Zscaler
2,465 Project Delivery jobs Nationwide