Technical Programme Manager Contract Job Trends

Technical Programme Manager
UK

The median Technical Programme Manager daily rate in the UK is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 513 563
Rank change year-on-year -109 +50 +100
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Programme Manager 30 19 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.058% 0.062% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.067% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 19
10th Percentile £510 £506 £516
25th Percentile £569 £522 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £775
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -29.03% +23.02%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £825
90th Percentile £725 £785 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £644 £539 £588
% change year-on-year +19.49% -8.30% -9.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 47,423 28,164 40,143
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.05% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,738 18,025 25,769
10th Percentile £325 £288 £283
25th Percentile £415 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,196 1,261 2,867
10th Percentile £15.61 £13.78 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.23 £17.33 £16.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.26% -28.00% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

Technical Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Technical Programme Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Technical Programme Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Programme Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Programme Manager job vacancies in the UK

Technical Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Programme Manager over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Programme Manager in the UK

Technical Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Programme Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Programme Manager job vacancies in the UK

Technical Programme Manager
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Programme Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 30 June 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
England -104 29 £615 +11.82% 4
London -79 17 £600 -20.00% 1
UK excluding London -92 12 £644 +19.49% 4
South East -60 7 £650 - 2
North of England -76 3 £522 - 1
North West -46 2 £475 - 1
Work from Home -52 2 - - 3
Yorkshire -52 1 £638 -
West Midlands -55 1 £650 +33.47%
Midlands -63 1 £650 +20.65%
East of England - 1 £750 -

Technical Programme Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 June 2026, Technical Programme 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 featuring Technical Programme Manager in the job title.

1 16 (53.33%) Agile
2 14 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (40.00%) Programme Governance
4 11 (36.67%) Programme Management
5 10 (33.33%) JIRA
6 9 (30.00%) Azure
6 9 (30.00%) Change Management
7 8 (26.67%) Migration
8 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (23.33%) Programme Delivery
8 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
9 6 (20.00%) Budget Management
9 6 (20.00%) Change Control
9 6 (20.00%) Data Migration
9 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
9 6 (20.00%) Dependency Management
9 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (16.67%) AWS
10 5 (16.67%) DevOps
10 5 (16.67%) ITIL
10 5 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
10 5 (16.67%) Middleware
10 5 (16.67%) PMI Certification
10 5 (16.67%) PRINCE2
10 5 (16.67%) Project Management
10 5 (16.67%) QA
10 5 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
10 5 (16.67%) Risk Management

Technical Programme Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.33%) ENOVIA
2 1 (3.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) OCI
4 2 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) InfiniBand
1 1 (3.33%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 13 (43.33%) Finance
2 10 (33.33%) Retail
3 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.67%) Automotive
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.33%) FMCG
3 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.67%) CMDB
4 2 (6.67%) PMI
5 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) PKI
5 1 (3.33%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Agile
2 14 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (40.00%) Programme Governance
4 11 (36.67%) Programme Management
5 9 (30.00%) Change Management
6 8 (26.67%) Migration
7 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (23.33%) Programme Delivery
7 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
8 6 (20.00%) Budget Management
8 6 (20.00%) Change Control
8 6 (20.00%) Data Migration
8 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 6 (20.00%) Dependency Management
8 6 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (16.67%) DevOps
9 5 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
9 5 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
9 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 4 (13.33%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) PMP
3 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CCNA
5 1 (3.33%) CCNP
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.67%) NIST
3 2 (6.67%) SLA
3 2 (6.67%) SOC 1
3 2 (6.67%) SOC 2
4 1 (3.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) SAP
2 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) F5
4 1 (3.33%) Forcepoint
4 1 (3.33%) Juniper
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Progress