Project Delivery Job Trends in Cumbria

Project Delivery
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +25
Permanent jobs citing Project Delivery 34 81 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Cumbria 9.02% 16.33% 18.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.73% 20.35% 21.24%
Number of salaries quoted 22 37 2
10th Percentile £49,883 £40,748 -
25th Percentile £54,500 £50,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £58,500 -
90th Percentile £98,000 £60,350 -
North West median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +13.21% -10.96% +13.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cumbria

Project Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cumbria.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 317 398 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cumbria 84.08% 80.24% 87.26%
Number of salaries quoted 138 175 110
10th Percentile £29,188 £35,881 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,748 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +33.33% -13.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,350 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,708 £67,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Project Delivery
Salary Trend in Cumbria

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Project Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Salary Histogram in Cumbria

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in Cumbria over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Delivery in Cumbria

Project Delivery
Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Delivery within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness +1 9 £60,000 +7.14% 4
Carlisle - 7 £80,000 - 3
Broughton-in-Furness +2 6 £48,000 -14.29%
Kirkby-in-Furness -5 2 £53,068 -5.24%
Millom -1 1 - -
Dalton-in-Furness -3 1 - -
Ulverston -4 1 - -
Whitehaven - 1 - -
Project Delivery
North West

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Applications
1 8 (23.53%) AutoCAD
1 8 (23.53%) SOLIDWORKS
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) AWS
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
1 8 (23.53%) GCP
General
1 10 (29.41%) Finance
1 10 (29.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Principal Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Manager
2 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 8 (23.53%) Manufacturing Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Project Manager
3 7 (20.59%) Engineering Manager
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) ICT Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Planning Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) Node.js
1 7 (20.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Project Management
2 11 (32.35%) Mentoring
3 10 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (23.53%) Business Case
4 8 (23.53%) Business Development
4 8 (23.53%) Facilities Management
4 8 (23.53%) Manufacturing Engineering
4 8 (23.53%) PRINCE2
4 8 (23.53%) Requirements Gathering
5 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.59%) DevOps
5 7 (20.59%) Mathematics
5 7 (20.59%) Physics
5 7 (20.59%) Systems Engineering
5 7 (20.59%) Validation
5 7 (20.59%) Verification and Validation
6 3 (8.82%) Agile
6 3 (8.82%) Roadmaps
7 2 (5.88%) Business Analysis
7 2 (5.88%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 15 (44.12%) RIBA
3 8 (23.53%) HNC
4 7 (20.59%) Degree
5 3 (8.82%) PMI Certification
5 3 (8.82%) PMP
6 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Google
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft