Programme Delivery Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Programme Delivery
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Programme Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.68% - 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% - 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £695 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £575 £683 -
% change year-on-year -15.75% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £42.88 - -
25th Percentile £46.06 - -
Median hourly rate £52.25 - -
75th Percentile £57.56 - -
90th Percentile £60.23 - -
East of England median hourly rate £52.25 - £30.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Programme Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 211 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 72.73% 89.79% 83.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 100 105
10th Percentile £220 £185 £300
25th Percentile £405 £460 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £554 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% +10.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £689 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 34 16
10th Percentile £28.19 £30.81 £35.63
25th Percentile £61.00 £59.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £71.50 £82.25 £56.58
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +45.38% -3.29%
75th Percentile £75.00 £91.13 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £91.50 £70.63
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £36.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year +29.25% -14.53% +117.06%

Programme Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Programme Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Programme Delivery job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Programme Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Programme Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Programme Delivery

Programme Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Delivery in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Delivery in Bedfordshire

Programme Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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
Luton - 2 £710 - 1
Programme Delivery
East of England

Programme Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) SAP PP
2 1 (20.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (80.00%) Aerospace
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Project Controller
1 1 (20.00%) Technology Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Order Management
2 3 (60.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 3 (60.00%) Production Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Path Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Earned Value Management
4 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) APMG
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) SAP