Programme Management Contracts in Manchester

Programme Management (Program Management)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 74 98
Rank change year-on-year +6 +24 -1
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 11 22 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 1.45% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.67% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 11
10th Percentile - £407 £413
25th Percentile £515 £569 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £595 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.92% +13.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £545 £738 £625
90th Percentile - - £650
North West median daily rate £525 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -19.23% +36.84% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
North West median hourly rate - - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - +47.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in Manchester

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in Manchester

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in Manchester

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (90.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Gradle
1 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
1 10 (90.91%) JUnit
1 10 (90.91%) Liquibase
1 10 (90.91%) Mockito
2 5 (45.45%) GitLab
General
1 10 (90.91%) Electronics
1 10 (90.91%) Finance
1 10 (90.91%) Manufacturing
1 10 (90.91%) Marketing
1 10 (90.91%) Public Sector
1 10 (90.91%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Java Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) React Developer
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) Kafka
1 10 (90.91%) OpenAPI
1 10 (90.91%) React
1 10 (90.91%) Spring
1 10 (90.91%) Spring Boot
1 10 (90.91%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
1 10 (90.91%) Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) Containerisation
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) Digital Marketing
1 10 (90.91%) Microservices
1 10 (90.91%) Migration
1 10 (90.91%) Software Engineering
1 10 (90.91%) TDD
2 5 (45.45%) Build Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Clean Code
2 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven
2 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (9.09%) Budget Management
3 1 (9.09%) Line Management
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Java
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
1 10 (90.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) SC Cleared
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Docker
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) SAP