Programme Delivery Contracts in the North of England

Programme Delivery
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 140 183
Rank change year-on-year -7 +43 +32
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 14 38 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.42% 0.80% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.95% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 14
10th Percentile £306 £475 £413
25th Percentile £394 £546 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +30.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £569 £725 £633
90th Percentile £614 - £743
England median daily rate £596 £610 £628
% change year-on-year -2.25% -2.79% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.85
Median hourly rate - - £27.70
75th Percentile - - £28.55
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £57.33 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +4.24% -16.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,977 4,018 4,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.78% 84.66% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,919 2,427 3,429
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 387 206
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.85 £12.55 £15.73
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.74 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% -22.76% +41.32%
75th Percentile £52.13 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.63 £63.75 £63.38
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -24.85% +0.94% +48.60%

Programme Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Programme Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Delivery in the North of England

Programme Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Delivery in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Programme Delivery in the North of England

Programme Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Delivery in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Delivery in the North of England

Programme Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Delivery in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Delivery in the North of England

Programme Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
North West -13 10 £518 -20.27% 18
Yorkshire +8 3 £388 -18.42% 5
North East - 1 - - 3
Programme Delivery
England

Programme Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) SaaS
1 2 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SAP HANA
2 1 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Publishing
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Marketing
5 1 (7.14%) Military
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Tester
2 3 (21.43%) Programme Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) SAP Architect
3 2 (14.29%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Service Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Service Transition Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Transition Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Change and Release Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Change Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Project Officer
4 1 (7.14%) Project Support Officer
4 1 (7.14%) Release Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) PMI
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) NHS
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 6 (42.86%) Project Delivery
5 5 (35.71%) Change Management
5 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
5 5 (35.71%) Service Delivery
6 4 (28.57%) Black-Box Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (28.57%) SDLC
6 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
6 4 (28.57%) System Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
6 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Budget Management
7 3 (21.43%) DevOps
7 3 (21.43%) Programme Governance
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) PMO
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) Concur
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle