Programme Delivery Contract Job Trends in the North East

Programme Delivery
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Programme Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 37 34
Rank change year-on-year -37 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.24% 0.35% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.43% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £580 - -
25th Percentile £588 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.95%
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile £665 - -
England median daily rate £575 £586 £585
% change year-on-year -1.92% +0.21% -6.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 700 235 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.83% 83.33% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 128 103
10th Percentile £313 £218 £311
25th Percentile £363 £400 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £597
90th Percentile £650 £629 £711
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 17 33
10th Percentile £14.73 £11.60 £13.75
25th Percentile £34.28 £13.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.30 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +154.10% -41.89% +48.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £46.18
90th Percentile - £42.40 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

Programme Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Programme Delivery job vacancy trend in the North East

Programme Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Programme Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -44 1 £575 - 11
Programme Delivery
England

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

General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector Programme Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality