Programme Delivery Manager Contract Job Trends in England

Programme Delivery Manager
UK > England

The median Programme Delivery Manager daily rate in England is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 524 575
Rank change year-on-year +19 +51 +178
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Delivery Manager 9 4 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.012% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.013% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile £477 £526 £500
25th Percentile £540 £564 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £655 £634
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +3.35% +6.74%
75th Percentile £692 £750 £734
90th Percentile £727 £773 £883
UK median daily rate £620 £655 £675
% change year-on-year -5.34% -2.96% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,142 30,231 40,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.98% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,215 18,878 28,055
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,352 1,487 1,370
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.61 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.32 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -46.77% +5.58% +69.89%
75th Percentile £53.99 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

Programme Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Programme Delivery Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Delivery Manager in England

Programme Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Programme Delivery Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Programme Delivery Manager job vacancies in England

Programme Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Delivery Manager in England

Programme Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Programme Delivery Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Programme Delivery Manager job vacancies in England

Programme Delivery Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
London +33 4 £708 -8.71% 1
North of England -12 2 £513 -12.39%
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
North West -11 1 £450 -23.08%
Yorkshire - 1 £575 -
East of England - 1 - -
Programme Delivery Manager
UK

Programme Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Programme Delivery Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Programme Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Programme Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Retail
3 3 (33.33%) SAP
3 3 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) ISO 19650
4 2 (22.22%) Building Information Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) QA
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Line Management
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Azure
5 1 (11.11%) AWS

Programme Delivery Manager Skill Set
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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Retail
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Programme Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Building Information Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Contract Management
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Identification
5 1 (11.11%) Data Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Line Management
5 1 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
1 2 (22.22%) ISO 19650
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) PMO
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft