Programme Management Contracts in London

Programme Management (Program Management)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Programme Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Programme Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 132 174
Rank change year-on-year -49 +42 -18
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 178 323 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.42% 1.81% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 2.05% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 213 298
10th Percentile £369 £368 £454
25th Percentile £463 £466 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £748
90th Percentile £851 £895 £850
England median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 12
10th Percentile £28.84 £32.77 £21.58
25th Percentile £34.00 £34.75 £24.88
Median hourly rate £46.29 £45.75 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% +27.01% -29.37%
75th Percentile £51.20 £60.31 £46.33
90th Percentile £55.75 £71.43 £64.78
England median hourly rate £39.04 £35.50 £38.95
% change year-on-year +9.96% -8.86% -10.46%

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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in London

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in London.

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in London

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in London

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in London.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in London

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Management in London over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +3 32 £639 +8.26% 1
South London +11 6 - -
West London +10 5 £600 +11.63% 2
North London - 2 £270 -
East London +14 1 - - 1
Programme Management
England

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.37%) Confluence
2 5 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) WinCC
Applications
1 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.56%) InVision
6 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (2.81%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Finacle
3 1 (0.56%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.43%) Azure
2 6 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (3.37%) SuccessFactors
3 5 (2.81%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.25%) AWS
4 4 (2.25%) SaaS
5 3 (1.69%) GCP
6 2 (1.12%) Asana
6 2 (1.12%) Google Docs
6 2 (1.12%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.12%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (1.12%) Yammer
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.56%) OCI
7 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.25%) Firewall
2 2 (1.12%) BGP
2 2 (1.12%) DHCP
2 2 (1.12%) DNS
2 2 (1.12%) EIGRP
2 2 (1.12%) Internet
2 2 (1.12%) LAN
2 2 (1.12%) NAS
2 2 (1.12%) Network Security
2 2 (1.12%) OSPF
2 2 (1.12%) SAN
2 2 (1.12%) VoIP
2 2 (1.12%) VPN
2 2 (1.12%) WAN
2 2 (1.12%) Wireless
3 1 (0.56%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (6.18%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.81%) Power BI
3 4 (2.25%) Big Data
3 4 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.56%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (6.18%) Gradle
1 11 (6.18%) Jenkins
1 11 (6.18%) JUnit
1 11 (6.18%) Liquibase
1 11 (6.18%) Mockito
2 10 (5.62%) JIRA
3 6 (3.37%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.56%) MSI
4 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 100 (56.18%) Finance
2 67 (37.64%) Social Skills
3 63 (35.39%) Public Sector
4 57 (32.02%) Marketing
5 53 (29.78%) Manufacturing
6 50 (28.09%) Telecoms
7 49 (27.53%) Electronics
8 27 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (8.43%) Banking
10 12 (6.74%) Legal
10 12 (6.74%) Local Government
11 10 (5.62%) Retail
12 5 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.25%) Brand Awareness
14 3 (1.69%) Billing
14 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (21.91%) Programme Manager
2 28 (15.73%) Project Manager
3 20 (11.24%) Senior
4 17 (9.55%) Lead
5 11 (6.18%) Delivery Manager
6 10 (5.62%) Developer
6 10 (5.62%) Senior Manager
7 9 (5.06%) Technical Manager
8 8 (4.49%) Analyst
9 6 (3.37%) Business Manager
9 6 (3.37%) Java Developer
9 6 (3.37%) React Developer
9 6 (3.37%) SAP Manager
9 6 (3.37%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 6 (3.37%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.81%) ERP Manager
10 5 (2.81%) Java Engineer
10 5 (2.81%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (2.81%) SAP Delivery Manager
10 5 (2.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.30%) React
2 11 (6.18%) Kafka
2 11 (6.18%) OpenAPI
2 11 (6.18%) Spring
2 11 (6.18%) Spring Boot
2 11 (6.18%) Swagger
3 2 (1.12%) .NET
3 2 (1.12%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.12%) Middleware
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.12%) Web Services
4 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.56%) CSS
4 1 (0.56%) EDI
4 1 (0.56%) HTML
4 1 (0.56%) Plotly
4 1 (0.56%) PySpark
4 1 (0.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.30%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.37%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.25%) NHS
3 4 (2.25%) PMI
3 4 (2.25%) Social Media
4 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.69%) Fixed Income
4 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.12%) Derivative
5 2 (1.12%) Equities
5 2 (1.12%) FPGA
5 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.12%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.12%) Shadow IT
5 2 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.12%) Verilog
5 2 (1.12%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.06%) Windows
2 4 (2.25%) Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.12%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (34.27%) Project Management
2 58 (32.58%) Business Intelligence
3 54 (30.34%) Agile
4 52 (29.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 49 (27.53%) Digital Marketing
6 41 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (14.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 25 (14.04%) Decision-Making
8 25 (14.04%) DevOps
8 25 (14.04%) Project Delivery
8 25 (14.04%) Risk Management
9 23 (12.92%) PRINCE2
10 22 (12.36%) Change Management
11 17 (9.55%) Budget Management
11 17 (9.55%) Migration
12 16 (8.99%) Business Case
13 15 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (7.87%) Resource Allocation
14 14 (7.87%) Service Delivery
14 14 (7.87%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.11%) SQL
2 11 (6.18%) Java
2 11 (6.18%) TypeScript
3 6 (3.37%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.69%) C#
4 3 (1.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.69%) Python
5 2 (1.12%) Bash
5 2 (1.12%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (0.56%) C++
6 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (18.54%) Degree
2 27 (15.17%) Security Cleared
3 23 (12.92%) SC Cleared
4 15 (8.43%) PMI Certification
4 15 (8.43%) PMP
5 8 (4.49%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.81%) MRICS
6 5 (2.81%) RIBA
7 2 (1.12%) ACCA
7 2 (1.12%) APMP
7 2 (1.12%) CCNA
7 2 (1.12%) CIMA
7 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.12%) PhD
7 2 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.56%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.11%) PMO
2 7 (3.93%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.37%) QA
4 2 (1.12%) DICOM
4 2 (1.12%) GDPR
4 2 (1.12%) GRC
4 2 (1.12%) HL7
4 2 (1.12%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.56%) Basel III
5 1 (0.56%) COBIT
5 1 (0.56%) COSO
5 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.56%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) P3O
5 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.30%) Docker
2 4 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Firmware
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.12%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.56%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.56%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 61 (34.27%) SAP
2 15 (8.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.37%) Oracle
4 5 (2.81%) Databricks
5 4 (2.25%) Google
5 4 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.69%) NEC
6 3 (1.69%) Splunk
6 3 (1.69%) VMware
7 2 (1.12%) Cisco
7 2 (1.12%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (1.12%) Foundry
7 2 (1.12%) Mitel
7 2 (1.12%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.12%) Workday
7 2 (1.12%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.56%) Cvent
8 1 (0.56%) eFront