Programme Delivery Contracts in the North West

Programme Delivery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 117 100 146
Rank change year-on-year -17 +46 +15
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 8 35 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 1.29% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.51% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 9
10th Percentile £509 £538 -
25th Percentile £512 £575 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +30.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £598 £725 £550
90th Percentile £614 - £678
England median daily rate £600 £625 £628
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.40% +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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,755 2,311 2,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.05% 85.25% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,450 1,919
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £391 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £676 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 263 140
10th Percentile £13.88 £11.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.72 £14.00 £22.09
Median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +51.99%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £48.19
90th Percentile £84.80 £66.61 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Programme Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Delivery in the North West

Programme Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Delivery in the North West

Programme Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Delivery in the North West

Programme Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +17 3 £593 +4.41% 18
Cheshire -1 3 £525 -0.10% 14
Merseyside - 1 £523 - 4
Programme Delivery
England

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

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Military
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) SAP Architect
2 2 (25.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Change and Release Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Change Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Decision-Making
2 5 (62.50%) Risk Management
2 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (50.00%) SDLC
3 4 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
3 4 (50.00%) System Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Concur
2 2 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 2 (25.00%) SAP