Senior Programme Manager Contracts in England

Senior Programme Manager
UK > England

The median Senior Programme Manager daily rate in England is £743, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 509 575
Rank change year-on-year +14 +66 +162
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Programme Manager 17 16 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.048% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.051% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 33
10th Percentile £589 £553 £528
25th Percentile £628 £609 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £743 £669 £700
Median % change year-on-year +11.03% -4.46% -4.27%
75th Percentile £841 £831 £875
90th Percentile £899 £978 £944
UK median daily rate £750 £669 £700
% change year-on-year +12.15% -4.46% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £44.74 -
UK median hourly rate - £44.74 -

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 25,286 31,125 42,832
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.90% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,399 20,504 30,192
10th Percentile £287 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,309 1,826 1,341
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -2 9 £735 +13.08% 2
North of England -8 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South East - 2 £700 - 2
Midlands -9 1 £675 -20.00% 1
East of England - 1 £850 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £675 - 1
Senior Programme Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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 10 (58.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) PRINCE2
5 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
5 4 (23.53%) Project Management
5 4 (23.53%) ITIL
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Programme Management
5 4 (23.53%) Change Management
5 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (17.65%) Project Governance
6 3 (17.65%) Change Control
6 3 (17.65%) Legal
6 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
6 3 (17.65%) PMP
6 3 (17.65%) PMI Certification
6 3 (17.65%) Azure
6 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (17.65%) PMO
6 3 (17.65%) Programme Delivery
6 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
7 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) OneDrive
7 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Transformation

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 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Postman
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Legal
4 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Retail
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.88%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) PRINCE2
4 4 (23.53%) Change Management
4 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 4 (23.53%) Migration
4 4 (23.53%) Programme Management
4 4 (23.53%) Project Management
4 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (17.65%) Change Control
5 3 (17.65%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Project Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (11.76%) Business Case
6 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Programme Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) PMI Certification
1 3 (17.65%) PMP
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) PMO
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Remedy
2 1 (5.88%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow