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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 51 49
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,594 2,412 4,215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.72% 4.28% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 4.77% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 1,683 2,909
10th Percentile £356 £363 £369
25th Percentile £438 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £626 £654 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £495
% change year-on-year +5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 51 68
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £24.14
25th Percentile £26.57 £27.95 £39.75
Median hourly rate £35.65 £60.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.58% +34.83% +0.73%
75th Percentile £43.88 £80.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.30 £83.40 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £65.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -37.02% +40.54% +7.56%

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 36,603 50,558 80,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.40% 89.70% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,483 35,017 56,266
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,521 1,671 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -3 1,340 £533 -3.18% 1,230
UK excluding London +2 829 £525 +5.00% 907
London -8 600 £550 -8.33% 403
Work from Home -1 531 £525 -0.94% 526
South East +11 243 £500 -0.99% 211
North of England -8 147 £525 +5.00% 218
South West -5 138 £530 +2.17% 116
Scotland +3 117 £500 - 85
Midlands +13 110 £508 -6.02% 187
North West -4 91 £575 +25.34% 125
West Midlands +3 81 £525 -2.55% 106
East of England -30 49 £550 +15.79% 74
Yorkshire -11 40 £460 -16.36% 67
Wales +15 28 £275 -45.00% 26
East Midlands +6 27 £463 -24.49% 81
North East +12 16 £525 -27.54% 29
Northern Ireland +1 5 £160 -70.91% 14

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 63 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 44 (2.76%) Confluence
3 31 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.56%) MTS
5 8 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.38%) CMS
7 5 (0.31%) SAS
8 4 (0.25%) Apache
8 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.13%) IIS
10 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.063%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.063%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 110 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 78 (4.89%) Microsoft Project
4 52 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (2.13%) MS Visio
6 29 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.56%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.25%) Trello
9 1 (0.063%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.063%) InVision
9 1 (0.063%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.00%) Loan IQ
3 16 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.88%) Maximo
5 13 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
5 13 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.75%) Endur
7 9 (0.56%) Aligne
7 9 (0.56%) EuroRunner
7 9 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
9 4 (0.25%) SAP SD
10 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.19%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.19%) Shopify
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 228 (14.30%) Azure
2 81 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
3 65 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 55 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (3.26%) AWS
6 34 (2.13%) IaaS
7 33 (2.07%) Entra ID
8 32 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.82%) SaaS
10 22 (1.38%) PowerApps
11 21 (1.32%) PaaS
12 16 (1.00%) GCP
13 15 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
14 13 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (0.75%) Power Automate
16 11 (0.69%) WhatsApp
17 10 (0.63%) OneDrive
18 9 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 9 (0.56%) OCI
18 9 (0.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.70%) Firewall
2 58 (3.64%) WAN
3 48 (3.01%) LAN
4 46 (2.89%) VPN
5 34 (2.13%) DNS
6 31 (1.94%) Network Security
7 26 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (1.51%) DHCP
9 16 (1.00%) MPLS
9 16 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
11 14 (0.88%) SAN
11 14 (0.88%) TCP/IP
12 11 (0.69%) ATM
13 10 (0.63%) Internet
14 9 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (0.56%) VoIP
15 8 (0.50%) 5G
15 8 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
16 7 (0.44%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.01%) Power BI
2 45 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 34 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 22 (1.38%) Metadata
5 19 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (1.13%) Data Lake
7 15 (0.94%) Data Vault
7 15 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.75%) Big Data
9 11 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.56%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.56%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.50%) GIS
11 8 (0.50%) Pentaho
11 8 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (0.50%) QlikView
12 7 (0.44%) Delta Lake
12 7 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 138 (8.66%) JIRA
2 12 (0.75%) Git
3 10 (0.63%) GitLab
4 7 (0.44%) Selenium
5 5 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.31%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.25%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.19%) Gatling
7 3 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.19%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.13%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.13%) Gerrit
8 2 (0.13%) JUnit
8 2 (0.13%) RStudio
8 2 (0.13%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (0.13%) TestNG
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 528 (33.12%) Social Skills
2 449 (28.17%) Finance
3 190 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 169 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (6.27%) Telecoms
6 85 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
7 64 (4.02%) Banking
8 59 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
9 57 (3.58%) Manufacturing
10 49 (3.07%) Marketing
11 47 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
12 37 (2.32%) Legal
12 37 (2.32%) Retail
13 34 (2.13%) Local Government
14 27 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (1.51%) Mandarin Language
16 23 (1.44%) Electronics
17 21 (1.32%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.32%) Law
17 21 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 442 (27.73%) Project Manager
2 193 (12.11%) Architect
3 180 (11.29%) Senior
4 142 (8.91%) Lead
5 129 (8.09%) Analyst
6 89 (5.58%) Senior Manager
7 87 (5.46%) Delivery Manager
8 79 (4.96%) Business Analyst
9 71 (4.45%) Consultant
10 67 (4.20%) Senior Project Manager
10 67 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
11 64 (4.02%) IT Manager
12 46 (2.89%) Developer
12 46 (2.89%) IT Project Manager
13 43 (2.70%) Project Leader
14 38 (2.38%) Programme Manager
15 37 (2.32%) Technical Manager
16 34 (2.13%) Security Manager
17 33 (2.07%) Infrastructure Manager
18 32 (2.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.07%) .NET
2 25 (1.57%) XML
3 19 (1.19%) Web Services
4 16 (1.00%) AngularJS
4 16 (1.00%) JSON
4 16 (1.00%) Middleware
5 14 (0.88%) .NET Framework
5 14 (0.88%) ADO
6 12 (0.75%) REST
7 8 (0.50%) HTML
7 8 (0.50%) JSON Schema
7 8 (0.50%) LDAP
7 8 (0.50%) RESTful
8 7 (0.44%) .NET Core
8 7 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (0.38%) CSS
9 6 (0.38%) PySpark
9 6 (0.38%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.31%) OAuth
10 5 (0.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 69 (4.33%) Data Centre
2 68 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 66 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.26%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (1.51%) NHS
7 20 (1.25%) PMI
8 18 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
9 15 (0.94%) Reference Data
10 14 (0.88%) FMCG
10 14 (0.88%) Public Cloud
11 12 (0.75%) Data Structures
11 12 (0.75%) Market Risk
11 12 (0.75%) PKI
12 11 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (0.69%) Mobile App
12 11 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 10 (0.63%) Solar Panel
13 10 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 82 (5.14%) Windows
2 37 (2.32%) Linux
3 34 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (0.88%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.82%) Unix
6 12 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.50%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.44%) AIX
10 7 (0.44%) Solaris
11 6 (0.38%) Android
11 6 (0.38%) VMS
12 5 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.31%) zOS
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (41.28%) Project Management
2 573 (35.95%) Agile
3 302 (18.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 242 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
5 192 (12.05%) PRINCE2
6 184 (11.54%) Migration
7 156 (9.79%) Change Management
8 153 (9.60%) Risk Management
9 152 (9.54%) DevOps
10 146 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 144 (9.03%) Waterfall
12 141 (8.85%) Scrum
13 118 (7.40%) Programme Management
14 103 (6.46%) ITIL
15 100 (6.27%) Decision-Making
16 99 (6.21%) Business Case
17 97 (6.09%) Roadmaps
18 95 (5.96%) Project Planning
19 89 (5.58%) Data Management
19 89 (5.58%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 117 (7.34%) SQL
2 64 (4.02%) PowerShell
3 42 (2.63%) C#
3 42 (2.63%) Python
4 31 (1.94%) Java
5 18 (1.13%) JavaScript
6 13 (0.82%) Bash
6 13 (0.82%) T-SQL
7 7 (0.44%) C++
8 6 (0.38%) Bicep
8 6 (0.38%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.31%) R
9 5 (0.31%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.25%) Go
10 4 (0.25%) Perl
10 4 (0.25%) X++
11 3 (0.19%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.13%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 284 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 209 (13.11%) Degree
3 162 (10.16%) SC Cleared
4 109 (6.84%) DV Cleared
5 96 (6.02%) PMP
6 88 (5.52%) PMI Certification
7 37 (2.32%) APMP
7 37 (2.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 28 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (0.94%) CCNP
12 15 (0.94%) CISSP
13 14 (0.88%) CISM
14 13 (0.82%) CCNA
14 13 (0.82%) CISA
15 12 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (11.29%) PMO
2 77 (4.83%) QA
3 40 (2.51%) SLA
4 25 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.57%) NIST
5 16 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
6 15 (0.94%) GDPR
7 14 (0.88%) Data Quality
8 10 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (0.38%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.31%) Basel III
10 5 (0.31%) P3O
11 4 (0.25%) GRC
11 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.19%) COBIT
12 3 (0.19%) COREP
12 3 (0.19%) GxP
12 3 (0.19%) IFRS
12 3 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 71 (4.45%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.13%) Docker
4 16 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.94%) vSphere
6 11 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.69%) XenApp
7 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.25%) ACF2
8 4 (0.25%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.25%) Firmware
8 4 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.25%) RACF
8 4 (0.25%) Terminal Services
8 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.13%) Ceph
10 2 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.063%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (2.45%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.63%) Terraform
3 22 (1.38%) Ansible
4 21 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.88%) SCCM
6 8 (0.50%) vRealize
7 7 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.38%) Endace
8 6 (0.38%) Packer
8 6 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (0.31%) HP Data Protector
9 5 (0.31%) Istio
9 5 (0.31%) NetBackup
9 5 (0.31%) PingFederate
9 5 (0.31%) WSUS
10 4 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
10 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.25%) Rancher
10 4 (0.25%) vMotion
Vendors
1 266 (16.69%) Microsoft
2 105 (6.59%) SAP
3 70 (4.39%) Cisco
4 57 (3.58%) Oracle
5 54 (3.39%) VMware
6 42 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 31 (1.94%) Juniper
8 25 (1.57%) Citrix
9 24 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 22 (1.38%) F5
11 18 (1.13%) CheckPoint
12 15 (0.94%) Adobe
12 15 (0.94%) Informatica
12 15 (0.94%) Red Hat
13 14 (0.88%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.82%) Sparx
15 11 (0.69%) Symantec
16 10 (0.63%) Databricks
17 9 (0.56%) Palo Alto
17 9 (0.56%) Zscaler