Programme Manager Contracts in England

Programme Manager
UK > England

The median Programme Manager daily rate in England is £678, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 May 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 261 211
Rank change year-on-year +20 -50 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 247 308 601
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.02% 0.85% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 0.91% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 226 439
10th Percentile £467 £500 £513
25th Percentile £570 £585 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £825 £800 £825
90th Percentile £938 £850 £900
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 3
10th Percentile - £38.15 £39.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £42.75 £53.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.74 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.34% -44.08% +110.36%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.12 £85.00
90th Percentile - £77.70 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £44.74 £80.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -44.08% +110.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,435 33,769 45,858
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.77% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,906 22,420 32,568
10th Percentile £295 £282 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 2,442 1,343
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% -17.97% +95.42%
75th Percentile £63.13 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +87.50%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Manager in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Manager in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Manager in England

Programme Manager
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +9 144 £725 +3.57% 43
North of England +8 30 £650 +4.00% 15
Midlands +18 27 £545 -24.83% 8
South East +35 19 £625 - 28
East Midlands +21 15 £500 -19.35% 5
North West +4 15 £650 +8.27% 5
Yorkshire +19 13 £663 +8.16% 6
East of England +28 11 £750 +12.15% 3
West Midlands -5 11 £638 -13.56% 3
South West +37 7 £525 -25.00% 6
North East -5 2 £650 +4.00% 4
Programme Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 England region featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 122 (49.39%) Finance
2 109 (44.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 80 (32.39%) Agile
4 75 (30.36%) Social Skills
5 73 (29.55%) Programme Management
6 46 (18.62%) Project Management
7 42 (17.00%) Risk Management
8 38 (15.38%) Migration
9 35 (14.17%) Change Management
10 34 (13.77%) PRINCE2
11 31 (12.55%) Roadmaps
12 29 (11.74%) Programme Delivery
13 27 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (10.12%) Project Delivery
14 25 (10.12%) Budget Management
15 23 (9.31%) SAP
16 21 (8.50%) Microsoft
17 19 (7.69%) Waterfall
17 19 (7.69%) PMO
18 18 (7.29%) Decision-Making
18 18 (7.29%) PMP
18 18 (7.29%) ERP
18 18 (7.29%) Banking
19 17 (6.88%) PMI Certification
19 17 (6.88%) Degree
19 17 (6.88%) Business Case
19 17 (6.88%) Product Ownership
20 15 (6.07%) Regulatory Compliance
20 15 (6.07%) Data Governance

Programme Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (3.24%) Confluence
2 4 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.21%) CMS
4 2 (0.81%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 7 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.81%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (0.81%) SAP WM
2 2 (0.81%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (6.07%) Azure
2 9 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (2.43%) AWS
4 4 (1.62%) GCP
4 4 (1.62%) SaaS
5 3 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.81%) Datadog
6 2 (0.81%) Entra ID
6 2 (0.81%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.81%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.40%) BigCommerce
7 1 (0.40%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.40%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.81%) Network Security
1 2 (0.81%) WAN
2 1 (0.40%) DNS
2 1 (0.40%) LAN
2 1 (0.40%) MPLS
2 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.40%) Skype
2 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.81%) Big Data
2 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
2 2 (0.81%) Metadata
3 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.40%) Power BI
3 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.86%) JIRA
2 1 (0.40%) Postman
General
1 122 (49.39%) Finance
2 75 (30.36%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.29%) Banking
4 15 (6.07%) Front Office
5 12 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.45%) Legal
7 10 (4.05%) Retail
8 8 (3.24%) Law
8 8 (3.24%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.83%) Marketing
9 7 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.83%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.43%) Local Government
11 5 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.21%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.81%) Back Office
14 2 (0.81%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.40%) FHIR
2 1 (0.40%) VML
2 1 (0.40%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.88%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (5.67%) Derivative
3 14 (5.67%) Fixed Income
4 13 (5.26%) Equities
4 13 (5.26%) Hedge funds
5 7 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.02%) PMI
7 4 (1.62%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.21%) FMCG
8 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.21%) SCADA
8 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.81%) Life Science
9 2 (0.81%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.81%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (44.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 80 (32.39%) Agile
3 73 (29.55%) Programme Management
4 46 (18.62%) Project Management
5 42 (17.00%) Risk Management
6 38 (15.38%) Migration
7 35 (14.17%) Change Management
8 34 (13.77%) PRINCE2
9 31 (12.55%) Roadmaps
10 29 (11.74%) Programme Delivery
11 27 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (10.12%) Budget Management
12 25 (10.12%) Project Delivery
13 19 (7.69%) Waterfall
14 18 (7.29%) Decision-Making
14 18 (7.29%) ERP
15 17 (6.88%) Business Case
16 15 (6.07%) Data Governance
16 15 (6.07%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.40%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (7.29%) PMP
2 17 (6.88%) Degree
2 17 (6.88%) PMI Certification
3 11 (4.45%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.24%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.62%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.81%) APMG
6 2 (0.81%) APMP
6 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) CFA
7 1 (0.40%) CISA
7 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.40%) ISEB
7 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.40%) PgMP
7 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.69%) PMO
2 11 (4.45%) QA
3 4 (1.62%) GDPR
4 3 (1.21%) GRC
4 3 (1.21%) NIST
5 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.81%) COBIT
5 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.81%) MiFID
6 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.40%) COSO
6 1 (0.40%) EMIR
6 1 (0.40%) HL7
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.40%) SEPA
6 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.81%) Grafana
1 2 (0.81%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (9.31%) SAP
2 21 (8.50%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.64%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.64%) Workday
4 7 (2.83%) Oracle
5 4 (1.62%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.21%) Ariba
6 3 (1.21%) Snow
7 2 (0.81%) AlgoSec
7 2 (0.81%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.81%) Cisco
7 2 (0.81%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.81%) Databricks
7 2 (0.81%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.81%) eFront
7 2 (0.81%) Google
7 2 (0.81%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.81%) Splunk
7 2 (0.81%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.40%) Okta