Programme Management Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Programme Management (Program Management)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Programme Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 35 41
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +22
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 4 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.13% 1.60% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.94% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile - £476 £120
25th Percentile £800 £488 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £518 £575
Median % change year-on-year +64.25% -10.00% -4.17%
75th Percentile £900 £538 £613
90th Percentile - £545 -
East of England median daily rate £650 £485 £575
% change year-on-year +34.02% -15.65% -0.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.67 -
East of England median hourly rate £17.00 £21.70 £67.22
% change year-on-year -21.66% -67.72% -12.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 318 310 449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 89.58% 82.45% 90.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 110 165
10th Percentile £283 £277 £215
25th Percentile £406 £343 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -
75th Percentile £625 £567 £563
90th Percentile £700 £626 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 87 196
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £22.25 £18.11 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £48.75 £25.38
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £26.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +31.25% -5.88%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Programme Management job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Cambridge -5 3 £850 +75.26% 2
Programme Management
East of England

Programme Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Culture Change
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree