Project Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Project Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Project Delivery over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 73 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +7
Permanent jobs citing Project Delivery 3,798 4,253 6,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.83% 4.21% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.40% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,661 2,640 3,741
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,386
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,526 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.80% +13.38% +5.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Delivery in the UK

Project Delivery
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Delivery within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +15 3,420 £55,000 -12.00% 1,166
UK excluding London +13 2,694 £52,500 -11.80% 866
Work from Home +10 1,495 £60,000 - 475
London +18 929 £70,000 - 343
South East -2 652 £51,750 -10.00% 191
North of England +34 630 £50,000 -16.00% 213
Midlands +10 497 £54,000 -1.82% 178
South West +39 421 £55,000 -1.79% 124
North West +14 346 £50,000 -16.00% 123
West Midlands +7 299 £57,500 +4.55% 97
East of England +30 257 £54,000 -22.86% 85
Yorkshire +44 194 £52,500 -11.80% 62
East Midlands +36 193 £54,000 -6.09% 81
Scotland -39 155 £50,000 -16.67% 70
North East +27 90 £50,250 -8.64% 32
Wales -18 69 £60,500 -0.49% 25
Northern Ireland +21 14 - - 10
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 155 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 88 (2.32%) CMS
3 73 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 55 (1.45%) Confluence
5 41 (1.08%) Kentico
5 41 (1.08%) Umbraco
6 40 (1.05%) Sitecore CMS
7 37 (0.97%) IIS
8 36 (0.95%) Headless CMS
9 35 (0.92%) Apache Spark
10 14 (0.37%) WordPress
11 13 (0.34%) SAS
12 9 (0.24%) Apache
12 9 (0.24%) Drupal
12 9 (0.24%) MS Project Server
13 7 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
13 7 (0.18%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.13%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 184 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 182 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 147 (3.87%) Microsoft Project
4 106 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 45 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.82%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.42%) Adobe XD
7 16 (0.42%) Revit
8 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
9 9 (0.24%) Trello
10 7 (0.18%) Simulink
11 6 (0.16%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.079%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.026%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 46 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.42%) SAP SCM
5 13 (0.34%) SAP PP
6 12 (0.32%) SAP WM
7 11 (0.29%) Primavera
8 10 (0.26%) SAP HR
8 10 (0.26%) SAP SD
9 9 (0.24%) Elite 3E
9 9 (0.24%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.24%) Shopify
9 9 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
10 8 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
10 8 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.21%) Teamcenter
11 7 (0.18%) Magento
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
12 6 (0.16%) SAP MM
12 6 (0.16%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 654 (17.22%) Azure
2 364 (9.58%) Microsoft 365
3 247 (6.50%) AWS
4 223 (5.87%) Power Platform
5 138 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
6 117 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
7 105 (2.76%) SaaS
8 92 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 78 (2.05%) GCP
10 63 (1.66%) PowerApps
11 58 (1.53%) IaaS
12 51 (1.34%) PaaS
12 51 (1.34%) Serverless
13 45 (1.18%) Power Automate
14 41 (1.08%) Kontent
15 27 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (0.66%) Amazon S3
17 24 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
17 24 (0.63%) OneDrive
18 23 (0.61%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 191 (5.03%) Firewall
2 157 (4.13%) WAN
3 106 (2.79%) LAN
4 102 (2.69%) SD-WAN
5 95 (2.50%) VPN
6 75 (1.97%) Wireless
7 71 (1.87%) DNS
8 62 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
9 61 (1.61%) Network Security
9 61 (1.61%) SAN
10 54 (1.42%) DHCP
11 51 (1.34%) BGP
12 45 (1.18%) VLAN
13 35 (0.92%) Internet
14 33 (0.87%) TCP/IP
15 32 (0.84%) 5G
16 31 (0.82%) MPLS
17 27 (0.71%) VoIP
18 24 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
19 21 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (3.84%) Power BI
2 133 (3.50%) SQL Server
3 43 (1.13%) Tableau
4 40 (1.05%) NoSQL
5 34 (0.90%) Data Lake
5 34 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
6 29 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 28 (0.74%) Data Mining
8 27 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (0.71%) Big Data
9 24 (0.63%) Hadoop
9 24 (0.63%) SAP BW
10 23 (0.61%) Apache Ignite
11 21 (0.55%) MySQL
12 16 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.42%) Metadata
12 16 (0.42%) Oracle Database
13 14 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
14 13 (0.34%) GIS
Development Applications
1 157 (4.13%) JIRA
2 51 (1.34%) Git
3 18 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.37%) GitLab
4 14 (0.37%) Selenium
5 13 (0.34%) Axure RP
5 13 (0.34%) Balsamiq
6 10 (0.26%) Cucumber
6 10 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.24%) Postman
7 9 (0.24%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
9 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
10 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.11%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.079%) Maven
12 3 (0.079%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.079%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.079%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.053%) Vagrant
General
1 1,347 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 910 (23.96%) Finance
3 456 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
4 302 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 259 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 247 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
7 228 (6.00%) Retail
8 199 (5.24%) Marketing
9 157 (4.13%) Legal
10 146 (3.84%) Telecoms
11 142 (3.74%) Manufacturing
12 141 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
13 121 (3.19%) Law
14 112 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
15 66 (1.74%) Local Government
15 66 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
16 62 (1.63%) Banking
17 44 (1.16%) Billing
18 39 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
18 39 (1.03%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,145 (30.15%) Project Manager
2 559 (14.72%) Senior
3 376 (9.90%) Lead
4 262 (6.90%) Analyst
5 226 (5.95%) IT Manager
6 218 (5.74%) Architect
7 204 (5.37%) Consultant
8 203 (5.34%) Senior Manager
9 171 (4.50%) Developer
9 171 (4.50%) Presales Manager
10 167 (4.40%) Delivery Manager
11 156 (4.11%) IT Project Manager
12 124 (3.26%) Senior Project Manager
13 114 (3.00%) Business Analyst
14 97 (2.55%) IT Engineer
15 96 (2.53%) IT Support
16 89 (2.34%) Network Engineer
17 81 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
18 79 (2.08%) Technical Manager
19 76 (2.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (4.24%) .NET
2 82 (2.16%) HTML
3 77 (2.03%) RESTful
4 76 (2.00%) React
5 73 (1.92%) CSS
6 64 (1.69%) ASP.NET
7 60 (1.58%) .NET Framework
8 52 (1.37%) .NET Core
9 48 (1.26%) ASP.NET MVC
10 40 (1.05%) Next.js
11 37 (0.97%) JSON
11 37 (0.97%) SOAP
12 34 (0.90%) REST
13 33 (0.87%) Web Services
14 32 (0.84%) Middleware
15 29 (0.76%) Kafka
16 28 (0.74%) XML
17 27 (0.71%) AngularJS
18 24 (0.63%) EDI
19 22 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 241 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
2 215 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 143 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 141 (3.71%) Data Centre
5 113 (2.98%) Driving Licence
6 64 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 63 (1.66%) Onboarding
7 63 (1.66%) PMI
8 60 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 44 (1.16%) Replication
10 39 (1.03%) NHS
11 37 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 36 (0.95%) FMCG
13 33 (0.87%) Low-Code
14 32 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
15 28 (0.74%) Mobile App
16 26 (0.68%) Operational Technology
17 24 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
18 23 (0.61%) IoT
19 22 (0.58%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 295 (7.77%) Windows
2 192 (5.06%) Windows Server
3 116 (3.05%) Linux
4 65 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 35 (0.92%) Android
6 31 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 22 (0.58%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 18 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (0.39%) Ubuntu
12 12 (0.32%) SUSE
12 12 (0.32%) Windows 7
13 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.13%) VMS
15 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.079%) Unix
17 2 (0.053%) CentOS
18 1 (0.026%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,715 (45.16%) Project Management
2 1,316 (34.65%) Agile
3 629 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
4 502 (13.22%) Mentoring
5 500 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 440 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 414 (10.90%) PRINCE2
8 358 (9.43%) Presales
9 320 (8.43%) Roadmaps
10 308 (8.11%) Customer Service
11 303 (7.98%) DevOps
12 296 (7.79%) Coaching
13 295 (7.77%) Waterfall
14 291 (7.66%) SDLC
15 285 (7.50%) Change Management
16 281 (7.40%) Risk Management
17 278 (7.32%) Scrum
18 244 (6.42%) Collaborative Working
19 233 (6.13%) Agile Project Management
20 229 (6.03%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 259 (6.82%) SQL
2 173 (4.56%) JavaScript
3 170 (4.48%) C#
4 160 (4.21%) Python
5 77 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 74 (1.95%) Java
7 38 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 30 (0.79%) C++
9 29 (0.76%) Kotlin
9 29 (0.76%) T-SQL
10 25 (0.66%) R
11 20 (0.53%) PHP
12 17 (0.45%) C
13 16 (0.42%) Bash
13 16 (0.42%) Go
14 14 (0.37%) VBA
15 13 (0.34%) MATLAB
15 13 (0.34%) Scala
16 9 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 856 (22.54%) Degree
2 398 (10.48%) Security Cleared
3 211 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 173 (4.56%) PMI Certification
5 155 (4.08%) PMP
6 144 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
7 118 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 103 (2.71%) Master's Degree
9 98 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 95 (2.50%) DBS Check
11 90 (2.37%) CCNP
12 75 (1.97%) CCNA
13 58 (1.53%) DV Cleared
14 52 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 49 (1.29%) AWS Certification
16 47 (1.24%) APMP
16 47 (1.24%) Azure Certification
16 47 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 46 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
17 46 (1.21%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (6.71%) PMO
2 206 (5.42%) QA
3 71 (1.87%) GDPR
4 54 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 53 (1.40%) SLA
6 45 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 40 (1.05%) Data Quality
8 23 (0.61%) ISO 9001
9 20 (0.53%) NIST
10 17 (0.45%) NCSC
10 17 (0.45%) NEBOSH
11 16 (0.42%) GMP
11 16 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.34%) WCAG
13 12 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.24%) AUTOSAR
14 9 (0.24%) GAAP
14 9 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 8 (0.21%) GRC
15 8 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 236 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 126 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (1.84%) Hyper-V
4 49 (1.29%) Docker
5 28 (0.74%) vSphere
6 19 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
6 19 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.34%) Firmware
9 13 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.32%) vCloud
11 4 (0.11%) pfSense
11 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.053%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.026%) Lustre
13 1 (0.026%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.026%) NFS
Systems Management
1 79 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (2.05%) Terraform
3 55 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 27 (0.71%) Functional Safety
5 24 (0.63%) SCCM
6 23 (0.61%) Ansible
7 22 (0.58%) FortiGate
8 15 (0.39%) WSUS
9 12 (0.32%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.18%) Grafana
11 7 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.18%) SCOM
12 6 (0.16%) AirWatch
12 6 (0.16%) SmoothWall
12 6 (0.16%) vRealize
13 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
14 3 (0.079%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.079%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 861 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 206 (5.42%) Cisco
3 174 (4.58%) SAP
4 169 (4.45%) VMware
5 84 (2.21%) Oracle
6 69 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 67 (1.76%) Google
8 62 (1.63%) Juniper
9 61 (1.61%) Veeam
10 60 (1.58%) ServiceNow
11 50 (1.32%) HP
12 42 (1.11%) EMC
12 42 (1.11%) Meraki
12 42 (1.11%) Sitecore
13 37 (0.97%) Adobe
13 37 (0.97%) Optimizely
14 32 (0.84%) Dell
15 22 (0.58%) Aruba
15 22 (0.58%) Remedy
16 21 (0.55%) CheckPoint