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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 61 53
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 2,204 1,304 1,402
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.04% 3.95% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 4.37% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,472 835 820
10th Percentile £325 £320 £363
25th Percentile £425 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £706 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £510
% change year-on-year +1.63% -3.53% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 31 38
10th Percentile £23.14 £15.91 £21.25
25th Percentile £35.37 £30.56 £25.41
Median hourly rate £52.75 £62.50 £35.90
Median % change year-on-year -15.60% +74.09% -43.91%
75th Percentile £76.19 £73.21 £56.13
90th Percentile £87.83 £85.00 £65.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £39.68
% change year-on-year -16.67% +51.21% -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 46,202 29,871 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.47% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,118 18,549 20,447
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 3,059 1,786 1,512
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.71
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.30 £20.09
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.76% -47.37% +8.72%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +7 1,862 £525 - 2,057
UK excluding London +1 1,174 £500 +1.63% 1,377
London +4 830 £550 -4.35% 880
Work from Home +10 634 £500 -1.48% 871
South East -2 314 £525 -2.33% 434
North of England +6 294 £485 +2.11% 280
North West +10 194 £500 +5.26% 133
Midlands -28 161 £475 +4.11% 243
Scotland +25 150 £444 -1.39% 88
South West -7 150 £525 +13.64% 165
West Midlands -19 123 £475 -8.61% 160
Yorkshire -17 77 £485 +0.78% 97
East of England -6 66 £500 -5.21% 120
East Midlands -25 34 £425 -0.47% 82
Wales -2 27 £438 +21.53% 38
North East -24 24 £350 - 52
Northern Ireland +1 17 £388 -18.42% 30
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
1 121 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 113 (5.13%) Confluence
3 37 (1.68%) 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 (0.045%) IIS
10 1 (0.045%) MTS
Applications
1 171 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.40%) Microsoft Project
3 106 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
4 99 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.77%) Siemens NX
7 12 (0.54%) 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 (0.045%) CATIA
13 1 (0.045%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.045%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 50 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.09%) Teamcenter
3 23 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.59%) Primavera
5 12 (0.54%) Maximo
6 10 (0.45%) 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%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 342 (15.52%) Azure
2 145 (6.58%) AWS
3 135 (6.13%) Power Platform
4 128 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
5 99 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 91 (4.13%) SaaS
7 70 (3.18%) Entra ID
8 51 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
9 49 (2.22%) GCP
10 29 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.23%) GitHub
11 27 (1.23%) OCI
12 25 (1.13%) PowerApps
13 24 (1.09%) Google Workspace
13 24 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
14 22 (1.00%) Power Automate
15 20 (0.91%) IaaS
16 16 (0.73%) OneDrive
17 15 (0.68%) PaaS
18 13 (0.59%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 136 (6.17%) Firewall
2 90 (4.08%) DNS
3 84 (3.81%) WAN
4 81 (3.68%) Network Security
5 74 (3.36%) LAN
6 66 (2.99%) VPN
7 48 (2.18%) MPLS
8 46 (2.09%) BGP
8 46 (2.09%) DHCP
9 42 (1.91%) Wireless
10 38 (1.72%) VLAN
11 36 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (1.41%) OSPF
13 30 (1.36%) TCP/IP
14 24 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 22 (1.00%) 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
1 108 (4.90%) Power BI
2 40 (1.81%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (0.73%) Metadata
5 12 (0.54%) Data Lake
5 12 (0.54%) 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
9 6 (0.27%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
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
1 235 (10.66%) JIRA
2 24 (1.09%) Git
3 14 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.45%) GitLab
5 9 (0.41%) Selenium
6 7 (0.32%) MSI
7 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Hudson
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) MSTest
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.091%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.091%) TestNG
11 1 (0.045%) MLflow
11 1 (0.045%) Postman
11 1 (0.045%) Snyk
General
1 918 (41.65%) Social Skills
2 659 (29.90%) Finance
3 298 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 167 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
6 133 (6.03%) Banking
7 103 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
8 96 (4.36%) Retail
9 94 (4.26%) Telecoms
10 90 (4.08%) Legal
11 74 (3.36%) Manufacturing
12 72 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
13 61 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (2.04%) Military
15 42 (1.91%) Local Government
16 32 (1.45%) Front Office
17 31 (1.41%) Law
17 31 (1.41%) Marketing
18 23 (1.04%) Financial Institution
18 23 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 508 (23.05%) Project Manager
2 259 (11.75%) Analyst
3 231 (10.48%) Senior
4 204 (9.26%) Lead
5 150 (6.81%) Business Analyst
6 148 (6.72%) Architect
7 133 (6.03%) Consultant
8 101 (4.58%) Senior Manager
9 95 (4.31%) Network Engineer
10 90 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
11 86 (3.90%) IT Manager
12 84 (3.81%) Senior Project Manager
13 64 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 59 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
15 58 (2.63%) IT Project Manager
16 54 (2.45%) Developer
17 44 (2.00%) Technical Manager
18 38 (1.72%) Transformation Manager
19 37 (1.68%) Coordinator
20 35 (1.59%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.09%) Terraform
2 41 (1.86%) REST
3 35 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (1.13%) Middleware
5 16 (0.73%) .NET
6 14 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
7 13 (0.59%) SOAP
7 13 (0.59%) Web Services
7 13 (0.59%) XML
8 11 (0.50%) 802.1X
8 11 (0.50%) OAuth
8 11 (0.50%) React
9 10 (0.45%) ADO
9 10 (0.45%) JSON
9 10 (0.45%) LDAP
10 8 (0.36%) SailPoint
11 7 (0.32%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.32%) Kafka
11 7 (0.32%) PySpark
11 7 (0.32%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 110 (4.99%) Onboarding
2 108 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 101 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 91 (4.13%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 45 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
8 38 (1.72%) Virtual Team
9 35 (1.59%) Cloud Native
9 35 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.54%) Driving Licence
11 33 (1.50%) Operational Technology
12 31 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (1.32%) PKI
14 25 (1.13%) Public Cloud
15 22 (1.00%) Derivative
16 21 (0.95%) Replication
17 20 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 19 (0.86%) Clustering
19 18 (0.82%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.72%) Windows
2 78 (3.54%) Linux
3 70 (3.18%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.32%) Unix
5 14 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.50%) Solaris
7 10 (0.45%) 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 (0.045%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 927 (42.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 701 (31.81%) Agile
3 601 (27.27%) Project Management
4 412 (18.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 409 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 357 (16.20%) Migration
7 352 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
8 327 (14.84%) Change Management
9 283 (12.84%) PRINCE2
10 247 (11.21%) Decision-Making
11 240 (10.89%) Waterfall
12 209 (9.48%) Risk Management
13 198 (8.98%) ITIL
14 186 (8.44%) Roadmaps
15 184 (8.35%) Workshop Facilitation
16 183 (8.30%) DevOps
17 182 (8.26%) AI
18 176 (7.99%) Cybersecurity
19 166 (7.53%) Project Governance
20 164 (7.44%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 108 (4.90%) SQL
2 100 (4.54%) Python
3 74 (3.36%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.13%) Java
5 24 (1.09%) Bash
6 20 (0.91%) C#
7 17 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.77%) VBA
8 11 (0.50%) ABAP
9 9 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.32%) Korn
10 7 (0.32%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.27%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.18%) Bicep
12 4 (0.18%) Go
13 3 (0.14%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 489 (22.19%) Security Cleared
2 357 (16.20%) SC Cleared
3 203 (9.21%) Degree
4 164 (7.44%) PMP
5 146 (6.62%) PMI Certification
6 122 (5.54%) DV Cleared
7 74 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (2.13%) CCNP
10 39 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.72%) CCNA
12 36 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 34 (1.54%) Azure Certification
14 31 (1.41%) CISSP
15 19 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.82%) MCSE
17 17 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 16 (0.73%) CISM
19 14 (0.64%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (11.48%) PMO
2 100 (4.54%) QA
3 61 (2.77%) NIST
4 56 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 54 (2.45%) GDPR
6 53 (2.40%) Data Quality
7 31 (1.41%) SLA
8 23 (1.04%) GRC
9 17 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.64%) ISO 19650
11 10 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.41%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.36%) NCSC
13 8 (0.36%) P3O
14 7 (0.32%) GxP
14 7 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 78 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 25 (1.13%) Docker
5 24 (1.09%) vSphere
6 19 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.50%) Firmware
8 11 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.18%) Squid
10 3 (0.14%) Ceph
10 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.045%) IAG
12 1 (0.045%) KVM
12 1 (0.045%) RACF
12 1 (0.045%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 53 (2.40%) Ansible
2 35 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.18%) 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
1 494 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 154 (6.99%) Cisco
3 152 (6.90%) SAP
4 129 (5.85%) ServiceNow
5 103 (4.67%) Oracle
5 103 (4.67%) VMware
6 53 (2.40%) Palo Alto
7 50 (2.27%) Fortinet
8 48 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 44 (2.00%) F5
10 39 (1.77%) Google
11 30 (1.36%) SolarWinds
11 30 (1.36%) Workday
12 29 (1.32%) Juniper
13 25 (1.13%) IBM
14 23 (1.04%) Databricks
14 23 (1.04%) Splunk
15 22 (1.00%) Siemens
16 21 (0.95%) Ariba
16 21 (0.95%) Zscaler