Project Delivery Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Project Delivery
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 56 62
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 -14
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 74 29 39
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.25% 3.09% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 3.35% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 15 22
10th Percentile £355 £365 £282
25th Percentile £409 £393 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £618 £588 £550
90th Percentile £630 £623 £646
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £13.50 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.91% - -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -24.23% +76.47% -47.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,023 866 1,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 88.77% 92.32% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,334 538 882
10th Percentile £313 £259 £251
25th Percentile £405 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £552 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £674
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 35 57
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.05 £11.22
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.08 £12.15
Median hourly rate £23.19 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £28.75 £21.97
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.59 £53.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Project Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in Yorkshire

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Project Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
West Yorkshire +5 46 £563 +5.88% 21
South Yorkshire -44 17 £467 +8.49% 6
North Yorkshire -8 7 £350 -33.33% 6
East Yorkshire -18 1 £350 - 2
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 5 (6.76%) Confluence
2 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.70%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (10.81%) OpenShift
3 6 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (6.76%) Azure
5 3 (4.05%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.70%) AWS
6 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.70%) SaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.35%) GCP
7 1 (1.35%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.35%) PaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) DNS
2 2 (2.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.35%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.35%) DHCP
3 1 (1.35%) Network Security
3 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.05%) Power BI
1 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
1 3 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.70%) GIS
2 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.35%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 7 (9.46%) JIRA
General
1 35 (47.30%) Finance
2 30 (40.54%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.81%) Banking
4 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.41%) Retail
6 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Legal
8 1 (1.35%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (39.19%) Project Manager
2 11 (14.86%) SAP Manager
3 10 (13.51%) SAP Project Manager
4 9 (12.16%) Analyst
5 7 (9.46%) Business Analyst
5 7 (9.46%) Senior
6 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Senior Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (4.05%) Consultant
8 3 (4.05%) DBA
8 3 (4.05%) Project Officer
8 3 (4.05%) Project Support Officer
8 3 (4.05%) Senior SAP Project Manager
8 3 (4.05%) Service Manager
8 3 (4.05%) SQL DBA
8 3 (4.05%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.70%) FHIR
2 1 (1.35%) JSON
2 1 (1.35%) Middleware
2 1 (1.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) Management Information System
1 6 (8.11%) SCADA
2 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.05%) Clustering
3 3 (4.05%) NHS
3 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.05%) Replication
4 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.70%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) pSOS
1 2 (2.70%) VMS
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.95%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (36.49%) Project Management
3 18 (24.32%) Agile
4 17 (22.97%) ERP
5 14 (18.92%) Budget Management
5 14 (18.92%) Business Case
6 12 (16.22%) Migration
6 12 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (13.51%) Programme Delivery
8 9 (12.16%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (10.81%) Commercial Awareness
9 8 (10.81%) Data Modelling
9 8 (10.81%) ITIL
9 8 (10.81%) PRINCE2
9 8 (10.81%) Risk Register
9 8 (10.81%) Workshop Facilitation
10 7 (9.46%) Business Analysis
10 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (9.46%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.76%) SQL
2 4 (5.41%) Python
3 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (17.57%) PMP
2 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.76%) Degree
3 5 (6.76%) PMI Certification
3 5 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.35%) CCNA
5 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.35%) ISEB
5 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.22%) QA
2 7 (9.46%) PMO
3 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.70%) SLA
5 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.41%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.70%) Terraform
2 1 (1.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.22%) SAP
3 5 (6.76%) VMware
4 3 (4.05%) F5
4 3 (4.05%) RedGate
4 3 (4.05%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.70%) Brio
5 2 (2.70%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.70%) Databricks
5 2 (2.70%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.35%) Ariba
6 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.35%) Concur
6 1 (1.35%) Google
6 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.35%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.35%) Workday