Senior Programme Manager Contracts in England

Senior Programme Manager
UK > England

The median Senior Programme Manager daily rate in England is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 522 605
Rank change year-on-year +50 +83 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Programme Manager 13 20 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.054% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.058% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 34
10th Percentile £631 £566 £545
25th Percentile £669 £653 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £760 £750
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £841 £938 £943
90th Percentile £891 £975 £1,135
UK median daily rate £750 £720 £750
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £44.74 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -27.84% -
UK median hourly rate - £44.74 £62.00
% change year-on-year - -27.84% -

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Programme Manager in England

Senior Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Programme Manager in England

Senior Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Programme Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Programme Manager in England

Senior Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Programme Manager in England

Senior 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 Senior Programme Manager within the 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
London +34 9 £738 -7.81% 6
East of England - 2 £825 -
North of England +15 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +8 1 - -
Senior Programme Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Programme Manager in the job title.

1 9 (69.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Finance
4 5 (38.46%) PRINCE2
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
5 3 (23.08%) PMP
5 3 (23.08%) PMI Certification
6 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
6 2 (15.38%) Change Management
6 2 (15.38%) SAP
6 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (15.38%) Legal
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
6 2 (15.38%) Project Planning
6 2 (15.38%) Retail
6 2 (15.38%) Azure
6 2 (15.38%) SaaS
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
6 2 (15.38%) Change Control
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
6 2 (15.38%) Entra ID

Senior 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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
3 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) FMCG
1 1 (7.69%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) PRINCE2
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) Business Case
5 2 (15.38%) Change Control
5 2 (15.38%) Change Management
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Programme Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Programme Governance
5 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
5 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Project Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (15.38%) Scrum
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) PMI Certification
1 3 (23.08%) PMP
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) SAP