Programme Management Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Programme Management (Program Management)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Programme Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 49 64
Rank change year-on-year -16 +15 +2
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 8 22 8
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.23% 3.12% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 3.74% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 5
10th Percentile - £355 £445
25th Percentile £123 £441 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -20.00% +10.62%
75th Percentile £600 £544 £688
90th Percentile £668 £600 -
West Midlands median daily rate £625 £513 £613
% change year-on-year +21.95% -16.33% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.50 - -
Median hourly rate £17.00 - -
75th Percentile £17.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £35.60 - £23.35

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 595 588 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 91.82% 83.40% 83.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 382 440
10th Percentile £250 £200 £275
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.88% -0.72%
75th Percentile £571 £638 £607
90th Percentile £643 £738 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 10 25
10th Percentile £12.62 £19.65 £13.87
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.06 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.42% +26.88% +62.16%
75th Percentile £24.29 £54.56 £67.50
90th Percentile £28.60 £57.53 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.70 £23.60 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.40% -14.18% +55.19%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Programme Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Programme Management job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Programme Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in Birmingham

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Programme Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (62.50%) Electronics
3 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
3 5 (62.50%) Marketing
3 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
4 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) DBA
1 2 (25.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (25.00%) Desktop Support Technician
1 2 (25.00%) Desktop Technician
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared DBA
1 2 (25.00%) Installation Technician
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared DBA
1 2 (25.00%) Support Technician
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (62.50%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Change Control
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) Database Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Database Security
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Logistics
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
6 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) OCP
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Planview