Programme Management Contracts in the North West

Programme Management (Program Management)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 100 113
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 20 36 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.01% 1.29% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.54% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 31 22
10th Percentile £398 £356 £414
25th Percentile £493 £514 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.60% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £545 £725 £684
90th Percentile £612 - £699
England median daily rate £625 £586 £600
% change year-on-year +6.61% -2.29% +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 £37.50 £43.86
% change year-on-year +26.00% -14.50% +9.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,781 2,341 2,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.86% 84.18% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,172 1,435 1,901
10th Percentile £306 £310 £313
25th Percentile £385 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 271 142
10th Percentile £13.09 £11.00 £16.02
25th Percentile £22.61 £14.13 £20.06
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -9.95% +29.71%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £44.31
90th Percentile £84.06 £66.61 £62.63
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% +4.17% +41.18%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the North West

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in the North West

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the North West over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in the North West

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in the North West

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Manchester +15 11 £530 -10.92% 15
Cheshire -5 8 £505 +10.99% 7
Merseyside +1 1 £680 +40.28% 8
Programme Management
England

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (30.00%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Gradle
1 10 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (50.00%) JUnit
1 10 (50.00%) Liquibase
1 10 (50.00%) Mockito
2 5 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
1 11 (55.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (50.00%) Electronics
2 10 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 10 (50.00%) Marketing
2 10 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Change Manager
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
1 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 5 (25.00%) Java Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) React Developer
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Operational Change Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Performance Improvement
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Payments Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Project Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) Kafka
1 10 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 10 (50.00%) React
1 10 (50.00%) Spring
1 10 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 10 (50.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 10 (50.00%) DevOps
2 10 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 10 (50.00%) Microservices
2 10 (50.00%) Migration
2 10 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (50.00%) TDD
3 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
3 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 6 (30.00%) Business Strategy
4 6 (30.00%) Matrix Management
4 6 (30.00%) Matrix Organization
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 5 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Java
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
1 10 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) SAP
2 7 (35.00%) Microsoft