Programme Delivery Contracts in the South West

Programme Delivery
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 100 139 142
Rank change year-on-year +39 +3 +25
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 11 18 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.66% 0.56% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.68% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 17
10th Percentile £258 £318 £438
25th Percentile £325 £364 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £475 £657
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -27.70% +20.00%
75th Percentile £482 £550 £900
90th Percentile £775 £688 £963
England median daily rate £600 £610 £646
% change year-on-year -1.64% -5.50% +17.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £57.33 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £57.33 £61.50
% change year-on-year +0.30% -6.78% -6.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Programme Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Delivery in the South West

Programme Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Delivery in the South West

Programme Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Programme Delivery in the South West

Programme Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Delivery in the South West

Programme Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Wiltshire +31 5 £400 -27.27% 2
Gloucestershire +21 5 £409 - 6
Bristol - 1 £950 - 6
Programme Delivery
England

Programme Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Power BI
General
1 5 (45.45%) Local Government
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Data Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) SAP Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) SAP Data Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (9.09%) Programme Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Programme Director
4 1 (9.09%) Services Director
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ERP
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) Data Analysis
2 5 (45.45%) Data Integration
2 5 (45.45%) Data Management
2 5 (45.45%) Data Migration
2 5 (45.45%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
2 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
3 4 (36.36%) Budget Management
3 4 (36.36%) Project Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Supplier Relationship Management
5 2 (18.18%) Change Management
5 2 (18.18%) Commercial Awareness
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 1 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Ariba
1 5 (45.45%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle