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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 170 172
Rank change year-on-year -41 +2 +44
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 178 234 291
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.49% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.67% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 124 211
10th Percentile £300 £248 £350
25th Percentile £432 £415 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £733 £738
90th Percentile £802 £875 £850
England median daily rate £550 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £23.44 £32.87 £25.73
25th Percentile £31.56 £36.80 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £44.08 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +6.22% -5.68%
75th Percentile £64.31 £76.25 £43.86
90th Percentile £92.52 £119.75 £71.54
England median hourly rate £24.00 £36.90 £48.28
% change year-on-year -34.96% -23.57% +9.73%

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 12,961 14,023 18,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.39% 89.17% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,517 9,049 13,046
10th Percentile £331 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 166 250
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +0.76% -
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.38 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +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 15 November 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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +2 17 £700 +3.70% 23
West London -13 2 - - 3
South London - 1 £433 - 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 8 (4.49%) Confluence
2 2 (1.12%) CMS
2 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (6.18%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.62%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.69%) Trello
5 2 (1.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (6.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.69%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.56%) Primavera
3 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.56%) SAP R/3
3 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.55%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (7.30%) AWS
2 13 (7.30%) Azure
3 8 (4.49%) SaaS
4 7 (3.93%) GCP
4 7 (3.93%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.37%) Smartsheet
6 4 (2.25%) Slack
7 3 (1.69%) Google Workspace
7 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.12%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.12%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.56%) Apple Pay
9 1 (0.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.56%) GitHub
9 1 (0.56%) Google Pay
9 1 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.93%) Wireless
2 4 (2.25%) Broadband
3 3 (1.69%) 5G
4 2 (1.12%) Internet
4 2 (1.12%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.56%) DNS
5 1 (0.56%) Network Security
5 1 (0.56%) NGN
5 1 (0.56%) VLAN
5 1 (0.56%) VPN
5 1 (0.56%) WAN
5 1 (0.56%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.37%) Power BI
2 2 (1.12%) Power Query
3 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (0.56%) QlikView
3 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (14.04%) JIRA
2 4 (2.25%) Clang
2 4 (2.25%) GCC
3 3 (1.69%) Git
4 2 (1.12%) Mercurial
4 2 (1.12%) Subversion
5 1 (0.56%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 101 (56.74%) Finance
2 79 (44.38%) Social Skills
3 62 (34.83%) Public Sector
4 56 (31.46%) Manufacturing
5 54 (30.34%) Marketing
6 50 (28.09%) Telecoms
7 49 (27.53%) Electronics
8 19 (10.67%) Banking
9 17 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (6.74%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (5.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (2.81%) Financial Institution
13 5 (2.81%) Retail
14 4 (2.25%) Front Office
14 4 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.69%) Legal
16 2 (1.12%) Brand Awareness
16 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (19.66%) Project Manager
2 31 (17.42%) Programme Manager
3 16 (8.99%) Lead
4 15 (8.43%) Senior
5 12 (6.74%) Senior Manager
6 11 (6.18%) Technical Manager
7 8 (4.49%) Analyst
8 7 (3.93%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 7 (3.93%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (3.93%) Desktop Support
8 7 (3.93%) IT Support
8 7 (3.93%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 6 (3.37%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.37%) Coordinator
9 6 (3.37%) IT Manager
9 6 (3.37%) SAP Manager
10 5 (2.81%) Architect
10 5 (2.81%) PMO Specialist
10 5 (2.81%) Security Manager
10 5 (2.81%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.93%) SailPoint
2 6 (3.37%) REST
3 3 (1.69%) .NET
3 3 (1.69%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.69%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.12%) LDAP
4 2 (1.12%) Node.js
4 2 (1.12%) PySpark
5 1 (0.56%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.56%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.56%) NumPy
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.56%) Pandas
5 1 (0.56%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.56%) RESTful
5 1 (0.56%) Semantic Kernel
5 1 (0.56%) SOAP
5 1 (0.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.62%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.06%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (5.06%) PMI
4 6 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.81%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (2.81%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.25%) Life Science
7 3 (1.69%) FMCG
7 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.69%) NHS
7 3 (1.69%) Social Media
7 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.49%) Windows
2 7 (3.93%) Android
2 7 (3.93%) Mac OS
3 6 (3.37%) Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (36.52%) Agile
2 56 (31.46%) Business Intelligence
3 55 (30.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (30.34%) Project Management
5 50 (28.09%) Digital Marketing
6 38 (21.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 37 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (18.54%) Project Delivery
9 28 (15.73%) Risk Management
10 27 (15.17%) Decision-Making
11 26 (14.61%) Change Management
12 23 (12.92%) Roadmaps
13 22 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (10.67%) PRINCE2
15 18 (10.11%) Matrix Organization
16 15 (8.43%) AI
17 13 (7.30%) Business Case
17 13 (7.30%) Project Governance
18 12 (6.74%) DevOps
18 12 (6.74%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.55%) Python
2 10 (5.62%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.93%) Java
3 7 (3.93%) SQL
4 6 (3.37%) C++
5 4 (2.25%) Bash
5 4 (2.25%) C
6 3 (1.69%) BeanShell
6 3 (1.69%) Korn
7 2 (1.12%) Go
7 2 (1.12%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.12%) PHP
8 1 (0.56%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 35 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.54%) Degree
3 30 (16.85%) SC Cleared
4 29 (16.29%) PMI Certification
5 25 (14.04%) PMP
6 8 (4.49%) Master's Degree
7 7 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.81%) CCNP
8 5 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.25%) CISSP
10 3 (1.69%) CCIE
10 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.12%) CCNA
11 2 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.12%) PgMP
11 2 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.56%) ISEB
12 1 (0.56%) MCP
12 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.17%) PMO
2 12 (6.74%) QA
3 6 (3.37%) GDPR
4 4 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.25%) GMP
4 4 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.69%) NIST
5 3 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.12%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.56%) Basel III
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) ECSS
7 1 (0.56%) FISMA
7 1 (0.56%) GxP
7 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (2.81%) Docker
2 4 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.25%) Terraform
2 3 (1.69%) Ansible
3 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.12%) Puppet
3 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.12%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 61 (34.27%) SAP
2 24 (13.48%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.30%) Cisco
4 9 (5.06%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.49%) Apple
6 7 (3.93%) Dell
6 7 (3.93%) HP
7 5 (2.81%) Google
8 4 (2.25%) VMware
9 3 (1.69%) GoldenSource
10 2 (1.12%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.12%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.12%) Foundry
10 2 (1.12%) Oracle
10 2 (1.12%) Thycotic
11 1 (0.56%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.56%) Meraki
11 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.56%) Workday
11 1 (0.56%) Zscaler