Programme Management Contracts in Bedfordshire

Programme Management (Program Management)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Programme Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Programme Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 31 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.29% 0.97% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.16% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £198 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -71.33% +36.36% -
75th Percentile £416 - -
90th Percentile £527 - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £438 £595
% change year-on-year +14.29% -26.47% -8.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Programme Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 211 172 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 90.56% 83.09% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 106 88
10th Percentile £188 £300 £221
25th Percentile £488 £363 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% +1.68% +0.36%
75th Percentile £625 £580 £575
90th Percentile £680 £663 £608
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 4
10th Percentile £28.90 £22.65 £56.80
25th Percentile £57.38 £38.61 £59.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £56.58 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.41% -17.41% +24.55%
75th Percentile £88.50 £67.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £91.50 £70.63 £87.00
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in Bedfordshire

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in Bedfordshire

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in Bedfordshire

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in Bedfordshire

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Management within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 August 2025. 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
Luton -12 1 £600 - 1
Programme Management
East of England

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Electronics
2 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) IT Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Manager
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft