The first table below looks at the demand for the Programme Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Programme Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Programme Manager
Rank 106 103 154
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 102 127 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.587% 1.615% 0.857%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.716% 1.765% 0.934%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 108 60
Average daily rate £715 £650 £675
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £481 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £900 £925 £901
UK excluding London average daily rate £513 £513 £585
% change year-on-year
- -12.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £38.98 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+21.85% +55.92%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5943 7197 8889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.54% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4362 5164 6490
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 183 186
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Programme Manager
London

Programme Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Programme Manager across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Programme Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Programme Manager across the City of London region.

City of London Programme Manager Daily Rate Trend

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programme Manager across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Programme Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Programme Manager across the City of London region.

City of London Programme Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Programme Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Programme Manager in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Programme Manager in their job title.

1 68 (37.16%) Programme Management
2 67 (36.61%) Finance
3 58 (31.69%) Banking
4 38 (20.77%) Project Management
5 36 (19.67%) Investment Banking
6 35 (19.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (10.38%) PRINCE2
8 17 (9.290%) Change Management
8 17 (9.290%) Migration
8 17 (9.290%) Retail
9 13 (7.104%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (6.557%) CRM
11 11 (6.011%) Risk Management
11 11 (6.011%) Business Transformation
12 10 (5.464%) Oracle
13 9 (4.918%) ITIL
13 9 (4.918%) PMI Certification
13 9 (4.918%) Release Management
13 9 (4.918%) Investment Management
13 9 (4.918%) Degree
14 8 (4.372%) Derivative
14 8 (4.372%) Test Management
14 8 (4.372%) Security Cleared
14 8 (4.372%) Asset Management
14 8 (4.372%) E-Commerce
15 7 (3.825%) Microsoft
15 7 (3.825%) Data Management
15 7 (3.825%) Marketing
15 7 (3.825%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 7 (3.825%) Waterfall

Programme Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Programme Manager in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Programme Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (1.093%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (1.093%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (2.186%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.639%) CMS
3 2 (1.093%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.546%) SAS
4 1 (0.546%) TeamSite
4 1 (0.546%) ESB
Applications
1 5 (2.732%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.186%) MS Office
3 2 (1.093%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (1.093%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.093%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.186%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.639%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.093%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.546%) Endur
4 1 (0.546%) PeopleSoft Financials
4 1 (0.546%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.546%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.546%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.546%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.546%) Aligne
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.639%) Internet
2 2 (1.093%) FTP
3 1 (0.546%) HTTP
3 1 (0.546%) Broadband
3 1 (0.546%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.104%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.186%) QlikView
3 2 (1.093%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (1.093%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.546%) SAP BI
4 1 (0.546%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 67 (36.61%) Finance
2 58 (31.69%) Banking
3 36 (19.67%) Investment Banking
4 17 (9.290%) Retail
5 7 (3.825%) Marketing
6 6 (3.279%) Retail Banking
6 6 (3.279%) Legal
7 5 (2.732%) Back Office
8 4 (2.186%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.639%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.639%) Games
10 2 (1.093%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.093%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (1.093%) Front Office
10 2 (1.093%) Advertising
11 1 (0.546%) Publishing
11 1 (0.546%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.546%) Automotive
11 1 (0.546%) International Banking
11 1 (0.546%) Italian Language
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.372%) Derivative
2 6 (3.279%) Market Risk
2 6 (3.279%) PMI
2 6 (3.279%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (2.732%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.186%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.639%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.093%) Online Games
6 2 (1.093%) Equities
6 2 (1.093%) NHS
7 1 (0.546%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.546%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.546%) iPad
7 1 (0.546%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (0.546%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.546%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.546%) CMDB
7 1 (0.546%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.546%) UNIX
1 1 (0.546%) Windows
1 1 (0.546%) NetWare
1 1 (0.546%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (37.16%) Programme Management
2 38 (20.77%) Project Management
3 35 (19.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (10.38%) PRINCE2
5 17 (9.290%) Change Management
5 17 (9.290%) Migration
6 12 (6.557%) CRM
7 11 (6.011%) Risk Management
7 11 (6.011%) Business Transformation
8 9 (4.918%) ITIL
8 9 (4.918%) Release Management
8 9 (4.918%) Investment Management
9 8 (4.372%) Test Management
9 8 (4.372%) Asset Management
9 8 (4.372%) E-Commerce
10 7 (3.825%) Data Management
10 7 (3.825%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (3.825%) Waterfall
11 6 (3.279%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (2.732%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.639%) C
2 1 (0.546%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (4.918%) PMI Certification
1 9 (4.918%) Degree
2 8 (4.372%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.732%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (1.639%) PMP
4 3 (1.639%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.639%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.546%) ACCA
5 1 (0.546%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (0.546%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.732%) Basel II
2 3 (1.639%) QA
3 1 (0.546%) FATCA
3 1 (0.546%) Basel III
3 1 (0.546%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.093%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.546%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 1 (0.546%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (5.464%) Oracle
2 7 (3.825%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.186%) Siebel
4 3 (1.639%) Business Objects
4 3 (1.639%) SAP
5 2 (1.093%) PeopleSoft
5 2 (1.093%) BMC
6 1 (0.546%) CA
6 1 (0.546%) Siemens
6 1 (0.546%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.546%) Remedy
6 1 (0.546%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.546%) Sybase
6 1 (0.546%) Citrix
6 1 (0.546%) Murex
6 1 (0.546%) SunGard
6 1 (0.546%) Teradata
City of London
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WorldPay
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
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Huxley Associates
Rate: £800 - £1000 per day
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Huxley Associates
Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
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Lawrence Harvey IT & Change
Rate: £650 - £850 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
P2P Programme Manager in London:*Identify organisation-wide communication audiences and their needs.*Address project communications with internal executive audiences. *Manage communications planning, in line with any project...
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Rate: £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013