Programme Delivery Contracts

Programme Delivery
UK

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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 443 458
Rank change year-on-year +27 +15 +26
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 170 254 452
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.45% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.50% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 177 325
10th Percentile £407 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £625 £578
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +8.15% +10.08%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £700
90th Percentile £800 £943 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £625 £518
% change year-on-year - +20.77% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £28.12 £36.61 £62.58
25th Percentile £36.83 £51.25 £62.69
Median hourly rate £57.33 £55.00 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% -16.35% +152.88%
75th Percentile - - £69.19
90th Percentile £57.41 £64.00 £69.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.33 £53.75 -
% change year-on-year +6.66% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Programme Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Delivery in the UK

Programme Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Delivery in the UK

Programme Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Programme Delivery in the UK

Programme Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Delivery in the UK

Programme Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Delivery in the UK

Programme Delivery
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +47 155 £618 -1.59% 96
UK excluding London +4 90 £625 - 63
London +42 72 £605 -6.92% 35
North of England +44 40 £650 +30.00% 18
North West +46 35 £650 +30.00% 11
Work from Home +33 35 £502 -19.70% 30
South East +2 19 £515 -17.60% 11
South West 0 16 £525 -30.58% 8
Scotland +31 8 £500 -5.21% 3
Midlands +10 5 £460 -26.40% 16
Yorkshire +10 5 £450 -28.00% 6
East Midlands +13 3 £460 -26.40% 3
East of England -1 2 - - 6
West Midlands -3 2 £554 -7.71% 13

Programme 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 12 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.12%) Confluence
3 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (6.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.18%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (1.18%) SAP EWM
3 2 (1.18%) Unica
4 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.59%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.59%) Primavera
4 1 (0.59%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.59%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.59%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 11 (6.47%) Azure
2 5 (2.94%) AWS
3 3 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.18%) SaaS
4 2 (1.18%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.59%) Asana
5 1 (0.59%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.59%) GCP
5 1 (0.59%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.59%) PaaS
5 1 (0.59%) Serverless
5 1 (0.59%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) LAN
1 2 (1.18%) SAN
1 2 (1.18%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.18%) WAN
2 1 (0.59%) 5G
2 1 (0.59%) Broadband
2 1 (0.59%) DNS
2 1 (0.59%) Internet
2 1 (0.59%) Network Security
2 1 (0.59%) RTP
2 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.18%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (1.18%) Power BI
2 1 (0.59%) Big Data
2 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.59%) IDMS
2 1 (0.59%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (8.82%) JIRA
2 4 (2.35%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.59%) RStudio
General
1 56 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 48 (28.24%) Finance
3 47 (27.65%) Public Sector
4 21 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.47%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (5.88%) Banking
6 10 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (5.88%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.12%) Military
7 7 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.53%) Local Government
9 4 (2.35%) Legal
9 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.35%) Retail
10 3 (1.76%) Back Office
10 3 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.76%) Police
11 2 (1.18%) Advertising
11 2 (1.18%) Automotive
11 2 (1.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (19.41%) Programme Manager
2 20 (11.76%) Consultant
2 20 (11.76%) Lead
3 16 (9.41%) Project Manager
4 12 (7.06%) Analyst
4 12 (7.06%) Delivery Manager
5 10 (5.88%) Programme Director
6 8 (4.71%) Telecoms Manager
7 7 (4.12%) Programme Delivery Manager
7 7 (4.12%) Service Manager
7 7 (4.12%) Telecoms Programme Manager
8 6 (3.53%) Delivery Director
8 6 (3.53%) PMO Analyst
8 6 (3.53%) PMO Manager
8 6 (3.53%) SAP Manager
8 6 (3.53%) Senior
8 6 (3.53%) Support Officer
9 5 (2.94%) IT Manager
10 4 (2.35%) Senior Manager
10 4 (2.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.18%) CSS
1 2 (1.18%) HTML
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.47%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.53%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.35%) PMI
5 3 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.76%) FMCG
6 2 (1.18%) CMDB
6 2 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.18%) NHS
6 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.59%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.59%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.59%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.59%) Smart City
7 1 (0.59%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (34.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 57 (33.53%) Programme Management
3 50 (29.41%) Agile
4 47 (27.65%) Project Management
5 37 (21.76%) Project Delivery
6 32 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (14.71%) Waterfall
8 18 (10.59%) Change Control
8 18 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (10.00%) Business Case
10 15 (8.82%) Migration
10 15 (8.82%) PRINCE2
11 14 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (7.65%) Change Management
12 13 (7.65%) ITIL
13 12 (7.06%) Roadmaps
13 12 (7.06%) Service Management
14 10 (5.88%) Decision-Making
14 10 (5.88%) Risk Management
14 10 (5.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.35%) SQL
2 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.59%) COBOL
3 1 (0.59%) Python
3 1 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 36 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 18 (10.59%) Degree
5 8 (4.71%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (2.35%) PMP
7 4 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.76%) PgMP
9 1 (0.59%) APMP
9 1 (0.59%) ISEB
9 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.71%) PMO
2 8 (4.71%) QA
3 3 (1.76%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.18%) NCSC
5 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.59%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 27 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.00%) SAP
3 4 (2.35%) Cadence
3 4 (2.35%) Sparx
4 3 (1.76%) VMware
5 2 (1.18%) Adobe
5 2 (1.18%) IBM
6 1 (0.59%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.59%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.59%) Cisco
6 1 (0.59%) Fujitsu
6 1 (0.59%) Google
6 1 (0.59%) NEC
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle
6 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.59%) Sophos
6 1 (0.59%) Splunk