Programme Delivery Contracts in Scotland

Programme Delivery
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 121 146
Rank change year-on-year +15 +25 +1
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 10 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.62% 0.36% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.41% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 13
10th Percentile £513 £219 £331
25th Percentile £608 £350 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% -4.76% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 - £938
90th Percentile £698 £635 £1,075
UK median daily rate £600 £585 £625
% change year-on-year +2.56% -6.40% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Programme Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Programme Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Delivery in Scotland

Programme Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Delivery in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Programme Delivery in Scotland

Programme Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Delivery in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Delivery in Scotland

Programme Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow +6 5 £615 +23.00%
Edinburgh +5 5 £650 +65.08%
Programme Delivery
UK

Programme Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (80.00%) Banking
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
3 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Programme Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (30.00%) Data Security
3 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (20.00%) Application Security
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (20.00%) Service Management
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMP
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow