Programme Management Contracts in Northern Ireland

Programme Management (Program Management)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 28 18 30
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 4 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.52% 4.03% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 5.31% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 £213 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £225 £750
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -70.00% -
75th Percentile £288 £238 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £23.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £35.50 £37.45
% change year-on-year -5.63% -5.19% -18.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 113 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.45% 75.84% 76.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 57 80
10th Percentile £154 £212 £165
25th Percentile £295 £350 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £406
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £504
90th Percentile £625 £660 £624
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £23.54 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in Northern Ireland

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in Northern Ireland

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in Northern Ireland

Programme Management
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -12 4 £275 +22.22% 9
Programme Management
UK

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Electronics
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Backtesting
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow