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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 161 155
Rank change year-on-year -30 -6 +44
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 201 223 284
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 1.60% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.77% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 114 188
10th Percentile £367 £248 £386
25th Percentile £463 £356 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £610
Median % change year-on-year - -9.84% -2.40%
75th Percentile £707 £699 £738
90th Percentile £800 £875 £841
England median daily rate £550 £550 £583
% change year-on-year - -5.58% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 5
10th Percentile £25.00 £28.60 £25.72
25th Percentile £33.75 £29.84 £26.24
Median hourly rate £41.26 £35.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.87% -20.45% +53.04%
75th Percentile £48.50 £38.62 £61.25
90th Percentile £57.00 £47.73 £78.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £33.25 £63.08
% change year-on-year -28.35% -47.29% +52.01%

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 13,346 12,596 16,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.12% 90.41% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,853 8,021 11,715
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.67% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 155 306
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.77 £24.71 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +16.36% -15.86%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.06
90th Percentile £70.80 £80.45 £73.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -9.33% +11.41%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +3 30 £675 -0.92% 5
West London -17 3 - - 2
South London -1 2 £516 - 2
East London -1 1 - - 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 (5.47%) Confluence
2 5 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 17 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (5.97%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.49%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.45%) Azure
2 14 (6.97%) AWS
3 13 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.98%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.48%) SaaS
6 6 (2.99%) GCP
7 5 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.49%) Smartsheet
8 4 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.49%) OCI
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (1.00%) Asana
10 2 (1.00%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.00%) GitHub
10 2 (1.00%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.00%) Miro
10 2 (1.00%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.00%) Slack
10 2 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (1.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.48%) Wireless
2 5 (2.49%) Broadband
3 4 (1.99%) Network Security
4 3 (1.49%) 5G
4 3 (1.49%) Internet
4 3 (1.49%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.00%) DNS
5 2 (1.00%) WAN
6 1 (0.50%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.50%) LAN
6 1 (0.50%) NGN
6 1 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.50%) VLAN
6 1 (0.50%) VPN
6 1 (0.50%) WebEx
6 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.98%) Power BI
2 2 (1.00%) Power Query
3 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.50%) MySQL
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (0.50%) QlikView
3 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (14.93%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 117 (58.21%) Finance
2 97 (48.26%) Social Skills
3 70 (34.83%) Public Sector
4 60 (29.85%) Marketing
5 57 (28.36%) Manufacturing
6 53 (26.37%) Telecoms
7 51 (25.37%) Electronics
8 24 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (7.96%) Retail
10 13 (6.47%) Banking
11 11 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (2.49%) Publishing
16 4 (1.99%) Advertising
17 3 (1.49%) Front Office
17 3 (1.49%) Legal
18 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
18 2 (1.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 42 (20.90%) Programme Manager
2 39 (19.40%) Project Manager
3 25 (12.44%) Lead
4 24 (11.94%) Senior
5 20 (9.95%) Technical Manager
6 19 (9.45%) Senior Manager
7 13 (6.47%) Analyst
8 9 (4.48%) Senior Project Manager
9 8 (3.98%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.98%) Coordinator
10 7 (3.48%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 7 (3.48%) 2nd Line Support
10 7 (3.48%) Desktop Support
10 7 (3.48%) IT Support
10 7 (3.48%) Lead Project Manager
10 7 (3.48%) PMO Specialist
10 7 (3.48%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
11 6 (2.99%) PMO Coordinator
11 6 (2.99%) PMO Officer
11 6 (2.99%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.48%) SailPoint
2 5 (2.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.49%) REST
3 4 (1.99%) ADO
4 3 (1.49%) .NET
4 3 (1.49%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.49%) SOAP
4 3 (1.49%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.00%) JSON
5 2 (1.00%) LDAP
5 2 (1.00%) Middleware
5 2 (1.00%) OAuth
5 2 (1.00%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.00%) PySpark
5 2 (1.00%) Web Services
5 2 (1.00%) XML
5 2 (1.00%) XSD
5 2 (1.00%) XSLT
6 1 (0.50%) HTML
6 1 (0.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.96%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.48%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.48%) PMI
5 6 (2.99%) NHS
6 5 (2.49%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.49%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.99%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.49%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.49%) Life Science
8 3 (1.49%) LIMS
8 3 (1.49%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.49%) Social Media
8 3 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.48%) Android
1 7 (3.48%) Mac OS
2 3 (1.49%) Windows
3 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (37.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 72 (35.82%) Agile
3 60 (29.85%) Business Intelligence
4 55 (27.36%) Digital Marketing
5 54 (26.87%) Project Management
6 39 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (19.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 35 (17.41%) Decision-Making
7 35 (17.41%) Project Delivery
8 33 (16.42%) PRINCE2
8 33 (16.42%) Risk Management
9 24 (11.94%) Analytics
9 24 (11.94%) Change Management
10 23 (11.44%) AI
11 22 (10.95%) Roadmaps
11 22 (10.95%) Scrum
12 16 (7.96%) DevOps
12 16 (7.96%) Migration
13 15 (7.46%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.46%) Python
2 10 (4.98%) SQL
3 8 (3.98%) Java
4 7 (3.48%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.49%) BeanShell
5 3 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.49%) Korn
6 2 (1.00%) Go
7 1 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.92%) PMI Certification
2 32 (15.92%) PMP
3 30 (14.93%) SC Cleared
4 28 (13.93%) Degree
5 9 (4.48%) APMP
6 7 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.99%) CISSP
8 3 (1.49%) CBAP
8 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.00%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.00%) CSPO
9 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.00%) GPEN
9 2 (1.00%) OSCE
9 2 (1.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.42%) PMO
2 22 (10.95%) QA
3 6 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.99%) GDPR
4 5 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.99%) NIST
6 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.49%) GMP
6 3 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.50%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.50%) ECSS
8 1 (0.50%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.50%) FISMA
8 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.50%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (1.00%) vRealize
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (28.86%) SAP
2 25 (12.44%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.46%) Cisco
4 9 (4.48%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.48%) Apple
5 7 (3.48%) Dell
5 7 (3.48%) HP
6 6 (2.99%) Oracle
7 5 (2.49%) GoldenSource
8 4 (1.99%) Google
9 3 (1.49%) Databricks
9 3 (1.49%) Foundry
9 3 (1.49%) VMware
10 2 (1.00%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.00%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.00%) Ericsson
10 2 (1.00%) Instagram
10 2 (1.00%) Okta
10 2 (1.00%) Thycotic
10 2 (1.00%) Zuora