Technical Programme Manager Contract Job Trends

Technical Programme Manager
UK

The median Technical Programme Manager daily rate in the UK is £628, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 514 563
Rank change year-on-year -85 +49 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Programme Manager 29 13 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.067% 0.044% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.048% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 21
10th Percentile £514 £512 £444
25th Percentile £566 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £575 £715
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% -19.58% -9.21%
75th Percentile £775 £753 £825
90th Percentile £834 £803 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £688 £545 £625
% change year-on-year +26.15% -12.80% -

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 39,673 27,289 41,313
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.94% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,785 17,711 27,109
10th Percentile £313 £300 £272
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 884 2,499
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £12.98
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.04 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.71 £33.00 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +0.32% -22.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £75.79 £77.41 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.70
% change year-on-year +7.69% -0.60% -19.44%

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 17 March 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 9 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 17 March 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 -84 28 £628 +9.13% 3
London -38 16 £615 -18.00% 1
UK excluding London -91 12 £688 +26.15% 2
South West - 5 £750 -
East of England -26 3 £625 -21.88%
Work from Home -28 3 £719 +11.69% 4
North of England - 3 £525 -
North West - 3 £525 -
South East -44 1 £600 -11.11% 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 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 19 (65.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (51.72%) Agile
3 9 (31.03%) JIRA
3 9 (31.03%) Programme Management
3 9 (31.03%) Project Management
4 8 (27.59%) Azure
4 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (27.59%) Waterfall
5 7 (24.14%) Analytical Thinking
5 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (24.14%) Programme Governance
5 7 (24.14%) Roadmaps
5 7 (24.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 6 (20.69%) Change Management
6 6 (20.69%) Confluence
6 6 (20.69%) Degree
6 6 (20.69%) PRINCE2
6 6 (20.69%) Project Delivery
6 6 (20.69%) Quality Management
6 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
6 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
7 5 (17.24%) APMP
7 5 (17.24%) Atlassian
7 5 (17.24%) Critical Thinking
7 5 (17.24%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (17.24%) Epics
7 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Office
7 5 (17.24%) Migration
7 5 (17.24%) Requirements Management
7 5 (17.24%) Resource 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 6 (20.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (3.45%) InfiniBand
1 1 (3.45%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) JIRA
General
1 16 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Finance
3 10 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (31.03%) Retail
5 3 (10.34%) Banking
6 2 (6.90%) Back Office
6 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.45%) Legal
7 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) FMCG
2 2 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.45%) CMDB
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (51.72%) Agile
3 9 (31.03%) Programme Management
3 9 (31.03%) Project Management
4 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (27.59%) Waterfall
5 7 (24.14%) Analytical Thinking
5 7 (24.14%) Programme Governance
5 7 (24.14%) Roadmaps
5 7 (24.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 6 (20.69%) Change Management
6 6 (20.69%) PRINCE2
6 6 (20.69%) Project Delivery
6 6 (20.69%) Quality Management
7 5 (17.24%) Critical Thinking
7 5 (17.24%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (17.24%) Epics
7 5 (17.24%) Migration
7 5 (17.24%) Requirements Management
7 5 (17.24%) Resource Management
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
1 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) APMP
3 3 (10.34%) PMI Certification
3 3 (10.34%) PMP
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Atlassian
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.34%) SAP
3 3 (10.34%) Snow
3 3 (10.34%) Workday
4 2 (6.90%) Citrix
4 2 (6.90%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) F5
5 1 (3.45%) Forcepoint
5 1 (3.45%) Juniper
5 1 (3.45%) Monzo
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) Progress
5 1 (3.45%) Zopa