Programme Management Contract Job Trends in London

Programme Management (Program Management)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Programme Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 161 167
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +35
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 212 227 263
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 1.61% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.78% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 115 182
10th Percentile £320 £248 £378
25th Percentile £454 £356 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £610
Median % change year-on-year - -9.84% -0.81%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £738
90th Percentile £800 £875 £849
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 6
10th Percentile £25.00 £32.15 £25.81
25th Percentile £33.75 - £26.24
Median hourly rate £41.26 £35.00 £35.68
Median % change year-on-year +17.87% -1.91% +16.98%
75th Percentile £48.50 £36.80 £56.90
90th Percentile £57.00 £41.17 £75.63
England median hourly rate £23.83 £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -31.93% -39.13% +49.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,014 12,735 15,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.41% 90.26% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,595 8,150 11,402
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.43% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 157 247
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.06 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.58 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.28 £53.75 £54.56
90th Percentile £69.42 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -23.60% +27.14%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Programme Management job vacancy trend in London

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in London over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in London

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Management in London over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Programme Management in London

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Management within the London region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Central London +4 27 £700 +2.75% 7
West London -18 3 - - 3
South London -5 2 £516 - 1
East London - 1 - -
Programme Management
England

Programme Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 11 (5.19%) Confluence
2 4 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.60%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (4.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.89%) Trello
6 2 (0.94%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.42%) SAP IBP
3 2 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.38%) Azure
2 19 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (7.08%) AWS
4 10 (4.72%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.25%) SaaS
6 7 (3.30%) GCP
7 6 (2.83%) Smartsheet
8 5 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.36%) Slack
9 4 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.42%) OCI
11 2 (0.94%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (0.94%) Asana
11 2 (0.94%) Azure AI
11 2 (0.94%) GitHub
11 2 (0.94%) Google Ads
11 2 (0.94%) Miro
11 2 (0.94%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.94%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.30%) Wireless
2 5 (2.36%) Broadband
3 4 (1.89%) Network Security
4 3 (1.42%) 5G
4 3 (1.42%) Internet
4 3 (1.42%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.94%) DNS
5 2 (0.94%) WAN
6 1 (0.47%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.47%) LAN
6 1 (0.47%) NGN
6 1 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.47%) VLAN
6 1 (0.47%) VPN
6 1 (0.47%) WebEx
6 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.77%) Power BI
2 2 (0.94%) Power Query
3 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.47%) MySQL
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (0.47%) QlikView
3 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (16.51%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) Clang
2 1 (0.47%) GCC
2 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 118 (55.66%) Finance
2 102 (48.11%) Social Skills
3 75 (35.38%) Public Sector
4 62 (29.25%) Marketing
5 59 (27.83%) Manufacturing
6 55 (25.94%) Telecoms
7 53 (25.00%) Electronics
8 23 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (7.08%) Retail
10 12 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (5.19%) Banking
12 10 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (2.36%) Publishing
16 4 (1.89%) Advertising
16 4 (1.89%) Legal
17 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
17 3 (1.42%) Front Office
18 2 (0.94%) Games
Job Titles
1 44 (20.75%) Project Manager
2 40 (18.87%) Programme Manager
3 23 (10.85%) Lead
4 22 (10.38%) Senior
5 19 (8.96%) Technical Manager
6 18 (8.49%) Senior Manager
7 14 (6.60%) Analyst
8 9 (4.25%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.77%) Senior Project Manager
10 7 (3.30%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 7 (3.30%) 2nd Line Support
10 7 (3.30%) Architect
10 7 (3.30%) Coordinator
10 7 (3.30%) Desktop Support
10 7 (3.30%) IT Support
10 7 (3.30%) Lead Project Manager
10 7 (3.30%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
11 6 (2.83%) PMO Specialist
11 6 (2.83%) Support Officer
11 6 (2.83%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.30%) SailPoint
2 6 (2.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.36%) REST
4 4 (1.89%) ADO
5 3 (1.42%) .NET
5 3 (1.42%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.42%) SOAP
5 3 (1.42%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.94%) JSON
6 2 (0.94%) LDAP
6 2 (0.94%) Middleware
6 2 (0.94%) OAuth
6 2 (0.94%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.94%) PySpark
6 2 (0.94%) Web Services
6 2 (0.94%) XML
6 2 (0.94%) XSD
6 2 (0.94%) XSLT
7 1 (0.47%) CSS
7 1 (0.47%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.55%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.25%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.25%) PMI
4 8 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.83%) NHS
7 5 (2.36%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.36%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.89%) Life Science
8 4 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.89%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.42%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.42%) LIMS
9 3 (1.42%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.42%) Social Media
9 3 (1.42%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.30%) Android
1 7 (3.30%) Mac OS
2 5 (2.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.47%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) VMS
3 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (37.26%) Agile
2 76 (35.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 61 (28.77%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (28.77%) Project Management
4 57 (26.89%) Digital Marketing
5 45 (21.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (18.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 38 (17.92%) Project Delivery
8 36 (16.98%) Decision-Making
8 36 (16.98%) Risk Management
9 30 (14.15%) PRINCE2
10 27 (12.74%) Change Management
11 23 (10.85%) Analytics
12 22 (10.38%) AI
13 21 (9.91%) Roadmaps
13 21 (9.91%) Scrum
14 18 (8.49%) DevOps
15 17 (8.02%) Waterfall
16 16 (7.55%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.02%) Python
2 11 (5.19%) SQL
3 8 (3.77%) Java
3 8 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.42%) BeanShell
4 3 (1.42%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.42%) Korn
5 2 (0.94%) Go
6 1 (0.47%) Bash
6 1 (0.47%) C
6 1 (0.47%) C++
6 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (19.81%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.45%) SC Cleared
3 32 (15.09%) PMI Certification
4 31 (14.62%) PMP
5 28 (13.21%) Degree
6 8 (3.77%) APMP
7 7 (3.30%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.89%) CISSP
9 3 (1.42%) CBAP
9 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.94%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.94%) CSPO
10 2 (0.94%) GPEN
10 2 (0.94%) OSCE
10 2 (0.94%) OSCP
10 2 (0.94%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.51%) PMO
2 20 (9.43%) QA
3 7 (3.30%) GDPR
4 6 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.89%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.89%) GMP
6 4 (1.89%) NIST
7 3 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.94%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.47%) ECSS
9 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.47%) FISMA
9 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.47%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (2.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.94%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (0.94%) vRealize
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (28.30%) SAP
2 27 (12.74%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.13%) Cisco
4 11 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.30%) Apple
5 7 (3.30%) Dell
5 7 (3.30%) HP
5 7 (3.30%) Oracle
6 5 (2.36%) GoldenSource
7 4 (1.89%) Google
8 3 (1.42%) Databricks
8 3 (1.42%) Foundry
8 3 (1.42%) VMware
9 2 (0.94%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (0.94%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.94%) Ericsson
9 2 (0.94%) Instagram
9 2 (0.94%) Okta
9 2 (0.94%) Thycotic
9 2 (0.94%) Zuora