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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 50 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 1,648 2,536 4,129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.85% 4.36% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.85% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 1,765 2,841
10th Percentile £362 £369 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £619
90th Percentile £738 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +5.00% +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 59 70
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £21.69
25th Percentile £26.47 £31.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £35.65 £64.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.30% +43.82% +4.09%
75th Percentile £41.60 £70.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £62.39 £83.33 £64.78
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 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
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% -6.98%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +5 1,397 £550 - 1,197
UK excluding London +3 842 £525 +5.00% 897
London -6 642 £550 -8.33% 358
Work from Home +1 548 £525 -2.55% 483
South East +11 256 £500 -4.76% 210
North of England -11 143 £528 +6.57% 217
South West +1 136 £530 +2.42% 129
Scotland +5 123 £500 - 77
Midlands +9 111 £525 -2.33% 171
North West -2 92 £575 +27.78% 128
West Midlands +8 84 £525 -0.94% 95
East of England -24 51 £554 +23.11% 82
Yorkshire -19 37 £470 -14.55% 58
East Midlands +17 25 £489 -17.64% 76
Wales +1 25 £225 -52.63% 25
North East +11 14 £500 -30.99% 35
Northern Ireland +5 5 £210 -61.82% 16

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 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 40 (2.43%) Confluence
3 36 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.67%) MTS
5 8 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.42%) CMS
7 6 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.36%) Tornado
8 5 (0.30%) SAS
9 4 (0.24%) Apache
9 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.24%) CICS
10 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.12%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.12%) IIS
11 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 116 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 91 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 84 (5.10%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (2.06%) MS Visio
6 27 (1.64%) 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 40 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (1.27%) Loan IQ
4 18 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 14 (0.85%) Endur
6 14 (0.85%) Maximo
7 13 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
8 11 (0.67%) Aligne
8 11 (0.67%) EuroRunner
9 9 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
11 4 (0.24%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.24%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.24%) Shopify
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
12 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.18%) SAP EWM
12 3 (0.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 244 (14.81%) Azure
2 83 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
3 65 (3.94%) Power Platform
4 59 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
5 56 (3.40%) AWS
6 37 (2.25%) Entra ID
7 35 (2.12%) IaaS
8 32 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.88%) SaaS
10 20 (1.21%) PowerApps
11 19 (1.15%) PaaS
12 14 (0.85%) GCP
12 14 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
13 13 (0.79%) WhatsApp
14 12 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (0.67%) Power Automate
16 10 (0.61%) OneDrive
16 10 (0.61%) OpenShift
17 9 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 9 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.76%) Firewall
2 52 (3.16%) WAN
3 49 (2.97%) VPN
4 45 (2.73%) LAN
5 39 (2.37%) DNS
6 33 (2.00%) Network Security
7 25 (1.52%) DHCP
7 25 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (1.09%) MPLS
9 15 (0.91%) SAN
9 15 (0.91%) TCP/IP
10 14 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
11 12 (0.73%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.67%) ATM
12 11 (0.67%) SMTP
13 9 (0.55%) Internet
13 9 (0.55%) VoIP
14 8 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
15 7 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.46%) SQL Server
2 49 (2.97%) Power BI
3 35 (2.12%) NoSQL
4 22 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.33%) Metadata
5 17 (1.03%) Data Lake
6 16 (0.97%) Data Vault
7 15 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (0.79%) Big Data
9 11 (0.67%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.55%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.55%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.49%) GIS
11 8 (0.49%) Pentaho
11 8 (0.49%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (0.49%) QlikView
12 7 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 140 (8.50%) JIRA
2 14 (0.85%) Git
3 10 (0.61%) GitLab
4 8 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.42%) Selenium
6 5 (0.30%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.24%) Gatling
7 4 (0.24%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.24%) TeamCity
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
1 543 (32.95%) Social Skills
2 463 (28.09%) Finance
3 207 (12.56%) Public Sector
4 180 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (6.31%) Telecoms
6 90 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
7 71 (4.31%) Banking
8 59 (3.58%) Manufacturing
9 58 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
11 51 (3.09%) Marketing
12 41 (2.49%) Retail
13 37 (2.25%) Legal
14 31 (1.88%) Local Government
15 29 (1.76%) Financial Institution
16 28 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
17 24 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.46%) Mandarin Language
18 23 (1.40%) Electronics
19 22 (1.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 445 (27.00%) Project Manager
2 197 (11.95%) Architect
3 168 (10.19%) Senior
4 153 (9.28%) Lead
5 137 (8.31%) Analyst
6 88 (5.34%) Delivery Manager
7 81 (4.92%) Business Analyst
8 79 (4.79%) Senior Manager
9 73 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
10 70 (4.25%) Consultant
11 62 (3.76%) Senior Project Manager
12 59 (3.58%) IT Manager
13 50 (3.03%) Developer
14 46 (2.79%) Project Leader
15 41 (2.49%) IT Project Manager
16 40 (2.43%) Programme Manager
17 36 (2.18%) Technical Manager
18 35 (2.12%) Security Manager
19 30 (1.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 30 (1.82%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.12%) .NET
2 28 (1.70%) XML
3 21 (1.27%) Web Services
4 19 (1.15%) JSON
5 18 (1.09%) REST
6 16 (0.97%) Middleware
7 15 (0.91%) AngularJS
8 14 (0.85%) .NET Framework
8 14 (0.85%) ADO
9 13 (0.79%) LDAP
10 11 (0.67%) OAuth
11 9 (0.55%) Node.js
11 9 (0.55%) React
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
12 8 (0.49%) SOAP
13 7 (0.42%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 74 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 67 (4.07%) Data Centre
4 35 (2.12%) Onboarding
5 30 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (1.21%) NHS
6 20 (1.21%) PMI
7 19 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
8 16 (0.97%) Reference Data
9 15 (0.91%) PKI
9 15 (0.91%) Public Cloud
10 14 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (0.85%) Market Risk
10 14 (0.85%) Virtual Team
11 13 (0.79%) FMCG
11 13 (0.79%) Solar Panel
12 12 (0.73%) Data Structures
12 12 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (0.73%) Mobile App
12 12 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.58%) Windows
2 40 (2.43%) Linux
3 39 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.97%) Unix
4 16 (0.97%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.55%) Android
9 8 (0.49%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.42%) AIX
10 7 (0.42%) Solaris
11 6 (0.36%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.36%) VMS
11 6 (0.36%) zOS
12 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (41.02%) Project Management
2 611 (37.08%) Agile
3 292 (17.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 257 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
5 191 (11.59%) PRINCE2
6 189 (11.47%) Migration
7 165 (10.01%) DevOps
8 160 (9.71%) Change Management
9 158 (9.59%) Risk Management
10 155 (9.41%) Waterfall
11 152 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 150 (9.10%) Scrum
13 123 (7.46%) Programme Management
14 112 (6.80%) Business Case
15 107 (6.49%) ITIL
16 104 (6.31%) Decision-Making
17 102 (6.19%) Roadmaps
18 97 (5.89%) Project Planning
19 92 (5.58%) Business Intelligence
20 86 (5.22%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (8.13%) SQL
2 68 (4.13%) PowerShell
3 52 (3.16%) Python
4 43 (2.61%) C#
5 36 (2.18%) Java
6 25 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.79%) Bash
7 13 (0.79%) T-SQL
8 11 (0.67%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.42%) C++
10 6 (0.36%) Bicep
10 6 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.30%) Perl
11 5 (0.30%) R
12 4 (0.24%) X++
13 3 (0.18%) Go
13 3 (0.18%) Ruby
13 3 (0.18%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 290 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 216 (13.11%) Degree
3 162 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 118 (7.16%) DV Cleared
5 94 (5.70%) PMP
6 86 (5.22%) PMI Certification
7 43 (2.61%) APMP
8 32 (1.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 28 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (0.97%) CISM
12 16 (0.97%) CISSP
13 15 (0.91%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.91%) CCNP
13 15 (0.91%) CISA
14 14 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 13 (0.79%) CCNA
16 9 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 8 (0.49%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (11.53%) PMO
2 89 (5.40%) QA
3 42 (2.55%) SLA
4 25 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.52%) NIST
5 18 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
6 16 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.91%) Data Quality
8 14 (0.85%) GDPR
9 10 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.30%) Basel III
11 5 (0.30%) GRC
12 4 (0.24%) COREP
12 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.18%) FINREP
13 3 (0.18%) GxP
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS
13 3 (0.18%) MiFID
13 3 (0.18%) P3O
System Software
1 78 (4.73%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.09%) Docker
4 16 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.97%) vSphere
5 14 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.67%) XenApp
7 7 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.36%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.36%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.24%) ACF2
9 4 (0.24%) Firmware
9 4 (0.24%) RACF
9 4 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.12%) Ceph
10 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (2.61%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.52%) Terraform
3 24 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.40%) Ansible
5 15 (0.91%) SCCM
6 9 (0.55%) vCenter Server
7 8 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.49%) vRealize
8 7 (0.42%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.36%) Packer
9 6 (0.36%) vMotion
10 5 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (0.30%) Endace
10 5 (0.30%) HP Data Protector
10 5 (0.30%) Istio
10 5 (0.30%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.30%) PingFederate
10 5 (0.30%) Puppet
10 5 (0.30%) WSUS
11 4 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 283 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.74%) SAP
3 69 (4.19%) Cisco
4 67 (4.07%) Oracle
5 57 (3.46%) VMware
6 48 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 32 (1.94%) Juniper
8 30 (1.82%) Citrix
9 24 (1.46%) Salesforce
10 18 (1.09%) Informatica
11 17 (1.03%) Adobe
12 16 (0.97%) Atlassian
12 16 (0.97%) CheckPoint
12 16 (0.97%) Databricks
13 15 (0.91%) F5
13 15 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 15 (0.91%) Sparx
14 12 (0.73%) Symantec
15 11 (0.67%) Infoblox
16 10 (0.61%) Ariba