Project Delivery Job Trends in the Midlands

Project Delivery
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 40 44
Rank change year-on-year -72 +4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Project Delivery 157 288 473
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.52% 5.74% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 6.26% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 91 172 342
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,995 £32,550
25th Percentile £40,625 £42,500 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,640 £66,156 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £79,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.13% +4.35% -8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,937 4,598 8,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 76.81% 91.63% 83.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,523 2,573 6,669
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,603 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,986 £75,000
England 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 the Midlands

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

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Project Delivery
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Project Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Delivery in the Midlands

Project Delivery
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Delivery within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
West Midlands -71 89 £60,000 +7.14% 71
East Midlands -36 68 £50,000 +5.26% 36
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (5.73%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.27%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (5.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.18%) NetSuite
3 4 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.64%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.64%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 39 (24.84%) Azure
2 23 (14.65%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (10.19%) Power Platform
4 14 (8.92%) Entra ID
5 11 (7.01%) AWS
6 10 (6.37%) IaaS
6 10 (6.37%) PaaS
7 9 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.46%) SaaS
9 4 (2.55%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.91%) GCP
11 2 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.27%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.64%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.64%) OCI
12 1 (0.64%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.82%) LAN
2 5 (3.18%) Firewall
3 4 (2.55%) DHCP
3 4 (2.55%) DNS
3 4 (2.55%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.55%) VPN
3 4 (2.55%) WAN
4 3 (1.91%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.91%) Modbus
5 2 (1.27%) Broadband
5 2 (1.27%) PBX
5 2 (1.27%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.27%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.27%) VLAN
5 2 (1.27%) VoIP
6 1 (0.64%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.55%) Power BI
3 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.55%) JUnit
1 4 (2.55%) Maven
1 4 (2.55%) Mockito
2 3 (1.91%) JIRA
3 1 (0.64%) Git
General
1 64 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 41 (26.11%) Finance
3 23 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (8.28%) Legal
5 13 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.73%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.73%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (5.10%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.18%) Advertising
8 5 (3.18%) Law
9 4 (2.55%) Banking
9 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.55%) Retail
10 3 (1.91%) Aviation
10 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Electronics
11 1 (0.64%) iGaming
11 1 (0.64%) Marketing
11 1 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (24.20%) Project Manager
2 37 (23.57%) Senior
3 19 (12.10%) IT Manager
4 18 (11.46%) Architect
5 17 (10.83%) Lead
6 15 (9.55%) Analyst
6 15 (9.55%) Senior Manager
6 15 (9.55%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (8.92%) IT Project Manager
8 13 (8.28%) Senior Project Manager
9 12 (7.64%) IT Support
10 9 (5.73%) Support Technician
11 8 (5.10%) Support Engineer
12 7 (4.46%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (4.46%) Developer
13 6 (3.82%) 2nd Line Support
13 6 (3.82%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.82%) Technical Support
14 5 (3.18%) IT Support Engineer
14 5 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.18%) REST
2 3 (1.91%) .NET
3 2 (1.27%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.27%) PySpark
4 1 (0.64%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.64%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.64%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.64%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.64%) EDI
4 1 (0.64%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.64%) jQuery
4 1 (0.64%) React
4 1 (0.64%) SAP CAF
4 1 (0.64%) Web Services
4 1 (0.64%) XML
4 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.64%) Driving Licence
2 9 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.18%) Mobile Computing
5 5 (3.18%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (3.18%) SCADA
6 4 (2.55%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.55%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.55%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.27%) CCTV
8 2 (1.27%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.64%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.01%) Windows
2 14 (8.92%) Linux
3 4 (2.55%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.27%) Android
4 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.76%) Agile
2 41 (26.11%) Project Management
3 39 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (19.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (18.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (17.83%) Mentoring
6 28 (17.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (17.20%) Roadmaps
8 19 (12.10%) CRM
9 18 (11.46%) Change Control
9 18 (11.46%) Enterprise Architecture
10 17 (10.83%) Service Delivery
11 16 (10.19%) Change Management
11 16 (10.19%) PRINCE2
12 15 (9.55%) DevOps
13 13 (8.28%) Architectural Design
13 13 (8.28%) Budget Management
13 13 (8.28%) TOGAF
14 12 (7.64%) Integration Patterns
14 12 (7.64%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.55%) SQL
2 6 (3.82%) C
3 5 (3.18%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.18%) VBA
4 4 (2.55%) Bash
4 4 (2.55%) C#
4 4 (2.55%) Java
4 4 (2.55%) PL/SQL
4 4 (2.55%) Python
4 4 (2.55%) R
5 3 (1.91%) Ladder Logic
6 2 (1.27%) C++
6 2 (1.27%) VB
7 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 21 (13.38%) Degree
2 17 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.01%) PMI Certification
4 11 (7.01%) PMP
5 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.46%) CCNA
6 7 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.82%) CCA
7 6 (3.82%) Citrix Certification
7 6 (3.82%) MCSA
7 6 (3.82%) MCSE
7 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.55%) HND
9 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.27%) HNC
9 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.92%) QA
2 10 (6.37%) SLA
3 5 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.91%) NIST
5 3 (1.91%) PMO
6 2 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.27%) GDPR
6 2 (1.27%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.64%) P3O
System Software
1 12 (7.64%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.10%) Docker
3 2 (1.27%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (5.10%) Kubernetes
1 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (24.20%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.01%) Oracle
2 11 (7.01%) SAP
3 7 (4.46%) Cisco
3 7 (4.46%) VMware
4 6 (3.82%) Citrix
5 2 (1.27%) Civica
5 2 (1.27%) Databricks
5 2 (1.27%) Kaseya
5 2 (1.27%) MobileIron
5 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.27%) Workday
5 2 (1.27%) Zoho
6 1 (0.64%) Ariba
6 1 (0.64%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.64%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.64%) Sage