Programme Delivery Contracts

Programme Delivery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 403 436
Rank change year-on-year +41 +33 +21
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 150 168 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.39% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.46% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 106 178
10th Percentile £414 £405 £413
25th Percentile £507 £481 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £605 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -3.20% +8.15%
75th Percentile £716 £725 £784
90th Percentile £770 £800 £954
UK excluding London median daily rate £536 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -15.88% +2.00% +20.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 7
10th Percentile - £28.12 £41.49
25th Percentile £56.25 £36.83 £53.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.33 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% +4.24% -16.35%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £62.75
90th Percentile - £57.41 £68.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £57.33 £53.75
% change year-on-year +0.30% +6.66% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,620 36,673 51,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.13% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,067 23,631 35,432
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 2,440 1,683
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £16.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 19 May 2025.

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
Top 17 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 19 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
England +30 130 £600 -2.83% 155
UK excluding London +38 75 £536 -15.88% 94
London +39 65 £650 +11.35% 73
Work from Home +49 32 £650 +29.05% 63
South East +33 15 £525 +1.94% 27
Midlands +29 15 £519 -6.53% 20
North of England -9 13 £535 -17.69% 21
South West +37 12 £409 -18.20% 17
Scotland +8 10 £615 +23.00% 7
North West -12 9 £535 -17.69% 12
East Midlands +17 8 £457 -0.65% 4
West Midlands +11 7 £599 -7.81% 17
East of England +26 6 £638 - 3
Yorkshire +12 3 £388 - 9
Northern Ireland - 3 £750 - 2
North East - 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 8 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.67%) Confluence
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.67%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.33%) Maximo
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.33%) SAP PLM
3 2 (1.33%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.67%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.67%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.67%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.67%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.67%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.67%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.67%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.67%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.67%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.67%) Shopify
4 1 (0.67%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 7 (4.67%) Azure
1 7 (4.67%) Power Platform
2 5 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (3.33%) GCP
2 5 (3.33%) SaaS
3 4 (2.67%) AWS
4 3 (2.00%) Veeva
5 2 (1.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.33%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.67%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.67%) Commercetools
6 1 (0.67%) Contentful
6 1 (0.67%) Datadog
6 1 (0.67%) Figma
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (0.67%) Firewall
1 1 (0.67%) Intranet
1 1 (0.67%) IPsec
1 1 (0.67%) LAN
1 1 (0.67%) Network Security
1 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.67%) Skype
1 1 (0.67%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.67%) VPN
1 1 (0.67%) WAN
1 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.67%) Power BI
2 2 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (1.33%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (1.33%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (11.33%) JIRA
2 3 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.67%) LSMW
General
1 57 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 53 (35.33%) Finance
3 19 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.33%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.00%) Marketing
6 11 (7.33%) Banking
6 11 (7.33%) Retail
7 8 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (5.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (4.67%) Local Government
8 7 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (4.00%) Legal
10 5 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.67%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
12 3 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.33%) Billing
13 2 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.33%) Military
14 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 38 (25.33%) Programme Manager
2 22 (14.67%) Lead
2 22 (14.67%) Project Manager
3 12 (8.00%) Senior
4 11 (7.33%) Analyst
5 10 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
6 9 (6.00%) Programme Delivery Manager
7 8 (5.33%) Architect
8 7 (4.67%) Programme Director
8 7 (4.67%) Senior Manager
8 7 (4.67%) Tester
9 6 (4.00%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.00%) Technical Manager
10 5 (3.33%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.33%) SAP Analyst
10 5 (3.33%) SAP Data Analyst
10 5 (3.33%) SAP Manager
11 4 (2.67%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.67%) IT Project Manager
12 3 (2.00%) Senior Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.67%) Middleware
2 3 (2.00%) SOAP
2 3 (2.00%) XML
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.67%) ADO
4 1 (0.67%) FHIR
4 1 (0.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.67%) Next.js
4 1 (0.67%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.67%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.67%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.00%) PMI
3 5 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.00%) IoT
5 3 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.33%) LIMS
6 2 (1.33%) NHS
6 2 (1.33%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.67%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.33%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (40.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 53 (35.33%) Agile
3 45 (30.00%) Project Delivery
4 43 (28.67%) Project Management
5 31 (20.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 28 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (18.00%) Budget Management
8 27 (18.00%) Programme Management
8 27 (18.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (14.00%) Risk Management
10 16 (10.67%) Migration
11 14 (9.33%) Change Management
11 14 (9.33%) Decision-Making
11 14 (9.33%) ERP
11 14 (9.33%) Waterfall
12 12 (8.00%) Roadmaps
13 11 (7.33%) Data Security
13 11 (7.33%) Scrum
13 11 (7.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.33%) SQL
2 1 (0.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.67%) PMI Certification
4 13 (8.67%) PMP
5 8 (5.33%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.00%) Degree
7 3 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.33%) APMP
8 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.67%) APMG
9 1 (0.67%) CCNA
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.67%) MBA
9 1 (0.67%) PgMP
9 1 (0.67%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.00%) PMO
2 10 (6.67%) QA
3 8 (5.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.33%) GDPR
4 2 (1.33%) GxP
5 1 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.67%) HL7
5 1 (0.67%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.67%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.67%) MiFID
5 1 (0.67%) P3O
5 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.67%) Grafana
2 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 24 (16.00%) SAP
2 10 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.67%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.00%) Oracle
5 5 (3.33%) Ariba
5 5 (3.33%) Databricks
6 4 (2.67%) Siemens
7 3 (2.00%) Concur
7 3 (2.00%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.33%) Adobe
8 2 (1.33%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.33%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.33%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.33%) Splunk
9 1 (0.67%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco
9 1 (0.67%) F5
9 1 (0.67%) Forcepoint
9 1 (0.67%) Google
9 1 (0.67%) Salesforce