Programme Management Contracts in the North of England

Programme Management (Program Management)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 112 151
Rank change year-on-year -9 +39 -23
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 40 66 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.21% 1.39% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.64% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 58 37
10th Percentile £365 £415 £302
25th Percentile £493 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £574 £725 £675
90th Percentile £668 - £715
England median daily rate £600 £598 £600
% change year-on-year +0.42% -0.42% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.25 £36.50 £43.86
% change year-on-year +29.45% -16.78% +16.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,977 4,018 4,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.78% 84.66% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,919 2,427 3,429
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 387 206
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.85 £12.55 £15.73
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.74 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% -22.76% +41.32%
75th Percentile £52.13 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.63 £63.75 £63.38
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -24.85% +0.94% +48.60%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the North of England

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the North of England

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the North of England

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the North of England

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
North West -16 21 £528 -18.85% 36
Yorkshire +8 15 £525 -1.18% 16
North East +4 4 £565 +7.62% 10
Programme Management
England

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (15.00%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.50%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.50%) AWS
1 1 (2.50%) Azure
1 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (2.50%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.00%) Big Data
2 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Gradle
1 10 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (25.00%) JUnit
1 10 (25.00%) Liquibase
1 10 (25.00%) Mockito
2 7 (17.50%) GitLab
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) Selenium
General
1 21 (52.50%) Finance
2 14 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (32.50%) Manufacturing
3 13 (32.50%) Marketing
4 12 (30.00%) Electronics
4 12 (30.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (10.00%) Banking
5 4 (10.00%) Retail
6 3 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Automotive
8 1 (2.50%) Local Government
8 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 5 (12.50%) Change Manager
2 5 (12.50%) Developer
2 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 5 (12.50%) Java Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) React Developer
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Operational Change Manager
3 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Lead
5 2 (5.00%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (5.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Programme Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Kafka
1 10 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 10 (25.00%) React
1 10 (25.00%) Spring
1 10 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 10 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (10.00%) PMI
2 3 (7.50%) NHS
2 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (50.00%) Agile
3 14 (35.00%) DevOps
4 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
4 13 (32.50%) Decision-Making
5 12 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (30.00%) Digital Marketing
5 12 (30.00%) Migration
6 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 10 (25.00%) Microservices
7 10 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 10 (25.00%) TDD
8 8 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
8 8 (20.00%) Project Management
9 7 (17.50%) Budget Management
9 7 (17.50%) Business Strategy
9 7 (17.50%) Change Management
10 6 (15.00%) Matrix Management
10 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) Java
1 10 (25.00%) SQL
1 10 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (2.50%) Bash
2 1 (2.50%) Bicep
2 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Degree
4 4 (10.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (35.00%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) SAP
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.50%) TOWER Software
4 1 (2.50%) Veeam