Technical Programme Manager Contract Job Trends

Technical Programme Manager
UK

The median Technical Programme Manager daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 505 574
Rank change year-on-year -92 +69 +125
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Programme Manager 28 14 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.063% 0.048% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.052% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 25
10th Percentile £513 £498 £466
25th Percentile £550 £523 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £715
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -14.34% -7.74%
75th Percentile £775 £781 £825
90th Percentile £795 £808 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £545 £588
% change year-on-year +14.68% -7.23% -12.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 41,143 26,962 41,094
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 92.84% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,657 17,725 26,925
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.54%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,568 945 2,533
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.03 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.74 £20.94 £16.25
Median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.81 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £32.90
% change year-on-year +25.94% -3.45% -21.68%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -95 27 £625 +2.04% 4
London -58 14 £600 -22.58%
UK excluding London -89 13 £625 +14.68% 4
South West - 5 £750 -
East of England -26 3 £625 -21.88%
North West -39 3 £525 - 1
North of England -68 3 £525 - 1
Work from Home -47 2 £538 -16.43% 3
South East -52 2 £563 -16.67% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 April 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 20 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (60.71%) Agile
3 11 (39.29%) JIRA
4 10 (35.71%) Programme Management
5 9 (32.14%) Project Management
5 9 (32.14%) Waterfall
6 8 (28.57%) Azure
6 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (28.57%) Programme Governance
7 7 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
7 7 (25.00%) Change Management
7 7 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (21.43%) Confluence
8 6 (21.43%) Degree
8 6 (21.43%) PRINCE2
8 6 (21.43%) Project Delivery
8 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
8 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
8 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
9 5 (17.86%) APMP
9 5 (17.86%) Atlassian
9 5 (17.86%) Change Control
9 5 (17.86%) Critical Thinking
9 5 (17.86%) Customer Requirements
9 5 (17.86%) Epics
9 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
9 5 (17.86%) Migration
9 5 (17.86%) Quality Management
9 5 (17.86%) Requirements 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 (21.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (3.57%) InfiniBand
1 1 (3.57%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) JIRA
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (42.86%) Finance
3 11 (39.29%) Retail
4 10 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Banking
6 2 (7.14%) Back Office
6 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.71%) FMCG
1 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.57%) CMDB
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (60.71%) Agile
3 10 (35.71%) Programme Management
4 9 (32.14%) Project Management
4 9 (32.14%) Waterfall
5 8 (28.57%) Programme Governance
6 7 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 7 (25.00%) Change Management
6 7 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (21.43%) PRINCE2
7 6 (21.43%) Project Delivery
7 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
8 5 (17.86%) Change Control
8 5 (17.86%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (17.86%) Epics
8 5 (17.86%) Migration
8 5 (17.86%) Quality Management
8 5 (17.86%) Requirements Management
8 5 (17.86%) Resource Management
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
1 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) APMP
3 3 (10.71%) PMI Certification
3 3 (10.71%) PMP
4 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Atlassian
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) SAP
2 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.71%) Snow
3 3 (10.71%) Workday
4 2 (7.14%) VMware
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco
5 1 (3.57%) Citrix
5 1 (3.57%) F5
5 1 (3.57%) Forcepoint
5 1 (3.57%) Juniper
5 1 (3.57%) Monzo
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle
5 1 (3.57%) Progress
5 1 (3.57%) Zopa