Programme Management Contracts in Reading

Programme Management (Program Management)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 25 79 77
Rank change year-on-year +54 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 39 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 6.53% 1.01% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 1.12% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 4 7
10th Percentile £583 - £190
25th Percentile £600 £194 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £329 £463
Median % change year-on-year +97.42% -28.81% -17.78%
75th Percentile £700 £558 £689
90th Percentile - £718 £792
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +62.50% -13.51% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £65.58 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in Reading

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in Reading

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.13%) Azure AKS
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.56%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Broadband
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.56%) Junos
2 1 (2.56%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
1 4 (10.26%) Selenium
2 3 (7.69%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 35 (89.74%) Finance
1 35 (89.74%) Telecoms
2 33 (84.62%) Electronics
2 33 (84.62%) Manufacturing
2 33 (84.62%) Marketing
2 33 (84.62%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (56.41%) Architect
2 21 (53.85%) Active Directory Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Agile Scrum Master
6 2 (5.13%) Automation Tester
6 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) HR Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Tester
6 2 (5.13%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Tester
6 2 (5.13%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) Gherkin
1 3 (7.69%) PySpark
2 2 (5.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.56%) CMDB
3 1 (2.56%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (64.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (84.62%) Business Intelligence
1 33 (84.62%) Digital Marketing
2 27 (69.23%) Agile
3 24 (61.54%) Test Automation
4 21 (53.85%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (15.38%) DevOps
6 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
6 4 (10.26%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (7.69%) Data-Driven Testing
7 3 (7.69%) Product Backlog
7 3 (7.69%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (7.69%) Project Management
7 3 (7.69%) System Testing
8 2 (5.13%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 2 (5.13%) Burndown Charts
8 2 (5.13%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (5.13%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.82%) Python
3 4 (10.26%) Bash
4 3 (7.69%) SQL
5 2 (5.13%) Bicep
6 1 (2.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (74.36%) Security Cleared
2 24 (61.54%) DV Cleared
3 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) Degree
5 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.56%) PMP
5 1 (2.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 21 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Ansible
2 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 34 (87.18%) SAP
2 3 (7.69%) Databricks
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco
4 1 (2.56%) Citrix
4 1 (2.56%) Dell
4 1 (2.56%) F5
4 1 (2.56%) HP
4 1 (2.56%) IBM
4 1 (2.56%) Juniper
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle