Programme Management Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Programme Management (Program Management)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 43 47 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 +56
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 4 6 25
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.17% 1.55% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.86% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 16
10th Percentile - £292 £205
25th Percentile £506 £314 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £534 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% -11.04% -
75th Percentile £519 £700 £695
90th Percentile - - £800
South East median daily rate £598 £625 £544
% change year-on-year -4.40% +14.94% -1.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 310 323 631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 90.64% 83.25% 92.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 226 482
10th Percentile £231 £242 £275
25th Percentile £350 £394 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £465 £522
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% -10.97% +4.35%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £613
90th Percentile £636 £644 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 9 14
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.58 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.70 £14.24
Median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +57.89% +28.81%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.75 £23.56
90th Percentile £29.61 £41.15 £24.00
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +48.05%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Programme Management job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Milton Keynes +1 4 £513 -3.98% 4
Programme Management
South East

Programme Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Alation
1 1 (25.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Service Transition Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Service Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Service Design Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Service Transition Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Transition Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Service Catalogue
1 3 (75.00%) Service Design
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
1 3 (75.00%) UX Design
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (25.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Enablement
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft