Programme Management Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Programme Management (Program Management)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Programme Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 61 65
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 15 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.98% 1.55% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.74% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 7
10th Percentile £389 £405 £311
25th Percentile £429 £438 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +2.20%
75th Percentile £531 £638 £482
90th Percentile £563 £753 £488
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.92 -
Scotland median hourly rate £27.40 £16.92 -
% change year-on-year +61.94% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 672 633 760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.54% 89.15% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 412 509
10th Percentile £300 £279 £344
25th Percentile £381 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.05% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 19
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.39 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £26.76 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £41.70 £27.64
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £19.18
% change year-on-year -8.24% +13.63% +2.29%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Programme Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Programme Management job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Programme Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in Glasgow over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in Glasgow

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Programme Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
General
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 9 (60.00%) Banking
3 8 (53.33%) Investment Banking
4 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Analyst
1 9 (60.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Programme Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Asset Management Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Business Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
3 1 (6.67%) Project Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) CMDB
1 10 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (53.33%) Virtual Team
3 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) FMCG
4 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
4 1 (6.67%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) Data Visualisation
2 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (73.33%) Visualisation
3 10 (66.67%) Analytics
3 10 (66.67%) Data Architecture
3 10 (66.67%) ITIL
4 9 (60.00%) Business Analysis
4 9 (60.00%) Change Control
4 9 (60.00%) ITSM
4 9 (60.00%) Service Management
4 9 (60.00%) Waterfall
5 8 (53.33%) Configuration Management
5 8 (53.33%) Data Lineage
5 8 (53.33%) Data Management
5 8 (53.33%) Data Modelling
5 8 (53.33%) Time Management
6 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
6 4 (26.67%) IT Asset Management
6 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Teradata
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce