Project Delivery Job Trends in the South East

Project Delivery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 59 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -5
Permanent jobs citing Project Delivery 404 343 622
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.58% 4.01% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 4.53% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 307 200 434
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,375 £45,545
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,652 £54,151
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +10.16% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,625 £71,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £79,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,261 7,577 13,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.92% 88.68% 81.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8,004 3,964 9,702
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in the South East

Project Delivery
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Project Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the South East over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Delivery in the South East

Project Delivery
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Delivery within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Hampshire +48 208 £45,000 -21.74% 48
Thames Valley -30 96 £52,500 -11.99% 70
Berkshire -16 59 £47,500 -14.08% 37
Surrey -14 52 £57,500 -4.96% 25
West Sussex -22 21 £63,750 -13.56% 8
Buckinghamshire -21 19 £61,500 +2.50% 21
Oxfordshire -5 18 £53,750 -9.89% 14
Kent -47 14 £52,000 +26.83% 8
Middlesex +34 3 £38,500 - 4
East Sussex -27 2 - - 5
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 22 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.98%) Confluence
4 5 (1.24%) Apache
5 3 (0.74%) IIS
5 3 (0.74%) OpenEdge
5 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) ArchestrA
6 1 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.50%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Primavera
2 1 (0.25%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.25%) Infor LN
2 1 (0.25%) Maximo
2 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.25%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (19.31%) Azure
2 64 (15.84%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (6.44%) Entra ID
4 11 (2.72%) Mimecast
4 11 (2.72%) Power Platform
5 10 (2.48%) Google Workspace
6 8 (1.98%) AWS
6 8 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.24%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.24%) SaaS
7 5 (1.24%) Smartsheet
8 4 (0.99%) GCP
8 4 (0.99%) GitHub
9 3 (0.74%) Nutanix
9 3 (0.74%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.50%) Harvey AI
10 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 56 (13.86%) Firewall
2 21 (5.20%) VPN
3 19 (4.70%) Wireless
4 18 (4.46%) DHCP
4 18 (4.46%) DNS
5 14 (3.47%) VLAN
6 11 (2.72%) LAN
6 11 (2.72%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.72%) WAN
7 9 (2.23%) SSL
8 8 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.24%) Network Security
9 5 (1.24%) VoIP
10 4 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.99%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.50%) HTTP
12 2 (0.50%) MQTT
12 2 (0.50%) NetScaler
13 1 (0.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.74%) Power BI
2 3 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (0.74%) Tableau
3 1 (0.25%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (4.21%) JIRA
2 9 (2.23%) Git
3 7 (1.73%) GitLab
4 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.25%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.25%) JUnit
5 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.25%) Selenium
5 1 (0.25%) Subversion
5 1 (0.25%) TestNG
5 1 (0.25%) WebDriver
General
1 165 (40.84%) Social Skills
2 84 (20.79%) Finance
3 55 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (11.88%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (3.47%) Manufacturing
6 13 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.97%) Aerospace
7 12 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (2.97%) Retail
8 10 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.48%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.23%) Games
10 7 (1.73%) Legal
11 6 (1.49%) Law
11 6 (1.49%) Marketing
12 4 (0.99%) Advertising
12 4 (0.99%) Legal Technology
12 4 (0.99%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.74%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 70 (17.33%) Senior
2 49 (12.13%) IT Support
3 45 (11.14%) Lead
4 39 (9.65%) Support Engineer
5 35 (8.66%) Project Manager
6 34 (8.42%) IT Engineer
7 29 (7.18%) Consultant
7 29 (7.18%) Support Technician
8 28 (6.93%) IT Support Engineer
9 25 (6.19%) Programme Manager
10 23 (5.69%) 2nd Line Support
11 21 (5.20%) Systems Engineer
12 20 (4.95%) Administrator
13 19 (4.70%) IT Manager
14 17 (4.21%) Compliance Manager
14 17 (4.21%) IT Support Technician
14 17 (4.21%) IT Technician
14 17 (4.21%) Senior Manager
15 16 (3.96%) Delivery Manager
16 15 (3.71%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.72%) JSON
2 10 (2.48%) Middleware
3 7 (1.73%) HTML
4 6 (1.49%) XML
5 5 (1.24%) CSS
5 5 (1.24%) Jinja
5 5 (1.24%) Node.js
5 5 (1.24%) YAML
6 4 (0.99%) .NET
6 4 (0.99%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.99%) Django
6 4 (0.99%) React
6 4 (0.99%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.50%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (0.50%) REST
7 2 (0.50%) RESTful
7 2 (0.50%) SOAP
7 2 (0.50%) Web Services
7 2 (0.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.92%) Driving Licence
2 18 (4.46%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (3.71%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.97%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.48%) Clustering
6 9 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.98%) Web Conferencing
8 7 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.49%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.99%) NHS
10 4 (0.99%) Operational Technology
10 4 (0.99%) PMI
11 3 (0.74%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.74%) PKI
11 3 (0.74%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.50%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (17.82%) Windows
2 39 (9.65%) Windows Server
3 17 (4.21%) Linux
4 12 (2.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (2.72%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.74%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.50%) Debian
8 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (37.38%) Project Management
2 125 (30.94%) Problem-Solving
3 112 (27.72%) Logistics
4 88 (21.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 62 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (15.35%) ITIL
6 52 (12.87%) Customer Service
7 46 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
8 44 (10.89%) Agile
9 39 (9.65%) Mentoring
9 39 (9.65%) Service Delivery
10 37 (9.16%) Decision-Making
11 35 (8.66%) PRINCE2
12 33 (8.17%) Change Management
13 32 (7.92%) Time Management
14 31 (7.67%) Service Management
15 30 (7.43%) Risk Management
16 26 (6.44%) Data Analysis
17 22 (5.45%) DevOps
18 20 (4.95%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 34 (8.42%) SQL
2 16 (3.96%) Python
3 10 (2.48%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.99%) C#
5 4 (0.99%) C++
6 3 (0.74%) ABAP
6 3 (0.74%) Assembly Language
7 2 (0.50%) Bash
7 2 (0.50%) Perl
8 1 (0.25%) Groovy
8 1 (0.25%) Java
8 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 96 (23.76%) DBS Check
2 32 (7.92%) Degree
3 27 (6.68%) Security Cleared
4 25 (6.19%) PMI Certification
5 21 (5.20%) PMP
6 19 (4.70%) SC Cleared
7 17 (4.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 15 (3.71%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.23%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.24%) CIPD
12 5 (1.24%) CISM
12 5 (1.24%) CISSP
12 5 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.24%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.99%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.18%) ISO 9001
2 24 (5.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 22 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (5.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 17 (4.21%) ISO 14001
5 17 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 17 (4.21%) PMO
6 14 (3.47%) GDPR
7 9 (2.23%) QA
8 6 (1.49%) SLA
9 5 (1.24%) NCSC
9 5 (1.24%) NIST
10 3 (0.74%) ECSS
11 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.50%) GRC
11 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.25%) GAAP
12 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 52 (12.87%) Active Directory
2 28 (6.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.44%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.72%) Docker
5 6 (1.49%) Firmware
6 5 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.74%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.50%) UAG
9 1 (0.25%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (6.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (4.70%) SCCM
3 10 (2.48%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.98%) Terraform
5 7 (1.73%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (1.24%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.74%) Ansible
8 3 (0.74%) Puppet
9 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.50%) SCOM
9 2 (0.50%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.25%) Argo
10 1 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 125 (30.94%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.67%) VMware
3 26 (6.44%) Fortinet
4 24 (5.94%) Cisco
4 24 (5.94%) SonicWALL
5 13 (3.22%) Google
6 11 (2.72%) Sophos
6 11 (2.72%) Ubiquiti
7 10 (2.48%) N-able
8 8 (1.98%) Barracuda Networks
9 7 (1.73%) Meraki
9 7 (1.73%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.73%) Veeam
10 5 (1.24%) Oracle
10 5 (1.24%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.24%) SAP
10 5 (1.24%) WatchGuard
11 4 (0.99%) Apple
11 4 (0.99%) Datto
12 3 (0.74%) Symantec