Programme Delivery Contracts

Programme Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Programme Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Programme Delivery over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 412 436 459
Rank change year-on-year +24 +23 +26
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 167 295 450
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 200 316
10th Percentile £355 £424 £405
25th Percentile £475 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £625 £576
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +8.46% +9.76%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £700
90th Percentile £800 £938 £894
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -7.20% +21.95% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile £28.12 £36.20 £62.58
25th Percentile £36.83 £50.21 £62.69
Median hourly rate £57.33 £61.50 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -6.46% +152.88%
75th Percentile - £68.13 £69.19
90th Percentile £57.41 £69.25 £69.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.33 £27.70 -
% change year-on-year +106.97% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Programme Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Programme Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Delivery in the UK

Programme Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Delivery in the UK

Programme Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Delivery over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Delivery in the UK

Programme Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Delivery in the UK

Programme Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Delivery over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Delivery in the UK

Programme Delivery
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
England +12 152 £610 -3.94% 72
UK excluding London +10 89 £580 -7.20% 50
London +50 69 £610 -6.15% 25
North of England +39 38 £650 +30.00% 9
Work from Home +43 37 £500 -20.00% 25
North West +51 35 £650 +36.84% 3
South East +1 20 £530 -15.20% 14
South West +18 18 £475 -27.70% 8
Scotland +31 8 £500 -4.76% 3
East Midlands +19 3 £460 - 4
Midlands +11 3 £460 -5.64% 12
Yorkshire +10 3 - - 4
East of England -2 2 - - 4

Programme Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (7.78%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (9.58%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (5.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.80%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (5.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.20%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (1.20%) SAP EWM
3 2 (1.20%) Unica
4 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.60%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.60%) Primavera
4 1 (0.60%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.60%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.60%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 11 (6.59%) Azure
2 5 (2.99%) AWS
3 2 (1.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (1.20%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.20%) SaaS
3 2 (1.20%) WhatsApp
4 1 (0.60%) Asana
4 1 (0.60%) Azure Functions
4 1 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.60%) GCP
4 1 (0.60%) Google Workspace
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.60%) PaaS
4 1 (0.60%) Serverless
4 1 (0.60%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.80%) WAN
2 2 (1.20%) LAN
2 2 (1.20%) SAN
2 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.60%) 5G
3 1 (0.60%) Broadband
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) Internet
3 1 (0.60%) Intranet
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) RTP
3 1 (0.60%) SNA
3 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (1.20%) Power BI
2 1 (0.60%) Big Data
2 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.60%) IDMS
2 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (8.38%) JIRA
2 4 (2.40%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.60%) RStudio
General
1 50 (29.94%) Finance
2 48 (28.74%) Public Sector
2 48 (28.74%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.19%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (6.59%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (5.99%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (5.99%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.39%) Banking
8 7 (4.19%) Local Government
8 7 (4.19%) Military
9 4 (2.40%) Legal
9 4 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.40%) Retail
10 3 (1.80%) Back Office
10 3 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.80%) Police
11 2 (1.20%) Advertising
11 2 (1.20%) Automotive
11 2 (1.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (20.96%) Programme Manager
2 21 (12.57%) Consultant
3 19 (11.38%) Lead
4 16 (9.58%) Project Manager
5 13 (7.78%) Analyst
6 12 (7.19%) Delivery Manager
7 10 (5.99%) Programme Director
7 10 (5.99%) Support Officer
8 8 (4.79%) Telecoms Manager
9 7 (4.19%) Programme Delivery Manager
9 7 (4.19%) Telecoms Programme Manager
10 6 (3.59%) Delivery Director
10 6 (3.59%) IT Manager
10 6 (3.59%) PMO Analyst
10 6 (3.59%) PMO Manager
10 6 (3.59%) Project Officer
10 6 (3.59%) SAP Manager
10 6 (3.59%) Senior
11 5 (2.99%) Project Support Officer
12 4 (2.40%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.20%) CSS
1 2 (1.20%) HTML
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.59%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.59%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.40%) PMI
5 3 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.20%) CMDB
6 2 (1.20%) FMCG
6 2 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.20%) NHS
6 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.60%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.60%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (35.33%) Programme Management
2 58 (34.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (30.54%) Project Management
4 49 (29.34%) Agile
5 42 (25.15%) Project Delivery
6 29 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (14.97%) Waterfall
8 18 (10.78%) Change Control
9 17 (10.18%) PRINCE2
10 16 (9.58%) Business Case
10 16 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (8.38%) Migration
11 14 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (7.78%) Change Management
13 12 (7.19%) Decision-Making
13 12 (7.19%) Scrum
14 11 (6.59%) Roadmaps
15 10 (5.99%) ITIL
15 10 (5.99%) Risk Management
15 10 (5.99%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.40%) SQL
2 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.60%) COBOL
3 1 (0.60%) Python
3 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 56 (33.53%) Security Cleared
2 40 (23.95%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.98%) DV Cleared
4 16 (9.58%) Degree
5 9 (5.39%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.99%) PMP
6 5 (2.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.80%) PgMP
9 1 (0.60%) APMP
9 1 (0.60%) CEH
9 1 (0.60%) CISA
9 1 (0.60%) CISM
9 1 (0.60%) CISSP
9 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.60%) ISEB
9 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.17%) PMO
2 8 (4.79%) QA
3 3 (1.80%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.20%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) NCSC
5 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.60%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 28 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.58%) SAP
3 4 (2.40%) Cadence
3 4 (2.40%) Sparx
4 3 (1.80%) VMware
5 2 (1.20%) Adobe
6 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.60%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco
6 1 (0.60%) Fujitsu
6 1 (0.60%) Google
6 1 (0.60%) IBM
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle
6 1 (0.60%) Remedy
6 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.60%) Sophos
6 1 (0.60%) Splunk