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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 40 49
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 50 36 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.62% 4.22% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.00% 4.97% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 45
10th Percentile £401 £299 £218
25th Percentile £428 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.25% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £627 £552 £500
90th Percentile £675 £628 £598
Scotland median daily rate £454 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.20% - -

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 625 724 1,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.27% 84.78% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 409 768
10th Percentile £213 £213 £250
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -2.11% -0.84%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £611
Scotland median daily rate £463 £453 £475
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 33 6
10th Percentile £17.15 £13.22 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.36
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -40.25% +42.92%
75th Percentile £31.34 £60.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £61.00 - £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.55 £15.25
% change year-on-year +2.33% +28.21% -59.27%

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 30 June 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 4 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.00%) AWS
1 5 (10.00%) Azure
2 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.00%) OCI
4 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) WAN
2 3 (6.00%) LAN
3 2 (4.00%) Firewall
3 2 (4.00%) MPLS
3 2 (4.00%) SDH
3 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.00%) 4G
4 1 (2.00%) ADSL
4 1 (2.00%) IPsec
4 1 (2.00%) Network Security
4 1 (2.00%) PSTN
4 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.00%) SNA
4 1 (2.00%) VPN
4 1 (2.00%) Wireless
4 1 (2.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) Postman
2 1 (2.00%) Selenium
2 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (42.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.00%) Law
5 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Electronics
5 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Legal
5 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.00%) Front Office
6 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 9 (18.00%) Lead
3 8 (16.00%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) Project Assistant
4 4 (8.00%) Server Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Service Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 2 (4.00%) IT Manager
6 2 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Linux Server Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) .NET
1 1 (2.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (2.00%) Java RMI
1 1 (2.00%) Middleware
1 1 (2.00%) WireMock
1 1 (2.00%) XML
1 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.00%) Derivative
3 2 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.00%) Equities
3 2 (4.00%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (4.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.00%) FMCG
3 2 (4.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.00%) Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) SCADA
4 1 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
1 7 (14.00%) Windows
2 5 (10.00%) Amazon Linux
2 5 (10.00%) 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 19 (38.00%) Agile
1 19 (38.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (26.00%) Project Management
3 11 (22.00%) ITIL
4 10 (20.00%) DevOps
5 6 (12.00%) Analytics
6 5 (10.00%) Algorithmic Trading
6 5 (10.00%) Migration
6 5 (10.00%) Problem Management
6 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.00%) Service-Level Objective
6 5 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (10.00%) Systematic Trading
6 5 (10.00%) Technical Debt
7 4 (8.00%) Commercial Awareness
7 4 (8.00%) CRM
7 4 (8.00%) Project Governance
7 4 (8.00%) Risk Management
7 4 (8.00%) Service Management
7 4 (8.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.00%) C#
2 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (2.00%) JCL
2 1 (2.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.00%) HNC
2 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (4.00%) PMO
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.00%) SLA
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%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Cisco
2 5 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (10.00%) VMware
3 4 (8.00%) Adobe
4 2 (4.00%) Bloomberg
4 2 (4.00%) Databricks
4 2 (4.00%) IBM
4 2 (4.00%) Nokia
4 2 (4.00%) Reuters
5 1 (2.00%) BT
5 1 (2.00%) Meraki
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Snow
5 1 (2.00%) Tanium