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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 56 50
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 66 42 64
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.65% 3.06% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 3.61% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 19 42
10th Percentile £306 £412 £357
25th Percentile £401 £459 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £567 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% +3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £587 £619 £605
90th Percentile £648 £638 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £50.88 -
25th Percentile - £54.06 £41.50
Median hourly rate - £61.25 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - +42.44% +104.76%
75th Percentile - £66.56 £44.50
90th Percentile - £68.63 -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.90 £57.49
% change year-on-year +26.63% -37.56% -4.18%

All Process and 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 1,619 1,165 1,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.60% 84.79% 88.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 671 1,075
10th Percentile £252 £260 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £649 £650 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 36 27
10th Percentile £15.25 - £16.28
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.63 £18.07 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +30.80% -15.22% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.75 £28.39
90th Percentile £78.63 £38.75 £44.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 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
West Yorkshire +2 35 £530 -6.53% 38
South Yorkshire -20 22 £405 -14.74% 11
North Yorkshire +8 7 £613 -2.00% 9
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 15 (22.73%) Confluence
2 4 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.52%) CMS
4 1 (1.52%) Drupal
Applications
1 12 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (9.09%) MS Visio
4 5 (7.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.12%) Azure
2 7 (10.61%) AWS
3 3 (4.55%) GCP
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.52%) OCI
5 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.52%) Serverless
5 1 (1.52%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) GIS
1 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (1.52%) Power BI
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) JIRA
General
1 30 (45.45%) Finance
1 30 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.15%) Banking
3 7 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.03%) Marketing
6 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.52%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (45.45%) Project Manager
2 14 (21.21%) Analyst
3 12 (18.18%) Business Analyst
4 7 (10.61%) Delivery Manager
5 6 (9.09%) Lead
5 6 (9.09%) Senior
5 6 (9.09%) Senior Manager
6 5 (7.58%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Manager
6 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 5 (7.58%) Security Manager
6 5 (7.58%) Security Project Manager
6 5 (7.58%) Senior Project Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Business Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Business Project Manager
7 4 (6.06%) IT Manager
7 4 (6.06%) IT Project Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Lead Project Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Project Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) FHIR
1 2 (3.03%) Middleware
1 2 (3.03%) REST
1 2 (3.03%) SOAP
2 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.03%) NHS
3 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) CCTV
4 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.52%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.52%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) pSOS
1 1 (1.52%) Windows
1 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.00%) Agile
2 30 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (42.42%) Project Management
4 25 (37.88%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (22.73%) Waterfall
6 14 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 9 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (13.64%) SDLC
10 8 (12.12%) Budget Management
10 8 (12.12%) Business Analysis
11 7 (10.61%) Migration
12 6 (9.09%) Change Management
12 6 (9.09%) ERP
12 6 (9.09%) ITIL
12 6 (9.09%) Resource Management
12 6 (9.09%) Risk Management
12 6 (9.09%) Scrum
12 6 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.03%) Python
1 2 (3.03%) SQL
2 1 (1.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) PMP
2 5 (7.58%) Degree
3 3 (4.55%) PMI Certification
3 3 (4.55%) RIBA
4 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.52%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) PMO
2 3 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.52%) GDPR
4 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.52%) XenApp
2 1 (1.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) SAP
2 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.03%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.03%) Brio
3 2 (3.03%) Databricks
3 2 (3.03%) Planview
4 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.52%) Cisco
4 1 (1.52%) Citrix
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle
4 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.52%) VMware