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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 47 42
Rank change year-on-year -51 -5 +23
Permanent jobs citing Project Delivery 193 254 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.65% 5.24% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 5.84% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 108 152 359
10th Percentile £34,925 £36,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,675 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% - -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,730 £68,319 £67,075
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £63,076 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.92% +8.70% -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 8,707 4,353 9,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 74.38% 89.77% 82.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,119 2,584 6,996
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,349 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +8.10% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -56 114 £57,500 +4.55% 70
East Midlands -22 79 £52,500 +5.00% 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 13 (6.74%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.04%) WordPress
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.07%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.04%) Magento
3 2 (1.04%) SAP Business One
3 2 (1.04%) Shopify
4 1 (0.52%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 40 (20.73%) Azure
2 27 (13.99%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (9.33%) Power Platform
4 13 (6.74%) Entra ID
5 11 (5.70%) AWS
6 9 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.66%) IaaS
6 9 (4.66%) PaaS
7 8 (4.15%) SaaS
8 4 (2.07%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.04%) GCP
9 2 (1.04%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.52%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.52%) OCI
10 1 (0.52%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) Firewall
2 5 (2.59%) Ethernet
2 5 (2.59%) LAN
2 5 (2.59%) VPN
3 4 (2.07%) WAN
4 3 (1.55%) DHCP
4 3 (1.55%) DNS
4 3 (1.55%) Modbus
4 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.04%) Broadband
5 2 (1.04%) PBX
5 2 (1.04%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.04%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.04%) VLAN
5 2 (1.04%) VoIP
6 1 (0.52%) BGP
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.52%) MPLS
6 1 (0.52%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.63%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.11%) Power BI
3 4 (2.07%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.04%) MySQL
5 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.52%) DTS
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.59%) JUnit
2 4 (2.07%) Maven
2 4 (2.07%) Mockito
3 2 (1.04%) JIRA
4 1 (0.52%) Appium
4 1 (0.52%) Git
4 1 (0.52%) Selenium
4 1 (0.52%) TestNG
General
1 73 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.83%) Finance
3 27 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.74%) Legal
5 13 (6.74%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.63%) Advertising
9 6 (3.11%) Law
10 4 (2.07%) Banking
10 4 (2.07%) Marketing
10 4 (2.07%) Retail
11 3 (1.55%) Aviation
11 3 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.04%) Automotive
13 1 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 45 (23.32%) Project Manager
2 42 (21.76%) Senior
3 26 (13.47%) IT Manager
4 19 (9.84%) Architect
5 18 (9.33%) Lead
6 17 (8.81%) Analyst
7 16 (8.29%) Senior Manager
7 16 (8.29%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (7.77%) IT Project Manager
9 13 (6.74%) Delivery Manager
9 13 (6.74%) Senior Project Manager
10 11 (5.70%) IT Support
11 10 (5.18%) Support Technician
12 9 (4.66%) Project Delivery Manager
13 8 (4.15%) Business Analyst
14 7 (3.63%) Developer
15 6 (3.11%) Head of Delivery
15 6 (3.11%) IT Engineer
15 6 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
15 6 (3.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.59%) REST
2 3 (1.55%) XML
3 2 (1.04%) .NET
3 2 (1.04%) CSS
3 2 (1.04%) HTML
3 2 (1.04%) PySpark
3 2 (1.04%) RESTful
4 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.52%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.52%) EDI
4 1 (0.52%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.52%) jQuery
4 1 (0.52%) React
4 1 (0.52%) SAP CAF
4 1 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.74%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.15%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.59%) Mobile Computing
6 5 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.59%) SCADA
7 4 (2.07%) Credit Risk
7 4 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.07%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.55%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.04%) IoT
9 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.40%) Windows
2 15 (7.77%) Linux
3 4 (2.07%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.04%) Android
4 2 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (28.50%) Agile
2 48 (24.87%) Project Management
3 45 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (18.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (16.58%) Roadmaps
6 31 (16.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (15.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 27 (13.99%) Mentoring
9 20 (10.36%) CRM
9 20 (10.36%) Enterprise Architecture
9 20 (10.36%) Service Delivery
10 18 (9.33%) PRINCE2
11 17 (8.81%) Budget Management
11 17 (8.81%) Change Control
12 16 (8.29%) Change Management
13 15 (7.77%) DevOps
14 14 (7.25%) ITIL
14 14 (7.25%) Risk Management
15 13 (6.74%) AI
15 13 (6.74%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.29%) SQL
2 8 (4.15%) C
3 6 (3.11%) C#
3 6 (3.11%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.11%) Python
4 5 (2.59%) VBA
5 4 (2.07%) Bash
5 4 (2.07%) Java
5 4 (2.07%) PL/SQL
5 4 (2.07%) R
6 3 (1.55%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.55%) Ladder Logic
7 2 (1.04%) C++
7 2 (1.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (11.92%) Degree
2 21 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.33%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.25%) PMI Certification
5 13 (6.74%) PMP
6 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.07%) CCNA
7 4 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.07%) HND
8 3 (1.55%) CCA
8 3 (1.55%) Citrix Certification
8 3 (1.55%) MCSA
8 3 (1.55%) MCSE
8 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.04%) HNC
9 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.77%) QA
2 6 (3.11%) SLA
3 5 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.07%) GDPR
5 3 (1.55%) NIST
6 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.04%) IEC 61131
6 2 (1.04%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.04%) PMO
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.52%) P3O
System Software
1 12 (6.22%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.15%) Docker
3 2 (1.04%) BitLocker
3 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.04%) vSphere
4 1 (0.52%) Firmware
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (5.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.77%) SAP
3 10 (5.18%) Oracle
4 6 (3.11%) Cisco
5 4 (2.07%) VMware
6 3 (1.55%) Ariba
6 3 (1.55%) Citrix
7 2 (1.04%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (1.04%) Civica
7 2 (1.04%) Databricks
7 2 (1.04%) Kaseya
7 2 (1.04%) MobileIron
7 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.04%) Siemens
7 2 (1.04%) Zoho
8 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.52%) Teradata
8 1 (0.52%) Workday