Programme Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Programme Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Programme Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £652 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 204 225
Rank change year-on-year -69 +21 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 127 263 369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 1.15% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.23% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 194 288
10th Percentile £516 £513 £338
25th Percentile £575 £563 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £652 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £761 £788 £741
90th Percentile £846 £891 £800
UK median daily rate £684 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -2.32% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £42.35 £35.25 -
25th Percentile - £43.13 £32.53
Median hourly rate £44.74 £57.50 £33.05
Median % change year-on-year -22.19% +73.98% -30.01%
75th Percentile - £73.13 £33.58
90th Percentile £71.90 £81.75 -
UK median hourly rate £44.74 £80.00 £70.50
% change year-on-year -44.08% +13.48% +49.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Programme Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Manager in the UK excluding London

Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Manager in the UK excluding London

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Manager in the UK excluding London

Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Manager in the UK excluding London

Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Manager in the UK excluding London

Programme Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +16 39 £625 - 11
North West +22 27 £613 - 5
South East -56 26 £625 -10.71% 16
Midlands +15 23 £738 +9.26% 11
West Midlands +13 19 £750 +5.26% 9
Scotland +25 16 £650 +8.33% 3
South West -10 13 £725 +11.54% 13
Yorkshire +10 12 £613 -2.00% 2
East of England -17 10 £663 -1.85% 6
East Midlands +7 4 £610 +6.09% 2
North East - 2 £625 - 4
Wales +18 1 £800 - 4
Programme Manager
UK

Programme Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Programme Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 50 (39.37%) Finance
2 38 (29.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (29.13%) Programme Management
4 33 (25.98%) Social Skills
5 28 (22.05%) Project Management
6 17 (13.39%) PRINCE2
7 16 (12.60%) Agile
8 15 (11.81%) Public Sector
9 14 (11.02%) Project Delivery
10 13 (10.24%) Migration
10 13 (10.24%) Service Management
10 13 (10.24%) Change Management
10 13 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (9.45%) Oracle
11 12 (9.45%) ERP
11 12 (9.45%) Telecoms
11 12 (9.45%) Programme Delivery
12 10 (7.87%) PMO
12 10 (7.87%) Programme Governance
12 10 (7.87%) Data Centre
12 10 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (7.09%) Security Cleared
13 9 (7.09%) Supplier Management
13 9 (7.09%) Degree
13 9 (7.09%) Law
13 9 (7.09%) ITSM
13 9 (7.09%) Decision-Making
14 8 (6.30%) Roadmaps
14 8 (6.30%) Retail

Programme Manager Skill Set
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 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.79%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.72%) Azure
2 4 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (1.57%) AWS
3 2 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.57%) OCI
3 2 (1.57%) SaaS
4 1 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.79%) GCP
4 1 (0.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) IP Telephony
1 1 (0.79%) LAN
1 1 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.94%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (3.94%) JIRA
General
1 50 (39.37%) Finance
2 33 (25.98%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.81%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.45%) Telecoms
5 9 (7.09%) Law
6 8 (6.30%) Retail
7 7 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.72%) Banking
9 4 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.36%) Aviation
10 3 (2.36%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (2.36%) Legal
10 3 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.57%) Billing
11 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.57%) Local Government
12 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.79%) JWT
2 1 (0.79%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.87%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.51%) NHS
3 5 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.36%) FMCG
5 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.79%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.79%) CCTV
6 1 (0.79%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.79%) e-Health
6 1 (0.79%) Life Science
6 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.79%) PACS
6 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (29.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 37 (29.13%) Programme Management
3 28 (22.05%) Project Management
4 17 (13.39%) PRINCE2
5 16 (12.60%) Agile
6 14 (11.02%) Project Delivery
7 13 (10.24%) Change Management
7 13 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (10.24%) Migration
7 13 (10.24%) Service Management
8 12 (9.45%) ERP
8 12 (9.45%) Programme Delivery
9 10 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (7.87%) Programme Governance
9 10 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (7.09%) Decision-Making
10 9 (7.09%) ITSM
10 9 (7.09%) Supplier Management
11 8 (6.30%) Roadmaps
12 7 (5.51%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.79%) Java
1 1 (0.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.09%) Degree
1 9 (7.09%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.36%) PMP
3 3 (2.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 3 (2.36%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.57%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.79%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.87%) PMO
2 2 (1.57%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.79%) NCSC
3 1 (0.79%) NIST
3 1 (0.79%) P3O
3 1 (0.79%) PMBOK
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (9.45%) Oracle
2 4 (3.15%) Cadence
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.57%) Ceridian
3 2 (1.57%) SAP
4 1 (0.79%) Salesforce