Programme Management Contracts in the East of England

Programme Management (Program Management)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 90 97
Rank change year-on-year +21 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 13 22 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.39% 1.15% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.34% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 13
10th Percentile £313 £168 £468
25th Percentile £350 £262 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £625
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -40.00% -
75th Percentile £738 £456 £888
90th Percentile £840 £513 £894
England median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £48.50
25th Percentile £20.26 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £62.50
75th Percentile £20.74 - £71.25
90th Percentile - - £76.50
England median hourly rate £39.04 £35.50 £38.95
% change year-on-year +9.96% -8.86% -10.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the East of England

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the East of England

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the East of England

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the East of England

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hertfordshire +23 7 £650 +73.33% 3
Essex +12 2 £400 -23.81% 3
Cambridgeshire +9 2 £325 +91.18% 5
Bedfordshire +2 2 - - 2
Programme Management
England

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (15.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Cohesity
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) IMAP
1 2 (15.38%) SAN
1 2 (15.38%) Skype
1 2 (15.38%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) MSI
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
3 4 (30.77%) Electronics
3 4 (30.77%) Manufacturing
3 4 (30.77%) Marketing
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
4 3 (23.08%) Local Government
5 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Programme Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) C++ Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer in Test
3 2 (15.38%) Engagement Manager
3 2 (15.38%) IT Manager
3 2 (15.38%) IT Programme Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Messaging Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Production Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) CRM Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (7.69%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Digital TV
2 1 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (7.69%) STB
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Project Management
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (23.08%) Line Management
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) API Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Business Case
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Office Automation
4 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Budget Management
5 1 (7.69%) Budgeting
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) C++
2 2 (15.38%) Groovy
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) HP
2 2 (15.38%) NetApp
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) Spotify