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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 380 422
Rank change year-on-year +28 +42 +21
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 124 159 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.43% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.50% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 103 155
10th Percentile £446 £415 £413
25th Percentile £513 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £628
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.40% +9.13%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £788
90th Percentile £820 £800 £928
UK median daily rate £600 £610 £625
% change year-on-year -1.64% -2.40% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - £28.12 £36.61
25th Percentile - £36.83 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £57.33 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.24% -16.35%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £57.41 £64.00
UK median hourly rate - £57.33 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +4.24% -16.35%

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 21,947 31,578 42,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.31% 85.86% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,275 20,635 30,003
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 2,303 1,521
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.81
Median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.93 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 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 61 £650 +6.56% 50
South East +59 20 £525 +1.94% 115
North of England -17 12 £529 -18.65% 86
South West +38 10 £409 -22.10% 48
Midlands +21 9 £625 +35.87% 76
East of England +39 8 £690 - 55
North West -17 8 £529 -18.65% 43
East Midlands +13 6 £519 +12.77% 26
West Midlands +17 3 £725 +30.93% 45
Yorkshire +16 3 £388 -16.22% 33
North East - 1 - - 11
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 7 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.42%) Confluence
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.81%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.23%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.61%) Maximo
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.61%) SAP PLM
3 2 (1.61%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.81%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.81%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.81%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.81%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.81%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.81%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.81%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.81%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.81%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.81%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.81%) Shopify
4 1 (0.81%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.45%) Azure
1 8 (6.45%) Power Platform
2 5 (4.03%) AWS
2 5 (4.03%) GCP
2 5 (4.03%) SaaS
3 3 (2.42%) Datadog
3 3 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (2.42%) Veeva
4 2 (1.61%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.61%) OneDrive
4 2 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.81%) BigCommerce
5 1 (0.81%) Contentful
5 1 (0.81%) Figma
5 1 (0.81%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.45%) Power BI
2 2 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (1.61%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.81%) MySQL
3 1 (0.81%) Pentaho
3 1 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.87%) JIRA
2 4 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.23%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.81%) LSMW
General
1 47 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 42 (33.87%) Finance
3 17 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.68%) Marketing
4 12 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.06%) Retail
6 8 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (5.65%) Local Government
8 5 (4.03%) Legal
8 5 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.03%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.42%) Banking
9 3 (2.42%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Military
10 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Billing
11 1 (0.81%) French Language
11 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (23.39%) Programme Manager
2 22 (17.74%) Project Manager
3 14 (11.29%) Analyst
3 14 (11.29%) Senior
4 11 (8.87%) Lead
5 9 (7.26%) Architect
6 8 (6.45%) Business Analyst
6 8 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (6.45%) Tester
7 7 (5.65%) Programme Delivery Manager
8 6 (4.84%) Data Analyst
8 6 (4.84%) SAP Manager
8 6 (4.84%) Senior Manager
9 5 (4.03%) IT Manager
9 5 (4.03%) Programme Director
9 5 (4.03%) SAP Analyst
9 5 (4.03%) SAP Data Analyst
9 5 (4.03%) Technical Manager
10 4 (3.23%) DV Cleared Project Manager
10 4 (3.23%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.23%) Middleware
1 4 (3.23%) SOAP
1 4 (3.23%) XML
2 2 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.81%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.81%) Kafka
3 1 (0.81%) Next.js
3 1 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.81%) SAP PI
3 1 (0.81%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.26%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.03%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.03%) PMI
3 4 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.42%) IoT
4 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.42%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.61%) LIMS
5 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.81%) NHS
6 1 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (42.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (36.29%) Agile
3 33 (26.61%) Project Delivery
4 30 (24.19%) Project Management
5 29 (23.39%) PRINCE2
6 24 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (18.55%) Programme Management
7 23 (18.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (15.32%) Budget Management
10 17 (13.71%) Risk Management
11 15 (12.10%) Waterfall
12 14 (11.29%) Change Management
13 13 (10.48%) ERP
13 13 (10.48%) Migration
13 13 (10.48%) Scrum
14 11 (8.87%) Collaborative Working
15 10 (8.06%) Supplier Management
16 9 (7.26%) Analytics
16 9 (7.26%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.61%) Python
1 2 (1.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.68%) PMI Certification
2 12 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.87%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.06%) PMP
5 4 (3.23%) Degree
6 3 (2.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.61%) APMP
7 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.81%) APMG
8 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.81%) MBA
8 1 (0.81%) PgMP
8 1 (0.81%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.87%) PMO
2 8 (6.45%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.45%) QA
3 2 (1.61%) GDPR
3 2 (1.61%) GxP
4 1 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.81%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.81%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.81%) MiFID
4 1 (0.81%) P3O
4 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.42%) Grafana
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 22 (17.74%) SAP
2 10 (8.06%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.84%) Oracle
3 6 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.03%) Ariba
5 4 (3.23%) Databricks
5 4 (3.23%) Siemens
6 3 (2.42%) Concur
6 3 (2.42%) Splunk
7 2 (1.61%) Adobe
7 2 (1.61%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.61%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.61%) NetCracker
7 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.61%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.81%) LabVantage
8 1 (0.81%) LabWare
8 1 (0.81%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.81%) Optimizely