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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 60 55
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +17
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 13 14 25
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.90% 1.91% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 2.10% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 16
10th Percentile £380 £411 £310
25th Percentile £410 £431 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £545 £564 £522
90th Percentile £575 £600 £588
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%

All Process & 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 594 666 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.84% 90.86% 91.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 409 539
10th Percentile £295 £311 £350
25th Percentile £391 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £441 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -11.80% +5.26%
75th Percentile £559 £538 £624
90th Percentile £628 £640 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 15
10th Percentile £14.66 £16.75 £13.37
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.50 £15.71
Median hourly rate £28.09 £24.15 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +16.31% +36.29% -40.38%
75th Percentile £55.00 £34.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £62.12 £43.73 £45.30
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £18.80
% change year-on-year -15.22% +25.51% +0.91%

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 4 January 2026.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
1 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Relational Database
2 2 (15.38%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
3 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
1 8 (61.54%) Data Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Programme Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Business Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Modeller
3 1 (7.69%) Finance Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Finance Systems Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (61.54%) CMDB
3 6 (46.15%) Virtual Team
4 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
4 2 (15.38%) PMI
5 1 (7.69%) FMCG
5 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (61.54%) Data Architecture
3 8 (61.54%) Data Visualisation
3 8 (61.54%) ITIL
3 8 (61.54%) Visualisation
4 7 (53.85%) Analytics
4 7 (53.85%) Business Analysis
4 7 (53.85%) ITSM
4 7 (53.85%) Service Management
4 7 (53.85%) Waterfall
5 6 (46.15%) Change Control
5 6 (46.15%) Configuration Management
5 6 (46.15%) Data Lineage
5 6 (46.15%) Data Management
5 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
5 6 (46.15%) Time Management
6 4 (30.77%) Asset Management
6 4 (30.77%) IT Asset Management
7 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (15.38%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) ServiceNow