Programme Management Contracts in Birmingham

Programme Management (Program Management)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 61 55
Rank change year-on-year +18 -6 -9
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 7 6 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.34% 0.78% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 0.93% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 16
10th Percentile £406 £521 £263
25th Percentile £521 £540 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £595 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -4.80% +16.28%
75th Percentile £600 £665 £693
90th Percentile £688 £694 £800
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £675 £558
% change year-on-year -11.11% +21.08% -7.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in Birmingham

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in Birmingham

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in Birmingham

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in Birmingham

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Programme Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) PMO Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Director
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior IT Programme Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior IT Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Change Control
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
3 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Business Case
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Dependency Management
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Cognizant
2 1 (14.29%) SAP