Programme Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Programme Management (Program Management)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Programme Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Programme Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 117 113
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 362 482 711
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.72% 2.12% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.38% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 362 569
10th Percentile £205 £205 £278
25th Percentile £439 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile £712 £688 £644
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £580 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 8
10th Percentile - £30.05 £24.79
25th Percentile £12.75 £31.07 £26.25
Median hourly rate £14.75 £42.28 £31.70
Median % change year-on-year -65.11% +33.36% -6.78%
75th Percentile £35.00 £58.58 £33.15
90th Percentile £45.13 £80.00 £35.24
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £42.68 £46.31
% change year-on-year -12.14% -7.83% +18.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Programme Management 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East -30 108 £518 +3.51% 53
South West -13 96 £618 -1.20% 31
North of England +27 57 £595 -0.83% 47
Midlands +36 51 £650 +16.07% 42
West Midlands +17 36 £675 +15.38% 28
North West +13 36 £625 +8.70% 23
Scotland +24 30 £525 -6.67% 13
Yorkshire +15 19 £531 -15.00% 19
East of England -8 18 £306 -50.96% 18
East Midlands +23 15 £400 -24.53% 14
Northern Ireland +2 4 £185 -69.17% 4
North East +12 3 £525 +33.76% 5
Wales +11 1 £1,000 +81.82% 5
Programme Management
UK

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (3.04%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.28%) FileZilla
6 1 (0.28%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.28%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.83%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.55%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.55%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.28%) Primavera
4 1 (0.28%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 21 (5.80%) Azure
2 15 (4.14%) Power Platform
3 12 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.38%) SaaS
6 4 (1.10%) AWS
6 4 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.55%) GCP
8 2 (0.55%) PaaS
9 1 (0.28%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.70%) Firewall
2 15 (4.14%) VPN
3 14 (3.87%) LAN
4 12 (3.31%) WAN
5 10 (2.76%) WLAN
6 9 (2.49%) 4G
6 9 (2.49%) Cisco ISE
6 9 (2.49%) Internet
6 9 (2.49%) MPLS
6 9 (2.49%) Network Security
6 9 (2.49%) PBX
6 9 (2.49%) VoIP
7 8 (2.21%) 3G
8 7 (1.93%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (1.66%) DNS
10 5 (1.38%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (1.38%) DHCP
10 5 (1.38%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (1.10%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.31%) Electronic Patient Records
2 8 (2.21%) Power BI
3 6 (1.66%) Ingres
4 5 (1.38%) Tableau
5 4 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.10%) MS Access
5 4 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.10%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.83%) Metadata
7 2 (0.55%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.28%) IDMS
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.28%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (5.80%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.28%) Git
2 1 (0.28%) MSI
2 1 (0.28%) NUnit
2 1 (0.28%) Postman
2 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 200 (55.25%) Finance
2 172 (47.51%) Public Sector
3 152 (41.99%) Telecoms
4 141 (38.95%) Manufacturing
5 139 (38.40%) Marketing
6 136 (37.57%) Electronics
7 96 (26.52%) Social Skills
8 44 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
9 21 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.76%) Local Government
13 9 (2.49%) Legal
14 8 (2.21%) Banking
14 8 (2.21%) Military
15 7 (1.93%) Retail
16 6 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (1.38%) Law
18 4 (1.10%) Billing
19 2 (0.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 72 (19.89%) Project Manager
2 46 (12.71%) Architect
3 38 (10.50%) Lead
4 36 (9.94%) Programme Manager
5 23 (6.35%) Analyst
6 20 (5.52%) Senior
7 19 (5.25%) Support Engineer
8 18 (4.97%) Consultant
9 14 (3.87%) Change Manager
9 14 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (3.87%) Technical Architect
10 13 (3.59%) Desktop Engineer
10 13 (3.59%) Desktop Support
10 13 (3.59%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 12 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
11 12 (3.31%) Network Engineer
12 10 (2.76%) Developer
12 10 (2.76%) IT Manager
13 9 (2.49%) Technical Manager
14 8 (2.21%) LIMS Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.49%) Web Services
2 7 (1.93%) AngularJS
3 5 (1.38%) React
3 5 (1.38%) Spring
4 2 (0.55%) .NET
4 2 (0.55%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.55%) CSS
4 2 (0.55%) HTML
4 2 (0.55%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.55%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.28%) COM
5 1 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.28%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.28%) HTML5
5 1 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.28%) MDX
5 1 (0.28%) NumPy
5 1 (0.28%) Playwright
5 1 (0.28%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.28%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.05%) NHS
2 16 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.14%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.49%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.21%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (2.21%) LIMS
5 8 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (1.38%) e-Health
6 5 (1.38%) PMI
6 5 (1.38%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.38%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.55%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.55%) FPGA
9 2 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.55%) iPhone
9 2 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.94%) Windows
2 17 (4.70%) Windows 10
3 10 (2.76%) Linux
4 8 (2.21%) Unix
5 4 (1.10%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.55%) Android
6 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (40.06%) Business Intelligence
2 136 (37.57%) Digital Marketing
3 86 (23.76%) Agile
4 84 (23.20%) Project Management
5 69 (19.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (16.30%) Change Management
7 45 (12.43%) Project Delivery
8 40 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (8.29%) PRINCE2
11 27 (7.46%) Decision-Making
11 27 (7.46%) Risk Management
12 25 (6.91%) Mentoring
13 24 (6.63%) Waterfall
14 23 (6.35%) Business Case
14 23 (6.35%) Programme Delivery
15 22 (6.08%) Performance Management
15 22 (6.08%) Resource Management
16 21 (5.80%) Roadmaps
17 19 (5.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 14 (3.87%) Python
2 7 (1.93%) C
2 7 (1.93%) PowerShell
2 7 (1.93%) SQL
3 6 (1.66%) Java
4 5 (1.38%) C#
5 4 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.55%) Perl
6 2 (0.55%) Rust
7 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.28%) Bash
7 1 (0.28%) Bicep
7 1 (0.28%) C++
7 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 108 (29.83%) Security Cleared
2 59 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 53 (14.64%) DV Cleared
4 43 (11.88%) Degree
5 12 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (3.31%) CISSP
6 10 (2.76%) CCIE
7 9 (2.49%) CCIE Data Center
8 8 (2.21%) CISM
8 8 (2.21%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.66%) CCNP
9 6 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.66%) PMP
10 5 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (1.10%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (0.83%) CLAS
12 3 (0.83%) PhD
12 3 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.55%) ACCA
13 2 (0.55%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.50%) PMO
2 14 (3.87%) QA
3 11 (3.04%) SLA
4 10 (2.76%) NIST
5 8 (2.21%) HL7
6 7 (1.93%) NIST 800
7 5 (1.38%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.10%) JSP 440
8 4 (1.10%) RMADS
9 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.55%) GDPR
9 2 (0.55%) GRC
9 2 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (1.38%) Active Directory
1 5 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.10%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.55%) Docker
3 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.55%) vSphere
4 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (0.83%) IBM BigFix
1 3 (0.83%) Tivoli
2 2 (0.55%) AirWatch
2 2 (0.55%) Nessus
2 2 (0.55%) SCCM
2 2 (0.55%) Terraform
2 2 (0.55%) vCenter Server
2 2 (0.55%) vRealize
2 2 (0.55%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (0.28%) Ansible
3 1 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.28%) Grafana
3 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.28%) Puppet
3 1 (0.28%) VxRail
3 1 (0.28%) WMI
Vendors
1 154 (42.54%) SAP
2 43 (11.88%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.42%) Cisco
4 13 (3.59%) Oracle
5 9 (2.49%) Palo Alto
6 8 (2.21%) CheckPoint
6 8 (2.21%) VMware
7 7 (1.93%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.66%) Cadence
9 5 (1.38%) Infoblox
9 5 (1.38%) Pega
9 5 (1.38%) Symantec
9 5 (1.38%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.10%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.10%) Computacenter
10 4 (1.10%) Samsung
11 3 (0.83%) CA
11 3 (0.83%) Dell
11 3 (0.83%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.83%) Remedy