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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 155 185
Rank change year-on-year -33 +30 +26
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 194 257 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.44% 1.58% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.77% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 137 237
10th Percentile £389 £261 £358
25th Percentile £471 £450 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £630
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.73% +5.00%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £738
90th Percentile £825 £893 £850
England median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 6
10th Percentile £29.88 £36.14 £30.25
25th Percentile £42.09 £44.08 £34.82
Median hourly rate £49.50 £47.50 £39.02
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +21.73% -36.55%
75th Percentile £80.94 £76.25 £43.58
90th Percentile £88.34 £100.75 £66.93
England median hourly rate £44.04 £35.90 £41.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -13.49% -25.49%

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 12,460 14,546 19,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.52% 89.21% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,243 9,682 14,351
10th Percentile £327 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 179 228
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.11
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -7.28% +4.86%
75th Percentile £49.56 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

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
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -4 25 £688 +5.77% 38
South London - 6 £541 - 3
West London -11 2 - - 2
East London +8 1 - - 3
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 (3.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.03%) CMS
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.64%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.55%) Trello
6 1 (0.52%) InVision
6 1 (0.52%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (6.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.55%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.03%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.52%) Primavera
4 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.52%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.52%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.79%) Azure
2 13 (6.70%) AWS
2 13 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (5.67%) GCP
4 6 (3.09%) Google Workspace
4 6 (3.09%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.09%) SaaS
5 4 (2.06%) Smartsheet
6 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (1.55%) Slack
7 2 (1.03%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (0.52%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.52%) Google Docs
8 1 (0.52%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Einstein
8 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) DHCP
1 2 (1.03%) DNS
1 2 (1.03%) Firewall
1 2 (1.03%) MPLS
1 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.52%) Network Security
2 1 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (4.64%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.58%) Power BI
3 3 (1.55%) Big Data
3 3 (1.55%) Tableau
4 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.52%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 23 (11.86%) JIRA
2 9 (4.64%) Gradle
2 9 (4.64%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.64%) JUnit
2 9 (4.64%) Liquibase
2 9 (4.64%) Mockito
3 6 (3.09%) GitLab
4 4 (2.06%) Clang
4 4 (2.06%) GCC
5 3 (1.55%) Git
6 2 (1.03%) Mercurial
6 2 (1.03%) Subversion
7 1 (0.52%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 116 (59.79%) Finance
2 92 (47.42%) Social Skills
3 59 (30.41%) Public Sector
4 54 (27.84%) Marketing
5 52 (26.80%) Manufacturing
6 48 (24.74%) Telecoms
7 47 (24.23%) Electronics
8 24 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
9 21 (10.82%) Banking
10 13 (6.70%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (5.15%) Retail
12 8 (4.12%) Legal
12 8 (4.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (2.58%) Financial Institution
13 5 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (2.06%) Front Office
14 4 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (1.03%) Billing
15 2 (1.03%) Brand Awareness
15 2 (1.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (19.59%) Programme Manager
2 37 (19.07%) Project Manager
3 26 (13.40%) Lead
4 14 (7.22%) Senior
5 10 (5.15%) Analyst
5 10 (5.15%) Technical Manager
6 8 (4.12%) Senior Manager
7 7 (3.61%) Developer
7 7 (3.61%) SAP Manager
7 7 (3.61%) Transformation Manager
8 6 (3.09%) Architect
8 6 (3.09%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (3.09%) IT Manager
9 5 (2.58%) Business Analyst
9 5 (2.58%) Java Developer
9 5 (2.58%) Kafka Developer
9 5 (2.58%) React Developer
9 5 (2.58%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (2.58%) Security Manager
9 5 (2.58%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.15%) React
2 9 (4.64%) Kafka
2 9 (4.64%) OpenAPI
2 9 (4.64%) Spring
2 9 (4.64%) Spring Boot
2 9 (4.64%) Swagger
3 6 (3.09%) SailPoint
4 4 (2.06%) REST
5 3 (1.55%) .NET
6 2 (1.03%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.03%) Node.js
7 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.52%) CSS
7 1 (0.52%) LDAP
7 1 (0.52%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.52%) PySpark
7 1 (0.52%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.52%) RESTCONF
7 1 (0.52%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.52%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.67%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.61%) PMI
2 7 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.06%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.55%) Derivative
5 3 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (1.55%) FPGA
5 3 (1.55%) Life Science
5 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.55%) Reinsurance
5 3 (1.55%) Social Media
5 3 (1.55%) Verilog
5 3 (1.55%) VHDL
6 2 (1.03%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.03%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.64%) Windows
2 6 (3.09%) Linux
3 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.03%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.03%) Windows 8
4 2 (1.03%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (35.05%) Agile
2 66 (34.02%) Project Management
3 60 (30.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (27.84%) Business Intelligence
5 48 (24.74%) Digital Marketing
6 35 (18.04%) Project Delivery
7 32 (16.49%) Roadmaps
8 30 (15.46%) Change Management
8 30 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (14.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (13.40%) Risk Management
11 25 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (12.89%) DevOps
11 25 (12.89%) PRINCE2
12 19 (9.79%) CI/CD
13 18 (9.28%) Migration
14 17 (8.76%) Programme Delivery
15 16 (8.25%) Decision-Making
15 16 (8.25%) Scrum
16 15 (7.73%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.28%) SQL
2 13 (6.70%) Java
3 12 (6.19%) Python
4 9 (4.64%) TypeScript
5 7 (3.61%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.09%) C++
7 4 (2.06%) Bash
7 4 (2.06%) C
8 3 (1.55%) SystemVerilog
9 2 (1.03%) C#
9 2 (1.03%) Go
9 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.03%) Korn
9 2 (1.03%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 43 (22.16%) Security Cleared
2 40 (20.62%) SC Cleared
3 39 (20.10%) Degree
4 36 (18.56%) PMI Certification
5 34 (17.53%) PMP
6 12 (6.19%) Master's Degree
7 8 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.06%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.55%) CCNP
9 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.55%) CISSP
9 3 (1.55%) PhD
10 2 (1.03%) CCNA
10 2 (1.03%) PgMP
11 1 (0.52%) APMG
11 1 (0.52%) APMP
11 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.52%) CBAP
11 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.52%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.92%) PMO
2 10 (5.15%) QA
3 6 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.06%) GDPR
5 3 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.55%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.55%) GMP
5 3 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.03%) GRC
6 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.03%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.52%) Basel III
7 1 (0.52%) GxP
7 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.52%) SEPA
7 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (8.25%) Docker
2 6 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.55%) Firmware
4 2 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.03%) vSphere
4 2 (1.03%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (2.58%) Terraform
2 3 (1.55%) Ansible
3 2 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.03%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (1.03%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (1.03%) Puppet
3 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 66 (34.02%) SAP
2 20 (10.31%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.64%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.12%) Google
5 5 (2.58%) Databricks
5 5 (2.58%) Oracle
6 4 (2.06%) Cisco
6 4 (2.06%) VMware
7 3 (1.55%) Adobe
8 2 (1.03%) Autodesk
8 2 (1.03%) Citrix
8 2 (1.03%) Dell
8 2 (1.03%) HP
8 2 (1.03%) McAfee
8 2 (1.03%) Sophos
8 2 (1.03%) Symantec
8 2 (1.03%) Toshiba
8 2 (1.03%) WatchGuard
8 2 (1.03%) Webroot
8 2 (1.03%) Wyse