Project Delivery Contracts in the North West

Project Delivery
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Project Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Project Delivery over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 51 44
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 90 125 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.37% 4.07% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 4.50% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 95 137
10th Percentile £400 £316 £320
25th Percentile £472 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £553
90th Percentile £672 £648 £635
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £50.00 £19.60
25th Percentile £26.25 - £19.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.69% +225.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £20.32
90th Percentile - £76.04 £20.43
England median hourly rate £35.00 £64.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -45.53% +44.38% +3.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,295 2,775 3,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.05% 90.39% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,954 2,592
10th Percentile £310 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 136 172
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.44 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.97 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.52 £24.10
Median % change year-on-year -31.89% +47.37% +31.41%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.43 £49.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the North West

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the North West

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the North West

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the North West

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Delivery within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -4 52 £575 +21.05% 62
Cheshire -9 14 £525 +20.00% 19
Cumbria -11 11 £669 - 10
Lancashire +11 8 £550 -21.43% 18
Merseyside +6 4 £400 -20.99% 10
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (1.11%) Confluence
1 1 (1.11%) LiveLink
1 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (3.33%) MS Visio
5 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.11%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.89%) Azure
2 12 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.22%) AWS
3 2 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (2.22%) IaaS
3 2 (2.22%) PaaS
3 2 (2.22%) SaaS
4 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.11%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.22%) Network Security
2 3 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (1.11%) DSL
3 1 (1.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.22%) Big Data
1 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.22%) Metadata
1 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
1 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
1 2 (2.22%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.11%) EDRMS
2 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (18.89%) Public Sector
2 16 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.22%) Finance
4 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Mandarin Language
5 4 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.33%) Banking
6 3 (3.33%) Local Government
6 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Aviation
7 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) German Language
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Billing
8 1 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (30.00%) Architect
2 19 (21.11%) Project Manager
3 12 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (12.22%) Security Architect
5 9 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
5 9 (10.00%) Lead
6 8 (8.89%) Analyst
6 8 (8.89%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) Senior
8 3 (3.33%) Applications Architect
8 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Architect
9 2 (2.22%) Consultant
9 2 (2.22%) Data Modeller
9 2 (2.22%) Integration Project Manager
9 2 (2.22%) IT Manager
9 2 (2.22%) SAP Manager
9 2 (2.22%) Senior Manager
9 2 (2.22%) Systems Architect
9 2 (2.22%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
1 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
1 4 (4.44%) NHS
2 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.11%) PMI
3 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.11%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Windows
2 2 (2.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.11%) Linux
3 1 (1.11%) Unix
3 1 (1.11%) Windows 8
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.00%) Agile
2 30 (33.33%) Project Management
3 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (14.44%) DevOps
6 13 (14.44%) Migration
7 12 (13.33%) Business Strategy
7 12 (13.33%) IT Strategy
8 11 (12.22%) Architectural Patterns
8 11 (12.22%) Change Management
8 11 (12.22%) Service Delivery
8 11 (12.22%) Service Design
9 10 (11.11%) Business Case
9 10 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 10 (11.11%) Cryptography
9 10 (11.11%) Data Management
9 10 (11.11%) Information Security
9 10 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.44%) SQL
2 1 (1.11%) C#
2 1 (1.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) Degree
2 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.44%) PMP
5 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.11%) CBAP
7 1 (1.11%) CCSA
7 1 (1.11%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.22%) PMO
2 10 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (11.11%) NIST
3 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.33%) QA
4 2 (2.22%) P3O
5 1 (1.11%) COREP
5 1 (1.11%) FINREP
5 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.22%) SCCM
2 1 (1.11%) Ansible
2 1 (1.11%) CFEngine
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.11%) PowerBroker
2 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.67%) SAP
3 5 (5.56%) Pega
4 1 (1.11%) Ariba
4 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.11%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.11%) Cisco
4 1 (1.11%) Remedy
4 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.11%) VMware
4 1 (1.11%) Xamarin