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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 431 454
Rank change year-on-year +22 +23 +35
Contract jobs citing Programme Delivery 171 260 449
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.46% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.51% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 182 326
10th Percentile £408 £413 £416
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 £772 £700
90th Percentile £800 £938 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £625 £523
% change year-on-year -7.20% +19.62% -2.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £28.12 £36.61 £62.58
25th Percentile £36.83 £51.25 £62.69
Median hourly rate £57.33 £55.00 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% -16.35% +95.22%
75th Percentile - - £69.19
90th Percentile £57.41 £64.00 £69.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.33 £53.75 -
% change year-on-year +6.66% - -

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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Delivery in the UK

Programme Delivery
Top 14 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 2 June 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 +36 156 £610 -2.79% 98
UK excluding London +14 89 £580 -7.20% 64
London +55 74 £610 -6.15% 38
Work from Home +39 39 £502 -19.70% 32
North of England +43 38 £650 +30.00% 17
North West +35 31 £650 +30.00% 9
South East -5 19 £515 -17.60% 11
South West +3 17 £550 -21.43% 11
Scotland +34 8 £500 -5.21% 6
Yorkshire +18 7 £475 -24.00% 7
Midlands +14 5 £460 -26.40% 14
East Midlands +8 3 £460 -26.40% 2
West Midlands +6 2 £554 -7.71% 12
East of England -1 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 12 (7.02%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.09%) Confluence
3 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (9.94%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (5.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (6.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.17%) NEC Housing
3 2 (1.17%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.58%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.58%) Primavera
4 1 (0.58%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.58%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.58%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.58%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 11 (6.43%) Azure
2 5 (2.92%) AWS
3 3 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (1.17%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.17%) SaaS
4 2 (1.17%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.58%) Asana
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.58%) GCP
5 1 (0.58%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.58%) PaaS
5 1 (0.58%) Serverless
5 1 (0.58%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) LAN
1 2 (1.17%) SAN
1 2 (1.17%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.17%) WAN
2 1 (0.58%) 5G
2 1 (0.58%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) DNS
2 1 (0.58%) Internet
2 1 (0.58%) Network Security
2 1 (0.58%) RTP
2 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.17%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (1.17%) Power BI
2 1 (0.58%) Big Data
2 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.58%) IDMS
2 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (8.77%) JIRA
2 4 (2.34%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.58%) RStudio
General
1 56 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 48 (28.07%) Finance
3 44 (25.73%) Public Sector
4 20 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.43%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (5.85%) Banking
6 10 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (5.85%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.09%) Military
8 6 (3.51%) Local Government
8 6 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.34%) Legal
9 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.34%) Retail
10 3 (1.75%) Back Office
10 3 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.75%) Police
11 2 (1.17%) Advertising
11 2 (1.17%) Automotive
11 2 (1.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (19.30%) Programme Manager
2 21 (12.28%) Lead
3 16 (9.36%) Project Manager
4 15 (8.77%) Analyst
4 15 (8.77%) Consultant
5 12 (7.02%) Delivery Manager
6 10 (5.85%) Programme Director
7 8 (4.68%) Telecoms Manager
8 7 (4.09%) Programme Delivery Manager
8 7 (4.09%) Service Manager
8 7 (4.09%) Telecoms Programme Manager
9 6 (3.51%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.51%) Delivery Director
9 6 (3.51%) PMO Analyst
9 6 (3.51%) PMO Manager
9 6 (3.51%) SAP Manager
9 6 (3.51%) Senior
9 6 (3.51%) Support Officer
10 5 (2.92%) Architect
10 5 (2.92%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.58%) CSS
1 1 (0.58%) HTML
1 1 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.43%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.85%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.51%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.34%) PMI
5 3 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.75%) FMCG
6 2 (1.17%) CMDB
6 2 (1.17%) NHS
6 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.17%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.17%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.58%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.58%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Smart City
7 1 (0.58%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (32.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (31.58%) Programme Management
3 51 (29.82%) Agile
4 47 (27.49%) Project Management
5 38 (22.22%) Project Delivery
6 32 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (14.62%) Waterfall
8 18 (10.53%) Business Case
8 18 (10.53%) Change Control
9 17 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (8.77%) Migration
10 15 (8.77%) PRINCE2
10 15 (8.77%) Roadmaps
11 14 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (7.60%) Change Management
12 13 (7.60%) Decision-Making
12 13 (7.60%) ITIL
13 12 (7.02%) Service Management
14 10 (5.85%) Risk Management
14 10 (5.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.75%) SQL
2 1 (0.58%) COBOL
2 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.58%) Python
2 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (30.41%) Security Cleared
2 35 (20.47%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.70%) DV Cleared
4 18 (10.53%) Degree
5 8 (4.68%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.92%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (2.34%) PMP
7 4 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.75%) PgMP
9 1 (0.58%) APMP
9 1 (0.58%) ISEB
9 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.62%) PMO
2 8 (4.68%) QA
3 3 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.17%) NCSC
5 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.58%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 27 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.94%) SAP
3 4 (2.34%) Cadence
3 4 (2.34%) Sparx
4 3 (1.75%) VMware
5 2 (1.17%) IBM
5 2 (1.17%) NEC
5 2 (1.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.58%) Adobe
6 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.58%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.58%) Cisco
6 1 (0.58%) Fujitsu
6 1 (0.58%) Google
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle
6 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.58%) Sophos
6 1 (0.58%) Splunk