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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 82 94
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +13
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 11 5 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.09% 0.41% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.48% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 14
10th Percentile - £598 £445
25th Percentile £515 £631 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £700 £613
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +14.29% +20.69%
75th Percentile £545 £756 £688
90th Percentile £591 £783 £723
North West median daily rate £530 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -11.67% -4.00% +25.00%

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 897 1,047 1,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.81% 86.89% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 658 1,172
10th Percentile £300 £336 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 48 58
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.98 £14.46
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.89 £16.07
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +101.30% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.06 £38.44
90th Percentile £77.00 £86.00 £67.20
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +2.94% +56.11%

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
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Cheadle - 1 £625 - 4
Programme Management
North West

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 11 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (90.91%) Gradle
2 10 (90.91%) JUnit
2 10 (90.91%) Liquibase
2 10 (90.91%) Mockito
3 5 (45.45%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
General
1 11 (100.00%) Electronics
1 11 (100.00%) Finance
1 11 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 11 (100.00%) Marketing
1 11 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 11 (100.00%) Telecoms
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%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Software Architect
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
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 11 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) Microservices
2 10 (90.91%) Migration
2 10 (90.91%) TDD
3 5 (45.45%) Build Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Clean Code
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven
3 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) FMEA
4 1 (9.09%) UML
4 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 10 (90.91%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) C
3 1 (9.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) IEC 61508
1 1 (9.09%) IEC 62304
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Docker
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian