Programme Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Programme Management (Program Management)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Programme Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 63 71
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 16 26 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.73% 2.35% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 2.74% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 8
10th Percentile £586 £463 £400
25th Percentile £593 £486 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £444
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +40.85% -16.67%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £800
90th Percentile - £860 £830
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.20% +30.60%

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 541 950 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.16% 85.74% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 505 670
10th Percentile £354 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% +6.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £620 £651 £638
90th Percentile £669 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £512 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.95% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 32 21
10th Percentile - £15.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £55.41 £53.50
Median hourly rate £24.13 £61.60 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -60.84% -5.41% +150.48%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.40 £74.00
90th Percentile £59.08 £87.46 £75.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.55% +2.67% +97.08%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Programme Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in Reading over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in Reading

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Programme Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Programme Management

Programme Management
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
General
1 16 (100.00%) Finance
2 12 (75.00%) Electronics
2 12 (75.00%) Manufacturing
2 12 (75.00%) Marketing
2 12 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (75.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory Architect
1 10 (62.50%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Project Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support
3 1 (6.25%) IT Support
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Agile
1 13 (81.25%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (75.00%) Digital Marketing
3 10 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
3 10 (62.50%) Test Automation
4 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) Project Management
5 3 (18.75%) Project Governance
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
6 2 (12.50%) CRM
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
7 1 (6.25%) ERP
7 1 (6.25%) Expense Management
7 1 (6.25%) Logistics
7 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
7 1 (6.25%) Software Delivery
7 1 (6.25%) Workflow
7 1 (6.25%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (68.75%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.25%) PMP
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft