Project Delivery Contracts in Edinburgh

Project Delivery
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Project Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 27 47
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 -17
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 50 50 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.16% 6.09% 5.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.58% 6.91% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 33 61
10th Percentile £403 £400 £290
25th Percentile £433 £428 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £634 £550 £538
90th Percentile £694 £618 £634
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Project Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 583 724 1,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.11% 88.19% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 431 940
10th Percentile £200 £219 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.24% +1.68% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £631 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £455 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -5.21% +1.05% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 30 15
10th Percentile £20.37 £14.91 £12.89
25th Percentile £21.31 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.09 £24.44 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +14.93% -35.58%
75th Percentile £24.54 £60.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £33.70 - £67.50
Scotland median hourly rate £23.00 £19.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +17.95% +10.05% -46.30%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in Edinburgh

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in Edinburgh

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in Edinburgh

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in Edinburgh

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.00%) AWS
3 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (2.00%) 4G
2 1 (2.00%) ATM
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) IPsec
2 1 (2.00%) LAN
2 1 (2.00%) MPLS
2 1 (2.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.00%) SNA
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
2 1 (2.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.00%) ObjectStore
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) GCC
General
1 20 (40.00%) Finance
2 19 (38.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (24.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.00%) Banking
4 6 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Law
7 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.00%) Front Office
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Project Manager
2 9 (18.00%) Senior
3 8 (16.00%) Lead
4 6 (12.00%) Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Service Manager
5 5 (10.00%) Project Assistant
6 4 (8.00%) Architect
6 4 (8.00%) IT Manager
7 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) IT Project Manager
7 3 (6.00%) Server Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Network Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (2.00%) Linux Server Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Technical Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) Middleware
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 5 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (4.00%) FMCG
2 2 (4.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.00%) Clustering
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.00%) Derivative
3 1 (2.00%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.00%) Equities
3 1 (2.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Linux
1 5 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.00%) Unix
3 2 (4.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.00%) zOS
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Agile
2 15 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (22.00%) ITIL
4 10 (20.00%) DevOps
4 10 (20.00%) Project Management
5 6 (12.00%) Analytics
5 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (12.00%) Programme Management
5 6 (12.00%) Risk Management
5 6 (12.00%) Service Management
5 6 (12.00%) Waterfall
6 5 (10.00%) Algorithmic Trading
6 5 (10.00%) Migration
6 5 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (10.00%) Systematic Trading
7 4 (8.00%) Change Control
7 4 (8.00%) Commercial Awareness
7 4 (8.00%) Dependency Management
7 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (8.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.00%) C#
1 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (2.00%) JCL
1 1 (2.00%) Python
1 1 (2.00%) REXX
1 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) ISEB
2 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (2.00%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.00%) PMO
3 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Ansible
1 1 (2.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Adobe
3 3 (6.00%) Cisco
3 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.00%) VMware
4 2 (4.00%) Databricks
4 2 (4.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.00%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.00%) BT
5 1 (2.00%) Meraki
5 1 (2.00%) Planview
5 1 (2.00%) Reuters
5 1 (2.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Snow
5 1 (2.00%) Tanium