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 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 49 49 53
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +8
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,628 2,468 4,107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.82% 4.33% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.83% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,713 2,808
10th Percentile £363 £369 £363
25th Percentile £449 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £635 £656 £623
90th Percentile £735 £775 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 57 71
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £21.86
25th Percentile £26.25 £31.25 £39.75
Median hourly rate £35.65 £64.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.73% +44.94% +4.09%
75th Percentile £42.25 £70.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £83.35 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £65.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -37.02% +40.54% +9.47%

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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
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% -4.99%

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 18 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 18 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 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
England +2 1,382 £538 -2.27% 1,207
UK excluding London 0 827 £525 +5.00% 933
London -6 637 £550 -8.33% 360
Work from Home +3 540 £525 -1.87% 494
South East +15 250 £500 -2.91% 238
North of England -7 141 £525 +5.00% 217
South West -3 135 £530 +2.42% 129
Scotland +5 116 £500 - 79
Midlands +4 110 £525 -2.78% 171
North West -2 89 £575 +27.78% 118
West Midlands +8 83 £525 -2.33% 92
East of England -22 52 £552 +17.45% 83
Yorkshire -22 38 £470 -14.55% 67
Wales +5 27 £275 -42.11% 35
East Midlands +8 25 £489 -17.64% 79
North East +11 14 £500 -30.99% 37
Northern Ireland +1 4 - - 13

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 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 41 (2.52%) Confluence
3 35 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.68%) MTS
5 8 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.37%) CMS
6 6 (0.37%) Tornado
7 5 (0.31%) SAS
8 4 (0.25%) Apache
8 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.12%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.12%) IIS
10 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 117 (7.19%) Microsoft Office
2 89 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 84 (5.16%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (2.09%) MS Visio
6 27 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.55%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.18%) Trello
9 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.061%) InVision
9 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 39 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.17%) Loan IQ
4 16 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 14 (0.86%) Endur
6 14 (0.86%) Maximo
7 13 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
8 11 (0.68%) Aligne
8 11 (0.68%) EuroRunner
9 9 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
11 4 (0.25%) SAP SD
11 4 (0.25%) Shopify
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
12 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
12 3 (0.18%) SAP EWM
12 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
13 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 243 (14.93%) Azure
2 83 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
3 67 (4.12%) Power Platform
4 57 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (3.32%) AWS
6 36 (2.21%) Entra ID
7 35 (2.15%) IaaS
8 34 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.90%) SaaS
10 22 (1.35%) PowerApps
11 20 (1.23%) PaaS
12 16 (0.98%) GCP
13 14 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
14 13 (0.80%) WhatsApp
15 12 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (0.74%) Power Automate
16 11 (0.68%) OCI
17 10 (0.61%) OneDrive
17 10 (0.61%) OpenShift
18 9 (0.55%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.75%) Firewall
2 54 (3.32%) WAN
3 49 (3.01%) VPN
4 46 (2.83%) LAN
5 38 (2.33%) DNS
6 34 (2.09%) Network Security
7 26 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (1.47%) DHCP
9 19 (1.17%) MPLS
10 16 (0.98%) TCP/IP
11 15 (0.92%) SAN
12 14 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
13 12 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.68%) ATM
15 10 (0.61%) Internet
15 10 (0.61%) SMTP
16 9 (0.55%) VoIP
17 8 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
18 7 (0.43%) 5G
18 7 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.44%) SQL Server
2 50 (3.07%) Power BI
3 35 (2.15%) NoSQL
4 22 (1.35%) Metadata
5 20 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.04%) Data Lake
7 16 (0.98%) Data Vault
8 15 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (0.80%) Big Data
10 11 (0.68%) Relational Database
10 11 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.55%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (0.55%) RDBMS
12 8 (0.49%) GIS
12 8 (0.49%) Pentaho
12 8 (0.49%) Qlik Sense
12 8 (0.49%) QlikView
13 7 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
13 7 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 141 (8.66%) JIRA
2 13 (0.80%) Git
3 10 (0.61%) GitLab
4 7 (0.43%) Selenium
5 6 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.31%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.25%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.18%) Gatling
8 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.12%) ERwin
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 Team System
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 539 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 463 (28.44%) Finance
3 198 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 176 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (6.39%) Telecoms
6 92 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
7 69 (4.24%) Banking
8 58 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
9 57 (3.50%) Manufacturing
10 52 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (3.07%) Marketing
12 42 (2.58%) Retail
13 38 (2.33%) Legal
14 32 (1.97%) Local Government
15 27 (1.66%) Financial Institution
15 27 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (1.54%) Mandarin Language
17 24 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 23 (1.41%) Electronics
19 22 (1.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 444 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 197 (12.10%) Architect
3 167 (10.26%) Senior
4 150 (9.21%) Lead
5 133 (8.17%) Analyst
6 89 (5.47%) Delivery Manager
7 80 (4.91%) Business Analyst
8 78 (4.79%) Senior Manager
9 73 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
10 72 (4.42%) Consultant
11 60 (3.69%) Senior Project Manager
12 59 (3.62%) IT Manager
13 49 (3.01%) Developer
14 45 (2.76%) Project Leader
15 41 (2.52%) IT Project Manager
16 39 (2.40%) Programme Manager
17 36 (2.21%) Security Manager
18 35 (2.15%) Technical Manager
19 30 (1.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 30 (1.84%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.15%) .NET
2 26 (1.60%) XML
3 21 (1.29%) Web Services
4 17 (1.04%) JSON
5 16 (0.98%) AngularJS
5 16 (0.98%) Middleware
6 15 (0.92%) REST
7 14 (0.86%) .NET Framework
7 14 (0.86%) ADO
8 12 (0.74%) LDAP
9 11 (0.68%) OAuth
10 10 (0.61%) React
11 9 (0.55%) Node.js
11 9 (0.55%) SailPoint
12 8 (0.49%) HTML
12 8 (0.49%) JSON Schema
12 8 (0.49%) Pandas
12 8 (0.49%) RESTful
13 7 (0.43%) .NET Core
13 7 (0.43%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 73 (4.48%) Management Information System
2 69 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 68 (4.18%) Data Centre
4 35 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 31 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (1.29%) NHS
7 20 (1.23%) PMI
8 19 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
9 16 (0.98%) Reference Data
10 14 (0.86%) Market Risk
10 14 (0.86%) Public Cloud
11 13 (0.80%) FMCG
11 13 (0.80%) PKI
11 13 (0.80%) Solar Panel
12 12 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 12 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 12 (0.74%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 89 (5.47%) Windows
2 38 (2.33%) Linux
3 37 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.92%) Unix
4 15 (0.92%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.49%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.43%) AIX
10 7 (0.43%) Android
10 7 (0.43%) Solaris
11 6 (0.37%) VMS
11 6 (0.37%) zOS
12 5 (0.31%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (41.22%) Project Management
2 596 (36.61%) Agile
3 294 (18.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 249 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
5 193 (11.86%) PRINCE2
6 188 (11.55%) Migration
7 161 (9.89%) DevOps
8 158 (9.71%) Risk Management
9 156 (9.58%) Change Management
10 148 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 147 (9.03%) Scrum
11 147 (9.03%) Waterfall
12 124 (7.62%) Programme Management
13 108 (6.63%) ITIL
14 107 (6.57%) Business Case
15 101 (6.20%) Decision-Making
16 99 (6.08%) Project Planning
17 93 (5.71%) Roadmaps
18 91 (5.59%) Business Intelligence
19 88 (5.41%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (8.11%) SQL
2 66 (4.05%) PowerShell
3 50 (3.07%) Python
4 43 (2.64%) C#
5 36 (2.21%) Java
6 25 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.80%) Bash
7 13 (0.80%) T-SQL
8 11 (0.68%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.43%) C++
10 6 (0.37%) Bicep
10 6 (0.37%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.31%) Perl
11 5 (0.31%) R
12 4 (0.25%) X++
13 3 (0.18%) Go
13 3 (0.18%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.12%) Swift
14 2 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 290 (17.81%) Security Cleared
2 214 (13.14%) Degree
3 164 (10.07%) SC Cleared
4 116 (7.13%) DV Cleared
5 94 (5.77%) PMP
6 86 (5.28%) PMI Certification
7 43 (2.64%) APMP
8 34 (2.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 28 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.98%) CISM
12 16 (0.98%) CISSP
12 16 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (0.92%) CCNP
13 15 (0.92%) CISA
13 15 (0.92%) Master's Degree
14 13 (0.80%) CCNA
15 10 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (11.43%) PMO
2 83 (5.10%) QA
3 43 (2.64%) SLA
4 25 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.54%) NIST
5 16 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 16 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
6 14 (0.86%) Data Quality
7 13 (0.80%) GDPR
8 10 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (0.37%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.31%) Basel III
10 5 (0.31%) GRC
11 4 (0.25%) P3O
11 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.18%) COREP
12 3 (0.18%) GxP
12 3 (0.18%) IFRS
12 3 (0.18%) MiFID
13 2 (0.12%) GAMP
System Software
1 76 (4.67%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.17%) Docker
4 16 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.92%) vSphere
6 12 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.68%) XenApp
8 7 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.31%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.31%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.25%) ACF2
10 4 (0.25%) Firmware
10 4 (0.25%) RACF
11 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.12%) Ceph
12 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 44 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.54%) Terraform
3 23 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.35%) Ansible
5 15 (0.92%) SCCM
6 8 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.49%) vRealize
7 7 (0.43%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.37%) Packer
8 6 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (0.31%) Endace
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%) vMotion
9 5 (0.31%) WSUS
10 4 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
10 4 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 282 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.76%) SAP
3 69 (4.24%) Cisco
4 64 (3.93%) Oracle
5 55 (3.38%) VMware
6 48 (2.95%) ServiceNow
7 31 (1.90%) Juniper
8 27 (1.66%) Citrix
9 22 (1.35%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.04%) CheckPoint
11 16 (0.98%) Adobe
11 16 (0.98%) F5
11 16 (0.98%) Informatica
12 15 (0.92%) Databricks
12 15 (0.92%) Red Hat
12 15 (0.92%) Sparx
13 14 (0.86%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.68%) Ariba
14 11 (0.68%) Symantec
15 10 (0.61%) Google