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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 179 170
Rank change year-on-year -30 -9 +9
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 237 197 265
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 1.44% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.57% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 104 171
10th Percentile £415 £425 £338
25th Percentile £512 £479 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £638 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +4.08% -2.00%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £775
90th Percentile £875 £843 £925
England median daily rate £575 £625 £598
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.60% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 11
10th Percentile £32.00 £28.60 £34.25
25th Percentile £33.12 £36.27 £38.88
Median hourly rate £52.49 £49.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% +4.21% +8.30%
75th Percentile £54.50 £58.13 £72.88
90th Percentile £57.05 £86.25 £88.75
England median hourly rate £88.00 £49.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year +77.78% +40.43% -17.41%

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 17,611 12,570 15,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,652 8,414 10,744
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 254
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.63 £24.66 £20.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £33.53
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -7.53% -22.03%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £70.73
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -2 39 £600 -7.87% 8
West London -14 6 £680 - 3
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 5 (2.11%) Confluence
1 5 (2.11%) IIS
1 5 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (0.42%) nginx
3 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (9.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (8.02%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (7.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (5.49%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (5.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.69%) Magento
3 3 (1.27%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.84%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.84%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.84%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.42%) Finacle
5 1 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.42%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.42%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG-S
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.42%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.42%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 25 (10.55%) Azure
2 18 (7.59%) SaaS
3 14 (5.91%) AWS
4 10 (4.22%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.38%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.38%) Smartsheet
6 6 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.27%) GCP
7 3 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.84%) Google Drive
8 2 (0.84%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.84%) OCI
8 2 (0.84%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.84%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.42%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.42%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.42%) Meta Ads
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.11%) HTTPS
2 4 (1.69%) Network Security
3 3 (1.27%) LAN
3 3 (1.27%) WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Broadband
4 1 (0.42%) HTTP
4 1 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.22%) Power BI
2 3 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.27%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.42%) QlikView
3 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (10.55%) JIRA
2 4 (1.69%) Git
2 4 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 112 (47.26%) Finance
2 103 (43.46%) Social Skills
3 38 (16.03%) Retail
4 36 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (12.24%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (10.97%) Marketing
7 17 (7.17%) Banking
7 17 (7.17%) Public Sector
8 16 (6.75%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (4.64%) Legal
10 10 (4.22%) Manufacturing
11 9 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (2.53%) Advertising
12 6 (2.53%) Front Office
12 6 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (2.11%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.11%) Law
14 4 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 65 (27.43%) Project Manager
2 48 (20.25%) Programme Manager
3 38 (16.03%) Senior
4 37 (15.61%) Lead
5 23 (9.70%) Technical Manager
6 21 (8.86%) Senior Manager
7 12 (5.06%) Senior Project Manager
8 11 (4.64%) PMO Lead
8 11 (4.64%) SAP Manager
8 11 (4.64%) Technical Project Manager
9 10 (4.22%) Analyst
9 10 (4.22%) Sales Manager
9 10 (4.22%) Senior Technical Manager
10 9 (3.80%) Transformation Manager
11 8 (3.38%) B2B Sales Manager
11 8 (3.38%) PMO Manager
11 8 (3.38%) Senior Programme Manager
12 7 (2.95%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (2.95%) Portfolio Manager
12 7 (2.95%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.53%) Middleware
2 5 (2.11%) REST
3 4 (1.69%) SailPoint
3 4 (1.69%) VML
4 3 (1.27%) XML
5 2 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.42%) ADO
6 1 (0.42%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.42%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.91%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.22%) PMI
3 9 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.38%) FMCG
4 8 (3.38%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.53%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.27%) CCTV
7 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.84%) Animation
8 2 (0.84%) CBDC
8 2 (0.84%) Life Science
8 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.42%) Digital Wallet
9 1 (0.42%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.38%) Windows
2 1 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
2 1 (0.42%) Linux
2 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.42%) Solaris
2 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (51.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 71 (29.96%) Agile
3 67 (28.27%) Project Management
4 57 (24.05%) Change Management
5 52 (21.94%) PRINCE2
6 49 (20.68%) Roadmaps
7 47 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 47 (19.83%) Decision-Making
8 46 (19.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 42 (17.72%) Programme Delivery
10 39 (16.46%) Migration
11 37 (15.61%) Project Delivery
12 35 (14.77%) Programme Governance
12 35 (14.77%) Risk Management
13 29 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (11.39%) Matrix Organization
15 25 (10.55%) AI
16 23 (9.70%) DevOps
16 23 (9.70%) Technology Transformation
17 21 (8.86%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.27%) SQL
2 2 (0.84%) Python
3 1 (0.42%) ABAP
3 1 (0.42%) Bicep
3 1 (0.42%) Korn
3 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (18.99%) PMP
2 35 (14.77%) PMI Certification
3 33 (13.92%) Degree
4 20 (8.44%) Security Cleared
5 16 (6.75%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.95%) CISM
6 7 (2.95%) CISSP
7 4 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.27%) APMP
8 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.42%) CISA
10 1 (0.42%) GCIH
10 1 (0.42%) GIAC
10 1 (0.42%) GSEC
10 1 (0.42%) ISACA
10 1 (0.42%) ISSAP
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (20.25%) PMO
2 22 (9.28%) QA
3 11 (4.64%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.38%) SLA
5 7 (2.95%) GDPR
5 7 (2.95%) GRC
6 6 (2.53%) HIPAA
7 5 (2.11%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.69%) NIST
9 3 (1.27%) MiFID
9 3 (1.27%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.84%) GMP
11 1 (0.42%) AIFMD
11 1 (0.42%) EMIR
11 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.42%) P3O
11 1 (0.42%) PMBOK
11 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.42%) Ansible
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (12.66%) SAP
2 25 (10.55%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.53%) Google
3 6 (2.53%) Oracle
4 5 (2.11%) Databricks
4 5 (2.11%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.11%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.69%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.27%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.27%) Charles River
6 3 (1.27%) Rapid7
7 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.84%) IBM
7 2 (0.84%) Planview
7 2 (0.84%) Temenos
7 2 (0.84%) Workday
7 2 (0.84%) Wrike
7 2 (0.84%) Xactly
8 1 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.42%) Okta