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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 72 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Delivery 3,746 4,297 6,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.75% 4.32% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.52% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,628 2,674 3,821
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,386
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,403 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +6.19%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,150 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 +12 3,378 £55,000 -11.35% 1,268
UK excluding London +14 2,653 £52,500 -12.50% 955
Work from Home +11 1,464 £60,000 - 500
London +12 926 £70,000 - 392
South East 0 652 £52,000 -9.57% 251
North of England +28 617 £50,000 -16.67% 226
Midlands +10 490 £54,000 -1.82% 169
South West +36 413 £53,500 -10.12% 129
North West +9 338 £50,000 -16.67% 119
West Midlands +1 294 £57,500 +4.55% 89
East of England +27 247 £55,000 -21.43% 85
East Midlands +34 191 £54,000 -6.09% 80
Yorkshire +35 186 £52,500 -12.15% 74
Scotland -45 155 £50,000 -16.67% 78
North East +25 93 £52,500 -4.55% 38
Wales -14 67 £60,500 -0.57% 34
Northern Ireland +30 13 - - 13
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
1 152 (4.06%) SharePoint
2 87 (2.32%) CMS
3 74 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 55 (1.47%) Confluence
5 41 (1.09%) Kentico
5 41 (1.09%) Umbraco
6 40 (1.07%) Sitecore CMS
7 37 (0.99%) IIS
8 36 (0.96%) Headless CMS
9 35 (0.93%) Apache Spark
10 14 (0.37%) WordPress
11 13 (0.35%) SAS
12 12 (0.32%) Apache
13 10 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
14 9 (0.24%) Drupal
14 9 (0.24%) MS Project Server
15 7 (0.19%) Apache Solr
15 7 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 5 (0.13%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 194 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 190 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
3 147 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
4 105 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 46 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.83%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.43%) Adobe XD
7 16 (0.43%) Revit
8 10 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 9 (0.24%) Trello
10 7 (0.19%) Simulink
11 6 (0.16%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.080%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 46 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.43%) SAP SCM
4 13 (0.35%) SAP PP
5 12 (0.32%) SAP WM
6 11 (0.29%) Primavera
7 10 (0.27%) SAP HR
7 10 (0.27%) SAP SD
8 9 (0.24%) Shopify
8 9 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
9 8 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
9 8 (0.21%) Elite 3E
9 8 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.21%) Teamcenter
10 7 (0.19%) SAP ERP
11 6 (0.16%) Magento
11 6 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
11 6 (0.16%) SAP MM
11 6 (0.16%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 646 (17.25%) Azure
2 355 (9.48%) Microsoft 365
3 250 (6.67%) AWS
4 221 (5.90%) Power Platform
5 136 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
6 115 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
7 101 (2.70%) SaaS
8 91 (2.43%) Entra ID
9 79 (2.11%) GCP
10 63 (1.68%) PowerApps
11 55 (1.47%) IaaS
12 52 (1.39%) PaaS
13 50 (1.33%) Serverless
14 44 (1.17%) Power Automate
15 41 (1.09%) Kontent
16 27 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (0.67%) Amazon S3
18 24 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
19 23 (0.61%) OneDrive
20 22 (0.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 187 (4.99%) Firewall
2 158 (4.22%) WAN
3 106 (2.83%) LAN
4 105 (2.80%) SD-WAN
5 93 (2.48%) VPN
6 74 (1.98%) Wireless
7 71 (1.90%) DNS
8 60 (1.60%) SAN
9 59 (1.58%) Network Security
9 59 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
10 55 (1.47%) DHCP
11 51 (1.36%) BGP
12 43 (1.15%) VLAN
13 35 (0.93%) 5G
14 34 (0.91%) Internet
15 32 (0.85%) TCP/IP
16 30 (0.80%) MPLS
17 26 (0.69%) VoIP
18 24 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
19 21 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (3.82%) Power BI
2 130 (3.47%) SQL Server
3 48 (1.28%) Tableau
4 44 (1.17%) NoSQL
5 32 (0.85%) Data Lake
5 32 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 26 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (0.69%) Big Data
8 25 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (0.67%) SAP BW
9 23 (0.61%) Data Mining
10 20 (0.53%) Apache Ignite
10 20 (0.53%) Hadoop
11 19 (0.51%) MySQL
12 16 (0.43%) DynamoDB
13 15 (0.40%) Oracle Database
14 14 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
14 14 (0.37%) GIS
14 14 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 154 (4.11%) JIRA
2 50 (1.33%) Git
3 18 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.37%) Selenium
5 13 (0.35%) Axure RP
5 13 (0.35%) Balsamiq
5 13 (0.35%) GitLab
6 10 (0.27%) Cucumber
6 10 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.24%) Postman
7 9 (0.24%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
9 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
10 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.13%) Maven
11 4 (0.11%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.080%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.080%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.080%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.053%) Vagrant
General
1 1,345 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 919 (24.53%) Finance
3 443 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 278 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 257 (6.86%) Presentation Skills
6 254 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 231 (6.17%) Retail
8 199 (5.31%) Marketing
9 159 (4.24%) Legal
10 149 (3.98%) Telecoms
11 139 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
12 134 (3.58%) Manufacturing
13 119 (3.18%) Law
14 110 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
15 68 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
16 64 (1.71%) Banking
17 60 (1.60%) Local Government
18 43 (1.15%) Billing
19 41 (1.09%) Electronics
20 36 (0.96%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,119 (29.87%) Project Manager
2 546 (14.58%) Senior
3 378 (10.09%) Lead
4 263 (7.02%) Analyst
5 220 (5.87%) IT Manager
6 212 (5.66%) Architect
7 202 (5.39%) Senior Manager
8 199 (5.31%) Consultant
9 170 (4.54%) Developer
10 168 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
11 159 (4.24%) Presales Manager
12 152 (4.06%) IT Project Manager
13 124 (3.31%) Senior Project Manager
14 112 (2.99%) Business Analyst
15 98 (2.62%) IT Engineer
16 95 (2.54%) IT Support
17 89 (2.38%) Network Engineer
18 82 (2.19%) Technical Manager
19 78 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
20 76 (2.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (4.27%) .NET
2 82 (2.19%) HTML
3 77 (2.06%) React
4 76 (2.03%) RESTful
5 73 (1.95%) CSS
6 64 (1.71%) ASP.NET
7 59 (1.58%) .NET Framework
8 53 (1.41%) .NET Core
9 47 (1.25%) ASP.NET MVC
10 40 (1.07%) Next.js
11 37 (0.99%) JSON
12 35 (0.93%) SOAP
13 33 (0.88%) Middleware
13 33 (0.88%) REST
14 31 (0.83%) Web Services
15 28 (0.75%) AngularJS
16 27 (0.72%) XML
17 25 (0.67%) Kafka
18 24 (0.64%) EDI
19 21 (0.56%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 239 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
2 218 (5.82%) Management Information System
3 142 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 141 (3.76%) Data Centre
5 93 (2.48%) Driving Licence
6 66 (1.76%) PMI
7 62 (1.66%) Public Cloud
7 62 (1.66%) Virtual Team
8 61 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 43 (1.15%) Replication
10 39 (1.04%) NHS
11 38 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 36 (0.96%) FMCG
13 32 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 32 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
14 29 (0.77%) Mobile App
15 26 (0.69%) Operational Technology
16 24 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
17 23 (0.61%) IoT
17 23 (0.61%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 287 (7.66%) Windows
2 184 (4.91%) Windows Server
3 115 (3.07%) Linux
4 65 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 34 (0.91%) Android
6 29 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 21 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 19 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 19 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 17 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.29%) SUSE
11 11 (0.29%) Windows 7
12 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.13%) VMS
13 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.080%) Unix
16 1 (0.027%) CentOS
16 1 (0.027%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,673 (44.66%) Project Management
2 1,292 (34.49%) Agile
3 637 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
4 501 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 501 (13.37%) Mentoring
5 435 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 411 (10.97%) PRINCE2
7 347 (9.26%) Presales
8 315 (8.41%) Roadmaps
9 307 (8.20%) Customer Service
10 301 (8.04%) DevOps
11 296 (7.90%) Waterfall
12 294 (7.85%) Coaching
13 288 (7.69%) Change Management
14 285 (7.61%) Risk Management
15 280 (7.47%) SDLC
16 278 (7.42%) Scrum
17 230 (6.14%) Collaborative Working
18 229 (6.11%) Line Management
19 226 (6.03%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 264 (7.05%) SQL
2 172 (4.59%) JavaScript
3 166 (4.43%) C#
3 166 (4.43%) Python
4 78 (2.08%) Java
5 77 (2.06%) PowerShell
6 37 (0.99%) TypeScript
7 35 (0.93%) Kotlin
8 29 (0.77%) T-SQL
9 27 (0.72%) C++
10 24 (0.64%) R
11 20 (0.53%) PHP
12 17 (0.45%) C
13 16 (0.43%) Go
14 15 (0.40%) Bash
14 15 (0.40%) Scala
15 14 (0.37%) VBA
16 13 (0.35%) MATLAB
17 9 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 863 (23.04%) Degree
2 389 (10.38%) Security Cleared
3 204 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 181 (4.83%) PMI Certification
5 161 (4.30%) PMP
6 142 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
7 110 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 102 (2.72%) Master's Degree
9 101 (2.70%) DBS Check
10 99 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 89 (2.38%) CCNP
12 73 (1.95%) CCNA
13 54 (1.44%) DV Cleared
14 52 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 49 (1.31%) AWS Certification
16 47 (1.25%) APMP
16 47 (1.25%) Azure Certification
17 46 (1.23%) Chartered Engineer
17 46 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 45 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (6.67%) PMO
2 204 (5.45%) QA
3 71 (1.90%) GDPR
4 49 (1.31%) SLA
5 45 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 40 (1.07%) 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 (0.43%) GMP
12 15 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.35%) WCAG
14 12 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
16 9 (0.24%) AUTOSAR
16 9 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 8 (0.21%) GRC
17 8 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 230 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 122 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (1.87%) Hyper-V
4 47 (1.25%) Docker
5 26 (0.69%) vSphere
6 21 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
7 19 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.35%) Firmware
9 13 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.29%) vCloud
11 4 (0.11%) pfSense
11 4 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.053%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.027%) Lustre
13 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.027%) NFS
Systems Management
1 80 (2.14%) Terraform
2 74 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 55 (1.47%) Kubernetes
4 27 (0.72%) Functional Safety
5 25 (0.67%) SCCM
6 22 (0.59%) Ansible
7 21 (0.56%) FortiGate
8 15 (0.40%) WSUS
9 12 (0.32%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.21%) SCOM
12 7 (0.19%) Grafana
13 6 (0.16%) SmoothWall
13 6 (0.16%) vRealize
14 5 (0.13%) AirWatch
15 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
16 3 (0.080%) Failover Clustering
16 3 (0.080%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 856 (22.85%) Microsoft
2 207 (5.53%) Cisco
3 173 (4.62%) SAP
4 164 (4.38%) VMware
5 79 (2.11%) Oracle
6 69 (1.84%) Salesforce
7 68 (1.82%) Google
8 63 (1.68%) Juniper
9 59 (1.58%) Veeam
10 57 (1.52%) ServiceNow
11 45 (1.20%) HP
12 43 (1.15%) Sitecore
13 42 (1.12%) EMC
14 41 (1.09%) Meraki
15 37 (0.99%) Adobe
15 37 (0.99%) Optimizely
16 30 (0.80%) Dell
17 28 (0.75%) Databricks
18 24 (0.64%) Aruba
18 24 (0.64%) Remedy