Programme Management Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Programme Management (Program Management)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Programme Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 61 55
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 +34
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 5 3 18
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.69% 0.46% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.54% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 12
10th Percentile £171 £540 £283
25th Percentile £344 £563 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £573 - £750
90th Percentile - - £773
West Yorkshire median daily rate £503 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.25% - +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 647 555 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.87% 85.91% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 345 573
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £575 £573 £613
90th Percentile £649 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 20 6
10th Percentile - £15.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £18.14 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +54.71% -2.29%
75th Percentile £26.50 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.85 £97.18 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -26.20% +57.89% -11.63%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Programme Management job vacancy trend in Leeds

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in Leeds over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in Leeds

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Programme Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Electronics
2 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Delivery Director
1 2 (40.00%) IT Director
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery Director
1 2 (40.00%) Services Director
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Project Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Project Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Transformation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (40.00%) Escalation Management
3 2 (40.00%) IT Governance
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery Management
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) Tech Ops
3 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Invoice Processing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Computacenter
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow