Programme Delivery Contracts in the South East

Programme Delivery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 177 181
Rank change year-on-year +39 +4 +35
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 14 21 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.46% 0.38% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.45% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 32
10th Percentile £450 £373 £400
25th Percentile £450 £465 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -17.60% +23.40%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £641
90th Percentile £543 £656 £786
England median daily rate £600 £598 £646
% change year-on-year +0.42% -7.44% +17.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Programme Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Delivery in the South East

Programme Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Delivery in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Programme Delivery in the South East

Programme Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Delivery in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Delivery in the South East

Programme Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Hampshire +30 6 £525 - 1
Thames Valley +28 5 £451 -8.06% 6
Berkshire +23 5 £451 -18.09% 4
West Sussex - 3 £525 -
Programme Delivery
England

Programme Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (14.29%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
1 2 (14.29%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Local Government
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Lead
1 4 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 3 (21.43%) PMO Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Programme Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Programme Delivery Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Manager
4 1 (7.14%) PMO Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Report Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Support Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) SOAP
1 2 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Project Management
2 7 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
5 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
5 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 2 (14.29%) PMP
2 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (7.14%) APMP
3 1 (7.14%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) P3O
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Alteryx
2 1 (7.14%) Sitecore