Programme Management Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Programme Management (Program Management)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Programme Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 38 44
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +40
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 4 6 20
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.52% 2.02% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.35% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile - £292 £519
25th Percentile £506 £314 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £534 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% -11.04% -
75th Percentile £519 £700 £730
90th Percentile - - £800
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £513 £534 £600
% change year-on-year -3.98% -11.04% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 241 255 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 91.29% 85.86% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 184 446
10th Percentile £239 £240 £279
25th Percentile £350 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -10.19% +5.10%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £613
90th Percentile £635 £626 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £438 £465 £522
% change year-on-year -5.81% -10.97% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 10
10th Percentile £14.71 £14.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.81 £17.83 £13.27
Median hourly rate £23.81 £26.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% +38.16% +49.02%
75th Percentile £29.61 £36.19 £23.44
90th Percentile - £37.12 £24.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +57.89% +28.81%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Programme Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Programme Management job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Programme Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Programme Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Alation
1 1 (25.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Service Transition Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Service Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Service Design Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Service Transition Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Transition Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Service Catalogue
1 3 (75.00%) Service Design
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
1 3 (75.00%) UX Design
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (25.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Enablement
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft