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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 49 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,674 2,566 4,085
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.88% 4.42% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.92% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,077 1,790 2,813
10th Percentile £363 £369 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £619
90th Percentile £738 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 61 70
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £21.69
25th Percentile £26.42 £31.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £38.30 £64.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +44.94% +4.71%
75th Percentile £41.92 £70.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £63.04 £83.31 £64.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £65.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -37.02% +40.54% +10.12%

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 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 1,420 £550 -0.09% 1,168
UK excluding London 0 847 £525 +5.00% 855
London -1 660 £550 -8.33% 344
Work from Home +2 555 £525 -4.55% 450
South East +8 259 £500 -4.76% 189
North of England -9 145 £525 +5.00% 209
South West 0 137 £530 +2.42% 130
Scotland +5 122 £500 - 71
Midlands +8 107 £525 -2.33% 173
North West -2 93 £575 +27.78% 126
West Midlands +9 82 £525 -1.87% 99
East of England -23 53 £554 +23.11% 80
Yorkshire -13 38 £460 -16.36% 58
Wales +1 27 £475 - 23
East Midlands +10 24 £490 -11.00% 74
North East +15 14 £500 -39.32% 30
Northern Ireland +5 5 £210 -61.82% 11

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 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.51%) Confluence
3 38 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.66%) MTS
5 8 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.48%) CMS
6 6 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.36%) Tornado
7 5 (0.30%) SAS
8 4 (0.24%) Apache
8 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.24%) CICS
9 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.18%) IBM Domino
9 3 (0.18%) IBM Notes
9 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 117 (6.99%) Microsoft Office
2 91 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (5.08%) Microsoft Project
4 58 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (2.03%) MS Visio
6 27 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.54%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.18%) Trello
9 1 (0.060%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.060%) InVision
9 1 (0.060%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 43 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (1.25%) Loan IQ
4 18 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 14 (0.84%) Endur
6 14 (0.84%) Maximo
7 13 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
8 11 (0.66%) Aligne
8 11 (0.66%) EuroRunner
9 9 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
11 4 (0.24%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.24%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
12 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.18%) SAP EWM
12 3 (0.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 248 (14.81%) Azure
2 83 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
3 65 (3.88%) Power Platform
4 63 (3.76%) AWS
5 62 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 35 (2.09%) IaaS
8 33 (1.97%) SaaS
9 32 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (1.19%) PowerApps
11 19 (1.14%) PaaS
12 15 (0.90%) GCP
13 13 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
13 13 (0.78%) WhatsApp
14 12 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (0.66%) OneDrive
15 11 (0.66%) Power Automate
16 10 (0.60%) Mimecast
16 10 (0.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.70%) Firewall
2 52 (3.11%) WAN
3 50 (2.99%) VPN
4 45 (2.69%) LAN
5 41 (2.45%) DNS
6 34 (2.03%) Network Security
7 25 (1.49%) DHCP
7 25 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (1.25%) MPLS
9 16 (0.96%) TCP/IP
10 15 (0.90%) SAN
11 14 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
12 12 (0.72%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.72%) SMTP
13 11 (0.66%) ATM
14 9 (0.54%) 4G
14 9 (0.54%) Internet
14 9 (0.54%) VoIP
15 8 (0.48%) 5G
15 8 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (3.46%) SQL Server
2 49 (2.93%) Power BI
3 35 (2.09%) NoSQL
4 22 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.31%) Metadata
5 17 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 16 (0.96%) Data Vault
7 15 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (0.78%) Big Data
9 11 (0.66%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.54%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.54%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.48%) GIS
11 8 (0.48%) Pentaho
11 8 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (0.48%) QlikView
12 7 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 145 (8.66%) JIRA
2 15 (0.90%) Git
3 10 (0.60%) GitLab
4 8 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.42%) Selenium
6 5 (0.30%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.24%) Gatling
7 4 (0.24%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.24%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.12%) ERwin
9 2 (0.12%) Gerrit
9 2 (0.12%) JUnit
9 2 (0.12%) RStudio
9 2 (0.12%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (0.12%) TestNG
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 549 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 469 (28.02%) Finance
3 206 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 184 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (6.39%) Telecoms
6 90 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 70 (4.18%) Banking
8 61 (3.64%) Manufacturing
9 57 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
10 54 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
11 53 (3.17%) Marketing
12 40 (2.39%) Retail
13 37 (2.21%) Legal
14 32 (1.91%) Financial Institution
15 30 (1.79%) Local Government
16 29 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.43%) Mandarin Language
19 23 (1.37%) Electronics
20 22 (1.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 454 (27.12%) Project Manager
2 201 (12.01%) Architect
3 170 (10.16%) Senior
4 154 (9.20%) Lead
5 136 (8.12%) Analyst
6 92 (5.50%) Delivery Manager
7 81 (4.84%) Business Analyst
8 80 (4.78%) Senior Manager
9 73 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
10 71 (4.24%) Consultant
11 63 (3.76%) Senior Project Manager
12 62 (3.70%) IT Manager
13 50 (2.99%) Developer
14 47 (2.81%) Project Leader
15 43 (2.57%) IT Project Manager
16 41 (2.45%) Programme Manager
17 38 (2.27%) Security Manager
18 37 (2.21%) Technical Manager
19 32 (1.91%) Infrastructure Manager
20 30 (1.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.09%) .NET
2 28 (1.67%) XML
3 21 (1.25%) Web Services
4 19 (1.14%) JSON
5 18 (1.08%) REST
6 16 (0.96%) Middleware
7 15 (0.90%) AngularJS
8 14 (0.84%) .NET Framework
8 14 (0.84%) ADO
9 13 (0.78%) LDAP
10 11 (0.66%) OAuth
11 9 (0.54%) Node.js
11 9 (0.54%) React
11 9 (0.54%) SailPoint
12 8 (0.48%) HTML
12 8 (0.48%) JSON Schema
12 8 (0.48%) Pandas
12 8 (0.48%) PySpark
12 8 (0.48%) RESTful
12 8 (0.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.54%) Management Information System
2 75 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 68 (4.06%) Data Centre
4 33 (1.97%) Onboarding
5 30 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (1.25%) PMI
7 19 (1.14%) NHS
7 19 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
8 16 (0.96%) PKI
8 16 (0.96%) Public Cloud
8 16 (0.96%) Reference Data
9 14 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (0.84%) Market Risk
9 14 (0.84%) Virtual Team
10 13 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (0.78%) FMCG
10 13 (0.78%) Solar Panel
11 12 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 12 (0.72%) Mobile App
11 12 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.68%) Windows
2 41 (2.45%) Windows Server
3 40 (2.39%) Linux
4 17 (1.02%) Windows 10
5 16 (0.96%) Unix
6 14 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.54%) Android
10 8 (0.48%) Windows 7
11 7 (0.42%) AIX
11 7 (0.42%) Solaris
12 6 (0.36%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.36%) VMS
12 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.36%) zOS
13 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (41.04%) Project Management
2 627 (37.46%) Agile
3 293 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 262 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
5 199 (11.89%) PRINCE2
6 189 (11.29%) Migration
7 168 (10.04%) DevOps
8 160 (9.56%) Change Management
9 158 (9.44%) Waterfall
10 157 (9.38%) Risk Management
11 153 (9.14%) Scrum
12 152 (9.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 128 (7.65%) Programme Management
14 117 (6.99%) Business Case
15 111 (6.63%) Decision-Making
16 107 (6.39%) ITIL
17 106 (6.33%) Roadmaps
18 96 (5.73%) Project Planning
19 92 (5.50%) Business Intelligence
20 88 (5.26%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 136 (8.12%) SQL
2 69 (4.12%) PowerShell
3 54 (3.23%) Python
4 43 (2.57%) C#
5 36 (2.15%) Java
6 25 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.78%) Bash
7 13 (0.78%) T-SQL
8 11 (0.66%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.42%) Bicep
9 7 (0.42%) C++
10 6 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.30%) Perl
11 5 (0.30%) R
12 4 (0.24%) X++
13 3 (0.18%) Go
13 3 (0.18%) Ruby
13 3 (0.18%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.12%) Scala
14 2 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 297 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 224 (13.38%) Degree
3 168 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 121 (7.23%) DV Cleared
5 102 (6.09%) PMP
6 92 (5.50%) PMI Certification
7 43 (2.57%) APMP
8 32 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 28 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (1.02%) CISM
12 17 (1.02%) CISSP
13 16 (0.96%) CISA
13 16 (0.96%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.90%) Azure Certification
14 15 (0.90%) CCNP
15 13 (0.78%) CCNA
16 9 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 8 (0.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (11.17%) PMO
2 90 (5.38%) QA
3 42 (2.51%) SLA
4 24 (1.43%) NIST
5 23 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
7 16 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.96%) Data Quality
8 14 (0.84%) GDPR
9 10 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.30%) Basel III
11 5 (0.30%) GRC
12 4 (0.24%) COREP
12 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.18%) FINREP
13 3 (0.18%) GxP
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS
13 3 (0.18%) MiFID
13 3 (0.18%) P3O
System Software
1 79 (4.72%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.14%) Docker
4 17 (1.02%) vSphere
5 16 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.90%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.60%) XenApp
8 8 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (0.42%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.36%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.36%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.24%) ACF2
12 4 (0.24%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) Ceph
13 2 (0.12%) Firmware
13 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 1 (0.060%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (2.57%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (1.55%) Terraform
3 24 (1.43%) Ansible
4 16 (0.96%) SCCM
5 10 (0.60%) vCenter Server
6 8 (0.48%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.48%) vRealize
7 6 (0.36%) Packer
7 6 (0.36%) Puppet
7 6 (0.36%) vMotion
8 5 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (0.30%) Endace
8 5 (0.30%) HP Data Protector
8 5 (0.30%) Istio
8 5 (0.30%) NetBackup
8 5 (0.30%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.30%) WSUS
9 4 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 292 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.63%) SAP
3 71 (4.24%) Cisco
4 67 (4.00%) Oracle
5 58 (3.46%) VMware
6 49 (2.93%) ServiceNow
7 33 (1.97%) Juniper
8 31 (1.85%) Citrix
9 24 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 18 (1.08%) Atlassian
10 18 (1.08%) Informatica
11 17 (1.02%) CheckPoint
12 16 (0.96%) Adobe
12 16 (0.96%) Databricks
12 16 (0.96%) Sparx
13 15 (0.90%) F5
13 15 (0.90%) Red Hat
14 13 (0.78%) Symantec
15 11 (0.66%) Infoblox
15 11 (0.66%) Progress