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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 150 169
Rank change year-on-year -34 +19 -2
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 173 301 397
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.42% 1.72% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.95% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 198 291
10th Percentile £391 £369 £438
25th Percentile £510 £462 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £609 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% -2.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £738
90th Percentile £863 £908 £840
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 10
10th Percentile £28.60 £32.77 £24.95
25th Percentile £36.27 £34.75 £34.82
Median hourly rate £49.50 £45.75 £42.68
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +7.19% -23.86%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.31 £51.28
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.43 £66.00
England median hourly rate £47.25 £35.25 £43.86
% change year-on-year +34.04% -19.63% +16.11%

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 11,225 15,457 23,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.42% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,536 11,093 16,726
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 316 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +6 30 £639 +4.29% 2
South London +9 7 £650 +18.18%
East London +19 1 - - 3
West London +6 1 - - 18
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 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.73%) Confluence
2 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Camunda
3 1 (0.58%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) WinCC
Applications
1 9 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.73%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.58%) InVision
5 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.58%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.58%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (2.89%) SAP ERP
2 4 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.73%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.16%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.58%) Finacle
5 1 (0.58%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.58%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.67%) Azure
2 8 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.05%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.47%) AWS
4 6 (3.47%) GCP
4 6 (3.47%) SaaS
4 6 (3.47%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.31%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.16%) Google Docs
6 2 (1.16%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Yammer
7 1 (0.58%) Apigee
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.58%) Boomi
7 1 (0.58%) Figma
7 1 (0.58%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.58%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.31%) Firewall
2 2 (1.16%) DHCP
2 2 (1.16%) DNS
2 2 (1.16%) MPLS
3 1 (0.58%) Network Security
3 1 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (6.36%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.05%) Power BI
3 5 (2.89%) Big Data
3 5 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.73%) Tableau
5 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (6.36%) Gradle
1 11 (6.36%) Jenkins
1 11 (6.36%) JUnit
1 11 (6.36%) Liquibase
1 11 (6.36%) Mockito
2 7 (4.05%) JIRA
3 6 (3.47%) GitLab
4 1 (0.58%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.58%) MSI
General
1 103 (59.54%) Finance
2 73 (42.20%) Social Skills
3 49 (28.32%) Marketing
3 49 (28.32%) Public Sector
4 45 (26.01%) Manufacturing
5 43 (24.86%) Telecoms
6 41 (23.70%) Electronics
7 28 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (9.83%) Banking
9 12 (6.94%) Legal
10 11 (6.36%) Retail
11 10 (5.78%) Local Government
12 7 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.31%) Brand Awareness
13 4 (2.31%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.73%) Billing
14 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (21.97%) Programme Manager
2 26 (15.03%) Project Manager
3 21 (12.14%) Lead
4 17 (9.83%) Senior
5 14 (8.09%) Delivery Manager
6 11 (6.36%) Developer
7 10 (5.78%) Analyst
7 10 (5.78%) Technical Manager
8 8 (4.62%) SAP Manager
9 6 (3.47%) Java Developer
9 6 (3.47%) React Developer
9 6 (3.47%) SAP Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 6 (3.47%) Senior Manager
9 6 (3.47%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.89%) ERP Manager
10 5 (2.89%) Java Engineer
10 5 (2.89%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (2.89%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 5 (2.89%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.94%) React
2 11 (6.36%) Kafka
2 11 (6.36%) OpenAPI
2 11 (6.36%) Spring
2 11 (6.36%) Spring Boot
2 11 (6.36%) Swagger
3 3 (1.73%) .NET
3 3 (1.73%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.16%) Middleware
4 2 (1.16%) Web Services
5 1 (0.58%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.58%) CSS
5 1 (0.58%) EDI
5 1 (0.58%) HTML
5 1 (0.58%) OAuth
5 1 (0.58%) OpenID
5 1 (0.58%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.58%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.51%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.47%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.31%) PMI
4 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.31%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.73%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.73%) Social Media
5 3 (1.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (1.73%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.16%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.16%) Derivative
6 2 (1.16%) Equities
6 2 (1.16%) FPGA
6 2 (1.16%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.16%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.16%) NHS
6 2 (1.16%) Verilog
6 2 (1.16%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.05%) Windows
2 4 (2.31%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.16%) Linux
3 2 (1.16%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.16%) Windows 8
3 2 (1.16%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (34.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 58 (33.53%) Project Management
3 53 (30.64%) Business Intelligence
4 47 (27.17%) Agile
5 41 (23.70%) Digital Marketing
6 38 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (15.03%) Change Management
7 26 (15.03%) Project Delivery
8 24 (13.87%) PRINCE2
8 24 (13.87%) Risk Management
9 23 (13.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (12.72%) Decision-Making
10 22 (12.72%) Roadmaps
11 21 (12.14%) DevOps
12 18 (10.40%) Migration
13 16 (9.25%) Budget Management
13 16 (9.25%) Resource Allocation
14 15 (8.67%) Business Case
14 15 (8.67%) Programme Delivery
14 15 (8.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (12.14%) SQL
2 11 (6.36%) Java
2 11 (6.36%) TypeScript
3 5 (2.89%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.31%) C#
5 2 (1.16%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.16%) Python
5 2 (1.16%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (0.58%) C++
6 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (17.92%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.76%) Degree
3 27 (15.61%) SC Cleared
4 24 (13.87%) PMI Certification
4 24 (13.87%) PMP
5 10 (5.78%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.16%) ACCA
7 2 (1.16%) CIMA
7 2 (1.16%) CISSP
7 2 (1.16%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.16%) PhD
8 1 (0.58%) APMP
8 1 (0.58%) CEH
8 1 (0.58%) CFA
8 1 (0.58%) CISA
8 1 (0.58%) CISM
8 1 (0.58%) MBA
8 1 (0.58%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.25%) PMO
2 6 (3.47%) QA
3 5 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.31%) NIST
5 3 (1.73%) GDPR
5 3 (1.73%) GRC
6 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.58%) Basel III
7 1 (0.58%) COBIT
7 1 (0.58%) COSO
7 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.58%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) IFRS
7 1 (0.58%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.58%) MiFID
7 1 (0.58%) SEPA
7 1 (0.58%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.51%) Docker
2 6 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.16%) Firmware
3 2 (1.16%) vSphere
3 2 (1.16%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.73%) Terraform
2 2 (1.16%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (1.16%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (0.58%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.58%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.58%) VxRail
Vendors
1 60 (34.68%) SAP
2 16 (9.25%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.47%) Google
3 6 (3.47%) Oracle
4 5 (2.89%) Databricks
4 5 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.73%) Adobe
5 3 (1.73%) HP
5 3 (1.73%) Splunk
5 3 (1.73%) VMware
5 3 (1.73%) Workday
6 2 (1.16%) Autodesk
6 2 (1.16%) Cisco
6 2 (1.16%) Citrix
6 2 (1.16%) Dell
6 2 (1.16%) McAfee
6 2 (1.16%) Sophos
6 2 (1.16%) Symantec
6 2 (1.16%) Toshiba
6 2 (1.16%) Wyse