Programme Manager Contracts in the East of England

Programme Manager
England > East of England

The median Programme Manager daily rate in the East of England is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 104 97
Rank change year-on-year +25 -7 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 15 7 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.21% 0.38% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 0.43% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 17
10th Percentile £500 £568 £525
25th Percentile £680 £612 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £738 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% +13.46% +1.56%
75th Percentile £900 £756 £775
90th Percentile £930 £844 £935
England median daily rate £689 £700 £691
% change year-on-year -1.61% +1.27% +2.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,074 1,634 1,839
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.96% 88.47% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 703 1,124
10th Percentile £190 £206 £200
25th Percentile £350 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -9.47% -
75th Percentile £575 £564 £600
90th Percentile £651 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 563 277
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.95 £18.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £43.20 £43.90 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +2.09% +120.51%
75th Percentile £67.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £70.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.55% -6.98% +70.01%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Programme Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Manager in the East of England

Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Manager in the East of England

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Manager in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Manager in the East of England

Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Manager in the East of England

Programme Manager
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 Manager within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Cambridgeshire +17 5 £690 +15.97% 1
Hertfordshire +16 4 £813 +47.73% 1
Essex +12 3 £500 -17.57%
Bedfordshire -6 3 £800 +8.47%
Programme Manager
England

Programme Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 15 July 2025, Programme Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) Change Management
4 5 (33.33%) Splunk
4 5 (33.33%) Datadog
4 5 (33.33%) Observability
4 5 (33.33%) AIOps
4 5 (33.33%) Grafana
5 4 (26.67%) Programme Delivery
5 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (26.67%) ITSM
5 4 (26.67%) Programme Management
5 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
6 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
6 3 (20.00%) CRM
6 3 (20.00%) Project Management
6 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
6 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (20.00%) Business Case
6 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (20.00%) Proactive Management
7 2 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework

Programme Manager Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Local Government
3 1 (6.67%) Back Office
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Change Management
3 5 (33.33%) AIOps
3 5 (33.33%) Observability
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) ITSM
4 4 (26.67%) Programme Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Programme Management
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) CRM
5 3 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 3 (20.00%) Proactive Management
5 3 (20.00%) Project Management
5 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) APMG
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (13.33%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) Ariba
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce