Programme Delivery Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Programme Delivery
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Programme Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 50 60
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +26
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 10 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.12% 0.68% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.78% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £447 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £414 £495
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% -16.36% +7.61%
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £688 - -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +7.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 749 513 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.87% 86.80% 83.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 318 428
10th Percentile £190 £250 £213
25th Percentile £355 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% -6.18% -4.63%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £686
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 23 47
10th Percentile £15.95 £15.48 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +4.58% +27.84%
75th Percentile £25.00 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £60.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

Programme Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Programme Delivery job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Programme Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Programme Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Programme Delivery

Programme Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Delivery in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Delivery in the East Midlands

Programme Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 December 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire - 6 £513 - 3
Northamptonshire -13 4 £470 +13.53% 3
Programme Delivery
England

Programme Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP ERP
1 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (40.00%) GCP
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 4 (40.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Manager
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Programme Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Implementation Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Transformation Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Mac OS
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Budgeting
1 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (40.00%) Business Transformation
2 4 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
2 4 (40.00%) User Experience
2 4 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) ERP
3 2 (20.00%) Escalation Management
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Governance
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Implementation
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bash
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Citrix
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) SAP