Programme Delivery Contracts in England

Programme Delivery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Programme Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Programme Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 379 427
Rank change year-on-year -39 +48 +65
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 116 217 401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.52% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.58% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 149 298
10th Percentile £439 £385 £423
25th Percentile £494 £511 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £728 £750 £675
90th Percentile £909 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £593 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -5.20% +8.70% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £31.41 £52.38 £60.50
25th Percentile £33.52 £54.06 £68.75
Median hourly rate £37.04 £55.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.65% -35.29% +93.82%
75th Percentile £40.56 £63.75 £87.50
90th Percentile £42.67 £79.50 -
UK median hourly rate £37.04 £55.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -32.65% -35.29% +93.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,273 37,165 63,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.16% 89.06% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,405 25,700 44,954
10th Percentile £313 £318 £350
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £645 £653 £656
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,253 1,431 1,577
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £20.12 £18.93 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £43.86 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +51.24% +38.10%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £28.90
% change year-on-year - +47.06% +34.42%

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 24 September 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
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 24 September 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 -12 50 £625 - 16
North of England +20 22 £525 - 9
South West +9 18 £781 +25.00% 4
South East -9 13 £513 -18.00% 3
North West +22 12 £550 +2.33% 7
Midlands +13 12 £650 -8.71% 5
Yorkshire +19 10 £475 -24.00% 1
West Midlands +17 9 £575 -19.69% 3
East of England +17 3 - -
East Midlands 0 2 - - 2
North East -4 2 £400 -17.95% 1
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 8 (6.90%) Confluence
2 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (11.21%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.72%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.72%) Primavera
3 1 (0.86%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.90%) Azure
2 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (1.72%) Basecamp
3 2 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.86%) AWS
4 1 (0.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) WAN
2 3 (2.59%) Internet
2 3 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.72%) LAN
3 2 (1.72%) SAN
3 2 (1.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.86%) Broadband
4 1 (0.86%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.59%) Power BI
2 1 (0.86%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.86%) IDMS
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.86%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (6.03%) JIRA
General
1 44 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.14%) Finance
3 26 (22.41%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.03%) Local Government
5 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.31%) Banking
6 5 (4.31%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.45%) Military
8 3 (2.59%) Games
8 3 (2.59%) Legal
9 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Automotive
10 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.86%) Police
10 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (23.28%) Programme Manager
2 16 (13.79%) Project Manager
3 15 (12.93%) Lead
4 14 (12.07%) Programme Director
5 9 (7.76%) Senior
6 8 (6.90%) Analyst
6 8 (6.90%) Architect
7 6 (5.17%) Business Analyst
7 6 (5.17%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (5.17%) Programme Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.31%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.45%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (3.45%) Technical Manager
9 4 (3.45%) Technical Programme Manager
9 4 (3.45%) Test Manager
10 3 (2.59%) Delivery Director
10 3 (2.59%) Principal Business Analyst
10 3 (2.59%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
10 3 (2.59%) Service Transition Manager
10 3 (2.59%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.17%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.31%) Driving Licence
2 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.59%) FMCG
4 3 (2.59%) NHS
4 3 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.72%) CMDB
5 2 (1.72%) IoT
5 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.86%) Blog
6 1 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.86%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.45%) Agile
1 33 (28.45%) Programme Management
2 32 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (26.72%) Project Management
4 29 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 22 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (16.38%) PRINCE2
7 17 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (12.93%) Roadmaps
8 15 (12.93%) Waterfall
9 13 (11.21%) Business Case
10 12 (10.34%) Budget Management
10 12 (10.34%) Migration
10 12 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (9.48%) Change Management
11 11 (9.48%) Resource Management
11 11 (9.48%) Risk Management
12 10 (8.62%) Business Strategy
12 10 (8.62%) Coaching
13 9 (7.76%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.72%) SQL
2 1 (0.86%) ABAP
2 1 (0.86%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 18 (15.52%) Degree
1 18 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.45%) RIBA
4 3 (2.59%) APMP
4 3 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (2.59%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.59%) PMP
4 3 (2.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.72%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.86%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) PMO
2 13 (11.21%) QA
3 5 (4.31%) NEBOSH
4 3 (2.59%) P3O
5 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 11 (9.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.03%) SAP
3 3 (2.59%) IBM
3 3 (2.59%) Oracle
3 3 (2.59%) VMware
4 2 (1.72%) NEC
4 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.86%) Calypso
5 1 (0.86%) Fujitsu
5 1 (0.86%) MEDITECH