Programme Manager Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Programme Manager
Essex > Basildon

The median Programme Manager daily rate in Basildon is £535, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 5.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £518 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - -
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £535 - £525

All Contract IT Job Roles
Basildon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basildon. 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 Basildon with a recognized job title 19 12 37
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 19
10th Percentile £138 - £213
25th Percentile £248 £315 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £320 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -28.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £617 £321 £581
90th Percentile £689 £451 £621
Essex median daily rate £375 £318 £450
% change year-on-year +17.84% -29.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 14
10th Percentile - - £38.12
25th Percentile £46.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 £30.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -45.70% +24.16%
75th Percentile £66.25 - £73.51
90th Percentile £68.50 - £78.50
Essex median hourly rate £22.04 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -32.19% - +60.49%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Programme Manager job vacancy trend in Basildon

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Programme Manager job vacancies in Basildon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Programme Manager job vacancies in Basildon

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

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, 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 across the Basildon region featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Cadence
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) PgMP
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
1 1 (100.00%) Post-Merger Integration
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley

Programme Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Post-Merger Integration
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PgMP
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cadence