Project Delivery Contracts

Project Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 50 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,685 2,613 4,108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.90% 4.42% 4.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 4.92% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,086 1,827 2,828
10th Percentile £361 £369 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £614
90th Percentile £738 £775 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 61 72
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £22.02
25th Percentile £26.25 £31.00 £38.67
Median hourly rate £35.65 £64.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.73% +44.94% +4.71%
75th Percentile £40.94 £70.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £57.78 £83.31 £64.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £65.00 £45.63
% change year-on-year -37.02% +42.47% +8.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +2 1,431 £550 -1.12% 1,329
UK excluding London -1 853 £525 +5.00% 933
London -3 666 £550 -8.33% 432
Work from Home +3 566 £525 -4.55% 528
South East +9 257 £500 -7.41% 227
North of England -8 148 £528 +5.50% 222
South West +2 139 £530 +2.42% 137
Scotland +1 120 £500 - 73
Midlands +14 109 £525 -2.33% 179
North West -3 96 £575 +27.78% 132
West Midlands +7 84 £525 -1.87% 95
East of England -20 54 £565 +22.05% 89
Yorkshire -21 38 £460 -16.36% 62
Wales 0 29 £513 +7.89% 23
East Midlands +10 24 £490 -11.00% 84
North East +14 14 £500 -20.00% 32
Northern Ireland +5 5 £210 -61.82% 12

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 64 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 41 (2.43%) Confluence
3 39 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.65%) MTS
5 8 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.47%) CMS
6 6 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.36%) Tornado
7 5 (0.30%) SAS
8 4 (0.24%) Apache
8 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.24%) CICS
9 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.18%) IBM Domino
9 3 (0.18%) IBM Notes
9 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 112 (6.65%) Microsoft Office
2 91 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 81 (4.81%) Microsoft Project
4 58 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (2.08%) MS Visio
6 27 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.42%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.18%) Trello
9 1 (0.059%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.059%) InVision
9 1 (0.059%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 43 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (1.25%) Loan IQ
4 18 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 14 (0.83%) Endur
6 14 (0.83%) Maximo
7 13 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
8 11 (0.65%) Aligne
8 11 (0.65%) EuroRunner
9 9 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
11 6 (0.36%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.24%) SAP CO
12 4 (0.24%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
13 3 (0.18%) SAP EWM
13 3 (0.18%) SAP SD
13 3 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 253 (15.01%) Azure
2 85 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
3 68 (4.04%) AWS
4 64 (3.80%) Power Platform
5 62 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (2.31%) Entra ID
7 36 (2.14%) IaaS
8 32 (1.90%) SaaS
9 31 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (1.19%) PowerApps
11 19 (1.13%) PaaS
12 16 (0.95%) GCP
13 12 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.65%) OneDrive
14 11 (0.65%) Power Automate
14 11 (0.65%) WhatsApp
15 10 (0.59%) Mimecast
15 10 (0.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 63 (3.74%) Firewall
2 52 (3.09%) WAN
3 50 (2.97%) VPN
4 45 (2.67%) LAN
5 42 (2.49%) DNS
6 35 (2.08%) Network Security
7 25 (1.48%) DHCP
7 25 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (1.31%) MPLS
9 16 (0.95%) TCP/IP
10 15 (0.89%) SAN
11 14 (0.83%) Cisco Firepower
12 12 (0.71%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.71%) SMTP
13 11 (0.65%) ATM
14 9 (0.53%) 4G
14 9 (0.53%) Internet
14 9 (0.53%) VoIP
15 8 (0.47%) BGP
15 8 (0.47%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 49 (2.91%) Power BI
3 35 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 22 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.31%) Metadata
5 17 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 16 (0.95%) Data Vault
7 15 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (0.77%) Big Data
9 11 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.53%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.53%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.47%) GIS
11 8 (0.47%) Pentaho
11 8 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (0.47%) QlikView
12 7 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 145 (8.61%) JIRA
2 14 (0.83%) Git
3 10 (0.59%) GitLab
4 9 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.42%) Selenium
6 5 (0.30%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.24%) Gatling
7 4 (0.24%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.18%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Gerrit
9 2 (0.12%) JUnit
9 2 (0.12%) RStudio
9 2 (0.12%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (0.12%) TestNG
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 548 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 470 (27.89%) Finance
3 207 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 188 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (6.23%) Telecoms
6 88 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
7 72 (4.27%) Banking
8 61 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
9 60 (3.56%) Manufacturing
10 56 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (3.20%) Marketing
12 40 (2.37%) Retail
13 37 (2.20%) Legal
14 31 (1.84%) Financial Institution
14 31 (1.84%) Local Government
14 31 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (1.42%) Mandarin Language
17 23 (1.36%) Electronics
18 22 (1.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 453 (26.88%) Project Manager
2 204 (12.11%) Architect
3 168 (9.97%) Senior
4 153 (9.08%) Lead
5 137 (8.13%) Analyst
6 92 (5.46%) Delivery Manager
7 81 (4.81%) Business Analyst
8 79 (4.69%) Senior Manager
9 76 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
10 72 (4.27%) Consultant
11 64 (3.80%) Senior Project Manager
12 61 (3.62%) IT Manager
13 50 (2.97%) Developer
14 47 (2.79%) Project Leader
15 41 (2.43%) IT Project Manager
15 41 (2.43%) Programme Manager
16 38 (2.26%) Security Manager
16 38 (2.26%) Technical Manager
17 33 (1.96%) Infrastructure Manager
18 32 (1.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.02%) .NET
2 27 (1.60%) XML
3 20 (1.19%) Web Services
4 19 (1.13%) JSON
5 17 (1.01%) Middleware
5 17 (1.01%) REST
6 14 (0.83%) .NET Framework
6 14 (0.83%) ADO
6 14 (0.83%) AngularJS
7 13 (0.77%) LDAP
8 11 (0.65%) OAuth
9 9 (0.53%) Node.js
9 9 (0.53%) React
9 9 (0.53%) SailPoint
10 8 (0.47%) HTML
10 8 (0.47%) JSON Schema
10 8 (0.47%) Pandas
10 8 (0.47%) PySpark
10 8 (0.47%) RESTful
11 7 (0.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.63%) Management Information System
2 74 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 70 (4.15%) Data Centre
4 31 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (1.78%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.25%) PMI
7 19 (1.13%) NHS
7 19 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
8 17 (1.01%) Public Cloud
9 16 (0.95%) PKI
9 16 (0.95%) Reference Data
10 15 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (0.89%) Market Risk
11 14 (0.83%) Virtual Team
12 13 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (0.77%) Solar Panel
13 12 (0.71%) Data Structures
13 12 (0.71%) FMCG
13 12 (0.71%) Mobile App
13 12 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 96 (5.70%) Windows
2 42 (2.49%) Windows Server
3 41 (2.43%) Linux
4 17 (1.01%) Unix
4 17 (1.01%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.53%) Android
9 8 (0.47%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.42%) AIX
10 7 (0.42%) Solaris
11 6 (0.36%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.36%) VMS
11 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (0.36%) zOS
12 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 690 (40.95%) Project Management
2 632 (37.51%) Agile
3 294 (17.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 261 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
5 194 (11.51%) PRINCE2
6 189 (11.22%) Migration
7 170 (10.09%) DevOps
8 163 (9.67%) Change Management
9 159 (9.44%) Waterfall
10 157 (9.32%) Risk Management
11 155 (9.20%) Scrum
12 152 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 129 (7.66%) Programme Management
14 121 (7.18%) Business Case
15 113 (6.71%) Decision-Making
16 111 (6.59%) ITIL
17 109 (6.47%) Roadmaps
18 97 (5.76%) Project Planning
19 91 (5.40%) Business Intelligence
20 89 (5.28%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (8.13%) SQL
2 69 (4.09%) PowerShell
3 55 (3.26%) Python
4 42 (2.49%) C#
5 35 (2.08%) Java
6 25 (1.48%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.77%) Bash
7 13 (0.77%) T-SQL
8 11 (0.65%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.42%) Bicep
9 7 (0.42%) C++
10 6 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.30%) Perl
11 5 (0.30%) R
12 4 (0.24%) Ruby
12 4 (0.24%) X++
13 3 (0.18%) Go
13 3 (0.18%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 295 (17.51%) Security Cleared
2 227 (13.47%) Degree
3 167 (9.91%) SC Cleared
4 117 (6.94%) DV Cleared
5 102 (6.05%) PMP
6 92 (5.46%) PMI Certification
7 39 (2.31%) APMP
8 29 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 21 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.95%) CISM
11 16 (0.95%) CISSP
11 16 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.89%) CCNP
12 15 (0.89%) CISA
13 13 (0.77%) CCNA
14 9 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (11.34%) PMO
2 89 (5.28%) QA
3 42 (2.49%) SLA
4 25 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.42%) NIST
6 18 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
7 16 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.95%) Data Quality
8 15 (0.89%) GDPR
9 11 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.30%) Basel III
11 5 (0.30%) GRC
12 4 (0.24%) COREP
12 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.18%) FINREP
13 3 (0.18%) GxP
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS
13 3 (0.18%) MiFID
13 3 (0.18%) P3O
System Software
1 80 (4.75%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.13%) Docker
4 17 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.01%) vSphere
5 15 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.59%) XenApp
7 8 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.36%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.36%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.24%) ACF2
11 4 (0.24%) RACF
12 2 (0.12%) Ceph
12 2 (0.12%) Firmware
12 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.059%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 42 (2.49%) Kubernetes
2 28 (1.66%) Terraform
3 27 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (1.48%) Ansible
5 16 (0.95%) SCCM
6 10 (0.59%) vCenter Server
7 8 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.47%) vRealize
8 7 (0.42%) Puppet
9 6 (0.36%) Packer
9 6 (0.36%) vMotion
10 5 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (0.30%) Endace
10 5 (0.30%) HP Data Protector
10 5 (0.30%) Istio
10 5 (0.30%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.30%) PingFederate
10 5 (0.30%) WSUS
11 4 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 286 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.59%) SAP
3 71 (4.21%) Cisco
4 67 (3.98%) Oracle
5 58 (3.44%) VMware
6 49 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 33 (1.96%) Juniper
8 31 (1.84%) Citrix
9 24 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.13%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.07%) Informatica
12 17 (1.01%) Databricks
13 16 (0.95%) Adobe
13 16 (0.95%) CheckPoint
13 16 (0.95%) Sparx
14 15 (0.89%) F5
14 15 (0.89%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.77%) Symantec
16 12 (0.71%) Ariba
17 11 (0.65%) Progress