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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 54 35
Rank change year-on-year -14 -19 +10
Permanent jobs citing Project Delivery 192 349 293
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.11% 4.26% 6.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 5.00% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 129 184 245
10th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £38,400
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,041 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%

All Process and 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 4,969 6,981 4,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.59% 85.20% 92.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,330 3,117 3,512
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,539 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -19 109 £59,652 +8.46% 63
East Midlands -4 83 £40,000 -23.81% 45
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 13 (6.77%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.04%) IIS
3 2 (1.04%) WinCC
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (5.73%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.52%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.52%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (7.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.60%) NetSuite
3 4 (2.08%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.52%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.52%) Relativity
4 1 (0.52%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.52%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.52%) Shopify
4 1 (0.52%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 35 (18.23%) Azure
2 31 (16.15%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (7.29%) Entra ID
4 13 (6.77%) Power Platform
4 13 (6.77%) SaaS
5 9 (4.69%) OneDrive
6 8 (4.17%) AWS
7 7 (3.65%) Smartsheet
8 6 (3.13%) IaaS
8 6 (3.13%) PaaS
9 5 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.08%) GCP
11 3 (1.56%) OCI
11 3 (1.56%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.56%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 1 (0.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.17%) Modbus
2 7 (3.65%) Firewall
3 5 (2.60%) DHCP
3 5 (2.60%) DNS
3 5 (2.60%) LAN
4 4 (2.08%) Ethernet
4 4 (2.08%) MQTT
5 3 (1.56%) VPN
6 2 (1.04%) Network Security
7 1 (0.52%) BGP
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.52%) Internet
7 1 (0.52%) IPsec
7 1 (0.52%) Junos
7 1 (0.52%) MPLS
7 1 (0.52%) SAN
7 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.52%) VLAN
7 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.17%) Power BI
2 6 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.08%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.52%) Power Query
6 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (3.65%) JIRA
General
1 82 (42.71%) Social Skills
2 65 (33.85%) Finance
3 27 (14.06%) Manufacturing
4 23 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.25%) Marketing
6 12 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.73%) Retail
8 10 (5.21%) Legal
9 9 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.65%) Local Government
11 6 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.60%) Telecoms
13 4 (2.08%) Banking
13 4 (2.08%) Law
14 2 (1.04%) Advertising
14 2 (1.04%) Electronics
15 1 (0.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 36 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 26 (13.54%) Senior
3 25 (13.02%) IT Manager
4 17 (8.85%) IT Project Manager
4 17 (8.85%) Support Engineer
5 16 (8.33%) Architect
6 14 (7.29%) Analyst
6 14 (7.29%) IT Support
7 13 (6.77%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (6.25%) Lead
9 11 (5.73%) IT Engineer
10 10 (5.21%) Delivery Manager
10 10 (5.21%) IT Support Engineer
10 10 (5.21%) Technical Support
11 9 (4.69%) 2nd Line Support
11 9 (4.69%) Coordinator
11 9 (4.69%) Senior Manager
12 8 (4.17%) ERP Manager
13 7 (3.65%) Business Analyst
13 7 (3.65%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.60%) CSS
2 4 (2.08%) .NET
2 4 (2.08%) EDI
3 2 (1.04%) REST
3 2 (1.04%) XML
4 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.52%) HTML
4 1 (0.52%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.52%) PySpark
4 1 (0.52%) React
4 1 (0.52%) RESTful
4 1 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.77%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.21%) Renewable Energy
2 10 (5.21%) SCADA
3 9 (4.69%) Operational Technology
4 8 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.60%) Cyber Security Posture
7 5 (2.60%) IoT
8 4 (2.08%) Biopharmaceutical
8 4 (2.08%) Industry 4.0
8 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.08%) Web Conferencing
9 3 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.56%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.56%) FMCG
9 3 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.90%) Windows
2 11 (5.73%) Linux
3 7 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (31.25%) Project Management
2 54 (28.13%) Agile
3 49 (25.52%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (19.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 32 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 28 (14.58%) Roadmaps
6 28 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (13.02%) ERP
8 24 (12.50%) CRM
9 22 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (10.42%) Risk Management
11 19 (9.90%) Budget Management
11 19 (9.90%) PRINCE2
11 19 (9.90%) Waterfall
12 18 (9.38%) Business Case
12 18 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (8.85%) Business Development
13 17 (8.85%) Change Control
13 17 (8.85%) Change Management
14 14 (7.29%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.81%) SQL
2 9 (4.69%) C#
2 9 (4.69%) Python
3 6 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.08%) C
5 3 (1.56%) Java
5 3 (1.56%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.04%) C++
6 2 (1.04%) Ladder Logic
6 2 (1.04%) Perl
6 2 (1.04%) VB
6 2 (1.04%) VBA
7 1 (0.52%) Bash
7 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 36 (18.75%) Degree
2 18 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (7.81%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.29%) SC Cleared
5 13 (6.77%) DBS Check
6 10 (5.21%) HND
7 9 (4.69%) CCA
7 9 (4.69%) CCNA
7 9 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (4.69%) Citrix Certification
7 9 (4.69%) MCP
7 9 (4.69%) MCSA
7 9 (4.69%) MCSE
7 9 (4.69%) PMI Certification
7 9 (4.69%) PMP
8 6 (3.13%) HNC
9 5 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.60%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.08%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.08%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.81%) QA
2 14 (7.29%) SLA
3 10 (5.21%) PMO
4 7 (3.65%) GDPR
5 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.56%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.04%) IEC 61131
7 2 (1.04%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.04%) NIST
7 2 (1.04%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.52%) EMIR
8 1 (0.52%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 11 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.08%) Docker
3 4 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.08%) Functional Safety
2 4 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (29.69%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.33%) VMware
3 12 (6.25%) Cisco
4 9 (4.69%) Citrix
4 9 (4.69%) Oracle
4 9 (4.69%) SAP
5 8 (4.17%) Siemens
6 6 (3.13%) Rockwell
7 5 (2.60%) HubSpot
7 5 (2.60%) Progress
7 5 (2.60%) Sage
8 4 (2.08%) AVEVA
9 2 (1.04%) Allen-Bradley
9 2 (1.04%) Autodesk
9 2 (1.04%) Google
9 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.04%) Toshiba
9 2 (1.04%) Workday
9 2 (1.04%) Zoho