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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 60 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,984 1,275 1,583
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 3.90% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.32% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,355 799 994
10th Percentile £325 £325 £355
25th Percentile £413 £419 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £630 £627
90th Percentile £700 £725 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £488 £508
% change year-on-year +1.54% -3.94% -0.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 22 46
10th Percentile £20.35 £31.50 £20.98
25th Percentile £33.80 £47.38 £26.36
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +52.66% -34.50%
75th Percentile £80.38 £77.19 £55.59
90th Percentile £88.76 £82.13 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.75 £65.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year -25.00% +58.77% -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 45,103 29,546 36,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 90.46% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,058 18,631 23,390
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £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 2,673 1,507 2,455
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.63 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -2.91%

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 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 12 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 12 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 1,722 £518 -1.43% 1,123
UK excluding London +6 1,116 £495 +1.54% 879
London -5 718 £550 -3.17% 404
Work from Home +1 571 £514 +0.26% 545
South East +1 285 £525 - 266
North of England +12 277 £483 +3.04% 221
North West +21 185 £478 +1.87% 119
Midlands -16 180 £475 -7.23% 135
South West +7 167 £494 +0.25% 121
West Midlands -18 139 £481 -7.46% 83
Scotland +1 119 £450 -2.60% 50
Yorkshire -26 75 £500 - 74
East of England 0 61 £500 +11.73% 57
East Midlands -15 39 £402 -10.07% 52
Wales -1 23 £500 +80.56% 24
North East -21 19 £350 -3.45% 29
Northern Ireland +5 14 £334 -36.38% 21
Channel Islands +1 1 £550 +22.22%

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
1 109 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 106 (5.34%) Confluence
3 37 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.35%) CMS
5 6 (0.30%) SAS
6 5 (0.25%) Apache
7 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.15%) Appian
8 3 (0.15%) Camunda
8 3 (0.15%) CICS
8 3 (0.15%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
8 3 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.15%) WordPress
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.050%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 160 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (5.70%) Microsoft Project
3 99 (4.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 94 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
5 38 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.96%) Siemens NX
7 14 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.15%) Revit
10 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.10%) Trello
11 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.050%) CATIA
11 1 (0.050%) Houdini
11 1 (0.050%) NUKE
11 1 (0.050%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 45 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.31%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.60%) Primavera
4 10 (0.50%) Maximo
5 9 (0.45%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.35%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.30%) ProductWriter
7 6 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
7 6 (0.30%) Summit
8 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.20%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 243 (12.25%) Azure
2 120 (6.05%) AWS
3 104 (5.24%) Power Platform
4 98 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (3.43%) SaaS
6 66 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (2.72%) Entra ID
8 36 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
9 34 (1.71%) GCP
10 25 (1.26%) Google Workspace
11 23 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 22 (1.11%) IaaS
13 21 (1.06%) GitHub
14 19 (0.96%) PowerApps
15 18 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
16 16 (0.81%) Power Automate
16 16 (0.81%) Serverless
17 14 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (0.71%) Amazon S3
17 14 (0.71%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 112 (5.65%) Firewall
2 85 (4.28%) DNS
3 68 (3.43%) WAN
4 62 (3.13%) LAN
5 55 (2.77%) Network Security
6 52 (2.62%) VPN
7 43 (2.17%) MPLS
8 38 (1.92%) BGP
9 34 (1.71%) DHCP
10 30 (1.51%) OSPF
10 30 (1.51%) Wireless
11 28 (1.41%) TCP/IP
11 28 (1.41%) VLAN
12 26 (1.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 26 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
13 24 (1.21%) SD-WAN
14 15 (0.76%) BIG-IP
14 15 (0.76%) SSL
14 15 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.28%) Power BI
2 40 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 19 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (0.86%) Tableau
5 15 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.66%) Metadata
8 10 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.45%) SAP HANA
10 8 (0.40%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.35%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.25%) Big Data
13 5 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.20%) GIS
Development Applications
1 207 (10.43%) JIRA
2 27 (1.36%) Git
3 14 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.66%) GitLab
5 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.40%) Selenium
6 4 (0.20%) Appium
6 4 (0.20%) Subversion
7 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.15%) JMeter
7 3 (0.15%) MSTest
7 3 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.10%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.10%) Hudson
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.10%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.10%) TestComplete
8 2 (0.10%) WebDriver
General
1 788 (39.72%) Social Skills
2 634 (31.96%) Finance
3 261 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 216 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 148 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
6 106 (5.34%) Banking
7 99 (4.99%) Retail
8 88 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
9 87 (4.39%) Legal
10 68 (3.43%) Telecoms
11 61 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
12 58 (2.92%) Manufacturing
13 40 (2.02%) Local Government
14 32 (1.61%) Marketing
15 30 (1.51%) Military
16 24 (1.21%) Investment Banking
17 19 (0.96%) Financial Institution
18 18 (0.91%) Front Office
18 18 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 489 (24.65%) Project Manager
2 235 (11.84%) Analyst
3 209 (10.53%) Senior
4 191 (9.63%) Lead
5 119 (6.00%) Business Analyst
6 113 (5.70%) Architect
7 100 (5.04%) Senior Manager
8 89 (4.49%) Consultant
9 81 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
9 81 (4.08%) Senior Project Manager
10 79 (3.98%) IT Manager
11 75 (3.78%) Network Engineer
12 57 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 54 (2.72%) Developer
14 53 (2.67%) IT Project Manager
15 43 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.07%) Technical Manager
17 39 (1.97%) Project Officer
18 37 (1.86%) Infrastructure Manager
19 36 (1.81%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.76%) Middleware
2 33 (1.66%) REST
3 19 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.71%) .NET
5 13 (0.66%) 802.1X
5 13 (0.66%) XML
6 12 (0.60%) OAuth
7 11 (0.55%) ADO
7 11 (0.55%) JSON
8 10 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
8 10 (0.50%) Web Services
9 9 (0.45%) Spring Boot
10 8 (0.40%) React
10 8 (0.40%) RESTful
10 8 (0.40%) SAP Basis
10 8 (0.40%) Spring
11 6 (0.30%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.30%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.30%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 91 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 78 (3.93%) Data Centre
4 71 (3.58%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.07%) Virtual Team
6 34 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (1.51%) Operational Technology
10 29 (1.46%) Cloud Native
10 29 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.31%) Replication
12 25 (1.26%) Clustering
13 24 (1.21%) PKI
14 23 (1.16%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (1.06%) Driving Licence
17 18 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
18 16 (0.81%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 117 (5.90%) Windows
2 56 (2.82%) Windows Server
3 48 (2.42%) Linux
4 26 (1.31%) Unix
5 9 (0.45%) AIX
5 9 (0.45%) Solaris
6 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.35%) zOS
7 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.10%) Android
10 2 (0.10%) Debian
10 2 (0.10%) VMS
10 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.10%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (33.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 601 (30.29%) Agile
3 546 (27.52%) Project Management
4 334 (16.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 318 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
6 312 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 305 (15.37%) Migration
8 275 (13.86%) Change Management
9 239 (12.05%) PRINCE2
10 216 (10.89%) Decision-Making
11 206 (10.38%) Waterfall
12 165 (8.32%) Risk Management
13 162 (8.17%) ITIL
14 157 (7.91%) AI
15 156 (7.86%) Roadmaps
16 154 (7.76%) DevOps
17 130 (6.55%) ERP
18 127 (6.40%) Validation
18 127 (6.40%) Workshop Facilitation
19 124 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 111 (5.59%) SQL
2 94 (4.74%) Python
3 64 (3.23%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.11%) C#
5 20 (1.01%) Java
6 19 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.86%) Bash
8 14 (0.71%) VBA
9 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.40%) Go
10 8 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.35%) ABAP
11 7 (0.35%) Bicep
12 6 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.30%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.20%) C++
15 3 (0.15%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 422 (21.27%) Security Cleared
2 298 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 196 (9.88%) Degree
4 158 (7.96%) PMP
5 122 (6.15%) PMI Certification
6 117 (5.90%) DV Cleared
7 66 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (2.17%) CCNP
9 40 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (1.92%) CCNA
10 38 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 27 (1.36%) CISSP
13 25 (1.26%) Azure Certification
14 20 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (0.96%) MCSE
16 18 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
17 16 (0.81%) CISM
18 15 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
18 15 (0.76%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (11.24%) PMO
2 104 (5.24%) QA
3 52 (2.62%) NIST
4 49 (2.47%) GDPR
4 49 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 31 (1.56%) SLA
7 15 (0.76%) GRC
8 12 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.45%) NCSC
11 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.35%) HL7
12 7 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.25%) GxP
13 5 (0.25%) MiFID
13 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 96 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 55 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.11%) vSphere
4 21 (1.06%) Docker
5 20 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 20 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.55%) Firmware
7 11 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.15%) Squid
11 2 (0.10%) Ceph
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.050%) ACF2
12 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.050%) RACF
12 1 (0.050%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 48 (2.42%) Ansible
2 42 (2.12%) Terraform
3 26 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.06%) SCCM
6 20 (1.01%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.86%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.40%) Nagios
10 7 (0.35%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.30%) SCOM
12 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.25%) Netcool
12 5 (0.25%) Tivoli
13 4 (0.20%) Cisco Prime
13 4 (0.20%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.15%) Nessus
14 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 383 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 134 (6.75%) SAP
3 111 (5.59%) Cisco
4 107 (5.39%) ServiceNow
5 86 (4.33%) Oracle
6 72 (3.63%) VMware
7 48 (2.42%) Palo Alto
8 43 (2.17%) F5
9 40 (2.02%) Fortinet
10 38 (1.92%) Salesforce
11 36 (1.81%) Google
12 29 (1.46%) SolarWinds
13 25 (1.26%) Juniper
14 24 (1.21%) IBM
15 19 (0.96%) Siemens
15 19 (0.96%) Workday
16 18 (0.91%) NEC
17 17 (0.86%) Citrix
17 17 (0.86%) Infoblox
18 16 (0.81%) Aruba