Project Delivery Contracts in England

Project Delivery
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 50 52
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,366 2,024 3,433
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.67% 4.28% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 4.75% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 890 1,401 2,334
10th Percentile £362 £369 £370
25th Percentile £445 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £730 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 51 59
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £24.24
25th Percentile £24.75 £27.95 £39.75
Median hourly rate £33.47 £60.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.23% +34.83% -18.84%
75th Percentile £51.94 £80.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.15 £83.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £60.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.58% +34.83% +0.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,896 42,584 64,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.63% 89.97% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,753 29,899 46,066
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,340 1,520 1,731
10th Percentile £12.82 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +44.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.90 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.67% +39.80% +10.64%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in England

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in England

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in England over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in England

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in England

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in England over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in England

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London -9 607 £550 -8.33% 336
South East +12 244 £500 -0.99% 196
North of England +3 154 £525 +5.00% 214
South West -3 141 £530 +3.16% 117
Midlands +12 116 £508 -6.02% 179
North West -1 94 £568 +21.39% 119
West Midlands 0 85 £525 -2.55% 102
East of England -26 51 £550 +12.82% 69
Yorkshire -11 42 £450 -18.18% 70
East Midlands +10 29 £450 -26.53% 77
North East +13 18 £543 -25.12% 28
Project Delivery
UK

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 59 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.49%) Confluence
3 28 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.66%) MTS
5 7 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.44%) CMS
7 5 (0.37%) SAS
8 4 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.29%) CICS
9 3 (0.22%) Apache
9 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.15%) Drupal
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.073%) LiveLink
Applications
1 107 (7.83%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 71 (5.20%) Microsoft Project
4 46 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.42%) MS Visio
6 27 (1.98%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.29%) Trello
8 1 (0.073%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.073%) InVision
8 1 (0.073%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 29 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.17%) Loan IQ
4 13 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 12 (0.88%) Endur
5 12 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.81%) Maximo
7 10 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
8 9 (0.66%) Aligne
8 9 (0.66%) EuroRunner
8 9 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.59%) SAP Hybris
10 4 (0.29%) SAP SD
11 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.22%) Shopify
12 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
12 2 (0.15%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 203 (14.86%) Azure
2 69 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (4.32%) Power Platform
4 50 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (3.15%) AWS
6 31 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
7 29 (2.12%) Entra ID
8 27 (1.98%) SaaS
9 26 (1.90%) IaaS
10 17 (1.24%) PaaS
10 17 (1.24%) PowerApps
11 15 (1.10%) GCP
12 13 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
13 11 (0.81%) WhatsApp
14 10 (0.73%) OneDrive
15 9 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (0.66%) OCI
15 9 (0.66%) Power Automate
16 8 (0.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.81%) Firewall
2 50 (3.66%) WAN
3 42 (3.07%) VPN
4 39 (2.86%) LAN
5 31 (2.27%) DNS
6 26 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (1.68%) Network Security
8 21 (1.54%) DHCP
9 15 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
9 15 (1.10%) MPLS
10 13 (0.95%) SAN
11 12 (0.88%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.81%) TCP/IP
13 9 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (0.66%) Internet
13 9 (0.66%) VoIP
14 8 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
15 7 (0.51%) 4G
15 7 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 42 (3.07%) Power BI
3 31 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 22 (1.61%) Metadata
5 17 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 16 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (1.10%) Data Vault
7 15 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.81%) Big Data
8 11 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 10 (0.73%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.66%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.59%) GIS
11 8 (0.59%) Pentaho
11 8 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (0.59%) QlikView
12 7 (0.51%) Delta Lake
12 7 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 102 (7.47%) JIRA
2 12 (0.88%) Git
3 10 (0.73%) GitLab
4 7 (0.51%) Selenium
5 5 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.37%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.29%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.22%) Gatling
7 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.15%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.15%) Gerrit
8 2 (0.15%) JUnit
8 2 (0.15%) RStudio
8 2 (0.15%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (0.15%) TestNG
8 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (0.15%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.073%) Katalon Studio
General
1 428 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 404 (29.58%) Finance
3 149 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (10.18%) Public Sector
5 86 (6.30%) Presentation Skills
6 73 (5.34%) Telecoms
7 52 (3.81%) Banking
8 51 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
9 43 (3.15%) Manufacturing
9 43 (3.15%) Marketing
10 39 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (2.49%) Retail
12 33 (2.42%) Legal
12 33 (2.42%) Local Government
13 24 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (1.68%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (1.39%) Electronics
17 17 (1.24%) Front Office
18 16 (1.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 389 (28.48%) Project Manager
2 169 (12.37%) Senior
3 168 (12.30%) Architect
4 118 (8.64%) Lead
5 112 (8.20%) Analyst
6 85 (6.22%) Senior Manager
7 76 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
8 75 (5.49%) Business Analyst
9 66 (4.83%) Senior Project Manager
10 57 (4.17%) IT Manager
11 56 (4.10%) Consultant
12 54 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
13 47 (3.44%) Developer
14 44 (3.22%) IT Project Manager
15 37 (2.71%) Project Leader
16 33 (2.42%) Programme Manager
17 32 (2.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 31 (2.27%) Technical Manager
19 30 (2.20%) Security Manager
20 24 (1.76%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.12%) .NET
2 25 (1.83%) XML
3 16 (1.17%) AngularJS
3 16 (1.17%) JSON
3 16 (1.17%) Web Services
4 14 (1.02%) .NET Framework
5 13 (0.95%) ADO
5 13 (0.95%) REST
6 11 (0.81%) Middleware
7 8 (0.59%) HTML
7 8 (0.59%) JSON Schema
7 8 (0.59%) RESTful
8 7 (0.51%) .NET Core
8 7 (0.51%) PySpark
9 6 (0.44%) CSS
9 6 (0.44%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.37%) LDAP
10 5 (0.37%) OpenAPI
10 5 (0.37%) RAML
10 5 (0.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 66 (4.83%) Management Information System
2 58 (4.25%) Product Ownership
3 40 (2.93%) Data Centre
4 30 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (1.68%) NHS
7 18 (1.32%) PMI
8 17 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
9 15 (1.10%) Reference Data
10 14 (1.02%) Public Cloud
11 13 (0.95%) FMCG
12 12 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (0.88%) Market Risk
13 10 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.73%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.73%) Mobile App
13 10 (0.73%) Solar Panel
13 10 (0.73%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.59%) Cloud Native
14 8 (0.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 71 (5.20%) Windows
2 33 (2.42%) Linux
3 29 (2.12%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.95%) Unix
5 13 (0.95%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.59%) Windows 7
8 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.51%) Solaris
10 6 (0.44%) AIX
10 6 (0.44%) VMS
11 5 (0.37%) Android
11 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.29%) zOS
13 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (41.65%) Project Management
2 507 (37.12%) Agile
3 265 (19.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 216 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
5 168 (12.30%) PRINCE2
6 166 (12.15%) Migration
7 137 (10.03%) Change Management
8 129 (9.44%) DevOps
8 129 (9.44%) Scrum
9 127 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 124 (9.08%) Waterfall
11 123 (9.00%) Risk Management
12 106 (7.76%) Programme Management
13 95 (6.95%) ITIL
14 92 (6.73%) Business Case
14 92 (6.73%) Decision-Making
15 88 (6.44%) Project Planning
16 87 (6.37%) Roadmaps
17 82 (6.00%) Data Management
18 79 (5.78%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 100 (7.32%) SQL
2 60 (4.39%) PowerShell
3 44 (3.22%) C#
4 37 (2.71%) Python
5 31 (2.27%) Java
6 15 (1.10%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.95%) T-SQL
8 10 (0.73%) Bash
9 6 (0.44%) Bicep
9 6 (0.44%) C++
10 5 (0.37%) R
10 5 (0.37%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.29%) Go
11 4 (0.29%) X++
12 3 (0.22%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.15%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.15%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.15%) Swift
13 2 (0.15%) VBA
14 1 (0.073%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 264 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 173 (12.66%) Degree
3 144 (10.54%) SC Cleared
4 102 (7.47%) DV Cleared
5 73 (5.34%) PMI Certification
6 72 (5.27%) PMP
7 35 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 34 (2.49%) APMP
9 23 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.17%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.02%) CISSP
13 13 (0.95%) CCNA
13 13 (0.95%) CISA
13 13 (0.95%) CISM
13 13 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.81%) CCNP
15 10 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (11.79%) PMO
2 58 (4.25%) QA
3 22 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.46%) NIST
5 17 (1.24%) SLA
6 16 (1.17%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.10%) GDPR
8 13 (0.95%) Data Quality
9 10 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (0.44%) GRC
10 6 (0.44%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.37%) Basel III
11 5 (0.37%) P3O
12 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.22%) COREP
13 3 (0.22%) GxP
13 3 (0.22%) IFRS
13 3 (0.22%) MiFID
14 2 (0.15%) GAMP
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 67 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.17%) Docker
3 16 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.10%) vSphere
5 11 (0.81%) XenApp
6 6 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.29%) ACF2
7 4 (0.29%) Firmware
7 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.29%) RACF
8 2 (0.15%) Ceph
8 2 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.073%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.073%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.073%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.073%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (2.71%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.76%) Terraform
3 21 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.46%) Ansible
5 14 (1.02%) SCCM
6 8 (0.59%) vRealize
7 6 (0.44%) Endace
7 6 (0.44%) Packer
7 6 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (0.37%) HP Data Protector
8 5 (0.37%) Istio
8 5 (0.37%) NetBackup
8 5 (0.37%) WSUS
9 4 (0.29%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.29%) Rancher
9 4 (0.29%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 247 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.59%) SAP
3 62 (4.54%) Cisco
4 55 (4.03%) Oracle
5 48 (3.51%) VMware
6 39 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 31 (2.27%) Juniper
8 25 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.39%) Citrix
10 18 (1.32%) F5
11 15 (1.10%) Adobe
12 14 (1.02%) CheckPoint
13 13 (0.95%) Informatica
13 13 (0.95%) Sparx
14 12 (0.88%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.81%) Symantec
16 10 (0.73%) Google
17 9 (0.66%) Databricks
17 9 (0.66%) Palo Alto
17 9 (0.66%) Remedy