Programme Management Contracts in Bristol

Programme Management (Program Management)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 39 40
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 23 36 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 3.34% 3.79% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 4.59% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 32
10th Percentile £337 £374 £308
25th Percentile £355 £450 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year -35.93% -3.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £396 £636 £675
90th Percentile £648 £775 £688
South West median daily rate £625 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £39.25 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £45.63 £30.53
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.00 £38.35
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +56.45% -3.03%
75th Percentile £77.50 £78.13 £46.18
90th Percentile - £86.75 -
South West median hourly rate £28.55 £29.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year -3.20% -25.42% +22.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 630 785 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.57% 82.72% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 421 648
10th Percentile £235 £260 £300
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £638
90th Percentile £649 £725 £719
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 185 112
10th Percentile £12.82 £43.75 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £58.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £31.13 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.54% +7.69% +15.56%
75th Percentile £67.63 £74.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £74.63 £80.00 £84.96
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% - +23.81%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in Bristol

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in Bristol

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in Bristol over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in Bristol

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in Bristol

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 7 (30.43%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Metadata
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 18 (78.26%) Finance
1 18 (78.26%) Public Sector
2 16 (69.57%) Electronics
2 16 (69.57%) Manufacturing
2 16 (69.57%) Marketing
2 16 (69.57%) Telecoms
3 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Billing
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Azure Developer
1 9 (39.13%) C# Developer
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Applications Support
2 7 (30.43%) Applications Support Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Support Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Applications Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) C# Application Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Lead
3 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) .NET Developer
5 3 (13.04%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Lead .NET Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Lead Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior C# Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) .NET
2 7 (30.43%) CSS
2 7 (30.43%) HTML
3 3 (13.04%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Business Intelligence
1 16 (69.57%) Digital Marketing
2 10 (43.48%) Continuous Delivery
2 10 (43.48%) Service Delivery
2 10 (43.48%) TDD
3 8 (34.78%) Project Delivery
4 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
4 7 (30.43%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (30.43%) Service Management
4 7 (30.43%) Software Delivery
4 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
4 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
4 7 (30.43%) User Experience
4 7 (30.43%) Web Development
5 6 (26.09%) Agile
5 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (26.09%) Project Management
5 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) C#
2 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Degree
2 7 (30.43%) Azure Certification
2 7 (30.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) PMO
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (78.26%) SAP
2 7 (30.43%) Google
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) NEC
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce