Project Delivery Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Project Delivery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 82 67
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 +11
Permanent jobs citing Project Delivery 1,375 1,078 2,537
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.08% 3.72% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 4.04% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 847 662 1,858
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,751 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,156 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,344 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,819 26,675 57,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.90% 92.04% 83.38%
Number of salaries quoted 30,052 13,730 40,965
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.97%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Project Delivery job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Project Delivery
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Project Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Delivery in the UK excluding London

Project Delivery
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Delivery within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
North of England +22 366 £55,000 - 146
South East -22 296 £51,000 -15.00% 224
Midlands -29 209 £57,500 +4.55% 108
South West +1 170 £70,752 +20.43% 89
North West +2 164 £55,000 - 79
West Midlands -52 128 £58,750 +3.07% 81
East of England +22 126 £60,000 +20.00% 45
Northern Ireland +13 115 £42,500 +5.67% 4
Yorkshire +7 115 £57,500 - 43
North East +18 87 £45,000 +20.00% 27
East Midlands +2 81 £55,000 +3.29% 27
Scotland +11 62 £52,500 -12.50% 36
Wales -12 30 £55,343 -6.99% 18
Channel Islands -1 2 - -
Project Delivery
UK

Project Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 48 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.16%) Confluence
4 6 (0.44%) IIS
5 4 (0.29%) CMS
5 4 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.29%) WordPress
6 3 (0.22%) Apache
6 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (0.15%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.15%) PowerFactory
7 2 (0.15%) WinCC
8 1 (0.073%) ArchestrA
8 1 (0.073%) Umbraco
Applications
1 74 (5.38%) Microsoft Project
2 69 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (4.15%) AutoCAD
4 49 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
5 19 (1.38%) Revit
6 12 (0.87%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.51%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.15%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.15%) Sketch
10 2 (0.15%) Weka
11 1 (0.073%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 16 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.51%) SAP Business One
4 6 (0.44%) Shopify
5 3 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.22%) Magento
5 3 (0.22%) Primavera
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.15%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.15%) iTrent
6 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.073%) Infor LN
7 1 (0.073%) LongView
7 1 (0.073%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.073%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.073%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.073%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 204 (14.84%) Azure
2 131 (9.53%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (4.65%) AWS
4 61 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 54 (3.93%) Entra ID
6 31 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (2.25%) SaaS
7 23 (1.67%) PowerApps
8 22 (1.60%) PaaS
9 21 (1.53%) IaaS
10 16 (1.16%) GCP
11 15 (1.09%) GitHub
11 15 (1.09%) Smartsheet
12 12 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (0.87%) Power Automate
13 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (0.58%) Google Workspace
14 8 (0.58%) Mimecast
15 6 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (0.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.73%) Firewall
2 47 (3.42%) TETRA
3 32 (2.33%) DNS
4 31 (2.25%) VPN
5 30 (2.18%) DHCP
6 28 (2.04%) WAN
7 26 (1.89%) LAN
8 25 (1.82%) VLAN
9 24 (1.75%) Wireless
10 17 (1.24%) TCP/IP
11 16 (1.16%) Network Security
12 14 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.73%) BGP
14 9 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (0.65%) Cisco Wireless
14 9 (0.65%) EIGRP
14 9 (0.65%) OSPF
15 8 (0.58%) WAAS
15 8 (0.58%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (1.82%) Power BI
1 25 (1.82%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.51%) Relational Database
3 6 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (0.44%) MySQL
4 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
4 5 (0.36%) Metadata
5 4 (0.29%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.22%) Tableau
7 2 (0.15%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.15%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.073%) DTS
8 1 (0.073%) OLAP
8 1 (0.073%) OLTP
8 1 (0.073%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (3.27%) JIRA
2 24 (1.75%) Git
3 8 (0.58%) GitLab
4 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.36%) JUnit
5 4 (0.29%) Maven
5 4 (0.29%) Mockito
6 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.15%) Selenium
6 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.073%) Appium
7 1 (0.073%) Hudson
7 1 (0.073%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.073%) JMeter
7 1 (0.073%) Moq
7 1 (0.073%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.073%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.073%) Storybook
7 1 (0.073%) Subversion
7 1 (0.073%) TestNG
General
1 518 (37.67%) Social Skills
2 263 (19.13%) Finance
3 144 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 83 (6.04%) Marketing
6 74 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 72 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (4.15%) Public Sector
9 44 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.69%) Legal
12 28 (2.04%) Aerospace
13 27 (1.96%) Law
13 27 (1.96%) Retail
14 23 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.38%) Advertising
16 18 (1.31%) Telecoms
17 14 (1.02%) Local Government
18 11 (0.80%) Banking
19 8 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 242 (17.60%) Senior
2 231 (16.80%) Project Manager
3 146 (10.62%) Lead
4 109 (7.93%) Analyst
5 105 (7.64%) Senior Manager
6 96 (6.98%) Delivery Manager
7 83 (6.04%) Senior Project Manager
8 71 (5.16%) Support Engineer
9 69 (5.02%) IT Manager
10 65 (4.73%) IT Support
10 65 (4.73%) Project Delivery Manager
11 59 (4.29%) Development Manager
12 58 (4.22%) Architect
13 53 (3.85%) Product Manager
14 52 (3.78%) Consultant
15 51 (3.71%) Product Development Manager
16 46 (3.35%) Business Analyst
17 44 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 43 (3.13%) IT Engineer
18 43 (3.13%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.02%) .NET
1 14 (1.02%) HTML
1 14 (1.02%) Middleware
1 14 (1.02%) Node.js
2 11 (0.80%) React
3 10 (0.73%) CSS
4 8 (0.58%) REST
5 7 (0.51%) Vue
5 7 (0.51%) XML
6 6 (0.44%) JSON
6 6 (0.44%) RESTful
6 6 (0.44%) YAML
7 5 (0.36%) Jinja
8 4 (0.29%) Bootstrap
8 4 (0.29%) jQuery
8 4 (0.29%) PySpark
9 3 (0.22%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.22%) HTML5
9 3 (0.22%) Web Services
10 2 (0.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 77 (5.60%) Driving Licence
2 56 (4.07%) Management Information System
3 54 (3.93%) FMCG
4 47 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 41 (2.98%) Data Centre
6 34 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.96%) Product Ownership
8 20 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.38%) Low-Code
10 18 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.24%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (0.87%) SCADA
15 11 (0.80%) PMI
16 9 (0.65%) Web Conferencing
17 8 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
18 7 (0.51%) Life Science
18 7 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 118 (8.58%) Windows
2 50 (3.64%) Windows Server
3 34 (2.47%) Linux
4 17 (1.24%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.36%) Android
9 4 (0.29%) VMS
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.073%) CentOS
11 1 (0.073%) Rocky
11 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (30.69%) Project Management
2 314 (22.84%) Agile
3 257 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
4 246 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 215 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 188 (13.67%) Logistics
7 165 (12.00%) PRINCE2
8 163 (11.85%) Mentoring
9 151 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 124 (9.02%) Coaching
11 119 (8.65%) Decision-Making
12 110 (8.00%) Change Management
13 97 (7.05%) Service Delivery
14 94 (6.84%) Roadmaps
15 93 (6.76%) Budget Management
16 91 (6.62%) ITIL
17 70 (5.09%) DevOps
17 70 (5.09%) Technical Leadership
17 70 (5.09%) Waterfall
18 68 (4.95%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 80 (5.82%) SQL
2 39 (2.84%) Python
3 27 (1.96%) PowerShell
4 20 (1.45%) JavaScript
5 18 (1.31%) C#
6 15 (1.09%) VBA
7 13 (0.95%) Java
8 12 (0.87%) C
9 9 (0.65%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.65%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.51%) Bash
11 5 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.36%) R
12 3 (0.22%) Bicep
12 3 (0.22%) C++
13 2 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.15%) Perl
13 2 (0.15%) PHP
14 1 (0.073%) COBOL
14 1 (0.073%) Dart
Qualifications
1 231 (16.80%) Degree
2 96 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 73 (5.31%) DBS Check
4 72 (5.24%) PMI Certification
5 64 (4.65%) PMP
6 57 (4.15%) SC Cleared
7 53 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 28 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.96%) DV Cleared
10 23 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (1.60%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (1.02%) HNC
14 10 (0.73%) AWS Certification
14 10 (0.73%) HND
14 10 (0.73%) RIBA
15 9 (0.65%) CCIE
15 9 (0.65%) CCNP
16 8 (0.58%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.11%) QA
2 72 (5.24%) PMO
3 39 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (2.33%) ISO 9001
5 29 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (1.82%) GDPR
7 19 (1.38%) Data Quality
8 14 (1.02%) SLA
9 13 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (0.87%) ISO 14001
11 10 (0.73%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.73%) NIST
12 9 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 8 (0.58%) GRC
13 8 (0.58%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.51%) IEC 61131
15 5 (0.36%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
16 4 (0.29%) ISO 19650
16 4 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 83 (6.04%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.38%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.95%) Docker
5 11 (0.80%) vSphere
6 8 (0.58%) ProxySG
7 7 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.22%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.15%) Firmware
10 2 (0.15%) UAG
11 1 (0.073%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 42 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.24%) Terraform
4 15 (1.09%) SCCM
5 10 (0.73%) Ansible
6 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.29%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.22%) CASB
10 3 (0.22%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.15%) VxRail
11 2 (0.15%) WSUS
12 1 (0.073%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.073%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 244 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 45 (3.27%) VMware
3 39 (2.84%) Cisco
4 37 (2.69%) SAP
5 25 (1.82%) Motorola
6 24 (1.75%) Fortinet
7 21 (1.53%) Oracle
8 17 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.09%) Google
10 13 (0.95%) SolarWinds
11 11 (0.80%) Siemens
11 11 (0.80%) SonicWALL
11 11 (0.80%) Veeam
12 10 (0.73%) F5
13 9 (0.65%) Apple
14 8 (0.58%) Blue Coat
14 8 (0.58%) CheckPoint
14 8 (0.58%) Infoblox
14 8 (0.58%) NEC
14 8 (0.58%) Sophos