Programme Manager Contracts in London

Programme Manager
England > London

The median Programme Manager daily rate in London is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 196 189
Rank change year-on-year -23 -7 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 135 205 372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.08% 1.15% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.23% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 158 269
10th Percentile £568 £500 £525
25th Percentile £624 £585 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +5.84%
75th Percentile £866 £800 £838
90th Percentile £938 £854 £904
England median daily rate £675 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £36.95 £63.55
25th Percentile - £41.00 £65.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £49.00 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -30.99% +0.71%
75th Percentile £50.00 £57.00 £77.38
90th Percentile £59.00 £61.05 £80.45
England median hourly rate £35.00 £44.74 £62.00
% change year-on-year -21.77% -27.84% +63.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Programme Manager in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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 +5 28 £750 +7.14%
West London +9 2 £600 -9.77%
South London +6 1 £730 +10.19%
Programme Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 71 (52.59%) Finance
2 58 (42.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (37.04%) Agile
4 39 (28.89%) Programme Management
5 36 (26.67%) Social Skills
6 29 (21.48%) Project Management
7 25 (18.52%) Roadmaps
8 21 (15.56%) Migration
9 20 (14.81%) Risk Management
10 18 (13.33%) Change Management
11 17 (12.59%) PRINCE2
11 17 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (11.85%) Product Ownership
12 16 (11.85%) Budget Management
12 16 (11.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (11.85%) Front Office
12 16 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (11.11%) Investment Management
13 15 (11.11%) Data Lake
13 15 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
13 15 (11.11%) Fixed Income
13 15 (11.11%) Derivative
14 14 (10.37%) Equities
14 14 (10.37%) Hedge funds
14 14 (10.37%) Data Governance
15 13 (9.63%) Project Delivery
16 12 (8.89%) Programme Delivery
16 12 (8.89%) Waterfall
16 12 (8.89%) Degree
17 11 (8.15%) SAP

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 3 (2.22%) CMS
2 2 (1.48%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.74%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.74%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (5.93%) Azure
2 6 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.48%) GCP
4 2 (1.48%) SaaS
5 1 (0.74%) Asana
5 1 (0.74%) AWS
5 1 (0.74%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.74%) Lucidchart
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.74%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) LAN
1 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.96%) JIRA
General
1 71 (52.59%) Finance
2 36 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.85%) Front Office
4 11 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.67%) Banking
6 8 (5.93%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.19%) Retail
8 6 (4.44%) Legal
9 4 (2.96%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.96%) Marketing
9 4 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.22%) Local Government
11 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.48%) Law
11 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.74%) Back Office
12 1 (0.74%) Billing
12 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 16 (11.85%) Product Ownership
2 15 (11.11%) Derivative
2 15 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 14 (10.37%) Equities
3 14 (10.37%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.22%) PMI
6 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.48%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.48%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.74%) CSOC
7 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.74%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.74%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.74%) Housing Association
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 50 (37.04%) Agile
3 39 (28.89%) Programme Management
4 29 (21.48%) Project Management
5 25 (18.52%) Roadmaps
6 21 (15.56%) Migration
7 20 (14.81%) Risk Management
8 18 (13.33%) Change Management
9 17 (12.59%) PRINCE2
9 17 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (11.85%) Budget Management
10 16 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (11.11%) Investment Management
11 15 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
12 14 (10.37%) Data Governance
13 13 (9.63%) Project Delivery
14 12 (8.89%) Programme Delivery
14 12 (8.89%) Waterfall
15 10 (7.41%) Decision-Making
16 9 (6.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.74%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (8.89%) Degree
2 10 (7.41%) PMI Certification
2 10 (7.41%) PMP
3 8 (5.93%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.22%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.48%) APMP
5 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CFA
6 1 (0.74%) CISA
6 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.74%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.15%) PMO
2 8 (5.93%) QA
3 3 (2.22%) GDPR
4 2 (1.48%) COBIT
4 2 (1.48%) NIST
5 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.74%) COSO
5 1 (0.74%) EMIR
5 1 (0.74%) MiFID
5 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.74%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (8.15%) SAP
2 7 (5.19%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.96%) Oracle
4 4 (2.96%) Workday
5 2 (1.48%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.48%) eFront
5 2 (1.48%) Google
5 2 (1.48%) NEC
5 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.48%) Snow
6 1 (0.74%) Ariba
6 1 (0.74%) Avaloq
6 1 (0.74%) BT
6 1 (0.74%) Charles River
6 1 (0.74%) Cisco
6 1 (0.74%) HP
6 1 (0.74%) Informatica
6 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.74%) Wrike