Project Delivery Contracts in the South East

Project Delivery
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 49 19
Rank change year-on-year +15 -30 +18
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 250 247 617
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.58% 4.41% 8.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 4.95% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 177 427
10th Percentile £356 £350 £366
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +5.10% +5.95%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £575
90th Percentile £638 £659 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile £20.24 £22.20 £42.88
25th Percentile £26.23 £27.92 £62.94
Median hourly rate £37.41 £49.99 £65.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.17% -23.27% +16.34%
75th Percentile £48.55 £63.44 £77.64
90th Percentile £54.51 £67.50 £82.25
England median hourly rate £34.00 £64.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -47.08% +44.38% +3.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,596 4,987 6,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.25% 89.05% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,676 3,461 4,681
10th Percentile £250 £249 £233
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +1.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £595
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 214 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £11.96
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -19.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.91 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the South East

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the South East

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the South East

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the South East

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the South East

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Thames Valley +6 131 £505 -0.44% 85
Berkshire +17 97 £550 +5.26% 41
Hampshire +2 55 £600 +4.35% 45
West Sussex +25 30 £475 - 10
Surrey +7 29 £500 +17.65% 20
Buckinghamshire +3 26 £492 -1.63% 21
Oxfordshire +4 8 £475 -20.83% 23
East Sussex +2 2 £425 -19.05% 9
Middlesex +1 1 £425 -30.61%
Sussex - 1 £600 - 1
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (2.00%) Confluence
2 5 (2.00%) SAS
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.40%) Maximo
1 6 (2.40%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (2.00%) SAP Hybris
3 4 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.40%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.00%) Azure
2 11 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.80%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.40%) IaaS
5 6 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (2.00%) PowerApps
6 5 (2.00%) SaaS
6 5 (2.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 4 (1.60%) AWS
7 4 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (1.60%) Figma
7 4 (1.60%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.60%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.80%) OCI
10 1 (0.40%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.40%) GitHub
10 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.00%) VPN
2 20 (8.00%) LAN
2 20 (8.00%) WAN
3 19 (7.60%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (4.80%) DNS
4 12 (4.80%) Firewall
5 10 (4.00%) DHCP
6 8 (3.20%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (2.00%) 3G
7 5 (2.00%) 4G
7 5 (2.00%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.60%) 2G
8 4 (1.60%) ATM
8 4 (1.60%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.60%) SDH
9 3 (1.20%) Internet
9 3 (1.20%) Junos
9 3 (1.20%) SAN
9 3 (1.20%) VLAN
10 2 (0.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.40%) MongoDB
1 6 (2.40%) MySQL
1 6 (2.40%) Relational Database
1 6 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.00%) Crystal Reports
2 5 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.00%) RDBMS
3 4 (1.60%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.80%) Power BI
5 1 (0.40%) IDMS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (6.40%) JIRA
2 9 (3.60%) GitLab
3 6 (2.40%) Git
General
1 67 (26.80%) Finance
2 48 (19.20%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 23 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.00%) Marketing
8 9 (3.60%) Retail
9 8 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.20%) Legal
10 7 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.80%) Local Government
10 7 (2.80%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.00%) Billing
12 4 (1.60%) Law
13 3 (1.20%) Front Office
13 3 (1.20%) Military
13 3 (1.20%) Publishing
14 2 (0.80%) Banking
14 2 (0.80%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 58 (23.20%) Project Manager
2 31 (12.40%) Architect
3 28 (11.20%) Senior
4 19 (7.60%) Lead
4 19 (7.60%) Network Architect
5 15 (6.00%) Analyst
6 14 (5.60%) Delivery Manager
6 14 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (5.20%) IT Manager
7 13 (5.20%) Senior Manager
8 12 (4.80%) Consultant
8 12 (4.80%) Developer
8 12 (4.80%) Senior Project Manager
9 10 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
10 9 (3.60%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (3.20%) Functional Consultant
12 7 (2.80%) Network Engineer
12 7 (2.80%) Service Architect
13 6 (2.40%) Designer
13 6 (2.40%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.60%) XML
2 6 (2.40%) .NET
2 6 (2.40%) JSON
3 5 (2.00%) ADO
4 3 (1.20%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.80%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.80%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.80%) HTML
5 2 (0.80%) YAML
6 1 (0.40%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.40%) CSS
6 1 (0.40%) jQuery
6 1 (0.40%) Node.js
6 1 (0.40%) React
6 1 (0.40%) REST
6 1 (0.40%) RESTful
6 1 (0.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (1.60%) Data Centre
3 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.60%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (1.20%) Smart Meter
5 2 (0.80%) Driving Licence
5 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.80%) Mainframe
5 2 (0.80%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.40%) EPoS
6 1 (0.40%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (0.40%) IoT
6 1 (0.40%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.00%) Windows
2 18 (7.20%) Linux
3 11 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.00%) Unix
5 9 (3.60%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.40%) VMS
8 5 (2.00%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.80%) Solaris
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (46.00%) Project Management
2 60 (24.00%) Agile
3 33 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (11.60%) Migration
4 29 (11.60%) PRINCE2
5 27 (10.80%) Roadmaps
6 26 (10.40%) Change Management
6 26 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (9.20%) ITIL
8 21 (8.40%) Scrum
9 20 (8.00%) DevOps
10 18 (7.20%) Budget Management
10 18 (7.20%) Logistics
10 18 (7.20%) Programme Management
10 18 (7.20%) Service Delivery
11 16 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (6.00%) CI/CD
12 15 (6.00%) Decision-Making
12 15 (6.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.80%) SQL
2 13 (5.20%) PowerShell
3 10 (4.00%) Python
4 8 (3.20%) C#
5 7 (2.80%) Bash
6 4 (1.60%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.60%) X++
7 3 (1.20%) Go
7 3 (1.20%) Java
7 3 (1.20%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.80%) C++
8 2 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (27.60%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.60%) DV Cleared
3 27 (10.80%) Degree
4 19 (7.60%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.40%) PMP
5 11 (4.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 9 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.80%) CCNA
7 7 (2.80%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.40%) APMP
8 6 (2.40%) CCNP
9 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.20%) ISEB
10 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.20%) JNCIA
10 3 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.80%) JNCIS
11 2 (0.80%) MCSE
11 2 (0.80%) RIBA
11 2 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.80%) PMO
2 15 (6.00%) QA
3 10 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 10 (4.00%) SLA
4 6 (2.40%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.60%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.60%) vSphere
3 8 (3.20%) XenApp
4 6 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.00%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.20%) Docker
6 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.80%) Ceph
7 2 (0.80%) Firmware
7 2 (0.80%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 14 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.20%) Ansible
3 8 (3.20%) vRealize
4 6 (2.40%) Packer
4 6 (2.40%) Terraform
5 5 (2.00%) Endace
6 3 (1.20%) Rancher
6 3 (1.20%) WSUS
7 2 (0.80%) Pacemaker
7 2 (0.80%) Podman
7 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.80%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.20%) Cisco
2 28 (11.20%) VMware
3 27 (10.80%) Juniper
4 15 (6.00%) Oracle
5 9 (3.60%) Citrix
6 8 (3.20%) F5
6 8 (3.20%) Ivanti
7 7 (2.80%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.80%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.40%) SAP
9 5 (2.00%) Adobe
9 5 (2.00%) Arqiva
9 5 (2.00%) IFS
9 5 (2.00%) Veritas
10 4 (1.60%) Informatica
10 4 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.20%) Siemens
11 3 (1.20%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.80%) NEC