Project Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Project Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Project Delivery over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 72 81
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 +16
Permanent jobs citing Project Delivery 3,861 4,579 6,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.95% 4.33% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 4.53% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,651 2,786 3,769
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,622
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,794 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.16% +5.08% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Project Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,165 101,093 147,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 95.64% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 59,702 59,212 83,288
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,496
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery.

Salary trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
England +18 3,468 £55,000 -12.00% 1,167
UK excluding London +12 2,734 £52,500 -9.16% 875
Work from Home +13 1,533 £60,000 - 491
London +19 951 £70,000 - 356
North of England +38 650 £50,000 -13.18% 221
South East -5 632 £52,000 -9.57% 206
Midlands +20 517 £54,000 -1.82% 165
South West +43 421 £55,000 - 121
North West +27 355 £48,500 -15.65% 130
West Midlands +10 311 £57,500 +4.55% 101
East of England +32 264 £54,000 -30.32% 73
Yorkshire +39 205 £52,500 -10.65% 66
East Midlands +41 202 £54,000 -6.09% 64
Scotland -57 165 £50,000 -16.67% 75
North East +37 90 £50,000 -6.98% 31
Wales -22 70 £60,000 +4.35% 30
Northern Ireland +21 16 - - 10
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 154 (3.99%) SharePoint
2 83 (2.15%) CMS
3 76 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 54 (1.40%) Confluence
5 41 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 40 (1.04%) Kentico
7 39 (1.01%) Sitecore CMS
7 39 (1.01%) Umbraco
8 36 (0.93%) IIS
9 35 (0.91%) Headless CMS
10 14 (0.36%) WordPress
11 13 (0.34%) SAS
12 12 (0.31%) Anypoint
13 9 (0.23%) Apache
13 9 (0.23%) Drupal
13 9 (0.23%) MS Project Server
14 7 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
14 7 (0.18%) Apache Solr
14 7 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 5 (0.13%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 179 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 177 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 149 (3.86%) Microsoft Project
4 107 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 45 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 33 (0.85%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.41%) Adobe XD
7 16 (0.41%) Revit
8 9 (0.23%) Trello
9 8 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.18%) Simulink
11 6 (0.16%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.078%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.026%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.026%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 46 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.41%) SAP SCM
4 15 (0.39%) SAP PP
4 15 (0.39%) SAP WM
5 13 (0.34%) Elite 3E
5 13 (0.34%) SAP SD
6 10 (0.26%) Primavera
6 10 (0.26%) SAP CX
7 9 (0.23%) SAP HR
7 9 (0.23%) SAP MM
7 9 (0.23%) Shopify
7 9 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
8 8 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
8 8 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.21%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.21%) Teamcenter
9 7 (0.18%) Magento
10 6 (0.16%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 672 (17.40%) Azure
2 372 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
3 252 (6.53%) AWS
4 221 (5.72%) Power Platform
5 149 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
6 112 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
7 109 (2.82%) SaaS
8 93 (2.41%) Entra ID
9 83 (2.15%) GCP
10 62 (1.61%) PowerApps
11 60 (1.55%) IaaS
12 54 (1.40%) Serverless
13 49 (1.27%) PaaS
14 44 (1.14%) Power Automate
15 40 (1.04%) Kontent
16 29 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
17 27 (0.70%) Amazon S3
18 26 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
19 24 (0.62%) Azure Functions
19 24 (0.62%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 200 (5.18%) Firewall
2 148 (3.83%) WAN
3 102 (2.64%) LAN
4 101 (2.62%) VPN
5 95 (2.46%) SD-WAN
6 74 (1.92%) Wireless
7 71 (1.84%) DNS
8 63 (1.63%) SAN
9 62 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
10 59 (1.53%) Network Security
11 53 (1.37%) DHCP
12 51 (1.32%) BGP
13 50 (1.30%) VLAN
14 36 (0.93%) Internet
15 35 (0.91%) TCP/IP
16 31 (0.80%) MPLS
17 29 (0.75%) VoIP
18 26 (0.67%) 5G
19 23 (0.60%) Cisco Firepower
20 21 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (3.76%) Power BI
2 138 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 41 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 40 (1.04%) Tableau
5 35 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 34 (0.88%) Data Mining
7 33 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (0.78%) Hadoop
8 30 (0.78%) Relational Database
9 29 (0.75%) Apache Ignite
10 28 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (0.67%) Big Data
11 26 (0.67%) NoSQL
12 24 (0.62%) MySQL
13 19 (0.49%) SAP BW
14 17 (0.44%) Metadata
15 16 (0.41%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.39%) Oracle Database
17 14 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
18 13 (0.34%) GIS
Development Applications
1 161 (4.17%) JIRA
2 50 (1.30%) Git
3 18 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.41%) GitLab
5 15 (0.39%) Selenium
6 13 (0.34%) Axure RP
6 13 (0.34%) Balsamiq
7 11 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.23%) Postman
10 8 (0.21%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.18%) Visual Studio Team System
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
13 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.10%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.078%) Maven
15 3 (0.078%) Spinnaker
15 3 (0.078%) Visual Studio Code
15 3 (0.078%) Zephyr
16 2 (0.052%) LSMW
General
1 1,363 (35.30%) Social Skills
2 920 (23.83%) Finance
3 456 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 355 (9.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 276 (7.15%) Public Sector
6 240 (6.22%) Presentation Skills
7 222 (5.75%) Retail
8 195 (5.05%) Marketing
9 166 (4.30%) Legal
10 153 (3.96%) Telecoms
11 144 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
12 139 (3.60%) Manufacturing
13 126 (3.26%) Law
14 115 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
15 65 (1.68%) Local Government
15 65 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
16 55 (1.42%) Banking
17 49 (1.27%) Billing
18 47 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
19 38 (0.98%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,161 (30.07%) Project Manager
2 608 (15.75%) Senior
3 372 (9.63%) Lead
4 261 (6.76%) Analyst
5 237 (6.14%) Architect
6 234 (6.06%) IT Manager
7 216 (5.59%) Consultant
8 195 (5.05%) Senior Manager
9 183 (4.74%) Presales Manager
10 176 (4.56%) Developer
11 160 (4.14%) Delivery Manager
12 158 (4.09%) IT Project Manager
13 118 (3.06%) Senior Project Manager
14 116 (3.00%) Business Analyst
15 98 (2.54%) IT Support
15 98 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
16 93 (2.41%) IT Engineer
17 90 (2.33%) Network Engineer
18 81 (2.10%) Senior Developer
18 81 (2.10%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (4.35%) .NET
2 87 (2.25%) HTML
3 79 (2.05%) React
3 79 (2.05%) RESTful
4 75 (1.94%) CSS
5 63 (1.63%) ASP.NET
6 60 (1.55%) .NET Framework
7 53 (1.37%) .NET Core
8 47 (1.22%) ASP.NET MVC
9 46 (1.19%) SOAP
10 39 (1.01%) REST
11 38 (0.98%) Next.js
12 36 (0.93%) Web Services
13 35 (0.91%) JSON
13 35 (0.91%) Kafka
14 29 (0.75%) XML
15 28 (0.73%) AngularJS
16 25 (0.65%) EDI
17 22 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
18 18 (0.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 240 (6.22%) Self-Motivation
2 213 (5.52%) Management Information System
3 162 (4.20%) Driving Licence
4 144 (3.73%) Data Centre
5 143 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 67 (1.74%) Virtual Team
7 65 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 65 (1.68%) PMI
8 60 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 47 (1.22%) Replication
10 40 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.01%) NHS
12 36 (0.93%) FMCG
13 32 (0.83%) Low-Code
13 32 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
14 29 (0.75%) Mobile App
15 26 (0.67%) Operational Technology
16 25 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
17 23 (0.60%) IoT
18 22 (0.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 297 (7.69%) Windows
2 200 (5.18%) Windows Server
3 102 (2.64%) Linux
4 61 (1.58%) Windows 10
5 33 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 29 (0.75%) Android
7 22 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (0.52%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 17 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (0.41%) Ubuntu
11 16 (0.41%) Windows 7
12 14 (0.36%) SUSE
13 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.10%) Unix
14 4 (0.10%) VMS
15 3 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.078%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.026%) CentOS
16 1 (0.026%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,747 (45.25%) Project Management
2 1,342 (34.76%) Agile
3 617 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
4 498 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 486 (12.59%) Mentoring
6 449 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 408 (10.57%) PRINCE2
8 374 (9.69%) Presales
9 318 (8.24%) Roadmaps
10 307 (7.95%) DevOps
10 307 (7.95%) Waterfall
11 300 (7.77%) SDLC
12 299 (7.74%) Customer Service
13 297 (7.69%) Risk Management
14 286 (7.41%) Coaching
15 277 (7.17%) Change Management
16 268 (6.94%) Scrum
17 251 (6.50%) Agile Project Management
18 244 (6.32%) Software Delivery
19 234 (6.06%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 247 (6.40%) SQL
2 183 (4.74%) JavaScript
3 173 (4.48%) C#
4 152 (3.94%) Python
5 73 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 62 (1.61%) Java
7 41 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 34 (0.88%) C++
9 31 (0.80%) T-SQL
10 26 (0.67%) R
11 22 (0.57%) PHP
12 17 (0.44%) C
12 17 (0.44%) Go
13 15 (0.39%) VBA
14 14 (0.36%) Kotlin
15 13 (0.34%) Bash
15 13 (0.34%) MATLAB
15 13 (0.34%) Scala
16 11 (0.28%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 853 (22.09%) Degree
2 399 (10.33%) Security Cleared
3 214 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 175 (4.53%) PMI Certification
5 157 (4.07%) PMP
6 145 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
7 123 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 101 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 101 (2.62%) Master's Degree
9 92 (2.38%) DBS Check
10 90 (2.33%) CCNP
11 76 (1.97%) CCNA
12 69 (1.79%) Postgraduate
13 59 (1.53%) DV Cleared
14 51 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
15 49 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 47 (1.22%) AWS Certification
16 47 (1.22%) MCSE
16 47 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 45 (1.17%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (6.66%) PMO
2 205 (5.31%) QA
3 71 (1.84%) GDPR
4 56 (1.45%) SLA
5 54 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 45 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (1.11%) Data Quality
8 24 (0.62%) ISO 9001
9 21 (0.54%) NIST
10 18 (0.47%) NCSC
11 17 (0.44%) NEBOSH
12 16 (0.41%) GMP
13 15 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.34%) WCAG
15 10 (0.26%) GRC
16 9 (0.23%) AUTOSAR
16 9 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 8 (0.21%) IFRS
18 7 (0.18%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 243 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 131 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (1.92%) Hyper-V
4 48 (1.24%) Docker
5 30 (0.78%) vSphere
6 20 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (0.36%) vCloud
10 13 (0.34%) Firmware
10 13 (0.34%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.10%) pfSense
11 4 (0.10%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.052%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.026%) Lustre
13 1 (0.026%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.026%) NFS
Systems Management
1 86 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 77 (1.99%) Terraform
3 54 (1.40%) Kubernetes
4 27 (0.70%) Functional Safety
5 26 (0.67%) SCCM
6 21 (0.54%) Ansible
6 21 (0.54%) FortiGate
7 15 (0.39%) WSUS
8 12 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 10 (0.26%) AirWatch
10 9 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.16%) Grafana
11 6 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.16%) SCOM
11 6 (0.16%) SmoothWall
11 6 (0.16%) vRealize
12 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (0.078%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.078%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 873 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 208 (5.39%) Cisco
3 174 (4.51%) VMware
4 172 (4.45%) SAP
5 81 (2.10%) Oracle
6 77 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 71 (1.84%) Google
8 65 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 62 (1.61%) Juniper
9 62 (1.61%) Veeam
10 59 (1.53%) HP
11 42 (1.09%) EMC
11 42 (1.09%) Meraki
12 40 (1.04%) Sitecore
13 36 (0.93%) Adobe
14 35 (0.91%) Dell
14 35 (0.91%) Optimizely
15 26 (0.67%) Databricks
16 21 (0.54%) Remedy
17 20 (0.52%) CheckPoint