Project Delivery Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Project Delivery
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 35 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 36 39 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.63% 4.73% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.97% 5.53% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 37
10th Percentile £410 £239 £213
25th Percentile £438 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £586 £500 £500
90th Percentile £600 £538 £543
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -2.56%

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 603 705 964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.37% 85.56% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 370 614
10th Percentile £309 £221 £225
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £626 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +152.32%
75th Percentile £49.35 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £63.88 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
% change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -8.88%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Project Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in Edinburgh

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Project Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Project Delivery

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 3 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (8.33%) OCI
2 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) LAN
1 3 (8.33%) WAN
2 2 (5.56%) SDH
3 1 (2.78%) ADSL
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.78%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) IPsec
3 1 (2.78%) MPLS
3 1 (2.78%) PSTN
3 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Subversion
2 2 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.78%) Postman
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Finance
2 8 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (8.33%) Law
4 2 (5.56%) Electronics
4 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Project Manager
2 8 (22.22%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Digital Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Field Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Network Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Network Field Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) PMO Lead
5 2 (5.56%) Server Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Leader
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Linux Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) .NET
1 1 (2.78%) Gherkin
1 1 (2.78%) Java RMI
1 1 (2.78%) WireMock
1 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.56%) Derivative
3 2 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.56%) Equities
3 2 (5.56%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (5.56%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.78%) FMCG
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Linux
1 7 (19.44%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Agile
2 15 (41.67%) Project Management
3 12 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (19.44%) DevOps
6 6 (16.67%) Migration
6 6 (16.67%) Scrum
7 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.89%) Project Governance
7 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
7 5 (13.89%) Waterfall
8 4 (11.11%) Change Management
8 4 (11.11%) Configuration Management
8 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (11.11%) Problem Management
8 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.11%) Work Breakdown Structure
9 3 (8.33%) ITIL
9 3 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.56%) C++
1 2 (5.56%) Java
1 2 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) C#
2 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.56%) HNC
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) BC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) CCNA
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (5.56%) PMO
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Cisco
3 4 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.33%) VMware
5 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.56%) Bloomberg
5 2 (5.56%) Nokia
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle
5 2 (5.56%) Reuters
6 1 (2.78%) Delphix
6 1 (2.78%) F5
6 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.78%) SAP