Programme Delivery Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Programme Delivery
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 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 57 45 67
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 -6
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 8 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.19% 0.26% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.29% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £459 - £760
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £770
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.95%
75th Percentile £734 - £780
90th Percentile £788 - -
East of England median daily rate £575 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
East of England median hourly rate - - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -64.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 591 339 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 87.56% 87.37% 87.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 134 312
10th Percentile £194 £263 £285
25th Percentile £413 £346 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -4.45% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £675 £750
East of England median daily rate £487 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.42% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 86 149
10th Percentile £16.63 £16.59 £30.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £45.00 £46.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% - -
75th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.25 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.16
% change year-on-year -40.00% +65.45% -5.98%

Programme Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Programme Delivery job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Programme Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Programme Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Programme Delivery in Hertfordshire

Programme Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Programme Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Programme Delivery

Programme Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire 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
Welwyn Garden City - 5 £675 -
Watford - 2 - - 2
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £575 - 1
Programme Delivery
East of England

Programme Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (12.50%) NetSuite
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Finance Systems Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Finance Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) QA Manager
3 1 (12.50%) QA Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Test Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) LLM
4 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow