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 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 220 194
Rank change year-on-year +16 -26 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 141 187 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.16% 1.07% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.14% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 140 240
10th Percentile £575 £500 £538
25th Percentile £650 £585 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £863 £800 £838
90th Percentile £938 £864 £913
England median daily rate £700 £700 £700
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £78.00
25th Percentile £48.75 £34.25 £78.75
Median hourly rate £58.75 £35.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.49% -56.97% +17.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £36.75 £86.25
90th Percentile - - £87.00
England median hourly rate £58.75 £44.74 £80.00
% change year-on-year +31.31% -44.08% +54.51%

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 11,322 16,344 24,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.55% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,688 11,839 17,686
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £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 £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 322 279
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.22 £22.57
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.66 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.10% -23.18% +2.86%
75th Percentile £49.88 £46.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £65.03 £82.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% -16.67% +93.05%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +9 27 £750 +7.14% 6
West London +8 1 - - 4
South London +4 1 £650 +13.04%
Programme Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 73 (51.77%) Finance
2 57 (40.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 47 (33.33%) Agile
4 40 (28.37%) Social Skills
5 38 (26.95%) Programme Management
6 29 (20.57%) Project Management
7 23 (16.31%) Roadmaps
8 20 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (14.18%) Migration
9 18 (12.77%) Risk Management
9 18 (12.77%) Change Management
10 17 (12.06%) PRINCE2
11 16 (11.35%) Banking
12 14 (9.93%) Budget Management
13 13 (9.22%) Programme Delivery
13 13 (9.22%) SAP
13 13 (9.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (8.51%) Microsoft
14 12 (8.51%) PMP
14 12 (8.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (8.51%) Front Office
14 12 (8.51%) Degree
14 12 (8.51%) PMO
14 12 (8.51%) Project Delivery
14 12 (8.51%) Product Ownership
15 11 (7.80%) Decision-Making
15 11 (7.80%) Derivative
15 11 (7.80%) Fixed Income
15 11 (7.80%) PMI Certification
15 11 (7.80%) Data Governance

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 (2.13%) CMS
2 2 (1.42%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.42%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (5.67%) Azure
2 7 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (2.84%) GCP
4 3 (2.13%) AWS
4 3 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.42%) SaaS
6 1 (0.71%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.71%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) LAN
1 1 (0.71%) MPLS
1 1 (0.71%) Network Security
1 1 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.80%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.71%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.55%) JIRA
2 1 (0.71%) Postman
General
1 73 (51.77%) Finance
2 40 (28.37%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.35%) Banking
4 12 (8.51%) Front Office
5 11 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.67%) Retail
7 7 (4.96%) Legal
8 5 (3.55%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.55%) Marketing
8 5 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.84%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.13%) Law
10 3 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.13%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.42%) Billing
11 2 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.42%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.71%) VML
1 1 (0.71%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 12 (8.51%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.80%) Derivative
2 11 (7.80%) Fixed Income
3 10 (7.09%) Equities
3 10 (7.09%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.13%) PMI
6 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.42%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.42%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.42%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.42%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.71%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.71%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (40.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 47 (33.33%) Agile
3 38 (26.95%) Programme Management
4 29 (20.57%) Project Management
5 23 (16.31%) Roadmaps
6 20 (14.18%) Migration
6 20 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (12.77%) Change Management
7 18 (12.77%) Risk Management
8 17 (12.06%) PRINCE2
9 14 (9.93%) Budget Management
10 13 (9.22%) Programme Delivery
10 13 (9.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (8.51%) Project Delivery
12 11 (7.80%) Data Governance
12 11 (7.80%) Decision-Making
12 11 (7.80%) Investment Management
12 11 (7.80%) Regulatory Compliance
13 9 (6.38%) DevOps
13 9 (6.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (8.51%) Degree
1 12 (8.51%) PMP
2 11 (7.80%) PMI Certification
3 7 (4.96%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.84%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.42%) APMP
6 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.71%) CFA
7 1 (0.71%) CISA
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.51%) PMO
2 8 (5.67%) QA
3 3 (2.13%) GDPR
3 3 (2.13%) NIST
4 2 (1.42%) COBIT
5 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.71%) COSO
5 1 (0.71%) EMIR
5 1 (0.71%) GRC
5 1 (0.71%) MiFID
5 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.71%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (9.22%) SAP
2 12 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.67%) Workday
4 6 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.13%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.42%) Databricks
6 2 (1.42%) eFront
6 2 (1.42%) Google
6 2 (1.42%) Oracle
6 2 (1.42%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.42%) Snow
7 1 (0.71%) Adobe
7 1 (0.71%) Ariba
7 1 (0.71%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.71%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.71%) HP
7 1 (0.71%) Informatica
7 1 (0.71%) Okta
7 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.71%) Sitecore