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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 72 82
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 +13
Permanent jobs citing Project Delivery 3,859 4,461 6,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.91% 4.30% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 4.50% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,664 2,766 3,781
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,427 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,450 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £91,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,526 £53,750
% change year-on-year -11.80% +10.75% +7.50%

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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £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 3 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 3 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 3,462 £55,000 -12.00% 1,097
UK excluding London +10 2,742 £52,500 -11.80% 800
Work from Home +15 1,533 £60,000 - 440
London +16 939 £70,000 -3.45% 325
North of England +37 650 £50,000 -16.00% 192
South East -3 641 £52,000 -9.57% 198
Midlands +15 508 £54,000 -1.82% 150
South West +39 425 £55,000 - 121
North West +15 357 £49,500 -13.91% 115
West Midlands +6 308 £57,500 +3.14% 80
East of England +32 266 £54,000 -25.52% 75
Yorkshire +43 202 £52,500 -11.80% 53
East Midlands +40 196 £54,000 -6.90% 70
Scotland -56 164 £50,000 -17.22% 64
North East +29 91 £50,250 -8.64% 28
Wales -13 73 £60,250 +1.43% 20
Northern Ireland +28 16 - - 9
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
1 154 (3.99%) SharePoint
2 87 (2.25%) CMS
3 74 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 55 (1.43%) Confluence
5 40 (1.04%) Kentico
5 40 (1.04%) Umbraco
6 39 (1.01%) Sitecore CMS
7 38 (0.98%) Apache Spark
8 36 (0.93%) IIS
9 35 (0.91%) Headless CMS
10 14 (0.36%) WordPress
11 13 (0.34%) SAS
12 12 (0.31%) Anypoint
13 9 (0.23%) Apache
13 9 (0.23%) Drupal
13 9 (0.23%) MS Project Server
14 7 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
14 7 (0.18%) Apache Solr
14 7 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 180 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 178 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
3 148 (3.84%) Microsoft Project
4 106 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 45 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 32 (0.83%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.41%) Adobe XD
7 16 (0.41%) Revit
8 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
9 9 (0.23%) Trello
10 7 (0.18%) Simulink
11 6 (0.16%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.078%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.026%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 46 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.41%) SAP SCM
4 13 (0.34%) SAP PP
4 13 (0.34%) SAP WM
5 11 (0.29%) Elite 3E
5 11 (0.29%) Primavera
5 11 (0.29%) SAP SD
6 9 (0.23%) SAP HR
6 9 (0.23%) Shopify
6 9 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
7 8 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.21%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.21%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.18%) Magento
8 7 (0.18%) SAP CX
8 7 (0.18%) SAP MM
9 6 (0.16%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 657 (17.03%) Azure
2 370 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
3 248 (6.43%) AWS
4 220 (5.70%) Power Platform
5 141 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
6 117 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 106 (2.75%) SaaS
8 91 (2.36%) Entra ID
9 79 (2.05%) GCP
10 63 (1.63%) PowerApps
11 57 (1.48%) IaaS
12 52 (1.35%) Serverless
13 50 (1.30%) PaaS
14 45 (1.17%) Power Automate
15 40 (1.04%) Kontent
16 27 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (0.65%) Amazon S3
18 24 (0.62%) Azure Functions
18 24 (0.62%) Azure Logic Apps
18 24 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 197 (5.10%) Firewall
2 155 (4.02%) WAN
3 104 (2.69%) LAN
4 100 (2.59%) SD-WAN
5 97 (2.51%) VPN
6 76 (1.97%) Wireless
7 72 (1.87%) DNS
8 65 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
9 62 (1.61%) SAN
10 60 (1.55%) Network Security
11 55 (1.43%) DHCP
12 51 (1.32%) BGP
13 47 (1.22%) VLAN
14 36 (0.93%) Internet
15 33 (0.86%) TCP/IP
16 31 (0.80%) MPLS
17 30 (0.78%) 5G
18 29 (0.75%) VoIP
19 24 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
20 21 (0.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (3.73%) Power BI
2 136 (3.52%) SQL Server
3 42 (1.09%) Tableau
4 36 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 34 (0.88%) NoSQL
6 33 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
8 31 (0.80%) Data Mining
8 31 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 27 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (0.70%) Big Data
9 27 (0.70%) Hadoop
10 26 (0.67%) Apache Ignite
11 22 (0.57%) MySQL
11 22 (0.57%) SAP BW
12 16 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.41%) Oracle Database
13 15 (0.39%) Metadata
14 14 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
15 13 (0.34%) GIS
Development Applications
1 158 (4.09%) JIRA
2 50 (1.30%) Git
3 19 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.39%) GitLab
4 15 (0.39%) Selenium
5 13 (0.34%) Axure RP
5 13 (0.34%) Balsamiq
6 11 (0.29%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.23%) Postman
9 8 (0.21%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
11 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
12 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.10%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.078%) Maven
14 3 (0.078%) Spinnaker
14 3 (0.078%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.078%) Zephyr
15 2 (0.052%) Subversion
General
1 1,362 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 919 (23.81%) Finance
3 457 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 334 (8.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 274 (7.10%) Public Sector
6 241 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 222 (5.75%) Retail
8 199 (5.16%) Marketing
9 165 (4.28%) Legal
10 149 (3.86%) Telecoms
11 147 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
12 141 (3.65%) Manufacturing
13 129 (3.34%) Law
14 114 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
15 66 (1.71%) Local Government
16 65 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
17 61 (1.58%) Banking
18 47 (1.22%) Billing
19 43 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
20 39 (1.01%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,167 (30.24%) Project Manager
2 588 (15.24%) Senior
3 370 (9.59%) Lead
4 265 (6.87%) Analyst
5 234 (6.06%) Architect
6 233 (6.04%) IT Manager
7 209 (5.42%) Consultant
8 201 (5.21%) Senior Manager
9 183 (4.74%) Presales Manager
10 176 (4.56%) Developer
11 161 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
12 159 (4.12%) IT Project Manager
13 121 (3.14%) Senior Project Manager
14 116 (3.01%) Business Analyst
15 97 (2.51%) IT Support
16 96 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
17 95 (2.46%) IT Engineer
18 90 (2.33%) Network Engineer
19 79 (2.05%) Senior Developer
20 78 (2.02%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (4.25%) .NET
2 84 (2.18%) HTML
3 78 (2.02%) RESTful
4 77 (2.00%) React
5 74 (1.92%) CSS
6 63 (1.63%) ASP.NET
7 59 (1.53%) .NET Framework
8 51 (1.32%) .NET Core
9 47 (1.22%) ASP.NET MVC
10 40 (1.04%) SOAP
11 39 (1.01%) Next.js
12 37 (0.96%) JSON
13 35 (0.91%) REST
14 34 (0.88%) Web Services
15 32 (0.83%) Kafka
16 28 (0.73%) XML
17 26 (0.67%) AngularJS
17 26 (0.67%) Middleware
18 24 (0.62%) EDI
19 23 (0.60%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 241 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 215 (5.57%) Management Information System
3 146 (3.78%) Data Centre
4 143 (3.71%) Product Ownership
5 139 (3.60%) Driving Licence
6 64 (1.66%) Onboarding
6 64 (1.66%) PMI
7 63 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 61 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 45 (1.17%) Replication
10 40 (1.04%) NHS
11 39 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 36 (0.93%) FMCG
13 33 (0.86%) Low-Code
14 32 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
15 28 (0.73%) Mobile App
16 26 (0.67%) Operational Technology
17 24 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
18 23 (0.60%) IoT
19 22 (0.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 300 (7.77%) Windows
2 199 (5.16%) Windows Server
3 111 (2.88%) Linux
4 66 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 34 (0.88%) Android
6 32 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
7 21 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (0.52%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 16 (0.41%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.36%) Windows 7
12 13 (0.34%) SUSE
13 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.10%) VMS
14 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.052%) CentOS
15 2 (0.052%) Unix
16 1 (0.026%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,739 (45.06%) Project Management
2 1,345 (34.85%) Agile
3 623 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
4 498 (12.90%) Mentoring
5 495 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 450 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 420 (10.88%) PRINCE2
8 370 (9.59%) Presales
9 316 (8.19%) Roadmaps
10 308 (7.98%) Waterfall
11 304 (7.88%) Customer Service
12 302 (7.83%) SDLC
13 301 (7.80%) DevOps
14 298 (7.72%) Risk Management
15 295 (7.64%) Coaching
16 286 (7.41%) Change Management
17 270 (7.00%) Scrum
18 247 (6.40%) Agile Project Management
19 241 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
20 239 (6.19%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 255 (6.61%) SQL
2 178 (4.61%) JavaScript
3 174 (4.51%) C#
4 158 (4.09%) Python
5 76 (1.97%) PowerShell
6 72 (1.87%) Java
7 39 (1.01%) TypeScript
8 33 (0.86%) C++
9 30 (0.78%) T-SQL
10 25 (0.65%) R
11 23 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 21 (0.54%) PHP
13 16 (0.41%) C
13 16 (0.41%) Go
14 15 (0.39%) Bash
15 14 (0.36%) VBA
16 13 (0.34%) MATLAB
16 13 (0.34%) Scala
17 9 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 854 (22.13%) Degree
2 404 (10.47%) Security Cleared
3 215 (5.57%) SC Cleared
4 176 (4.56%) PMI Certification
5 157 (4.07%) PMP
6 145 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
7 119 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 102 (2.64%) Master's Degree
9 98 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 94 (2.44%) DBS Check
11 91 (2.36%) CCNP
12 76 (1.97%) CCNA
13 61 (1.58%) DV Cleared
14 50 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 49 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
16 48 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 47 (1.22%) AWS Certification
17 47 (1.22%) Postgraduate
18 46 (1.19%) APMP
18 46 (1.19%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (6.58%) PMO
2 207 (5.36%) QA
3 71 (1.84%) GDPR
4 54 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 54 (1.40%) SLA
5 45 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.06%) Data Quality
7 24 (0.62%) ISO 9001
8 20 (0.52%) NIST
9 18 (0.47%) NCSC
10 17 (0.44%) NEBOSH
11 16 (0.41%) GMP
12 15 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.34%) WCAG
14 11 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.23%) AUTOSAR
15 9 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 8 (0.21%) GAAP
16 8 (0.21%) GRC
16 8 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 240 (6.22%) Active Directory
2 127 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (1.81%) Hyper-V
4 48 (1.24%) Docker
5 29 (0.75%) vSphere
6 19 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
6 19 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.34%) Firmware
9 13 (0.34%) vCloud
9 13 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.10%) pfSense
10 4 (0.10%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.052%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.026%) Lustre
12 1 (0.026%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.026%) NFS
Systems Management
1 81 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (1.97%) Terraform
3 52 (1.35%) Kubernetes
4 27 (0.70%) Functional Safety
5 25 (0.65%) SCCM
6 23 (0.60%) FortiGate
7 21 (0.54%) Ansible
8 15 (0.39%) WSUS
9 12 (0.31%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.21%) AirWatch
12 7 (0.18%) Grafana
12 7 (0.18%) SCOM
13 6 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.16%) SmoothWall
13 6 (0.16%) vRealize
14 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
15 3 (0.078%) Failover Clustering
15 3 (0.078%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 862 (22.34%) Microsoft
2 208 (5.39%) Cisco
3 170 (4.41%) VMware
4 169 (4.38%) SAP
5 85 (2.20%) Oracle
6 80 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 69 (1.79%) Google
8 63 (1.63%) Juniper
8 63 (1.63%) ServiceNow
9 62 (1.61%) Veeam
10 54 (1.40%) HP
11 42 (1.09%) EMC
11 42 (1.09%) Meraki
12 41 (1.06%) Sitecore
13 37 (0.96%) Adobe
14 36 (0.93%) Optimizely
15 33 (0.86%) Dell
16 22 (0.57%) Aruba
16 22 (0.57%) CheckPoint
17 21 (0.54%) Databricks