Programme Delivery Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Programme Delivery Manager
England > London

The median Programme Delivery Manager daily rate in London is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 341 386
Rank change year-on-year -60 +45 +103
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Delivery Manager 11 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.064% 0.047% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.051% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £563 £626 £492
25th Percentile £574 £706 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £775 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% +19.23% -8.77%
75th Percentile £658 £819 £806
90th Percentile £671 £853 £825
England median daily rate £650 £750 £618
% change year-on-year -13.33% +21.46% -13.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,066 11,835 16,721
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 93.57% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,721 8,113 12,065
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £753 £800 £788
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 143 341
10th Percentile £18.28 £21.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.75 £44.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.75 £63.75
England median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.21
% change year-on-year +35.38% -5.00% -21.70%

Programme Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Programme Delivery Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Programme Delivery Manager job vacancy trend in London

Programme Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Programme Delivery Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Programme Delivery Manager job vacancies in London

Programme Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Delivery Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 12 April 2026. 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
Central London -12 2 £563 -25.00%
West London - 1 £680 -
Programme Delivery Manager
England

Programme Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 April 2026, Programme Delivery Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Programme Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Programme Delivery
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) Project Management
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
6 2 (18.18%) Dependency Management
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
6 2 (18.18%) QA
6 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
7 1 (9.09%) AI
7 1 (9.09%) Azure
7 1 (9.09%) Change Control
7 1 (9.09%) CMS
7 1 (9.09%) Content Management
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (9.09%) Degree
7 1 (9.09%) Digital Content Management
7 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (9.09%) DNS
7 1 (9.09%) Generative AI
7 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (9.09%) LAN
7 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (9.09%) NIST

Programme Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
1 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Reinsurance
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Programme Delivery
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) Project Management
5 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
6 2 (18.18%) Dependency Management
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
6 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
7 1 (9.09%) AI
7 1 (9.09%) Change Control
7 1 (9.09%) Content Management
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (9.09%) Digital Content Management
7 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (9.09%) Generative AI
7 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2
7 1 (9.09%) Programme Governance
7 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
7 1 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
1 1 (9.09%) PMP
1 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) PMO
2 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) VMware