Programme Management Contracts in the City of London

Programme Management (Program Management)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 97 118
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 +18
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 18 29 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.03% 1.33% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.46% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 24 33
10th Percentile £628 £345 £508
25th Percentile £633 £396 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £559 £700
Median % change year-on-year +24.16% -20.18% +19.15%
75th Percentile £806 £713 £838
90th Percentile £863 £937 £888
Central London median daily rate £639 £613 £694
% change year-on-year +4.29% -11.71% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,628 1,982 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.30% 90.59% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,403 2,228
10th Percentile £354 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £686 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the City of London

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the City of London

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the City of London

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the City of London

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Programme Management
Central London

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) GCP
1 2 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Asana
2 1 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Local Government
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Programme Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Implementation Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Project Implementation Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Digital Programme Manager
3 1 (5.56%) ERP Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Head of Data Management
3 1 (5.56%) Head of Programme Management
3 1 (5.56%) HR Manager
3 1 (5.56%) IT Programme Manager
3 1 (5.56%) PMO Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Programme Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Risk Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Senior DBA
3 1 (5.56%) Senior SQL DBA
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Transformation Director
3 1 (5.56%) Transformation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 2 (11.11%) Mobile Banking
1 2 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.56%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Project Management
3 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (16.67%) Budget Management
4 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 3 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (11.11%) Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Change Management
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 3 (16.67%) PMP
2 1 (5.56%) CISA
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) PMO
2 2 (11.11%) NIST
3 1 (5.56%) COBIT
3 1 (5.56%) COSO
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) GRC
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) SAP