Project Delivery Job Trends in the South West

Project Delivery
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 74 62
Rank change year-on-year -21 -12 +41
Permanent jobs citing Project Delivery 90 136 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.79% 3.19% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 3.76% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 66 58 124
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,275 £41,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £43,807 £44,804
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,596 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,705 £63,062
90th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,620 3,613 4,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.08% 84.77% 90.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,465 1,836 3,121
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,720 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +4.23% +2.94%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
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 South West

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

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in the South West

Project Delivery
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Project Delivery
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the South West over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Delivery in the South West

Project Delivery
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 January 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
Bristol +23 24 £55,000 +1.85% 24
Gloucestershire +8 21 £45,000 -21.74% 21
Devon -2 14 £35,000 -31.37% 10
Somerset -32 11 £52,500 +66.67% 10
Cornwall -11 9 £80,000 +166.67% 2
Wiltshire -9 8 £42,000 -32.80% 14
Dorset +5 2 £70,000 -11.11% 5
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 12
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (5.56%) Confluence
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.11%) Apache
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) assyst
1 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.56%) Azure
2 14 (15.56%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (12.22%) AWS
4 5 (5.56%) Google Workspace
5 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.33%) GCP
6 3 (3.33%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.22%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.22%) SaaS
8 1 (1.11%) Asana
8 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.11%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.11%) OCI
8 1 (1.11%) PaaS
8 1 (1.11%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.67%) WAN
2 4 (4.44%) 5G
2 4 (4.44%) Firewall
2 4 (4.44%) SD-WAN
3 3 (3.33%) DKIM
3 3 (3.33%) DMARC
3 3 (3.33%) DNS
3 3 (3.33%) Internet
3 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.11%) Metadata
2 1 (1.11%) MySQL
2 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.11%) Power Query
2 1 (1.11%) Spark SQL
2 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.89%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Git
General
1 35 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.67%) Finance
3 19 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.78%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.44%) Dutch Language
6 4 (4.44%) French Language
6 4 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.44%) Spanish Language
7 3 (3.33%) Back Office
7 3 (3.33%) Marketing
8 2 (2.22%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.22%) Banking
8 2 (2.22%) Legal
8 2 (2.22%) Local Government
8 2 (2.22%) Military
8 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (26.67%) Project Manager
2 12 (13.33%) IT Support
3 11 (12.22%) Technical Manager
4 10 (11.11%) Analyst
5 8 (8.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) IT Manager
6 6 (6.67%) Lead
6 6 (6.67%) Support Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Account Manager
7 5 (5.56%) IT Support Specialist
7 5 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Support Specialist
7 5 (5.56%) Technical Account Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Hardware Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) RF Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Service Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) Technical Project Leader
8 4 (4.44%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.11%) EDI
1 1 (1.11%) JSON
1 1 (1.11%) Kafka
1 1 (1.11%) Laravel
1 1 (1.11%) Middleware
1 1 (1.11%) PySpark
1 1 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.11%) RESTful
1 1 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 5 (5.56%) Self-Driving Car
2 4 (4.44%) Driving Licence
2 4 (4.44%) GNSS
3 3 (3.33%) PMI
4 2 (2.22%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (2.22%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.11%) CCTV
5 1 (1.11%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.11%) Robotics
5 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.44%) Windows
2 6 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.44%) Linux
3 4 (4.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.11%) Project Management
2 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (27.78%) Agile
4 22 (24.44%) ITIL
5 17 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (15.56%) Service Delivery
6 14 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (13.33%) Customer Service
8 10 (11.11%) AI
8 10 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (11.11%) DevOps
8 10 (11.11%) Machine Learning
8 10 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
8 10 (11.11%) Project Governance
9 9 (10.00%) Decision-Making
10 8 (8.89%) Waterfall
11 7 (7.78%) Analytics
11 7 (7.78%) Migration
11 7 (7.78%) PRINCE2
11 7 (7.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.22%) Python
2 2 (2.22%) SQL
3 1 (1.11%) Bash
3 1 (1.11%) Bicep
3 1 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.11%) PHP
3 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) Degree
2 13 (14.44%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.00%) A+ Certification
4 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
6 5 (5.56%) PMI Certification
6 5 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.44%) MCP
8 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.22%) BC Cleared
9 2 (2.22%) CCNA
9 2 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.22%) MAPM
9 2 (2.22%) PMP
9 2 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (1.11%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) PMO
2 4 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.44%) QA
3 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.22%) GDPR
3 2 (2.22%) NIST
4 1 (1.11%) COBIT
4 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.11%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.11%) NCSC
4 1 (1.11%) P3O
4 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.11%) SLA
4 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.11%) CASB
2 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.44%) Cisco
3 6 (6.67%) arcserve
3 6 (6.67%) Veeam
4 4 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.22%) BT
5 2 (2.22%) Openreach
6 1 (1.11%) BMC
6 1 (1.11%) Citrix
6 1 (1.11%) Databricks
6 1 (1.11%) Google
6 1 (1.11%) IFS
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle
6 1 (1.11%) Remedy
6 1 (1.11%) Tenable
6 1 (1.11%) Ubiquiti