Programme Delivery Contracts in England

Programme Delivery
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Programme Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Programme Delivery over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 407 457
Rank change year-on-year +25 +50 -6
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 157 260 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.52% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.57% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 170 252
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £475 £516 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £646 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +17.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £725 £784 £695
90th Percentile £800 £931 £871
UK median daily rate £598 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -4.40% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile £28.12 £36.20 £62.58
25th Percentile £36.83 £50.21 £62.69
Median hourly rate £57.33 £61.50 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -6.46% +152.88%
75th Percentile - £68.13 £69.19
90th Percentile £57.41 £69.25 £69.53
UK median hourly rate £57.33 £61.50 £65.75
% change year-on-year -6.78% -6.46% +152.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Programme 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 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Programme Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Delivery in England

Programme Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Delivery in England

Programme Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Delivery in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Delivery in England

Programme Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Delivery in England

Programme Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Delivery in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Delivery in England

Programme 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 Programme Delivery within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +42 69 £625 -3.85% 24
North of England +46 39 £650 +30.00% 7
North West +49 36 £650 +36.84% 4
South East +6 22 £530 -15.20% 11
South West +9 19 £475 -27.70% 8
East Midlands +19 3 £460 - 6
Yorkshire +13 3 - - 2
Midlands +6 3 £460 -5.64% 14
East of England -1 2 - - 3
Programme Delivery
UK

Programme 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 12 (7.64%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (8.28%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (5.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.91%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (4.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.27%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (1.27%) Unica
4 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.64%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.64%) Primavera
4 1 (0.64%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.64%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.64%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 9 (5.73%) Azure
2 3 (1.91%) AWS
3 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.27%) SaaS
3 2 (1.27%) WhatsApp
4 1 (0.64%) Asana
4 1 (0.64%) Azure Functions
4 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.64%) GCP
4 1 (0.64%) Google Workspace
4 1 (0.64%) PaaS
4 1 (0.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) WAN
2 2 (1.27%) LAN
2 2 (1.27%) SAN
2 2 (1.27%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.64%) 5G
3 1 (0.64%) Broadband
3 1 (0.64%) DNS
3 1 (0.64%) Internet
3 1 (0.64%) Intranet
3 1 (0.64%) Network Security
3 1 (0.64%) PPP
3 1 (0.64%) RTP
3 1 (0.64%) SNA
3 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (1.27%) Power BI
2 1 (0.64%) Big Data
2 1 (0.64%) IDMS
2 1 (0.64%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (5.73%) JIRA
2 4 (2.55%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.64%) RStudio
General
1 50 (31.85%) Finance
2 44 (28.03%) Public Sector
2 44 (28.03%) Social Skills
3 22 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.01%) Influencing Skills
4 11 (7.01%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (7.01%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.37%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (5.10%) Banking
6 8 (5.10%) Military
7 7 (4.46%) Local Government
8 5 (3.18%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.55%) Legal
9 4 (2.55%) Retail
10 3 (1.91%) Back Office
10 3 (1.91%) Marketing
10 3 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.91%) Police
11 2 (1.27%) Automotive
11 2 (1.27%) French Language
Job Titles
1 32 (20.38%) Programme Manager
2 22 (14.01%) Consultant
3 21 (13.38%) Lead
4 15 (9.55%) Project Manager
5 12 (7.64%) Analyst
6 10 (6.37%) Programme Director
6 10 (6.37%) Support Officer
7 8 (5.10%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (5.10%) Telecoms Manager
8 7 (4.46%) Senior
8 7 (4.46%) Telecoms Programme Manager
9 6 (3.82%) Delivery Director
9 6 (3.82%) IT Manager
9 6 (3.82%) PMO Manager
9 6 (3.82%) Project Officer
10 5 (3.18%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.18%) PMO Analyst
10 5 (3.18%) Project Support Officer
10 5 (3.18%) SAP Manager
10 5 (3.18%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.27%) CSS
1 2 (1.27%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.01%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.73%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.82%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.55%) PMI
5 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.27%) FMCG
6 2 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.27%) NHS
6 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.64%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.64%) Smart City
7 1 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.64%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (38.85%) Programme Management
2 57 (36.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 49 (31.21%) Project Management
4 46 (29.30%) Agile
5 40 (25.48%) Project Delivery
6 29 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (15.92%) Waterfall
8 18 (11.46%) Change Control
9 17 (10.83%) Business Case
9 17 (10.83%) PRINCE2
10 16 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (8.92%) Change Management
12 14 (8.92%) Migration
13 12 (7.64%) Decision-Making
13 12 (7.64%) Scrum
14 10 (6.37%) Roadmaps
14 10 (6.37%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 9 (5.73%) Collaborative Working
15 9 (5.73%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.55%) SQL
2 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.64%) COBOL
3 1 (0.64%) Python
3 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 57 (36.31%) Security Cleared
2 41 (26.11%) SC Cleared
3 21 (13.38%) DV Cleared
4 18 (11.46%) Degree
5 10 (6.37%) PMI Certification
6 6 (3.82%) PMP
7 5 (3.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 4 (2.55%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.91%) PgMP
10 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.64%) APMP
11 1 (0.64%) CEH
11 1 (0.64%) CISA
11 1 (0.64%) CISM
11 1 (0.64%) CISSP
11 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.64%) ISEB
11 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.56%) PMO
2 8 (5.10%) QA
3 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.64%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.64%) NIST
4 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 21 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.92%) SAP
3 4 (2.55%) Cadence
3 4 (2.55%) Sparx
4 3 (1.91%) VMware
5 2 (1.27%) Adobe
6 1 (0.64%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.64%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.64%) Cisco
6 1 (0.64%) Fujitsu
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) IBM
6 1 (0.64%) Remedy
6 1 (0.64%) Sophos