Project Delivery Contracts

Project Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Project Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Delivery over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 49 53
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,613 2,433 4,133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.79% 4.30% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.79% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,031 1,691 2,823
10th Percentile £356 £369 £363
25th Percentile £440 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £505 £488
% change year-on-year +3.96% +3.59% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 52 73
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £22.19
25th Percentile £26.36 £29.48 £39.75
Median hourly rate £35.65 £62.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.96% +40.45% +4.09%
75th Percentile £41.92 £76.25 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £83.39 £64.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £65.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -37.02% +40.54% +9.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Project Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 May 2024.

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 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 17 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 23 May 2024. 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 +1 1,358 £538 -2.27% 1,132
UK excluding London +2 833 £525 +3.96% 876
London -6 616 £550 -8.33% 319
Work from Home +1 539 £525 -1.41% 488
South East +10 248 £500 -2.44% 209
North of England -12 142 £525 +5.00% 227
South West -2 138 £530 +1.92% 117
Scotland +5 121 £500 - 80
Midlands +12 111 £518 -4.17% 155
North West -2 89 £575 +27.78% 126
West Midlands +5 82 £525 -2.78% 78
East of England -24 49 £550 +18.28% 74
Yorkshire -13 39 £473 -14.09% 71
Wales +9 28 £275 -45.00% 26
East Midlands +10 27 £463 -24.49% 77
North East +10 14 £500 -30.99% 36
Northern Ireland -2 4 - - 15

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 62 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 41 (2.54%) Confluence
3 32 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.68%) MTS
5 8 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.37%) CMS
7 5 (0.31%) SAS
8 4 (0.25%) Apache
8 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.12%) IIS
10 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.062%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.062%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 116 (7.19%) Microsoft Office
2 89 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 84 (5.21%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.05%) MS Visio
6 27 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.56%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.19%) Trello
9 1 (0.062%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.062%) InVision
9 1 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.12%) Loan IQ
4 16 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.87%) Endur
5 14 (0.87%) Maximo
6 13 (0.81%) Oracle EBS R12
6 13 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 11 (0.68%) Aligne
7 11 (0.68%) EuroRunner
8 9 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
10 4 (0.25%) SAP SD
10 4 (0.25%) Shopify
11 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.19%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
12 2 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 234 (14.51%) Azure
2 84 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
3 67 (4.15%) Power Platform
4 53 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (3.22%) AWS
6 34 (2.11%) IaaS
7 33 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
7 33 (2.05%) Entra ID
8 31 (1.92%) SaaS
9 22 (1.36%) PowerApps
10 21 (1.30%) PaaS
11 16 (0.99%) GCP
12 15 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
13 13 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (0.74%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.68%) OCI
15 11 (0.68%) WhatsApp
16 10 (0.62%) OneDrive
17 9 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (0.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.78%) Firewall
2 55 (3.41%) WAN
3 49 (3.04%) VPN
4 47 (2.91%) LAN
5 36 (2.23%) DNS
6 33 (2.05%) Network Security
7 26 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (1.55%) DHCP
9 17 (1.05%) MPLS
10 15 (0.93%) SAN
10 15 (0.93%) TCP/IP
11 14 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
11 14 (0.87%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.68%) ATM
13 10 (0.62%) Internet
14 9 (0.56%) SMTP
14 9 (0.56%) VoIP
15 8 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
15 8 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
16 7 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (3.10%) Power BI
2 49 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 34 (2.11%) NoSQL
4 22 (1.36%) Metadata
5 19 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (1.12%) Data Lake
7 15 (0.93%) Data Vault
7 15 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.74%) Big Data
9 11 (0.68%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.56%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (0.56%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.50%) GIS
11 8 (0.50%) Pentaho
11 8 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (0.50%) QlikView
12 7 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 138 (8.56%) JIRA
2 13 (0.81%) Git
3 10 (0.62%) GitLab
4 7 (0.43%) Selenium
5 5 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.31%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.25%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.19%) Gatling
7 3 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.12%) ERwin
8 2 (0.12%) Gerrit
8 2 (0.12%) JUnit
8 2 (0.12%) RStudio
8 2 (0.12%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (0.12%) TestNG
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 540 (33.48%) Social Skills
2 460 (28.52%) Finance
3 196 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 176 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (6.20%) Telecoms
6 90 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
7 67 (4.15%) Banking
8 58 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
9 56 (3.47%) Manufacturing
10 50 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (3.04%) Marketing
12 41 (2.54%) Retail
13 37 (2.29%) Legal
14 34 (2.11%) Local Government
15 25 (1.55%) Mandarin Language
16 24 (1.49%) Financial Institution
16 24 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (1.43%) Electronics
18 22 (1.36%) Law
18 22 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 449 (27.84%) Project Manager
2 192 (11.90%) Architect
3 171 (10.60%) Senior
4 142 (8.80%) Lead
5 133 (8.25%) Analyst
6 89 (5.52%) Delivery Manager
7 81 (5.02%) Senior Manager
8 80 (4.96%) Business Analyst
9 72 (4.46%) Consultant
10 69 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
11 65 (4.03%) IT Manager
12 60 (3.72%) Senior Project Manager
13 47 (2.91%) IT Project Manager
14 46 (2.85%) Developer
15 43 (2.67%) Project Leader
16 38 (2.36%) Programme Manager
16 38 (2.36%) Technical Manager
17 35 (2.17%) Security Manager
18 33 (2.05%) Infrastructure Manager
19 30 (1.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.11%) .NET
2 25 (1.55%) XML
3 20 (1.24%) Web Services
4 16 (0.99%) AngularJS
4 16 (0.99%) JSON
4 16 (0.99%) Middleware
5 14 (0.87%) .NET Framework
5 14 (0.87%) ADO
6 13 (0.81%) REST
7 11 (0.68%) LDAP
8 8 (0.50%) HTML
8 8 (0.50%) JSON Schema
8 8 (0.50%) RESTful
8 8 (0.50%) SailPoint
9 7 (0.43%) .NET Core
10 6 (0.37%) CSS
10 6 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (0.37%) PySpark
10 6 (0.37%) SAML
11 5 (0.31%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.34%) Data Centre
1 70 (4.34%) Management Information System
2 68 (4.22%) Product Ownership
3 36 (2.23%) Onboarding
4 32 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (1.30%) NHS
6 20 (1.24%) PMI
7 17 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
8 15 (0.93%) Reference Data
9 14 (0.87%) Market Risk
10 13 (0.81%) FMCG
10 13 (0.81%) PKI
10 13 (0.81%) Public Cloud
11 12 (0.74%) Data Structures
11 12 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 11 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (0.68%) Mobile App
12 11 (0.68%) Solar Panel
13 10 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 86 (5.33%) Windows
2 36 (2.23%) Linux
2 36 (2.23%) Windows Server
3 14 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (0.87%) Unix
3 14 (0.87%) Windows 10
4 12 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.50%) Windows 7
8 7 (0.43%) AIX
8 7 (0.43%) Android
8 7 (0.43%) Solaris
9 6 (0.37%) VMS
9 6 (0.37%) zOS
10 5 (0.31%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (41.23%) Project Management
2 590 (36.58%) Agile
3 297 (18.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 248 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 193 (11.97%) PRINCE2
6 184 (11.41%) Migration
7 157 (9.73%) Change Management
7 157 (9.73%) DevOps
7 157 (9.73%) Risk Management
8 149 (9.24%) Scrum
9 147 (9.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 147 (9.11%) Waterfall
10 121 (7.50%) Programme Management
11 109 (6.76%) Business Case
12 106 (6.57%) ITIL
13 100 (6.20%) Decision-Making
14 97 (6.01%) Project Planning
15 96 (5.95%) Roadmaps
16 89 (5.52%) Business Intelligence
17 87 (5.39%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (7.69%) SQL
2 66 (4.09%) PowerShell
3 44 (2.73%) Python
4 42 (2.60%) C#
5 35 (2.17%) Java
6 19 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.81%) Bash
7 13 (0.81%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.43%) Bicep
8 7 (0.43%) C++
9 6 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.31%) R
10 5 (0.31%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.25%) Perl
11 4 (0.25%) X++
12 3 (0.19%) Go
12 3 (0.19%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 287 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 210 (13.02%) Degree
3 163 (10.11%) SC Cleared
4 113 (7.01%) DV Cleared
5 94 (5.83%) PMP
6 85 (5.27%) PMI Certification
7 42 (2.60%) APMP
8 34 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 28 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (1.05%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (0.93%) CCNP
13 15 (0.93%) CISM
13 15 (0.93%) CISSP
14 14 (0.87%) CISA
14 14 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 13 (0.81%) CCNA
16 10 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (11.47%) PMO
2 80 (4.96%) QA
3 44 (2.73%) SLA
4 26 (1.61%) NIST
5 25 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
7 14 (0.87%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.81%) GDPR
9 10 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (0.37%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.31%) Basel III
11 5 (0.31%) GRC
12 4 (0.25%) P3O
12 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.19%) COREP
13 3 (0.19%) GxP
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) MiFID
14 2 (0.12%) FINREP
System Software
1 73 (4.53%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.18%) Docker
4 16 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.93%) vSphere
6 12 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.68%) XenApp
8 7 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.31%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.25%) ACF2
10 4 (0.25%) Firmware
10 4 (0.25%) RACF
11 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.12%) Ceph
12 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.062%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (2.36%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.61%) Terraform
3 21 (1.30%) Ansible
3 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.87%) SCCM
5 8 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.50%) vRealize
6 7 (0.43%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.37%) Packer
8 5 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (0.31%) Endace
8 5 (0.31%) HP Data Protector
8 5 (0.31%) Istio
8 5 (0.31%) NetBackup
8 5 (0.31%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.31%) vMotion
8 5 (0.31%) WSUS
9 4 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 274 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 103 (6.39%) SAP
3 70 (4.34%) Cisco
4 60 (3.72%) Oracle
5 54 (3.35%) VMware
6 43 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 31 (1.92%) Juniper
8 27 (1.67%) Citrix
9 21 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 18 (1.12%) F5
11 17 (1.05%) CheckPoint
12 16 (0.99%) Adobe
13 15 (0.93%) Informatica
13 15 (0.93%) Red Hat
14 13 (0.81%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.81%) Sparx
15 11 (0.68%) Symantec
16 10 (0.62%) Databricks
16 10 (0.62%) Google
16 10 (0.62%) Infoblox