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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 168 172
Rank change year-on-year -35 +4 +47
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 181 248 294
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 1.56% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.74% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 133 212
10th Percentile £300 £248 £351
25th Percentile £439 £425 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 5
10th Percentile £23.44 £33.10 £25.73
25th Percentile £31.56 £35.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £36.80 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year +15.49% -16.10% +21.83%
75th Percentile £64.31 £60.17 £61.25
90th Percentile £92.52 £105.25 £78.50
England median hourly rate £24.00 £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -31.43% -39.13% +41.89%

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 12,972 14,232 17,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 89.44% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,522 9,196 12,900
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -3.42% -3.47%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 174 243
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.61
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.31 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% +3.36% -6.68%
75th Percentile £47.13 £56.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.43 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.65% -19.66% +25.35%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -1 18 £700 +1.82% 6
West London -15 2 - - 3
South London - 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 9 (4.97%) Confluence
2 2 (1.10%) CMS
2 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.08%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.66%) Trello
6 2 (1.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (7.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.66%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.55%) Primavera
3 1 (0.55%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.39%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (8.84%) AWS
3 15 (8.29%) Azure
4 9 (4.97%) GCP
4 9 (4.97%) SaaS
5 6 (3.31%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.31%) Smartsheet
6 5 (2.76%) Slack
7 3 (1.66%) Google Workspace
7 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.10%) Asana
8 2 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.10%) Miro
8 2 (1.10%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.55%) Apple Pay
9 1 (0.55%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.55%) Google Pay
9 1 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.87%) Wireless
2 4 (2.21%) Broadband
3 3 (1.66%) 5G
4 2 (1.10%) Internet
4 2 (1.10%) Network Security
4 2 (1.10%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.55%) DNS
5 1 (0.55%) NGN
5 1 (0.55%) VLAN
5 1 (0.55%) VPN
5 1 (0.55%) WAN
5 1 (0.55%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.76%) Power BI
2 2 (1.10%) Power Query
3 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.55%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.55%) MySQL
3 1 (0.55%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (0.55%) QlikView
3 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (13.81%) JIRA
2 4 (2.21%) Clang
2 4 (2.21%) GCC
3 3 (1.66%) Git
4 2 (1.10%) Mercurial
4 2 (1.10%) Subversion
5 1 (0.55%) GitLab
5 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 102 (56.35%) Finance
2 81 (44.75%) Social Skills
3 63 (34.81%) Public Sector
4 57 (31.49%) Manufacturing
5 56 (30.94%) Marketing
6 52 (28.73%) Telecoms
7 51 (28.18%) Electronics
8 18 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (9.39%) Banking
10 13 (7.18%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (4.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (2.21%) Financial Institution
12 4 (2.21%) Front Office
12 4 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.21%) Retail
13 3 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.66%) Legal
14 2 (1.10%) Brand Awareness
14 2 (1.10%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 35 (19.34%) Programme Manager
1 35 (19.34%) Project Manager
2 16 (8.84%) Senior
3 14 (7.73%) Lead
4 13 (7.18%) Senior Manager
5 12 (6.63%) Technical Manager
6 7 (3.87%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 7 (3.87%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (3.87%) Analyst
6 7 (3.87%) Desktop Support
6 7 (3.87%) IT Manager
6 7 (3.87%) IT Support
6 7 (3.87%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 6 (3.31%) Architect
7 6 (3.31%) Business Analyst
7 6 (3.31%) Coordinator
7 6 (3.31%) SAP Manager
7 6 (3.31%) Senior Project Manager
8 5 (2.76%) PMO Specialist
8 5 (2.76%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.87%) SailPoint
2 6 (3.31%) REST
3 4 (2.21%) .NET
4 3 (1.66%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.66%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.10%) LDAP
5 2 (1.10%) Node.js
5 2 (1.10%) PySpark
6 1 (0.55%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.55%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.55%) NumPy
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.55%) Pandas
6 1 (0.55%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.55%) RESTful
6 1 (0.55%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (0.55%) SOAP
6 1 (0.55%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.18%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.52%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.97%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.97%) PMI
4 6 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.76%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (2.76%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.76%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.76%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.21%) Life Science
7 3 (1.66%) FMCG
7 3 (1.66%) NHS
7 3 (1.66%) Social Media
7 3 (1.66%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.66%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.10%) Blog
8 2 (1.10%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.42%) Windows
2 7 (3.87%) Android
2 7 (3.87%) Mac OS
3 6 (3.31%) Linux
4 1 (0.55%) VMS
4 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (37.02%) Agile
2 60 (33.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 57 (31.49%) Business Intelligence
4 53 (29.28%) Project Management
5 52 (28.73%) Digital Marketing
6 41 (22.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (20.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 29 (16.02%) Project Delivery
9 28 (15.47%) Risk Management
10 27 (14.92%) Decision-Making
11 25 (13.81%) Change Management
11 25 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (12.71%) Roadmaps
13 19 (10.50%) Matrix Organization
13 19 (10.50%) PRINCE2
14 16 (8.84%) AI
15 15 (8.29%) DevOps
16 13 (7.18%) Business Case
16 13 (7.18%) Scrum
17 12 (6.63%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.84%) Python
2 10 (5.52%) PowerShell
3 8 (4.42%) Java
4 7 (3.87%) SQL
5 6 (3.31%) C++
6 4 (2.21%) Bash
6 4 (2.21%) C
7 3 (1.66%) BeanShell
7 3 (1.66%) Korn
7 3 (1.66%) PHP
8 2 (1.10%) Go
8 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.55%) C#
9 1 (0.55%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 35 (19.34%) Degree
2 34 (18.78%) Security Cleared
3 29 (16.02%) SC Cleared
4 28 (15.47%) PMI Certification
5 24 (13.26%) PMP
6 8 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.42%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.76%) CCNP
7 5 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.21%) CISSP
9 3 (1.66%) CCIE
9 3 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.10%) CCNA
10 2 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.10%) PgMP
10 2 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.55%) CAPM
11 1 (0.55%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.47%) PMO
2 14 (7.73%) QA
3 7 (3.87%) GDPR
4 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.21%) GMP
4 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.66%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.66%) NIST
5 3 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.10%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.55%) Basel III
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.55%) ECSS
7 1 (0.55%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.55%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (2.76%) Docker
2 4 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.21%) Terraform
2 3 (1.66%) Ansible
3 2 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.10%) Puppet
3 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.10%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 61 (33.70%) SAP
2 24 (13.26%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.18%) Cisco
4 8 (4.42%) Apple
4 8 (4.42%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.87%) Dell
5 7 (3.87%) HP
6 5 (2.76%) Google
7 4 (2.21%) VMware
8 3 (1.66%) GoldenSource
9 2 (1.10%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.10%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.10%) Foundry
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle
9 2 (1.10%) Thycotic
10 1 (0.55%) Okta
10 1 (0.55%) Percona
10 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.55%) UiPath
10 1 (0.55%) Zscaler