Programme Manager Contracts

Programme Manager
UK

The median Programme Manager daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 227 240
Rank change year-on-year -40 +13 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 364 701 1,073
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 1.21% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.28% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 503 793
10th Percentile £500 £519 £438
25th Percentile £575 £581 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £800 £800 £775
90th Percentile £855 £900 £861
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £38.15 £36.40 £17.81
25th Percentile £42.75 £46.00 £32.53
Median hourly rate £44.74 £62.00 £38.03
Median % change year-on-year -27.84% +63.03% -19.46%
75th Percentile £47.37 £72.25 £40.25
90th Percentile £66.00 £78.40 £59.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.74 £30.00 £35.54
% change year-on-year +49.13% -15.59% -24.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Manager in the UK

Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Manager.

Daily rate trend for Programme Manager in the UK

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Manager over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Manager in the UK

Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Manager in the UK

Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Manager over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Manager in the UK

Programme Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 May 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 -64 313 £700 - 93
London -12 194 £700 -3.45% 32
UK excluding London -51 132 £675 +3.85% 61
Work from Home -13 120 £700 +4.09% 27
North of England +23 35 £625 +2.04% 14
South East -44 29 £625 -10.71% 14
Midlands +20 25 £725 +7.81% 12
North West +24 24 £625 +4.17% 7
Scotland +32 21 £650 +8.33% 3
West Midlands +19 21 £725 +2.65% 11
South West -5 12 £700 +7.69% 11
Yorkshire +7 11 £613 -2.00% 5
East of England -11 8 £738 +9.26% 8
East Midlands +17 4 £620 +7.83% 1
Wales +19 3 £775 - 2
North East - 2 £625 - 2

Programme Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 116 (31.87%) Finance
2 108 (29.67%) Programme Management
3 91 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 88 (24.18%) Social Skills
5 87 (23.90%) Agile
6 84 (23.08%) Project Management
7 44 (12.09%) Migration
8 42 (11.54%) PRINCE2
9 40 (10.99%) Project Delivery
10 39 (10.71%) Change Management
11 34 (9.34%) Programme Delivery
12 32 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 31 (8.52%) Risk Management
13 31 (8.52%) Public Sector
14 30 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (7.97%) Security Cleared
16 28 (7.69%) Waterfall
16 28 (7.69%) Roadmaps
17 26 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
18 25 (6.87%) Business Case
18 25 (6.87%) Banking
19 24 (6.59%) ERP
20 23 (6.32%) SAP
20 23 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
21 22 (6.04%) Oracle
22 21 (5.77%) Microsoft
23 20 (5.49%) PMO
24 19 (5.22%) Telecoms
24 19 (5.22%) Legal
24 19 (5.22%) Scrum

Programme Manager Skill Set
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 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (1.37%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.82%) Confluence
3 1 (0.27%) Apache
3 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.37%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.55%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.55%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.55%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.55%) Shopify
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Endur
5 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.27%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.27%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 18 (4.95%) Azure
2 17 (4.67%) AWS
3 7 (1.92%) GCP
3 7 (1.92%) SaaS
4 6 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (1.10%) Google Workspace
5 4 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (0.82%) OCI
7 2 (0.55%) BigCommerce
7 2 (0.55%) PaaS
7 2 (0.55%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.55%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (0.55%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.27%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.27%) IaaS
8 1 (0.27%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.65%) SD-WAN
2 5 (1.37%) LAN
3 4 (1.10%) WAN
4 3 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.27%) 3G
6 1 (0.27%) 4G
6 1 (0.27%) 5G
6 1 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.27%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.27%) Network Security
6 1 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.37%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (0.27%) Git
2 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 116 (31.87%) Finance
2 88 (24.18%) Social Skills
3 31 (8.52%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.87%) Banking
6 19 (5.22%) Legal
6 19 (5.22%) Telecoms
7 17 (4.67%) Retail
8 13 (3.57%) Local Government
9 12 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.02%) Law
11 10 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.10%) Billing
14 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.10%) Marketing
15 3 (0.82%) Front Office
15 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.82%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.55%) VML
3 1 (0.27%) ADO
3 1 (0.27%) MACH
3 1 (0.27%) PySpark
3 1 (0.27%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.30%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.47%) NHS
3 7 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.65%) FMCG
4 6 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (1.65%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.37%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.82%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.55%) Equities
8 2 (0.55%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.55%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.27%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.27%) EPoS
9 1 (0.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.27%) Life Science
9 1 (0.27%) Online Banking
9 1 (0.27%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.37%) Linux
2 3 (0.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (29.67%) Programme Management
2 91 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 87 (23.90%) Agile
4 84 (23.08%) Project Management
5 44 (12.09%) Migration
6 42 (11.54%) PRINCE2
7 40 (10.99%) Project Delivery
8 39 (10.71%) Change Management
9 34 (9.34%) Programme Delivery
10 32 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 31 (8.52%) Risk Management
12 30 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (7.69%) Roadmaps
13 28 (7.69%) Waterfall
14 25 (6.87%) Business Case
15 24 (6.59%) ERP
16 23 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (5.22%) Scrum
18 18 (4.95%) Budget Management
19 17 (4.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.10%) SQL
2 1 (0.27%) Python
2 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (7.97%) Security Cleared
2 16 (4.40%) Degree
3 15 (4.12%) PMP
3 15 (4.12%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 12 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 6 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 5 (1.37%) PgMP
9 2 (0.55%) APMG
9 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) APMP
10 1 (0.27%) CAPM
10 1 (0.27%) CISM
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.49%) PMO
2 11 (3.02%) QA
3 5 (1.37%) SLA
4 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.82%) NIST
6 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.55%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) COBIT
7 1 (0.27%) GDPR
7 1 (0.27%) GxP
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) P3O
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.27%) Docker
1 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.55%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (0.27%) Ansible
2 1 (0.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (6.32%) SAP
2 22 (6.04%) Oracle
3 21 (5.77%) Microsoft
4 9 (2.47%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.20%) Cadence
5 8 (2.20%) Cisco
6 5 (1.37%) Google
7 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.82%) Ariba
8 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.82%) BT
9 2 (0.55%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.55%) Ceridian
9 2 (0.55%) Civica
9 2 (0.55%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.55%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.55%) Sophis
9 2 (0.55%) webMethods
9 2 (0.55%) Yardi