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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 31 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 35 38 40
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.04% 6.17% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.85% 6.52% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 23
10th Percentile £253 £406 £232
25th Percentile £328 £425 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -7.69%
75th Percentile £534 £566 £488
90th Percentile £600 £600 £520
Scotland median daily rate £451 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +0.22% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Process & 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 598 583 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.04% 94.64% 86.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 285 367
10th Percentile £238 £303 £213
25th Percentile £386 £413 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £528
90th Percentile £638 £600 £605
Scotland median daily rate £470 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +1.08% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 23
10th Percentile - £17.30 £13.27
25th Percentile £15.81 - £16.50
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% -18.77% -48.24%
75th Percentile £20.94 £45.80 £24.18
90th Percentile £70.70 £65.00 £48.84
Scotland median hourly rate £16.75 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -16.25% +0.31% +5.32%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Project Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Project Delivery job vacancy trend 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 15 October 2026.

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 & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Primavera
1 1 (2.86%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.86%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.86%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.86%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (2.86%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.57%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (5.71%) Nutanix
5 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.86%) Apple Pay
6 1 (2.86%) AWS
6 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.86%) Google Pay
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) BGP
2 2 (5.71%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (5.71%) HSRP
2 2 (5.71%) LAN
2 2 (5.71%) MPLS
2 2 (5.71%) OSPF
2 2 (5.71%) SDH
2 2 (5.71%) VLAN
2 2 (5.71%) VPN
2 2 (5.71%) VRRP
2 2 (5.71%) VXLAN
2 2 (5.71%) WAN
3 1 (2.86%) DHCP
3 1 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (37.14%) Finance
3 10 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 6 (17.14%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
7 1 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Analyst
2 6 (17.14%) Project Manager
3 4 (11.43%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) IT Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Lead
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Digital User Researcher
5 2 (5.71%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Project Officer
5 2 (5.71%) Project Support Officer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Support Officer
5 2 (5.71%) User Researcher
6 1 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Functional Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) .NET
1 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
1 1 (2.86%) HTML
1 1 (2.86%) Middleware
1 1 (2.86%) OpenJDK
1 1 (2.86%) REST
1 1 (2.86%) SOAP
1 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.86%) Clustering
5 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.86%) Mobile Wallet
5 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) AIX
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Unix
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
1 1 (2.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (37.14%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) Migration
4 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (22.86%) Project Management
5 8 (22.86%) Workshop Facilitation
6 7 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 6 (17.14%) Change Management
7 6 (17.14%) Decision-Making
7 6 (17.14%) DevOps
7 6 (17.14%) Validation
8 5 (14.29%) Business Transformation
8 5 (14.29%) Data Protection
8 5 (14.29%) Project Governance
9 4 (11.43%) Budget Management
9 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
10 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
10 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) Python
1 2 (5.71%) SQL
2 1 (2.86%) Bash
2 1 (2.86%) C#
2 1 (2.86%) Java
2 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.86%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) CCNA
1 3 (8.57%) CCNP
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (8.57%) PMI Certification
1 3 (8.57%) PMP
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) PMO
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
1 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Ansible
1 1 (2.86%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Nagios
1 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.71%) SAP
3 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) Apple
4 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) IFS
4 1 (2.86%) Nokia
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce