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 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 200 157 180
Rank change year-on-year -43 +23 +37
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 198 252 266
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 1.60% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.78% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 137 188
10th Percentile £300 £248 £361
25th Percentile £461 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £645
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -14.73% +7.50%
75th Percentile £738 £730 £741
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 5
10th Percentile £23.96 £32.15 £25.73
25th Percentile £33.75 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -20.20% +43.80%
75th Percentile £51.25 £36.80 £61.25
90th Percentile £67.03 £41.17 £78.50
England median hourly rate £24.00 £33.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year -27.82% -42.17% +45.39%

All Process and 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 13,187 14,123 17,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.80% 89.82% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,685 9,134 12,308
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.04% -3.86%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 166 231
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.78
25th Percentile £24.58 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.75 £37.25 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% +2.67% -7.57%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.90%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 -5 21 £700 +1.82% 5
South London -4 2 £516 -
West London -19 2 - - 2
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 10 (5.05%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (7.07%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (5.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (2.02%) Trello
6 2 (1.01%) Chatbot
6 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (6.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.52%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.51%) Primavera
4 1 (0.51%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (9.09%) AWS
3 17 (8.59%) Azure
4 11 (5.56%) SaaS
5 10 (5.05%) GCP
6 8 (4.04%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.03%) Smartsheet
8 5 (2.53%) Slack
9 4 (2.02%) Google Workspace
9 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.01%) Asana
10 2 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.01%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.01%) GitHub
10 2 (1.01%) Lucidchart
10 2 (1.01%) Miro
10 2 (1.01%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.51%) Google Docs
11 1 (0.51%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.54%) Wireless
2 4 (2.02%) Broadband
3 3 (1.52%) 5G
3 3 (1.52%) Network Security
4 2 (1.01%) Internet
4 2 (1.01%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.51%) DNS
5 1 (0.51%) NGN
5 1 (0.51%) VLAN
5 1 (0.51%) VPN
5 1 (0.51%) WAN
5 1 (0.51%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.03%) Power BI
2 2 (1.01%) Power Query
3 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.51%) MySQL
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.51%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (0.51%) QlikView
3 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (15.15%) JIRA
2 4 (2.02%) Clang
2 4 (2.02%) GCC
3 3 (1.52%) Git
4 2 (1.01%) Mercurial
4 2 (1.01%) Subversion
5 1 (0.51%) GitLab
5 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 111 (56.06%) Finance
2 92 (46.46%) Social Skills
3 67 (33.84%) Public Sector
4 60 (30.30%) Manufacturing
4 60 (30.30%) Marketing
5 55 (27.78%) Telecoms
6 54 (27.27%) Electronics
7 21 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (8.08%) Banking
9 13 (6.57%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.53%) Front Office
12 5 (2.53%) Retail
13 4 (2.02%) Financial Institution
13 4 (2.02%) Legal
13 4 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.52%) Publishing
15 2 (1.01%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 40 (20.20%) Programme Manager
2 35 (17.68%) Project Manager
3 19 (9.60%) Senior
4 15 (7.58%) Senior Manager
5 14 (7.07%) Lead
6 12 (6.06%) Technical Manager
7 9 (4.55%) Analyst
8 8 (4.04%) Business Analyst
8 8 (4.04%) IT Manager
9 7 (3.54%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 7 (3.54%) 2nd Line Support
9 7 (3.54%) Coordinator
9 7 (3.54%) Desktop Support
9 7 (3.54%) IT Support
9 7 (3.54%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 7 (3.54%) Senior Project Manager
10 6 (3.03%) Architect
10 6 (3.03%) SAP Manager
11 5 (2.53%) PMO Specialist
11 5 (2.53%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.54%) SailPoint
2 6 (3.03%) REST
3 4 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.52%) .NET
4 3 (1.52%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.52%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.01%) LDAP
5 2 (1.01%) Node.js
5 2 (1.01%) PySpark
6 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.51%) CSS
6 1 (0.51%) HTML
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.51%) NumPy
6 1 (0.51%) OpenID
6 1 (0.51%) Pandas
6 1 (0.51%) React
6 1 (0.51%) RESTful
6 1 (0.51%) SAML
6 1 (0.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.05%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.55%) PMI
4 7 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.53%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.02%) Life Science
6 4 (2.02%) NHS
7 3 (1.52%) FMCG
7 3 (1.52%) Social Media
7 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.52%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.01%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.01%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.04%) Windows
2 7 (3.54%) Android
2 7 (3.54%) Mac OS
3 6 (3.03%) Linux
4 1 (0.51%) VMS
4 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (38.38%) Agile
2 63 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 61 (30.81%) Business Intelligence
4 55 (27.78%) Digital Marketing
5 54 (27.27%) Project Management
6 42 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (20.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 30 (15.15%) Decision-Making
8 30 (15.15%) Risk Management
9 28 (14.14%) Project Delivery
10 27 (13.64%) Change Management
11 26 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (11.11%) AI
13 21 (10.61%) PRINCE2
13 21 (10.61%) Roadmaps
14 19 (9.60%) Matrix Organization
15 15 (7.58%) Analytics
15 15 (7.58%) DevOps
16 14 (7.07%) Business Case
17 13 (6.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.10%) Python
2 10 (5.05%) PowerShell
2 10 (5.05%) SQL
3 9 (4.55%) Java
4 6 (3.03%) C++
5 4 (2.02%) Bash
5 4 (2.02%) C
6 3 (1.52%) BeanShell
6 3 (1.52%) Go
6 3 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.52%) Korn
6 3 (1.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (19.19%) Security Cleared
2 37 (18.69%) Degree
3 32 (16.16%) SC Cleared
4 28 (14.14%) PMI Certification
5 24 (12.12%) PMP
6 7 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.54%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.53%) CCNP
7 5 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.02%) CISSP
8 4 (2.02%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.52%) CBAP
9 3 (1.52%) CCIE
10 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.01%) CCNA
10 2 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.01%) CSPO
10 2 (1.01%) PgMP
10 2 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.15%) PMO
2 14 (7.07%) QA
3 7 (3.54%) GDPR
4 4 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.02%) GMP
4 4 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.52%) NIST
5 3 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.01%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) Basel III
7 1 (0.51%) ECSS
7 1 (0.51%) FISMA
7 1 (0.51%) GxP
7 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.51%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (2.53%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.53%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.02%) Terraform
2 3 (1.52%) Ansible
2 3 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.01%) Puppet
3 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.01%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.01%) vRealize
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 64 (32.32%) SAP
2 26 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.57%) Cisco
4 11 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.04%) Apple
6 7 (3.54%) Dell
6 7 (3.54%) Google
6 7 (3.54%) HP
7 5 (2.53%) Oracle
8 4 (2.02%) GoldenSource
8 4 (2.02%) VMware
9 2 (1.01%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.01%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.01%) Foundry
9 2 (1.01%) Okta
9 2 (1.01%) Planview
9 2 (1.01%) Thycotic
9 2 (1.01%) Zuora
10 1 (0.51%) UiPath
10 1 (0.51%) Zscaler