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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 61 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,022 1,266 1,506
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.82% 3.87% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 4.28% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,360 808 940
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £418 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £629
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.37% -6.29% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 20 44
10th Percentile £22.20 £26.48 £22.50
25th Percentile £34.87 £44.69 £26.92
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +40.45% -36.03%
75th Percentile £82.25 £76.56 £55.90
90th Percentile £92.50 £82.75 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £65.08 £40.94
% change year-on-year -4.73% +58.96% -34.50%

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 45,072 29,587 34,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.43% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,942 18,578 22,301
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,596 2,086
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.31
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.80 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +83.17% -40.00% -1.45%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +8 1,756 £514 -2.10% 1,054
UK excluding London +4 1,116 £499 +1.37% 796
London +3 748 £541 -5.88% 395
Work from Home +2 592 £500 -2.91% 486
South East +6 298 £525 -1.64% 243
North of England +5 273 £485 +2.11% 224
North West +6 180 £485 +3.47% 121
Midlands -20 168 £475 -3.46% 126
South West +7 167 £475 -1.04% 99
West Midlands -16 134 £481 -7.46% 74
Scotland +5 115 £450 -4.76% 39
Yorkshire -29 74 £500 -2.44% 66
East of England +13 66 £500 +21.21% 57
East Midlands -21 32 £413 -3.85% 52
Wales 0 25 £500 +73.91% 18
North East -26 21 £350 -3.45% 38
Northern Ireland +4 14 £334 -36.38% 11
Channel Islands - 1 £550 -

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 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 109 (5.39%) Confluence
3 38 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.30%) Apache
4 6 (0.30%) CMS
4 6 (0.30%) SAS
5 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
5 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.15%) Appian
6 3 (0.15%) CICS
6 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.15%) Kentico
6 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.15%) WordPress
7 2 (0.099%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.099%) Camunda
7 2 (0.099%) JBoss
7 2 (0.099%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 160 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (5.79%) Microsoft Project
3 94 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 94 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.78%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.84%) Siemens NX
6 14 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.35%) Trello
8 4 (0.20%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.20%) Revit
9 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.099%) Houdini
10 2 (0.099%) NUKE
11 1 (0.049%) CATIA
11 1 (0.049%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 47 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.14%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.59%) Primavera
5 10 (0.49%) Maximo
6 8 (0.40%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.30%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 6 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
7 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.25%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.25%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 278 (13.75%) Azure
2 128 (6.33%) AWS
3 112 (5.54%) Power Platform
4 102 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
5 81 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (3.61%) SaaS
7 61 (3.02%) Entra ID
8 44 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
9 38 (1.88%) GCP
10 28 (1.38%) GitHub
11 26 (1.29%) Google Workspace
12 25 (1.24%) IaaS
12 25 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
13 22 (1.09%) PowerApps
14 20 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
15 19 (0.94%) OCI
15 19 (0.94%) Power Automate
16 17 (0.84%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.74%) Amazon S3
17 15 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 127 (6.28%) Firewall
2 89 (4.40%) DNS
3 74 (3.66%) WAN
4 66 (3.26%) LAN
5 61 (3.02%) Network Security
6 59 (2.92%) VPN
7 48 (2.37%) MPLS
8 44 (2.18%) BGP
9 38 (1.88%) DHCP
10 34 (1.68%) TCP/IP
10 34 (1.68%) VLAN
10 34 (1.68%) Wireless
11 33 (1.63%) OSPF
12 32 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (1.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 25 (1.24%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.79%) IPsec
15 16 (0.79%) SSL
16 15 (0.74%) BIG-IP
16 15 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.25%) Power BI
2 46 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (0.69%) Tableau
5 12 (0.59%) Metadata
6 10 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.40%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.35%) Big Data
9 7 (0.35%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 213 (10.53%) JIRA
2 30 (1.48%) Git
3 15 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.64%) GitLab
5 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.40%) Selenium
6 5 (0.25%) Subversion
7 4 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.15%) JMeter
8 3 (0.15%) MSTest
8 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.099%) Appium
9 2 (0.099%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.099%) Hudson
9 2 (0.099%) MSI
9 2 (0.099%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.049%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.049%) Gatling
10 1 (0.049%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.049%) SpecFlow
General
1 824 (40.75%) Social Skills
2 641 (31.70%) Finance
3 267 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 148 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
6 106 (5.24%) Banking
7 104 (5.14%) Retail
8 92 (4.55%) Legal
9 91 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
10 78 (3.86%) Telecoms
11 59 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (2.72%) Manufacturing
14 40 (1.98%) Local Government
15 34 (1.68%) Marketing
16 31 (1.53%) Military
17 23 (1.14%) Investment Banking
18 22 (1.09%) Law
19 20 (0.99%) Financial Institution
19 20 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 486 (24.04%) Project Manager
2 231 (11.42%) Analyst
3 214 (10.58%) Senior
4 198 (9.79%) Lead
5 117 (5.79%) Business Analyst
6 115 (5.69%) Architect
7 101 (5.00%) Senior Manager
8 100 (4.95%) Consultant
9 88 (4.35%) Network Engineer
10 85 (4.20%) IT Manager
11 84 (4.15%) Delivery Manager
11 84 (4.15%) Senior Project Manager
12 58 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 58 (2.87%) IT Project Manager
13 56 (2.77%) Developer
14 45 (2.23%) Technical Manager
15 41 (2.03%) Project Officer
15 41 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (1.98%) Infrastructure Manager
17 36 (1.78%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.68%) REST
2 33 (1.63%) Middleware
3 22 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.79%) .NET
5 14 (0.69%) XML
6 13 (0.64%) 802.1X
6 13 (0.64%) JSON
7 12 (0.59%) SAP Fiori
7 12 (0.59%) Web Services
8 11 (0.54%) OAuth
9 10 (0.49%) ADO
10 9 (0.45%) React
11 8 (0.40%) RESTful
11 8 (0.40%) SAP Basis
11 8 (0.40%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.35%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.35%) PySpark
12 7 (0.35%) SOAP
12 7 (0.35%) Spring
13 6 (0.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 105 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 99 (4.90%) Onboarding
3 83 (4.10%) Data Centre
4 79 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 40 (1.98%) Virtual Team
6 36 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.58%) Operational Technology
9 30 (1.48%) Cloud Native
9 30 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 29 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
11 28 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.19%) Clustering
12 24 (1.19%) Driving Licence
12 24 (1.19%) PKI
12 24 (1.19%) Replication
13 20 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 20 (0.99%) PMI
14 19 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 119 (5.89%) Windows
2 56 (2.77%) Windows Server
3 55 (2.72%) Linux
4 26 (1.29%) Unix
5 10 (0.49%) AIX
6 9 (0.45%) Solaris
7 8 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.35%) zOS
9 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.099%) Android
12 2 (0.099%) Debian
12 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.049%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.049%) CentOS
13 1 (0.049%) pSOS
13 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (35.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 622 (30.76%) Agile
3 543 (26.85%) Project Management
4 346 (17.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 340 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 323 (15.97%) Migration
7 314 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
8 299 (14.79%) Change Management
9 260 (12.86%) PRINCE2
10 228 (11.28%) Decision-Making
11 215 (10.63%) Waterfall
12 178 (8.80%) ITIL
12 178 (8.80%) Roadmaps
13 175 (8.65%) AI
14 171 (8.46%) Risk Management
15 167 (8.26%) DevOps
16 140 (6.92%) Scrum
17 137 (6.78%) ERP
18 134 (6.63%) User Acceptance Testing
18 134 (6.63%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 112 (5.54%) SQL
2 96 (4.75%) Python
3 63 (3.12%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.09%) Java
5 20 (0.99%) C#
6 19 (0.94%) Bash
7 18 (0.89%) JavaScript
8 14 (0.69%) VBA
9 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.40%) ABAP
10 8 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.35%) Bicep
12 6 (0.30%) Go
12 6 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.30%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.25%) C++
13 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 439 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 319 (15.78%) SC Cleared
3 204 (10.09%) Degree
4 166 (8.21%) PMP
5 139 (6.87%) PMI Certification
6 113 (5.59%) DV Cleared
7 68 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.18%) CCNP
9 43 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 42 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (1.93%) CCNA
12 32 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 27 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 27 (1.34%) CISSP
14 20 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.84%) MCSE
15 17 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (0.74%) CISM
17 13 (0.64%) CCIE
17 13 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (11.37%) PMO
2 97 (4.80%) QA
3 53 (2.62%) NIST
4 51 (2.52%) GDPR
5 49 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.13%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.73%) SLA
8 19 (0.94%) GRC
9 10 (0.49%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.49%) NCSC
9 10 (0.49%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.35%) HL7
12 6 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.30%) IFRS
12 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.25%) GxP
13 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 98 (4.85%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.14%) Docker
4 19 (0.94%) vSphere
5 18 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.59%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.54%) Firmware
8 11 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.15%) Squid
12 2 (0.099%) Ceph
12 2 (0.099%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.049%) ACF2
13 1 (0.049%) KVM
13 1 (0.049%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (2.52%) Terraform
2 49 (2.42%) Ansible
3 30 (1.48%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.14%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.89%) SCCM
7 14 (0.69%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.40%) Nagios
10 7 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.35%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.30%) SCOM
12 5 (0.25%) Netcool
12 5 (0.25%) Puppet
12 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.20%) Grafana
13 4 (0.20%) Nessus
13 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 402 (19.88%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.73%) SAP
3 122 (6.03%) Cisco
4 116 (5.74%) ServiceNow
5 87 (4.30%) Oracle
6 76 (3.76%) VMware
7 51 (2.52%) Palo Alto
8 48 (2.37%) F5
9 44 (2.18%) Fortinet
10 40 (1.98%) Google
11 37 (1.83%) Salesforce
12 30 (1.48%) SolarWinds
13 28 (1.38%) Juniper
14 25 (1.24%) IBM
15 23 (1.14%) Workday
16 22 (1.09%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.94%) NEC
18 18 (0.89%) Siemens
18 18 (0.89%) Splunk
19 17 (0.84%) Infoblox