Programme Management Contracts in Berkshire

Programme Management (Program Management)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 94 70
Rank change year-on-year +43 -24 +6
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 45 28 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.83% 1.41% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 1.59% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 11 27
10th Percentile £553 £194 £350
25th Percentile £600 £297 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -13.51% +8.82%
75th Percentile £700 £528 £664
90th Percentile - £588 £830
South East median daily rate £625 £335 £500
% change year-on-year +86.57% -33.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.58 -
South East median hourly rate £22.90 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -63.36% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,098 1,761 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.37% 88.89% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 921 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £340
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 100 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.05 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.30 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +6.02% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in Berkshire

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in Berkshire

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in Berkshire

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in Berkshire

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Reading +60 39 £650 +97.42% 9
Bracknell +17 3 £550 +37.50% 1
Slough -6 1 £650 +242.11% 3
Wokingham -12 1 - - 1
Programme Management
South East

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Primavera
1 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.78%) Azure
2 3 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.44%) AWS
3 2 (4.44%) Azure AKS
3 2 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (4.44%) PaaS
4 1 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Broadband
1 2 (4.44%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.22%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.22%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.22%) Junos
2 1 (2.22%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Git
1 4 (8.89%) Selenium
2 3 (6.67%) JIRA
2 3 (6.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 39 (86.67%) Finance
2 37 (82.22%) Telecoms
3 36 (80.00%) Manufacturing
4 35 (77.78%) Electronics
4 35 (77.78%) Marketing
4 35 (77.78%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (48.89%) Architect
2 21 (46.67%) Active Directory Architect
3 6 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Transformation Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Automation Tester
6 2 (4.44%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead
6 2 (4.44%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Automation Tester
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Tester
6 2 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Tester
6 2 (4.44%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Gherkin
1 3 (6.67%) PySpark
2 2 (4.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.44%) PMI
2 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.22%) CMDB
3 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (55.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
1 35 (77.78%) Digital Marketing
2 30 (66.67%) Agile
3 24 (53.33%) Test Automation
4 21 (46.67%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (15.56%) Project Management
6 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.33%) DevOps
6 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (8.89%) PRINCE2
7 4 (8.89%) Roadmaps
7 4 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (6.67%) Product Backlog
8 3 (6.67%) Scrum
8 3 (6.67%) SIEM
8 3 (6.67%) System Testing
8 3 (6.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.11%) Python
3 4 (8.89%) Bash
4 3 (6.67%) SQL
5 2 (4.44%) Bicep
6 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (68.89%) Security Cleared
2 24 (53.33%) DV Cleared
3 8 (17.78%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) Degree
4 4 (8.89%) PMI Certification
5 3 (6.67%) PMP
6 2 (4.44%) PgMP
7 1 (2.22%) CISA
7 1 (2.22%) CISM
7 1 (2.22%) CISSP
7 1 (2.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) NFS
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.44%) vRealize
1 2 (4.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 37 (82.22%) SAP
2 3 (6.67%) Databricks
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.44%) VMware
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco
4 1 (2.22%) Citrix
4 1 (2.22%) Dell
4 1 (2.22%) F5
4 1 (2.22%) HP
4 1 (2.22%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) Juniper
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow