Project Delivery Job Trends in England

Project Delivery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 56 55
Rank change year-on-year -31 -1 +16
Permanent jobs citing Project Delivery 1,387 1,899 3,057
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.17% 4.56% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 4.88% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,022 2,243
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,775 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,288 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,538 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £79,688 £74,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.13% +4.35% -8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,162 38,910 62,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.46% 93.52% 87.66%
Number of salaries quoted 30,888 20,514 49,276
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,440
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,185 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +10.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in England

Project Delivery
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Project Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in England over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Delivery in England

Project Delivery
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Delivery within the England region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
London -2 438 £75,000 - 226
North of England -35 315 £57,500 +4.55% 127
South East -63 189 £54,331 -9.45% 221
Midlands -59 160 £52,500 - 101
North West -45 147 £59,000 +9.41% 77
South West +7 138 £65,000 +6.12% 81
Yorkshire -21 101 £55,000 - 39
East of England -20 98 £75,000 +36.36% 57
West Midlands -68 91 £60,000 +5.26% 60
East Midlands -36 69 £46,250 +0.54% 40
North East +3 67 £48,750 -23.92% 13
Project Delivery
UK

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 56 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.44%) Confluence
4 9 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.65%) CMS
5 5 (0.36%) IIS
6 4 (0.29%) Appian
6 4 (0.29%) Documentum
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.14%) Apache
7 2 (0.14%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.14%) SAS
8 1 (0.072%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.072%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 62 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 46 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.96%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.94%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.72%) Photoshop
7 10 (0.72%) SOLIDWORKS
8 9 (0.65%) Adobe Premiere
9 7 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.14%) Maya
10 2 (0.14%) Sketch
10 2 (0.14%) Trello
11 1 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.072%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.072%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.072%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 20 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.58%) Endur
3 7 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
5 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.29%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.29%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.29%) SAP FS
6 3 (0.22%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.22%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.22%) Primavera
6 3 (0.22%) SAP PS
6 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 289 (20.84%) Azure
2 162 (11.68%) Microsoft 365
3 126 (9.08%) AWS
4 82 (5.91%) Power Platform
5 80 (5.77%) Entra ID
6 78 (5.62%) SaaS
7 47 (3.39%) GCP
8 37 (2.67%) PaaS
9 31 (2.24%) IaaS
10 28 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (1.66%) PowerApps
12 18 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (1.23%) OneDrive
14 16 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
15 12 (0.87%) Snowflake
16 11 (0.79%) Google Workspace
17 10 (0.72%) Mimecast
17 10 (0.72%) Power Automate
17 10 (0.72%) Serverless
18 9 (0.65%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 85 (6.13%) Firewall
2 50 (3.60%) WAN
3 46 (3.32%) VPN
4 45 (3.24%) LAN
5 38 (2.74%) DNS
6 34 (2.45%) DHCP
7 33 (2.38%) VLAN
8 31 (2.24%) Network Security
9 29 (2.09%) Wireless
10 28 (2.02%) TCP/IP
11 21 (1.51%) WAAS
12 19 (1.37%) BGP
13 18 (1.30%) OSPF
14 17 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (1.15%) SD-WAN
16 15 (1.08%) EIGRP
17 14 (1.01%) Cisco IOS
17 14 (1.01%) SAN
18 13 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.10%) Power BI
2 27 (1.95%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (1.01%) Tableau
5 11 (0.79%) MySQL
6 6 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.43%) Big Data
6 6 (0.43%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.36%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.36%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.29%) Pinecone
8 4 (0.29%) Qlik Sense
8 4 (0.29%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.29%) Weaviate
9 3 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 47 (3.39%) JIRA
2 25 (1.80%) Git
3 7 (0.50%) GitLab
4 6 (0.43%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.36%) Maven
6 4 (0.29%) JUnit
6 4 (0.29%) Mockito
7 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.14%) Vite
9 1 (0.072%) Gradle
9 1 (0.072%) MLflow
9 1 (0.072%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 524 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 381 (27.47%) Finance
3 214 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (9.08%) Manufacturing
5 122 (8.80%) Marketing
6 105 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 96 (6.92%) Public Sector
8 76 (5.48%) Legal
9 69 (4.97%) Law
10 66 (4.76%) Banking
11 63 (4.54%) Organisational Skills
12 61 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (3.46%) Retail
14 39 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (2.52%) Telecoms
16 32 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
17 25 (1.80%) French Language
18 23 (1.66%) Spanish Language
19 20 (1.44%) Billing
20 17 (1.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 253 (18.24%) Project Manager
2 211 (15.21%) Senior
3 126 (9.08%) Lead
4 122 (8.80%) Architect
5 113 (8.15%) Analyst
6 93 (6.71%) IT Manager
7 87 (6.27%) Senior Manager
8 75 (5.41%) IT Support
9 69 (4.97%) Consultant
10 64 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
11 62 (4.47%) Delivery Manager
12 59 (4.25%) Development Manager
13 58 (4.18%) Business Analyst
14 57 (4.11%) Product Manager
15 56 (4.04%) Senior Project Manager
16 50 (3.60%) IT Project Manager
17 46 (3.32%) Product Development Manager
18 43 (3.10%) Support Engineer
19 42 (3.03%) Support Technician
20 34 (2.45%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.09%) Middleware
2 15 (1.08%) HTML
2 15 (1.08%) React
3 13 (0.94%) .NET
3 13 (0.94%) REST
4 12 (0.87%) Node.js
5 9 (0.65%) PyTorch
5 9 (0.65%) scikit-learn
5 9 (0.65%) TensorFlow
6 8 (0.58%) EDI
7 7 (0.50%) Vue
8 6 (0.43%) Django
8 6 (0.43%) OAuth
8 6 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (0.43%) Pandas
9 5 (0.36%) CSS
9 5 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (0.36%) OpenID
9 5 (0.36%) PySpark
9 5 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 63 (4.54%) Onboarding
3 61 (4.40%) Data Centre
4 57 (4.11%) FMCG
5 50 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (3.46%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.81%) Cloud Native
8 33 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (1.87%) Low-Code
10 25 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
11 23 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
12 20 (1.44%) Product Ownership
13 16 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
14 14 (1.01%) PMI
15 13 (0.94%) Social Media
16 12 (0.87%) Credit Risk
16 12 (0.87%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.79%) CMDB
17 11 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 135 (9.73%) Windows
2 47 (3.39%) Windows Server
3 45 (3.24%) Linux
4 19 (1.37%) Windows 10
5 17 (1.23%) Android
6 13 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.29%) Unix
11 4 (0.29%) VMS
12 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (32.16%) Project Management
2 411 (29.63%) Agile
3 316 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
4 297 (21.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 253 (18.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 187 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 168 (12.11%) Roadmaps
8 166 (11.97%) Mentoring
9 154 (11.10%) Change Management
10 153 (11.03%) Decision-Making
11 133 (9.59%) PRINCE2
12 128 (9.23%) DevOps
13 127 (9.16%) Service Delivery
14 118 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
15 112 (8.07%) ITIL
16 111 (8.00%) Coaching
17 107 (7.71%) AI
18 104 (7.50%) Collaborative Culture
19 100 (7.21%) Waterfall
20 85 (6.13%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (6.20%) SQL
2 59 (4.25%) PowerShell
3 54 (3.89%) Python
4 20 (1.44%) C#
4 20 (1.44%) Java
4 20 (1.44%) JavaScript
5 16 (1.15%) VBA
6 11 (0.79%) Bash
7 10 (0.72%) PHP
8 9 (0.65%) Bicep
9 8 (0.58%) R
10 7 (0.50%) C
10 7 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.43%) C++
12 5 (0.36%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.29%) Go
14 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.22%) Ladder Logic
14 3 (0.22%) Swift
15 2 (0.14%) Lua
Qualifications
1 318 (22.93%) Degree
2 123 (8.87%) Security Cleared
3 95 (6.85%) PMI Certification
4 87 (6.27%) PMP
5 77 (5.55%) SC Cleared
6 62 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 43 (3.10%) Master's Degree
10 38 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (2.38%) DBS Check
12 24 (1.73%) CCNP
13 23 (1.66%) DV Cleared
14 21 (1.51%) AWS Certification
14 21 (1.51%) RIBA
15 20 (1.44%) CCNA
15 20 (1.44%) CISSP
16 17 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (1.15%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (7.21%) QA
2 73 (5.26%) PMO
3 45 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (3.03%) SLA
5 39 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 32 (2.31%) GDPR
7 22 (1.59%) NIST
8 19 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 16 (1.15%) Data Quality
10 11 (0.79%) GRC
10 11 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.58%) EMIR
11 8 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.50%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.50%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.43%) MiFID
14 4 (0.29%) COBIT
14 4 (0.29%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.29%) P3O
14 4 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 107 (7.71%) Active Directory
2 42 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (2.24%) Docker
4 19 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.87%) ProxySG
6 10 (0.72%) vSphere
7 8 (0.58%) Firmware
8 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.14%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.072%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.072%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 47 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (2.45%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.87%) Terraform
4 17 (1.23%) Ansible
5 11 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.72%) SCCM
7 6 (0.43%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.36%) VxRail
9 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.29%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.22%) CASB
11 2 (0.14%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.14%) Puppet
12 1 (0.072%) Grafana
12 1 (0.072%) Kibana
12 1 (0.072%) Nagios
12 1 (0.072%) Nessus
Vendors
1 336 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 77 (5.55%) SAP
3 76 (5.48%) Cisco
4 62 (4.47%) VMware
5 43 (3.10%) Oracle
6 35 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.09%) Google
8 21 (1.51%) F5
9 20 (1.44%) Workday
10 19 (1.37%) Adobe
11 18 (1.30%) CheckPoint
11 18 (1.30%) SolarWinds
12 17 (1.23%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.15%) Citrix
14 15 (1.08%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.01%) Software AG
15 14 (1.01%) Veeam
16 12 (0.87%) Infoblox
16 12 (0.87%) MuleSoft
16 12 (0.87%) Palo Alto