Programme Management Contracts in the North East

Programme Management (Program Management)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 26 35 56
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 -10
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 12 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.75% 0.89% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 1.11% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile £305 £443 -
25th Percentile £335 £469 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £260
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +101.92% -54.78%
75th Percentile £624 £569 £401
90th Percentile £750 £588 £483
England median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the North East

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the North East

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the North East

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear +2 9 £419 -20.24% 6
Durham +4 3 £750 -
Programme Management
England

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (16.67%) Kong
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 9 (75.00%) Marketing
2 9 (75.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (66.67%) Electronics
3 8 (66.67%) Manufacturing
3 8 (66.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Programme Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector Programme Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) Jest
1 2 (16.67%) Node.js
1 2 (16.67%) pytest
1 2 (16.67%) Sass
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (8.33%) PMI
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Business Transformation
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) BDD
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Dependency Management
5 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) PMP
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) WCAG
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) SAP