Programme Manager Contracts in the North of England

Programme Manager
England > North of England

The median Programme Manager daily rate in the North of England is £659, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 145 163
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Manager 26 39 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.78% 0.83% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.89% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 26 33
10th Percentile £575 £550 £468
25th Percentile £619 £569 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% - -
75th Percentile £778 £695 £738
90th Percentile £800 £726 £818
England median daily rate £700 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £44.74 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +49.13% -9.23%
England median hourly rate £58.75 £44.74 £80.00
% change year-on-year +31.31% -44.08% +54.51%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 3,120 4,377 5,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 93.01% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,062 2,718 3,703
10th Percentile £236 £263 £275
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £595
90th Percentile £638 £671 £688
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 425 159
10th Percentile £12.79 £11.07 £14.20
25th Percentile £14.34 £12.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.36 £22.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -25.00% +54.16%
75th Percentile £46.89 £46.91 £48.29
90th Percentile £74.38 £64.50 £65.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +89.04%

Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Programme Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Manager in the North of England

Programme Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Manager in the North of England

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Manager in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Manager in the North of England

Programme Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Manager in the North of England

Programme Manager
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 Manager within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Yorkshire +14 12 £700 +14.29% 3
North West -5 12 £659 +7.62% 6
North East +1 2 £650 +4.00% 2
Programme Manager
England

Programme Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Programme Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Programme Manager in the job title.

1 13 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (42.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (30.77%) Programme Management
3 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 6 (23.08%) Migration
5 5 (19.23%) Risk Management
5 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 4 (15.38%) Change Management
6 4 (15.38%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) Budget Management
7 3 (11.54%) Matrix Organization
7 3 (11.54%) Programme Delivery
7 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
7 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
7 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (11.54%) Data Transformation
8 2 (7.69%) AlgoSec
8 2 (7.69%) Big Data
8 2 (7.69%) Cloudera
8 2 (7.69%) Matrix Management
8 2 (7.69%) Hadoop
8 2 (7.69%) Open Source
8 2 (7.69%) Banking
8 2 (7.69%) Degree
8 2 (7.69%) PRINCE
8 2 (7.69%) Project Management
8 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (7.69%) PRINCE2

Programme Manager Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
1 1 (3.85%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Big Data
1 2 (7.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 13 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Local Government
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) PMI
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (30.77%) Programme Management
3 6 (23.08%) Migration
4 5 (19.23%) Risk Management
4 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (15.38%) Agile
5 4 (15.38%) Budget Management
5 4 (15.38%) Change Management
5 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 3 (11.54%) Data Transformation
6 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
6 3 (11.54%) Matrix Organization
6 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.54%) Programme Delivery
6 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
7 2 (7.69%) Contingency Planning
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 2 (7.69%) Open Source
7 2 (7.69%) Programme Governance
7 2 (7.69%) Resource Allocation
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.85%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (3.85%) CISM
2 1 (3.85%) CISSP
2 1 (3.85%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) PMO
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) AlgoSec
1 2 (7.69%) Cloudera
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) SAP