Project Delivery Contracts

Project Delivery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Project Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 49 50
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,146 1,620 2,454
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.97% 3.81% 4.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 4.43% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 1,036 1,703
10th Percentile £325 £358 £369
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £657
90th Percentile £713 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 37 53
10th Percentile £25.17 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £38.56 £26.25 £31.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £35.65 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.33% -42.96% +40.45%
75th Percentile £77.50 £42.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £65.00 £83.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £40.94 £65.00
% change year-on-year +67.93% -37.02% +40.54%

All Process and 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 26,283 36,539 50,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.05% 86.04% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,842 23,560 35,264
10th Percentile £303 £300 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 2,438 1,684
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%
75th Percentile £59.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 18 Contract 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 22 May 2025. 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 -6 924 £525 -2.33% 2,287
UK excluding London -5 559 £500 -4.76% 1,635
London -3 469 £550 - 934
Work from Home -3 371 £517 -1.52% 1,048
South East -12 116 £534 +6.75% 533
Scotland +5 114 £450 -10.00% 107
Midlands +8 110 £512 -2.48% 241
North of England -14 103 £475 -9.52% 346
West Midlands +4 75 £520 -1.00% 153
North West -3 71 £475 -17.39% 198
South West -15 69 £493 -7.08% 211
East Midlands +14 34 £447 -7.26% 83
East of England +2 28 £448 -18.93% 168
Yorkshire -2 28 £500 +5.82% 119
Northern Ireland +4 14 £563 - 31
Wales -18 6 £325 +18.18% 35
North East -7 4 £363 -27.50% 32
Channel Islands - 1 £450 - 1

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 65 (5.67%) Confluence
2 39 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.79%) CMS
5 4 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.26%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.17%) SAS
7 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.087%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.087%) IIS
8 1 (0.087%) JBoss
8 1 (0.087%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.087%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.087%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.087%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.087%) WinCC
Applications
1 71 (6.20%) Microsoft Project
2 57 (4.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (2.36%) MS Visio
6 13 (1.13%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.17%) Open Workbench
9 2 (0.17%) Revit
10 1 (0.087%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 66 (5.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
3 17 (1.48%) Oracle EBS R12
4 10 (0.87%) Maximo
5 9 (0.79%) Oracle ASCP
6 8 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
6 8 (0.70%) SAP PP
7 7 (0.61%) Teamcenter
8 6 (0.52%) Endur
8 6 (0.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.35%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.35%) SAP PS
10 3 (0.26%) Aladdin
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.26%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 161 (14.05%) Azure
2 76 (6.63%) AWS
3 67 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (3.66%) Power Platform
5 40 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (3.05%) IaaS
7 32 (2.79%) SaaS
8 30 (2.62%) Entra ID
9 21 (1.83%) GCP
10 18 (1.57%) OCI
11 17 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (1.22%) PaaS
13 11 (0.96%) Serverless
14 10 (0.87%) Asana
15 8 (0.70%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (0.61%) GitHub
16 7 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
17 6 (0.52%) Amazon S3
18 5 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 73 (6.37%) Firewall
2 37 (3.23%) VPN
3 33 (2.88%) MPLS
4 32 (2.79%) DNS
5 29 (2.53%) Network Security
6 23 (2.01%) BGP
7 22 (1.92%) OSPF
8 21 (1.83%) LAN
8 21 (1.83%) WAN
9 14 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (1.13%) Multicast
10 13 (1.13%) TCP/IP
11 11 (0.96%) Internet
12 9 (0.79%) Broadband
12 9 (0.79%) IPv6
13 8 (0.70%) IPsec
13 8 (0.70%) VSAN
13 8 (0.70%) Wireless
14 7 (0.61%) EIGRP
14 7 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (2.88%) Power BI
2 22 (1.92%) SAP HANA
3 18 (1.57%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.40%) Big Data
5 15 (1.31%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (0.87%) MongoDB
7 10 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (0.79%) NoSQL
8 9 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.52%) Tableau
10 5 (0.44%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.35%) Metadata
11 4 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.26%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.26%) GIS
12 3 (0.26%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 113 (9.86%) JIRA
2 18 (1.57%) Git
3 5 (0.44%) GitLab
3 5 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.44%) Subversion
4 3 (0.26%) JMeter
4 3 (0.26%) Selenium
4 3 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.17%) Gradle
5 2 (0.17%) Jasmine
5 2 (0.17%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.17%) Maven
5 2 (0.17%) MLflow
5 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.087%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.087%) ERwin
6 1 (0.087%) JUnit
6 1 (0.087%) LSMW
6 1 (0.087%) NetBeans
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle APEX
General
1 466 (40.66%) Social Skills
2 404 (35.25%) Finance
3 121 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (8.55%) Banking
5 95 (8.29%) Public Sector
6 53 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
7 52 (4.54%) Telecoms
8 50 (4.36%) Manufacturing
9 46 (4.01%) Marketing
10 36 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (2.53%) Legal
11 29 (2.53%) Retail
12 20 (1.75%) Billing
12 20 (1.75%) Front Office
13 17 (1.48%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.48%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (1.13%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 309 (26.96%) Project Manager
2 105 (9.16%) Senior
3 99 (8.64%) Analyst
4 98 (8.55%) Lead
5 86 (7.50%) Consultant
6 73 (6.37%) Architect
7 60 (5.24%) Business Analyst
7 60 (5.24%) Delivery Manager
8 48 (4.19%) Developer
9 47 (4.10%) IT Manager
10 42 (3.66%) IT Project Manager
11 37 (3.23%) Senior Manager
12 36 (3.14%) Network Engineer
13 33 (2.88%) Technical Manager
14 32 (2.79%) Senior Project Manager
15 31 (2.71%) Programme Manager
16 27 (2.36%) Infrastructure Manager
17 24 (2.09%) SAP Manager
18 23 (2.01%) Engagement Manager
18 23 (2.01%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.27%) Web Services
2 23 (2.01%) .NET
3 22 (1.92%) React
4 21 (1.83%) Spring
5 19 (1.66%) Spring Boot
6 13 (1.13%) HTML
7 12 (1.05%) CSS
7 12 (1.05%) EntireX
8 10 (0.87%) .NET Core
9 9 (0.79%) JSON
9 9 (0.79%) Middleware
9 9 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (0.79%) REST
9 9 (0.79%) XML
10 7 (0.61%) Kafka
10 7 (0.61%) RESTful
10 7 (0.61%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.61%) SOAP
11 6 (0.52%) ADO
11 6 (0.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 45 (3.93%) Product Ownership
2 42 (3.66%) Management Information System
3 34 (2.97%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.09%) Onboarding
4 24 (2.09%) PMI
5 22 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (1.66%) Operational Technology
6 19 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.05%) Life Science
9 11 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (0.96%) Mainframe
10 10 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
11 9 (0.79%) IoT
12 8 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (0.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 70 (6.11%) Windows
2 42 (3.66%) Windows Server
3 29 (2.53%) Linux
4 18 (1.57%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.05%) Unix
6 11 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.44%) Windows 8
9 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.44%) Windows XP
9 5 (0.44%) zOS
10 4 (0.35%) Android
10 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.35%) Solaris
11 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.087%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (33.42%) Project Management
2 378 (32.98%) Agile
3 331 (28.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 217 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
5 135 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 129 (11.26%) Migration
7 127 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 126 (10.99%) Change Management
9 121 (10.56%) Risk Management
10 110 (9.60%) PRINCE2
11 94 (8.20%) DevOps
11 94 (8.20%) Scrum
12 91 (7.94%) Waterfall
13 84 (7.33%) ITIL
14 80 (6.98%) Decision-Making
15 78 (6.81%) Budget Management
16 77 (6.72%) Project Governance
17 76 (6.63%) Programme Management
18 75 (6.54%) Roadmaps
19 70 (6.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 75 (6.54%) SQL
2 59 (5.15%) Python
3 39 (3.40%) Java
4 35 (3.05%) PowerShell
5 34 (2.97%) JavaScript
6 24 (2.09%) C#
7 8 (0.70%) Bash
7 8 (0.70%) Perl
8 7 (0.61%) PHP
9 6 (0.52%) Bicep
9 6 (0.52%) C
10 4 (0.35%) C++
10 4 (0.35%) JCL
10 4 (0.35%) R
10 4 (0.35%) VBA
11 3 (0.26%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.26%) REXX
11 3 (0.26%) VBScript
12 2 (0.17%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 189 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 164 (14.31%) SC Cleared
3 136 (11.87%) Degree
4 83 (7.24%) PMI Certification
5 65 (5.67%) PMP
6 26 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.92%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.31%) CCIE
11 14 (1.22%) CCNP
11 14 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.13%) SAP Certification
13 11 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 9 (0.79%) APMP
14 9 (0.79%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.79%) CCNA
14 9 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (5.76%) PMO
2 43 (3.75%) QA
3 18 (1.57%) GDPR
4 16 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.22%) SLA
6 11 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.87%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.52%) EMIR
8 6 (0.52%) MiFID
9 5 (0.44%) GxP
9 5 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.44%) NIST
9 5 (0.44%) P3O
10 4 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.35%) NCSC
10 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.26%) IFRS
System Software
1 55 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 37 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.40%) vSphere
4 15 (1.31%) Docker
5 10 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.52%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.26%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.26%) NFS
11 2 (0.17%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 1 (0.087%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.087%) KVM
12 1 (0.087%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.087%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.087%) XenApp
12 1 (0.087%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (3.40%) Terraform
2 32 (2.79%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (2.27%) Ansible
5 13 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.96%) SCCM
7 9 (0.79%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.52%) VxRail
8 6 (0.52%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.44%) PowerCLI
10 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (0.35%) WSUS
11 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.17%) Nagios
11 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.17%) QRadar
11 2 (0.17%) SELinux
11 2 (0.17%) Tivoli NetView
11 2 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 200 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 143 (12.48%) SAP
3 70 (6.11%) Oracle
4 51 (4.45%) VMware
5 49 (4.28%) Cisco
6 32 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.44%) IBM
8 26 (2.27%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.75%) Databricks
10 15 (1.31%) Google
10 15 (1.31%) SolarWinds
11 13 (1.13%) Dell
11 13 (1.13%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.05%) Software AG
12 12 (1.05%) webMethods
13 11 (0.96%) Adobe
13 11 (0.96%) Splunk
13 11 (0.96%) Workday
14 10 (0.87%) Ariba
15 8 (0.70%) Nokia