Programme Manager Contracts in London

Programme Manager
England > London

The median Programme Manager daily rate in London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 199 223
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 196 347 515
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.11% 1.32% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.39% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 249 372
10th Percentile £500 £525 £513
25th Percentile £600 £625 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £694
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +4.50% +6.73%
75th Percentile £825 £838 £800
90th Percentile £875 £913 £875
England median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £63.55 -
25th Percentile £34.25 £65.88 £69.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £71.00 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +0.71% -
75th Percentile £36.75 £77.38 £71.75
90th Percentile - £80.45 -
England median hourly rate £44.74 £62.00 £38.03
% change year-on-year -27.84% +63.03% -19.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,506 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,947 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Programme Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Manager in London

Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Manager in London

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Manager in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Manager in London

Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Manager in London

Programme Manager
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 Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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 +12 25 £725 -7.94% 5
West London +16 5 £665 +2.31% 2
East London -3 4 £733 +27.39% 1
South London +11 3 £575 -11.54% 1
North London - 2 - -
Programme Manager
England

Programme Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Programme Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 68 (34.69%) Agile
2 63 (32.14%) Programme Management
3 62 (31.63%) Finance
4 47 (23.98%) Project Management
5 42 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 40 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 27 (13.78%) Project Delivery
8 25 (12.76%) Change Management
8 25 (12.76%) PRINCE2
9 23 (11.73%) Risk Management
10 21 (10.71%) Migration
10 21 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (10.20%) Business Case
12 19 (9.69%) Waterfall
13 18 (9.18%) Security Cleared
13 18 (9.18%) Programme Delivery
14 17 (8.67%) Banking
14 17 (8.67%) Microsoft
15 16 (8.16%) SAP
15 16 (8.16%) Scrum
16 15 (7.65%) Legal
16 15 (7.65%) PMP
16 15 (7.65%) PMI Certification
16 15 (7.65%) Azure
16 15 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
17 14 (7.14%) Roadmaps
18 13 (6.63%) Budget Management
18 13 (6.63%) AWS
19 12 (6.12%) Matrix Management

Programme Manager Skill Set
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 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.02%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.02%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (1.02%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.51%) Endur
3 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.51%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.51%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.51%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (7.65%) Azure
2 13 (6.63%) AWS
3 6 (3.06%) GCP
3 6 (3.06%) SaaS
4 4 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.02%) PaaS
7 1 (0.51%) Asana
7 1 (0.51%) BigCommerce
7 1 (0.51%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.51%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.51%) IaaS
7 1 (0.51%) MailChimp
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.51%) Miro
7 1 (0.51%) OCI
7 1 (0.51%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.51%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.51%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.51%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) WAN
2 1 (0.51%) LAN
2 1 (0.51%) SAN
2 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.51%) SNA
2 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (5.10%) JIRA
2 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.51%) Selenium
2 1 (0.51%) SpecFlow
General
1 62 (31.63%) Finance
2 42 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.67%) Banking
4 15 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.65%) Legal
5 11 (5.61%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.10%) Local Government
7 8 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.06%) Retail
9 4 (2.04%) Law
9 4 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.53%) Front Office
10 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.53%) Marketing
10 3 (1.53%) Police
11 2 (1.02%) Advertising
11 2 (1.02%) Billing
11 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.51%) ADO
1 1 (0.51%) MACH
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.51%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.51%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.04%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.04%) Public Cloud
3 3 (1.53%) FMCG
4 2 (1.02%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.02%) Equities
4 2 (1.02%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.02%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.02%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.51%) Cybercrime
5 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.51%) EPoS
5 1 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.51%) Life Science
5 1 (0.51%) NHS
5 1 (0.51%) Online Banking
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.55%) Linux
2 3 (1.53%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (34.69%) Agile
2 63 (32.14%) Programme Management
3 47 (23.98%) Project Management
4 40 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (13.78%) Project Delivery
6 25 (12.76%) Change Management
6 25 (12.76%) PRINCE2
7 23 (11.73%) Risk Management
8 21 (10.71%) Migration
8 21 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (10.20%) Business Case
10 19 (9.69%) Waterfall
11 18 (9.18%) Programme Delivery
12 16 (8.16%) Scrum
13 14 (7.14%) Roadmaps
14 13 (6.63%) Budget Management
15 12 (6.12%) Matrix Management
16 11 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (5.61%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.02%) SQL
2 1 (0.51%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (9.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.65%) PMI Certification
2 15 (7.65%) PMP
3 11 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.59%) Degree
5 7 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.55%) PgMP
6 5 (2.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.51%) CAPM
9 1 (0.51%) CISM
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.57%) PMO
1 7 (3.57%) QA
2 5 (2.55%) SLA
3 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.02%) GRC
4 2 (1.02%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.51%) COBIT
5 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.51%) GxP
5 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.51%) Docker
1 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 17 (8.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.16%) SAP
3 5 (2.55%) Oracle
3 5 (2.55%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.04%) Cadence
5 3 (1.53%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.53%) Google
6 2 (1.02%) Ariba
6 2 (1.02%) Avaloq
6 2 (1.02%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.02%) Charles River
6 2 (1.02%) Civica
6 2 (1.02%) Concur
6 2 (1.02%) Sophis
6 2 (1.02%) VMware
6 2 (1.02%) Yardi
7 1 (0.51%) Adobe
7 1 (0.51%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.51%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.51%) Salesforce